Technical Details that you're kinda weird about.

Gotta have the steering wheel on straight. Otherwise I go around in circles.

 

Dirty cars at car shows (not talking original or patina'd rides, necessarily, but nicer vehicles), nice paint over bad bodywork, and visible screw heads that aren't turned the same (like the phillips head holding my license plates on...all turned the same). Details like missing valve stem caps drive me crazy, too.

 

Looks much better

 

You left one out Danny.
A model car matching the full size car, sitting on the air cleaner.

 

Oversized hardware ... 3/8" or 7/16" wrench sized hex head sheet metal screws attaching interior sheet metal together.
Red, blue, yellow crimp on electrical connectors in plain sight.
Color matched plastic wire loom covering... Yellow, Red, blue, purple...
Poorly cut sheet metal, jagged and crooked.
Poor wheel selection not suited to build theme.
Mile high shifter with beer tap handles.
Laker exhaust that turns into under car exhaust...
That's just part of my do not do list.

 

As for my must have on all builds ...Same type of bolts such as all gold anodized grade 8 bolts.
Hose clamps trimmed so they all have the same length tail and aligned.
Straight and even brake and fuel lines.
Cleaned up casting flash.

 

Some of you guys need to see a shrink. Haha
As for me, I dont like Allen head or 12 point fasteners. (And it's not becase it's too hard to get all the 12 point heads clocked the same, you nuts!)

 

Fasteners are cool.
Metric fasteners not cool!

 

I must be weird. They must have 4 wheels that go round and round. I will accept 2 wheels if it's a motorcickle.

 

Stickers. Generally speaking, they look like crap. There's only one on my whole car, inside the trunk lid.

 

Over use of brightly colored wire coverings and braided s/s hoses

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Cool.... I also like indexed screws... several years back I got into painting houses...the old guy that got me started was crazy about details...he would follow behind me with a little mirror looking up under edges of trim and moulding to make sure it got painted...he always said " If you can't do it perfect than don't do it at all " and one of his things when we removed any thing that was screwed down , light switch and plug in plates, hinges ..the type of hinge determined the direction of the screw slots,..etc. when it was put back on the screw slots all went up and down...he also splashed rubbing alcohol on his hands evey time he touched anything....and he also drank a half gallon of whiskey every day.....water backed...he eventually retired and gave me his business including all equipment ...to this day I still index screws .... I got out of the business after 12 years....

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The guy must have been insane......

 

.............Half gallon of whiskey daily will make you a little insane.

 

Hose clamp used to mount tachometer to the steering column! Looks right in a race car, like a$$ in anything else.

 

I know a guy that jacks his car up and rotates each wheel at a car show so all four wheel covers are clocked. He carries a small floor jack with him.

 

I also like to "clock" screws and bolt heads. But then I'm so anal I worry about them not all being at a consistent tightness.

 

Turned into a bitch fest just like that. Human nature strikes again.

 

I'm the guy that spent $36 on good quality stainless steel hardware to install my exhaust manifolds. They will never rust and are plenty strong. I think the only native hardware on my SBC is the crank bolt and maybe 2 pieces of alternator bracket bolts that would be hard to replace with stock hardware.

 

untrimmed zip ties, or hose clamps that are waaaaayyyyyy to big for what they are being used for.

Before I moved out and got married I told my dad that I wanted to build a rat/old school hot rod....he laughed at me and told me that I'm to much of a perfectionist to have a car like that

 

now i know what my wife feels like when she walks past the jewelry stores in the mall.

 

Just apologized to the wife and promised to never again complain about her OCD when it comes to housework She is very normal when compared to this gang.

 

Had a guy at HS with a POS 48 Chevy that done that every morning when he parked it. By lunch time they "somehow' all pointed different ways, drove him crazy

 

for me its cleaning... i feel like i should be able to work on any part of my car and not get filthy doing it. this includes garage floor and tools as well. nothing pisses me off more than going to help a friend and grabbing a wrench out of the box and getting dirty before i even get started working because they didn't wipe the tool off before throwing it back in the box ... or having to clean up an oil spill, or chunks of grime on the floor from the last job before crawling under the car.
just this weekend i was helping a friend do some work on a 4wd actuator on his truck...he pulled it off and it had 100,000 miles of under car grime on it and he was just going to slap the new actuator on it and put it back...i started twitching... i literally grabbed it out of his hands and scraped all the grime off with a putty knife, hosed it down with brake cleaner, wiped it off and handed it back to him... he was looking at me kind of funny and i said you may have to get dirty taking it apart but you shouldn't have to get dirty putting it back together...
aside from that i am particular about the "normal things" like neat wiring, too long of bolts and hose clamp tails... not so much on indexing screws...
Chappy

 

Chappy, if you had to work in my shop, for the next week you would feel like things were crawling on you.

 

Dirty interiors. Even my daily drivers I regularly vacuum and clean the interior. And I wash my cars or daily drivers before a road trip (which is often). Even if I know it's going to rain. Dunno why, I just do.

 

Period license plates. Nothing ruins a neat old hot rod, or classic car of any kind for that matter like a pair of ugly modern plates.

 

Most of my things have already been mentioned, neat wiring and tubing, all run straight and nice bends, hardware, painted parts without the bolts being painted, neat plug wires, etc.
But what also bothers me is crappy crimping on wires. I have seen excellent wiring systems, layed out real nice only to see smashed cheap terminals at connections.

Also, has been kinda mentioned, but what chappes me is wavy body parts with good paint and the “ lines” of the car wrong. The car in my avatar needs to have a straight line from the rear tail light to the headlights, also the front wheel well should not be “ flared”. For some reason that seems to be a problem for folks with this model car and the 57 Chevy.... Just me!




Bones

 

This a thing that does drive me crazy.


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I'm trying to understand your meaning here. Is it the trim on a '57 you don't like?