I've turned into a parts collector it seems.

Edited April 7, 201016 yr by blackviper8891

I have a can of Zippo fluid and some matches. I'll be happy to clean that pile of trash right up for ya.

No? Well, give me a roll of duct tape and I'll build a car by God.

Edited April 7, 201016 yr by whiteknight

Boy that'd drive me nuts enough to go and buy a reliable car, like a Cob- oh wait.

They all do that.

You took that picture from your helicopter?

Looks like you got a mini Carlisle going on there.

I've seen booths at Carlisle with less parts....

Making a Harlequin Jetta?

Since some of you have seen my barn, I think I'll keep my mouth shut...

Need a big box to put all those parts in (like modelers do w/ 1:25th scale model parts). Shake a parts box, never know what you are going to find. So do you have enough parts to combine together to build 1 driveable car?

Time for craigslist!

Wow!

Boy that'd drive me nuts enough to go and buy a reliable car, like a Cob- oh wait.

Once the almighty Golf is on the road, the Cobalt is being given away to Goodwill. They're expanding the building just for my little donation.

You took that picture from your helicopter?

Garage roof. It makes a great vantage point.

Making a Harlequin Jetta?

I wish. I only have one of the Harlequin colors unfortunately, and that car is the wrecked one. Ooopsie.

So do you have enough parts to combine together to build 1 driveable car?

One? I have enough for two! If I had a bare shell that wasn't damaged, I could easily build it up alongside my Golf and have parts to spare afterwords.

Out of my searching for parts, I've found that I tend to buy things I really don't need or I will simply buy something I do need, but end up getting the wrong one. There's also my ever changing mind. I tend to make an amendment to my plans halfway into executing them. To put everything into perspective, I've spent more money on parts I didn't need than I did for the car itself.

The good news out of all this, however, is that I am just a few parts shy of getting the Golf on the road and it happens to be the only mechanical part; one that needs replaced because I busted it myself. The rest have been pure cosmetics and amenities. Once it's done and I have all my pictures sorted, I'll try to put it all together in a build thread of sorts. However, this is, in reality, only the beginning. Once it's on the road, and the Sunfire replaces the Cobalt, I do have further plans. I am eventually going to rebuild & tune the engine, redo all the suspension pieces; struts, control arms, bushings, etc., redo the brakes, more bodywork & eventual respray, and more than likely I'll switch more parts that I don't necessarily have planned at the moment. I do happen to have a parts wish list if I even get to that point.

Here, have a tease:

It's like looking at some of the LH parts collections I see but with VW parts!

Keep at it! You should get a thread going in the Project Car Chronicles if you haven't yet.

Viper has become quite the engineer.

Engineer might be pushing it. I like to think of it as logic... like taking apart a pen and putting it back together and managing not to break or lose anything.

When do you think the project will be complete? 2020?

Viper has become quite the engineer.

Yes he has!

When do you think the project will be complete? 2020?

Depends on what sort of Jobs I find.

Right now, It will be on the road by the end of this month. The rest has no specific time frame.

Sneak preview:

I spy GTI taillights.

Sweet!