Why am I so unmotivated now?

[graceysdad]

For reasons unknown I have fallen out of favour with my S1, its still on my mind to get rid of it, I havent touched it in a few weeks, rarely think about it, though I hashed some ideas around earlier about either putting Hilux Deisel drive gear and diffs into it and then I thought about dumping the landy cabin onto an old Cruiser chassis, apart from this, stuff all your honours!, i cant explain why I went from gung ho to no ho, the ownership details ****ed me off abit, maybe a bit to much, who knows, motorvation required, any ideas?

[ellard]

Hi there

I understand your feelings - since all the hype of Cooma I have spent very little time in the shed.......

All I can stress - please dont modify an original series one (there getting hard to find complete)

I have a 1951 - dont have enought parts to finish the restoration, going to cost two arms & legs to locate the items missing - BUT its not hurting being stored in the shed and the parts will slowly appear.............hopefully......

All the best

Wayne

[chazza]

It happens to all of us Gracey :(

At the moment I am forcing myself to go down to the shed and do something; cutting firewood and gardening have taken my loyalty in the last few weeks.

Keep the S1 and keep it Land-Rover is my advice; you will enjoy it more that way,

Cheers Charlie

[olmate]

Wayne and Charlie are spot on;) Give it a rest for a while mate and see how you feel:)

Don't do anything rash with the S1 mate, good ones are few and far between.

[Dinty]

G'day All, It all comes down to how committed you are to the task, it's one buying this and that (thats the easy bit LOL) but when it comes to completing the task well thats another thing altogether.
I do something everyday to my project/s, even if I've been on night shift etc I still do something to it everyday without fail, but thats just me and my methodical way so good luck with it cheers Dennis:wasntme:

[M Ferguson]

Some times you love them, other times you want to move on, but land rovers are a drug you can't kick.

I recently moved to Bundaberg Qld from the UK bringing my restored Series 1 86 inch with me. It has cost me more money that I would like to admit to restore, but it's now a thing of beauty.

I'm a new member and would like to meet other series 1 owners, can anyone tell me if there are any 60th Aniversary celebration meets arranged in Qld.

Regards

Mal.

[Dinty]

G'day All, Mal scroll down the front page to up coming events in Qld and there is a thread re 60th something in Qld and welcome to Oz and AULRO cheers mate Dennis:wasntme:

[Bent Series]

Hi graceysdad,

I agree with dinty. Do something every day does not matter how big or small and you will get there. He should know. He has finished more projects in the last ten years than most of us will in a lifetime.

I have just spent the day in sydney with a mate rebuilding the axles on his 48
He has a lot of other commitments and needed a slight kick along. A 350km round trip for me but a major bit of forward progress for him.

Don't give up mate. You have a lot of support.

[graceysdad]

I dont think I will give her up, too much buzzing around upstairs now we have started our buisness, trying to think about too much at the same time I think, maybe I will crawl out tomorrow flu or no flu and at least do something, it needs a wash badly the currawongs are crapping everywhere, Hell I havent even been as active on here as I usually am, Wannalandy messagedme the other day to see if all was good, might stick my nose in the chatroom and see whats cooking, ok thanks for the positive input

[olmate]

Hey fella,
Hope all is good now and you feel like getting back into it. I had been feeling pretty much the same for a bit with ol-ute, probably becasue I had been pottering about on the 'small' things for some time now. Came home this week to find that someone had been sussing her out and had left a door open - mood changed and I was a bit ticked off as a result. Getting back into her now and enjoying it more - don't know why. Spose I didnt like anyone snooping about; if that all makes sense.:)