Digger Barnes
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posted on 22/4/04 at 08:04 PM |
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Beer, track change, women, IRS not necessarily in that order
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Digger Barnes
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posted on 22/4/04 at 08:04 PM |
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ah and stainless steel
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dave1888
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posted on 22/4/04 at 08:55 PM |
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Doing work for other people in what spare time i had. Been working EVERY night and weekend this year up until end of march. Never mind the wife goes
away to leicester tomorrow for four days so it's just me the car and the dog (ah bliss)
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kingr
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posted on 22/4/04 at 11:12 PM |
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My delaying has always been money - not really any time pressures, I work longish hours, but when I'm not working, I'm a free man !
There was a poll on here sometime ago about how much time you spend working on your car, I can't remember what sort of time I was spending then,
but I'd say it's now easy over 20 hours a week, probably closer to 30. Plus all the time I spend reading, looking for parts and planning,
I dread to think how much time I've taken up building my car. I only hope it will be worth it.
Kingr
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thekafer
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posted on 23/4/04 at 12:19 AM |
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I'm glad to see that I'm not alone in having the beast in someones shop.
Money,Family and the fact that my wife conciders it to be "The other woman" are really the biggest reasons.
God I love'm though!!!!Fletch.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy...
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PioneerX
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posted on 23/4/04 at 12:40 PM |
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easy..... I spend more time looking for the tool I just put down than actually building anything
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Dale
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posted on 23/4/04 at 02:43 PM |
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Picked up my steel in October 2003 so going at a reasonable clip, PioneerX hit one of my biggest issues (where the f#$k did I put that). 2 young
boys 5 and 8 more deserving of my time than the Mistress(car) and my wife works every Saturday so most of that day is taken up with my boys. But if
there was a deadline it would not be enjoyable to work on it.
One off design is a major time consumer as well.
Dale
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chrisg
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posted on 23/4/04 at 07:42 PM |
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Over complication is the enemy
KISS
Cheers
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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JoelP
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posted on 23/4/04 at 08:17 PM |
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and depending on the circumstances, an enormous erection can be fairly tricky. thats my excuse anyway...
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Peteff
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posted on 23/4/04 at 09:02 PM |
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One off design is a major time consumer as well.
Dale
Just noticed that Dale, the two extra wheels are a real innovation
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Noodle
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posted on 23/4/04 at 10:05 PM |
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3 kids (plus other peoples for some reason), full time job, part time job, post-graduate course, over-powering desire to read philosphy texts,
alcohol.
That sums it up I think.
Neil.
Your sort make me sick
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Mark Allanson
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posted on 23/4/04 at 10:23 PM |
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I was building outside, I couldn't do anything between last november and the beginning of february, Cornish sunshine and all that!
Now I have the car at work, the progress is unbelievable, I can work any evening and weekends, what ever the weather
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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ray.h.
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posted on 23/4/04 at 10:38 PM |
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Built chassis in the garden so had to wait for good weather,then waited for a garage, thenwas out of work for five months but all systems are now
go,so should finish it this summer.
Also building this car is like pushing custard up hill,its hard but i will get there.
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thekafer
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posted on 23/4/04 at 10:58 PM |
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Dale
Just noticed that Dale, the two extra wheels are a real innovation
Looks like he's figured out a solution for the caster problem...Wonder what he's mounting for camber?.......
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy...
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Avoneer
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posted on 23/4/04 at 11:17 PM |
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Mine's a Tiger - need I say more?
No trees were killed in the sending of this message.
However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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DaveFJ
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posted on 24/4/04 at 10:14 AM |
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Unbeleivable news!
My brother has just turned up and removed all his poo from my garage! - so it's a full steam ahead all w/e....
Don't think I'll have it doen in time for stoneliegh though!
Dave
"In Support of Help the Heroes" - Always
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Bigfoot
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posted on 24/4/04 at 10:26 AM |
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Mine is a scratch design, but that isn't slowing things down. I started this as a relaxation project, I have enough stress in my work, so it
just happens when it can. I try not to think of it as a project that has to be finished, I'm just f$$cking around in the shed really.
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OX
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posted on 24/4/04 at 10:46 PM |
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work 6 days a week and had a weekend job as a bouncer to pay for the car and bits ,stopped going to the gym for 4 months just to get the bulk of the
build done,from the day i got the kit every thing was put on hold and the build became some what of an addiction,all i did was think about what im
going to do next and how im going to do it and loved every min of it .im now enjoying the nice weather in it woohoo
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Metal Hippy
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posted on 24/4/04 at 11:28 PM |
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I've totally missed the point of what this thread is about after I saw protofj's avatar...
Cock off or cock on. You choose.
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Alan B
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posted on 25/4/04 at 05:39 PM |
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Another big delaying factor is participating in online polls and forums......
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Mk-Ninja
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posted on 25/4/04 at 06:42 PM |
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Good call Alan if I didnt spend as long on here I could have finished it before I started
I'm sure I've got one, just don't know where I've put it
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