Projects Who Drives A Work In Progress ?

I've been painting cars my whole life, yeah, i know, I'm not 70 years old, but i started vocational school in autobody at 13 years old, that's almost 40 years, and i paint more that 1 a week usually, not just one a year, so i know a little about it. But i have never painted one of my own cars. I've never finished one of my own cars. I like driving them too much! They are and have all been beaters or jalopy's. And that's the way i like em! Maybe somebody older and wiser can explain to me what the hell sense it makes to dump thousands of dollars into a car, best of everything, then stick it on a trailer, sorry, in a trailer, to go show it off? I'd think that with all of the money spent, that it'd drive and run better than my junk! Lmao! Hell yeah i drive a work in progress, always have, and always will

 

We are just past an 80,000 test drive. Now the stuff the car started with is beginning to need to be replaced.

 

I have also learned similar to what Lloyd mentions that I can have way more fun in something that isn't perfect. I remember painting a truck about 20 years ago for an older friend that was a bodyman that liked to focus on custom stuff. He was continually customizing bodywork on the truck and always drove it in primer. It was a WAY cool truck when it was in primer and I always thought it looked tough, plus it was his daily driver. Anyway, his wife talked him into "finishing" it because he had been driving it in primer for so long. So, he paid me to paint it, he bought some fancy wheels for it, and had the interior done. It totally killed the "cool" factor and it became just another shiny truck that he couldn't modify much anymore. I remember him telling me that he loved the paint job, but also felt like it was now "done" and he couldn't work on it anymore. And he was also more concerned to drive it because he now had an expensive paint job on it that he didn't want to mess up. I had the chance to buy this truck a couple years ago, and would have likely bought it if it would have never been painted, the fancy wheels put on and the interior redone which all just dated the build too...

I also just picked up a really nice "finished" car for my brother that as nice as it is, I think I would still prefer to drive a cool beater. They are way more fun and get every bit as much attention.

 

I'd be happy just to have something driveable. Just have projects now.

 

Most cars are a work in progress.

by my way of thinking a car whether it is a rod or a custom should never be stagnant. They should be in a constant state of improvement. Mine are like "Schrodinger's cat" they are always finished and not finished at the same time.

 

My 54 has been work in progress since March of 1989,it even says "Strictly unfinished business" on the back.

 

When I started working on my '55 1st Series Chevy truck, BillyBob in 1999, I did all the work in my employer's office parking lot on weekends. In the beginning, the truck was only good for short trips, to and from that parking lot. By 2008, the truck and I were making cross-country runs.

 

When you own a specific car for 24 years (57 T-Bird), you are wearing it out by driving it. That means that it requires constant attention so it's never really "done". With that said, here is my daily driver. It's a work in process and may never be "finished" until it lays down and dies.

Then there is the Model A project that may become a non-finished driver this year.

 

Greats comments, keep em coming.
You know, my trucks a work in progress, my house is a work in progress, and you know I'm a friggin work in progress...lol
Progress, not perfection a wise Man coined many years ago..

 

I totaled a couple of barracuda's as in the nineties. They were finished when I wrecked them! Does that count?

 

I have never finished a project in my life