What's The Longest You Hav Spent Building a Car?
 

I was just thinking about this looking at my far from complete Datsun Z Turbo project sitting under a cover in the garage today. 10 years of my life! In that 10 years the car has been driven about 5-6 thousand miles but in the last three years it has driven only 300 miles.

In that time..I got married and divorced...then got engaged and broke that off. Moved three times and moved across several States...and the car is still not done but at least she is still with me....LOL.

She is pretty though..

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What about you guys?

Yasin

18 years.........1958 Austin Healy 100-6. Allmost had it done but times where hard and let it go back to the home land:(SmileWavy

Building?? or letting sit in the garage collecting parts and dust??, LOL

My 944. Roughly 5 years between purchase date and when it hit the road...only to break down again multiple times. It was money and time which kept me from working on it full-time.

My 930 has been sitting for almost 4 years now, in need of an motor refreshing. Time and money. Had a kid shortly after purchasing it. They all get done eventually though, ( well, most of them ). Took me about 3 years to dissassmeble, and restore a 69 z 28 when I was in my early 20's, I had a lot more oomph then, but lacked cash. Now I lack time, and energy, and too many other life projects to tend to.

My fathers 1930 cadillac.....38 years!!!! At one point he had it about 50% complete, then it sat for a few more years.....and then he did a little more....and it sat a few more years etc etc. So today I would say it is about 25% finished!!! Progress on the car has actually gone in reverse because the car has sat for the past 10 years without any work being done and I believe allot of the parts have been lost.

My Dad passed away a couple of years ago and the car now is in my garage......and clock is still ticking. One day I will finish it.

This is why I bought a replacement engine while mine is out for a rebuild. I know I probably won't get to it this winter, and it'll take at least all of next winter, if not 2, at the rate I work at. So I bought a hot-rodded 1967 engine for a killer deal to drop in there while mine's on the garage floor. No down-time!

I think we've had the Blazer for about 8 years... We had a buddy put the engine in and it wound up sitting at his place for a long time as he didn't quite "get around to it." In the meantime, we started building the spyder. Then we built our house, etc.

Steve's been working on the Blazer again. Took it for a short drive around the field the other day. With me hanging onto the tail gate acting as "brakes" due to the flaky master cylinder. Yes, it did occur to me that I'm a little old for that crap but I really wanted him to be able to drive it for the first time...

72 factory two-wheel drive, SBC 383 with 700R4 and 3.73 posi.

angela

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I'll tell you when I finish....

classic

Cool K-5, in middle school, my buddy's dad had a 4x4 like that, 454, a beast. In college I knew a guy who had one of them, drove around Salem, OR in the winter with the top off of it.

Convertible truck, I always loved that.

Gotta love 'em (K-5s)!

Our son is seriously scamming on it because he figures he can pack in at least a dozen bikini babes in the Blazer when the top is off.

Steve told him to there's room for at least 15 of them - LOL!

angela

It is still a short bed Chevy, I had 10 full size drunks in the back of my wife's old truck, and it was a stepside with the narrow box back there.