Show Your Garage

[modernbeat]

I used to live in a 19,000 square foot warehouse in downtown Houston. Had a ball there. My neighbors were a railway switching yard and a water processing plant - so no noise complaints when we built a blackpowder rifle range inside, or had flat-track motorcycle races around the columns. I've since moved out to a 30,000 square footer, then a normal suburban 2-car, and am now in Dallas looking at a 10,000 square foot hobby shop.



Here's the fridge for the short time it was in a normal house.

[John Straub]

Hummm, SCTA and Bonneville stickers...Very Kool!

John

[modernbeat]

Hummm, SCTA and Bonneville stickers...Very Kool!

John

I've made 13 trips to the Salt since 1988. My girlfriend holds a SCTA motorcycle record. I'm still working on it...

Brianne at the line in 2008 on a supercharged 1948 Triumph.

[JackOlsen]

I had an 84-year-old garage that was wasting away as storage for boxes of junk from three successive moves. I went at it in a week of hard lifting (and carrying, to a rented dumpster) and the new shelves and cabinets were made with whatever wood had already been somewhere in the place. The first bench was an old hardwood door, and a lot of the cabinetry is made of cheap, thin sheets of particle board. Later on, I added a steel bench and a butcher block island in the center, both of which increased the budget, which had been $500 when I first cleaned it up.

I let my wife pick out the colors for the paint. I told her I wanted it to look like my memories of working with my father in his shop back in Chicago.



The steel bench is a 1" thick piece of plate on top of a Strong Hold cabinet. (I've got to figure out what to do with that anvil next.)



A butcher block island I put in earlier this month:



You can see two fold-down benches along the wall behind the car.



One is for wood working.



The other one for welding:



There was an old sink that was kind of clumsily plumbed in. I added a counter top around it:



I'm still working out places to store things like clamps. Not sure where the portable air tank is going to go.



A cool angle:



To hold all the stuff that would have cluttered the garage up, I also built some storage in the driveway.



Curt's garage has a full-size Strong Hold cabinet in it. They're made of 12-guage steel and are sturdy enough to hold a lightweight 911 on each of their shelves. I got a small one and used it as the base for my steel bench, but I've liked it so much that I've been keeping an eye on ebay for second-hand models -- and recently found a pair of them. So I'm going to be re-doing the back wall of the garage some time this winter to fit them in.

[911T1971]

My garage @work (former 1960'ies car dealership):


My garage @home (built below right in our about to be finished house-update soon):

[John Straub]

Jason,

Wow...that's sooo cool...Bonneville is the next stop for the 914/6 GT as soon as I learn more about running there.

John

Opps...I got the warning...sorry.

[jaudette3]

Bonneville is the next stop for the 914/6 GT as soon as I learn more about running there.

Hijack warning...

Maybe we should think about organzing an Early 911S Registry outing to Bonneville. Something I have always wanted to do too. If there's any interest let's start another thread and talk about it. I'd be glad to do some research.

Cheers,
JohnA

[super9064]

My "3 car" garage

[Tom F.]

Here is my "winter sports car." There's supposed to be a foot of snow, tonight, so it's time to park the snowblower ahead of the Targa. Ariens orange comes awfully close to Tangerine, but I think that it's closer to Continental Orange.

[Tom Sch]