The 70 in the three car garage surrounded by junk, waiting for its new motor. Daily drivers in the other two bays. Nothing special about the garage. Has 110V power, no air compressor or anything. Barely any lights
This is just after completing finishing the interior, fall of 2016, a day before 2’ of snow fell. My son’ 79 Silver Anniversary T/A filled the last spot and was on its way when I took the picture.
Those are some nice shops, I'm looking forward to either modifying n existing building on a property or building a new shop. All depends on what house I buy this April! Either way it'll be nice to have space to work and still store my cars and boat out of the mid Atlantic winters and rain
Nick, 28’x56’ with a 14’ tall ceiling for the lift. It’s a lot fuller now since all the junk is back in lol
For sure....as I said in my first post, we never had a garage at all as a kid and built engines in my dad's shed and swapped engines on the lawn. Here's my Mach 1 back in '92 right after my first 351 got swapped in. Still has the California plates on it, which is where we bought it from and drove it back to Montana when I was 12. Lots of big, bad engines got built in that shed and rolled out onto the concrete slab and dropped into our cars while laying in the grass.
Lucas, that’s what we did too. Our engine hoist was a John Deere 630 with a loader to lift out the drivetrain.
Shoot I wish I was your little brother Lucas, I'm a little to dark but we could a blamed it on the milk man. I'll post pictures later on.
We've graduated to a mini excavator. Buddy runs the Bobcat dealership here, so we just take one of the rentals....I think we both win the most expensive cherry picker award
nice, made me smile, hang on though, i have an excavator picture here somewhere pulling a nailhead out of a wildcat, i need to find it
It makes it pretty easy....luckily my buddy Ross has been running Bobcats for about 30 years and can pick up a beer bottle with a grapple, not break it, and put it in my hand. We've done about 10 engines in his home shop (where that pic was taken) using one of the minis now. When we've bought a car just for an engine and trans core, its fun literally ripping the front end off them with the excavator. Then all you've got to do is unbolt the engine/trans mounts, undo the exhaust, and pull. We can have the powertrain out of a car that's destined for the crusher in under an hour usually.
