[OBeer-WAN-Kenobi]

I definitely understand what you're talking about. It's like some kind of sickness or something.....LOL Sometimes I'm not even finished with the current project before I'm thinking of the next one. Many "Wouldn't it be cool if my next project was" 's are floating through my head just about the time I'm 80% through a particular project..

That being said, I really like to drive my stuff after I get finished but it usually only takes me a couple of years before I'm bored with it and want to try something new. I've never once kicked myself for selling something and moving on.

Now, The '69 I'm working on that is now in the "running driving project" stage is an example of something I had to get done fast so that I'd have a second vehicle to drive. That gave me some extra motivation as I do have an ambition problem from time to time. If I have all the time in the world to finish something, I will literally take all the time in the world to do it. I am the Pontiff of Procrastination.

Anyway, to finance my '69 build, I had to sell my daily driver, which gave me the motivation I needed. That brings me to my second problem. Money. I NEVER have enough money to do this stuff but somehow manage to get by with it anyway. There always is something coming up like my mortgage, property taxes, or my house needing a new roof. So I sell stuff, junkyard dive, beg borrow and trade my way to getting it done somehow.

The money problem is one of the reasons that I often like to build cheap stuff that doesn't look the best but does cool stuff. I like things to perform well but I'm not a stickler for tiny details. Don't get me wrong, I notice the details and greatly appreciate the time and thought that goes into them on better builds than mine, but I'm extremely likely myself, to just say "F' it!", good enough. Get it done and get out and enjoy it. Paint doesn't make a car more fun to drive, neither do $4000 rims, or billet hinges, or smoothed firewalls but a flame throwing supercharged engine with the suspension and brakes to match DO make a car fun to drive. I think this is why I really appreciate the current rat rod thing. Of course I do enjoy my "creature comforts" like a comfortable interior and AC.

In the end, all of that stuff doesn't matter. It's the fun of planning, dreaming and actually building something that I enjoy a lot. I love driving it after but the building of it with my own ingenuity and two hands is probably what I enjoy the most. I guess some people don't understand that. I suspect most of them had a shop do a lot of their work for them.