Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads?

[briSk]

noneedtolift said:

briSk said:

noneedtolift said:

Here is "mine", which I share with friends. Old railway depot.

..so how does this work? did you all chip in and buy it? you all chip and and buy the lease? one guy owns it and lets it out to enthusiasts?

i love your build bay. awesome.

Thanks mate! It's two of us who rented the place subleasing to the other enthusiasts.

Sadly the railway company is currently reviewing all contracts as they are planning to develop the estate. The pics are quite old - since then we have also rented the 2nd half and its now about 1000 sqm of space and we have 70 odd car's, mainly classics. The bay is basically made from kitchen furniture

i thought it might be. still you have tool chests for the heavy stuff.

this is quite 'inspiring'... maybe if/when i get settled nr MK i might have to see if any of the chaps on here want to look at doing something this.. (Podie??!!). i'd like to get a couple of cheapo classics whilst they're still legal - 2002, mk1 mx5, maybe an mgb gt (it always surprises me how cheap these things are) etc etc...

[PhillipM]

If you can find some land do what we've done - buy some shipping containers, weld them together in a big U-shape two floors high, then put some corrugated roofing over the open bit, instant workshop, just add welder.

[noneedtolift]

briSk said:

noneedtolift said:

briSk said:

noneedtolift said:

Here is "mine", which I share with friends. Old railway depot.

..so how does this work? did you all chip in and buy it? you all chip and and buy the lease? one guy owns it and lets it out to enthusiasts?

i love your build bay. awesome.

Thanks mate! It's two of us who rented the place subleasing to the other enthusiasts.

Sadly the railway company is currently reviewing all contracts as they are planning to develop the estate. The pics are quite old - since then we have also rented the 2nd half and its now about 1000 sqm of space and we have 70 odd car's, mainly classics. The bay is basically made from kitchen furniture

i thought it might be. still you have tool chests for the heavy stuff.

this is quite 'inspiring'... maybe if/when i get settled nr MK i might have to see if any of the chaps on here want to look at doing something this.. (Podie??!!). i'd like to get a couple of cheapo classics whilst they're still legal - 2002, mk1 mx5, maybe an mgb gt (it always surprises me how cheap these things are) etc etc...

I can highly recommend it
Much more fun if there's a few of you getting together. It#s very family like with barbecues etc. going on at weekends - also, you get to swap cars, which is nice!

Edited by noneedtolift on Tuesday 19th August 11:39

[Zod]

I'm currently in the planning stage to replace a too small single garage with one of these.

[Streetrod]

briSk said:

noneedtolift said:

Here is "mine", which I share with friends. Old railway depot.

..so how does this work? did you all chip in and buy it? you all chip and and buy the lease? one guy owns it and lets it out to enthusiasts?

i love your build bay. awesome.

How do you keep the peace with so many people involved? very impressed with your work space by the way, do you guys share tools etc?

[Flying Toilet]

briSk said:

noneedtolift said:

briSk said:

noneedtolift said:

Here is "mine", which I share with friends. Old railway depot.

..so how does this work? did you all chip in and buy it? you all chip and and buy the lease? one guy owns it and lets it out to enthusiasts?

i love your build bay. awesome.

Thanks mate! It's two of us who rented the place subleasing to the other enthusiasts.

Sadly the railway company is currently reviewing all contracts as they are planning to develop the estate. The pics are quite old - since then we have also rented the 2nd half and its now about 1000 sqm of space and we have 70 odd car's, mainly classics. The bay is basically made from kitchen furniture

i thought it might be. still you have tool chests for the heavy stuff.

this is quite 'inspiring'... maybe if/when i get settled nr MK i might have to see if any of the chaps on here want to look at doing something this.. (Podie??!!). i'd like to get a couple of cheapo classics whilst they're still legal - 2002, mk1 mx5, maybe an mgb gt (it always surprises me how cheap these things are) etc etc...

I know of a Warehouse available cheap in Wolverton area.

[Streetrod]

Zod said:

I'm currently in the planning stage to replace a too small single garage with one of these.

ThunderBirds are Go!!! Cool......

[briSk]

Zod said:

I'm currently in the planning stage to replace a too small single garage with one of these.

from memory (awooga awooga stalker alert) you said ages ago your garage was at the back. seeing as you (awooga awooga stalker alert) have a georgian townhouse does that mean you pretty much mean you front the road? and so this contraption will go in the 'backyard'?

[dazren]

Zod said:

I'm currently in the planning stage to replace a too small single garage with one of these.

I know that house. There are two houses with these drive/lift gismos on the same road. Blocked the road a for a few hours lifting the damn thing in place though.

[Streetrod]

Cmon guys, it appears that Funky has the most Pimped out garage on this site, can anyone do any better?
By the way Funky, is there a Mr Funky as your garage looks almost too good to have had any male influence?


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[briSk]

Streetrod said:

By the way Funky, is there a Mr Funky as your garage looks almost too good to have had any male influence?

get off it's had a male influence. our funky must be a 'fag hag' (gawd i hate that expression!)

[jatinder]

More my parents garage, but as I still live at home, it's not all bad.

Edited by jatinder on Tuesday 19th August 12:28

[Funky]

Thanks all, it's not finished yet as it needs all the photos/memorabilia/helmets/mirrors/tv hung on the wall on the opposite side! But then again when is anything really finished :P It didn't take all that much time actually and it was done for the diablo because the other garage was a bit too thin and this garage was only used as storage space. I'll show a before and after pictures. All that was done was it was cleaned up, painted white and tiles layed. Tiles were used as we had to level the concrete anyway and it wasn't much more to add tiles after levelling and we needed some kind of covering. It's not perfect for working on the car but it can be worked on in other areas anyway. I have a handy floor washer/polisher that only takes about 30 mins to go over the whole floor once its dirty. I think thats all the questions covered


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Streetrod ~ No male influence, only female

noneedtolife ~ Thats an excellent space! What a shame they want it back

[noneedtolift]

Streetrod said:

briSk said:

noneedtolift said:

Here is "mine", which I share with friends. Old railway depot.

..so how does this work? did you all chip in and buy it? you all chip and and buy the lease? one guy owns it and lets it out to enthusiasts?

i love your build bay. awesome.

How do you keep the peace with so many people involved? very impressed with your work space by the way, do you guys share tools etc?

We do get along well, it was a worry initially - all down to group pressure I believe
We have a "public" working area with an hydraulic lift and tool chest at the other end of the garage - amazingly very little goes missing from the tool chest. Having said that, very few people actually do extensive work on their cars, it's more like they do cleaning etc.

[Streetrod]

Funky said:

Thanks all, it's not finished yet as it needs all the photos/memorabilia/helmets/mirrors/tv hung on the wall on the opposite side! But then again when is anything really finished :P It didn't take all that much time actually and it was done for the diablo because the other garage was a bit too thin and this garage was only used as storage space. I'll show a before and after pictures. All that was done was it was cleaned up, painted white and tiles layed. Tiles were used as we had to level the concrete anyway and it wasn't much more to add tiles after levelling and we needed some kind of covering. It's not perfect for working on the car but it can be worked on in other areas anyway. I have a handy floor washer/polisher that only takes about 30 mins to go over the whole floor once its dirty. I think thats all the questions covered

Streetrod ~ No male influence, only female

noneedtolife ~ Thats an excellent space! What a shame they want it back

Amazing what a lick of pint will do Funky and I love the tiles. I would love to have them in my garage but as I do a lot of work in mine the prospects of droping something heavy and hard are too high to risk.
When I build my new place I will look to use them in the car storage area but not the workshop.

Also great to hear you did it for yourself, we need more women like you. Please post some more pics when it is finished.

[OperationAlfa]

Funky said:

Just been pointed to this thread. Think that may be me Its nothing on some of the garages here though!!!

marry me!

Edited by OperationAlfa on Tuesday 19th August 13:35

[AndyBe]

It's not much. But it's mine. And it's fantastic to at last have a garage to put (one of) the cars in, after years of no garage space. Good thing about this one is there's lots of space to move around the cars/work on them/open doors fully, etc.



Got a barn too which is currently home to 4 cars (2 non running), an MC, a rowing boat, a snowscooter, 2 trailers, and assorted junk.

[mcdjl]

greggy50 said:

Beedub said:

jon- said:

Funky said:

jon- said:

There's a lady with a lambo who has an amazing garage, I'm sure someone will know who i'm talking about as her username escapes me at the moment.

Just been pointed to this thread. Think that may be me Its nothing on some of the garages here though!!!

A clean garage:

That's the moneyshot for me, gives me something to aim for. Thanks

agreed +1 im working hard for this!!! its only a matter of time!!!!

Good luck to both same beedub particulary you seem to be doing extremely well for 23years old and the rate you are going this will only be a few years away until you have a garage to rival the one pictured I too hope to get something like this in the future but they are many years of hard work and studying until I can achieve it.

Thats cleaner than my kitchen!

[tbops]

EDZ26 said:

XJSJohn said:

sadly i suspect that Jay Leno kinda wins this one ....



and thats just the bikes!!

sadly Leno doesnt post on PH much,

there is a fella on here, cant remember his name, but his list of Cars is endless, F40s Massas's etc, and has a pic of each on his profile of a garage that looks like it holds 8 cars no probs,

then theres Tbops, which ruins every thread in similar vein!

Im having a thick moment, why do i ruin it?

[Streetrod]

Come on then TBOPS, lets see the garage, we know you have the cars but is your garage pimped enough to compete with Funky, the challenge has been thrown down....