Former NASCAR mechanic built garage

[RentedDreams]

After a recent divorce, I was living in a 1 bedroom apartment in San Antonio with all my tools, cars and car parts in storage warehouses when my brother sent a listing of a house for sale near Talladega with a note saying here was my dream house.

1200 sq ft house, 4000 sq ft workshop and a 4 car garage on 3 acres for less than I could build a metal building in Texas, And it was built by a NASCAR Hall of Fame mechanic! I had to admit I was intrigued, but dang, it was in Alabama.

I flew out for the weekend to give it a look, and much to my surprise, I bought it. It took 3 26 ft Penske trucks and a dedicated car hauler to get all my cars and junk here.

This is what it looked like before I moved in.

 

[Hpozzuoli]

Let me be the first to say good luck. I love how the garage is huge, but blends nicely with the house.

 

[jeepinerdeep]

Dang. Now you gotta buy a lot of stuff to fill it up.

 

[CNGsaves]

Wow, that DEFINITELY IS garage lover's DREAM !!! . .

What are plans ?? Getting into NASCAR biz in any fashion with great shop ??

 

[1/2 Cup]

Just awesome and congratulations.

Thank you for sharing.

 

[Git]

Living in S Cal for the last 35 years - I am amazed what $112k can get you in other parts of the country

Sweet

 

[Sunbimmer]

Yeah it's OK....... No seriously, FANTASTIC place congrats !!

 

[RentedDreams]

Oh, I have LOTs of stuff to fill it. Didn't I mention it took 3 26 foot trucks to get here.

I used the workshop to store everything while I've had some interior modifications made to the house, then came the Holidays and one of my daughters spent her Christmas break with me, so I didn't do anything to the workshop. I'm almost finished unpacking and arranging and will post updates soon.

 

[sleepy127]

That's awesome and from my old neck of the woods (pre army). Still have a lot of family and friends in the area.

 

[vekster]

that place is awesome!

 

[AirJunky]

Wow! Now THATs how to ****!

 

[bczygan]

Perfect proportions.

 

[Richard Cranium]

looks like you made the buy of your life, The garage looks great. Wish I had it.

 

[Buckgnarly]

Wow...wow.

 

[Garage Junky]

That's awesome! Enjoy!

 

[warmpancakes]

sweet Place who ws the former owner, when was the House built, also Old nascar guys have a habbit of burying stuff out back so be careful where you dig

 

[Highpsi]

I like everything about it. I'd be interested to see a little more of the house even since it is so integrated into the garage. Just cool overall design. Nice find!

 

[Hephaestus29]

What type of work do you do ? Mechanical,
auto body, or ????

 

[jmudler]

You also have a world class shooting range in your back yard.

http://thecmp.org/competitions/talladega-marksmanship-park/

 

[RentedDreams]

Here are a before and after look at the 4 car garage that is under the house.

 

[fergus]

What a SCORE dude! Awesome. 'Bama!

 

[RentedDreams]

I just did mechanical work for most of my career and had other people do the body work on my personal projects. One day I got tired of paying for some bad bodywork and thought it can't be that hard. So I used Texas's Hazlewood Act (allows honorable veterans whose VA educational benefits have expired to go to state schools for free) and took a bunch of auto body and paint classes at night at a local vo-tech college. Now I do it all.

 

[RentedDreams]

Since it's a cool rainy day, I'm not real motivated so here are some work in progress pictures to show how easy it is to fill up this big shop.

 

[bry@n]

awesome place. Congrats.

 

[RentedDreams]

The last photo is a food tray cart I bought in a local auction for $40. Stainless steel with insulated double walls and doors. I plan on making it into a powder coat oven. Just need to add some heating elements from a couple of 230 volt space heaters I found on craigslist and do something about the rubber top that is glued on.

 

[RentedDreams]

I'm amazed at all of the quick replies. One of the things I want to get before I fill up all this space is an old SUN engine analyzer like a model 740 or 1120 and a Sun distributor machine. Anyone have one they want to sell? Thanks

 

[Dick in Wisconsin]

Who was the NASCAR HOF mechanic? Red Farmer?

 

[Bears Fan]

Awesome garage! Looks like you got some really cool things to fill it up with...I'm subscribed

 

[BaMaDuDe87]

Wow! Great garage. Welcome to Alabama!!

 

[RentedDreams]

****, his name was Harry Mewborne. Once when he and Bobby Alison were racing back in the late 50's, Bobby had engine trouble and Harry the owner of another winning race car, told Bobby, he would help him by selling him some used parts.

When the weekend was over, Bobby went back to Miami and told his hero Red Farmer what a great place Alabama was. Red decided to come back to Alabama with Bobby and Donnie. They all made residence in Alabama and soon traveled the Southeast winning races, a lot of races and Bobby, Donnie and Red thus became known as “THE ALABAMA GANG”.

 

[Vette60]

Hey There!

Awesome space, looks like you'll have a lot of fun in there. Love the Vette - 59 or 60? Looks nice. Family is proud owner's of Horizon Blue '60 since '62!

R.

 

[coljar]

I don't use this word hardly at all to describe something, but your place deserves it. That place is "AWESOME"!!

 

[saceone]

holy ****

 

[J king]

Wow! Fantastic space! Love it

 

[zmotorsports]

All I can say is WOW!!!! And congratulations. That place is freakin' awesome.

I am looking forward to seeing after you are all settled in.

Mike.

 

[LXCam]

Holy hell man, it's pretty rare I'm envious of something but that does it right there!. Congrats and this should be fun to see what you do with it. Good luck!.

 

[firworks]

Wait, THAT place was 112K!?

Does anyone make embedded systems or electronic equipment in Alabama?

 

[Bighead38]

Yeah that house,garage, and shop combo is a car lovers dream. Could keep 2 finished cars and 2 dd's downstairs and then have the whole shop for "dirty work". If you have more cars it looks like the shop is big enough to create a clean space to store cars and a separate area to work on them

Alright I gotta ask.

Can you share NASCAR stories with us please. There are a lot of nascar fans on here and I'm sure a lot of stories would be interesting to car guys that aren't nascar fans as well.

 

[SILVERPLATE]

I'm amazed at all of the quick replies. One of the things I want to get before I fill up all this space is an old SUN engine analyzer like a model 740 or 1120 and a Sun distributor machine. Anyone have one they want to sell? Thanks

Amazing place and start. Sent you a PM.

 

[Avplayer]

Wait, THAT place was 112K!?

Does anyone make embedded systems or electronic equipment in Alabama?

Yea seriously?!?!