Art & Inspiration You ever get burnt out from a project?

Been somewhat busting ass on my pops and i’s father son T roadster project. I’ve been doing all of the fabrication and it’s getting down to little things to do since most of the big stuff is done. Maybe it’s winter dragging ass and not being able to open the shop doors and getting warm sunny work time and getting the shop cleaned out or maybe I’m just burnt?

 

Walk away, and when you can't stand it anymore, jump back in.
Sometimes I avoid the garage, other times I hate going to work, and stay up half the night working on my projects.
Wait til your heart's back in it.

 

You couldn’t pay me enough to move back north. Ya just need some sunshine, those long winters are roooooough

 

This is why I have 40 different things to work on!
Sounds like the winter blues. Mowing comes soon enough, needed therapy for real.

 

Hang in there man, hard to accomplish anything if you're not inspired. Sometimes I go look at somebody else's stuff, like a car show, Sometimes I go help out a buddy on their car, anything to get inspiration. Grab a piece of paper and write down goals for the day, make them obtainable, knock that day out and move on to the next day. It's gotta be fun, not pressured.

 

Yeah. Me too. Right now.
What was theoretically an easy job in my mind has turned into a PITA, and has other things waiting on it.
It’s swapping this 283 for the blown up fathead in my 40 coupe.
EVERY bit of progress gets kicked in the balls with some other challenge, and it’s wearing thin.
Coupled with old age and increasing home projects, it doesn’t take much for me to close the shop door.
OK. Enough bitchin’. Time to get to work. Or not.

Update: Had several rocker arms not oiling. Got that corrected but now it’s smoking out one bank. Ran clean up to now. See, I told you. Snake bit.

 

Winter isn't really cold in South Texas but when the ducks are flying, I can't face the project in the boat barn and as soon as duck season ends I have to catch up on "Honey Do's" until it warms up a little and then it's time to guide people on redfish excursions. I swear that I will have my hot rod on the road by next duck season.

 

Remember it’s a hobby, not a job.
“Don’t worry, be happy”

Although I find that procrastination is beneficial

 

Definitely sounds like the winter blues to me. I’m in the same place now. And the garage door open is a thing for me. No windows in my small shop and I’ve pretty much walked away from projects until I can get some real sun in. Hopefully I can get on the bike soon to start enjoying nicer weather. Although we’ve got a tornado warning till 10.

 

You have been hitting it hard for a few years. Perfectly fine to step back and maybe go fishing or dig out that bike and hit the trails.The lack of sunlight gets me, now with added day I am super motivated!

Don't let him kid you, we had more 60s and even random 70s than yoose all in KC this year. That said, we are back in the cycle we had 30 and them 40 years ago with bigger snowfalls, cool snaps and actual winter. I was snowed in with the Subie and 3 foot drifts yesterday, was just out front in flip flops and a hoodie playing with the shop cats today. Snow is damn near GONE in 24 hours. The joy of the Black Hills

 

YEAH !!!!!!!
Let's sell out and take up gardening. Be a quitter.......let somebody else finish it. (Ain't dat the new America?!)
6sally6

 

Let's see. Dale Grau is driving 2 of my 32 lakester projects I burned out on. Sold a deuce Vicky, B 400, Pickup, and several Brookville roadster projects I burned out on. I may be the burn out king?

 

No problem ! ...look at this project as your special thing, do not transfer the usual "paycheck"/job urgency to this project.
Or you'll hate it, just like you are at "work" every M-F aka the "paycheck place". There at workland: everything is a crisis. Gets old.

This car was built decades before you were born, she's patient. Visualize this beauty how she'll look/drive when she is done, and you are tearing up the local street. Best to hit it in bursts, then take a breather. For real progress: a written checklist in the garage helps too. This is supposed to be fun!

Personally : I have too many projects: but I tell myself, these are mine for the rest of my life, and I just bought before the price went up.

Finally: don't let the perfect, become the enemy of the good.

 

Face it, its a rite of passage if you're truly into all this. I'd imagine most all of whoever reads these posts have at one time or the other just flat said "why in the hell am i doing this, time/money/equipment/p.o.'d wifey, etc." Then of course they go to the garage to work on something.

 

Yes, all the time. That is why I try to have multiple at once. So when I get burnt out on one I move to another and then when the mood hits me move back. Not everyone has that option, but it seems to work for me

 

Take a break, but ease back into it. Try my “15 minute per day” rule. I try to walk out there and do one little thing every day. If nothing else, stare at it for fifteen minutes and decide that next step.

 

time to post a thread..oh you did...ha ha ha ...part of the fun is sharing our success , ..... and suck ass situations..we all go through it...

 

Spend a week with your wife, visiting her Mother! THAT will give you incentive to get back in the shop!!

 

The big thing for me is when I started this project with my dad I thought just do a bit to keep the ball rolling and then he had a brain bleed that damn near killed him and while in the hospital they found out that he was in the early stages of leukemia. So then I thought I had better nip this in the butt and get this sum bitch on the road. I guess there are several reasons I might be burnt.

 

Yes, you hit the nail on the head!

 

This one did me in.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/almost-funny-awb-barracuda-funny-car-build.1087510/

so....

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1965-barracuda-street-strip-awb.1259212/

 

After spending the last 20 months in a rental shop rebuilding my roadster working 4-5 days a week I am starting to fear burn-out... but all I have to do is remember how much a day this shop rental is costing me and it helps put me back on track

 

Say howdy to your dad, always dug him. If he wants an update on the Plant I can fill him in how sideways it has gone!

 

I've never "burnt out" from a project, but I've bought many project vehicles from people who have.

 

I often wondered why some of my older friends slowed down, but still appreciated seeing the cars and visiting with us that were heavy in the hobby. Now I am one of those older guys, finding it hard to make progress on the projects I have going. It was like throwing a switch last year for me, and after almost 60 years of playing around with cars, my interest has dwindled. One of my Bonneville cars is coming back the first of June, for some changes, needs to be ready for Speedweek, that will force me back to work. See you in Wendover !

 

What is there to do when you live up here. We got are first storm back in Nov 11th and its never melted theres almost 100 inches on the ground and we are getting 2 more feet next week. Its right from the heater to the AC in the shop so the doors never get opened.

 

I hit burnout 25 years ago but that was way more from being in the mindset that said that I had to have the latest and trickest pieces and style going on rather than the style that I fell in love with as a 5th grader reading every Issue of Hot Rod Magazine that the bookmobile brought to the school I attended.
I took a few years off and bought a sailboat and became friends with the guy who corrupted me into being a sailboat owner in the process. That was something that I had wanted to do since I was that same 12 year old getting on that bookmobile as the other magazine I checked out each time was SEA.
Then through a Canadian group I found the Hamb and here were the cars that looked the way they did when I was a kid and no one said I had to "update" them every couple of years and in fact updating was frowned upon.
I've got to go right along with what Marty said in post 25. The older you get the less important it becomes to get X amount done today or race to meet a self imposed deadline.
Years of beating myself to death to meet a deadline always brought about mistakes or cut corners. I'm in the process of dealing with a lot of those cut corners now.
Still at times if you are burned out on going out in the garage and seemingly making no headway, time can be spent on planning and research. I did that for my OT daily that some folks see as a collector car now. I was fussing about the headlights not being adjusted right while we were on the way back from a visit with our daughter in law and grandson while they were in town for the week and as the wind was blowing to beat the hell outside I studied up on how to fix it and found a youtube video that explained step by step on how to fix it. 25 bucks worth of parts to get it done but hopefully I can see a lot further down the road when it is done.

 

Sounds to me like it is not the "finishing it" part that is important. Even if you are just sitting on a bucket and staring at a half-done T roadster, as long as your Dad is beside you it is time well spent. The car is secondary, and just provides the opportunity to hang out together.
Get back and enjoy the build for what it is......irreplacable and unbeleivably valuable time. My best thoughts to you both.

 

I'm sorry to hear about your Dad's health issues. Prayers and best wishes sent.
This may be a good time to step back and take time with your family, especially your Dad, or..... drag his ass out to your shop, set up a couple of lawn chairs, bench race/bull shit about where the car's at now and where you and he want to take it, then go from there. Follow his lead.... you might just inspire each other. Most of all, stay close to him and provide whatever support you can.
Good luck!

 

Gotta get inspired. You could jump on a jet and go to an event where the weather is fit for human habitation. Seeing other finished rides always gets me going.