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Welcome to my world of The Unexplained – yes, you're welcome to it

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There was a time when I bought a second-hand Mini-Moke. It was painted purple with flower stickers - so I had it resprayed to white.

After a while the orange dynamo light on the dashboard showed it wasn't charging unless you revved hard. Adjusted the regulator settings - but it made no difference ...except the low oil red indicator was then lit and the battery went flat.

Then the penny dropped. During the respray the garage had removed the speedometer - which contained all the vehicle's primitive instrumentation of two bulbs for "charging" and "oil". When they refitted it they had swapped the bulbs into the wrong holders. The problem had been that the oil needed topping up.

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