Team-BHP Hats off Rudra! I feel I am going to be writing a similar story when I am as old as you are.....about my Jeep!
I always knew that you had a special well-kept Amby, but never for once that it was SUCH A STONKER! Seriously, that first picture is great...but the rear totally outdoes it. Simply astonishing. I love the mean look with those lights, clean trunk and styled number plate.
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The deal looked ok to me. Work started and almost never ended. Every day after my usual work shenanigans, I was there in the workshop. Endless cups of lousy tea (instead of my favorite) and lots of ifs and buts, the day used to end as lemon. It may sound pessimistic but that exactly was the situation. We had no point of reference to check or judge our progress. Car got ready (read road worthy) after two and a half months.
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I know exactly what you are talking about. Except that my Jeep restoration took close to 4 months. And atleast twice the amount of that lousy tea.
You've been through 6 engines already? I remember the first time you took a spin in my Jeep. All you could utter was "1.8 Isuzu, 1.8 Isuzu"!
You know, guys like us just hate driving normal cars. Just like my state when I am behind the Vtec/C Class, I am sure you think about the classic black beauty when behind the Optras wheel. Undoubtedly the best Ambassador ever...The Avigo be damned. These machines are a different breed. They arent just cars...cos they have a soul!
In the end - A car that you build with your own hands turns out to be an extension of your own personality. And thats the sheer beauty of it.
GTO
P.S. You just had to have been with a black label when writing this. Admit it.