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>tfw you spent countless nights working on your project
>tfw you take it on the first drive and you realize it was the build you enjoyed and not the final product
>tfw you sell her for 1500$ and have mixed emotions about it
>>14747957
>not /o/ related but
My dad likes to build RC airplanes. 90% of people that mess around with them just buy and fly. I think he's like you though, he spends a lot of money and time building and painting them. Then he flies it once and once he knows it works, he just hangs it up in the garage. I think we have like a hundred there, and he's only been in the hobby for a couple of years.
>>14747964
Yeah its a disease man. I quite literally built the whole front of this car from the ground up because it was a in a wreck. I'm talking, welded in new frame, tubing, bumper supports, radiator mounts, etc. Then I took apart the wiring harness and removed unused wires. I spent so much time with this car I knew it inside and out, and driving it bored me.
>bought 740 Volvo for 400€
>clean it up a bit and install fat ass sound system
>2 17" subs in the trunk
>you could hear the trap from 10 miles away
>car had almost 800k on the clock
>still pulling hektik skidz and mad pussy
>sell it later for a grand
>bought a Benz
>Benz is constantly broken
>get depressed because no Volvo
You'll never realize the fun and love you had with something until it's gone
>>14747975
it bored you because it's a miata
>>14747999
Nah I daily drive a miata and its fun as all hell. I just got bored of it because i spent 9 months in and around it.
>>14747957
>Build shitty project car over 4 years
>keeps shitting itself
>give it away
>be 18
>be too edgy angsty4u
>never get license
>family van gets parked in favor of newer car since it keeps eating suspension parts
>be 24 (now)
>no longer 2edgy4u
>have license now
>dad wants to get rid of family van
>don't want to get rid of remaining piece of childhood left
>TFW you fix everything on your car
>TFW all you can do is drive it until things break again
>TFW nothing breaks for a long ass time
Like you OP, I really like buying used shitboxes because the "build" phase is the most exciting time. The car is still fresh, you don't quite trust it yet, but with each passing repair you start to bond with the machine and you learn what makes it tick, what the engineers were thinking, and slowly, how to trust it. You start to learn what cars you like working on, what cars suck ass to do even oil changes on, and all the little tricks that come with each car to speed things up on jobs.
And once the last project/repair/fix is all buttoned up and there's nothing left to do but drive it, you realize that all you wanna do is wrench all day and feel like you really did something. IDC what car it is, whether it's a get-me-by shitheap or the car that ultimately becomes your daily car, the joy of simply turning the wrenches cannot be ignored.
>Get a car with an actual engine (v8)
>Have a lot of fun
>Never get sick of accidentally burning out at stop lights from dumping the clutch
>Winters are like challenge mode and make it more fun
>>14748050
This is not related to regrets or wrenching.
Also
>actual engine (v8)
Compensating a bit family?
>>14748050
what kind of car m8
>>14747957
iktf OP
Pic related my old project
>>14748066
lol notchback
>>14748038
It's time for fucking car so you're not a neet champ
>>14748076
Not even mad
>>14747957
>Buy shitty used 150000 mile work truck with 4.3l v6
>Do some research. My pcm has bank injector capability!
>Get 4.3l vortec heads off 97 blazer in junk yard
>Get cam, trunnion rockers, hardened 250 pushrods
>Install everything with mercruiser intake manifold
>JBA shorty headers, dual exhaust x pipe
>Custom program computer with chip burner
>Recalibrate whole pcm front idle to 5500 rpm
>Rebuild custom spark tables, Custom speed density tables
>Truck running great with plenty of powa for a v6
>Break transmission. Here's where I went crazy
>Pull transmission, Hardened race pump, beast sunshell
>5 pinion planetaries, race clutches and steels
>Hardened input drum and billet input shaft
>Heavy duty 2400 stall triple plate torque converter
>Forward and rear sprags high element count hardened
>billet output shaft, new shift solenoids, shift kit
>Billet shift servos, Billet corvette servo, New epc valve
>Custom driveshaft, 8.6 inch 10 bolt pinion and gear set
>Eaton true trac, Moser 31 spline axles
>C clip eliminator kit, caltrac bars
>refit stock steel rims to fit 275/75r15 wheels
>Front drop spindles, djm tubular control arms
>Turbo time, hx40 holset off a 5.9l cummins with swapped exhaust housing
>3 bar gm map sensor, 3 inch exhaust with stupid race bullet muffler
>Custom $59 programming with 4l60e trans controls
>Layout about 400whp@15psi
>Burns first second and chirps third.
>Me being a 19 year old jackass at the time
>Roll past some jackass in his camaro v6 and he thinks hes badass
>Ok flashlight drags on a backroad
>Whoop his ass but end up rolling into a ditch at 120
>Destroyed the frame and engine Dragged it out and back to my house that night
>Cops never showed up so lucky me
Goddamn I miss that raggedy pile of pissed off v6. That was 3 years ago. I now have another 94 truck with some parts stolen off that one but it's got a 5.3l in it now and I don't do stupid shit like that anymore.
>tfw you take it on the first drive and you realize it was the build you enjoyed and not the final product
>>14748063
08 GT mustang
>>14747999
checkd
>>14747957
Some times the journey is more interesting than the destination.
Sounds like you like you should become an engineer.
>>14748030
then you're a quitter if you really loved your vehicle then you would of went the full length.
>>14748041
This so much
