It’s in ‘Desert Island’ blue, kezo, and fear not – DH spent an hour yesterday cleaning off all the spray-on wax inflicted by the Dealer, cleaning it back to basics and then waxing it again properly with carnauba wax, using the dinkiest little yellow sponge. There was also some glue residue on one of the headlights from a peeled-off sticker, but a quick squirt and rub with label remover sorted that. It is now sparkling in the sunshine (not just from the frost), and I swear it’s a shade or two deeper, too.
Tharg – I have named it Little Blue for convoluted reasons involving a) it’s only a small SUV; b) it’s blue; and c) as soon as I saw it the theme from a children’s TV show my younger brother watched came into my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxXSUyc3BAU
Re. the handbrake on the XJS – When you finally did release the brake I bet that thing went off like a rocket! 😮
DH has mentioned in the past that he’s driven cars in the States where the handbrake/parking brake lever is on the steering wheel (Tesla seem to have adopted that style for some reason), and once (many moons ago) on the dash board. Those were almost certainly automatics, but even so – confusing much?