Thread: whats your dream garage???

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hows a 28x75 - 1 lift heated and air cond and still wish it wer bigger

I think this is the epidome of the man's shed. I saw this a while back!
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this is a shed, it makes no difference what kind of garage you have ,i started out in this shed in 19 57 and built this 34 roadster that made the cover of hot rod magazine 19 59 august ,that was working under horrible conditions ,joe

Joe
You more than anyone deserve the man's shed!

Actually I think I would like one like my wife's father's (which is south of Ocala). His is 30 by 60, three 16' doors, two on front one on the side. Has a 4 post lift at one end with work space and storage for up to 8 cars. On the rear of his garage he had a lean-to built the same dimensions (30 x 60). Both ends are open, with space to store 4 car haulers, a vehicle or two plus assorted other stuff.. like compressors, etc. Total floor space 60x60 (3600 sq ft), plus additional space for a car under the lift.

All in all, a nice setup complete with a refrigerator, table and chairs for quests. Now if he would on just get a 42" flat panel tv for the wall, it could be near perfect.

To think I'm going to be happy once I get the electric upgrade to run more than a 60watt bulb and the air compressor at the same time.....LOL
BradC

my theroy is i cant afford but one or the other had a woman cost to much car cost to much but car is better!

mine is one where the kids pick up after themselves and do not touch my tools. getting ready to build a garage that is 18 by 41 in a couple of weeks. nothing fancy yet but keeps the weather off me and i am not laying on concrete to work on car. I had to let the hubby have the back end for him and his buds to watch nascar and drink beer. My end is to work on car and watch nhra. ought to be alot of fun on sundays

There is never enough room. You think you got it all figured out and then before you even get into your new shop you realize its too small.

Im purchasing a new house 2 weeks from Tomorrow. The garage is 28x29'. Has air lines run throughout the walls; 2 connrections on each wall so compressed as is within arms reach. I coated the floor is Epoxy-coat and Im psyched. Only when I think about it I have room for my 66 Chevelle SS and the 70 Convertible and nowhere to work!

Ive already got the plans to build another detached shop just for working which will be 16' x 24'. How much you wanna bet before Im done building it Im gonna say son of a bitch, this friggin shop is gonna be too small.

30-A RIDER

You are so right, I started with 1 1/2-car garage with a carport in front of that, and I did more work in that small garage, and under the carport then the next two garages being bigger each time. Second garage was 24 x 30 then added another 24 x 30 ten years later. The new section went from an 8’ceiling to a 9’ ceiling for more room. We matched the new section with the old by adding another 16’ door, and adding one more 9’ door at each end.
Having more room equaled more cars, which equaled less room to work. Present garage now in the country 42 x 60 I had be visions of heat, water, shower, a room to do auto upholstery, paint room, I did get the lift which makes it easier. Still I do not have enough room it just gets always gets filled up. More room, more tools, and now more time being retired, and less work. When I have to fix one of our daily drivers it becomes the musical car game being push, pulled, and rolled to make room to squeeze a car inside. I forgot to mention over the years the wife needs her space after all she has junk also to use up more space, then the Grandkids with their bikes and what not. To be honest I would go back to the first small garage where at least I had room to walk around a car. I had steel tubing to support a 2x6 and pulled motors, a window fan to pull the over spray, and fumes out with a open flame furnace on the wall, it's a wonder that I'm able to be here today safety wasn't a real big concern back then. I cut a top off from a 56 4dr. Cadillac in a friends garage with a stick welder, turn the heat up, the neighbor called the fire department on us, he thought we had the garage on fire. Those were the days in the late 60's the good old days.

ford2custom

hi ford2custom your situation sounds like mine , outside of the shed i built my 34 roadster out a few years later i bought another house with a 1and a half car garage ,i was building my cars out of my auto upholstery shop for 10 years i use to get angry when customers interupted me from working on my cars ,what a idiot i was customers wer my lively hood ,than when the gas crunch came in 72 business started to drop off so i decided to ad on to my garage at home ,i worked out of my home on auto interiors mostly street rods for 22 years and in between jobs work on my own cars but still working on the concrete floors when i retired i still kept the shop functional just incase i needed extra money but i cleaned up the whole garage and re did the walls and floors,but as you said my wife wanted some space so i built her a place for herself she haunted meand haunted me for the space but she hardly uses it , i still keep very active with my cars and go to the shooting range every saturday ,my garage will hold 8 cars but like you said getting them out is like musicle cars it just has 4 doors its a real task getting them out.

My advice would be to build your garage as big as you can possibly afford. I built a 30x40x10 with 2 8x10 doors less than 2 years ago. With my Model A, 2 Mustangs and my sons Probe the thing is just about full. Now I wish I had built it 20 feet longer, still might add it on. I'm also kicking around the idea of tearing off the roof and adding a hip roof so I can have a second story for a lounge/ parts storage. I love mine anyway. I'm just glad to be fortunate enough not to be working out in the yard... CTJ

joe brienza

I had to have my wife see the roadster you built in your small space, what a jewel. I wish my garage was just fraction as clean as yours. Nice looking cars also. Do you know if the roadster is still around today? I may have that hot rod book in my collection.

That roadster looks as good as what would come out of one the big time shops today. I bought some books at a swap meet, and that book looks familiar, it would take me along time to try to find it though.

I have just about every book I have ever bought on cars, and I try to keep them in good shape but they are in the garage, and house. I’m running out of room for them also.Cars was just an addiction to me so, and I didn’t have the knowledge to earn a living at working on them, I just tried to keep them running.

I hate to admit it but I thought I was buying a car that would be good on gas and something I wouldn’t have to work on to get to and from work. So I committed the ultimate sin {I was stupid and bought A brand new 71 Toyota] not even thinking of it as a threat to our Country but as God is my witness I have never bought another car that had a foreign name on it. I worked on that car as much as I did the Junkers I used for work. I had to pull the head off under my carport in the wintertime to have a valve job, and the car had less then 5000 on it. I had no books or even metric tools; I used American tools that would fit. My Brother had all of the in-between sizes like 32 seconds. When I got that piece of junk back together I sold it and went back to the $100 55 Chevy’s.

I was working construction and I tried to take an uholsterey class through the mail around 1970 but I wasn’t able to buy a sewing machine so I quit, then in 1988 I drove to Larmie, Wyoming to take a class at Wyo Tech for auto upholstery, and I took their custom painting class also. I only took the class for my own use, not to long after I went back to my job I got hurt pretty bad so once again didn’t I even get started doing my own cars but now that I’m retired I still want to mess with cars. I just do not have the expertise or as much knowledge as I would like to have. In the 60’s cars were less complicated but if you didn’t have much money you had to keep your car working or walk.

I had the inside of the 41 Chevy gutted except for a temporary seat that came with a van that the class did as a project. It was not too comfortable but that was all I had to drive. It was hard leaving my family for three months to complete the class but when it was over. It was an experience that I will always remember. You can imagine in 1988 pulling into gas stations, restaurants, motels anyplace I went people were excited about seeing a red Chevy coupe, especially the older guys saying then had one just like that. It was nice driving a street rod cross country 1000 miles each way. I would like to take that trip again someday.

Sorry for the long reply. This is a link to my site some of what I have been messing with since moving to the country. Most of the cars are gone now and I haven’t updated the site lately. Chevyoldies

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ChoptopJimmy

You are right, do what you can do at the time, and keep adding on as time and money allows. I had to have my garage put up pretty quick so the cars would not sit under the pine trees to long. I would have put an upstairs on now looking back, it would have ben a good place for the in-laws, just kidding the cats could have stayed up there.

ford2custom

Mine dream garage is one with heat....LOL!

I have a two bay garage, just need to get it heated. I plan on putting a wood stove in it buy next winter. I also plan to paint the floors with the epoxy paint.