One of my other bodges fixes for Doris was following the perennial problem of Landrover deciding that the best place to attach very heavy rear mudflaps on a 110 Puma would be the lip of the rear quarter-panel. (With a single bolt).

Unsurprisingly, after some years of bouncing around, the bolt breaks off the piece of lip that it’s attached to and – if you’re really unlucky – sets off a chain reaction where the stress is enough to snap off the chasis end too, and you’re in the hole for £100 or so’s worth of new mud-flap and bracket.

“Luckily” my n/s one fell off out side the house – after heroically hanging on until we get back – and, not wanting to throw good money after bad, I nipped to B&Q, got some L-shaped aluminium, cut off a piece about fifteen cm long, riveted that to the quarter-panel lip, and made a solid mount for it.

I drilled the old mud-flap rivets out with my current best friend, and re-attached it to a Britpart version bracket and – voila – a new, securely attached mudflap for thirty quid.

Back to the current day and I’m figuring that – if I get a slightly bigger piece of L-shaped aluminium (say 20cm) – I can cut a piece the width of the CB, and just screw it onto the bottom of the housing to grip it into the DIN hole. (I might even put a bit of padding on it too).

Honestly. I don’t know how I come up with these genius ideas!