We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember The Natural Philosopher
saying something like:

Its taken me up to 4 hours to free up seized callipers, and seized brake
drums ..

The strange assumption is that old rusty cars that cost less to buy,
ought to cost less to fix....

Exactly. It's hardly the garage's fault the car is a ****heap with
seized bolts, calipers, etc.