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My name is James Stacy and I'm joined as ever

by my friend and co-host Jason Heaton.

Jason, how are we doing?

I'm doing really well.

Yeah, summer just rolls on here. we've had the string of warm days I you know it's

say yeah yesterday I I finally got word that the defender was was done with some repairs it had been in the

shop for six weeks.

It's a long standing repair. Yeah, it was a big thing. I took it in for some welding work on the

chassis. There's this part of the chassis that comes out on the side in front of the right-hand door kind of supports

the body of the car and it was pretty corroded and so I had the shop they actually had to jack up

the body and cut out this corroded piece and weld in a new piece and

I thought that was it but then the brake lights stopped working so I left it there and they actually

had to get a whole new wiring harness for the whole rear of the car and thread that through the chassis and rewire everything at the back.

So it's finally back and anyway the connection with the weather was that yesterday when I got word I thought well I'll run over and get it so it was like mid afternoon and man it's been like dry and

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