Anybody see this article? Some way cool garages and workspaces shown in there. Boy, I'd be ashamed to have a pic of my place in a national mag after seeing some of those. My garage doubles as household storage, laundry room as well as being my place to work. I also have a small workshop inside my barn. It has electric and compressed air fed from the garage. Spent many nights out there with the sand blast cabinet and the Walkman. Saved me a ton of dough on sand blasting those grimey front end parts though!
That would be a great regular feature... I could use some ideas (and inspiration!) to build a nicer shop. Did you notice how the CC staff members' garages were some of the worst! I'm surprised they allowed their pics into the mag... Or maybe they were 'spy shots' from a mischievous co-worker!....but they are good representative shots of a typical motorheads garage...a too-small garage stuffed full of parts. Tho, I find myself in a similar predicament...not enough space... Thought I solved my problem when I built a 32 x 50 pole barn...it was great for my 5 cars, but then I bought 5 more...ou: I refuse to build an addition...It would just be an excuse to buy more cars...:laugh: And I just don't have the heart to sell one of them off...what to do? o No: P.S. anybody know of any good home-shop websites?
Yah, its in the newest issue... Pretty cool article, about the only one I found interesting in this issue...
Yea, Pro Street. :sleep: I think I went through the magazine and threw it in the trash in under 20 minutes. I normally would keep it, and look through it several times. My subscription doesn't end until next April. I sure hope I don't have a year of Pro Street Monthly to look forward to in my mail box! :moonu:
My subscription goes 'till 2007... I keep all the issues. I think there was a rear disc brake conversion in it too (haven't read it in a couple days) so that will come in handy eventually. Ive got most back issues of Hot Rod and Car Craft back to late '98/early '99 plus a couple from the late 50's and early 60's (Hot Rod)... the first few years I got the magazines have disappeared.
I only wish I had a garage! I'm doing a complete resto on my skylark with an 8x16 ft. tool shed and a carport. I could tear that down and build a garage but that would take all of the time and money from the car resto. Does anyone else have any stories of restos done in less than ideal environs and how did it turn out? So far the working on nice days and taking the smaller parts in the shed for paint and such is working but I don't know what I'll do when it comes time to paint the car!
Mike, I do 95% of my work with the car(s) sitting outside anyway. I primarily use the garage for storage, and winter repairs. You can't beat the outdoors for the lighting and ventilation! I have a small workshop in my basement, where I do alot of 'part restoration'...a homemade blast cabinet to strip parts, and a vented hood where I spray on powder coating, and an old oven (with fan and ducting) to cure the powder coat... I've come to prefer this method over painting...it's 'cleaner' , and ideal for indoor use. I even have a zinc-plating kit I use to plate hardware (Caswell Plating). Great winter time projects. Big parts get sandblasted and painted in the back yard, again for the great ventilation....and minimal clean-up concerns! Full paint jobs get done in the garage, two bays is about the right size. A bigger concern is the neighbors...in a residential area, you can't have fumes drifting into your neighbors windows o No: ...that's why I now live in a rural area...never had a complaint!:grin: My blue GS I bought, and started the restoration while in college. I rented a garage at the storage facility, and rode my bike to school. I mainly did that for security and weather issues (Ohio). Couldn't leave my baby outside...it was too dangerous! I find that a nice driveway, with understanding neighbors, is a fiiiine place to work on cars:TU:
Walt, Yeh, growing up in western PA, I could always find a cheep garage to rent but here in the city of Atlanta they just don't exist. I grew up in the country outside of Pittsburgh but moved to the city after highschool. I still enjoy city life and am not ready to give it up so I'll just have to make the best of it. My plan is in a year or so to buy a duplex to rent out and build a shop on that property for myself. The worst thing is trying to do body work. You can't leave any bare metal so if I want to strip a panel I have to make sure its not going to rain and that I can get the etching primer on before the end of the day. Oh well, at least I have nice neighbors and I work freelance so I have time to do it during the week when everyone else is at work.
Readers rides Did you notice the guy with the Chebby that was "ignored" throughout last years power tour? He finally changed his wheels after some "pushing" from the editors. A damn shame if you ask me. (steps down from soapbox):af:
readers rides Jason, It is a damn shame. One of the (many) reasons I dropped my subscription to Hot Rod was their constant pushing of the pro touring trend. In the weeds muscle cars with 20's look as bad as the mamouth tired pro streeters (my opinion of coarse). I'll build my car the way I want and I don't need some magazine to tell me how it should look. However, it is a shame that a quality car of any design should get left out of a rag because it doesn't fit whatever trend the mag is pushing that month.
