Is anybody else superstitious about finishing their restoration?
When I was 16, I bought a 1970 BMW 2002 and spent the rest of high school restoring it. Driving to get my senior pictures taken, someone backed up an on-ramp into the front of me.
Then I get a Porsche 951 with stupid levels of power. Rebuild most of the driveline and replace the head gasket (turns out they don't like 28psi of boost). Two weeks later I am T-boned by a drunk driver.
A few cars later, I got a 1992 Audi S4 that was a BLAST to drive. I finally replace the brakes with the cool Porsche brakes and bump the horsepower up to stupid levels and a week later someone clips me and spins me into the center divide.
So I decide to play with bigger stuff, and spend 5 years restoring an old Range Rover. This one is my fault - a fuel line split and shot gas onto the header.
Anyway, my point with all of that is now I have several project cars and I really don't ever want to finish them. So the GMC will forever have a dent in the passenger door, the Land Rovers will forever have at least one oil leak each, the MG will forever have a cracked turn signal, the RX7 will retain the cigarette burn on the interior panel and the Triumph will always have the scrapes from where I dropped it, and so on... No matter how pretty the rest of the vehicle is, I purposefully keep something specific on each vehicle broken so it isn't finished. And I am starting to suspect the vice grip will be the Dodge's new thing. I thought I fixed it and removed the vice grip... Things got wonky. Today I put it back on and I swear the idle smoothed out immediately.
When I was 16, I bought a 1970 BMW 2002 and spent the rest of high school restoring it. Driving to get my senior pictures taken, someone backed up an on-ramp into the front of me.
Then I get a Porsche 951 with stupid levels of power. Rebuild most of the driveline and replace the head gasket (turns out they don't like 28psi of boost). Two weeks later I am T-boned by a drunk driver.
A few cars later, I got a 1992 Audi S4 that was a BLAST to drive. I finally replace the brakes with the cool Porsche brakes and bump the horsepower up to stupid levels and a week later someone clips me and spins me into the center divide.
So I decide to play with bigger stuff, and spend 5 years restoring an old Range Rover. This one is my fault - a fuel line split and shot gas onto the header.
Anyway, my point with all of that is now I have several project cars and I really don't ever want to finish them. So the GMC will forever have a dent in the passenger door, the Land Rovers will forever have at least one oil leak each, the MG will forever have a cracked turn signal, the RX7 will retain the cigarette burn on the interior panel and the Triumph will always have the scrapes from where I dropped it, and so on... No matter how pretty the rest of the vehicle is, I purposefully keep something specific on each vehicle broken so it isn't finished. And I am starting to suspect the vice grip will be the Dodge's new thing. I thought I fixed it and removed the vice grip... Things got wonky. Today I put it back on and I swear the idle smoothed out immediately.
