[Gscherer78ta]

Trey, I love your car and the fabulous journey with it you have posted here. I realize how small me saying that is in comparison to the amount of work an endeavor like that is.

I don't have any words of advice for you, I wish I did. I can only say that this is a very pertinent thread/topic for me right now as well. I am so tired of working on cars right now! As several have said, when a hobby becomes a burden it's no longer fun, very apt saying.

My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer that had metastasized in her liver the beginning of January, just after my son and I had completely disassembled our Trans Am - it was a shell. We set into some winter changed to install the T56 in it and thought that wouldn't be difficult and are very guilty of the snowball effect. Well that was a happy thought but proved to not be so true. I'm a self taught mechanic and have a regular job to provide for my family and that doesn't leave a lot of discretionary fund left over. Since January and dealing with the cancer every friggin' car I have has broken down!!!!! My wife's daily, my daily, my son's daily twice! It seems every week there is something else broken in addition to keeping some kind of happiness in the family and my wife's spirits up- Those are my tales of woe, I tell them only to demonstrate that we all go through rough times and have to ask "what am I doing". I don't have my own answer but I know that my current pace and path are not what I want or going the direction I want to go.

I finally did get the TA put together and driving. I drove it for a week, went to an autocross and loved how it felt- for the 4 laps that we got from it before it overheated and puked a bunch of oil out and probably blew a head gasket. If I were on my own, or just me and my wife I would probably look to selling the TA. I've built the TA into part of our family though and my son and I get to spend a lot of time together in the garage working together, dreaming together, engaging with on another, he's 18 now and wants to spend time with me and that's why it's not up for sale. I still have to figure what to do with the other stuff because I need to spend more time with my wife and I need to more life than just the inside of a hood.