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246gts

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After years of collecting various boxes it was time to consolidate. So off went this box to a friend

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I wanted to reduce these two boxes to one

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So a bit of eBaying led me to a long road trip

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Finally getting back home to set up with my new pride and joy

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Still got plenty of tidying to do but it will be worth it

Dave :)
 
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That last picture would make a good poster - seriously. :eek2:
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Yes, I agree. It's rare that we see real industrial brick workshops anymore. I love the nostalgic look; especially when that garage is full of nicely cared for vintage Sprite's -- what a great combination.

Would love to see more --
 
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goodfellow said:
Yes, I agree. It's rare that we see real industrial brick workshops anymore. I love the nostalgic look; especially when that garage is full of nicely cared for vintage Sprite's -- what a great combination.

Would love to see more --
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I love the look. Not many brick buildings left out this way.

What's hiding in the bubble? A Triumph?
 
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Dave, that's one nice garage!! Honestly, it's like a calendar pic for gear-heads!
 
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Now another test for you on that side of the pond only.
What is lurking behind the chop saw on the second picture??:headscrat
Dave
 
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elect said:
Wow ,great shop! great box! great apprentice! in the second pic is that a 1rst or 2nd gen landy outside,can only see the back?
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No that's the back of my trailer, but there is a Land Rover (of sorts) on the other end of it.:):)
 
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Frank Elson said:
It's a Range Rover towing the trailer.
What model details, is it yours?

Nice boxes btw - just to keep on topic.
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I've a 3.0 tdi Vogue.
Yes the Brits are coming, I've been on here a while but dont say much!!
Dave:thumbup:
 
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So a bit of eBaying led me to a long road trip
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Somewhat of a relative thing. A long road trip for Myself is when I drove from the south side of Atlanta, GA, to Woodbridge, NJ (about 1800 miles roundtrip), to pick up a 25 ton Dake hydraulic press I won an Ebay bid on............ or when I drove, again from the south of Atlanta, GA, to Sandusky, OH, on Lake Erie to pick up a portable gantry crane I got on an Ebay best offer deal. (don't recall the mileage on that one, about 1500 I think).

Charles
 
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Charles (in GA) said:
Somewhat of a relative thing. A long road trip for Myself is when I drove from the south side of Atlanta, GA, to Woodbridge, NJ (about 1800 miles roundtrip), to pick up a 25 ton Dake hydraulic press I won an Ebay bid on............ or when I drove, again from the south of Atlanta, GA, to Sandusky, OH, on Lake Erie to pick up a portable gantry crane I got on an Ebay best offer deal. (don't recall the mileage on that one, about 1500 I think).
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If I need a loaf of bread or a dozen eggs, it's a 25-mile round trip at least.

I often think that in the eastern US, you could have breakfast in one state, hit the road, and cross a dozen state lines by lunchtime.

I suppose that in the "Old World", you would have traveled through a few different countries in the same time frame.
 
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wilbilt said:
It could be...the next thing you know, we will all be saying "spanner" instead of "wrench"!
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I'm surprised we don't call a wrench a spanner, after all ENGLAND invented the language!

Frank Elson, As far as taking over, your too late. It' between Mexico and China. IMO right after the Revolution we started going down hill.. All this because we didn't want to pay a tax on tea. Well we won! Now we pay taxes on everything else. This whole misunderstanding could have been prevented if we all would have switched to coffee.:lol_hitti
 
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Boy, all that tea and those damn taxes; the more things change, the more they stay the same.... we are still fighting over taxes and who has to pay them! LOL!
 
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wilbilt said:
If I need a loaf of bread or a dozen eggs, it's a 25-mile round trip at least.

I often think that in the eastern US, you could have breakfast in one state, hit the road, and cross a dozen state lines by lunchtime.

I suppose that in the "Old World", you would have traveled through a few different countries in the same time frame.
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Possibly in the NorthEast, but not down here in the South. Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River. Every summer I drive from my house to Clinton, Iowa, for a gathering of Cessna 150-152 aircraft. I leave at 6 ish in the morning, or a little earlier, and I'm hitting Chattanooga in the late morning rush hour, north side of Nashville stop for lunch, then Kentucky, cross the Ohio River and north thru Illinois, which goes f o r e v e r till I stop for dinner somewhere before Peoria (Downs, ILL a couple of times). I finally arrive in Clinton at 11pm (eastern) some seventeen hours later and only been in five states (Iowa almost doesn't count, since Clinton is on the river) and I'm only in Kentucky for 80 miles.

Nearest decent grocery for me is about 12 miles, though there is a mom and pop grocery (not a convenience store) about 4 miles from the house.

Now counties are a different matter. Georgia has 159, the most of any state except Texas. Smallest is about 80 square miles, largest is about 800 sq/mi. The one I live in is 500 sq/mi.

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"Cor Blimey" as we Brits say. I only mentioned I'd had a busy weekend and I get a history and geography of the good old US thrown in!

Why are they dumping all those early Snap On boxes off the side of the ship in your picture???

(dont tell me I know really but I was trying to bring it back on topic.)

Best wishes from Lilliput

Dave:thumbup:
 
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246gts said:
"Cor Blimey" as we Brits say. I only mentioned I'd had a busy weekend and I get a history and geography of the good old US thrown in!

Why are they dumping all those early Snap On boxes off the side of the ship in your picture???
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Since they are floating, I assumed they were Gerstners.

Sorry about the OT. I really need to seek professional help.

Love your shop! :thumbup:
 
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thread hijacking is an art round these parts :)

BTW those weren't Snap On Boxes being thrown into the sea, they were boxes full of tea. You haven't been paying attention have you Dave? (humour, or an attempt at it)
 
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