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Can the 12-Gauge Garage get your vote? (Answer: Yes! Thanks!)

anyheck

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Re: Can my garage get your vote?

Coming in late to this, but you've got my votes.

Your garage and personality are inspiring.

Best of luck.
 
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hobie1dog

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Re: Can my garage get your vote?

3 more votes and looks like I can get in another 9 more before deadline. Just one small thing, please. No green on that kart, for Max's sake. Pea Soup Green is not a go-fast racing color and is best left to Southern California tool cabinets and such. British Racing Green is marginally acceptable, provided Max can pick up an accent like David Hobbs or Stirling Moss. Good luck!

That means he cannot get the dominating kart that rules these days...Tony Kart
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This is the webpage for the Micro model:
http://www.tonykart.com/leggi_prodotto_en.php?ID_prodotto=223&ID_categoria=62&ID_macrocategoria=3

This is the Micro model:
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TAftw

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Re: Can my garage get your vote?

Done, I'll vote as often as I remember. You definitely deserve it Jack, and with all of GJ behind you I don't see why you wouldn't get it :).
 

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Re: Can the 12-Gauge Garage get your vote?

I always hated that garage, tile floors and oil doesnt mix too well
 
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Jack Olsen

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Re: Can the 12-Gauge Garage get your vote?

Thanks, guys!

brownbagg, what do you mean by oil and tiles not mixing? Oil wipes right off with a paper towel with no absorption stain like you'd see with concrete. If you mean it would be slippery with oil on it, I'd say not any more than concrete itself. These aren't bathroom tiles. They've got a coefficient of friction rating that qualifies them for use in outdoor pedestrian areas where it would rain.

But hey, if you don't like the garage that's fine. I made it for me. If other guys want to borrow ideas for themselves, I'm flattered. If they hate it, I'm okay with that too.
 

Neuswede

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Re: Can my garage get your vote?

That means he cannot get the dominating kart that rules these days...Tony Kart
TonyKart.jpg

This is the webpage for the Micro model:
http://www.tonykart.com/leggi_prodotto_en.php?ID_prodotto=223&ID_categoria=62&ID_macrocategoria=3

This is the Micro model:
Tonymicro.jpg

But wouldn't it go faster with a better paint scheme? :) The whole fractured red and green looks like it was designed by a dissident down and out elf on the Crack Pipe in the off-season (not that there is anything wrong with that, of course). We've seen the great results that Jack can do with a spray can, so maybe he can whip up something a little more pleasing to the eye. :thumbup:
 

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Re: Can the 12-Gauge Garage get your vote?

voted.
max will owe me a kart ride, btw :)
 

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Re: Can the 12-Gauge Garage get your vote?

I voted!!!

We have similar tiles in our kitchen at work with eight people on duty per day. Not one slip that I have ever heard of even with spattered oil from frying foods, water from washing dishes, mopping the floor twice a day, etc no slips at all. Very tough no slip surface. I would put it in my garage if I could afford it.
 

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I always hated that garage, tile floors and oil doesnt mix too well

Wow, Jack let you off the hook nicely with his reply. I'll try my best to be gentle as well. You obviously don't know **** and are probably just jealous.

Jack, voted. Good luck dude, hope you win.
 
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Jack Olsen

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Re: Can the 12-Gauge Garage get your vote?

Thanks, guys!

This is that long stretch of the voting process -- the part of the journey where you can't see the land you sailed from and you still can't see the place you're headed to. So I really appreciate the effort from everyone who is still finding the time to throw in more votes.

And so does Max. :)
 

thdewey

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Re: Can the 12-Gauge Garage get your vote?

voted! I created a desktop link so that i vote everyday until the voting ends.
 

SgtRauksauff

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d'0h! I haven't been on GJ in awhile, too busy working on the toys in the garage, or getting ready to play with them.

voted, and I'll try to remember daily. I just wish that they'd have more pictures of each garage.

First one? anybody can take some paint and make the outside of a building look nice. But what's inside?

Second one? nice cabinet. but there's a TV in it. what's the rest of the garage like? is it all ****, just swept out of the way to take a picture of the one nice thing in the garage?

Third one? again, nice cabinet. looks like it's all storage for yard maintenance or painting. again, what's in the rest of the garage? a single cabinet does not an awesome garage make.

Fifth one? Shows much of the interior. Looks like it's actually maybe used. But there's a TV in it.

Yours has an actual car, and Benches to use. But it doesn't show the subtleties and intricacies of the actual build.

If I hadn't seen pictures of the inside and how it's put together and what you have there, just from those five pictures, i'd have ended up voting for number five, because it looks the most useable, even if it does have a TV. at least it's just a tiny CRT useful for news/weather.

Did you send them multiple pictures, and they just pick the one that they want to show the voters? I think it's a bad job on their part to not include more if that's the case.

--sarge
 
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d'0h! I haven't been on GJ in awhile, too busy working on the toys in the garage, or getting ready to play with them.

voted, and I'll try to remember daily. I just wish that they'd have more pictures of each garage.

First one? anybody can take some paint and make the outside of a building look nice. But what's inside?

Second one? nice cabinet. but there's a TV in it. what's the rest of the garage like? is it all ****, just swept out of the way to take a picture of the one nice thing in the garage?

Third one? again, nice cabinet. looks like it's all storage for yard maintenance or painting. again, what's in the rest of the garage? a single cabinet does not an awesome garage make.

Fifth one? Shows much of the interior. Looks like it's actually maybe used. But there's a TV in it.

Yours has an actual car, and Benches to use. But it doesn't show the subtleties and intricacies of the actual build.

If I hadn't seen pictures of the inside and how it's put together and what you have there, just from those five pictures, i'd have ended up voting for number five, because it looks the most useable, even if it does have a TV. at least it's just a tiny CRT useful for news/weather.

Did you send them multiple pictures, and they just pick the one that they want to show the voters? I think it's a bad job on their part to not include more if that's the case.
I agree, sarge. Although I have to say the first one is impressive when you consider that he did more than just paint it. He built it all -- and since he's a bridge engineer he did some trusses in it that are really cool. I think he's at a slight disadvantage for getting votes since he's using it more as a woodworking shop than for car or truck work. But I think he stands a good chance of winning the overall grand prize, which is decided by the magazine's editors and not the voters. In any case, he seems like a very nice guy (he used to post here on the GJ forum).

And I agree that the 'actually used' one with the television looks like a well done shop. I like to think I've got some more innovative-type ideas in mine. But that guy certainly doesn't have anything to apologize for.

The surprising thing is that there weren't any more-impressive garages entered. On this forum alone, I can think of a dozen or so that would really blow away the competition (including mine).

In any case, thanks to everyone who's voting for the 12 Gauge Garage. I really appreciate it and will keep posting the progress of getting my son into karting if I win. :beer:
 

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Re: Can the 12-Gauge Garage get your vote?

Voting daily.
I can't wait to see what the final numbers are.
Jack-46,792 votes
Others-921 votes . . .
 

hobie1dog

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Re: Can the 12-Gauge Garage get your vote?

Haven't missed a day so far, of course it helps that I'm obsessed with karts.
 

Neuswede

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Re: Can the 12-Gauge Garage get your vote?

this has become a part of my morning ritual...make the bed, make a pot of coffee, shower, brush teeth, vote for Jack and Max. Even the wife has to ask: "Did you vote for Jack and Max today?". That would have made a great campaign button. :thumbup:
 

luvit

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Re: Can the 12-Gauge Garage get your vote?

awe dog! i thinks i miss'd a day (sad face)
voted.
 

Big Mack

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Re: Can the 12-Gauge Garage get your vote?

A Pelican late to the rally, but I just cast my first 12 Gauge vote. I hope the editors don't have an anti-CA bias - but I don't think "Hollywood" falls in the heart of the mainstream DIY envelope, if you know what I mean.

If you don't win, I hope Rich does - a gracious gentleman.
 
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