I can't think of any car that I've ever had & said" OK, it's 100% finished, needs nothing else"... don't happen for me normally, & when it does, then I loose interest & start eyeing other projects... even when I do finish certain cars to a certain extent, it's not long before I either find something else to do to it, or even at that point decide to re-do it even
it's more like a constant cycle than a project that just gets completed really, with just about any car, there is ALWAYS something else that can be done, or even redone to be better, although recently I've really concentrated on doing something 100% the first time so when one thing is finished I normally don't have to ever go back & redo the same thing again...
the real goal now is to at least have it finished & complete & usable, presentable & intact until the next mod... when I was younger I used to at times drive around with cars in various states of dis-repair, driving with half a dash( or NO dash) or with wires hanging all over the place, half in primer maybe, mismatched & incomplete.... now, I try to do my mods off the vehicle & then install, more like a modular approach, so it's done really before the mod even, but not finished to the point of it needing no more mods
this also goes a long way in helping me have patience to finish my next mod more perfect... it could take six months to finish my headlights & it's perfectly fine, the vehicle is still complete & fine without it, so theres no real rush... with this approach, even if lets say I never finished a particular mod, it don't take away from the vehicle overall... most of these mods now are not really necessary, so the vehicle does not suffer while waiting for the next mod for the most part...
when the painting & the dash was completed & everything was all polished up & buttoned up, new wheels bolted on, at that point it was done enough to be considered fine as-is, done, so in that sense it was done a while ago now... but then of course theres always something else to add... now a days I refuse to drive around in a car that is in pieces though, done that way too many years & I refuse to do that any more for the most part... so in that sense yeah, it's done, till the next mod that is but done to the point of that's it, needs nothing else... that ain't happening, not any time soon anyway
it's more like a constant cycle than a project that just gets completed really, with just about any car, there is ALWAYS something else that can be done, or even redone to be better, although recently I've really concentrated on doing something 100% the first time so when one thing is finished I normally don't have to ever go back & redo the same thing again...
the real goal now is to at least have it finished & complete & usable, presentable & intact until the next mod... when I was younger I used to at times drive around with cars in various states of dis-repair, driving with half a dash( or NO dash) or with wires hanging all over the place, half in primer maybe, mismatched & incomplete.... now, I try to do my mods off the vehicle & then install, more like a modular approach, so it's done really before the mod even, but not finished to the point of it needing no more mods
this also goes a long way in helping me have patience to finish my next mod more perfect... it could take six months to finish my headlights & it's perfectly fine, the vehicle is still complete & fine without it, so theres no real rush... with this approach, even if lets say I never finished a particular mod, it don't take away from the vehicle overall... most of these mods now are not really necessary, so the vehicle does not suffer while waiting for the next mod for the most part...
when the painting & the dash was completed & everything was all polished up & buttoned up, new wheels bolted on, at that point it was done enough to be considered fine as-is, done, so in that sense it was done a while ago now... but then of course theres always something else to add... now a days I refuse to drive around in a car that is in pieces though, done that way too many years & I refuse to do that any more for the most part... so in that sense yeah, it's done, till the next mod that is
but done to the point of that's it, needs nothing else... that ain't happening, not any time soon anyway
