"si illud oleum effluit, illud oleum habet"
-Cicero
I purchased the car in August of 2021 to be a daily and my first project in almost a decade. Shortly after acquiring the car, it was obvious it needed more than just the regular tlc to keep a daily on the road. Virtually every system in the car was compromised and needed overhauling. After adding roughly a thousand miles, the car went down in the winter of 2022 and the work had begun. Due to being a grad student, working on a car where parts can be really hard to find, and being new to Japanese cars in general, it took a year's worth of weekends to restore to a point of being reliable. While I have strayed from the OEM path I set out on I've tried to keep *almost* everything either OEM+ or period correct. The car was resprayed in August of 2023 in a Millenium Jade/Charcoal two-tone. The decision to paint the car came after discovering the car had not only been reprayed but also had a significant amount of terrible bodywork hiding rust in the rear fenders. Nostalgia is one hell of a drug.
