I love all the advice. As my name suggests, my biggest problem is looking at the entire truck (and many pieces) and wondering how its all going to get done! I think I'm gonna make a list, what to have done when I have money and what to work on myself when I dont. Maybe then I'll try out your "5 min" rule and see if things don't pick up (by the way, I'm going to get the 235 to replace my 216 this weekend - I'm pretty stoked about that!)
If you are "thinking" about making a list, you will never get that thing done! Dear God, a "LIST" isn't going to get a darn thing done on that truck! Get out there and work five minutes on the thing, the "LIST" will come to you, believe me.
The only difference between restoring a truck and washing it is the amount of time it takes to do it. Restoring one takes many more small steps, that is the only difference. Each one of those steps is EASILY attainable by most anyone. Yesterday I had my son here and had to pull the hood off my Gran Sport so I could restore the hinges. He and I grabbed the hood and his cute little girlfriend unscrewed the last bolt holding the hood. There she was in a sun dress, tiny little quarter inch thick "flip flop" looking things on her feet, perfectly painted finger nails working a ratchet for the first time in her life removing that bolt.
It was just ONE step, and she did just fine carefully setting the ratchet down and unscrewing the bolt with her hand and setting it on the valve cover where she saw me set mine. Just one step, she had never done anything like that before but pulled it off without a hitch.
I KNOW that her and my wife could finish this car, I KNOW they could. Just one step at a time, I KNOW they could do each one of those steps.
And if it came to something more complicated like doing the body filler work or something like that, if you break it down into small enough steps, they could do that too!
All it takes is looking at each one of these steps ONE AT A TIME. Can you imagine building a 747, it's just a million pieces, that is all it is. Each one of those million pieces you could hold in your hands! Just put on one at a time until you have a plane.
Brian
