Between 265 & 485 SQ/FT The 12-Gauge Garage
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Workspaces sized between 265 and 485 squarefeet.
shortykorte
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I have never had the opportunity to carve some curves in a Porsche but I have many hours in high school on my Gordon & Smith bowl rider, Bennett Pro trucks & OJ Super Juice wheels. I rode it at a skate park a few years ago and did better than I expected so I went brought one of the new style wood boards. Fun exercise as long as you don't break any bones. Rode once again with new board but the new garage has taken all my time.
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Zeke
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Squat down like you're "shooting the curl." You won't have far to fall.
Seriously, your balance comes back like a bicycle. It's that little stone on the sidewalk that will hurt you.
rixtrix1
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Yeah, but how many laps has he done at Willow Springs?
Haha!
Still have my first, and only, store bought skateboard. Late1960's Chicago trucks and wheels with an 11 ply plywood top. I sucked and never tried again. Moved a few engine blocks with it though.
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OP
And finally... the end of the road on this 911R thing. Thanks for putting up with so many posts on this. But this is the 'finale' clip where Elvan and I drove the hillclimb stage that was won by an original 911R back in 1969.
The road was great. The car looks great. My on-screen acting, well... 'it is what it is,' as they say.
And so it's in the same post, here's the cell-phone shot clip, which has less polish than the final one, but captures a different aspect of the day's driving.
As always, I'm very grateful to Porsche AG and Patrick Long for choosing me for this. What a blast.
Now, it's time to clean the garage.
The road was great. The car looks great. My on-screen acting, well... 'it is what it is,' as they say.
And so it's in the same post, here's the cell-phone shot clip, which has less polish than the final one, but captures a different aspect of the day's driving.
As always, I'm very grateful to Porsche AG and Patrick Long for choosing me for this. What a blast.
Now, it's time to clean the garage.
Nolift911
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Nice wheel lift and tri-pod shot!! Looks like you had a blast 
Krash Kadillak
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Just curious, Jack -
Did they let each of you do an actual full run to the top, without setting up for the 'action shots'?
Did they let each of you do an actual full run to the top, without setting up for the 'action shots'?
mtm_motors
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I liked the cell phone version better
Congrats again, what an incredible experience!
Congrats again, what an incredible experience!
TLCObsession
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You can see the road again during the Tour this year - Stage 7 on July 8th I believe.
Oh -I'll add that my 20 yo son rides my old Sims Taperkick for fun. Gullwings, rad pads and a couple of sets of wheels that he has taken off for now.
Oh -I'll add that my 20 yo son rides my old Sims Taperkick for fun. Gullwings, rad pads and a couple of sets of wheels that he has taken off for now.
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Bob Heine
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Velocity has a show Thursday Night 4/21/16 at 10:00 EDT: Porsche 911: An Icon in Evolution
rlitman
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Just saw this and thought of you:
http://mashable.com/2016/04/25/lego-porsche-911-gt3-rs/#A20o1oKzKPq9
You just need a Jack Olsen mini-fig to go with it...
Watched the video the other night. Were they talking to you while you drove that mountain? That would have irked me.
"You really need to concentrate for this corner coming up, so I'm jabbering in your ear now!"
At least they weren't texting you. "gr8 apex yo!"
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"You really need to concentrate for this corner coming up, so I'm jabbering in your ear now!"
At least they weren't texting you. "gr8 apex yo!"
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Zeke
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I think a lot of that was edited. Seems like Jack mentioned that Patrick was in the passenger seat for at least the early on runs.
The more I see that Porsche 911R the more I think that's one of the neatest Porsches I've ever seen. Makes me kinda want another but they've become way beyond my means. I can't even afford the least costly used 911 nowadays as the prices on 911's have appreciated a 1000% in a decade.
Brompty
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You could have warned everyone about the close-up at 57 secs. But I liked the slight I'm-really-determined squint you pulled off.
Great video, and great driving
Great video, and great driving
bczygan
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(Overhead shot from the chopper)
Car fishtails out of a climbing U turn, rear end losing traction, then grips and goes. Commentator says "That's pushing it there"....Jack (In the car) smiles a little smile of satisfaction!
Oh YEAH!
Bill
Car fishtails out of a climbing U turn, rear end losing traction, then grips and goes. Commentator says "That's pushing it there"....Jack (In the car) smiles a little smile of satisfaction!
Oh YEAH!
Bill
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OP
I gave them all of my Zoolander face poses. I think that one was ‘Blue Steel.’
It’s hard for our brains to sort out stuff once it's edited together. We're seeing it onscreen, so we assume it's what happened. But when you see how it’s put together, you begin to stop trusting everything you see on a video screen.
The production had two camera operators and a director. So everything was broken into pieces for filming. When you see shots of the helicopter in the air, or shots of the car from the helicopter, it’s safe to say that Patrick Long wasn’t in the helicopter for those shots. When you see a shot of Patrick Long inside the helicopter, there's a video monitor with the car on it. So it might be that we were driving during that shot, but it's also possible that the car was parked at the base camp and that monitor footage was edited into the picture in postproduction. Hard to say.
I think the first thing they shot was the car going up (and then down) the hill from the cameras in the helicopter. Then they put Patrick Long in the helicopter (with cameras) and had him say his lines -- some of it was having him run through anything they could think of that could later be used in the finished edit. The rear end had gotten loose in that hairpin whey they shot it from above, so they knew they needed to have Patrick react to that. But the reaction shots from the drivers were shot later, in a parking lot with the car not moving at all. So if you don't see the scenery shooting by in the background, it's safe to say I'm pretending to drive the car while sitting right near where I was about to eat lunch.
The editor puts everything together -- sometimes in a quirky way. He often shows the other driver changing gears in the middle of a corner, which doesn't make a lot of sense from a driving perspective, but looks cool in a video. I'm not sure who was driving in the overhead shot where the tail gets loose. I know the same thing was happening while I was driving and the cameras were down on the ground, so it makes sense that they edited in my reaction to it. But it appears as though they didn't get a clear shot of the tail coming out from ground level -- or they just chose not to use it.
So while there always was a walkie talkie in the car, I was never hearing anything from Patrick Long over it while I was driving. At least, not on the hillclimb weekend. The director and other production people would use it to tell us when to start driving and when to turn around so we could do a shot again or change drivers for the next shot.
And I think almost all of the engine sound is added in postproduction. It's probably just too difficult to get a good recording of the sound without echoes and wind noise. But it's a shame, since I think the car sounds pretty great in the footage shot with cell phones.
bczygan
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I gave them all of my Zoolander face poses. I think that one was ‘Blue Steel.’
It’s hard for our brains to sort out stuff once it's edited together. We're seeing it onscreen, so we assume it's what happened. But when you see how it’s put together, you begin to stop trusting everything you see on a video screen.
The production had two camera operators and a director. So everything was broken into pieces for filming. When you see shots of the helicopter in the air, or shots of the car from the helicopter, it’s safe to say that Patrick Long wasn’t in the helicopter for those shots. When you see a shot of Patrick Long inside the helicopter, there's a video monitor with the car on it. So it might be that we were driving during that shot, but it's also possible that the car was parked at the base camp and that monitor footage was edited into the picture in postproduction. Hard to say.
I think the first thing they shot was the car going up (and then down) the hill from the cameras in the helicopter. Then they put Patrick Long in the helicopter (with cameras) and had him say his lines -- some of it was having him run through anything they could think of that could later be used in the finished edit. The rear end had gotten loose in that hairpin whey they shot it from above, so they knew they needed to have Patrick react to that. But the reaction shots from the drivers were shot later, in a parking lot with the car not moving at all. So if you don't see the scenery shooting by in the background, it's safe to say I'm pretending to drive the car while sitting right near where I was about to eat lunch.
The editor puts everything together -- sometimes in a quirky way. He often shows the other driver changing gears in the middle of a corner, which doesn't make a lot of sense from a driving perspective, but looks cool in a video. I'm not sure who was driving in the overhead shot where the tail gets loose. I know the same thing was happening while I was driving and the cameras were down on the ground, so it makes sense that they edited in my reaction to it. But it appears as though they didn't get a clear shot of the tail coming out from ground level -- or they just chose not to use it.
So while there always was a walkie talkie in the car, I was never hearing anything from Patrick Long over it while I was driving. At least, not on the hillclimb weekend. The director and other production people would use it to tell us when to start driving and when to turn around so we could do a shot again or change drivers for the next shot.
And I think almost all of the engine sound is added in postproduction. It's probably just too difficult to get a good recording of the sound without echoes and wind noise. But it's a shame, since I think the car sounds pretty great in the footage shot with cell phones.
Oh, I know about filming and editing and sound. Took a video course at the local cable co. Took us all day to shoot a 30 second commercial.
It's still great how they edit it together,, to create a story that has a cohesion good enough, for me to write a play by play for it.
We viewers suspend plenty of disbelief, in order to follow the cues we have learned from an early age, and help the videographer by filling things in mentally where needed.
Bill
Boosted1
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Looks like you had an awesome experience. Congrats. Thanks for sharing the details.
Does it make you want a newer Porsche?
Does it make you want a newer Porsche?
Pretty cool to chill with Pat Long. I was at a track where he was testing one year. I drove the Toyota LFA prototype (one of three toyota was circulating at the time). Old Pat snuck up on me in a rolex cup porsche...lol. I saw him coming and slowed on the straight past the clubhouse, but the toyota rep in the seat with me about came out of it when Pat went by...here was a clip...
OP
Wow! That's a cool clip.
Today I got my old car ready for a track day tomorrow. And I also finished up two garage projects. One was odd. A friend had seen a kind of short coat rack in Europe where a woman can hang up her purse and coat and whatever. She wanted one, and sent me this picture:
She wanted it in black. And wanted to see how cheaply it could be done.
The trick (from my perspective) was how to come up with a heavy base and how to cap the tubing so it wouldn't just be an open length of pipe.
My solution for the base? A 15LB dumbbell.
My solution for finishing the pipe ends was to order some rounded weld-on caps. But I spec'd them wrong -- so I decided to try and do a kind of 'bullet end' on my own. Here are the cuts I made in the ends of the pipe. First just dividing it into four and then cutting teeth. Then I got busy with a hammer, my bench grinder and welder. What I got wasn't beautiful -- but it worked.
Here it is before it got paint, testing a purse.
The weight at the bottom still says 15LB, but I'm going to make the case that this is a 'Lady Butler,' model #15.
I made two of them, since (surprise) I had two dumbbells. I offered one to my wife, but she already has a place for her purse, so it's going to go to an auction she's working on for my daughter's preschool
I also finished four more of these 'art caddies,' which I'd previously made for a fundraiser for my son's school. I'm using up all the leftover plywood from the kids' playhouse.
Today I got my old car ready for a track day tomorrow. And I also finished up two garage projects. One was odd. A friend had seen a kind of short coat rack in Europe where a woman can hang up her purse and coat and whatever. She wanted one, and sent me this picture:
She wanted it in black. And wanted to see how cheaply it could be done.
The trick (from my perspective) was how to come up with a heavy base and how to cap the tubing so it wouldn't just be an open length of pipe.
My solution for the base? A 15LB dumbbell.
My solution for finishing the pipe ends was to order some rounded weld-on caps. But I spec'd them wrong -- so I decided to try and do a kind of 'bullet end' on my own. Here are the cuts I made in the ends of the pipe. First just dividing it into four and then cutting teeth. Then I got busy with a hammer, my bench grinder and welder. What I got wasn't beautiful -- but it worked.
Here it is before it got paint, testing a purse.
The weight at the bottom still says 15LB, but I'm going to make the case that this is a 'Lady Butler,' model #15.
I made two of them, since (surprise) I had two dumbbells. I offered one to my wife, but she already has a place for her purse, so it's going to go to an auction she's working on for my daughter's preschool
I also finished four more of these 'art caddies,' which I'd previously made for a fundraiser for my son's school. I'm using up all the leftover plywood from the kids' playhouse.
Craptain
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Always busy Jack. Is this your new career? LOL.
How's the movie coming? We haven't heard anything for a while, since you became an international racing celebrity.
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How's the movie coming? We haven't heard anything for a while, since you became an international racing celebrity.
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TAMPAGT07
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I hope my ladies don't see your "Steely Dan" coat rack.... They will all want one for a little playtime, when the T-man isn't around....
steel 35
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Yep I had me some; Fastest luge around here on our midnight track except we didn't know what it was called !
The all expense paid thrashing earns a U ****!
OP
Cleaned it up on Thursday. Here's a self-portrait (with garage).
Big Dog Knew
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Great work. I can't believe I've just read all 236 pages of this though. Which includes re-reading about 180 pages I first read in 2012 / 2013 before deciding to move from my flat (apt) to a house with a garage. The house I bought didn't have a garage so I'll need to build one. Plenty inspiration in this thread. Keep it up.
Hi Jack,
Just spend a week going through your thread: what an inspiration!
When the garage came into a "finished" state, I just went reading on, as to get more into the "Olsen state-of-mind". :-D
One thing you've accomplished already is me starting to make my own hanging tool cabinet. I've decided to go with a blue color, maybe that'll eventually spread into my garage as well...
I've also found myself thinking more this last week: now that I've got an hour, what would Jack do? Haha. It's made these last couple of days very productive, to say the least.
One thing I was wondering though: about a year ago user RC000E posted the following question:
This one never got a follow up, due to the completion of your kids's playhouse. I was wondering if that's still possible, since I'm also very curious about the "deployed stage".
Also: how do you go about spraying / painting? You seem to be very quick, do you use any primer at all? And do you have a seperate area for spraying? I just sprayed a metal lamp a different color using spray cans, but the fumes are dazzeling in my small garage...
Regards,
Coen
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Please excuse any mistakes in my writing, English is not my native language.
Just spend a week going through your thread: what an inspiration!
When the garage came into a "finished" state, I just went reading on, as to get more into the "Olsen state-of-mind". :-DOne thing you've accomplished already is me starting to make my own hanging tool cabinet. I've decided to go with a blue color, maybe that'll eventually spread into my garage as well...
I've also found myself thinking more this last week: now that I've got an hour, what would Jack do? Haha. It's made these last couple of days very productive, to say the least.
One thing I was wondering though: about a year ago user RC000E posted the following question:
This one never got a follow up, due to the completion of your kids's playhouse. I was wondering if that's still possible, since I'm also very curious about the "deployed stage".
Also: how do you go about spraying / painting? You seem to be very quick, do you use any primer at all? And do you have a seperate area for spraying? I just sprayed a metal lamp a different color using spray cans, but the fumes are dazzeling in my small garage...
Regards,
Coen
ps
Please excuse any mistakes in my writing, English is not my native language.
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315's in the back. I think it helps with overall tire lifespan, on a car this light. But I know I get better lap times than I did with 275's back there.
Thank you for the devotion. My gosh, it's a lot to read. If it helped in any way, I'm glad. I apologize for some of the image links going bad -- I chose poorly on the host.
When the garage came into a "finished" state, I just went reading on, as to get more into the "Olsen state-of-mind". :-D
One thing you've accomplished already is me starting to make my own hanging tool cabinet. I've decided to go with a blue color, maybe that'll eventually spread into my garage as well...
I've also found myself thinking more this last week: now that I've got an hour, what would Jack do? Haha. It's made these last couple of days very productive, to say the least.
One thing I was wondering though: about a year ago user RC000E posted the following question:
This one never got a follow up, due to the completion of your kids's playhouse. I was wondering if that's still possible, since I'm also very curious about the "deployed stage".
Also: how do you go about spraying / painting? You seem to be very quick, do you use any primer at all? And do you have a seperate area for spraying? I just sprayed a metal lamp a different color using spray cans, but the fumes are dazzeling in my small garage...
Thanks to you, too! I'm not exactly sure what 'deployed mode' would mean. Is it opening all the drawers?
I'm not a very good painter. My usual approach is to clean and scuff up the surface with sandpaper or a scotch-brits pad, then clean with acetone, then prime (if it needs it) and paint. Inevitably, I try to assemble/handle it before it's completely dry. I'm not sure why I get impatient like that.
I usually paint out in the driveway. But when it's too cold or wet, and I paint inside the garage, I have a high-capacity fan in the ceiling for air circulation.
OP
And here's an uncommon thing from me -- a tool review. I just recorded a review of the Ranger QuickJack 5000SLX.
I have no future as a product spokesman, but here's a link to the video:
(Not my pictures)
I have no future as a product spokesman, but here's a link to the video: (Not my pictures)
Clewy, welcome to GJ and to Jack's thread! it is the gateway drug of Garage Journal!
Like Jack, I paint outside when I can, too. Two years ago I got a good inhalation of spray paint gases and I started looking for a mask. It turns out you can be safer for an affordable price:
3M Low-Maintenance Half-Mask Organic Vapor P95 Respirator Assembly
http://amzn.com/B0009F5KDS
_
And here's an uncommon thing from me -- a tool review. I just recorded a review of the Ranger QuickJack 5000SLX.
Jack, you're just angling for a free week long vacation to a Bendpak factory so they can let you weld and laser-cut things all day?! Where will they send you? Ventura County? Or China?
I'm sure tempted by these now that I've seen the video.
How would such things fit in your 911? I googled about and the lighter ones seem to be about 45 lbs. each and 5 feet long. Do you take the RF passenger seat with you on race weekends?
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Wow, so now I really can't get this out of my head. I think I need one. My only question is that this looks like it raises and moves back. How hard it's it to line up with the proper jack points since it's not a straight up lift or was it the camera angle?
Thanks for the video. My garage is over stuffed with things I bought after seeing them on GJ. Lol
Thanks for the video. My garage is over stuffed with things I bought after seeing them on GJ. Lol
And here's an uncommon thing from me -- a tool review. I just recorded a review of the Ranger QuickJack 5000SLX.
(Not my pictures)
OP
Yes, because of the geometry of the thing, it moves in one direction. The offset isn't very much between being fully lowered and raising the vehicle -- maybe an inch or so, depending on how thick a rubber block you're using. Then once contact is made, it's moving the vehicle another few inches. So if you were right up against a garage door it would be something to think about. But it's pretty easy to work out once you're using the thing.
I realize I didn't include any negatives in my review. There aren't many that aren't obvious. But the flip-side to not having it always sit in one place is that you've got to store the two lifting assemblies somewhere. And you've also got to store the pump unit, which is smaller than a beer cooler but larger than a lunchbox. Some people store the lift assemblies vertically, which would be fine so long as you have a good way to secure them. They're about 75 pounds each, and long enough that they're a little unwieldy compared to a rolling jack. If you're just sliding them over from the side/center of a two-car garage, I don't think you'd ever give it a second thought. But if you're moving them over from somewhere else, there's going to be some work involved. It's not going to be too difficult, since they have rollers. But 75 pounds is a fair amount to carry or lift up, depending on how you want to stow them.
I realize I didn't include any negatives in my review. There aren't many that aren't obvious. But the flip-side to not having it always sit in one place is that you've got to store the two lifting assemblies somewhere. And you've also got to store the pump unit, which is smaller than a beer cooler but larger than a lunchbox. Some people store the lift assemblies vertically, which would be fine so long as you have a good way to secure them. They're about 75 pounds each, and long enough that they're a little unwieldy compared to a rolling jack. If you're just sliding them over from the side/center of a two-car garage, I don't think you'd ever give it a second thought. But if you're moving them over from somewhere else, there's going to be some work involved. It's not going to be too difficult, since they have rollers. But 75 pounds is a fair amount to carry or lift up, depending on how you want to stow them.
QwikKotaTx
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That coat rack came out very nice. I love the new meats on the back of the 911, looks sick. I can't wait to get my truck on the track with the 335's I have collecting dust in the garage.
Terranova
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I haven't seen any of your other videos and as I clicked on the link to the video by "the great Jack Olsen, he of the amazing 12 gauge garage and all things pretty damn cool on GJ" it leap into my mind.
Oh god, what if he sounds like Mike Tyson or some worse voice/accent combo...
Luckily, that wasn't the case.
Now I'm thinking about one of these for the '36 ford sedan I'm planning to build, but...running boards? Gonna take some research.
Oh god, what if he sounds like Mike Tyson or some worse voice/accent combo...
Luckily, that wasn't the case.
Now I'm thinking about one of these for the '36 ford sedan I'm planning to build, but...running boards? Gonna take some research.
Jack,
Thank you for the quick reply.
That's exactly what it means, or at least what I mean by it. I completely understand if you're going to draw a line here, just seems like the belly of the beast is the only thing I've missed in this thread so far. 
Is the name QuickJack a coïncidence?
Just kidding. Very well done. Your on camera performance is very good. I’m curious, being a writer, did you write a script for this review as well?
Thank you very much, the thread does possess certain addictive elements, but my hope is that having reached the end of this thread (so far) the high will wear of a little…
And many thanks for linking the half mask, I’ll be sure to check that out!
Regards,
Coen
Thank you for the quick reply.
That's exactly what it means, or at least what I mean by it.
I completely understand if you're going to draw a line here, just seems like the belly of the beast is the only thing I've missed in this thread so far. Is the name QuickJack a coïncidence?
Just kidding. Very well done. Your on camera performance is very good. I’m curious, being a writer, did you write a script for this review as well?
Clewy, welcome to GJ and to Jack's thread! it is the gateway drug of Garage Journal!
Like Jack, I paint outside when I can, too. Two years ago I got a good inhalation of spray paint gases and I started looking for a mask. It turns out you can be safer for an affordable price:
3M Low-Maintenance Half-Mask Organic Vapor P95 Respirator Assembly
http://amzn.com/B0009F5KDS
_
Thank you very much, the thread does possess certain addictive elements, but my hope is that having reached the end of this thread (so far) the high will wear of a little…
And many thanks for linking the half mask, I’ll be sure to check that out!
Regards,
Coen
