I bought my car back in 2000, I knew the long list of problems but that color, I think its garnet red but the Porsche mechanic at the dealer called it maraschino(sp?) red, drew me to it, even though it is faded and buffed to primer on all the curves . I couldn’t help myself, I drove it for one summer and then I parked it in the garage. I had the car of my dreams, well sort of. I had saved it from that uncovered and unloving home. I had intended to love it but instead I neglected it in a different way I let it sit. Then this month 4 yrs later, I started my tranny rebuild as a way to sell the car but after I got finished I had a thought: "I took this complicated thing apart and I fixed it and put it back together!!!" I had visions of Porsche mechanics turning wrenches in the pits on a 917s trans.......I was euphoric, that was the first time I had felt such accomplishment after working on a car. I was proud of my Porsche and for once of my abilities to fix it when other people might take it to a dealer. That’s when I learned the valuable lesson with working on your project car, it’s the little steps to what you envision the car to be, you cannot expect to wake up one morning and instantly obtain your vision, (unless you have $99k for a GT3
) You have to work at it inch by inch, part by part, dollar by dollar. SO I'm glad that you are proud of your Porsche and the work that you have done to it, more people should take a step back and relize what they have accomplished.