When does a midlife crisis start?

[Pullstart 62,840]

I turned 38 yesterday.  I think I still have a little while to go for a midlife crisis.  I was on a motorcycle ride last weekend and pulled up on this 2000 ZR2 S10 Blazer for sale.  It’s filthy, torn apart a bit, starts and runs great, needs some wiring and brake line/hose work in the rear.  It’s rusty.  I have no idea why I bought it.  I have no idea why I didn’t tell my wife, until it was in our driveway.  I’ve always wanted a 4wd S10 of sorts, since looking for my first vehicle.  Well, here it is and I have no idea what to do with it 

 
The kids want me to make it a buggy (one more thing to go fast and break) and I thought if anything, a running parts truck for Rylee’s “first” vehicle, a similar powered 4.3L V6 Chevy.  I’ve always wanted my 4wd S10 of sorts to be a solid front axle off road machine.  Maybe this is the start of something cool and fun and pointless.  Midlife crisis or just a dumb buy?  

 

 

 

[Pullstart 62,840]

 

 

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,297]

I would make a comment, but this is a family forum.  

[ri702bill 8,316]

I'll go with Door #2. What other areas under the door handles has Mother Nature decided to reclaim??? The rear quarters look a tad cheesy - like swiss cheesy.......

[Pullstart 62,840]

4 minutes ago, ri702bill said:

I'll go with Door #2. What other areas under the door handles has Mother Nature decided to reclaim??? The rear quarters look a tad cheesy - like swiss cheesy.......

Midwest fuel savings plan.  Power to weight ratio is drastically improved after some years here.  And THAT is why I prefer to buy nice vehicles out of state!

[953 nut 55,198]

47 minutes ago, Pullstart said:

The kids want me to make it a buggy

I don't know if a defined moment where you cross over from being a big kid to midlife crisis to entering your second childhood exists.

          Sounds like the kids have the right idea. You don't have to spend a lot of money or do a lot of work to make it a fun-buggy. Cut the body off, fabricate a roll bar, put on a pair of straight pipes and let the fun begin. May want to replace those rusted out brake lines though, I know that brakes are optional on a buggy but what the heck, got to set a good example for the kids.  

[Kenneth R Cluley 515]

When I was in my late 40's and one of my wife's co-workers husband's did something stupid/cool I asked her when could I have my mid-life crisis. She said that ship has sailed and you missed your chance it's too late. Enjoy it while you can!

[Mike'sHorseBarn 2,998]

Hey I like those ZR2's! One of my coworkers has one and keep bugging her to buy it lol

[oliver2-44 9,743]

I hear scrap steel prices are up!

(There's some brotherly love in this comment ........somewhere!)

Edited August 4, 2023 by oliver2-44

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,297]

I think brown weld has eaten the steel.

[squonk 41,079]

You can use that Blazer to "Hide" other stuff you have piled up around you. Or you now have another powered "chicken coop!" 

[Handy Don 12,216]

1 hour ago, Kenneth R Cluley said:

When I was in my late 40's and one of my wife's co-workers husband's did something stupid/cool I asked her when could I have my mid-life crisis. She said that ship has sailed and you missed your chance it's too late. Enjoy it while you can!

I was presented with a list of permissible mid-life crises. It was so boring I’ve since forgotten everything on it. Oh well.

[formariz 11,987]

There is no midlife crisis Kevin. There is just life during which your likes, hobbies, or passions cause you to acquire or do things related to them that many others will question or not understand. That will be so also with the ones closest to us particularly spouses. With spouses as you very well know we need to compromise and keep a comfortable balance. Don’t however ever feel self conscious about the others or apologize for doing what naturally comes to you and makes you happy. The not telling the wife we all do that. On the other hand I am also always surprised by another priceless hand bag or another pair of shoes. God bless her, makes her happy and we can afford it so it’s not a problem. The hiding is just human instinct. 
  When that hopeless looking vehicle ( to all others) is finally  done, along with all the satisfaction you had while working on it, you will look at it and have that irreplaceable and illusive feeling to most, of pride in your accomplishment. That feeling we get from making something out of nothing. It’s not the doing it because we need to have something else but because it feeds the insatiable need in us to create and accomplish. Blessed are the ones that have such feelings. 

[Pullstart 62,840]

1 hour ago, 953 nut said:

I don't know if a defined moment where you cross over from being a big kid to midlife crisis to entering your second childhood exists.

          Sounds like the kids have the right idea. You don't have to spend a lot of money or do a lot of work to make it a fun-buggy. Cut the body off, fabricate a roll bar, put on a pair of straight pipes and let the fun begin. May want to replace those rusted out brake lines though, I know that brakes are optional on a buggy but what the heck, got to set a good example for the kids.  

I never thought of a cage car!  What a genius idea!  Keep the dashboard and maybe floor and toss the rest!  

[ebinmaine 67,455]

1 hour ago, formariz said:

There is no midlife crisis Kevin. There is just life during which your likes, hobbies, or passions cause you to acquire or do things related to them that many others will question or not understand. 

 

Don’t however ever feel self conscious about the others or apologize for doing what naturally comes to you and makes you happy. 

 

Well said Caz. ❤️. 

 

 

1 hour ago, Pullstart said:

maybe floor

Dude. 

Floor is a MAYBE ???!!!???

 

 

[stevasaurus 22,723]

A portable chicken coop with heat and air.  Turn on the egg laying music and grab a Rock & Rye !!    Genius !!

BTW  Happy Birthday Chris / Kevin

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,297]

@ebinmaine Knowing Kev he got the Fred Flintstone model. Wait tell he pulls the carpet (mats whatever it is called) and gives a  count on used license plates.

[stevebo-(Moderator) 8,330]

Kevin,

I like those too! I have been going through mid life crisis for about the past 5-7 years!

[Pullstart 62,840]

 

[ebinmaine 67,455]

Yeah that's what you need.  

[SylvanLakeWH 25,547]

A mid-life crisis??! Nonsense... 

 

I feel a haiku in the air...

 

@Pullstart's birthday

A mid-life crisis you ask?

Build buy keep 's

[Sparky-(Admin) 21,315]

“When does a midlife crisis start?”

 

  When you come home with one of these instead of a wiped out Blazer .. LOL!

 Bought this a few years ago, drove it for a couple years and sold it. I think that might have been my midlife crisis 

 

 

 

[stevebo-(Moderator) 8,330]

Agreed Mike this is mine I bought a few years ago!

[Oldskool 6,644]

They do look cool with a live front axle..

 

If that is a mid life crisis buy then I've been going through it since I was 20.

Sooo almost 32yrs now.

 

A bumb buy? Nope not that either.

 

I call them spontaneous money purges.

It's happens occasionally.

I believe totally subconsciously. 

It's a process that starts in the brain. It is directly related to the tilt of the brain  causes by to much loose cash in the wallet. lol.

 

I caught myself the other day shopping for a Kaiser Jeep M715. Like I really need one of those lol.

[Tractorhead 9,064]

23 hours ago, Pullstart said:

I turned 38 yesterday.  I think I still have a little while to go for a midlife crisis.  I was on a motorcycle ride last weekend and pulled up on this 2000 ZR2 S10 Blazer for sale.  It’s filthy, torn apart a bit, starts and runs great, needs some wiring and brake line/hose work in the rear.  It’s rusty.  I have no idea why I bought it.  I have no idea why I didn’t tell my wife, until it was in our driveway.  I’ve always wanted a 4wd S10 of sorts, since looking for my first vehicle.  Well, here it is and I have no idea what to do with it 

 
The kids want me to make it a buggy (one more thing to go fast and break) and I thought if anything, a running parts truck for Rylee’s “first” vehicle, a similar powered 4.3L V6 Chevy.  I’ve always wanted my 4wd S10 of sorts to be a solid front axle off road machine.  Maybe this is the start of something cool and fun and pointless.  Midlife crisis or just a dumb buy?  

 

 

 

 

Appears to be the same „quality“ as my Ford Transit.

 

as long as i worked on, one disaster follows the next.

but hey, nobody give me a Timeline if or when it must be finished.

I call it a long term Project and it becomes it.

 

Actually i have 2 sm Sheet formed and welded in, but at each thing i solved, it openeds another issue.

The Engine was nearly complete, but i be little exhausted, to i take my brake until i have enough elan to fix it finally.

 

Is that Midlife Crisis? Maybe, but i don‘t care about.

There are just some of my projects they need more attention in the row.

i believe Midlife Crisis starts when you buy a Porsche or a Ferrari, wear a Flower Hawaii shirt and try to life and look like 

Magnum.

all other is completely Normal - for whatever „Normal“ stay‘s for