I planning on breaking ground on my new Garage/Shop in June 08.
I thought I would start a thread here and update it as the project progresses.
Right now I am in the design phase so comments and suggestions will be appreciated.
First, I am posting a picture of a gas station that is the inspiration of my design:
I am planning on a 24' X 48' building with a 19' X 14' drive through. It will have a 10ft. ceiling throughout and the garage doors will be 8' X 8' (Edited 1/6/08 to 9ft wide by 8 ft high)
Here is rough sketch of my plan:
Here is my floor plan so far:
The room on the east will be for my "Clean/Dirty" work area. Sanding, painting, etc. I will have no tools or furniture in that room so it can be cleaned out easily.
The 3 rooms in the back from left to right will be the bathroom, compressor & dust collector room and the beadblaster & parts washer room. The rest of the area will be the main work area.
Thanks,
I expect the magazine would be still be en-route to the retail newstands but let me know if you find it. I will buy a few copies for myself. They are supposed to mail me a complementary copy but I haven't it gotten yet.
Edit:
I just checked my mailbox and my complementary copy DID come today.
I ordered on online to have one delivered to my son ($6.99 + $3.95 shipping - ouch).
I called Hastings here in San Angelo and they don't think they are going to get it since they don't get Wood Magazine and this special issue is from the editors of Wood.
Workroom, removing body from frame on '55 hardtop:
Main area, taken later after blasting and painting frame and installing engine:
Presently, I am still doing some work to the body in the workroom. I need to finish some more work on the quarter panels and paint the firewall before I mate the frame and body back together.
Roger: I just scrolled through the whole thread. What a great workshop you built.
I was just wondering...what part of town are you in? I spent some time out at Goodfellow back in '77 and again in '79.
Is the strip out at Wall still in operation? it was bare-bones, but we sure had a lots of fun in the early days of bracket racing!!
Great job.
Roger: I just scrolled through the whole thread. What a great workshop you built.
I was just wondering...what part of town are you in? I spent some time out at Goodfellow back in '77 and again in '79.
Is the strip out at Wall still in operation? it was bare-bones, but we sure had a lots of fun in the early days of bracket racing!!
Great job.
Actually, I didn't want a lift. I think having a lift for a home workshop is over rated. It's just too easy to put my car up on 4 large jackstands if I need to have it in the air. Then when I'm done, I can put the jackstands away. A lift would just be in the way and I'd be tripping over it.
I'd rather be working underneath the car on my back than I would overhead also. Years ago, I worked for a business that had a gas station and I had free access to their service area after hours. So, I used their lift and really didn't see much advantage to it.
It's great for a service station or pro shop when you've got to get a car in the air super quick but not for a home shop.
If a person needs the lift for storing an extra vehicle, I can sure see that. But, I didn't need that. I've got an attached 2 car garage on the house and a 2 car carport in addition to my workshop that will hold 3 cars.
New pictures will be coming soon.
I just had a professional photographer come over and do a photo shoot with my recently completed '55 Bel Air in front of the shop.
Here's one of my '69 Corvette from a while back. It was taken by the professional photographer that was hired by the magazine. It was done right before I had put the letters over the bays up (he photoshopped the letters in for the ones that were published in the magazine).
By the way, I'm going to put this car up for sale after the holidays. It's just not getting any attention from me now that I've got my '55 done and am getting ready to start doing a restomod on my wife's '57 pickup.
For those that are interested, here's some pictures of my '55 Bel Air during the finishing up phase of the project.
Professional photos of the car in front of the shop are coming soon.
The end bay is walled off from the rest of my shop. I call it my "clean room". However, it's more like my dirty room. My intention from the very start was to use this room for sanding, painting, welding and an whatever else makes a mess.
I made a make-shift spray booth out of it for painting the car. I put filters in the windows on one side and fans on the other side blowing out. It worked pretty well.
New pictures will be coming soon.
I just had a professional photographer come over and do a photo shoot with my recently completed '55 Bel Air in front of the shop.
Here's one of my '69 Corvette from a while back. It was taken by the professional photographer that was hired by the magazine. It was done right before I had put the letters over the bays up (he photoshopped the letters in for the ones that were published in the magazine).
By the way, I put an email out last week to the local Corvette club members and within 3 days, the Vette was sold.
I sold it to the owner of the local Buick-GMC dealership.. It was just not getting any attention from me now that I've got my '55 done and am getting ready to start doing a restomod on my wife's '57 pickup.
Here's another one taken for a Christmas card last month:
Just looked thru all the pages and very nice .WOW great JOB !!!!!!!!!!!!
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