Irrespective of your personal time (or anyone else's), yours is still only a $12k car which looks great, runs well and is very much on the road - so there is always hope for those $4k cars (and I'll take one too, thanks).
Wow Claire, looking at those pic's, you can see just how far your car has come, excellent stuff!
cheers Mike, still a long way to go (its all the stuff you cant see that needs doing lol),
but its nice to feel that I've saved the car from possibly being parted out and have
given it a new lease of life by bringing it to the UK