Split it whichever way you want — 12 months, 52 weeks, or 365 days — it still sure sounds like a long time, but, in carbuilding terms, that span can ebb away without so much as spinning a spanner. So, when we learned that that’s all it took for Sven Highman to take a dilapidated left-hook RX-2 coupe and turn it into something truly showstopping, we were floored. Why? Because this was no ‘slap-on-some-paint-and-wheels-and-call-it-a-day’ affair. No sir, this was a complete ‘tear-down-to-a-bare-shell, mount-it-on-a-rotisserie, and media-blast-it’ restoration. While most sane people would have set a realistic goal of a few years to complete such a mammoth project, Sven had other ideas, and pinned a target of 12 months to go from rags to riches. We suspect this was because he had…