Hello! New member, 75 Duster

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I'll give you some advice. I give it to everyone in hopes that they learn from my mistakes. When you start "going thru it" only tackle one thing at a time and keep it as assembled as possible. In other words if you plan on redoing the front suspension do one side at a time and do not start anything else until that task is complete. When I started my car 20 years ago I had a list of all this stuff that needed to be done and being young and neive thought I could do it like they did on TV and completely gutted the whole car. Then I got overwhelmed and pushed it to the side. Life happened, had kids working all the time and just couldn't get back into it. Every so often I'd go and tinker on it but never really accomplished anything because all the parts that I took of where spread out everywhere and I could never find what I needed and got aggravated and walked away. I finally told myself I was gonna get it done no matter what and 4 years ago I really got into it deep. Its taken 4 years and its just now back together. Its still not complete I need to finish paint and interior but the car is finally drivable. So what im saying is to keep the car in a drivable condition. So when yoy get one task completely you can start it drive it and enjoy it until your up to the next task. That keeps you motivated. When a car is in a thousand pieces it gets overwhelming and its easy to push it to the side

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Thank you agreed!! I don’t want it to lose its functional ability, probably sounds silly but part of the reason I didn’t WANT to have my own previously is almost every car person I know has all these project cars just sitting. I don’t want that. I want it driving, even if it looks “ugly” to most people, or the exterior still is a mess, or it could use more pep haha. I don’t want it just in pieces. Appreciate the confirmation of why I’ll be so adamant about it not just being in pieces working on multiple things. Too much happening at once and not being able to enjoy the car becomes deflating to me!