This kind of goes with the thread about modern muscle. I have lost interest in working on my wagon. I recently picked up a 2000 Crown Vic 58K for $1500. needed a freeze plug. only cost 150 for that. I have been investing my time and interest in that vs the wagon. Mustang rims and performance A/S tires, new bumper cover to replace the damaged one. working on putting a DVD/ sound system in it. pulled the XM receiver from the wagon to put in the crown vic. picked up some fogs to retro fit. All my time and effort has been on the crowny. The wagon and our others have been pretty much ignored. I have taken the wagon to one show this year. Our explorer needs intake gaskets. My wife wants me to fix the front end of her town car. I want to keep working on removing the vinyl top off our 85 2dr crown vic. I should work on the wagon, too. Finish the driver side of the hood paint. (only spray bomb) but better than the rusty primer. do the rust repair properly. only problem no place to do it. no garage only the apt parking lot. Then there is the bike, I have wanted to do a rear air ride for 4 yrs. finally got all the components to do it. Also working on extended bags on it. One is just about done cept paint. almost two years in the progress. All this plus I am mostly working closing shifts. noon to nine. so little time to do much at all. Anyone else have this problem?Loosing interest in working on your older stuff. Tim
Break your day apart. I have alot of projects too. Old and new. And I have to tell myself Monday is for this car Tuesday is for the other. Or Saturday I'll work on 3 cars but only dedicate 2 hours each. I'm at the point were one more project will be too much for me. May be sell one to fund another. And keep your eyes to your self. Cars are like women. If you keep looking at other women you lose the value of yours. Modern muscle is like hot young lady with herpes. Keep and value your projects. Walk away when your frustrated but comeback soon with a better plan. Is the wagon something you always wanted? Sometimes guys buy cars but they are not really thier dream cars so they put alot of time and money in them but still admire other cars more . That can be fixed by selling the wagon and getting what you always wanted , it's hard quitting on your dream car. Stay in the fight.
Getting to be the same way myself, the cars are beginning to wear thin. I've been driving the Electra around, it's been therapeutic, but yesterday I noticed it wants a tune up and the starter is starting to drag cold. That means spending more money and going under the hood again...
If you start lossing the drive to give tlc to your buick, you will loose part of your inner life force.
I got that way after battling the green car. Almost didn't even pull it off the lift this year. It's only been out 3 times, though I have to say I've thoroughly enjoyed them. What's funny is I was sick of projects in general after all I've been through with that thing. But recently I went out to the barn to get a little "me time", and started screwing around with the dune buggy. A {fast} few hours later I had made major progress, and man it felt great. My suggestion would be to step away from it for a bit but keep it around. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. I know after not even touching the green car for about 8 months, I started to get the itch to fire it up, and that ended up being very satisfying.
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. My moms favorite line was "Familiarity breeds contempt...". Thanks Ma! ws
I've been shopping around for a new project, something to get the creative juices flowing again. There's something to be said about having 2 nicely restored drive-able Buicks, but after a while they get boring because there's nothing to do except drive them. So it's a case of "Be careful what you wish for". So now I'm looking around for an old 50s vintage Mercedes-Benz or a weird little car called a Borgward, and if I keep it North American I'm looking for an Olds Starfire. The German cars were actually pretty lousy, so they'll definitely keep one busy trying to keep them alive and not rusting away. The Olds is just because I think the 61 or 62 Starfire was one of the prettiest cars ever built. As for Buicks, I can't afford a nice 1st or 2nd gen Riviera and I've pretty much given up ever owning a nice 59 Buick, so that's where it's at.
Preaching to the choir here. LOL Yesterday, I took it easy all day for a change. That is, until around 8pm, when I noticed some spots in the driveway leading up to our '09 Odyssey van. Opened the hood and spotted a leak from a transmission cooler line. Changed clothes, drove it down to the shop, put it on ramps, tightened the clamp, leak got worse, rusted line. So, out come the tools to replace the line while trans fluid dripped on me. Done, no leaks. If I had planned on working in the shop, I would rather have been doing something else. It's called 'the curse of knowing how to repair things' instead of farming them out.
I can certainly relate to some of this. I have barely touched my Buick all year but have been busy with the El Camino. Mostly making improvements that are making it more and more a pleasure to drive. I only have Sundays to work on my own car unless I decide to take some time off during the week but every Sunday is finally wearing on my so I finally took one off this past weekend and spent the day with my wife, which she really enjoyed because she can no longer drive and can't go anywhere without me taking her. Wednesday is dyno day for the Buick engine and I have a fresh built 200-4R going back in, plus a fresh 12 bolt rearend that I've already installed but haven't used yet. Hopefully I'll get back into that car before the season is over but lately I've been finding that I don't care as much about it as I used to. Maybe turning 65 in a couple months has something to do with it
