thanks for the info 90LAN

that makes sense the prev owner owned a panel shop, too $$$ to pay someone to respray the whole shell in CW colour and R&R everything else. He would have been able to get his workers to work on the car when the panel shop is not busy as well as able to write some/most/all of the costs off as shop expenses proivided the shop turns over enough.

for me that would be too hard/expensive excercise and the car is never a EK9 with the factory reo on the shell and forever a EK CXi or GLi on the rego papers.