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BangShift Question Of The Day: Are You A Project Car Procrastinator?


BangShift Question Of The Day: Are You A Project Car Procrastinator?

Over the last week, I’ve been assessing the situation involving the rolling stock here at BangShift Mid-West. With the Rollover Explorer somewhere between dead and crushed, one useless automotive paperweight is gone. That’s always a good thing, but it left almost two months behind schedule. I can blame quite a bit of that on Kentucky’s fantastic idea of springtime weather, but then I look at the others: Angry Grandpa is doing fine, minus a broken tone ring on an axle and the fact that we still don’t have the right torque converter in the car. The wife’s truck needs some new light bulbs and some headlight polishing. The Great Pumpkin Mustang hasn’t done much except the occasional drive since it’s last major update, as it awaits it’s heart transplant, and as for the Imperial…well, to be fair, that gray sled was supposed to have been sold off, but it’s now on a reprieve that I’m piecemealing together now.

Hi, my name is McTaggart, and I am a project car procrastinator.

I don’t mean to be like this. I’d love to have the time, energy, skill and most of all, money available to make these things happen with quickness. Life has other plans for those items…I’ve got just enough skill to be dangerous, I’ve got energy, time is what I make out of work, and money…well, not so much, but at least that keeps projects realistic. That’s the one thing I’ve always appreciated about any BangShift project, before or after my hire date: real project cars, real budgets, real time scales. But it’s my own motion in the project that could use improvement. Ok, that’s a bit poetic…forget improvement, there are some days where I just need a solid, swift kick in the ass repeatedly until I’m in the shop spinning wrenches and making it happen.

Do you relate? I’m not talking about putting off a repair or a modification for a real-deal issue like budget constraints or anything like that. What today’s question of the day is asking is whether or not you tend to push off car projects for other pursuits. Think about it like this: you could swap that transmission out and put the new clutch in, or you could go fishing and kill the afternoon. Or is it just me? I’ll figure that out as I schedule out when I’m pulling the Mustang’s motor. Don’t guess on when that will be just yet, ok?


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8 thoughts on “BangShift Question Of The Day: Are You A Project Car Procrastinator?

  1. Weasel1

    I am sorry to say I am a member of this club. I am most happy when I am elbow deep in a project, turning wrenchs and getting the engine to purr. But if the love of my life says “auction” or car show or, let’s kill the afternoon with a ride in the country I am all in.

  2. jerry z

    As I bow my head down, yes I am a project car procrasinator. I’m doing a 95 Caprice that just needs the engine/trans installed but can’t decide to stay with the LT1 or take the LS1 plunge.

    So what did I do? Bought another Caprice just to drive and maybe do some mods. Sad indeed.

  3. ImpalaSam

    I am the worst, I have a bad habit of creating other projects that always seem to take priority over my car. At least I only have one old car to focus on, and I use the term focus loosely.

  4. Enginerd

    You could start a support group…

    I wanted to drop a transmission and take my first shot at rebuilding one. Go to take the front driveshaft out, and it’s seized and won’t come out. So I have to unbolt the front end so I can pull the front axle up juuussssttt enough for the driveshaft to drop.

    Next to drop the exhaust which is rusted on at the manifold. The right thing to do would be to unbolt the rusted out manifold and replace, but I KNOW I’m going to break off a bolt in the block…..

    So now I’m avoiding the whole thing because I know that’s the next part is a pain in the ass and no where near what I wanted to do when I started.

  5. cool

    Present and accounted for. 5 years ago, I took apart a running/driving hotrod so I could change the interior from faded 80s porno maroon to black. Since then the power train has been sold and partially bought back, the interior is (mostly) switched to black and ready to install, and the motor is currently undergoing some upgrades. I would really like to drive it this year but I gave up on setting deadlines about 2 years ago.

  6. greg miller

    I’m terrible-I’ve had 20+ cars over the last 27 years some were running,some needed work. I repainted, rebuilt, and fabricated alot of cars,built several absurd motors. I get one I dont stop until its done,what wife?

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