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after about a 30 year career at building cars on the ground -grass and gravel under a tree limb i finally built myself a shop .. here `im putting a starter on the 351 bean .. my shop will hold about 4 cars .. i did the mustang here several years ago but lately i`m just too tired and decapitated .. i mean decrepit to do anything ..i`m making an effort to get in shape and try to git another project going .. man the screen is huge ..

Thought I'd share pictures of my shop. Not as nice as some of the ones I've seen here but it works for me. It 40' X 40' with 12' walls. I will eventually get a lift or 2.The finished cars are on the left side and where I work is on the right.

Your garage looks great but it's already full. Oh, that's what some of the lifts are for. j/k You should be very proud. I have to ask what's under the covers? You have quite a stable.

Bill

dude......no shame in your game. I wouldn't appologise for anything. The garage is kick ass!!

Regs

Originally Posted by 36tudoor

Your garage looks great but it's already full. Oh, that's what some of the lifts are for. j/k You should be very proud. I have to ask what's under the covers? You have quite a stable.

Bill

Thanks, Bill and Regs

The other 2 are a 72 Chevelle Malibu 454 and a 70 AMX 360 4 speed, quickest one of the bunch.

That's awesome. Only thing your missing (unless I just dont see it and you have this already) is a nice car lift. Very nice vehicles for sure though. Mind telling us roughly how much the building itself cost including the slab on concrete but not including labor?

Originally Posted by FMXhellraiser

That's awesome. Only thing your missing (unless I just dont see it and you have this already) is a nice car lift. Very nice vehicles for sure though. Mind telling us roughly how much the building itself cost including the slab on concrete but not including labor?

Yes, I'm saving up for one or two lifts. Two lifts would be great. The building, slab, electrical, plus labor (I don't have the figure not including labor) was $30K in 2003.

After 3 and a half years of dealing with the local authorities, the neighbors, the engineers and my wife, I am finally ready to go ahead on my shop, hahahaha, what a f'in joke. I had to beat up a couple along the way, no, not my wives. lol.

From the time I made my application for a permit, till today, is three years. Oh No, I got it on nine eleven. lol.

Now all I have to do is find a way to post pics, he he he. I am pouring my footings in the morning.

I just found out yesterday that where I live, Morgan Co, Tn that there are NO building codes!! , they said I can build anything, any way I want! Cool ... That does explan a few houses/shacks around here.
I do remember a house that had a red neck a car lift.

Pat

Too bad the price of steel went through the roof lately, lol.
(Hmm, no picture.)

A friend of mine built a steel shop last spring. He held off buying the ceiling until now because he wasn't ready for it and didn't want it setting around & gettin' damaged. The ceiling that cost 1,600 last spring now costs 2,900.

I recently just talked my wife into letting me convert the garage into more of a display area for my baby (67' z28 Camaro), and a place for me and my buddies to take pics of our cars. I went with this company called American Garage, I think they are out of North Carolina or something...(www.americangarage.com)...I highly recomend them

A RaceDeck Garage
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3658/...a42dc617_o.jpg

Nice looking floor Race Deck! I wish I could do my trailor floor and/or garage floor in it but I cannot afford it unfortunately.

I'd be afriad to work in some of those shops I'd spend a week cleaning up and shining things