Honestly Mike? Yeah, you're nuts. Pickle the thing and put in a storage facility. Your description didn't sound to me like you're scrapping for dough to get the house projects done... More, it sounded like the house projects weren't getting done because maybe the fun money was all going into the car.
So store it. Don't put anything else into it for the time being. Let it sit in the back of your mind for a few months until you return to your senses.
Nope not hurting for money, just not making enough to do what I want to both the house, and be able to enjoy the car. The car is done. It want's for nothing. (well except the noisy gear set that we can't get to quieten down enough to be as it should.....
And there's the hot start problem that's probably a bad coil pack....Oh yeah, and it needs it's front end aligned after I centered the rack) but other than that junk,...it needs nothing.
The problem is, (and always will be) the obscene amount of time any money I devote to the hobby. Over the last 20 years, those 8 cars I was talking about????
$122,000.00 spent more or less.
The recoup on the sale(s) was less than half.
So, when I have a car, I have basically thrown away (as in burned) 300.00 a month, every month for 20 straight years.
And that "wasted money" doesn't include the gas and other expendables that was used up in pursuit of that hobby during that time.
Despite the fact that the last little items are relatively piddly, the usage of this car now becomes the new addiction. Cruise-ins every other weekend, Shows that require an over night (or more) stay, and hundreds of miles to get there to enjoy the design purpose of the car.
Mothballing the car is ludicrous. Summer is here! This is the first summer It's gonna be seen by the regional, and national car enthusiasts. I had a plan for may, ( Tupelo Cruise (2 day event)), June, (every damn local cruise night w/i 50 miles), and July,...Mustang week.
It makes no sense to me,...I built it to drive, and that doesn't mean to the grocery store, ( but I take it there every time I go) The hobby is best enjoyed at an event,.....and you gotta drive to get there.
I'm not burned out on the car. I talk myself hoarse at the cruise-ins,.....I love this car. I love looking at it, driving it, and talking about it. I like the people involved, and I really have a good time. Just like right now, I love talking about how I love talking about it.
What I don't love about it is up about 14 lines.
I figure it takes a progression to finally wean me of the need for such a diversion.
The last drag car was 40k+ of the number above. It took the several cars in front of it before I realized that I hate drag racing. I don't have any fun, It's hotter than bloody hell, and you're breaking something all the time. Race gas is Phucking insane, and the required arsenal of support junk you need to get it there is equally stupid. Bottom line,...I'm done w/ drag cars.
Now to work on killing off the need for anything other than a homegenous, plain white wrapper daily driver.
For us "hot" might be 100 degrees but that is with 30% or less humidity. I went to a World Ford Challenge in Bowling Green Ky. one year and about died............... 98 degrees and 98% humidity. I don't know how those folks do it.
