That's real funny, except for the fact that in the time it's taken me to assemble an entire car, you've only managed to choose paint colors, and find the right angle of "square" to put lights on a shoebox.
It takes a rare form of boldness to talk smack when one's artistic creativity maxes out at "I know! I'll use the sane color scheme as one of my previous cars, but I'll be totally cutting edge by switching the orange to black and black to orange! That's so radical that the world probably won't appreciate it until I'm dead, like Picasso.
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Wow,..guess the stick I stuck in your eye must've been really blunt, and had dirt on it too.
If you think all I managed to do so far is choose paint colors, and mount tail lights on a car that they didn't come on, then so be it.
Although I know there is alot of filler in the previous 20+ pages, you must've missed the parts where I talk about what else has been accomplished. To save you from having to do so, I'll give you the " Cliff notes bathroom edition"...... that started with
mini-tubbing the body, scratch
building the intake, and exhaust manifolds,
adapted a head to an engine it didn't fit on,
made a solid roller cam work in an engine that never had one, then
adapted a SBF balancer, and timing chain to fit it,
narrowed your own rearend,
built your own subframe connectors,
built your own oilpan and then
built your own F.I ECU from a kit,...all in the time I've had it, all while working a real job. That's since the last update where I'm wrestling w/ making taillights fit on a car that they clearly don't fit on.
So as far comments w/ regard to the limits of my creativity goes,and what I've managed to do in a certain time frame, I'll take them w/ a grain of salt.Most people that build their own don't have the additional resources to fly in one of their ex employees to help "put it together".
I had that orange black car painted for 90 days before I sold it. So for me re-using colors that I never put more than one coat of wax on is still "new to me". Again, when doing it yourself, I think it best to know your limits, and mine stop at being able to paint a non-metallic color. The fact that I want/intend to use brown/tans inside were the criteria for what goes on the outside.
That said, there aren't too many exterior colors that work w/ brown interior colors, and you can bet I didn't immediately have the decision to use the Harley paint scheme just pop in my head.
All of this in 8 months. That doesn't give any consideration to the previous red car that got entirely built in one year. Whether you liked or hated that one,...it took a little more "artistic creativity" to build that one too.
Bottom line, I'm sorry if the snide comment about you paying for your progress cut a little deep.
