It's not what I did but what the better half did. I went off skiing yesterday in the Subaru. Left the Rover home in the unheated garage where it lives. Wife found out she needed some thread something urgent and - faced with a two mile walk in the cold - she fired up the Rover and drove it out. I need to preface the significance of this by noting that, while she is very accepting of my Rover and me taking care of it, she's also clear that it's "mine". She's willing to go for rides but that's where it stops. I'm pleased to report that the SIII didn't let her (or me) down, even though she didn't know where the manual choke was and drove the thing without it. She said she had to plug in the radiator hose heater for half and hour before it would run.