So heres some actual progress other than enjoying driving a bus...
stripped the tint off, which being three layers fused together took a solid 5 hours of scraping and whatnot. the result makes the inside nice and bright and from the outside it just looks cleaner.

continuing on the paint preservation/revitilization i started compounding out the slider door and the results were (although hard to see in pics) night and day...



so i had a few beers and tackled the passenger side, little by little...





needless to say, im pretty stoked on how shes coming along since first getting her in the driveway...