After just viewing your entire thread, it's amazing that you somehow didn't hire a hit-man to pay the prior owner a little "visit". What you've been able to maintain from a momentum standpoint makes me think that you should be cloned.
This past summer I stripped the second vinyl roof off my '74 Sebring Plus to prepare it for its third one and wound up with about the same amount of work that you undertook (on the topside that is). Now it's finally down to some final 3000 grit wet-sanding and buffing of the upper 1/4 panels because the rust actually worked its way down below the trim line. But probably like your situation, such projects only develop charector and keep us out of the bars.
