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<blockquote data-quote="SpittingCobra" data-source="post: 16566121" data-attributes="member: 62737"><p>2008 recession hit me hard. The next 5 years it just got worse.</p><p></p><p>My engine started smoking in 2010, so I took it apart and it sat for almost a year, it was in my mother's garage. I was laid off shortly after, missed two car payments, the bank sent me straight to collections and said I was "up for repossession." Go ahead and take the car with no engine I thought.. but no one ever came looking. Then my mother called one day in 2011 said she hadn't paid her mortgage in over a year, she was completely broke, the home was foreclosed and she would be gone in a week. That's another bad story but car wise I had nowhere to put the car so a friend's dad let me tow it into his field and leave it under a tree. There it sat for a few months while I tried to find somewhere with a garage. Finally I got a place lined up, this was the lowest point of my life. Fresh out of college in 2011 and back to making $10/hr as a security guard because the economy was such shit and could not get a job in my field. I took my engine to a machine shop and I literally sold stuff on craigslist, recycled stuff, worked a day and a night job, flipped random abandoned crap I found in a college flop house I was living at, abandoned snowboards, a bike, a grill, furniture etc. Every dime I would get I would hide it in a sock and when I would reach a few hundred I would go down and pay the machinist an installments. This went on for another year.. Once I got that motor back I got help from a friend putting it back in with a hoist and my motorcycle lift. About 3 years from the day I took it apart, and moving it 4-5 times, I finally got it running. The place I put it together was a friend had signed himself up for a garage at his apartment a few blocks for the ghetto flop house I was living at. The last 3 months of finishing the car I chose to live in the garage ($100/month) to keep adding to the pot to settle with the collection company and afford all the other costs of getting it back on the road. In the spring of 2013 I emerged from that garage with my car running again, and the title to boot. </p><p></p><p>In my opinion losing motivation means that going into the project your expectations were not realistic. Doing car and motorcycle projects has taught me to expect to be miserable and consider abandoning everything completely. That frustration, that resentment, regret, etc. is paying the price to have what you want if you can't (or don't want to) pay someone else 10x as much money to do it for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SpittingCobra, post: 16566121, member: 62737"] 2008 recession hit me hard. The next 5 years it just got worse. My engine started smoking in 2010, so I took it apart and it sat for almost a year, it was in my mother's garage. I was laid off shortly after, missed two car payments, the bank sent me straight to collections and said I was "up for repossession." Go ahead and take the car with no engine I thought.. but no one ever came looking. Then my mother called one day in 2011 said she hadn't paid her mortgage in over a year, she was completely broke, the home was foreclosed and she would be gone in a week. That's another bad story but car wise I had nowhere to put the car so a friend's dad let me tow it into his field and leave it under a tree. There it sat for a few months while I tried to find somewhere with a garage. Finally I got a place lined up, this was the lowest point of my life. Fresh out of college in 2011 and back to making $10/hr as a security guard because the economy was such shit and could not get a job in my field. I took my engine to a machine shop and I literally sold stuff on craigslist, recycled stuff, worked a day and a night job, flipped random abandoned crap I found in a college flop house I was living at, abandoned snowboards, a bike, a grill, furniture etc. Every dime I would get I would hide it in a sock and when I would reach a few hundred I would go down and pay the machinist an installments. This went on for another year.. Once I got that motor back I got help from a friend putting it back in with a hoist and my motorcycle lift. About 3 years from the day I took it apart, and moving it 4-5 times, I finally got it running. The place I put it together was a friend had signed himself up for a garage at his apartment a few blocks for the ghetto flop house I was living at. The last 3 months of finishing the car I chose to live in the garage ($100/month) to keep adding to the pot to settle with the collection company and afford all the other costs of getting it back on the road. In the spring of 2013 I emerged from that garage with my car running again, and the title to boot. In my opinion losing motivation means that going into the project your expectations were not realistic. Doing car and motorcycle projects has taught me to expect to be miserable and consider abandoning everything completely. That frustration, that resentment, regret, etc. is paying the price to have what you want if you can't (or don't want to) pay someone else 10x as much money to do it for you. [/QUOTE]
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