72 duster Build progress

Alex "Berkowitz";1438273 said
Man, just finished reading your whole thread.
I've been reading it for quite a few days actually...
Great work, great car, and great will and determination, congrats for all that!I know what you mean about motivation, my car has been sitting for almost ten years now.
Funds, time, family, room...it all can be a pain sometimes.
Congrats on your new kid, I haven´t got any yet, and still can´t manage to work on the car...lol

I will have two weeks off of work late July, hope to get all the pending work on my cars parts done and let it all ready to be just bolted on.

Keep the work coming, its trully inpirational.

Thanks.....yeah, family,funds and other day to day stuff sure does slow down the process of the project alot....for me anyhow. I am sure if I made a bunch of money I would have been done long ago....or if I had a crew of people to help or pay to help finish it......but just going at it by myself so I try to accomplish what I can and when I can. I have had the duster 2 years in august and I didnt touch it at all for the last 2 winters so I technically only have a few months worth of actual work into it.....when you look at it that way I guess the progress isnt to bad. Ill get it done sooner or later though....hoping to have paint on it in the spring and to be driving it and fine tuning things next summer.

plugger340 said
. Your Duster is a thing of beauty. I'm sure you inspire a lot of FABO members with their projects

Well thank ya......I sure hope I have given some folks here inspiration and motivation for their own projects.

1969dodgedartgt said
man, no way that says "junk". it says rough, tough, and independent. I'd love to ride around in a well built piece of "junk" like that, let some fool think its junk then blow him away with performance. I think you tend to be too concerned with picture perfect (shiny engine etc.), I respect capabilities more than appearances, though you might not guess this from my car, but surely striving for perfection is admirable.

the back does look mean, keep it up. :bball:

Thanks......I am not so much set on picture perfect and everything has to be "shiny" and what not........but I guess what bothers me the most is that most people that see it judge it by what it looks like from the outside and can't understand the amount of money and physical time I have invested into the car.......I know I know "who cares what they think" lol but it still bugs me when some people see it in the stage its in. Ill get it further along though and then things will be different.

And I personally do not think my car is "junk"......It wasnt even junk when I first bought it......it was just in need of attention lol....and I have gave it alot of attention. looking back,the car has came a long ways from where it was and the lsit of things to do has considerably been shortened.

I am going to try to get as much done as I can in the next few months before cold weather starts to come and then HOPEFULLY all Ill be looking at for the most part is paint and little details.