A little history

I do believe the Purple Hatchback of Loveliness (I'm the only one who's allowed to call it that, BTW) hails from northern climes.

The inspection turned up two things in need of fixing: All four tires, which I knew about, and the brakes, which I didn't. It was actually just one of the rear brakes that was really bad - and the hand brake was slightly under par.

I got all of that taken care of yesterday - well, except that I didn't have the car back till about lunchtime today - and one thing I learned was that this is a car with some rust on it. It's not falling apart or anything, but it does seem to have started out life as a northerner - rather as did I.