From that to this:
Valvetronic motor gasket seems to be holding as designed! Added a new $85 ebay cowl that I took a chance on. It's 98% fine, maybe even 99%. Forgot to order the sealing strip so very carefully re-used the original one. All the seals are unexpectedly in good shape! While I had the wipers off I re-painted them. As I was trying to re-condition the original sealing strip I had some gummi pflege out, so slathered that on everything everywhere. Finally, I tucked in the little fabric screen on the sunroof wind deflector that had slipped out. I rarely use the sunroof, but nice to have it fixed.
Middle Child is requisitioning the car and taking it back to Santa Cruz, so trying to get every thing finished off for her. The new Rein power steering reservoir is leaking at the clamshell seam, and I'm not quite happy with the battery. I think PO put a cheap under-sized one in, and while it works, it does struggle. Something I could put off, but not sure about it being 400 miles away...