Just keep chipping away...
Your doing it right, your family should always be top priority. You will never regret sacrificing for your kids. Your car will get there, don't lose interest. When frustration starts to creep in, spend some time with your kids and wife and it will be clear what is most important. Hang in there. Remember its just a car, steel and glass. You will never be able to replace the time you have now with your family. They are only kids for a short time. Enjoy every day.
Thank you. I appreciate itHang in there man. Guarantee just about all of us have been exactly where you are a few times over the course of our builds. When I was doing our Duster, there was times it sat for a year with no progress. Just me putting air in the dry rotted tires to keep it up. Like others I went out of my comfort zone and did things I couldn't afford to pay for. I got help on things I wasn't sure of, and bugged a few people with phone calls for advice. Keep the faith brother!
I knew that if I read far enough, my post would already be written for me.
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Your doing it right, your family should always be top priority. You will never regret sacrificing for your kids. Your car will get there, don't lose interest. When frustration starts to creep in, spend some time with your kids and wife and it will be clear what is most important. Hang in there. Remember its just a car, steel and glass. You will never be able to replace the time you have now with your family. They are only kids for a short time. Enjoy every day.
I know another guy that does that too. It's a great idea!Just a suggestion mopar lover.
I ‘donate’ my plasma to pay for my car parts. I go to BioLife two times a week. I average around $100.00 a week. You get ‘paid’ for your time and not only does it help others, but puts some spending money into your project! It’s made life at home less stressful because it’s MY BLOOD MONEY!!
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No brainer, takes about an hour tops each time!!I know another guy that does that too. It's a great idea!
Thank you for your time. That is an amazing story of patience! Glad you were able to get it done in the end !I started my project saying it gets done when it gets done.
I got my 68 Barracuda in 1978 . It was a six auto, and I used the engine for something else. Then I used the trans for a still different project. And the roller moved from place to place with me until finally in ~1996, I untarped it.
That was a sad sad day. In the intervening years, the quarters had rotted and the fenders were none too good either. I sent it to a local bodyshop, and he worked on it every winter, in his spare time, and as I had money. The idea was to roll it out in 98 as a 30th year anniversary. 98 came and went. During those years that the car was in the shop,I worked on the powertrain and such, and then in fall of 99, the body came home. Then I worked feverishly that winter to put it all back together. I was 46 in summer of 99. I had been 25 when I acquired it.
Finally in spring of 2000, it rolled down the hiway for the first time since 1978. My babies started coming in 80, and the last one graduated in 2002. College? UN-un. Even if I hadn't spent the money on the DD/Cuda, I could never have afforded to send even one kid to College, never mind all three. Besides, I had the Cuda first,lol, it was my turn. A man has to have something to call his own. The kids made out just fine. The youngest,my only son took the car to Grad. That day/night will be forever remembered by both of us.
I know what you mean my car sat in shed for believe it or not 39 years in which time I was talking care of the thousands things that came before the dart have on road now enjoying it A LOT. Have question you ever have problems with your retractable seat belts. Sometimes it takes 10 min to get this thing on. Had them apart lubed them cleaned them work a little better BUT seriously thinking about after market or different brand replacementAnyone get frustrated with there project ? Mainly lack of time and money. Still a single income family so there is a thousand other things that come before my Dart. Nobody’s fault but my own but sometimes it would be nice just to go down to the garage and go for a cruise!