Aircooled VW South Africa

Something I just read, which is perfectly true...

Every project has a finite number of steps. If you do even one of those steps every day you will eventually run out of things to do; the project will be finished.

Um, then you mis-interpret the word "project" in my opinion.
I WANT to reach the end of the project, it sometimes becomes a pain in the arse, but I don't give up half way through and then sell the project on gumtree in various boxes and half done.
If you're consistent, and do a little, every day, the project won't take you 10 years, it'll take 1 year.. but it WILL get completed.
Consistency, it's what matters.

My advise, never store a project till you have all the parts, as it will only land up on Gumtree.

No make it a moving project, in this way you will not loose interest, but have fun riding it as you improve it daily.

Herman

Agreed, keeping it ticking over and doing small things helps keep the project going.
Even just cleaning parts makes a big difference as when the times comes to fit them, you know its ready to go on.

What I did on the spyder project is a plan of action/steps 1to ...........

And as I cannot do something every day I follow the next steps when I have the time.
As can be seen on my project thread I have only sprayed a layer of primer on the body reason being I wanted to make it "MY" project (every time I looked at it, it was the previous owners.
I am basically building it section by section and then stripping it again
I have collected a mass of parts for it and then I fit the parts and see which is the best/looks best/ nicest and then pack those chosen parts away (after cleaning them of course)

Just dont loose interest

When I got my project Karmann ghia I started with the following in this order:
-Motor
-Brakes
-Wiring

And in between I sourced the parts that I needed, but she was running exactly a month after I got it.

Still loads of work, but she's getting there.

I ABSOLUTELY agree with Herman. It has worked for me. Not everyone has the same resources, cash, time , space, etc. and this can seriously hamper progress and cause one to loose interest. I have enjoyed my car for the passed couple of years and did the repairs, upgrades, experimenting etc whilst driving it. Because I make use of my rolling project all the time, when something needs doing or I want to fit something new, I complete it quickly so I can get back to the reason that I have it...to drive it and enjoy it.

For me the biggest rule is: Don't start another project while one is already going It is also a rule that I break often with disasterous results LOL
Armand

This is also good advice.. trying to run MORE THAN ONE project at the same time, it's called "Multi_tasking", and it just cannot be done successfully. Forget it. Have a set of aims to reach, once they are accomplished, then either recalibrate the project, add new deadlines, or consider it as finished and leave as is.
(Is a VW EVER finished?)

Sounds like some good advice. I will try to stick to some of it as I have one never ending project and now with the second project that is going very slowly I will try to do the small things and make it my own. The layer of primer sound like a good idea as I see the previous owners with the Lolette and I don't like what I see.

Thanks