Missing my garage

I know exactly what you mean, I don't even have a garage to miss so when I do find time to try and work on a car it always starts raining

It's a catch 22 situation, if you work less you have plenty of time to work on your cars but no money to spend on them, or you work full time and have money to spend on em but no time to do anything

Try having offspring!

Its always tough in the winter when there's so little light. I don't know when I'm going to start the welding on mine but a couple of evenings of going outside at seven or eight and tinkering for an hour or two have at least got me in a position to start.

A bit at a time that's the only way. Next task for me is to cut out the rot on one side. That will probably take an hour or two and then it might be several days at least before I can continue. Then a couple of hours spent making cardboard templates which I can turn into panels in the shed after dark on another evening. Slowly progress will be made.

Modern cars are dull and I bet you're wishing you'd got the Anglia painted now that the pop has caused so much grief but I reckon, if you get plodding along, come spring you'll have achoice of cars to drive

jonny69 in da house:
How the hell do you all fit it in with work/commitments?

Yeah how?!?!?!?!

I'm fortunate to have my workshop 15 steps from my house so I have absolutely NO excuses for not spending time there, it's warm & cosy, has nice furniture, good sound system and a fridge full of beer & sodas but after pulling 9-10 hour days (6 days a week) it's real hard to motivate myself to do more, I also have to take care of fiends and loved ones but when the creative juices flow it's great to have all my toys close to home. Last night we got dumped with some 5cm of snow so now it's not as dark as it is without snow here up north where the sun sets a 3pm and don't move over the horizon untill 8am, this is most likely why we have so many suicides during the dark and gloomy winter. Personaly I have had a looooong 2006 with tons of work (no complaints I LOVE my job) and not much time of but during 2007 I'll be getting some help in the shop so I can plan in a bunch of car & bike shows as soon as spring gets it's a** over here.....

DP says: The more toys, the more pressure to get some of them done.....

I'm very fortunate in that I have a nice cosy workshop about 50ft from my door but it still takes an effort to motorvate myself to go out there and work. It's very true that discipline is essential. Recently, I decided to work on the principle that i MUST go out in the workshop every day, even if only for an hour or two just so that progress is being made, even if only a little. After a few days of that, i now find myself out there for hours and things are moving at quite a pace.

Some days I just don't want to do it but I make myself because I'm naturally very lazy and if I don't force myself out there, i'd just sit on my backside in front of the PC instead and get nothing done. If i am really tired, and really don't feel like welding and grinding then I just go out to the workshop and tidy up. I often find that after a hour of tidying up, I then feel like cracking on with some proper work.

If there's one thing that's sure to make me feel bad about not going out to my workshop, it's seeing someone on here cracking on and getting their project done when they don't even have a garage let alone a workshop. That really does take true dedication!

I am a bit like RATDAT in the fact that I have a large garage for the motors, but still after work my brain hurts far too much to be cutting away at cars. I generally do work on a sat after training and a sunday after the initial Hangover has gone .

My car/garage is 100miles away from me and I'm only able to travel home to work on it every other weekend if I'm lucky . Hence my car comes along very slowly!

first dry day here in a while i went outside cut some stuff with the grinder. drilled some holes. realised i'd lost the brake pipe spanner i need to get the brakelines off. gave up and came in. I COMPLETELY SUCK AT THIS. instead of getting off my ass and going to a shop and buying another spanner i seem content to just sit here and not do anything. meanwhile the simple subframe swap continues from being a weekend job to...oooh 6weeks of no working car.

I don't DESERVE TO LIVE

I'm sure I get SAD.

As the winter draws in I just lose the will to do anything. Its dark therefore my body reckons I should be asleep. I can only just manage to run 37 hours of work in the week and even now I'm sitting here and I want to go to bed.

So progress is slow.

I feel like Nick, every morning I walk past my own car and start Emz Mazda up instead. Because mine doesn;t run. Because it need the flaot level setting in the carb and the throttle return spring refittig correctly. I'm 99.999% certain it will run correctly then. Or at least no worse than it did before. This simple job has been waiting for at least 4 if not 6 weeks now and the car is just dead. And even worse I have to take the bus to work on Tuesdays because Em needs the Mazda then. I'd rather take the bus than fix the car? Am I ill.

Who every is euthanasing Nick, I'm next.

I *will* do it Saturday. Assuming I get out of bed before its dark again.

Well, I sort of feel better knowing that it's not just me having motivational issues. My Benz was sat at my mates place for 3 months because it needed the fuel lines changing.
It's now out of MOT and I'm moving house in a couple of months so it's kind of given me a kick up the backside - I've got it transported to the back of my house where I can work on it, but even with it being on my doorstep the prospect of rolling around on the cold, wet, muddy floor whilst it's drizzling is seriously killing my motivation.

I find that if there's someone else around to help, it can be a really great motivator and it's amazing what can be achieved.