What keeps your project car on the back burner?

[Alan]

Thought I'd share my hobby/passion that has put the Mustang on the back burner for the time being....mountain biking. I had an old Cannondale sitting idle for quite some time and decided to pick the sport back up last year to lose some weight, get back into shape, and get back outdoors. Later on I took the plunge and purchased a full suspension bike. Almost one year later, thousands of dollars in the hole, and about 20-lbs lighter...I'm friggin hooked on the sport and I'm starting to expand into the realm of XC (aka cross-country) racing.

Below is the aftermath from my first race last weekend (big thanks to Dave, his wife, and my wife for the support). The rain storm from the day before provided two of the trails with about 1-2 miles of deep water and sticky mud. I really don't like riding through that shit, but there was really no choice and no way to go around it. The bike was trashed.

After two laps:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e362/PhocusZX3/Squiggy%2008/P3080567.jpg

Post race carnage:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e362/PhocusZX3/Squiggy%2008/P3090579.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e362/PhocusZX3/Squiggy%2008/P3090576.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e362/PhocusZX3/Squiggy%2008/P3090578.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e362/PhocusZX3/Squiggy%2008/P3090581.jpg

After a quick clean:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e362/PhocusZX3/Squiggy%2008/P3090583.jpg

Now all torn down and super clean. Mud/water killed my bottom bracket so I'm waiting on the new one to come in so I can reassemble the bike. Don't pay attention to that cheap adjustable wrench...
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e362/PhocusZX3/Squiggy%2008/P3150597.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e362/PhocusZX3/Squiggy%2008/P3150598.jpg



So aside from your Mustang/Ford, what other hobbies do you guys/girls have?

[chevy eater]

I fly radio control airplanes and helicopters

[BigDawg]

wife and kids college tuition. Thats what holds me back.

[ShakinIt]

Beer and laziness here...;)

oh, and being poor....

[**CHRIS**]

Beer and laziness here...;)

oh, and being poor....

+ 1

[95coBraSVT]

Being poor and running a martial arts school. I go to more tournaments than I can count. $100 a pop minimum if it's local....More if I have to spend the night. About 2 or 3 per month if I'm lucky.

[BAMF]

The fact that I can't do everything on my car myself and have to wait for other people to fuck around and fuck around and fuck around and bullshit me until I'm about ready to strangle a kitten before they actually get working on my car. :mad:

[racingrick]

bad divorce, full custody of a 2 year old girl, run a restaurant!!

[Na306StAnG]

I crack cymbals.

http://a332.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/114/l_63dd2a69414d6e57cf300deb08544c7b.jpg
http://a785.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/25/l_69bd1b48f6a09d4ba9b5612065b796d8.jpg

[Duceanahalf]

poorness and laziness

[Strokd85]

http://www.netwurkz.net/brawders/albums/userpics/10001/normal_PB200055.JPG
and
http://www.netwurkz.net/brawders/albums/userpics/10001/normal_PA200064.JPG

also been playing some paintball and have picked up a mountain bike to start getting into some trail riding here when it dries out a little....

that and just trying to pay down some bills, hope to be ahead here in the next 4 months and start working a bit on it...

[Ford DNA]

Fish tanks!

[StangItMan]

Cameron's heavy metal band and car project, Cory's car and "stuff", the wifey's needs and desires.

Did I mention >>> "Man-A-Pause"? :oops:

[Tiffiny]

to busy working on other peoples cars

[Gooser]

^ stays busy for sure...You needa get that sexy ass red vert done

[Tiffiny]

oneday

[351coupe]

Work,wife and kids.

[Duceanahalf]

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_03/cocaineREX2707_468x435.jpg

and
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d87/sunbirdascending/hookers.jpg

[99cobra281]

being poor

[$hawn]

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_03/cocaineREX2707_468x435.jpg

and
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d87/sunbirdascending/hookers.jpg

:werd:

[Tiffiny]

nothin wrong w/stippers and coke lol

[Duceanahalf]

nothin wrong w/stippers and coke lol

no theres not, although that picture is of hookers

[Tiffiny]

whats the difference lol a whores a whore

[shinysideup]

/\knows his ho's

[Duceanahalf]

whats the difference lol a whores a whore

a hooker will blow for for $10, a stripper will blow you for a few lines or a hit or two of extasy

[ODB]

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_03/cocaineREX2707_468x435.jpg

and
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d87/sunbirdascending/hookers.jpg

haahhahahahahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[the anti-rice]

ive been MIA cause I just bought a new house and had my g/f move in. so weve had our hands full getting things how we want them. i still enjoy driving the car but its lost some of its luster cause its just taken a back burner. its still in one piece and still needs a paint job! :lol:

[Scott]

Lots of "things" going on that is about to rot a hole in my stomach ( seriously), wife's new job includes evenings and weekends that typically fall on open nights at BMP, really need to get a TH400 or glide so I do not tear up my nicely upgraded C4.

[BAMF]

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_03/cocaineREX2707_468x435.jpg

and
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d87/sunbirdascending/hookers.jpg

Its a hard life, ain't it? :crack:

Were you at Two Buks Friday? I heard it was an awesome show.

[Duceanahalf]

Its a hard life, ain't it? :crack:

Were you at Two Buks Friday? I heard it was an awesome show.
yeah i was there. They were getting pumped full of jack daniels, gorilla biscuits and jaeger bombs all night. by the third set they were gone. about half the songs they played they did not know, but still tore the roof off.

we have a half naked girl down there doing the hoola hoop, nobody gives a damn what im doing up here.

[BAMF]

yeah i was there. They were getting pumped full of jack daniels, gorilla biscuits and jaeger bombs all night. by the third set they were gone. about half the songs they played they did not know, but still tore the roof off.

Hahaha. Oh shit, half naked girl, hula hoop? That sounds famillar, actually. :lol: I heard it was good times, its a shame I was incapicated.

[Duceanahalf]

Hahaha. Oh shit, half naked girl, hula hoop? That sounds famillar, actually. :lol: I heard it was good times, its a shame I was incapicated.

so were they, as soon as Frankie got off stage he just kept saying "all i wanted to do was get off the stage, i think im going to die"

[Just Dave]

What keeps me from my projects? My other projects, my dad's projects, mountain biking, and laziness.

[Tiffiny]

getting married on sat.thats a good thing .that put them on the back burner too. lol

[Alan]

My addiction just got worse thanks to a b-day gift from my wife. Behold the Redline Monocog 29er. Singlespeed. V-brakes. Steel frame. Feel like I'm 9 on my BMX again. F-ing sweet!

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e362/PhocusZX3/P3240649.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e362/PhocusZX3/P3240643.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e362/PhocusZX3/P3240644.jpg

The blue bike with the pink grips and purple cow horn/thingy is the wife's...not mine. ;)

[$hawn]

^ makes me wanna ride.

[topher469]

The blue bike with the pink grips and purple cow horn/thingy is the wife's...not mine. ;)


:-o Sure........ its OK Alan :oops: we wont tell anyone!!!:lol: :lol:

[Alan]

Well I did have pink clipless pedals on the full suspension. Pink seems to give me good luck on the trail with the Anthem.

I now have a pink stem cap to keep the good vibes going.

[Stoopid Wendy]

what is this back burner you speak of? i have never heard of this before...