She's finally indoors!

They said it couldn't be done.

How do you cram ten pounds of stuff into a 5-lb. sack?
You spend all dang afternoon trying to figure out what you need and what you don't, then stack the stuff you can't get into the house very carefelly in the back of the garage. The dump runs will commence shortly for the excess stuff -- which we really needed to get out of there, anyway.
I have to tell y'all; there are two lawnmowers, a full-sized bed, a day-bed, an old Army desk, a student's desk, an office chair and all manner of landscaping timbers in there, along with Teresa's tools for her job and a bunch of car-maintenance stuff. It's all still there, but lots of crap had to go in the 'toss' pile.
I should play Tetris!
We're still trying to figure out how to buy this place, but I got very tired of seeing the Sloppy Jalopy out in the weather. This may only be significant to us, but that car has never been in a garage of its own -- in TEN YEARS. No more borrowing space at Good Buddy Matt's house.

What's everybody else doing for a garage? I'd love to see pictures.

Dibs on the bag golf clubs - wife says "we" need hobby we can do together! There goes my idea of her applying the POR15 and Dynamat.

Just put free ad in the FREE section of CraigsList with address (preferably of neighbors house). Will save you trip to dump for sure. Bunch of vultures out there when it comes to FREE (did I mention dibs on the gold clubs?)

Get a 4'x8' sheet of 1/4" peg board and bag od hooks from Harbor Freight for a start.

Sweet!! I see you got the housing questions resolved. Did the townhouse sell?

The townhouse is under contract. We're trying to buy this place ASAP, but it may take a while longer. We're cautiously optimistic that we can get a deal.

Awwwww, look at the hoopty all cozy in its new home :)

Hoopty is in da HOUSE!!!

YEAH Corey......But is it house broken....I know, I know....Moot point!!

Cory, let me tell you about the OTHER end of having a garage:

I've occupied the same garage for 42 years. I ran out of places to put additional shelves, and storage room on said shelves, at least 25 years ago. So it's been very selective hoarding for a long time.

Parallel development, as you get older, your memory starts to fade and you gradually spend less and less time in the garage than you did when you were younger.

I now have arrived at a point where I have everything I will likely ever need in my garage. - AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE ANYTHING IS ANY MORE!

So I frequently find myslef at the store buying a particular part I need. I think it is a "full circle" type of thing. Enjoy.

I just went through misc boxes in my shop that I thought were mostly junk, I came up with $1,300 worth of Speedster build parts hardware it that I didn't hardly recall having. ~Alan

Alan, that means your profit margin on the next one is that much greater!

David, that's funny! My Dad has a garage that, similarly, is piled to the rafters with stuff he actually does use from time to time. It's not like he has a palatial estate, either. It's a midwestern ranch-style job with a basement and about a third of an acre. His stuff is largely oriented around keeping the pool up, Christmas lights, bicycles and yard-maintenance materials. He's also got Mom's giant frigging Buick (Mom, if you're reading this, join the revolution and buy a Volkswagen!) and his company van inside that cave.
There are cans of spray bug killer alongside of paint, and he sometimes forgets which is which. Also funny.
I swore up, down and sideways that MY garage wouldn't ever be like that. It would be used for the CAR, not the lawnmower, the desk, chairs, miscellaneous bullswoggle and so forth.
That plan obviously worked out well for me. Glad the Hoopty's small.

Wolfgang, the clubs are yours! More room for TOOLS!

Yeah baby!

We had to build an addition but the zoning required that I modify the designs. The garage is 27 feet long, about 14' at the door and 9 feet at the end.

Fern has to reverse in along the wall close to 6-7 feet from the back and Karmann has to drive in straight along the other side. We can walk between them and we have storage and a work area and bench in the back. Tight!

I lived first 20 yrs w/ a very poor carport. Second (current) house was w/double garage and I swore it would used for the two cars and not junk, and so it is. Designed it so there would be no posts inside too, like there was in my mom's house -- right in the f-ing middle of everything. What a irredeemably stupid idea. Well, no posts in my garage, no sir. anyway, the two cars go in the garage and also the lawnmower. Tight but works. I was doing well w/ all the the other sh--, which as you say, manages to pile up on shelves and peg board over time. Until the logsplitter arrived, borrowed from a friend. That sumbitch has pushed the convenience factor over the edge. Gotta move it all the time. I'm just going to have to finish up using it, then give it back. PS, BTW, the faithful here will recall a big owey to the right front fender of ther Baron, now miraculously fixed. Well, that was from trying to jockey w/ the log splitter. I was very, very POed. $400 worth. I'm guessing that the Hoopty is not going be having many troubles like that. What paint job?? Which ding?? Is there a new one??

;-)

just finished a garden building but my wife says it is too nice to put the lawnmower, gas trimmer and gas edger in. Dang, that was the corner my new compressor was going in. Bought a new car and was hoping the son would quickly take the old volvo, nope, have 3 cars and 2 slots in the garage... it never ends!

Tomm

put the compressor in the rafters. bill

That was funny, Kelly. Can I borrow that California Duster at some point?
I'm about to put my 1:18 scale collection up in the garage, and they're a tad dingy.

I have a 20'x24' detached garage, a 18'x65' motorhome garage and an attached 2 car garage. If my wife would let me build another garage, I would do so, "you can't have enough garage space"

When my son was in junior college, we had a two car garage, one boat, two motorcycles, and five vehicles. A neighbor across the street was similarly afflicted. Due to engine swaps and other similar activity, a turd who lived up the street turned us both in for running an unlicensed vehicle repair business.

We gathered up a few more long time neighbors and knocked on turd's door one day. He was shook up to say the least. We engaged him in a forceful conversation. He moved out a year later.

Mine is a 20' by 20' detached.A couple years ago I buried some conduit out there for a real electric service to replace the single 15 amp circuit. Now I can run whatever with the 220 volt 60 amp panel.

Space is taken up by the Spyder, the 911 shell, and all the tools and parts and stuff.

#1 rule: nothing goes in the garage unless it is car-related.
#2 rule: see rule #1!

911 parts in the garage attic, and about 1/4 of my basement too. Now that the Spyder is pretty much done, and the house is close, soon the 911 saga will get to begin......and I'll have less money than the none I have now!

I knew it would happen sooner or later, but already?
When is the official "SOC Clean Out Your Garage Day?"
Do we have one of those yet?

You're only in the house a few weeks and the garage is so messy that you can't get the Hoopty out for a ride? For SHAME!

That's not so bad, you still can see the car ~

Been waiting for a garage thread....
I can finally get two cars in my garage....

What's a garage . . . ?

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Vince:

You've got your oil-catcher-towel under the wrong end of the Speedster.....

The engine is in the back!

TC: Nice welder! that a "Century"?

Gordon, I didn't want to get the towel dirty...

Cory,

Good thing these cars are on the small side, else where would you be able to store all that junk?? Gotta do better, MGM. It thoroughly sucks to have to spend 15 mins moving sh-- so as to get to the car. Not good.

Ah, some folks can actually fit 2 cars into their garage! Remember that house Jimbo! What a pad and of course that garage too!

That was very cool, Speedster D!

Jowdy wins! Congrats, Corey.

Our place came with the weirdest 4-car garage I've ever seen, built by the previous owner with no regard, it appears, for zoning or permits. It's on the property line (requirement here is a 10-foot setback), you drive in and have two places in tandem but have to make a left turn into the two other spots. There's a second door in back that allows one, with a bit of maneuvering, to drive into the back yard. He had the thing so full of boats, motorcycles and other stuff that we could barely inspect. But--no posts anywhere.

Up in the trusses there is other stuff I spotted while checking for stress warping after the first snow storm. A truck tool box, some double-hung windows and what appears to be some scaffolding. The structure held up under the snow load, but I did take the precaution of shoveling the roof before the second 2-foot+ snowstorm.

I've got the boat and Bridget in there, plus all the wood-working stuff needed to put the rest of the house in order. Karen has some gardening stuff there too despite the existence of a shed (!) out back that's big enough to take all the shovels, hoes, rakes, wheelbarrows & etc.