How many hours do you have on your project??

I was just wondering how many hours of labor have
you all put in on your rod or custom?? Like how long
did it take to fix a fender or redue the floors stuff like
that. Just wondering

 

Hours? Don't you mean years?

 

abuot 15 hours of work, 3 months of aggrevation and staying up nights trying to plan and find parts..




28 years of dreaming if that counts

 

Shit I forgot to include that too

 

Hours?
Labor?
Look in your flat rate book.
It'll tell ya it takes two and a half hours to repar a fender and that's all the insurance companies will pay ya.
Oh...
You talking about your HOBBY?
HOBBYs are "off the clock".

 

I'm not going to punch a time clock unless someone is going to pay me,
Impossible for me to estimate as time flys when I'm assholes and elbows into my my playtime.
all the major work on my 54 GMC was done in 31 days. long hours and two hard working youngsters helping.

my 48 ford three window HEMI powered coupe is about to come out front and center for a final thrash to get it back on the road after sitting in the corner for 13 years

 

you have to have a plan of what you want done,than always think one step ahead,so you won't have to redo anything. And it always depends on the condition of the car. alot of hiden rust,you may take off a panel and find that you have to repair something else. take your time and do it rite the first time. you are not on a T.V show.

 

100 hours labor building time. 2500 hours windshield thinking time!

 

EXACTLY what I was thinking when I read the title.

4 1/2 years so far BUT I am hoping to finish the rest very soon.

 

I learned a long time ago not to so much keep track of time as much as dollars invested for personal projects. Reason being it would scare the bejesus out of ya and you may never do another one!!!!!

 

I never keep track of time, but do know I have drank over 180 cans of coke while building DeathsDoorStep.........may exlpain my kidney stone problem....I can not imagine Plowboys trash can.......something like a stale beer smell...he he...........Littleman

 

All the spare hour hours I can spend on it for the last three years, thats how many hours I have in mine. A better question is how many minutes a day do you spend not thinking about your project, very few I would imagine.

 

38 15 hour days in a row........
6 months of trying to fix all the half ass shit that i hurried through to get it to hunnert

and another thing that i have learned... everything takes at least an hour.. changing a bolt at least an hour...making a bracket for your pound puppies lunch box at least an hour

tom

 

Two things I never do 1 is keep before and after pictures and 2 is keep track of something I don't have to.

I did look once at the time invested in a paint job on a show car, it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 2500 hours. Scared the hell right out of me.

I do know this I used to do an engine swap in a weekend, my last one took me 6 months.Actual Hours? probably a little more than twice what it used to take me.

But someone said this, " I'm not as good as I once was but I'm as good once as I ever was." I don't think he was talking about cars though.

 

My first engine swap took two days, from friday morning till saturday night...and I did sleep in there somewhere.

My 57 suburban has been taking 8 years so far, it only has a few more to go.

I built my 55 in 4 weeks, not much else got done that month. A year later I spent a week making it look better, since then I've spent a week here and a week there on it.

I did my extended cab 59 pickup in 3 weeks, and later spent a week making it look better (different bed, two tone primer).

 

How many hours do you have making whoopy? I don't keep track of that either but both are fun for me. In both cases don't keep track of what it costs or the amount of time to get it done. Just enjoy the experience.

 

I don't even want to think about trying to add up the hours. Shit, it took me three full days just to make the motor mounts!

 

I have been at the wagon project for 3 years,,,I seem to work like a mad man for about 3 month streches and something always pulls me away for a while,,,,,87 patch panels so far,,,and I'm getting started back again now that the 40 coupe is back on the road,,,,,,,HRP

 

work? none,
it's all play time

 

I don't even want to know how many hours I have in a car. When its done it's done.... and I have never really finished one ! I have always sold them before they were "done".