WTF? Do I have a mental disease? The "car" disease?

[King_V]

*sigh*

It's almost self-sabotaging, it is! I have my 1979 Calais (tentative name, "The Red Rocket") that has been on delay, but that's the project that's going to need real money and I want done right.

Yet I still searched for cars - and admittedly searched for something that was "done" and would mostly have what I want, but would cost me the same or less as going for my obsessive "what I want" for The Red Rocket. Ok, so at some point or another, I figured I should stop looking. Build my Cutlass right, and stop delaying (ok, I ALWAYS delay, but still...). I bought that around a decade ago.

I also have a 1987 Crown Vic Coupe (aka Sexier-mobile, aka Disco Inferno, aka... etc) That was going to be a "weekend driver" but then got pressed into daily-driver service.

Then I very recently stumbled across The Cheap b*st*rd - and bought it. I vowed that would be the "beater toy" that would only get free or dirt cheap improvements.

And a few minutes ago, I was browsing auto classifieds.

I apparently need help. Admittedly, I *partially* justify it by saying "If I stumble across a *done* classic that I really like, that will be my muscle car in lieu of The Red Rocket" but I'm not entirely sure I'm being completely honest with myself.


I imagine this "disease" is not all that uncommon....

 

[spidereyes455]

I find myself doing the same things. I think most of us have these symptoms and that is why we are all here, normal people just dont understand.

 

[1evilregal]

I think we need to start a support group... yes, I just bought another car...

 

[King_V]

Eh, but we'd all be a bunch of enablers for each other!

 

[Bonnewagon]

And it's usually accompanied by another disease. The "I can't leave it STOCK!" disease. I have never owned a car that stayed factory stock, EVER. Hi, my name is Mark and I have too many cars that I can't stop ****ing with....

 

[wonderboy24]

i have the same disease,i have my cutty,a buick century,a fordf250,2014 Travers,76 international travel-all. 2 bike kawi's . and going to Minnesota,in april to pick up another travel-all.my wife says i am a hoarder.

 

[pontiacgp]

if you're asking guys on this forum to diagnose you then you really do need help...and more than we can offer...

 

[Kwik_Cutty88]

And it's usually accompanied by another disease. The "I can't leave it STOCK!" disease. I have never owned a car that stayed factory stock, EVER. Hi, my name is Mark and I have too many cars that I can't stop ****ing with....

How true is this. Everytime a paycheck comes around "what can I do next?" or "what kinda deals does Summit Racing have going on?" comes into mind. :lol:

 

[ssn696]

Another variation on the problem is taking apart a car before you finished putting the last one back together. And I don't mean parting out the first/second one. Currently in work:
1. 1980 Malibu coupe: engine/trans/rear axle/radiator/driveshaft/tubular lower control arms/bucket seats with brackets - installed. Waiting on time, headers and fixing a wheel cylinder in which I stripped the bleeder. Rest of the car is rough.
2. 1980 Malibu wagon: junk 350/junk TH200C/2.29 rear axle. Waiting on time, decision on which of three engines to install, decision on 700R4 vs. T-5, money. Car is in a storage unit for stupid money because the rest of the interior/exterior is *WORTHY*
3. 1983 K30 4WD single wheel. Back is full of parts. Ballast 350/4-speed/205 6-bolt T-case. Body is hammered. Cherry bed is mounted on a trailer I made from the back half of my first truck. Spare cab in another stupid storage unit with two 1950s Chevy cabs and lots of parts. Truck is currently perched until I can get the Dana 60 I swapped parts to obtain under the front. Advance Adapters bellhousing, T-case adapter plate, new NV4500 sitting in the garage waiting for...time, more money, help wrestling with hundreds of pounds of iron. Front is perched on jack stands because two weekends ago I swapped the K30 Dana 4.10 44HD so that the
4. 1988 K20 Suburban can receive the matched pair of 3.73 Dana 44HD+14 bolt axles.
5. 1949 one-ton Chevy Panel Truck - complete but needs over haul. Found two 261 stovebolt motors, one with a cracked block and another with a cracked crank. S-10 T-5 and 1972 C20 Suburban 4.10 3rd member for the HO110 Eaton axle sitting in stupid storage unit #2
6. 1952 GMC long bed half-ton with curved corner windows. Chassis in the back yard under a pile of fenders and bedsides; cab in stupid storage unit #2 with brand new fenders and doors. Original GMC 270 stovebolt motor from a WWII army truck.
7. 2009 G8 GXP is hibernating in the only garage space not piled to the ceiling with parts. Also in the garage is a rebuilt 6.2L diesel I scored at the machine shop when the customer went back in jail for a very long time, a Banks turbo kit I scored on EBay, a 330HP 350 I built up from a truck core with heads and cam from Summit, a Ramjet 350 I built up from bits bought at Pace Perfromance plus a long block I repopped myself, and a Buick 455 all apart in need of a car to go into.

I claim to be a car guy. My wife claims I am a hoarder of car parts. Part of the reason that I made progress on the coupe was that one day I got tired of pushing the shell around and decided that if there was a motor in it, I could at least drive it from one spot to another. I had a rebuilt 400 in the garage loosely planned to go into the K30. Oh...and the latest delay excuse? Gotta build a fence/gate across the space beside the garage before the Zoning Nazis spot all the crap stashed back there and decide to defecate on my head.

Now, when my three kids are older, I will definitely try to warp their minds into wrenching on cars. I have one for each to drive in high school!

Hello my name is Quinn and I'm a friend of Louis Chevrolet.

 

[King_V]

if you're asking guys on this forum to diagnose you then you really do need help...and more than we can offer...