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I forgot to ask! What did you used to race? It's a Triumph Spitfire, although what's probably throwing it out is that I've started welding a factory steel hardtop to the drop-top bodyshell. Part of my cunning plan to give the chassis more rigidity than a wet pretzel. It'll be welded directly...

Yeah we did think of making it enclosed, but it was so rotten that we decided to just scrap the whole thing apart from the chassis and wiring loom. Yeah it's a completely different scale of everything over in the States. Even garages. Mine's pretty spacious for a garage in the UK, and the...

One other thing that might be of use to people on a tight budget is my car trailer. Whenever we'd moved cars around in the past, or gone to pick up project cars, we'd always paid about £90 to hire a trailer for a day. Then, my sister's boyfriend (who lives with us) bought a Peugeot 106 GTi...

Thanks :) mostly you'd find boxes of junk that came with my various project cars, but I reckon there's something of interest somewhere!

There's a bit of debate on this on the Triumph forums I frequent. Those who have tried them report great things, and we think it's something to do with it moving the spark from a vertical orientation on a standard plug to a sideways one sticking out slightly from the side of the plug. Whether...

Thanks :) it was one of my 'ambitious but not entirely rubbish' moments Ah, I knew there was a way to work out loadings, but I for some reason my brain couldn't wrap itself around converting the metric of beam-distance into how strong an individual beam would be. I'll measure the distance...

Something else that I thought might be useful to share for people with minimal space is my small collapsible rotisserie which you can see in one of the pics on the first post. It's fairly lightweight so wouldn't be suitable for the heavier end of cars (or even the middle-weights really), but...

Heres something i could really use some advice on. I've come up with an idea to store a bodyshell in the upper reaches of my 11' tall garage. It's a wide picture, so here's the link: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/behjutnbuwygcrcpfinu.PNG It’s fairly out there, but it’s...

Just added a little two-part wheel rack. Now I can stow away my Spitfire wheels and the MGF alloys that will be going on my Spit when it’s finished :) I’d put it all the way across, but I’d have to get rid of my little plaque with badges on (the only thing that’s not there for pure function in...

Thanks :) the pic below gave me the idea, but a square would be much more efficient use of space than a hanging tube:

Oh, and it's hard to choose a name sometimes isn't it? Mine's because there was a pair of swallows nesting in an adjacent garage that we've had to build other accommodation for as we're building a much larger garage on that site for my dad. Plus, SS are my initials :)

Hi there from a newbie to the forum! A couple of weeks ago I stumbled onto Jack Olsen's thread on the 12-gauge garage (although I'd heard of it before then). I'm 105 pages in and it, and a number of others on here, has given me a lot of inspiration to improve my own workspace. My budget is...