Projects You know you're hooked when......

You've barely gotten close to completion on one project when two more show up

 

Ya give up beer and cigarettes to buy car parts.................Oh yeah, and to live a little longer.

 

It's a sickness! HRP

 

Shoot, it won't take much to get them going, I said to myself.

 

This guy can help.....

 

great to be hooked , i dragged these home

 

I have one tore down in my garage with a half done engine swap and bought another basket case and its setting in another garage waiting on parts.

 

Dr. Phil ftw! If you don't get it, it won't make sense to you know matter how we try to explain it... I'm 25 and have had roughly 40+ cars, no sign of slowing down any time soon

 

Sounds like "rusty metal syndrome"!

 

xwing01 , 40 cars ,,,yowza..what you got for sale..lol..

 

A 40 Ford PU that isn't of much interest to most people on here. Aside from that I mostly trade. I picked up my Sedan in a trade for my Model A coupe. It's addicting, but better than some other things I could be hooked on right?!

 

Its a GOOD addiction! It keeps us out of trouble and we never suffer from boredom and too much $$$. Used to have a sign on the door of my race car garage....."-- CAUTION-- Thru this door lies an addiction that there is no cure". No longer have racers, but sign still applies to "HOT ROD" addiction. "CAR Crazy" all my life... Thats my story and I'm sticking to it. John

 

You know you're hooked when you've run out of space, but still keep looking for more projects!

 

It's really bad when you are into cars, boats, and antique outboards!!!!

 

You know your hooked if your reading this thread...

 

You start stacking them on end to make more room!

 

^ now that's some ingenuity right there! thinking outside of the box, I like it, technically they are still in the box, but you know what I mean.

 

I figured out how bad I was hooked when I moved to a new place with no shop. I am having withdrawals while waiting for the new building to get finished. It's hell, man!

 

...when you store the driver in your neighbors garage, because yours is full of projects!

 

I agree with HRP. Its a sickness for which I'm not looking for a cure..

 

Better than wasting your money in a bar everyday.

 

Damned. I stopped buying junk because I was out of inside storage. I'm sure I can fit 5 or 6 more in now!
THANKS. I think!
Just remember, we can quit anytime we want to after we admit we have a problem.
I ain't admitting anything!

 

Many years ago that's what my wife told her girlfreinds with drunken husbands. "At least I know where he is!" That's partly why I kept her.

 

I could have said that,, That's what I was thinking when I came across this Quote.

 

Vertical antique car "hanging" was invented by a hambers grandfather. This is what happened after a fire in one of his buildings.

Read up on Barney Pollard collection. He bought super rare very old cars way back, and hung them up.

 

HRP, it is the ONLY sickness. Worth having, that is.

 

I have the same disease, 6 vintage outboards , most of them as never-ending projects
But no boat yet

 

When you haven't the money, yet you keep looking at the same ad for 3 weeks straight and wondering, "How the hell could I possibly pull this off?"

But I wouldn't do that.

 

"Saving automotive history" <--------A noble calling imho.

 

I think this nails it. Same for parts as well. What do I have, that I could live without, to trade for this part that I cant seem to stop looking at? Most of the time I cant bare to part with my trading stock either. btw, I have nice A frame I'll trade for a decent deck lid...