Actually, I'd have alot more projects if I could do it on company time and with the company dime.
Sounds like a great job perk to me. Hell, I'd probably work for food if I could flex my creative juices on the projects I wanted to do. Let me sleep somewhere in the shop and throw me a cold beer once in a while.
I definately get the crummy part thing. If someone gave me a bad part and told me it was free I wouldn't use it in my car either.
I know I'm badgering you with questions but you're only the second mag. guy that I've met online. How flexible is the mag about letting you pick the projects you want to build and the type of car to build on?