If any project really burned me out for a while and took me off the forum, it was the restoration of my 300D. After I swapped the engine, I suffered a fire, a blown transmission, a melted wiring harness, a destroyed interior, two cracked windshields and then I painted the car, not once, but twice due to my poor selection in paint.

I remember when I painted it with cheap aqua blue first, I couldn't believe my eyes and I woke up upset one morning and I spent three days stripping it with a grinder at an empty lot a mile from my house in 100 degrees and 100% humidity and then I redid the paint job again two weeks later at 3 in the morning with the neighbors asleep and two compressors chained together in ..my kitchen....and the fenders and doors in the living room.(my wife was away). I remember I hid my cat and dog in crates at my office for three days to spare them the paint fumes.and mixed the paint and clearcoat in the downstairs bathroom to boot..The neighbors though they were hallucinating as the car changed from grey to bare metal to primer to agua to bare metal to primer to dark blue in the space of two weeks...

After those two hot summers, i was just burned out and worn out...

This is the car two years later. it turns eyes. I thank Jimmy Layton and Brian Carlton and Hattersguy and that guy in Florida and Leathermang and Larry Bible and all you Shop Forum members who have put up with my antics the past few years...

This forum has been my greatest inspiration and motivator. I can't thank you enough for your help..and now that I am recovered I am off to planning my next project.

Diesel and greasy tools and old paint are starting to smell good again... See you all around soon..Its time to uhhhh find a another project car