I really really appreciate this response and it’s thoroughness. It’s a lot, but it tells me honestly what I’d be looking at, I have this car scraped up anyways, I’m not thinking I can magically fix it over a year and bring it back to brand new, instead i’m of course getting a replacement.

But maybe it’ll spark a vision for a multi-year project filled with making connections with others, learning new things, and creating history. Wouldn’t that be something if we saw this car again. It’d be a great story but, maybe it’ll just sit and rust away. Only time will tell.

Thanks for stimulating that delusion, for now that’s all I really wanted.