the "sit n stare"

you guys ever sit n stare at your car after everytime you do something new to it, every single time i do something new i find myself in the garage staring at it i even have a couch facing my car...

 

Nothing wrong with that. I have done it.

 

with a cup of coffee and an idiot grin....thats when u gotta remember to wipe your hands clean and take a pic for the HAMB!

 

Oooh Yeah! Only I even stare at the stuff I did a year ago. I've had my caddy for 8 years and I still walk backwards into the store.

I think it's a car guy thing.

Later- John

 

but take a break when you think it's staring back at you

 

This is exactly what i was thinking,... I have always had a folding card table chair in any garage I have ever had,... I look for a while in one direction,.... walk around it,.... move the chair and look some more, all around the car,...
and this is what leads to the next thing I start working on,.... sit and enjoy,... but don't sit to long.

 

new exhaust on my f-100 last weekend, i start it up and listen to it a couple times a day. my wife says i retarded

 

Why I could never make a living outta working on cars. I look too long, too often to make any money at it.

 

Not only after I do something but before as well, working it out in my head. I find I take a HELL of a lot longer before,...................
maybe its cause my head works so darn slow?

I still have a template for an aluminium bonnet I made for one of my old As, its different one side from the other. Took 15 min to make and two days of staring until I decided on the side I liked and still haven't made it!

 

is that ur wife and truck in the pic there

 

I call it planning time!

 

yes

 

like the paint scheme i was planning on the doing the same with my car but a dark brown roof and cream color on the rest

 

the bottom on my truck is just oxide red primer, i've got some body work left from the body line down. so i sprayed the body line up to keep it from the elements, its kinda growing on me like it is. i got the senters of the wheels painted orange right now, my grandma said it looks like an A&W rootbeer delivery truck

 

mate....You may be staring at the wrong thing???????

 

I was just comparing the two and thinking the same thing!!! Lucky guy!



James

 

a guy at work came across the same truck hes just doing a quickie on it thry to make a couple bucks, the only thing the interior had was a god awful seafoam green and charcoal colored seat so being the cheap ass he is he didnt want to pay to re-do the seat so he painted the whole truck around it seafoam green on the bottom with a charcoal roof and a charcoal tinted bedliner to match... its bad...

 

i consider myself lucky in finding both my ladies. but they both know how to push my buttons

 

ur signature says it all

 

no shit! she's got a cloths fetish, and now we have a second daughter so she has to buy everything she sees for the two girls as well. if its layin around i'm snaggin it.

 

Da...maybe....No really thats why it's taking 34 years to get to the paint part on my 32. If you don't strive for perfection...what the hell is the use then?

 

OH YEAH! I prefer to call the "sit & stare" sessions "research & development planning". Also known to involve "Miller Genuine Draft" or"Clown Royal"depending on who is helping that day.

 

just put the rear bumper back on the buick today, must have looked at it a hundred times to see if its straight or not, in fact just head'n back out there now!!!!

 

It's the pondering chair. And yes, I too move positions.

 

What i do is go out in the garage in the morning for a few minutes with my cup of coffee before i go to work. sit n stare. my quiet time. helps get me through the days bull shit.

 

I even installed a large mirror so that I can sit in one place and look at both sides of the car. The only thing the wife hates more than me spending hours in the garage working on the car is me spending hours staring at it...

 

Contemplation....... before, during and after a considered piece of work = ART!

Now here's an idea, why don't we all start signing our works of art like any other artist. A painter or sculptor often gives a particular work a name (as do we) then they sign it, (as should we).
Some of the greatest artists never went to Art School, they were apprenticed to a Master.
Many of us are masters and many are apprentices, tradesmen and masters-in-the-making. So I say sign your work, your art. If any mock or gainsay you, ask (them) to prove your dream, your vision your creation isn't ART. Remember, art is in the eye of the beholder, and, are we not beholden to our art?

If this seems a little strange, sorry. I recently lost my younger brother. I am drinking, and dreaming the whisky dreams of our ancestors.

 

Isn't that why they have plate glass windows?...So we can see our reflection as we drive by???

 

Hell yea... I can sit and stare at other peoples stuff too.
I must have ten minutes starin' at the black,early, T bucket from nastalgia59's post yesterday.
This HAMB thing is great thanks to all involved. You guys get it...
Smokey

 

All the time. Everytime I get something new done.