How long will this take?

Someone on another forum asked me how long I thought the project will take.

Ahh! That's the magic question.

As it stands I have a great deal of the hardware needed, engine, trans, suspension and such. I have to appoint an Automotive Engineer to certify my work so that is the next step - held up by the fact that our woefully useless state government registration authority are changing the entire certification process - with very little information being released to the public. The new scheme was advertised to commence in February 2011 but still nothing has been announced. :x As you might be able to tell, I'm a little frustrated with this.

Once I've finished mock assembling and documenting, I'd like to clean up the chassis and make some drawings/plans to take to the engineer.

Other hurdles were to build my shed (140m²) and that is now pretty much complete bar some lighting in internal fit out. Then I had to sell off my collection of cars (Rolls Royce, '49 Morris and '59 Morris) and that is now just about complete, the '49 get picked up this week.

Then there's my health. I've lost months and months and tens of thousands of dollars to my health problems, but I am determined to not be beaten.

Anyway, all things being equal, I'm setting myself three years, although I should be able to complete it in less time than that. As I've never carried out such a project before it is a little difficult to estimate. I've heard stories of others taking 10 plus years and others taking 18 months. Given I'm doing everything I possibly can myself, except the upholstery, progress might be a little slow as I hone my skills.

Enough of my waffle for now!

Andrew.