Priya's SX/4 project

[Whuntmore]

or a video of her finished...

[priya]

or a video of her finished...

That would require washing it again and I'm lazy and it keeps raining every few days and getting it muddy again.

I'll see what I can do.

[priya]

Here are the additional pictures I promised.  I had hoped to do a little better but they didn't come out too bad so I thought I'd post them anyway.  I wanted to wait for a slightly overcast day to take pictures of the interior so that it would be evenly and brightly lit without the sharp shadows a sunny day would show.  I had a couple of days like that but I was feeling too frazzled to clean the interior so I waited until today when it was supposed to be partially cloudy.  It wasn't but after the sun dipped behind some trees I thought the lighting might be okay so I gave it a whirl:












For the exterior pictures I wanted a sunny day with a nice background.  These would have been better if behind me had been a blank wall or empty sky as the trees behind me created undesirable reflections in the paint but once again they aren't too terribly bad:

[Whuntmore]

Thanks for posting those, I've been wanting to see it in it's full glory for a while now. 

If you're ever out driving, and you see either someone in a beat-up beige eagle wagon, or a dark bronze Subaru Legacy honking at you like crazy, that's me.

We got thru Sask. once in a while, just so you know.

[priya]

Thanks for posting those, I've been wanting to see it in it's full glory for a while now. 

If you're ever out driving, and you see either someone in a beat-up beige eagle wagon, or a dark bronze Subaru Legacy honking at you like crazy, that's me.

We got thru Sask. once in a while, just so you know.

I'll keep an eye out for you.   

[Prafeston]

That thing looks great Priya. Don't be ashamed to show it in any and all lighting/background conditions!

[shaggimo]

Stellar 

[priya]

That thing looks great Priya. Don't be ashamed to show it in any and all lighting/background conditions!

Thanks Prafeston.  I actually studied this picture of yours to figure out how to do mine because I thought you took one of the best Eagle pictures I've seen.

[priya]

Stellar 

Thanks Shaggimo.  I'm surprised by how much attention it gets.  When I was taking the pictures there was a lot of people walking by and they were saying "Wow, nice car",  "She's beautiful!".  "Is it for sale?",  "What kind of car is that?" and so on.   A couple of guys speaking a language I didn't recognize walked up to it and were all "Bzzz,  bzzz, bzzz" and then they carefully looked over the interior and exterior.  The other day I was returning home and some guy followed me and pulled up behind me when I got to the house and asked if he could take pictures, said he had a number of 79/80 Spirits including an AMX and asked me all about it.  Another day I glanced outside and saw someone walking by pull out a camera and start taking pictures.  I'm just thrilled to pieces having this thing running and being able to drive it, it feels sooooo good!  I actually like it more than my Corvette and unlike with the Corvette I feel great pride in having done it myself rather than having simply bought it this way.

[Prafeston]

Awesome Priya! Glad you liked my photos. I really liked some of the ones I took of ol' TQ. I do photography as a hobby so I kind of pride myself in my photographs.

This is still one of my favorites!

[Hawk258]

Thanks pryia looks awesome

[priya]

Thank you, Hawk258.

[Alcology]

hummanahummanahummanahummana..wow!  Looks great!  You must be one proud mama of that baby bird. 

[priya]

hummanahummanahummanahummana..wow!  Looks great!  You must be one proud mama of that baby bird. 

Yes, I'm so very proud of having finally accomplished this.   Words can't describe how tickled pink I am to be driving this now.  I'm just so totally thrilled every time I take it anywhere, it feels like it was made just for me and in a way it was.  I've never owned a new car but I think owning this must be how it feels to buy a new car.
 

[unpossible]

I sat down and read this whole thing from post one yesterday. So impressed! Did you learn any lessons from this that you'll apply to future projects? Have any advice for us newbies getting started on our own projects?