Ever screw something up?

Everyone seems to make perfect cars around here.. Or rather, seem to get good results for "first chops". No one ever seems to do it badly... If I tried, I`d probably set fire to myself, loose a few fingers and need my work repaired by a pro...

What was your first project like?

Also, pics or it didn't happen

 

If I showed pics of the things that I have screwed up to this point, no one on this board would talk to me. My latest thing is the door on my 31 Chevy...let's just say it took me 3 days to get it right or 2 1/2 days to fix what happened right out of the gate. Hopefully the 2nd door goes better.

 

I jacked a few VW's up while learning some chop skills in highschool. but I did have a bad *** bondo VW tub with no roof for a bit

 

I have found that all of my botched projects and mess-ups have been the best learning tool I have ever had. No really..! And yes, I am still a mistake maker. ****, I may even be an actual Bondo King! Don't tell my peers, though.

 

The longest remembered screwups are directly related to the cost of fixing them. Its called: "Experence" or "Learning from my mistakes".

I always told my son, "get out there in the shop and screw something up, you learn from fixing your mistakes."

I only ever heard of one guy that did everything perfectly, they hung Him on a cross over 2,000 years ago. Gene

 

I'm bad about trying to fix something and making something else worse!

 

Yea, I was in the trunk of my 55 Chevy, tripped and fell back and almost ripped the decklid off the car... busted my face on the driveway and bent back a few fingers. I hurt.

 

Anyone who never screwed up, never done anything!

Cooter

 

uhhhhhhhhhhh no!!

 

I only screw up something everytime I work on my vehicles.

 

In the process of screwing up a perfectly good AD hood as we speak... man If I woulda realized what a pain sectioning a hood was prior to sectioning the truck I prob wouldnt have done it. eh oh well, Its only steel

 

Honestly, for some reason everything i do turns out good, its wierd

 

I just love how as soon as the topic of screwing something up come up so does the art of Bondo! IT does seem to go hand in hand with VW chops and many other things.

 

Screw-ups are the Best learning experience that you can get

 

it happens, no matter what happens its always kool as long as it different,
any ***hoe can restore a car!
it takes balls to cut up somethang !
its taken 7 years to start cutting up my ride
but i chopped a lot of my freinds hooptys !

 

im not a pro so most of my piles O **** are cluster ****s!

 

Needed a door gl*** for one of my Chevelles and it cost me a c-note at the local wrecking yard because I had to buy the whole door. While tightening the through bolts that hold the gl*** to the tracks I promptly blew the window into a million pieces.....too tight I guess.Other than that I have been lucky.

 

Only if I touch it. Sometime you ask yourself why you do that???

 

If you don't try you will never learn. The older I get the less mistakes I make. I must be learning something!

Some people never try, maybe there to lazy or to afraid to make a mistake. In the end they never learn anything.

 

Its better to do something and fail
than do nothing and succeed....Abe lincon

 

Converting a pickup to a removal hardtop. Kicked My A$$ to the point where the sledge hammer in corner of the shop was looking like the perfect way to get back at the truck. I finally got it right though. A couple of years and **** load of cuss words too late one of the rod magazines came out with a pretty decent article on how to do it!

 

Built a 0.30 over 350 for a Vega once.
Was going smooth.
Had it on an engine stand upside down.
Torqued the rods and crank, installed the mellings pump, then put the gasket on and the oil pan.
Now, since I'm a huge stickler for leaks, I used Permatex Ultra Blue on the gasket for the oil pan.
(I know, some of you don't, but you also get leaks, have fun with that),
anyway, I left it like that over night to seat.
Got back to work on it the next day.
Rotated the motor to start on mounting the heads and I heard a muffled 'toonk'.
Sounded like it came from inside the oil pan.
Then I noticed the cap to the tube of Permatex was missing.

Guess where it was....(sigh)

Needless to say, I got to mount the oil pan all over again that day.
....yay.

 

It will only make you better...if you let yourself learn from it..Littleman

 

Its all part of the process. I always feel like I take 3 steps forward and 2 steps back on every aspect of my 29. At times it can be very frustrating but it will make you a better car builder.

 

for me, it always seems like my first attempt comes out way better than expected. then i try to duplicate it and it goes to ****, haha

 

I have only ever screwed one thing up, luckily it was unimportant.

My life.



Doc.

 

If you dont screw up once in a while you aren't trying hard enough

 

I once ***embled a 54 Ford engine, and when I reached for the pushrods, I noticed the lifters still there in the box. Oh well....could have been a crank or something.

 

Let's see......cars,motorcycles,marriage,fatherhood,relationships,my business.....other than that stuff,I'm perfect...

 

My brother and I built a 27 roadster in the late seventies. We figured out that the only thing on the car we didn't have to change at least once was about 30" of frame under the body.