What Is Your Least Favorite Automotive Project?

“Bear in mind that it is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”

– Marquis de Sade

The, ahem, highly controversial life of the Marquis de Sade created some noteworthy historical footnotes, not to mention a running gag at Car and Driver magazine that some of you may remember from the era of automotive content pre-internet. (They’d reference a Grand Marquis “De Sade edition” when lamenting the lack of yearly changes at the Mercury brand. This joke went on for years.)

The quote above is commonly associated with the Marquis de Sade and always seems to ring true to me when I’m working on a complex and undesirable automotive task. A personal hell, if you will.

And I am feeling the heat from the fact I still haven’t finished re-installing the wiring harness on my 1985 Ford Thunderbird, a project that I chronicled earlier this year. At this point, the harness has become an albatross around my neck. I got the car running again, as the massive wiring harness that includes the fuse box goes from the front of the car to all parts within the dashboard. Running, yes, but not even remotely functional inside the cabin.

Soon I will once again dig into the Thunderbird’s dashboard to complete my least favorite automotive project. I will leave the discussion there, and ask the question to you, dear member of the Hagerty Community:

What Is Your Least Favorite Automotive Project?