Merlin is DEFINITELY the best!! He has been an ENORMOUS help in my restoration process over the last couple of years. I've spent thousands with him lol....

But... Merlin + Tesla = AWESOME SAUCE

I have no doubt at all both he and Tesla will love the new partnership it's a perfect fit!


On a different note however... I just spoke with Phil about a couple of parts that have been on backorder for a while. Also I have ordered a part (front foam piece next to the radiator) and the part that arrived had the correct part numbers and all that, but the part in the bag was NOT the correct part. Phil gave me the normal speech about parts availability... "well we all knew this was inevitable... where parts are becoming more and more scarce..." but beyond that Phil said "especially for the last 6 months, Isuzu has been discontinuing many parts in the massive amounts". He said it has been very noticeable and is happening at a very fast rate. He said several parts related to each other will go into "discontinued" status at the same time now as opposed to the "one here and there" going discontinued...

Man this sucks... I'm just a couple of months away from driving my DREAM CAR... my totally refurbished/rebuilt/modded from hell VEHICROSS that took 2 damn years of not driving... and then when I get it all together... I have to make sure no one EVER gets close to me on the road lol maaaan..... what a life lol

but you know what... it's still all worth it...