O/T/ When do you work on your cars?

When do you guys get to work on your cars? For the last 30 years I,ve worked shifts which means I work long unsociable hours but on the plus side I get loads of time off when everyone else is at work.How do you guys that work 9 to 5 every day get anything done? I,m 51 now and haven,t worked what I,d call normal hours since I was 19. I may have a chance to change this and work 7 to 3 Monday to Friday, I really like the thought of going to bed every night.

 

Early evenings, and weekends!

 

Well when I got laid off that sure helped free up some time...

 

instead of working on a car i should be working on , i worked on my own project today

 

I work 3-4 days a week and put in a 15-20 hour work week. For the most part I work on stuff when I feel like it and when the weather cooperates.

 

When business was A BOOMIN in 07 I worked 70 hours a week, bought all the parts, 08 slowed a bit, maybe 40 hours, worked on it on the weekends, 09 it was slow only worked 20 hours a week got a shit load done, 2010 real sad assed slow 5 to 15 hours a week, ran out of cash and now just sit here lookin at it. Love change baby.

 

Cut all my rear springs down from 6:00 to 10:00 last night. Wife got some alone time.

 

I work M-F 6-2:30pm, so I get plenty of car time in around that. Leaving work now, in fact, to go work on my brother's truck.

 

Whenever I can!

 

In the evenings after dinner...sometimes until 10 or so, depending on what I'm doing an how into it I am.

It beats sitting around on the couch watching TV.

 

After dinner until the mosquitos start eating me alive, weekends when I have time. Currently all 3 of my old cars are in running, driving condition. Most of the "work" now is basic maintenance or cleaning...

 

That reminds me, I need to set off another one of those insecticide foggers in my garage tonight so I can work out there tomorrow without being dessicated by the skeeters.

 

When i get tired of working on other broken down stuff. Tried yesterday but the rain dripping through the holes in the roof got me wet.

 

I no longer work on my cars ... cuts into my HAMB time and I might miss something.

 

I'm actually going crazy. I'm self employed, and haven't touched my project in three weeks. And so far, I'm busy already for the next 6 days or so. What do I do????

 

In my head I'm working on my car 24hrs a day. Doesn't really help when I need to talk to customers about their CCTV needs.

 

I work 60+ hrs a week so I allocate time to the car on the weekends. Plus my daughters LOVE being outside and helping the old man. It becomes a win/win for all of us, and my beautiful bride gets a brake from us all.
O/T I do this thing when I am concentrating and working on the car where I stick my tongue out. Now both my daughters are doing it to. We will sit there fiddeling with the car with our tongues out like a bunch of weirdos! It is RAD to see though.

 

My car is in the shop with me. It's a big distraction.... I finish a order for a customer and sneak over to work for a hour, some days I bust ass then the next day I work on my car... It's one advantage of being self employed.

 

Working 70-90hrs here. So, about an hour a day Mon-Thurs. Fri-Sun, maybe four hours a day. Slow progress, but in these times, we have to do what is necessary to keep the family (and projects) afloat.

 

No skeeters here, 8-midnight after we put the kid to bed. Rockies or Twins on the AM Radio, cold beer in the shop with HAMB breaks every so often.

 

I'm a teacher and have summers off but still have no time to work on my truck. Having 3 month old twin daughters will do that to you. I try to get 1 or 2 hours a day but that doesn't always happen.

 

everyday !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! keeps me goin ............. steve

 

I wish I could do that. Customer stuff never stops (of course if it did, I'd be worried sick!)

 

between take'n care of my wife who has cancer and our 3 kids and work for a couple of buck's here and there.....so its like late eve or an all night'r. if im lucky enough to work on them early'r my kid's help out and learn a little.

 

its hard to balance the project with family but i have found if i come home from work eat dinner, play with the kids, kids to bed, play with the wife, sneak out to the shop and thrash for 1.5 to 2 hours and do that at least 4 days. get to bed early with everyone else friday and get my self out of bed by 5 am saturday. I can work for 5 hours before anyone misses me. what can you do when you have 5 kids and a wife? no one said hot rodding was easy.

 

Every other weekend is 3 days long. Usuly then. Here in Tucson it's so hot right now that it often happens at night. The mosquitos will start as the monsoon starts here in about a week. Bill

 

Man, that gives some perspective! I should be glad my wife and three kids are healthy.

 

I am retired ... so I have 24/7 available

But I usually work after 9 PM or so. Here is the South it is HOT ( over 100 degrees today ) with high humidity. When the weather turns cooler ... I usually try to go to the shop after lunch for a few hours.

For me ... chasing down that hard to find, illusive part is a large part of the fun so I enjoying the parts search as much if not more than the actual construction. I will chase parts anytime

I am logging off now to go play in the shop ...

 

How do you guys work so late at night? There is no way I could get away with being in the garage that time of night, my neighbors would go nuts.

 

Tman, dude you're living the life ya know, no skeeters and all.