We finished the last episode on a minor cliff-hanger - would the cleaning job I'd done on the toeboard sockets magically restore the ability to select Park? The total lack of charge in the battery prevented us finding out, but there was no dodging the issue this time. The Rolls-Royce needed to move, under its own steam, to a new storage area on the premises where it's currently shacked up. A fresh battery, then, and a turn of the key…
It started nicely, as it almost always does, with the automatic choke keeping the revs up while the engine warms.
But there was no magic return of the transmission's P position, to our chagrin. As before, the car would only start in Neutral, which must be indicative (it should also start in P, of course), though it would select all other positions, including Reverse, and seemed to drive normally enough. More on that later.
A couple of other issues raised their heads at this point, or rather one did and one
