Steve - Gedore Continued

I'm continuing on from Monday's Blip of my tiny Gedore combination wrenches pressed into service after many, many years.  Steve is the high school pal who bought the same set of wrenches at the same time back in 1978.  Yesterday, I reached out across the world on WhatsApp to tell him the story of the suitcase repair and the wrench.  Isn't technology astonishing? - when it works.  He had one for me involving his wrenches:  Steve and his son were traveling across South Africa's semi-desert Karoo in his Jeep, when the universal joint driving one of the axles decided to shred itself at 130kph...  Never one to be phased by the unexpected events of life, he calmly climbed under the Jeep by the side of the National Road on a Saturday evening as the light was failing, 35km from the nearest town of Beaufort West.  Using the 8mm socket wrench from his set, he dismantled the remains of the universal joint, took out the drive shaft, and turned the Jeep into permanent 2-Wheel-Drive.  And off they went.
This image is a recently-scanned photograph I took in 1976.  Steve and I had gone to catch the Drakensberg Express as it left Cape Town on a Saturday evening, beginning its long journey across the country to Durban.  Once the train had come and gone, we noticed this short local train, surprisingly steam-hauled.  It was standing waiting for a signal to clear, and we scrambled to get closer.  Needless to say, it started to move away from us and this was the only shot I managed to grab.  Grainy Tri-X film, under-exposed as the light waned, but it captures a moment.  There is Steve, hands on hips in frustration, 1976 haircut, those baggy jeans in vogue back then, and sweater with the sleeves pushed up, as we did in high school so many years ago.