What's Your Motorvation?

aka WayTooFurious

I have to say that I’m always surprised by the number of ads that you find on eBay and in car mags where owners are selling their cars because they have "lost interest" in their projects. I sometimes wonder why they’ve lost interest: was it because they realized that life isn’t like a TV show where your car gets restored in an hour, but can in fact take months or even years? Did it just suddenly stop being enjoyable and just became hard work? There are a couple of things that may help you keep your project alive. Before you even buy the car of your dreams, you should consider what will be involved. Will it be a cosmetic makeover or will you be doing a complete nut-and-bolt restoration? Will you be doing most of the work yourself or will you be farming it out? Once you set aside the emotion involved in buying your project and hit it with a dose of reality, you’ll have a clearer perspective of what it is you want to achieve and how you might go about doing it. Then, once you do get started on your project, it’s important to keep yourself motivated. It’s not always clear sailing and you should know what motivates you just in case your project does bog down. Personally for me, going to car shows helps a lot. I get excited by seeing how my car could look by seeing other completed examples. So what motivates you to keep going with your project?

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Posted at 6:32 pm in Dispatch From Down Under

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HB
Aug 1, 2008 at 3:18 pm

This video is my motorvation. I need to prove that Astros are performance vehicles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGrbIgbZI5w

Anonymous
Aug 1, 2008 at 2:08 pm

the smooth sailing of three mains…boxer engine that is, keeps me motivated.(I have been slowly over 2 years gong after an old subaru dual range 90hp). It’s not the 10 second dragster on TV, or the resto on TV, or the billions of dollars of flunking car ads, or sterortypes, pr the triuth of the modern pansy or the televised 1 in a million inline that did more than the normal failure. A factual car and knowing/learning engineering always feeds the longer resto project. Truth feeds motivation. I grew up around the cussing custom car builder, and there is indeed alot of unpleasant reality. Welding and its results is another “instant” satisfaction. Strange as it sounds, but true.Exceed years and decades of oem anomolies in split seconds.

Mack
Aug 1, 2008 at 12:20 pm

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Mack

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JoshuaS
Aug 1, 2008 at 2:07 am

I am restoring a 73 super sport bug which has taken me the past 3 years. I lose interest often due to school and work. But everytime I flip open a Hot VW magazine I get a spurt of energy… Last time I opened one, I ended up taking my entire engine apart in one night, Now I have a lot of parts sitting around until I read another magazine.

Stewart
Jul 31, 2008 at 11:34 pm

First of all, I love my car.
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Second, I like taking her out to shows and cruise-ins,
and getting to see peoples reaction to her.
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Heck, just going to the gas station is a conversation
starter, especially when they hear her, or better yet,
if I check the oil.
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To sum it up, I guess I just love the car, and I love
sharing my car with other people, and looking at their
cars too.
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I have gotten way too over my head with projects, and given up on them in the past, I am sorry to report. Mostly, I think it was because when I was younger, I didn’t know enough, and I didn’t have the funds to finish the project, or I realized that I might never have the time or money to invest. Mostly it was a knowledge deficit on my part.
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I like to think I am getting smarter in my old age. We’ll see, I guess, as I have plans to build a hot rod from the ground up for my next project.

Anonymous
Jul 31, 2008 at 8:16 pm

its seeing other cars and the love i have for mine

its like raising a child

Ken Boory
Jul 31, 2008 at 7:10 pm

My motivation is just to be able to see my car ride and race well, and not to just sit and rust to pieces.

cknarf
Jul 31, 2008 at 7:07 pm

I love my car.
That’s it.