Wheeler Dealers and
Grand Designs. The former restores fully-depreciated cars, but fails to resonate with my logic-free, budget-busting project taste. The latter puts a charismatic designer at the helm of a madcap journey documenting a custom home’s creation.
Even more relevant, the project’s budget regularly maxes out the would-be home builder’s savings, credit line, and often taxes their sanity. Truth be told,
Grand Designs’ cast of characters are truly my people. But I’m getting ahead of myself, because we last saw Project Valentino in primer: The following photos show the car’s transition from boring gray to a factory-correct, two-tone jewel of the Malaise Era.