The one thing I can't stand about the $20XX Challenge

Its the feeling I need to keep every little thing I pull off the car, just in case I can use it to keep from spending 30 cents at the store for some little piece of hardware. I'm a recovering packrat, and this ain't helping. The HVAC ducts from my challenge car are taking up a ton of space on the shelf, aren't worth anything on the open market, but I'm afraid to toss them, just in case. Lots of other parts are the same way.

I guess if I had a bigger garage and less other junk, it'd be okay. I've still got bolt buckets from my 2005 Challenge effort in the garage. Seems like whenever I'm about ready to pitch them in with the other junk steel to recycle, I need something out of them. Arrgh.

I have piles of wiring harnesses, exhaust piping and mufflers, brackets, etc... for this exact same reason. It makes it hard to get rid of parts car shells as well.

You'll need all that junk two days after you pitch it.

Also part of the Challenge rules ....

I resemble this thread more than you know

I have the same problem. My wife might just kill me over it. Good thing she hasn't found the slicks, RHD dash, and seats I have hidden in the storage unit.

Look familiar?

I just got rid of some stuff from my '04 challenge effort. Garage still looks the same though.

That looks like my garage! The most useful things I have from the challenge are my bolt buckets. It's hard to find good hardware locally any more.

The thing that I hate is that I live in Seattle and the Challenge is in G'ville, FL.

Of course, it's probably better for my marriage and my sanity this way...

CLH wrote: The thing that I hate is that I live in Seattle and the Challenge is in G'ville, FL. Of course, it's probably better for my marriage and my sanity this way...

This. But I live by Kansas City.

MrJoshua wrote: I have piles of wiring harnesses, exhaust piping and mufflers, brackets, etc... for this exact same reason. It makes it hard to get rid of parts car shells as well.

Post some pics of your garage!

Could be worse....if you had more room, you would have more junk. Then imagine that you have proven the "I might need it later" theory works nearly 3% of the time. Multiply by 35 years and square it by one brother who has a similar condition. Add a tow truck driver friend who gives you first dibs before his crap hits the crusher and sister in law with an automotive artsy bent (save those seat backs with the kitties on it...I'm gonna make a purse!)

Accumulated junk will expand to fill all available space..just a rule we live with.

Bruce

Glad to know I'm not alone. Could probably keep from filling up extra space with more junk, but just have to be careful. I managed to have 2 cars in my garage when I bought the place, and it stayed that way for a couple of years.

It doesn't help that the Firebird is the biggest car I've ever prepped for the challenge. That, small block chevys, and 16X8 wheels take a lot more space than CRXs, D-series engines, and 14X6 wheels.

the stupid challenge has made me save every bolt or part off every car we ever dissasemble...

and then i ran out of room (we buy lots of parts cars and scrap them out, like, tons...we have 6 ready to go to the yard now)

i started throwing things out...mainly interior pieces...they tend to take up craploads of room...

i need to throw out more.

Don't throw out or recycle the bolt buckets! Thy take little space, and fasteners, especially metric, are not cheap!

Joey

I still have engine parts from my first engine rebuild 30 years ago. Depression era parents will beat into you to save every thing.

I even have watch movements at work from gold cases that have been scrapped. Of course when I have to resort to raiding my graveyard to fix your watch the price does go up significantly.

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In reply to Moparman:

I wish I had a garage that big...

I have way more room so I have way more parts, at least 10 cars in parts and 13 cars at the Compound right now

In reply to eastsidemav:

The result is more needless stuff.

In reply to eastsidemav:

I wish I had a garage...

chknhwk wrote: In reply to eastsidemav: I wish I had a garage...

I wish I had a nice strip of asphalt I could work on my car on... (stupid apartments with no place to work)

RedS13Coupe wrote:

chknhwk wrote: In reply to eastsidemav: I wish I had a garage...

I wish I had a nice strip of asphalt I could work on my car on... (stupid apartments with no place to work)

I'm not allowed to work on my car in the lot. We have roving security til about two am, too.

So living in Podunk USA has its advantages after all.

Took me 20 years of working my a$$ off to get my garage. Endeavor to persevere.

Thanks to giving the Challenge a try, I now have boxes of useless crap that I normally would have trashed, I have two cars that were built with the challenge in mind, meaning the cars that I wanted to build for myself have been sitting neglected and I'm debating building something else.

Thanks. I appreciate it.