Looks like you've got some real fun stuff in there. Sometimes I feel like all my projects won't get finished until my retirement, and I'm 36.
As long as you don't have to use or move that Pipe Mule in the left foreground of your pic it will stay a good day.
Retired about 10 years ago and found I needed to keep working for the $$$ but I only work part time now. I had several retirement projects but sold everything off except my 34 coupe. And then I bought my brother's old O/T chevelle wagon back again after selling it in the great purge. NO MORE! The wagon and the coupe are quite enough. If you're like me and my buddies, you'll find you actually had more time to play with projects when you were working! Seems backwards but it's true.
2yrs to go for me and I hope to have a shed like that with a hoist so I can play. Every day is chooseday, you choose whether you work or don't! The way I'm going on my 46 Olds, the build will carry over until retirement. Enjoy yourself, you worked all your life to enjoy the fruits of your labour.
Hope you have as much fun as I have been having. I work with my shop buddy 5 to 6 hours a day on our projects. I think I would otherwise be bored to death rotting on the couch or looking for part time work.
I mess around with different stuff and I'm always bringing something home for a project, that I call "retirement projects". The wife claims I'm up to "retirement project " 108. I'm only 46 I'm sure I'll forget most of the projects by the time I get there Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I got one I've been hammering on for a few years now , it's about to be " finished " as it will end up being . It is not a rod but fun daily transportation . It's a 1979 Power Wagon short step side , now powered by a Cummins 4bt , adding Dana 60 front and rear axles soon . It's fun and serves me well , at 26 MPG . I have put 60K on it to date , but the rust is another adventure .
"Retired about 10 years ago and found I needed to keep working for the $$$ but I only work part time now. I had several retirement projects but sold everything off except my 34 coupe. And then I bought my brother's old O/T chevelle wagon back again after selling it in the great purge. NO MORE! The wagon and the coupe are quite enough. If you're like me and my buddies, you'll find you actually had more time to play with projects when you were working!" It seems when you have the time you don't have the money and vice versa. Weird how that works.
Great minds think alike! Shop by charleyw posted Dec 24, 2016 at 8:01 PM IMG_3934 by charleyw posted Nov 28, 2016 at 9:20 AM
Used to drag home everything that was free or extremely cheap that I could get my hands on. Thinking I would fix it up and make some money. Looked around the backyard one day and thought to myself, "shit, I don't have enough years left to fix all this shit." Been thinning out the crap so I can be more focused. I'm sure I'll have plenty left for retirement projects. Being the working peasant that I am.
I bought my retirement project that naturally I couldn't leave it alone ...so I'm taking my 80's built 1934 Ford all steel car... and spending the rest of my retirement redoing it... Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I've found that when I had the money, I didn't have the time. When I did have time, I didn't have the money. Now with time, money, and too many projects, I don't have space to work!
Retirement projects are great therapy. Its just getting harder and harder to do the things I used to do easily. Under the dash board stuff is the worst. Hard to get in the right position and difficulty seeing wearing bifocals. Sometimes I've actually been stuck under there and needed help getting out. Fortunately I'm just finishing up a nut and bolt frame off restoration on the 63 Impala on my avatar. Just some nit noid stuff to finish. Gary
Man,when you buddy said you need a Christmas tree in your garage he was talking about one like this! HRP
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