ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

DAVE MORLEY GIVES YOU THE CAR ADVICE YOU NEED – AND MAYBE A BIT ABOUT LIFE AS WELL

Ever feel like you might be holding yourself back? I mean, I’m the first to admit that I’m fairly stunted when it comes to personal development. And in terms of mental age, I refuse to move beyond teenager status. A fart joke, for instance, possibly shouldn’t be the funniest thing a bloke with grey hair has ever heard. And yet…

But even by my appalling standards, I still manage to surprise myself with just how stagnant the murky waters of my troubled mind have become. This was hammered home recently with a Celica-related incident that proved to me just how far I haven’t come.

Let me set the scene. Back when Corona was a Toyota, not a virus, I had myself an RA23 Celica which I promptly backyard-tuned to a standstill, blew the engine to smithereens and subsequently fitted a twin-cam engine from a mob importing them by the container-load (back then). This was a car I came to absolutely love and, for the most part, it was totally Toyota reliable. But