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Yet again, it has been an age since I updated this thread. A lot has happened in the meantime. I was making great, but very slow, progress on the restoration of my Austin-Healey. I was well into welding in new structural pieces when I decided that I just really wanted the car done. It would...

Wow, it has been an age since I posted an update on the goings on in the motorhouse. The restoration of the Healey is moving along now. It is completely disassembled and has been blasted. It is now up on its rotisserie, and I am moving ahead on welding in new metal to fix the usual rot. The...

Nice workshop. I like your house a lot too.

Not much work on the Healey to report (though I did just install some new driving lights on my pickup). The better thing to report is this great steel table I just picked up from the local industrial surplus place for all of $60. It weighs 400lbs, has an inch thick steel top, legs made of...

Those are the most precisely dug foundation trenches I think I have ever seen. Looks as if you did it with a surgical scalpel! Small sheds are wonderful spaces--I love my 12x12 as much as I love by big garages.

Re: Dads new garage Certainly keep the pictures coming, especially of the goodies inside.

Ah, excellent. A W115 diesel is as bulletproof as they come, so why is it sitting? Solid, simple, and handsome--a combination never to be produced again apparently, even by MB. My DD is a 2006 E320CDI (W211 series)--handsome and supremely comfortable, incredibly efficient, but not simple! It...

Very fun looking shop, especially the mill.

Ompha, thanks, but looks can be deceiving. The Healey is very tired, and is has rot in the typical Healey areas (outriggers, sills, etc.) but it is otherwise quite sound, including the frame. It lived many years in Buffalo where we lived at the time and endured many Buffalo winters (my dad...

Presently, my space is not so spare and tidy as it was in the earlier photos. The Healey is being disassembled, and generally it now looks like a working garage. I’ve got other things in here as well, including my ’73 CB350 project bike, as well as two of my 5 bicycles—showing is my Surly...

Looking forward to seeing the final result.

These shots show how it looked when I first started moving stuff in two years ago, including the Healey. You'll note that the trim work is not done, and it is still not done. I thought I would save a few bucks by doing a few things myself, and I have done a lot of them, but the trim still is...

Thanks Omphaloskeptic. Yes, the house itself is a classic English style (Georgian). No Corgi's running around (though I can envision it), just four chickens in the coop. To complete the English country house theme I always wanted sheep on the greensward, but I think the city would have issues...

Sorry my pictures have been a bit small. I think I have the size right now. Here are a few of the previous ones reposted at a size you can see better.

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