He let me try starting it once too, and it sounds and feels very odd in a modern car to not get that sudden clunk of bendix, but the gradual acceleration into life. There is a flat drive belt which seems to follow a fairly convoluted route, but does look reasonably accessible, at least by modern car standards!
Thanks for asking Bob, after the fire we had no electricity for 3 weeks, a huge, tough and nasty jog digging the trench for the new cable, then filling it, then we had floods in the building during a deluge, then our homeHub failed completely for a month before the new one arrived. The old one had been failing for ages and we kept asking BT for new ones, were promised deliveries, but they never arrived, the lies, stalling and B.S. from BT were unbelievable, but no other company wants to spend any money installing a 20 meter cable from the street to us! Apparently a lot of the problem was that other people had owned the building before us so they could not deliver! they had occupiers going back to WW1 on their records, but we were the first ever to have broadband, and are long-term phone account customers, but BT had this old info and that messed it all up, and we had many hours of shouting on the phone!
Anyway, I then had a short and much-needed break in Cornwall, one of the best places in the world. Then I got back and have been working very hard on my new and now rather delayed CD which is now very nearly finished, to be completed soon after a new "toy" arrives tomorrow. I have done almost no recording for a year, so I am LOVING it!