After years and years of working on cars. Nothing hits the same as the first few times you do something. These were the days when I didn’t know what I was getting into. How these driveway build days would decide my career path and how I support myself and family. Where my passion turned into a Job and pulled me away from the excitement.
Be honest…
What’s your car teaching you right now?
Patience?
Discipline?
Humility?
How to walk away before you throw a wrench? 😅
What did garage therapy help you get through this last year?
After comparing myself to other people’s builds from Integras to skylines, and after getting rid of both of them I realized that I should’ve been more grateful/appreciative with the work, time, and money I’ve spent and done with the cars. And that I should’ve stop telling myself in the past “You’re at a good state and good area, where you have these cars at a young age”
The question was posed a while back, "What is your garage to you? How do you see that space?" Well, I've never been good at short answers and this is no exception so please bear with me. If you'll indulge a longer post, I'd like to tell some of my story and share some thoughts I've been mulling over and sorting out for the last few weeks.
Here goes...
Growing up, my younger brother and I spent countless hours in the garage shoulder to shoulder with my Dad and grandfathers and uncles doing everything from a timing belt on Mom's Dodge Grand Caravan to a transmission swap on Dad's Mazda MX-3 to learning to adjust carburetor jets on Grandpa Dave's '57 Chevy coupe. We built small block Chevy motors for my uncle's dirt track cars and tuned up boat motors and built and modified go-karts. The list could go on…
What’s your ultimate ‘therapy build’? The kind of project you’d take on not for performance, not for clout, but purely because it makes you happy to wrench on it.
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Man if this isn’t the bare bones truth 🫡