Just an update, I'm still drawing on this thing.
The wife wants to get a CRV, and now that we are finally over with her unemployment/retraining nightmare and both working again I'm going to let her get it, with strings attached of course.
Instead of getting myself something newer(driving 93 civic sedan), I had it painted and now I'm asking that she allow the "funding" of this project

Aluminum is ~$2 a pound right now so it's time....