Not sure where 10 years went, but that is the time difference between the before and after. I poke along on this project with a friend most Thursday nights, its never been abandoned, just a slow pace as life allows.
Fresh paint; I love this milestone in a project.
Hopefully it wont take another ten years of Thursday nights to get it done!
That's so cool.
That's part of why I'm calling mine the Garage Odyssey. It was a 10 year war just to get started, and it could easily be another 10 year (or more) journey to finish it.
That looks fantastic! Congrats on a major milestone, and thanks for sharing something that provides a ray of sunshine for those wandering down a not terribly dissimilar path.
I have to finish projects in months or I get distracted by the next project. Once I start them, it's BTTW until done. Good on you for sticking with it.
That's going to be a beautiful beast when you get it done.
Very nice. Keep up the good work. My Spitfire has been a slow moving project because I don't work on it in winter. But last spring/summer/fall I made good progress because I have more time to work on it now. This coming garage season will hopefully bring it to completion. Persistence!
That's more persistence than I have, that's for damn sure. Very very nice results!
That paint makes such a difference that it may spur you on to compress the NEXT 10 years into maybe one or two?
I like that you can keep at it that long. I'm in Toyman's camp. I am intensely dedicated to something for as long as I can keep focus on it but if I get distracted by work travel, spending limits or just a shinier object... it's doomed.
Knowing this about myself I always choose something that can be completed or abandoned in a single winter.
There is actually a lose collective that I belong to. While nothing ever moves fast, we get the experience and collective skills of a larger group to keep things moving. The variety keeps things interesting.
Here is the collection of people in the main collective:
Another Healey started same time as the one already posted. It is REALLY NICE. Having this guy in the group has raised our collective standards.
A 57 Chevy that is 20 years along. Couple more should do it.
Coyote 5.0 in a 69 Mustang
Of course there is my P1800 that better not take another 8 years!
And just so that people don't get the idea we are total slackers who hang out telling lies, drinking beer and inhaling welding fumes, here are some finished projects.
A couple of MGBs. One is my GT and the other I did for a friend using his checkbook. Roadster was quick, only 3 years start to finish. Had the GT since 78, wont ever be "Done".
This 32 Pickem-up belongs to the guy with the gold Healey. It too was a 20 year long project. It was kind of the seed car for the collective as a the 57 Chevy guy and myself goaded Ken onto pulling out of the corner of the shop and we proposed that we rotate between shops as needed.
And of course there is the Bugeye. My initial contribution to the collective. A project that I took on before I had a clue how to weld. 5 year schedule took ten. Returned it to the original owner the same day I finished it. Don't think I drove that one 2 miles total before loading on the trailer.
Wonder what the next ten will bring?
I say that you procrastinate a little, but so do I. You are still persistent enough to keep going instead of giving up after a year or two like many people do. One guy /Drive made a show about said he works on his car for 1-1.5 hours a night, and that's it. He has a car finished in two years. I need to get on that schedule so I can get my check engine light skills up.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: I like that you can keep at it that long. I'm in Toyman's camp. I am intensely dedicated to something for as long as I can keep focus on it but if I get distracted by work travel, spending limits or just a shinier object... it's doomed. Knowing this about myself I always choose something that can be completed or abandoned in a single winter.
I seem to be in this camp too. My ex- as well, only she was better at kicking me in the azz to keep moving on projects. This is why my TDI has been laid up in my garage since Nov '13 and the other three running classics wait to be fixed. Who knows when my 1800ES project will ever get started...
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