Thread: Cool Garages

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Some of these garages look like my "cleanick" wife designed them as a showroom. A little too clean for my adventures. One day with me in there and it would never look the same.
Granted the topic was garages not necessarly mechanic garages. I will be adding a 30x40 garage near the house in a few months and always view these discussions with interest.

dmw56, if you dont mind me asking, what do you do as a living?
I love the shop setup, size and the vehicles you have. I'd love to one day have that many cars that are that far along. I have close to that many but none even near completion or drivable....YET.
I'd like to build a shop like yours in the next 3 to 4 years though on a piece of land out here.

Originally Posted by FMXhellraiser

dmw56, if you dont mind me asking, what do you do as a living?
I love the shop setup, size and the vehicles you have. I'd love to one day have that many cars that are that far along. I have close to that many but none even near completion or drivable....YET.
I'd like to build a shop like yours in the next 3 to 4 years though on a piece of land out here.

I am an Environmental Scientist. No, really and stop laughing! I'm saving the planet by recycling old iron.

I have 1 other completed car, a 65 Rambler in the 3 car attached garage with my wife's cars and 3 others projects waiting stored outside. A 1935 Plymouth 2 door sedan, 1954 Studebaker PU, and a 1938 Chevy PU.

The shop is 40 X 40 with 12' high walls so someday I can get a couple of 4 post storage lifts and a 2 post lift.

[B]dmw56[B] Love your rides! especially the rat rod truck

Nice garage DMW!

I couldn't park a pedal bike in our garage. Blame my parents for hording stuff in there and throwing everything in there

hey don what did ya do with that cool sighn ya got ? Nice shop seems ya got a couple more options there than I got in mine !!!

Super nice shop DMW. When are you going to get back on the Stude?

Originally Posted by Gastrick

Super nice shop DMW. When are you going to get back on the Stude?

Soon, I promise!

Chip, the sign (BF Goodrich Tires)is up on the far wall.

I have submitted my bill to the City of Seattle for the requested modifications. Once I have recieved my money I will return the truck!

Originally Posted by Evolvo

dmw56,
I'm really getting in trouble with my boss. In my position "technician in charge of recovering former Seattle Engineering vehicles that have been hot rodded" I have been unable to get you to respond to my requests that you return our truck immediately. If you don't return that truck to Seattle (pm for my home address) I will be fired. Please help a brother out!!

Yeesh,I hope ya dont want me to break the bad news to Mike Tripae down here in New Zealand that someone in Seattle wants his horny old 32 hemi powered truck shipped back up to them..we have enough problems with the natives down here trying to reclaim stuff...

I do not see why people get mad about the guys who work or worked for wall street or in the stock market and make heaps of money and bonuses (I am not saying you are, but I see a lot of people making that comment in a negative way). It's not their fault that they are smart enough to let their money work for them instead of work hard for money and get a pay check that is taxed very high. I believe, if I am not mistaken, the stock market is the second highest taxed income with regular pay check being the highest taxed and of course real-estate being the least taxed.
I'm sure these guys aren't complaining.

Here is my humble shop,..... a 1937 Mobil station

Originally Posted by highboy32

Here is my humble shop,..... a 1937 Mobil station

Man, I like that building way better than any of those high end ,high dollar garages. That building just has tons of character and history. Something those others will never have!

Pretty cool building. We have an old service station up the block that was made into a restaurant for years~! It's great to reuse old structures with character, rather than tear them down and build new blah buildings. My garage is actually a 1850's chicken shed. When we bought the house it was falling down, just a bunch of vertical old growth redwood planks, and a disintegrating roof. We rebuilt it about 5 years ago recycling the old siding for the new framed and insulated structure, but kept the same shape and floor plan of the original barn. It's a bit small for a shop, but has two bays, and some loft storage, modern wiring, etc. The cool thing is that it looks like it belongs there, with the old redwood siding.
Unfortunately it falls short of a dream garage, but compared to the old structure, it is a dream garage!

Originally Posted by highboy32

Here is my humble shop,..... a 1937 Mobil station

That is a kool old building,I would love to find something like that for a workshop,so long as there is enough room for the toys..