I'm getting ready to head out to Sand Springs to paint that BMW this morning. I got it prepped last night after I shot the Acadia.
So, you may ask yourself, what's all this talk about Acadia's, BMW X5's, Explorer's..... Isn't this thread about a 1962 Impala SS?
Same thoughts are running through my head right now....This guy talks a lot while I'm working, you may not believe this, but I would rather not talk at all while I'm working on a vehicle. I LIKE to focus on what i'm doing, almost to the point that a millennial might come up with some sort of syndrome for me
. My mind can do what a chick might call "multi-task". It's what I think of as giving the subject at hand half a thought, or a quarter of a thought while you're pondering other issues.
I hate this
. I want to give what I think is important my full attention. If i've decided that something is worthy of me spending months of my time on, leave me the fck alone and let me work!
This fellow has all sorts of plans of what he wants. He's thinking he wants to have his own bodyshop and is already including me in his plans. He'll find out I'm not planning the same thing later. He tells me he's going to bring in all sorts of jobs he wants to work on. Meaning he thinks I'm going to paint them for him. I think he has an idea he might own me a bit. This is in addition to me doing the impala.
What the fck have I gotten myself involved in?
I'm working three nights a week (I leave work and drive the 25 miles to his place), generally working till 10:00. Then, like today, I'm leaving to work at least nine hours out there on my Saturdays. He's acting like I'll do this forever.
I'm a little frustrated right now. I haven't touched the Impala the last two times I've been out there.
I'm three weeks into this seven week deal. He will have four weeks left of using me.
Then the price tag for Dave goes way up. I needed the money he was offering for the Impala to make up for the past several months of slow times at my job.
Work seems to finally be picking up again. It's not quite as strong as it was before, but it's getting close.
I turn 55 this month, I don't wish to work myself to death in my last years of working. Unless, of course, I'm working on my cars that I want for me to drive. Seeing a completed project that will be mine through to the finish is easier than trying to adapt someone else's dreams to mine.
Long story short. I'm going to have to get this fella to leave me the fck alone so I can work on the Impala or it won't be finished by me.
I'm a little disappointed already by the limits of this job. He wants a spectacular paint job, but he's not wanting to do all the necessary things to make it spectacular.
Remember how i mudded the fender?
The mud could have been almost eliminated by taking out the inner bracing and repairing the skin, then tack welding the braces back on. He doesn't want anything to do with that.
So what he really wants is a really nice paint job, not what I consider a real restoration.
So, if I get to work on the Impala again soon, what you'll see is me making due with the limitations I'm given. More can be done, but I probably won't be doing the full psycho on it.
It'll look good if I get to finish it, but I'll know it could have been better. Oh well, as long as he keeps paying me.
Once I'm done with this though, it'll either be my way, or find another painter.
Sorry about the rant. I gotta get my shoes on so I can go mask that X5 and shoot it.