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How long is it taking you to complete your project?
How long did you think it would take?
My current priority is basically an engine swap and tires, an a recently purchased Jeep Wrangler. I figured a week, maybe 10 days. I am into day 13 and just now ready to put the engine it...and there is still a list of things to do after that, but it shold be driveable at least.
I bought my '64 Studebaker Daytona in California last July. After a year of planning, the project is finally getting under way. The planned time frame is 4 to 5 years.
I knew it would take a long time, I'm working with a car thats 46 years old and never been loved. It has takin me twice as long as I thought it would just to get as far as I have, thanks to my job.
Otto
BTW it took me a year but I finaly got the por-15 laid in the trunk:CRY:
I don't give anybody a completion date. It will be done when i finish. Deadlines are for work. I don't have much time in the summer for the project. :CRY: :CRY:
I'v had mine a month or 2 and it's almost drivable, a few more things need done yet, I'm not pulling it off the frame this year cause I wanna drive. Within the next few weeks it will be in primer and waiting for paint which would come soon after. I'm gonna fix it up better next year, but I want to drive it this year and it's almost ready.
I am doing a complete ground up, hopefully a year and a half to 2 years. I have had it now for 9 months and the body has completely been derusted (4 1/2 months itself) and painted. New front suspension, rear suspension, tilt steering column, power disc brakes, seats, console w/shifter, inside door handles installed. I still have a long way to go but the hard fabricating is almost done. The hard part is being patient, it just can't happen fast enough, but my wife keeps me on firm ground and moving forward.
To put it simply, just too damn long.
Im tired of everytime I get my roadster halfway driveable something comes up. The frame kept tweaking and cracking out. The motor mounts were tough for me to make and took near forever to get right. I finally had to make a new set of rails, now im stuck making all the new hangers to rechannel the body. Still she should be driveable, no where near streetable, in about a month.
Been 4 years 5 months so far but "should" be "done" by next spring.
Then again a car is never really "done" IMO:3dSMILE:
BG
I have been working on mine for ten years now. YA you
read it right ten years. My mind says yes and my wallet
says no. I work in one of these 3rd world states. That
have the same wage scale as communist china. But boy
were lucky cause our taxes are one of the highest in the nation also. So were doin just great. I put a tow bar on it and drag it around the block once in a while. Is that SICK or what.
I guess I deserve it for staying in this God forsakin state.
I'll shut up now. You had to get me started did'nt ya.
Thanks
ScUmBaG
I don't think I've ever finished one.....for myself that is. I always get someone else's project ahead of mine.
But it is nice to pay the bills, and mine will end up being sold before I finish it.
My Cutlass is always a driving work in progress. the diesel will be a clean up before it hits the street though. After all, a true hot rod is never done!
TOO DAMN LONG !!!!!!!!!!!!!:LOL:
I guess thats what happens when you dont work on it often enough....HA HA HA
5 years so far.
maybe by next year it will be done.
SprayTech
More years than I care to mention, dreaming of what it could look like.
Finally got it started 2 years ago.
Probably another 3 years before she's ready to go.
Good thing I'm patient! :rolleyes:
It's hard to make alot of progress when you can only work on your project on some weekends...but I know that we'll have one heck of a truck when we're done! :cool:
Like DRG84, mine is a driving work in progress. When I bought it from (big mistake) Austin Auto in Green, IA it was supposed to be a streetable truck with a 390 etc, etc.
Yeah right, one circuit to the head lights (Low beam only) no brake lights, Turn signals didn't work. 390 turned out to be a 352 that was so tired it would hardly run. C-6 had the bearings out of it. Heater didn't work. Windshield (electric thankfully) weren't hooked up and on shaft was frozen in place. The list goes on for ever.
Spent one winter with it down, working in my cousin's work shop, rewiring, rebuilding a new motor, Changing everything out and making the truck road worthy.
Now, I've got the body work to do, then the interior. Lost the cousin's workshop when he moved to Arizona.
Had it 2 years and figure it will be at least 2 or 3 more before it's really nice. But, Hey, is anyones project ever done? :3dSMILE: :3dSMILE:
I thought I would be at a comfortable pace setting a 2 yr goal to do a subframe, driveline and rearend buildup but all I have managed to do in 1 yr is tear it down and collect some parts. But I have a new attitude for the summer to really get hustlin. I dont like not drivin my only sled. Let the tech begin :LOL: Just a quick good luck and happy building fer everyone in the mix.
6 weeks so far to......chopped top,extended cab,replace rear suspension,currently installing IFS. The 350 motor I bought is in the machine shop & the trans is being rebuilt. )94 chevy bed narrowed 13" so I can install the original fenders , caddy fins added to bed.
I dont even know about my 53 ferd pick-em-up. I started her, installed a 65 galaxie clip to lower it, started to channel her, got rid of the glass in preparation for the chop, made new brackets to mount the falcon bench seat and have realized the bed is just too far gone to be saved. Well she would at least be drivable if I could reconnect the steering column and get the driveshaft cut down.
I think im just going to bag her for winter, im tired of it and it will be a someday project.
got the motor in the jeep yesterday and running. Except to stop for a beer break - only 1 beer - it took about 6 hours. WAY too long in my book, but the clock, she don't lie.
So this project is going on 3 weeks...and a drive around the yard revealed - no brakes. Well...no back brakes. I am at the point of thrwoing money at it - a wheel cylinder (broken bleeder) and aline - it wll never come off you know. Then I hope that is it for now....well, this month.
It may never be 'done', but it wil be useable.