Why don't projects ever get finished?

I've never not finished a project, although I received an offer 1/2 way through one and sold it. An offer too good to refuse. Only reason holding me up now is a recent divorce settlement and lack of funds. I do most things myself and only farm out things beyond my level of skill or expertise.

Plenty of projects out there for sale for various reasons, lost motivations, divorce settlement, lack of funds, lifestyle choice, too ambitious a project, bit off more than they can chew to name a few reasons.

 

With me its all of the above. I see potential in many projects. I have the room. the wife dont care how many. I rarely sell because I like them and I and for someone to buy they gotta like them more than me. The good thing is I always bought bargains. Along the way they helped supplement my living From the parts and cars ive sold. They are worth more for s**** than what I paid for them. If I crushed I could get about $80,000.oo for the 300 or so cars. Im a poster boy for the sitting and rotting& hoarding crowd. But im trying to reduce the growth of the collection Before the children where grown and the morgage paid money was scarce. now Im old and lazy. AlsoI have the computer& satelite TV to spend time on. OldWolf

 

I have a plan for you all...if youhave a project that you have lost interest in and want to "get rid of it", pleeze by all means...let me know and I will help you out any way that I can. My problem is that I live in Nashville, TN and the "project cars" around here are either made of gold or beyond repair. The biggest problem is that there really isn't anything around here within a decent budget. I get so ticked off when I look at the hamb or CL or evilbay and find that perfect project for me and it is in Washington state and the price is beautiful....and then Isee something similar around here and the price is freakin outrageous.

 

The car you pick to build cannot be "a car"...with me it has to be "the car"....
I've piddled around with cars and pickups that weren't on my bucket-list and even finished most of them enough to be driveable but my heart wasn't really in them...sometimes felt like I had to force myself to work on them.
My advice? Go to the top of your list. Start chasing down leads on the car you absolutly cannot live without. Begin collecting parts for it. My 34 five window proejct began with a 34 frame with a homemade woody body [bad!] I got from some guy who wanted my 53 stude project I'd run out of gas on..even trade.
I was on my way to building the car I wanted most in life. I continued to track down leads and was amazed at how much stuff I was able to buy for cheap.
Don't settle for less than the best...go to the top of your list.