March next year will be it's 10th birthday
So, has anyone got a cure for cantstopchangingititis?
Well, this year is coming to a close and I still haven't finished the bloody MK. This was going to be the year, but it's the end of August
and it's still on the stand
March next year will be it's 10th birthday
So, has anyone got a cure for cantstopchangingititis?
No, I've got cantgetaroundtofinishingititus
1997 - 2010 The Kit Car Years
2003-2010 for me
its not the changing bits. its the doing them wrong and they don't work, about 3 or 4 times til i get annoyed and leave it for some months
Humm, I thought I had that but it must have been misdiagnosed.. 2004-2009... we did move house 5 times, maybe that was the issue!
Dan
[Edited on 27/8/10 by Bluemoon]
Hmm this is making me feel good 
I took 3.5 years to build my Indy and thought it took me far too long.
It took me 2 years to "build a sports car for £250"
all from scratch, and compared to some that was a long time !!
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Originally posted by steve m
It took me 2 years to "build a sports car for £250"
all from scratch, and compared to some that was a long time !!
it took me 12 months!
How about stop changing stuff, get it on the road, enjoy it for the summer and tehn do mods in the winter? Mind you the summer had been very pooh so
mine mods have started early 
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Originally posted by blakep82
2003-2010 for me
its not the changing bits. its the doing them wrong and they don't work, about 3 or 4 times til i get annoyed and leave it for some months
Ten
took me just under 3 years - but since then I have taken another 3 Years to get it the way I want it and it is still not right.
scratch built and iva'd in a year beat that
Thank God its not just me.
4 years and counting..still miles off.
No money, no time, no clue half the time.
Not giving up though.
s
Finished the workshop August 2008.
Started building September 2008.
SVA March 2009.
On the road 1st April 2009.
Woohooo - i love threads like this, going to forward it on to my g/f.
I started in 2000 ..... i'm still at it. If i could finish the damned kitchen i'd get some serious garage time in. I tend to make things
three times. The first time works, sort of. The second works perfectly but later on i find something else gets in the way, the third time works with
nothing interfering.
The other problems are i change my mind, from live axle to de-dion (for example) and find I just don't know how to do something so spend ages
pondering it.
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Originally posted by Madinventions
Finished the workshop August 2008.
Started building September 2008.
SVA March 2009.
On the road 1st April 2009.
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Originally posted by MikeR
Woohooo - i love threads like this, going to forward it on to my g/f.
I started in 2000 ..... i'm still at it. If i could finish the damned kitchen i'd get some serious garage time in. I tend to make things three times. The first time works, sort of. The second works perfectly but later on i find something else gets in the way, the third time works with nothing interfering.
The other problems are i change my mind, from live axle to de-dion (for example) and find I just don't know how to do something so spend ages pondering it.
That's just knocked 4 years off 
I got my car on the road in about 2 years. Not that bad, but then after a year on the road I wanted an engine swap and it's been that way for
about 3 years and now that the engine swap is nearing completion part of me wants to strip the whole thing down to a bare chassis and get it
blasted/acid dipped etc!
Ash, I realised the first few paragraphs of reading your build that YOU ARE NOT NORMAL! The rest of us face more mental blocks than you do obviously
(I know yours wasn't all smooth sailing). But it DOES feel good to have things mostly done and driving, so everyone else, keep it up.
Mine is 3 1/2 years and my engine still doesn't run properly, and it isn't licensed for the road, but it has been at the autoslaloms a few
times, making it worth it.
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Originally posted by 40inches
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Originally posted by MikeR
Woohooo - i love threads like this, going to forward it on to my g/f.
I started in 2000 ..... i'm still at it. If i could finish the damned kitchen i'd get some serious garage time in. I tend to make things three times. The first time works, sort of. The second works perfectly but later on i find something else gets in the way, the third time works with nothing interfering.
The other problems are i change my mind, from live axle to de-dion (for example) and find I just don't know how to do something so spend ages pondering it.
Ah! Pondering time, must account for about 40% of garage time
2005, still on the stands, retiring again in November, heat will be on in the garage till next spring, and the car on the road (says he with fingers crossed).
Feel much better having read this! 
Started a 442 V8 build in July 2002. Since gone on the 'back burner' while I build a standard 'book' Zetec which I started late
2007. 442 is scratch build but bought the chassis for the Zetec. Would like to have the Zetec IVA'd next summer. But then I say that every year!
And yes, thinking, looking, pondering time definatley accounts for a large percentage of overall workshop time.
Mart.
Ditto, feel better now too
Bought the book a year after it came out
Started the chassis June 2005
All on hold pending bad juju in marraige (not due to car)
Divorced Nov 2006 ( or ?)
Started again May 2007
On to wheels 2008 (married again too never learn do we)
And as of today got wiring loom to do, panel inside, fit handbrake and cables, fit fuel lines, plumb engine for cooling, fit rear panel, fit (and
buy) propshaft.
Then it's a case of the other 1000 little jobs to finish it ready for IVA
Still, getting there (as British Rail used to say)
Hi, Im just about two years in and gave myself a kick up the arse and sat it on its wheels last week actually looks like a car (sort of) and one of
the boys said i only need to paint it.
looks about 75% there but in reality probably about half.
had hoped to do it in less than a year but as always too many other things get in the way.
and the kids always find me jobs to do when im in the garage (cause im not doing anything important) lol
Ray
I ordered mine in April, sadly im still waiting to collect it, let alone start it!
Hi, scratch build 4 years, sva August 2009. Im now not happy with engine choice just to slow
thinking of going bec or zetec 1.8 siver top,so
theres another year or two.
ARE THEY EVER FINISHED
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Must have caught it from a toilet seat you used at a show somewhere.
Cheers,
Bob
was building a stylus for 4 years, still rolling chassis, so got fed up and sold it Bought a running car, after getting it imported to Belgium i had
exactly 1 week of fun then rain season begun
had whole lot of plans for the winter, ending in just adding different mirrors to it several weeks of driving, then diff gone and that's how
it is now, hope to have it back in a few weeks resulting in 1 more week of fun and rain season again then
result: keep building as driving just ends up in building again
I reckon only 1% get finished then maybe hardly ever used anyway......buy one ready made and save yourself a lot of aggro