Show me your garage!

I love it when people post pics with their garage in the background. There are some serious setups out there! Some have car lifts others have entire stand alone garages away from committee.

If you got any pics, post away.

Here's mine.....it's the building on the right. ;)

Here's an older one. Now the bugeye is completely disassembled! But pretty much a typical suburban two car garage.

I like your setup Ed, but that isn't your personal garage is it? Looks more like a business! :)

Lots of M.G. owners garages here: http://www.mgnuts.com/garages

Here's mine, and yes the lifts do go higher...

Do I detect a "mine's bigger than yours" compettition? Ed is going to be tough to beat

Well,....well, ummm. My garage is so big I cant even post a pic of it, haha. "Thou shall not covet your neighbors garage" Ummm, I guess I will have to answer to that one. Mikek

My garage is at the link that Steve S posted.

here is mine. just came back in. replacing a water pump on the '77.

mine's a rented stall at a self-storage place. no electric or plumbing. nor pix.

http://www.jackscars.net

Still working on the site.

See the "Shop Photos" button on the right side of the home page. The "Blowing Rock Shop" is my shop behind the house.

Jack

30 W X 70 L X14 H

Here's a property I just signed paperwork on. One of the 2 - 2 1/2 car garages is shown, a '32 x 70 barn (lower level is shop space) and 40 x 150' pole shed, partially finished. Room for winter storage and a great car show venue in the middle of farm country, facing an elk farm.

This is where I work on the cars. Finish cars are kept in the house garage. These were taken years ago during construction:

I'm so jealous of all of these garages! I started out with two steel, two car garages that were just big enough to fit 4 cars, not tall enough for a lift. My wife decided we were turning one into a dog room, since we own 4 dogs and are about to breed our two Belgium Malinois. So now I have just enough room for a few of my off-road toys and my 92 gsx with not much room to work! But at least I have a cover space to work!!! When my wife said "no more cars" and I said "Bullshit", she said well you at least have to have a place to put them...haha she should of thought about that! Big ol' garage is going in the back half of our property for sure! Nice Garages guys!

here is mine

and the summer home...

I know that this is shameful Ken, but are you serious?

If so, I can be packed and ready in an hour and I will live "in the back room" as your "stable boy". LOL

Jack

Pretty modest by comparison!

Ken,
What do you charge an hour to talk to wives? Mine would take significant convincing, room and board included.

im ultimately jelous of you all! , i have barely enough room to swing a cat in mine!

More pics of "my" garages. These, of course, are mine only in my dreams

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Here are a couple of pics of my garage. I just wish I had more space. I am always storing cars in my friends garage.

I think I'll paint pictures of cars in a garage on the walls of my garage so it looks more impressive. A portrait of Ken's garage would work just fine.

Rick, are those corn fields in the background? I have expect to see Shoeless Joe to come walking out of the corn. I do miss the mid-west (but not the snow)

Story about my first garage. Very small house in town; very small. Just got out of college, married, full size Chevy Blazer. Cars did not fit in the garage although I did have a few model airplanes there.

Came home one Friday night with smoke coming out of the tail pipe. Blew a head gasket.I WAS MAD and I didn't really have time for it. Backed the blazer into the garage. Wouldn't fit completely. Front had to stick out and I couldn't get out the doors. I had to crawl out the back.

Pulled the hood off, took the engine down to the block by midnight. I was so mad I just yanked all the hoses and parts and threw them in a box. Did I mention I was mad. I didn't label a thing.

Got the thing back together some how by Sunday night ready to go back to work. Ended up with a HUGE bracket left over. Never did figure out where it went and is still hanging in my shop. Huge bracket!

This my temporary shop at the rental we are in for the time being.

And this was my best home shop/garage years ago in Boise

Alright. Both cars in the pic too. Workshop is on the left, with patio door facing south towards the garden and grape vines. The garage section is 24' wide and 30' deep, so I can park MGBs two deep. The shop is 12' wide and 30' deep. No, the building still isn't big enough. They never are, it seems!



I forgot that photo was resized so small! Here are some larger ones of the inside:

Posted before....but here's a shot from inside....

Rod, tell me that is the handle of an old Hein Werner floor jack sticking up behind the car, nice car I might add! :-)

I have had my little orange HW jack for over 40 over 40 years and it still works great !! I reach for it before any of the others.

Jack

Mine's a freekin mess.
There's a 18 foot boat in there somewhere.

There ain't nuthin' like a good US-made floor jack. You'll have that thing forever, as will your kids. Nice find! :thumbup:

Wow, some of those are pretty serious. When can I move it?

Any of you guys do any actual work in your garages? :D Man, most of you look like you're ready for the white-glove inspection. I try to keep mine picked up and I like to sweep once a week or so, but my DIY restorations always make for a DIRTY garage.

I'll take a picture of mine but it will take some time to pick up all the beer cans first.

Mine is a crap hole in comparison.

No offense Ken, but I think you are pulling our chain! If not...WOW, you have too many toys!

Don't ask. I don't often buy V-anything but this one was the wife's fault. :drinking:

Here's mine... or actually ours. I share a modest shed with 20 mates... We all have our little projects. The pic is a bit dated - the E-type is mine and is already back on the road!

Nice topic, by the way!

Cheers, Andrys

I'm using artistry to compensate for my tiny garage. It may be a one car, but inside there be dragons.

This post seems awful familiar, but always fun to see what others work with. My shop is a project in and of itself. Kinda like that club house I never had as a kid.

The attached pic was taken last year by MG V8er Chris Gill when my place was used as a cross border staging area for his latest project. Since then I have managed to insulate the walls and install a central ducted heating system. Also plumbed in air to a larger vintage compressor I acquired.

The building is 24x75 and was an old double story chicken coop. Took the last 24 years to get it to this point. It is a fun man cave. I am finally close to kicking my teenagers out of the loft upstairs and wonder what I might do with that extra space.

All I have right now. Just about everything is on wheels so I can move stuff around for various projects.

I too have a red creeper seat with parts tray underneath..................it's a start.................LOL

Andrys, there's nothing "modest" about that shed. It's huge! Nice working space.

LOL @ Matt!!! :bouncing:

Bill, I too am a believer in having everything on wheels. I couldn't function otherwise!

Ok. someone wanted a junky shot. So here it is.

Extra credit to those list members who can figure how many cars are represented in the piles of junk.


btw. There are six cars in this shot, not including the MGA 1500 frame.




Kelvin.

It's really not difficult affording a nice workshop with lifts and everything.

You just have to find a woman who is wants to share the shop and is willing to live in a house like this:

here is a shot of mine

another one

here is one of my attached wood work shop, looks like a tornado blew through it. actually, I put the cabinets that were in the kitchen in the garage when we redid the kitchen. Took out the old cabinets and put in the new ones. Also had to take all of the stuff that was hanging on the pegboard so stuff is all over the place. Benn working on it so it looks better but still have months to go.......................

Here's what mine looks like.......tonight....

Here's mine. A basic 12x20 1-car garage but I'm happy as a clam this winter as I just insulated it and ran electrical everywhere I need it. Got a small compressor on its own circuit and everything on wheels so I can switch over to woodworking (my other hobby) when the B is out on the road.

Nah,unless someone wants a picture of a tiny but tidy SH&^hole I'll keep looking at everyone elses lottery winners toys.

there's some very understanding wifes out there,I thought I had one but must be mistaken :)

One more. Looking the other way... I didn't mention this year's big plus...HEAT.

Don't let Kelvin fool you all. I thin kthis is the REAL photo of his house.

Great, now I'm depressed. I have a 1 car garage that I can barely get the MG in and open both doors. Maybe in 20 years I'll have something half a nice as what some of you have.

Here is a before picture of the garage that goes with our 1924 Bungalow. Barely big enough for a car of the same vintage. It served it's purpose for almost 80 years till we moved in and could afford to make a more useful garage out it. The picture is taken from the back yard showing the space open in the yard behind it, before the real fun began.

Here is a shot of it now looking in from the barn-style doors. The whole garage was raised a few feet to allow a lift to be installed and an additional 19' was added to the back. With the lift in there I will be able to house three cars when the MGB is finished. One of my goals was to keep the look of the garage the same so the original front and side doors were put back on and a copy of the side door was made to give an additional entrance in the back half. From the street it still looks like the original garage is sitting back there.

Here's a few

Chuck

Bill Kiger lies ~!!

Beyond that far wall is another room. THAT is the man cave. It is full of really neat guitars and industrial grade sewing machines. I think that there is also an alter over in the corner that culminates in a refrigerator. ;-)

Jack

one more

Chuck

Last one:hot:

Chuck

my current one.............

It's been a while since I took a shot of the garage. The MG and it's former garage mates, many now gone. Yep, I'm cramped for space.

Oh man! A lot of you guys have a "XXXX" car garage,with a house added on.
I have a 24'X28' garage that I'm trying to put the TR6,Anglia,& Datsun B210 into.
The Cortina & GT are elsewhere.
You guys have Mansions!,& probably have talent to back it up with.Are some
of you running commercial shops out of these?

- Doug

There are way too many "pretty" garages out there; way too many :). I think I'd feel at home in Erick's.

Here's mine as of this morning. By end of day tomorrw there will be a third car in it.

Ok, 2 of these cars have since been replaced, bu the garage remains the same. The MG Metro turned into a TR7 coupe and the Mini wagon turned into an MG1100.
Magic.
Pete

one more

Here's mine, a suburban garage that was designed to house two Model Ts, it was originally two garages with a dividing wall, each side heated by its own wood stove.

And this would be my garage.

Two cars built 50 years apart and living in pefect harmony
when the snow melts it will be my 2nd home till Dec or so

This is our garage. Note the American iron lives outside.

Gary, You need to actually have cars in there....

Ok. You asked for it.

The TA lives here



The garage for the B has no sides, no roof, no back & no front.

Here is my set up. Garage, bio-hazard working zone, and parts department!

Good topic!

Here is mine

They say size doesn't matter.

This is where i am doing the MGB resto at my house i live in normaly. Its a little bit bigger than normal 3 car. never enough room to put a fully blown apart B.




This is my other house at Lake Nacimiento, which is where i would like to be doing it, but too far to drive to work. And it is full of the lake stuff anyway. Its 36"deep at its deepest and 56" across, 12 'cielings 1500 sq ft. Will have to wait until i retire and move up there full time.

How about future garage. (two car with one stall double deep) Just poured Friday.

Keep it clean:eyeroll:

Chuck

OK,here's the mess,just thought I'd bring you guys back down to reality:)

There are less expensive alternatives

Les, your garage is a lot nicer than mine!

Rented, council, garage that I have to move the rubbish dumped outside every time before I can get the car out. It is marginally better than leaving it outside, but not by much...

Finally, after many years, I have a place to work, a decent compressor, and bead blast cabinet.

Hey Wray, I hadn't seen the shop since it was an empty lot and an idea in your head. It looks wonderful! :)

Steve
Don't you wish we had the kind of space in California that these Mid West and East Coasters have for a shop.....

Chris

Indeed. Then again, I know where there's a nice custom ranch estate for sale with an empty 20K sq. ft. to build a barn on, and it's ten minutes from you. :) Unfortunately the land in my neighborhood is worth its weight in gold, so no extra acres for me!

I have two garages as it is, another and i will be single....

Chris

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But Chris, with that property you can consolidate into a single garage. Your wife will be happy! Just remember I have a finder's fee of one parking space. ;)

Steve, it's great. I have a 4-post lift on the floor behind me ready to put together. Now if I can barter some AC for it this summer I'll be in tall cotton.

Sorry Steve one has to be at Nacimiento for the water toys. I have a 1/2 acre where i am now but to add a bigger garage would be expensive as it would involve digging into a bank. But just think of all the money i am saving doing all the work myself on the B, why for the price a good new car i can have that garage.....Hey i think i deserve it.

boy wray, those garage pictures look a lot cleaner than it did when i was there last summer. i bet those pics were taken before you put, what, three more cars in there?

Jim, I took a Magnette and the 77 and put them into a shipping container up the road at friends place for storage while I work on the ZBV, trying to get ready for GT-35. I passed the 71 project car to Paul N's son. Just needed more room in there to work.

here is mine in New Zealand

and the other one

OK, here's a couple of shots of my garage. 20 X 30 and a tad too small. Not as elaborate as some, but then, I don't live in my garage, I work in it.

My contribution to this post. Neville is in the process of some much needed up-dating. details could be boring.

Here's mine. It looks smaller than it really is. Since my GT is much smaller than my Corolla, there's plenty of room. When my house was built, the previous owner opted for a slightly wider area--there's about a 6x8 workbench area to the left of the car. Still, I have to be careful if I pull the car up too far--it's too easy to bash the door off the wall, or my toolbox! It's too bad that my grandmother no longer has her farm. The garage out there was huge--space enough for several cars downstairs, and a few upstairs too! I could have cleaned up the place, installed a proper workbench, lights, etc. and had an ideal place to work on the cars.

Heated in the Summer.

What?......
Oh yeah, that was Wyatt's garage.

Here's mine


Still heated in the Summer

Whoops, that was the Florida one.
Here's the Michigan garage.

I got to inspect Wiz's (Mike Barnes) garage in St.Louis on Sunday.

It had a LOT of flavour.....I was impressed!