I've got an update on Bruiser, and sadly it isn't good.

Today my parents were supposed to go meet up with an old friend about an hour away. They set off in Bruiser, and less than a mile into their journey, he makes an awful sound and a massive cloud of smoke comes out from behind him. My dad was changing down into second coming up to a junction and Bruiser made a noise as if my dad had missed the gear but he hadn't, which was shortly followed by the cloud of smoke. He pulled over further up the road and Bruiser was just pissing oil. He brought him back, stuck him in the garage, called his friend who's a mechanic and learned that it was the gearbox that had blown up.

We don't really know for sure what's wrong with the gearbox, it's certainly not the engine that blew as we first thought as Bruiser still runs fine and pulls well, and he still has all his engine oil. We're going to have to make Bruiser last until Monday, and then my mum is going to take him to a garage I'll be working at in July and see what really is the problem. All I know is, is that we won't be keeping Bruiser for long.

Also *DaftPunkette is awesome beyond words for making me feel better about this. LOB U BBY.