Progress

I survived the flu or whatever it was. :)

In addition to buying a new house, designing and contracting for a new garage/workshop, closing on the house, having a grandchild graduate from college, having two grandkids get married and attending the appropriate family gatherings I have actually had a little time to work on the D2.

DP sent the long awaited lights recently and I installed them this weekend.

That was a bigger project than originally thought. This is because DP provided a very nicely designed setup of front lights with brackets, rear lights, license plate bracket with back up lights, rear LED tail lights, a new dash with leatherette covering, wiring harnesses with weather sealed connectors and numerous other items. Instead of doing the quicker install of connecting the new parts to the wiring harness I had already installed in the car for my temporary lights I decided to rip out my entire wiring loom and install the new setup. In the long run this will be a much better setup.

The plan is to get the car running with the new setup and install the body.

At that point I can drive it to the body shop of my choice, have the owner see what he has to do, get an estimate, remove the body, have him paint it, then reinstall the body and finally have the graphics installed. 

At that point I'll have an almost completed car and can begin the final tuning and tweaking that I enjoy so much.  It has been a very long, frustrating and torturous process but the resulting car will be super. I am very much looking forward to the next month or two.

I will keep this blog updated as progress occurs and time allows.