When a project only gets bigger and bigger

Just be careful to save time for the family; they grow up all-too-fast.My Barracuda waited nearly 20 years for me to get started on it. From the time I blew it apart, until it rolled it's first mile, was over three years.My son went from age 12 to age 16. I did save time for family,only because I had wife that cared a lot about them, and reminded me that I should too,almost every day, for crying out loud.
I got to admit tho, that I farmed all the bodywork out, and the fellow that took the job on, I told him to take his time on account of I had no money. So I brought him a G and work began.He worked until the money ran out. When I had another G saved up, I brought it over to him, and he worked till that was gone. And so on. The car was there for two years. I made a lot of trips.
In the meantime, I was restoring all the 30 year old subassemblies. I had vowed to not build the engine until all the body work had been done. Too many times in the past, I had done the powertrains, and the bodywork never did get done. This time was gonna be different. But I could plan it right?
In the meantime I switched jobs a few times, and I started to make better money.After the bodywork was completed, and the car came home, it was another year before it was fully assembled. Finally in fall of 98, the car paraded around the block,just before snowfall.Then I had another 6 months to tweak it.In summer of 99 I began to abuse it,lol.
Part of the reason it took so long was cuz I was broke. And part was cuz I had three growing children.And part was cuz I was reno'ing my house, my very tiny 800sq ft 1.5 story 105 year old shanty of a house, at the same time. And part was because I really had a tiny workspace just 14 x 22. Energy I had lots of, I was in my mid 40s.
I did find tho that the small workspace was fairly economical to heat to just above freezing with electricity, and a kerosene space-heater could bring the air-temp up to comfortable pdq.Unfortunately the concrete floor was forever cold.
My son took that car to his graduation ceremony.Yeah, it did come home in the same condition that it left in.But I think only by the grace of God,lol.
I think it was a good thing to sublet the bodywork, as it did leave me time to get things done that I was good at, while the bodyman did what he was good at. And it left me TIME for family.