Hot Rods How long did your build take?

took me 4 yrs on my 33 ford. it had been in a shed for 29 yrs. been 5 years on my wifes 51 ford not quite done yet. I try to work on a project about 2 hrs a day and 8 on sat. take sun off. I dont think tou ever get them done

 

I truly think that this is key. We don't have cable/dish/whatever either. Just a 13" tv that we'll occasionally watch a movie on. So many people I know spend so much of their lives plugged into that idiot box. They're constantly talking about some show they saw or asking if I've seen such-and-such program yet... Nope, I'm out in the garage. Now if I could just cut the cord on this damn computer!

 

Dumb kid, actually...just liked hot rods. No kiddin' that I should've bought every roadster I could find! I remember being about 10 in the late '60s...would always grab the classifieds from my dad's Sunday paper to look at the hot rods for sale. Lot's of em...1/2 page. '32 Fords for $1500 - $3000. "Yup, gonna get one when I'm older." By the time I was 18 in 1975, they were 10 times that much. Aaaaaand...I was screwin' around too much. Aaaaand... I was distracted by the muscle-cars for a while too, as so many others were. Stupid muscle-cars. LOL.

I know you could do it too, Bird! Just about ready to start, though...finally. It's like a vengeance thing now. One benefit of taking this long...I've had decades to school myself on the process, and decide on my preferences. I've got a couple of unique additions of my own too. Better get 'er in gear though! - Rick

 

1 year for the most part, but I keep changing things or improving things so it never ends !

 

i have had the car six years now but really only been working on it 3 years. a month after i got it my wife found out she was pregnant and i was working 6 days a week. so i really never touched for the first three years!

 

51 days

 

Hey, I SMELL SMOKE...lookin' good though!

 

thanks man i appreciate it!!

 

well you know it would be alot faster if money was not an object.
been working on my 29 rpu for about 5 years. but I am restoring it all original.

 

almost 2 years..

 

before and after pics. 15 months. Don't usually work that quick. And it was in a 19x19 foot garage.

 

almost 5 years and still going... Been driving it for a year now.

 

It's so comforting to see that there others that last multiple years too. I thought maybe I was the only one out there that struggled to get from the rolling chassis stage to the maiden voyage. I'm still blown away by some of your builds that are done from nothing to something in a matter of months. It shows how you guys burn the midnight oil to have a car built so fast!!

I started with a wood rotted Chevy and Cadillac 390 that ended up as good a boat anchor before I dumped a lot of money into it. I then had my second son in the middle of the build and took him for his first ride with mommy today! Life is good!!

 

OK! It took me 5 years to make a stocker into a streetrod. I might add I did all the work myself except the paint, which I did help as a good friend did the paint!. All of this except paint was done in a 1 car garage, check out my build at www.melswell.com to see what I did. Mel YES!!!!! that is A.J. FOYT standing by MY car!!! in the second photo!!!!!

 

I pulled my '50 sedan deliver out of a field and in 6 months was driving it. It's not finished by any means but I'm having fun with it.

 

I bought my 40 in 1967 and it's still not finished.

 

Started on the 1929 AA Ford stakebed in June 1974. Moved twice, went through seven job changes, a divorce, marriage, remodeling, adoption, building a new house and now I'm getting back to the hotrod. It's never rolled under its own power, but in four years, when I've finally retired, my dream is to drive it to and from work on the last day.

 

Depends, 2 kinds of people; Process oriented & Goal orientated. Everybody is one or the other & thats fine.

 

My 40 took me 2 years almost to the day.

 

I made it easy, we live in the garage as well! Computer is 10 feet from the main bay. leave it on and pop in as go back and forth.

 

literally years! but I am at least driving it now! going to have some fun with it for a while and drive a work in progress, work on some mechanicals and get the stance dialed in.

 

This is one of the best post ever! I love it! Maybe I like it so much because it's the truth.

 

Hey man, I'm on about 11 months now too. I have driven mine already but it is a long way from done. But I keep it where I can drive it now and I am doing little projects to it, but put it back to drivable condition at the end of each one. I like
driving it!!!!

No headlights, no taillights, no brake lights, no seat belts, no windshield, no grill, no rear of the body.... I drive it anyway. lol