[Sven]

Lets see all them "very tidy" workplaces you've got.

I don't have a garage, just a shed full of crap, but i can put the car under the balcony so its covered from rain half way. I'll post a pic when its light enough outside.

 

[bear]

O. K. Sven, I'll play along, but I must say that before I started the V-6/T-5 project almost 18 months ago, I could see the top of my work bench. I also have to say that we only have a one-car garage and there has to be room for the Lady's T-Bird to be parked inside. I betcha I get the award for the most junk, uh, Opel stuff stacked over, under, around, and through everything. I've got boxes of parts from all over and more coming in as I do the swap and restoration at the same time. I'd love to get to work on my model racing boats again, but I just won't have the room until I get the GT finished. Soon, he said, very soon.

Ron

 

[Old Hippie]

Hey! I see models of a Dart D loved those planes), a T35, stuff on TOP of the light fixture, a computer. What a organized stuff collection! I'm gonna have to clean up some to look that nice . Maybe I can swing a pic.

 

[Excelsior]

1) Open door
2) Look outside(past driveway)

If there are tons of trees overhead and a lawn, you have my garage!

argh!

 

[Scoutdog72]

Monster garage?

Actually Ron made me feel a lot better about my garage
I thought I needed to reorganize and clean things up - maybe I should reconsider.

 

[jordan]

this is a pretty bad picture of my shop but here it is. 40'x80' (20' highest point) radiant heated floor 14'x20' sliding doors on both ends, plenty of room....once its organized alittle more, right now ya can't even move a wheel barrow from one end to the other. after our old shop that burned down to the ground we deserve this....the old shop was aluminium siding making a slanted roof with a dirt floor that got washed away every time it rained.

ahhh looking out the other end of the shop in this picture reminds me that it is warm sometimes

 

[nobody]

Not the garage, that is out the door to the left. This is more fun.

 

[Gary]

OK, gonna catch some crap for this.... Here's one of my "Old Shop"

 

[jordan]

vertical mill......*envy* though there is an auction saturday at a closing foundry about an hour away. 30 large machining tools up for bid and hundreds of other cool things, maybe ill come home with a vertical mill....and a horizontal mill.....and a lathe...and a cold saw....ohh yea, these things cost money

 

[Gary]

Here's another... from the other corner.
And to think, this is where I restored my '69 and later rebuilt it's engine.

 

[Gary]

Here's my new "playpen". My '69 GT is in front, '51 Olympia in the rear and my new Toy truck to the right.

 

[nobody]

I got the mill from sealy matress company when they got a new bridgeport. I told them it needed some work which it did. They said to sell it for whatever and keep the profits. I kept the mill, not bad for free. Oh and I was working for the bridgeport dealer at the time, so parts were free. The lathe and stuff I had to buy with my dealer discount.

 

[jordan]

gary has given us very good example of a useful workshop, organization is key....notice the shelving unit

 

[bear]

Old Hippie, What you see as far as aircraft models are the ones I worked on in my USAF career, preceeding the F-102A, is F-89, T-33, F-101B, and after the F-102A, is the Blackbird (SR-71A), F-4D, T-38A, then two models the folks at work gave me when I retired from Civil Service, a U2/TR-1, and an F-117A. All the stuff above the lights are my transmitters and recievers for the model racing boats, and a roll of paper towels and some engines in boxes for the boats. Off the side of the computer, next to my roll-a-way tool box is a Sherline mini-lathe, all the attachments are in a box on the floor below the table it's sitting on. To clarify a little, my dad and I built a workshop in the backyard, it's 12' X 20' X 12' tall, it's big enough to put my GT in there and work away. All my stuff used to be out there and the dogs were in the garage where my stuff is now, the dogs are in the workshop (barn). Guess where the priorities are? Oh yeh, it's air-conditioned now too!!

Nobody, that's my kinda fun place, I just wish I had something like that. The Lady of the house doesn't want to stay here after she retires. She wants to get a place where we won't have to store the motorhome and I won't have to rent two storage garages for all my other stuff. I just like being able to work outside on the car. With a normal rain fall of 10 inches a year, it's gong to be hard to let her talk me into moving too far away.

Ron

 

[jordan]

this is my area in the shop (this picture was taken about 2 years ago) , it was about 2 weeks after the concrete was poured. everything was clean and tidy until I got this little yellow car that takes up all my free time then it wasnt so neat and tidy. you might be wonder what I am holding, its a pneumatic marble cannon that shoots 10 marbles in a sucession of .20 seconds I haven't checked the muzzel velocity of it but it shoots through 4 pieces of drywall 15 yards away. I've only used it about 10 times because...well...Im afraid of it.

 

[Gary]

gary has given us very good example of a useful workshop, organization is key....notice the shelving unit

Ummm, you should see the workbench/toolbox area to the left of the GT.... That old shop was supposed to turn into a clothes closet and a laundry room when I built the new garage.....

 

[kwilford]

Well, my garage looks like my avatar. And like this (or at least it did back in Oct 2002 for the OAA&C (Opels Across America & Canada). Shown is Kat (the Krazy Opel Lady of formerly of Leduc, now Keizer OR) and Hagen, with the tools of my winter obsession hanging on the wall

 

[kwilford]

And the end view, with Kat's GT resting in my garage...

 

[kwilford]

And a more current view, with the GT's engine slung from my garage beam via a moving dolly

 

[Travis]

Here are some shots of my garage which has been a work in progress for a few years now

-Travis