Lack of progress

[Sigurd]

I am spending more time than I should on the forum these days. I am looking at successes, problems, paintjobs and pictures. I am a little envious on everyone’s progress.

Myself, I am in Norway and the car is in Florida. I guess no one can tell when I am able to start building again. My "nice to have" parts list, not including pricing, is getting longer and longer. Hopefully sometime this year….

Keep up the good work and stay safe!

[GoDadGo]

Sigurd,

I started my build 5 years ago and I'm finally at the painting stage.
Life often gets in the way of our projects so keep the faith and hang in there.
From financial set backs, to family tragedies and a personal injury put my project on hold several times.
Hang in there because I'm soon you'll be wrenching again soon.

Steve

NOTE:..Should you need expert help, then consider reaching out to Henry Renard (65 Cobra Dude) because he's an expert builder who's shop is in Florida.

[JohnK]

Sigurd, don't let it get you down. I've had several interruptions already in my build, either because of other interests getting in the way (triathlon season) or my seemingly ever-present lower back injury flaring up from time to time. I've just told myself that I started this project to have fun, not to stress about when it will be finished. I enjoy the time that I'm able to work on the car, and it'll be finished when it's finished.

[AZPete]

Planning and dreaming is half the fun on these builds, but it can also increase the want list (decrease wallet), as you are finding. Also, now is not the time to be in hot/humid Florida, so there's that to be happy about.:cool:

[Logan]

Building my Gen 3 Coupe isn’t going as quickly as I imagined it might either. And I even planned on a 2-year-ish build. It’s 100% my own doing though. Taking classes part time, working (at workplace) full time during CV19, raising a new puppy, maintaining a social lifestyle as much as possible, going racing at least monthly until the pandemic hit, being a perfectionist, and straying way off the reservation with mods and changes to the kit.

I’ve had my engine in and out a half dozen times, have cut and welded on my chassis, fabricated a lot, incorporated 3D printed parts, ran into snags that take lots of time to fix, etc.

I credit most of my turtle-like build speed to my OCD. I can’t bring myself to just “Slap ‘er together!” ....I must fit each part to perfection, and ensure everything around it fits perfectly, and so on. I’m definitely overdoing the sweating-the-details thing.

[UpNorth]

This thread is quite interesting.
When the pandemic started hitting hard around here provincial gov edicted rules to lock down certain areas of the province where the virus was not present...and one of them is where my cottage is and where my build is...Fortunately lock down is over tomorrow. It’s been 6 weeks...
Yes life gets in the way...Like JohnK says it’s not a race and it’s supposed to be fun...Hang in there, it’ll get better!
When people ask me when will it be finish I reply «It’ll be finish when it’s finish ».

[Gumball]

Five years to build mine - almost to the day. During those years, I sometimes went for weeks without touching it and other times I worked every day for months straight. I spent lots of time on the forum and generally surfing the web looking for ideas or tracking down details and parts, as well as time at the race track watching vintage car races and wandering the paddock getting more ideas, first hand from the original cars.

In the end, it's all worth it for this view.....

[Sigurd]

The fact that I currently don´t have any progress on my build can not be looked upon as a problem, more as an irritation.

I am lucky and have avoided all problems our world is having these days: neither my wife nor I have any virus symptoms, I don´t know anyone that have been ill, we both have jobs with a regular income, and an excellent health and support system available if we do get affected.

All in all, delaying finishing the build a year later than first planned, no problem!

Stay safe!