Cars !!!!!!

[rocketman]

have you ever been so fustrated with a project you could just scream.man i am so tired of cars at this monent,i think i'll spend the summer playin golf.

[shmoov69]

If only I played golf! I do wash my balls quite often though!

[mpozzi]

That's the cool thing about both cars AND golf. You can put them down and pick 'em back up at any time. Seriously though, I know what you mean about car projects and if you need to step back for a bit, just do it.

Mary Pozzi

[protouring70]

Man I couldn't agree more!!! This project has killed it for me. Nothing has gone right, I spent 12,000 more on the project than I had originaly told my wife. We are both wanting to sell and buy a newer home but we can't because all of our money is tied up in the car.
Man i could go on and on....
Sorry to take over but you caught me on the bad day.

[CAMAROBOY69]

I completely feel your pain right now. I am EXTREMELY frustrated with my car. And its not even the cars fault. The whole "bad" power steering box situation really put me over the edge this week. I have also been screwed 3 times in the last week with shipping. Im still wainting for my defective video card to be returned with a new one. What a week and its only thursday.. :machine: :banghead: :ripped:

[scogin918]

I know exactly how you feel. I just got my radiator after a long wait fom Ron Davis for my LS1 and guess what; NO STEAM VENT FITTING!!! This coupled with the fact that I now have to pull the entire motor to put on the new A/C Compressor and bracket from Vintage Air has brought me this close to putting a post in the For Sale section.

[kennyd]

should read the can rocketman

[CAMAROBOY69]

Ive had enough. Im just taking a break from the car for the rest of the week. Just gotta get away. Spend some much needed time with Heather and play some Halo 2 or GT4, battlefield 2, toca 3, or throw Black in and blow everything up. Something. Just need to get away. :throw:
I will be happy next week when my PS box from Jake arrives. That one should be in excellent condition. Not sure what I will do with the bad PS box.
Next week if the ps box from jake works then I will get my entier PS all bolted up and hydraboost installed. I will also hopefully get my new closeout piece for teh radiator. :)

[rocketman]

should read the can rocketman


you got me on that one,i learned a lesson,last week just when i think i know everything,i learn something less,mother nature didn't help thou with the damn tornado's and hail.

but it's been the whole redo,from start to now.any jusy had to vent a little.nice to know not every project is prefect.

[rocketman]

oh,kenny the base is on and cleared.

[RatMalibu]

I haven't touched mine in months for that reason......yanked the tranny and its sitting in the floor next to the car......one of these days I might feel up to messing with it.....maybe...until then I'll just keep paying insurance while it rest on jackstands :(

[MarkM66]

I hear you. Sometimes I wonder if I even like working on cars....

[JoshStratton]

I love working on cars, but I feel your pain. Its just like anything else. If you stare at it long enough, it all becomes complaicent. That is why it is good to have other hobbies, like Adam kind of said. He plays games. I used to play games all the time, but got bored with them cause that is all I did. I concentrated more on cars to get over it and now I have really taken a liking to landscaping. There is something about planting little trees and stuff, and watching nature take them over (birds, butterflies, deer...)
and I am not even https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif !

On a related note, I am seriously thinking about not doing the tail panel project from my 79 Trans Am that I have in Project Updates. The more I look at the stock body, the more I like it as is. Plus, since the car is going to be beat on, I dont know if I want to put that much custom work into something that will probably be dinged up in a hurry anyway.

[Ralph LoGrasso]

I can hardly stand cars anymore, I feel your pain. Because of a family illness, my '68 has been put on hold almost this entire year (family comes first) and my remaining camaro has been down for a month and a half with either a defective clutch or a tranny problem. It's been too damn cold out to even change the clutch and get it back on the road. First, it's warmer than it should be all winter, now it's colder than it should be once spring comes. I've come about this l..... l close to selling both cars and buying a sport bike and calling it a day (about four times actually). Faster, cheaper, warrantied.

[CAMAROBOY69]

Ralph,
I know exactly what you are talking about when it comes to cold. In the winter I never used to touch my cars. But now I have a heater in there and it made life soooo much better. Its a furnace out of a trailer and works killer!!! I would never be this far on my car without that heater. I think I bought it used for $150 last year. Paid $40 for a thermostat. Best garage investment so far and a killer price to heat a 2 1/2 stall garage within minutes!! I usually set it to 65* and work without a coat on. Its heaven!
Sorry to hear about the family illness.

[Ralph LoGrasso]

Thanks.

Yeah, garage heaters are killer. The last time I worked on the SS in November before the PT cruise, I plugged in this old portable heater in the garage and it was great for the day. My garage is too small (packed 1 car) to work in on a normal basis, so most of the big stuff has to be done in the driveway, though. It's usually either too hot (summer) or too cold (winter). There's like 1 month of happy-medium weather, haha.

[BonzoHansen]

I feel your pain. I get that feeling when I take something apart and find something worse. Like the rotted mount pad on my 77 sub frame. Ugh.

Hang in there, Ralph. Things happen. Look at the bright side, the longer you wait, the more cool parts that hit the market. :)

[vanzuuk1]

Ralph I am in the same boat, I cant even open my drivers door in my garage and get out unless the windows rolled down.

Dont get a sportbike, stick with the car. Your license and your body will thank you for it. You know the way cars are a love/hate thing? Bikes are even worse, one day you have such a cool ride and the next day your watching a friend get carted off in an ambulance.

[Bob Johnson]

Man I couldn't agree more!!! This project has killed it for me. Nothing has gone right, I spent 12,000 more on the project than I had originaly told my wife. We are both wanting to sell and buy a newer home but we can't because all of our money is tied up in the car.
Man i could go on and on....
Sorry to take over but you caught me on the bad day.
I wish I'd gone just $12K over..multiply that times 40 and you'll be about what I went over..come over and we'll cry over a beer..

[rob07002]

AH! Budgets are just a way to trick yourself into believing its affordable...

Rules and budgets are meant to be......... you know the rest

[Steve Chryssos]

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[rob07002]

Lets see, If I didn't have a car addiction.....

I'd have $$ in the bank, one or two investment properties, a 10 handicap, more time left on my liver, space in the garage, more time with my wife?


I also wouldn't have:

the truly great friends I have met, the feeling I get when I get a "thumbs up" at a stop light, the adreneline rush I get when power shifting from 1 to 2, the goose bumps from hearing a new motor breathe for the first time, the feeling of Christmas every time that brown truck pulls up, a reason to fibb to my wife (how much did that cost?), a reason to get a liver transplant down the line, a reason to look forward to spring like its the second coming....

[Steve Chryssos]

Cars.

[Jagarang]

I'VE TURNED FRUSTRAION INTO A RELIGION!

I'm a Frustrationist!

CC. Patent pending

[rocketman]

I wish I'd gone just $12K over..multiply that times 40 and you'll be about what I went over..come over and we'll cry over a beer..

i gave on budgets,adds to the fustration level.

[BonzoHansen]

Cars.

My kids (2, 5) are drooling to see this:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2006/03/cars-1.jpg

[Ralph LoGrasso]

Ralph I am in the same boat, I cant even open my drivers door in my garage and get out unless the windows rolled down.

Dont get a sportbike, stick with the car. Your license and your body will thank you for it. You know the way cars are a love/hate thing? Bikes are even worse, one day you have such a cool ride and the next day your watching a friend get carted off in an ambulance.

We need to get us a big garage, haha.

I hear ya on the sport bike thing, it's one of those irrational-never-going-to-happen-dreams. My best friend's, friend was just killed a few months back, actually. LI is too crowded, especially for what dumb kinds like me would be doing on a bike, but I still like to proclaim the bike as an alternative for myself, it sometimes gets me motivated to actually get to work on the car, haha.

[MikeDVC]

I feel the opposite regarding my car. I usually don't get fustrated with it. The way I look ot it: If I'm working on the car that means I'm not watching the kids, not at my regular job dealing with endless calls from clients, not doing household repairs and not teaching my 75 year old dad learn how to use his new computer for the first time, talk about fustrating (lol).

Whatever I get done, when I get a chance to work on it, is just one less thing I have left to do. My only goal is to keep it mostly together so I can drive it as much as possible. I spent 2-3 hours! two weeks ago tring to get the horn to work, but a learned a few things and now it works.

And as far as the garage, most important things: Good stereo system, fridge full of beer (kitchen is to far away) and cable tv (for when the race in on).

....keep it fun

[MuscleRodz]

Why do you think I have already spent 10 years working on mine. I will work on it for a couple months and something will drive me insane and pi$$ me off, then I won't touch it for several more months. Then when I seem to be ready to work on it again, the budget is not ready to work on it again. So what did I do? I started a cheaper second project ('69 Blazer) to spread my money thinner.:rotfl:

Mike

[Steve Chryssos]

My kids (2, 5) are drooling to see this:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2006/03/cars-1.jpg


Man that is cool. I'm too old for cartoons. (yeah, right)

[kennyd]

steve , i feel your pain .
my primary job , cars , hobby ,cars , only like other than women .... cars

[MSchu]

Opposite here--man I wish I could work on my car, haven't touched it since last summer. College gets in the way sometimes...:Alchy: :hammer:

[shmoov69]

I don't like working on cars, but I love the fruits of it!! I don't like mechanicin', but I am too cheap to pay someone to do it for me! I LOVE cars, racing and anything car related, other than working on them that is! But, to play you must pay, either way!

[muthstryker]

you know after reading all of these i really cant wait to get started on my car and join in on the frustration! lol

[chevnut55]

Sick of it enough to sell them all and buy a new vette and try to leave it stock.
i have my life savings in my cars..$30-$70k invested in each..with years of hard work..cant drive them where I live..no tracks in my state,cant take them all when I move to a better place...feels like I traped myself with my hoby that turned into a full time job.

[77thor]

Yeah, we've all been there at one point... sometimes you just have to get away from the car for awhile...

[cheapthrillz]

Damn this is an old thread lol

[79-TA]

A recurring theme in this thread is an ambitious project without much actual driving. Keep it simple and get to the track folks! Baby steps! If you're going to completely tear down a car, buy a beater to enjoy in the meantime.

I might also mention that while cars are certainly a ton of fun, no earthly thing is going to bring real continual satisfaction.

[solarguy09]

What a dusty thread...

While I do not let Material things rule my life, Money and Cars are always on my Brain...

The Money is how I first survive, and remain self sufficient, but also to Fund my Hobbies that I love..

Some have the Knowledge and desire to work on Cars...Kudos... I do what I do best, so I can pay a Craftsman to do what he does best..

My Car is in stages, and much still to do.. Some I will do myself, and some I won't ..Therapy comes in working on them , and for sure driving them..

Don't tear it all down if you don't have the means to put it back together, if you can... too many get torn down for complete restos, Glass out, gutted, never to see the road again..

I won't tear my interior out until i have the parts in stock to put it back together.. So although the mechanics of the car are rock solid, I will drive with beat up seats until I can complete the mission..

[79-TA]

Now that this thread is nearly 6 years old, can we get some follow up stories on how things turned out for folks?

[solarguy09]

Now that this thread is nearly 6 years old, can we get some follow up stories on how things turned out for folks?

Well since I have money and cars on my Brain everyday, i made enough money to go crazy on my car that has sat for ten years.

it now sits in the garage on new all kinds of 2011 upgrades..not just road ready, but road course ready..

So , i guess my obsession turned out great..

[shmoov69]

Well, I'm VERY tempted to let my junk sit for an unknown time period. I don't want to be messing with the cars and let my kids life slip away. I only got them for a few short years and then they're gone! I have to steal the time from somewhere to work on them, and I don't want to steal it from my family.
"rust and moths will destroy" cars and these things.... My kids lives can go on for countless generations.

[solarguy09]

Well, I'm VERY tempted to let my junk sit for an unknown time period. I don't want to be messing with the cars and let my kids life slip away. I only got them for a few short years and then they're gone! I have to steal the time from somewhere to work on them, and I don't want to steal it from my family.
"rust and moths will destroy" cars and these things.... My kids lives can go on for countless generations.

Good point...As long as you can keep it, you can always go back and work on it..

My "bucket of Bolts", sat for more than 10 years undriven, and only now is it back on the streets