Space for working on a car

[Lil' Joe]

I live in west London (w10) and would like a small space to start tinkering/restoring an original Mini. It needs to be as cheap as possible as I believe I cannot do any work on the street (not that thats feasible anyway!) and I don't mind traveling a bit, say 45mins-1hour.
Any ideas?

[Fatboy]

Are you after something like these guys?

http://www.pitstartgarage.com/

No experience of them, but I remembered a few of these type of places springing up...

[richyb]

Do you mean somewhere you can use exclusively for a few weeks/months or just a few hours at a time? I've been past the putstop in park royal and it does seem like a good idea but its obviously only for a few hours at a time.

[duncancallum]

Retro rides have a garage forum with offers of space and units to rent.

[FlossyThePig]

Lil' Joe said:

I don't mind traveling a bit, say 45mins-1hour.

If that is each way you may find the travelling soon robs the joy of tinkering.

When I had a garage next to the house it was easy to get on with things, but after moving and shifting the car to a lockup the joys diminished and the project was eventually abandoned.

Many years later having a house with garage rekindled the bug and I successfully built a Midas in the required timescale.

[ShampooEfficient]

FlossyThePig said:

If that is each way you may find the travelling soon robs the joy of tinkering.

When I had a garage next to the house it was easy to get on with things, but after moving and shifting the car to a lockup the joys diminished and the project was eventually abandoned.

>nods sagely<

I'm a massively overgrown child, so I get frustrated if something I need is in the house, which means a 60yd walk around the outside of the garden fence, then 60yds back to get to the garage. Yes, it's laid out stupidly. I can't imagine the frustration if I had to travel a proper distance to get a tool or part I'd left in the dishwasher.