I'm just a normal guy with an abnormal obsession for accumulating project cars, project car being defined as something not exactly in a daily driver state. If it was made prior to 1976, of some sort of special interest and cheap then I may be interested. I don't particularly care for most newer cars and the ones I do like are too expensive; besides, somebody like me fails to see the logic in financially supporting a car that's going to be worth less and less with each passing year. What it comes down to is my belief that while the automotive industry spent the last thirty or so years evolving the average car into a sophisticated appliance they also drained much of the mechanical charm that makes cars so appealing to me in the first place. So while there is the occasional newer car that gets my interest I can say I'm largely commited to the old stuff.One of my first real jobs was as a mechanic for an independent shop where we worked on everything, this eventually led to other auto-related jobs and through the years I learned a lot. While I was aquiring all sorts of valuable automotive knowledge
I decided I would never pay a (likely incompetent, crooked or overpriced) mechanic to touch anything I ever drove. Being that I enjoy maintaining/upgrading the cars I drive it makes it more fun when potentially high-dollar parts are cheap and easily available (like in the wrecking yard), yet another point in favor of old cars.In the past there were several lost deals over which I’ve had regrets, be it due to not acting quickly enough or not having ready cash to buy: '64 Lincoln Continental, '56 Lincoln Premiere, '61 Chrysler New Yorker...
.....the ones that got away (sigh). Now, whenever I find something that meets my criteria and is even close to being a good deal I can't pass it up. With a current total of six cars I've come to the conclusion that something needs to get finished in order for the madness to continue. I figure that by establishing some form of accountability (as in publicly tracking progress or lack of) I may hopefully move the projects towards some form of completion.
