Guilty as charged, my Lord! When I had the money I didn't have the time, then now I've got the time I can't get to the people for the jobs I can't do, then once I'm free to move about again I'll have no money. Hence the fact that my much-loved 1200 convertible is still lying as a collection of parts.
However: it just occurred to me that much as we deride Wheeler Dealers and Car SOS as light entertainment, staged for the cameras, does anyone remember the Triumph Spitfire Maintenance VHS video the club sold back in the early 1990s? I don't know who the man in the overalls was but you could literally have simultaneously followed each step he took and at the end, had a fully working car. I learned quite a bit from it but, Lord, was it dry. Ed China, eat your heart out!