Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

@ Citron @Nef @jonny Thanks, almost a year to the day I got it back from the paint shop, 650 hours approx of my days off working on it.
Apart from inner/outer sills, jacking points and full respray colour change to San Marino Blue done by Intensive Car Unit in Southend,
I refurbed and fitted a leather interior I obtained back in 2018,
sand blasted and powder coated all the subframes and suspension components,
Removed all rust and treated the under floor, new brake and fuel lines.
Treated the fuel tank and gave it a coat of Por15.
Uprated anti roll bars.
I already had Mazda four pot calipers I put on the front but added an E90 servo and master cylinder.
Designed a custom radiator and had it made by Aarron Radiators in Croydon.
Full engine strip, I had the cylinder head ported and a fast road cam fitted by Hack Engineering, rebuilt the engine myself with uprated pistons to increase the compression ratio and painted all the ancillaries before refitting.
loads of plastic clips break on a 34 year old car, every time I walked out with replacements my wallet got raped, for those clips no longer available I made drawings and had my son in law 3D print some :D
My mate Andy Harrison at Harrison Trimming re trimmed my headlining in black and I dyed the carpet to match.
The interior plastic trims I refreshed with Vinyl Dye paint.
I also made quite a few brackets for mounting things like the coolant header tank, cooling fan, relocating Power steering reservoir, all designed in CAD or Cardboard Aided Design as I call it :D