Ever just want to walk away from the old car thing?

Yep i sure do. It comes and goes. I have been doing other things these past few months and havent been a regular on fabo. Among other things, i have been working on my 94 chevy pickup, making it roadworthy again. As a consequence i been on the GMT400 website getting information for my truck and making new friends there. Also been working on painting my house. Got my one middle kid enrolled in Taekwondo and taking her there for classes 4 days a week, and all the other general non automotive things that life throws my way.

I get upset when project car money ends up getting spent on other things that are needed but unexpected, like buying a new weed eater since my old one just about made it to fall and died. Or **** that gets broken or needs fixing because of having other people in the house (kids) that tend to break things. So yeah i go out to my shop for a tool to do something that needs fixing around the house and my cuda sits in a million pieces and i dont have time to work on it. But then i look at the pix i took of all the metalwork i have done on it so far, and look at all the pieces i have bought for its restoration patiently waiting to be installed when the time comes. I know if i sell it i will never get out of it what i have into it. This is for 2 reasons. 1 its in pieces, and 2 its not a valuable version of this car. It was born as a slanty 6 notchback.

These projects are never done. They are constantly evolving. My advice to you. Take a break from it. Do something else that makes you happy for awhile.

I went to a 10 week class on sundays at my church called overwhelmed. It helped me a lot as it explained certain things , and ways i could fix them, and explained things i was doing and why. One sunday it was called plates of your life. The pastor had a huge stack of china dinner plates on a table. He started by saying the plates represent your life, your born and as a small child in grade school one plate represents your responsibilities. He picks up the plate and holds it. Says its not so bad he carries it around. as a teenager, you may get into band, or sports. Then he adds 2 plates to the one hes holding and says well thats not too heavy i can handle that.

Then he goes ok high school, college prep classes, college etc. Adds a few more plates to the stack hes carrying around. Then he says, buying a house, add in a child, a mortgage, maybe a car payment on a minivan, stress at your job. Now he is holding the whole stack of plates. He says its heavy but i can carry it. Cant let your neighbors know your carrying that load heaven forbid.

He then says all of a sudden theres that one last thing that gets added to the load of plates your carrying. Its just too heavy and you just cant hold on any longer. He then drops the whole stack of plates he is carrying and they smash on the floor.

What he meant by the plates, is its representing the load our each individual lives is carrying. The beauty is that we can shelve these things. And forget them for awhile. Lighten the load your carrying.

I bought a 2007 mustang GT right after i divorced from my first wife. I loved these when they came out in 2005. I ordered an 07 with all the goodies and in the color i wanted. To date it has under 9,000 miles and sits under a cover in the garage. It never brought me happiness. Not long term anyways. I was on the fence about keeping it, and selling it. Selling it, id probably get sellers remorse. I already had buyers remorse since i wasnt happy. Not with the car mind you, its a great car.

In this case i shelved this plate. It was something i removed from my stack of plates. I set the car up for a long term slumber, covered it up, and forgot about it in the corner of my garage. My current wife does not bug me about it, as she knows its a subject i dont want to talk about right now. Kids and other things are a priority. Its a shelved plate, and i will deal with it when i am good and ready to do so. My 67 cuda is a partially shelved plate. I pull that plate off the shelf periodically to work on minor things when i do get a little time.

Maybe you need to shelve a plate or a few plates for awhile. Do something else that interests you for awhile, then dust off that plate later when your ready to get back into it. We will always be here when you want to hang out.