I found myself rooting around on Craigslist and found a cool coupe body for trade... Luckily, I didn't have anything I wanted, or there would be another project in my garage... I got myself all excited about a NEW project, and I'm thinking all sorts of bad thoughts. Anybody have any strategies for staying focused on just one project, like... idano.... turning off your ISP... Stop having newspapers delivered... blinders... handcuffs... ? I don't have the money to collect parts for a new project and continue with the existing project.
There is no cure for the.............................DISEASE!YOU CAN NOT RESIST THE TEMPTATION.JUST GIVE IN!
Having a wife seems to take care of it for me...I've been attemping to find another running 60's car cheap enough for her to let me have my fun but no luck thus far. I have a bad habit of buying stuff that is no where near road worthy and I lose my ethusiasm when I can't drive my project at least a little bit while i work on it!
I seem to have the same affliction. I just started my second project. I haven't finished the first and I'm already planning my THIRD!
I was going to post I need the number but I am attempting to control my illness. I have to get all my junk running and the area around the house cleaned up so I can build my deck on the backside of the pool with parking underneath. I already have my three car garage stuffed full.
I know the feeling. Two years ago I said I wasn't going to build another car, already had a coupe and a roadster. But I'm reading craigslist and up pops a, and this is close to what the add said, '30 ford roadster project, five year ac***ulation of parts, $****. I call the guy and am the first to call so I arange to meet him at his house after work, only six miles from mine. I walk into his garage and there it sits, arally nice rusty body that was channeled over the frame, a frame, nice mordrop axle with unsplit bone, three rear ends, six wheels and tires. Oh, did I mention it has a '32 three window dash with the glove box door and ashtray, a Harmon Collins dual point distributer, an original Beehive oil filter, a bop type top, deluxe windshield frame. Needless to say I'm now halfway through another build. The best part is I've made half what I paid for it selling off all the stuff I didn't list here. You gotta love a great deal.
i just put in another payment for my second project. i haven't finished paying for the first, now I can't seem to find my checkbook to start my third!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! I,m currently into 4 maybe 5 projects right now and I do despair sometimes...
I don't know, my wife seems to be a pretty good medicine for it. It doesn't completely cure it, but it does tame it down a bit. I have about four projects planned for the future, but when I get really antsy, I remember what drew me to my current project, and how much I want to see it finished. My truck will eventually be my son's (in about ten years). So that lets me think about a replacement for me, one for my daughter, and I'm still trying to talk the wife into a '62-4 T-bird convertable (she still wants a 1st gen mustang convert; yuck!).
hey you already have a kick as ride......you just need to finish it..lol.....if you need help ask......rooster
Stop Dreamin And Your Dead .. Unfinished Projects Are Dreams... Unfulfilled There Will Always Potentionaly Be Others In Your Minds Eye.... Your Minds Eye / Vision Is What Is Called Creativity Personal Creativity Is What Hotrodders Live To Do Hotrodding- Vision - Creativity- Personal Dreams Your Choice To Express It ?
This post kinda hits home right now. Been searchin' hi and lo for an affordable house in the Orlando area (Oxy*****) with at least a one car garage. Ended up finding one with a TWO car extra deep garage. Would be plenty of room for my 2 Rocket 88's AND space to store the '30 Ford Pick-up project, I want to buy from Anthony(OOMack) Point being, the more room you have the more **** you collect. Could just stay in my De-Luxe bachalor pad apt. and play golf......NAH! Final note/opinion: The more "stuff" you have to worry about, the more it complicates your life. JT
I don't know, lately my "itch" has gone away. I'm frustrated at the piles of **** that I've collected, my backyard looks like a s**** yard, so I'm selling everything, one thing at a time, except a non-HAMB friendly ride I've always liked, and my truck. I'm just tired of the junk all over the place, and I'm tired of owning beat up pieces of ****; I want nicer cars. I'm going to sell everything so I can regain my focus. Even my '31 coupe will eventually go up for sale, because I lack the skills to make it look nice. I think I've decided I want a steel '30-31 roadster with a straight body that I can drive everywhere, but I've got to get my living space and sanity sorted out first.
Ain't that the truth. Hey I ONLY have 7 projects now. Now if I could sell my 97 Dodge Ram P/U I could help pay for some medicine , AKA, MORE PARTS
hahaha.....i was taking the trash out a few minutes ago, saw the back of the roadster reflecting in the low light......thought, well, i'd sure like to start an A coupe with a blown flatty.......then i thought "i can't even afford to buy the things i need to finish the roadster!" yep, i know where you're coming from......i hope i can be strong until both kids are out of diapers and formula!
Cure the itch? No way. Walk right thru the middle of the biggest patch of vintage iron around and get it all over. Scratch the itch every chance you get. Life's too short to sit back and watch it go by.
God I feel your pain,...just got financially prepared to put my 65 Riv in the shop for media blasting and body work. All ready to shave her door handles, antenna and create the floating bumper and then put her in primer, When a good friend calls me up about a car I might be interested in, located in a barn. I go to check it out and its a model A coupe in surprisingly solid condition. DAMN!!!!!!......now all I do is dream about this coupe and worry about someone else discovering it if I don't act fast!
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