Knackered Alfa male

What is an alpha male anyway?

I reconnected my knackered physical self with my knackered (gearbox, suspension) Alfa today.
I’ve been wondering how long I’ll be able to go on fixing cars. I’m now 49 and have various aches and pains, including a continuing one in my right elbow, which isn’t somewhere my mother had arthritis..... But these things gently debilitate; make you think you can’t be doing that any more.

Then you get into it. Much later, looking back on several hours work and aching, you realise that you’ve got up of the concrete dozens and dozens of times. And whilst there were limitations, they weren’t primarily physical, not yet. They were about the right tools and not knowing exactly what you were doing i.e. not having an instruction manual.

But hey, it’s a still half knackered Alfa, what’s to worry about.