You know that guy that has a nice car in his garage that hasn't seen the road in years and you wonder why the owner doesn't just finish the project car?
My hotrod hasn't been driven since 2001, when I took it apart for paint.
By the time it got painted; I quit being a car mechanic for a living, lost interest in reassembling my car, so I garaged the rolling body and forgot about it.
The engine has been in the house most of the time, because the day after I put the freshly machined engine parts in the garage, a water pipe broke directly above them and flooded out the room. I moved the engine parts to the house so I could store them in a tub of ATF.
I finally got off my duff and put the car back together (mostly) and it's on the road again. It's not a cobra, just a 67 chevelle SS 396 (clone) that's mostly stock except the lower compression (9.2:1) TRW pistons. I have owned the car since I was 17, it was my daily driver until I took it apart, and I have kept it setup pretty much the same way the whole time. It needs upholstery, and that's about it; except I know it will never be "done" until I lose interest in driving it.
My girlfriend of the last 7 yrs had never seen it run, and has no classic American car experience. Currently she is not interested in riding in it; being as it's too noisy, everybody looks at it as it rumbles by, and she saw me do a huge burnout; so it's just too "scary".
The abandoned project, back on the road
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