And the good news is... I FINALLY passed my driving test!
But now I have a technical question.
I've been listening to Gerald's engine, and although the people I bought it from told me they'd been running it on unleaded, I got the impression that they weren't certain whether the conversion had been done. When it was pinking on the long drive home (the one where the crank wormed into the engine block, leading to the bottom end rebuild), we all assumed it was just a symptom of impending doom. That really shouldn't be a problem any more, but the pinking is still there.
Long story short, I don't think it has been converted. It's really not a problem, my local garage carries lead replacement additive, but what if it has been converted and I stick the additive in? I know people used to say if you had a conversion done and you could still get four star, you should occasionally still fill it with leaded petrol, but if the conversion has been done (presumably a bit inefficiently), how much harm can a single dose of additive do? It seems like the easiest way of finding out if that's what's going on, but I don't want to make things worse.