The favorite parts:

Getting the project home for the first time and starting to figure out the little details (usually involves a couple of three beers).

WINNING something on E Bay (and hopefully still getting a bargain).

Building the engine and finishing the cam break in with no problems.

Assembling all those cleaned and painted mechanical parts.

Painting

Wiring


Least favorite:

The grunge work: cleaning the old greasy dirty parts and getting them ready for paint.

Body work (I actually don’t mind it I’m just no good at it and it frustrating (so I send that out now)

Sending body work out and waiting thru all the missed deadlines and occasional shoddy work.

Finishing the project….after it’s done it just becomes a car to me and maintaining it becomes work.

I take a fairly long drive every year or so to see family back in the mid west (about 3000 miles round trip). Most times I usually take the most recently finished project. I always end up thinking what a neat drive it will be in the project under construction rather than how neat it is in the car I’m driving.