Have you ever had a"How did I get here/What am I doing" moment?
I know you have had to of said this to yourself at sometime during a build. I think it is part of the beast when working on older cars. When you have 40 or 50 years of different owners, weather,neglect, strange things happen that you end up uncovering. My moment came a couple of days ago when I was stripping off the paint on my air cleaner AGAIN. I was not happy with the way it turned out. So, now I am doing body work by filling a couple of dents on a fricking air cleaner. Twenty year old me would have probably thrown it in the garbage and had a new chrome Moroso on there by now. Mid fifties me is trying to make the best stock looking 1970-71 340 unsilenced air cleaner I can. I'm not sure how I got here, but I hope you can see the humor/irony in the situation.
Good idea for a thread.
I have some moments and have had them over the years of asking myself ''why the hell am I even doing this?'' and then walk away for awhile and think about it.
The answer always is that it is just in my blood, and I might as well just go with it and continue on.
I have a sort of love/hate thing going on with these old cars that will not go away.
The solution is to try not to over think things and be too hard on yourself, then work your way through the issue.
Personally, it's the little things that bother me and if there are 10 of them then it condenses to be one big thing total that bugs me to no end.
And stressing yourself out about it doesn't make it better, it makes it worse actually.
I find that if I work on one small issue at a time, you get the car where you want it to be after awhile (or at least a lot better than it was).
And forget deadlines..........they stress you out even further!
It's called patience with the car and mostly with yourself.
And some things just don't need to be perfect any more to make me happy.........
