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some recent garage shots with some new features/arrangements/cleaning...

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Old Oct 9, 2010 | 08:59 PM
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some recent garage shots with some new features/arrangements/cleaning...

spent a saturday evening cleaning the garage (yeah, sad I know). Also finished up a few new organizing features that someone or nobody may be interested in. Photos, as per my usual format:

the right side is just trash cans, recycling bins, bikes, and baby toys (and where the wife's 4runner parks) so not bothering taking any pics.

Here's "my" side:
main workbench (an old studio soundboard table...weighs a good 200lbs I'd guess), with some new little shelves I put to hold little crap, more magnet strips, relocated all my chargers, etc. Two lights under the "hutch" which is built to hold al my heavy crap, tires, etc. Toolbox, and to the left of that more shelves and another smaller workbench with a stool and my extra laptop mounted on an old TV arm.



now, if I could just get the wife to park outside permanently so I could have both halves for my shop, lol..





wraparound...I redid the "loft" area over the GT6, which used to cover half the garage, but its legs got in the way of alot of activities, so I redid the outer legs in a triangle against the front wall, and counterbalanced and braced it with a long angled piece to the side hutch area. This loft is only about a foot below the open garage door, so only low-profile things (like my bike racks) can go on it. Also created more hanging space, etc. Mounted up a retractable power cord, another flourescent light, etc, and organized alot of my tools on the far wall as well



Old Oct 10, 2010 | 03:46 PM
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Thanks for reminding me how messy mines is , lol

looks good !
Old Oct 10, 2010 | 05:46 PM
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You gotta lotta crap stuffed in there. I thought mine was bad, but that's nuts.

Then again, I have 9 sets of wheels/tires in mine so I have a lot less room than you do.
Old Oct 10, 2010 | 08:18 PM
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^ yeah my back porch is a tire shop almost, all im missing is a tire machine,

I think I may take tommorow off and clean my garage, after seeing this im motivated to work around the house now
Old Oct 11, 2010 | 08:20 PM
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I wish I had a garage.
Old Oct 11, 2010 | 08:35 PM
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lol, thankfully I've gotten rid of 3 sets of wheels/tires in the last year, so that freed up some space.

of course, I have a little bit of extra storage out back, lol...someday I'll finish the interior and strengthen the floor and make this into a dedicated workshop (for house and cars).

Old Oct 11, 2010 | 08:38 PM
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is that white car a Z or a Triumph?
Old Oct 11, 2010 | 09:05 PM
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It's a '71 GT6 Mk3....I sold it a couple months ago. Too many projects to do another one, lol....
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lol i thought it was a 240z with custom tails
Old Oct 11, 2010 | 10:56 PM
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im jealous that you have some more land...= (

I wish I could add a shed in my backyard =* (
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Nice pics. I like the laptop swingout.
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did another new project today.....

....hideaway workbench. On heavy-duty, lockable casters and built so it can slide right in under the main workbench when not in use. I'll be using this one mostly for some woodwork/cabinet stuff this winter.

It will be painted once it gets warmer than 29 degrees. Probably black like everything else that I've built in the garage.

Old Jan 8, 2011 | 04:04 PM
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Very COOL!
Old Jan 8, 2011 | 07:38 PM
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Looking good especially since you have that much stuff packed in there. Time to paint the floor!
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Originally Posted by JSutter
Looking good especially since you have that much stuff packed in there. Time to paint the floor!
yeah, it's on the short list of "to do."

I'm dreading the massive amount of work doing a good floor job (one that will last and be tough) entails, though. If I do it, I'm not going cheap, I'm going for the best stuff. And the process for cleaning/prepping is pretty major, especially on a 30-year old house with alot of oil and other crap soaked into the concrete....ugh.

Also considering just getting a floor polisher with a sanding/polishing pad. Polished concrete looks pretty good, and no worries about peeling, chipping, etc.

Will see......
Old Jan 8, 2011 | 08:24 PM
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Nice pics. I like the laptop swingout.
that's an old TV wall-mount that Jason (Cutler) was throwing away and I took for the hell of it
Old Jan 8, 2011 | 11:45 PM
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OMMFG that is heaven to me! I wish I had a garage now...

Great great setup!
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Originally Posted by irish44j
that's an old TV wall-mount that Jason (Cutler) was throwing away and I took for the hell of it
Good

I'll have to keep my eye on craigslist
Old Feb 13, 2011 | 07:19 PM
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ask around at schools....now that they're all swtiching to flatscreens, they're probalbly getting rid of all the flat mounts for the old-style tube TVs, which is what I used.
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Once I get My 3rd Gen Up and running I can return working on the 85 Dodge Shelby Charger and getting my shed built so I can organize my garage better than what it is...... Got alot stuff that's in my way and I need my shed to really put alot of this gardening /yard care stuff in....





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that looks like a glhs ......
Old Apr 6, 2011 | 06:13 PM
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that looks like a glhs ......
No just a 1985 Dodge Shelby Charger T1 converting to T2 blow thru system got all the parts just not all the time....Already converted brakes to SLH3 and a whole lot more mods.....the 3" exhaust and swingvalve are nice along with a TU cast Iron Header setup.....but must finish 3rd first!!!!!
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My garage is fIlled to the brim with junk right now,Time for a yard sale

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Looks good Irish and you to Cmax....
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