Wow, Macca, that's a good run on the original one. Got about 4.5 years from mine, but we may have marginally different batteries over here or something silly.
Looks wise it's not bad. Should go alright. Pardon my ignorance, but I'm presuming they're FWD? If so, putting a V8 into a FWD would somewhat of a wild ride, if they did go with that as an option.
Lol, no need over winter here as we don't have snow and it really doesn't get that cold comparatively. I try not to drive it when it's raining though, unless it's a club meet then will go out in the Z.
I think just about every camper van or rental car over here must be already spoken for. I don't think I've ever seen so many camper vans!!! Great to see, as most of them have a little RWC flying from the window of which ever team they're supporting.
Hope they spend lots of money whilst they're in the Land of the Long White Cloud/NZ.
Still get that happen even after more than 7.5 years of ownership. Gas station is most often where that happens, as it's rarely left in carparks these days.
That's actually not a bad time to do it. Get it done just as winter is about to arrive, pop it away for the winter all happy with no paint issues, ready for when the sun appears in spring.