i've been working on my car for two years. And i'm blown out i still can't drive it. it's super close but still needs some work. i'm thinking real hard about selling it and buying a sand car of some sort. i've been an custom guy since i was about 14 years old and i'm 32 now. i just need you guys to slap me around a bit.
so.. 2 years of hard work and you are just going to throw it out? if its that close, get it done.. itll be worth more if you really want to sell it anyways... you will regret selling it... i know from experience...
I got nothin..haven't worked on my 40 chevy coupe in Months...and I love that car! Maybe when the weather gets better you'll feel different...I know I will. Nothing gets the ol' hotrod blood running like a ride in a buddy's custom/hotrod. Yeah, that's it! Call up your best hotrod or custom buddy and 'splain the problem to him. Tell him it's life or death...of your car. He'll understand if he's a stand-up guy and smoke his tires over to your place to give you a ride around for an hour or so...it may get your juices flowing again.
Dont sell it. Push it into the corner until YOU feel like working on it again. I get burnt out some times and thats what I do. You will be happier in the long run.Its not fun if you turn it into work.
I know that i just have to push though it. I'm just having a rough time. i typicaly trade for some other piece of shit. this car i've put my heart and soul into. it's my dream car. i'm basicaly the glue for my hotrod buddies i have no one to call with a running car. this website has been my outlet for years. I LOVE MY CAR IT IS JUST REAL TUFF WITH TWO SMALL CHILDREN AND NO SPARE TIME.
Why buy a dune buggy that needs a little work that you may never finish, that seats two. When you could suck it up, and finish your ride, and take your wife and all the kids to the neighborhood drive in for root beer floats.
im a pretty young guy i just got my first car and its going to be a learning experince but i got to dive right in and i dont know a damn thing and yea i get bummed out and discouraged but i shouldnt give up someday i will have a car i love thats perfect for me i think you should keep it and just kinda get the juices flowing again its hard when ya get burned out but it always comes back just give it time its looks pretty sweet anyways i want it
A sand limo new = $80,000-$120,000 only worth 1/2 after a trip to the dunes A bad ass hot rod that you spent 2 years building for less than $20,000. After you DRIVE it and show it to everyone at this years Lonestar Roundup Still worth every penny you spent building it!!! Finish the damm thing and enjoy it!!
I think most everyone here has encountered this delemia. I'm sure it looks pretty hopeless right now, but remember, YOU came to us asking for support. We wouldn't tell you to do something that we wouldn't do ourselves. Walk away for a bit. Look through some mags, go to some car shows...get inspired again. Maybe you need a little different direction...a new outlook on what you want it to be. Color schemes, interior design, headlights, tailights...you get the picture. Buy a shift knob, some hub caps..any little trinket..that usually helps me. Hang in there....you'll be glad you did.
dude i just went through this in the fall with my 54, got broke and pissy cause i couldnt drive the goddamn thing down the block, so i said fuck it and sold it, got a good price and bought a bike to fix.. now i miss the hell out of my car and have a fuckin bike i have to work on that i still cant drive cause its fuckin winter and i am broke again.. morel of the story your gonna get fed up with whatever the hell your wrkin on and your gonna miss the car , and you will still be broke just like me...the only thing i could do was buy another car that i dont like as much as th 54 ford, and dump to much money in that .. DONT SELL IT IT WOULD BE A MISTAKE!!!
If you had a shoebox Ford or mid fifties Chev, I'd say move it on and try again later. But you have a relatively rare car in that Belvedere. You WON'T find another if you sell it. Get someone to do a PhotoShop of your personal vision for the car and hang it where you can look at it. That might restart your passion for the car. Most of us have been in your shoes. Hang in there.
Go to a car show, watch AG - whatever you can to catch the "bug" again - don't sell, you'll regret it.
you will find the most important quality to have while building a hot rod is determination. great men all through history have realized this. here are a few of their thoughts: An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.....Thomas Fuller Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind....Leonardo da Vinci If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.... Samuel Johnson Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing......Abraham Lincoln When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn......Harriet Beecher Stowe Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.....Louis Pasteur Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.....Thomas Edison Press on: Nothing in this world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race......Calvin Coolidge I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.....John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never – in anything great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.....Winston Churchill I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and will not give up on a problem until I have found the proper solution.....Albert Einstein Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all........Dale Carnegie It's not over until it's over......Yogi Berra and the one that may apply here: When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on...............Franklin D. Roosevelt i guess what i'm saying you have to look inside and figure out what you want to do , and make up your mine to do it
I know guys who have been working on and off on their project cars from 2 to 20 years. I never hear one of them say they wished they had sold it. (They know how much the car has gained in value in that time.) I know guys who sold cars 20 years ago and they all wish they had the cars back.
Dont look at the whole project, look at each little job. Make a list, smallest job to largest click em off, you will snowball and it WILL get done..............yes to those that know this is what Dave Ramsey preaches! Dont know Dave? Google his name. You have more going on in your life than just a car.
The worst part for me is the last ten percent. Why? Because the last ten percent is actually forty percent or so. As rodders, we are optimists at heart . Everything takes twice as much money and three times as many hours as we originally estimate. But try to look at it this way: It might be slow, but it is expensive........
You have only been working on it for two years and want to give up and sell it,I had my 37 chevy p/u torn apart from 1976 to 2000 before it hit the street. Its apart again to make it where I can really drive it but will be done before spring,dont give up just work on it when you can. Jeff
Too bad you're not closer. Ive had this one for a couple of years now and probably wont get to it anytime soon.
Find a project on the car that you can get done relatively easily. It's amazing how much finshing something (no matter how small) will get the fire burning again. Mine sits there in the garage just waiting for me to do something to it, and sometimes all I can do is just walk around and look at it. Which is frustrating because it is so close. But when I do get something acomplished, it changes my whole outlook on things. Hang in there, you will make it.
you sounds like me a few weeks ago! just hang in there because the moment you sell it you will regret all that hard work without the pay off of hearing the first start up and that first drive! dont sell it!!!!
Take your pick...I can slap ya around a bit or give you a ride in my car. Both will make your ass hurt. Seriously...I think it's the weather and the busy holiday time. All of us around here have been stalled on our projects, and all have PLENTY of work to do on our cars. I just got around to filling the gas door and swapping the tires on my car...been meaning to do that for over a month. Hopefully that'll get the momentum going. You know I'm down to thrash...hit me up. Bryan
Bro, I know just how you feel, I've got two boys the oldest just turned 8 last weekend. my '51 wagon has not seen the light of day for about a month or so. DON"T SELL IT I work on mine maybe 1-4 days a month right now if i'm lucky, but there's allways tomorrow or the next day or the next..... Brian.
That car is cool and rare! I've always been a fan of the strange iron, just makes you cooler to me if I actually have to ask questions about your car. Above somebody said find something small to do and finish it, thats some good advice. When I feel like you do I try to find something easy and fun to fix that still moves the project a little closer.
i was just being a pantload lastnight. the wife wants me to trade it for something drivable. i'm pretty close i just realy need a radiator and probably an electric fan. rusk you didnt even pop into my little head when i typed that sorry dude.
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