The addiction is back!

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doogievlg

doogievlg

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The last few months I have neglected my dart. The last time I drove it was September! I tightened a hose clamp on a friends truck on New Year's Eve and just like that I'm back to making lists of parts to order! Anybody else have times where they go from ignoring their abody to spoiling it?
 
My dart is only a few months new to me. So I've been bombarding it with parts. But my other vehicles get ignored for a few months at a time. Until I get the "bug" to do just ONE thing and next I know I've spent ten times what I planned. I like to modify whatever vehicle and give it awhile so I can enjoy the new parts/changes before moving on.
 
Last winter I ignored mine from October until about February. So far this year I have spoiled the heck out of mine. I've been spending a lot of time with her the last couple months.
 
I have had mine for 9 years now. I just loose the desire to make it a priority. I was saving up money for a trip to Colorado. I took the trip in October and it just hasn't been my main focus. I am really believe that you shouldn't force yourself to do a hobby when you have no desire to. I did this with climbing and it made me hate it. After I break I come back more motivated then ever and that's what's going on now !
 
I'd be out there right now if it wasn't 10 degrees. :)
I have inside stuff I need to do anyway.
 
doogievlg said:
I have had mine for 9 years now. I just loose the desire to make it a priority. I was saving up money for a trip to Colorado. I took the trip in October and it just hasn't been my main focus. I am really believe that you shouldn't force yourself to do a hobby when you have no desire to. I did this with climbing and it made me hate it. After I break I come back more motivated then ever and that's what's going on now !
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I couldnt agree more with this. You have to enjoy it and if you dont then a break is needed.

I've only had my car for a couple years now and there is just so much that I want to do so I do it. Eventually I'll get most everything major done on it and then I wont pay to much attention any longer. At least you saved up for something important that you wanted to do instead of wasting that money away on something dumb.
 
Our garage is insulated with a suspended ceiling and a furnace. Winter is honestly when I do the majority of the work on my car. It gets to hot in the summer and I am usually not driving in ohio in the winter.
 
straightlinespeed said:
I couldnt agree more with this. You have to enjoy it and if you dont then a break is needed.

I've only had my car for a couple years now and there is just so much that I want to do so I do it. Eventually I'll get most everything major done on it and then I wont pay to much attention any longer. At least you saved up for something important that you wanted to do instead of wasting that money away on something dumb.
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I'll have that car a while. I might not have the flexibility to travel much longer. Plus I get a lot better stories from traveling then working on my car.

Last winter I did a complete rebuild on my Small block and threw about 3 grand at it. That may have something to do with it.
 
Its weird thing. How with 1 car you couldn't see spending the money but with the other car...its just a drop in the hat.

I tricked the wife into letting me rebuild the front end and brakes on the Duster we just got in order to prepare me for doing the same to the other Duster I'm about to sell.

Going Poly on the new one and Rubber on the seller.
 
I'm addicted, but I've had to learn to walk away from the car.

Being a 30-year-old spinal-cord injury survivor (with nerve-damage in my right hand) doesn't give me the stamina I used to have, but I get wildly motivated and can't help but layer-up in the cold, get out there, use my noodle, and what's left of my abilities.

I'm very thankful to have this car still, it could very easily have been sold back when I was in an electric wheelchair feeling sorry for myself. The fact that I wanted to wrench on it again one day was a huge motivator to keep up with Physical Therapy etc, so I have to give credit where credit is due: the car gave me my recovery; I can't take my blessings for granted.

...Although I get burned out (fatigue) of two straight days messing with it, when she's only 20" off the floor (HD jack stands) in a drafty, un-insulated shop in the Winter (or the inverse: humid sweat-shop in the Summer).

Being a full-time college student is helpful for not looking at the car for five days after a weekend-thrash though. What's weird is that life right now is like living in two different worlds: there's the progressive, future-minded, hidden-agenda institution that tries to brainwash me all day, then I get to spend a couple days on the weekend absorbed in classic Americana, where sockets and nuts & bolts aren't metric, the smell of gear oil emits off my clothes, and the rumble of a V8 are all wonderful things to keep me grounded and masculine.

In the end, it's a distraction that I'm passionate about, like women, or my dog. I'm lucky as f*** to be addicted to this expensive vice.
 
YoungBlood said:
I'm addicted, but I've had to learn to walk away from the car.

Being a 30-year-old spinal-cord injury survivor (with nerve-damage in my right hand) doesn't give me the stamina I used to have, but I get wildly motivated and can't help but layer-up in the cold, get out there, use my noodle, and what's left of my abilities.

I'm very thankful to have this car still, it could very easily have been sold back when I was in an electric wheelchair feeling sorry for myself. The fact that I wanted to wrench on it again one day was a huge motivator to keep up with Physical Therapy etc, so I have to give credit where credit is due: the car gave me my recovery; I can't take my blessings for granted.

...Although I get burned out (fatigue) of two straight days messing with it, when she's only 20" off the floor (HD jack stands) in a drafty, un-insulated shop in the Winter (or the inverse: humid sweat-shop in the Summer).

Being a full-time college student is helpful for not looking at the car for five days after a weekend-thrash though. What's weird is that life right now is like living in two different worlds: there's the progressive, future-minded, hidden-agenda institution that tries to brainwash me all day, then I get to spend a couple days on the weekend absorbed in classic Americana, where sockets and nuts & bolts aren't metric, the smell of gear oil emits off my clothes, and the rumble of a V8 are all wonderful things to keep me grounded and masculine.

In the end, it's a distraction that I'm passionate about, like women, or my dog. I'm lucky as f*** to be addicted to this expensive vice.
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That's a very eloquent post there young man!! I read it with much enthusiasm and like the way you're working! I think there needs to be some total contrast in ones life, and although there is the superficial life that we sometimes have to endure, when the contrast is hard steel, cold drafty garages and some numbness in your hands, and you WANT to do it, that sir is passion for life! That's when your contrast maybe teaches you the most, how to recognize what's really important, and to identify the superficial conditions that we're sometimes thrown into and learn to put them into place in your life! The passion for something should be a life long learning experience, whatever it is, and keep you happily busy for the rest of your life! Mopars and music do it for me, hope we can all find what does it for ourselves, and each other!! Geof
 
sadly, many people in this world never find their "passion" in life, or have guts enough to pursue it???
I applaude YOUNGBLOOD!!!
 
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