• Delphia@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I finally grew out of project cars. I realised I love the idea of them, I dont actually want to do the work anymore, paying others to do it is ludicrously expensive, doing it yourself is merely expensive.

    I bought a daily thats old enough to be cheap, fast enough to be fun and cool enough I dont feel like I got boring and I’m just maintaining it and making little improvements when its cost effective.

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      16 hours ago

      Fun fact: my daily used to be a project, but it’s been so reliable for the last few months that the other day was when I started looking into getting a new project. Then it started throwing codes left and right.

      It’s like it knew lol

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      13 hours ago

      a car that people cant afford, its well known she knows this and gave it to people that cant afford the insurance, maintenance of the new car.

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      1 day ago

      New to me, the one I’m currently looking at (First gen Hyundai Excel) has been sitting in one of my neighbors yard for 17 years. (They’ve got a few but there’s only one I’m interested in that they have)

      The other one I’m looking at (a 1979 Saab 900 hatchback) has been sitting in a different neighbors yard since 2001.

      Basically a project to restore a car to a drivable state to prevent another new car from hitting the road or an old but fixable car from becoming a cube.