mustangmatt70
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I'm currently trying to find a way to build a shop more suited to my needs. In the meantime I thought I would start a thread of my current work space. I'm open to suggestions to make my garage more functional. This is about to be a wordy first post.
I moved out of my parents house and moved into my Mother-in-law to be's vacant house, she agreed to sell us the house for the balance owed when my wife graduates college. When I was at my parents house I was using a little more than half of a double garage and I only had 2 tool boxes, my work bench, my tan cubicle shelf, a storage cabinet, and 1 project car('70 Mustang). The garage at the new place had holiday decorations, yard equipment, and grandma's stuff. I keep slowly claiming more and more of the garage. The garage was tight but useable. I changed jobs in the middle of last year and they supplied tools so I brought my box home. I fit it into the space but just hardly.
I found a deal I couldn't pass up on my dream car('73 Mach 1 Mustang) so I snatched it up. It came with a ton of trim and parts I had no real place for so this was the beginning of the stuffing into the already cramped space. The car was on back burner so it wasn't really an issue. My Father-in-law got himself into a bit of trouble and we took possession of his '67 Camaro which booted the '70 out of the garage, since it is fully restored. I found a carport for sale and put the '70 and '73 Mustangs under it in the backyard. Not long after that, we took possession of his '67 Mustang which kicked the '70 out of the carport. The '67 is a third project car with it's own pile of parts waiting to be installed.
Now I've taken over most of the garage and have a lot of under utilized shelf space. There are spare parts for every vehicle at the house beside the Camaro and my wife's Focus crammed into this single car garage. There is still a small selection of holiday decorations and grandma's stuff in the garage. In the near future I plan to move all the parts for the '67 and '73 onto these shelves as they're currently inside the '73. The wood shelves I plan on using for specialty tools that have cases and some of the overflow from the tan shelf with the chemicals and cleaning supplies. I would like to get the lawn equipment out of the garage and into the shed but the shed needs to be cleaned out and organized.
Behind the garage is a small storage room that has the water heater in it. There are 3 sets of shelves in there also full of car parts. I also keep my air compressor in this room with a hole in the wall into the garage for the hose.
I actually ran out of space at my house and took some stuff to my parents house. They have the bumpers, carpet, and some trim to the '67 Mustang. A friend of mine bought a snap-on box and was looking to get rid of his craftsman box exactly like my red toolbox for $120. I couldn't pass that up since I'll eventually out grow what I have but I had no space at my house so that is also at my parents house.
Moving everything from my parents:
How it all started notice the boxes of grandma's stuff to the left and the holiday stuff to the right:
shot of the holiday side:
These shots are from a few weeks ago from when I removed the holiday stuff:
This shows the walk way I have between the Camaro and the shelves:
The shelves I want to use for specialty tools and cleaning supplies:
This is after I removed most of grandma's stuff:
I hung the shelf above the engine to get the radio up out of the way. I wanted it to the right above the work bench but the fuse panel is on the other side of that wall
front of the garage:
With the Camaro inside:
this shows how much space I have between the Camaro and the work bench, if the lawn mower was in the shed I could back the car up about 2 feet. I have had my 4 wheeler in front of the Camaro with the lawn mower removed at one point.
I moved out of my parents house and moved into my Mother-in-law to be's vacant house, she agreed to sell us the house for the balance owed when my wife graduates college. When I was at my parents house I was using a little more than half of a double garage and I only had 2 tool boxes, my work bench, my tan cubicle shelf, a storage cabinet, and 1 project car('70 Mustang). The garage at the new place had holiday decorations, yard equipment, and grandma's stuff. I keep slowly claiming more and more of the garage. The garage was tight but useable. I changed jobs in the middle of last year and they supplied tools so I brought my box home. I fit it into the space but just hardly.
I found a deal I couldn't pass up on my dream car('73 Mach 1 Mustang) so I snatched it up. It came with a ton of trim and parts I had no real place for so this was the beginning of the stuffing into the already cramped space. The car was on back burner so it wasn't really an issue. My Father-in-law got himself into a bit of trouble and we took possession of his '67 Camaro which booted the '70 out of the garage, since it is fully restored. I found a carport for sale and put the '70 and '73 Mustangs under it in the backyard. Not long after that, we took possession of his '67 Mustang which kicked the '70 out of the carport. The '67 is a third project car with it's own pile of parts waiting to be installed.
Now I've taken over most of the garage and have a lot of under utilized shelf space. There are spare parts for every vehicle at the house beside the Camaro and my wife's Focus crammed into this single car garage. There is still a small selection of holiday decorations and grandma's stuff in the garage. In the near future I plan to move all the parts for the '67 and '73 onto these shelves as they're currently inside the '73. The wood shelves I plan on using for specialty tools that have cases and some of the overflow from the tan shelf with the chemicals and cleaning supplies. I would like to get the lawn equipment out of the garage and into the shed but the shed needs to be cleaned out and organized.
Behind the garage is a small storage room that has the water heater in it. There are 3 sets of shelves in there also full of car parts. I also keep my air compressor in this room with a hole in the wall into the garage for the hose.
I actually ran out of space at my house and took some stuff to my parents house. They have the bumpers, carpet, and some trim to the '67 Mustang. A friend of mine bought a snap-on box and was looking to get rid of his craftsman box exactly like my red toolbox for $120. I couldn't pass that up since I'll eventually out grow what I have but I had no space at my house so that is also at my parents house.
Moving everything from my parents:
How it all started notice the boxes of grandma's stuff to the left and the holiday stuff to the right:
shot of the holiday side:
These shots are from a few weeks ago from when I removed the holiday stuff:
This shows the walk way I have between the Camaro and the shelves:
The shelves I want to use for specialty tools and cleaning supplies:
This is after I removed most of grandma's stuff:
I hung the shelf above the engine to get the radio up out of the way. I wanted it to the right above the work bench but the fuse panel is on the other side of that wall
front of the garage:
With the Camaro inside:
this shows how much space I have between the Camaro and the work bench, if the lawn mower was in the shed I could back the car up about 2 feet. I have had my 4 wheeler in front of the Camaro with the lawn mower removed at one point.
That's bxxr money!!!!