Okay I might be an f-body hoarder

[LS3torque]

I went out to work on the Chevelle and had to move the black TransAm under the Chevelle (on the lift) to change a light bulb and tried to move the other TransAm convertible car out of the way but have too many f-body parts piled up on it. I have parted out about 15 Camaro and Firebirds in the last 10 years and can't make myself get rid of anything (I might need it someday). My 32 by 56 foot building and a 32 by 32 foot building is soo full of junk (F-Body parts) I can't even move around in either one without pulling something out. I see other garages on here that appear like they were built just before the picture was taken. How do they do that. I can guess how a guy like Jay Leno does it. I see and hear lots of great ideas here so lets have em. My head hurts from spilling this way.

Thanks, Tom

[mitch_04]

Pics...

[GregWeld]

There's an answer for your issue,



It's called EBAY.....

[ccracin]

There's an answer for your issue,



It's called EBAY.....

Hello Kettle, This is Pot!

[LS3torque]

Pics...

Might still be too ashamed for that but I might just post up so I don't beat myself up with the lazy stick. I have taken a corvette from Motor set-up from running with a hole in the oil filter to six grand smokey tire burnouts in less than two weeks.
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[Brewtal66]

I went out to work on the Chevelle and had to move the black TransAm under the Chevelle (on the lift) to change a light bulb and tried to move the other TransAm convertible car out of the way but have too many f-body parts piled up on it. I have parted out about 15 Camaro and Firebirds in the last 10 years and can't make myself get rid of anything (I might need it someday). My 32 by 56 foot building and a 32 by 32 foot building is soo full of junk (F-Body parts) I can't even move around in either one without pulling something out. I see other garages on here that appear like they were built just before the picture was taken. How do they do that. I can guess how a guy like Jay Leno does it. I see and hear lots of great ideas here so lets have em. My head hurts from spilling this way.

Thanks, Tom


The solution is pretty clear to me...you need a bigger garage!

[Spiffav8]

Post up your address and that problem will be solved for you in less that 24 hours. :whistling:

[LS3torque]

Post up your address and that problem will be solved for you in less that 24 hours. :whistling:

That's another thing I'm afraid of, midnight shoppers got me once that I know of and I had a real nice 12 bolt rear out of a 70 Chevelle that was in a pile of 10 bolt truck rears and one 12 bolt truck rear. Gone...I need more building and a way to organize all this "junk"

Thanks, Tom

[Shmoov69]

Hello Kettle, This is Pot!

LoL!

Seriously dude, it's a sickness and most of us here have it also. You're asking the drinks at the bar how to quit drinkin!! LoL! Get a bigger shop.... Then you'll just have more junk laying around to worry about. There is some goofy cosmic principle that happens.... Space is a vacuum!! Don't know how or why, but it is! Maybe need to have the government spend millions on a study to try and figure that one out! LoL!

It'll never change unless YOU change man. :waveflag:

[GregWeld]

What Jimmy said!!




"Stuff" expands, to fill the space allotted to it.






There once was a guy that came on here -- had a yard full of junk cars -- lamented that he had so many projects he couldn't finish them all. From the looks of it to me - he couldn't afford to do one let alone "all"... My advice to him at the time was to figure out the ONE that he wanted most - sell all the others in an effort to fund the one. That way he'd have one running nice car rather than 10 piles of junk.

His response was, that wasn't going to happen because "he needed" all of them. So to Jimmy's point - the problem was himself.

[69hugger]

What Jimmy said!!


My advice to him at the time was to figure out the ONE that he wanted most - sell all the others in an effort to fund the one. That way he'd have one running nice car rather than 10 piles of junk.

.

:D Hey, that would make a great TV show!

[GregWeld]

:D Hey, that would make a great TV show!




Hosted by Bill Howell?? LOL

[Che70velle]

Yes it's a common problem among most here. My shop is small, only 30x33, and has a full time project truck in it that I actually built the shop for to start with. It's my brothers truck, and life happened, and I could go on and on, but anyway...so with his truck there full time, and my projects taking up the other half of the shop, I don't have much room to start with. SO, when this enormous problem that we all have of consuming JUNK items that we are so sure that we need, and have to have, because were gonna use it all one day, right? When it finally boils to a top, and I look around in my shop embarrassed and upset because I can't find ANYTHING that I really need, due to the JUNK, I call my local dumpster lady (yes, lady!) and I throw out everything that I haven't touched in years, until I'm content with my shop environment once again.
I have used craigslist a few times, but I end up spending more time than I want, dealing with people that are too broke to actually pay me for the item to begin with, so I get satisfaction from tossing it all into a dumpster. I'm usually so mad at this point, that nothing really matters, if it's not a tool, it's gone! Break out the broom, sweep out corners that I haven't seen in YEARS, and life is good, until I repeat this process over again.

[Ummgawa]

GregWeld "Stuff" expands, to fill the space allotted to it.


A man's garage and a woman's pocketbook has one thing in common. Regardless of the size, it's full.


Now that's some first class fillossofizin right there.

[LS3torque]

What Jimmy said!!




"Stuff" expands, to fill the space allotted to it.






There once was a guy that came on here -- had a yard full of junk cars -- lamented that he had so many projects he couldn't finish them all. From the looks of it to me - he couldn't afford to do one let alone "all"... My advice to him at the time was to figure out the ONE that he wanted most - sell all the others in an effort to fund the one. That way he'd have one running nice car rather than 10 piles of junk.

His response was, that wasn't going to happen because "he needed" all of them. So to Jimmy's point - the problem was himself.

You sir are 100% correct, the problem is ME. I cringe when my wife says "yer gonna hafta sell something to get that new widget" I HAVE TOO MANY COOL PROJECTS TO AFFORD AT ONE TIME! I'm too smart to rob a bank, Iv'e seen how them guys do after they are locked up, it aint pretty. So the new question of the day is "Once a guy has dumped a boatload of money into a project or ten how do you decide where to start cutting losses, there must be some rhyme or reason.

[Shmoov69]

GregWeld "Stuff" expands, to fill the space allotted to it.


A man's garage and a woman's pocketbook has one thing in common. Regardless of the size, it's full..


THAT is sooo true!! A woman's purse or better yet closet!! DOOH!! :underchair:

[WSSix]

You sir are 100% correct, the problem is ME. I cringe when my wife says "yer gonna hafta sell something to get that new widget" I HAVE TOO MANY COOL PROJECTS TO AFFORD AT ONE TIME! I'm too smart to rob a bank, Iv'e seen how them guys do after they are locked up, it aint pretty. So the new question of the day is "Once a guy has dumped a boatload of money into a project or ten how do you decide where to start cutting losses, there must be some rhyme or reason.

No rhyme or reason just personal choices, self control, and sometimes a good hard look in the mirror at reality. You just have to decide which car or truck you want to build and stick to it. Get rid of the other vehicles or parts that you can't use on the project you decide to build. Anything you got for "too good of a deal to pass up" is perfect for turning a profit on or finding out the hard way you really didn't get that great of a deal on. Life is a learning process. Accept that you've made mistakes or taken wrong paths and correct that if you feel it needs correcting.

I'd like to think we all have many different projects we want to build. I know I do. I would recommend you write your ideas down so that once one project is done, you can decide if you want to sell it and start this other one you wrote down or not. It's not easy to stick to one project but the reality is you have to or you'll not complete any of the projects.

Good luck!