LoL - I think its cool that you guys think I´m nuts! I feel honored! ;-)
Its really something to own such cars over here. You really have to be very dedicated and fanatic to deal with the various problems (mostly of financial kind...) that go with ownership of such cars ;-)
But I would not want anything else - I will always only have American cars!
@upndown - hey thats great! So you were born in the area where Gouvernor Schwarzegger originally comes from! ;-)
As I cant work at the moment I have nothing else to do than to swallow pain killers and browse through the Garage Journal - I guess I´m already addicted and I got so many great ideas from all of you.
I played around with Photoshop a little to get some design ideas for painting the exterior of the garage.
I came up with this color scheme - what do you think? (I´m not very good doing this kind of stuff on photoshop)
maybe I should change the proportions of the red bar a little more.
The garage is mostly ready for paint now - some areas need some more attention - thats how it looks today:
We had some very early snow for 3 days last week - the roof guys had to make the finishing touches in the snow:
not funny to do this kind of work in the snow
in the meantime my little boy enjoyed his new indoor race track ;-)
with all the fresh humid concrete and the sudden temperature drop on the outside the garage started sweating. I had 96% humidity on the inside... I rented 3 air dryers and within 2 weeks humidity came down to 62%. Low enough to store the Roadmaster there...
When everything is finished I will install a dehumidifier in the garage to keep humidity at 50% year round.
One question to you - I need a name for the new garage!
Favorites so far are "Yacht Club" or "The Big Block"
Regarding the other buildings on the property - I would like to repair the small house next to the garage and transform it into a bar, hangout, library, parts storage building. It also has a bathroom. The building is very neglected and will need lots of work though. I temporarily fixed the worst parts of the roof already, but it also needs new windows all around and a lot of rotten wood has to be replaced.
It will probably take a couple of years before I´ll restore it.
The other big wood building on the property is full of used cars and is rented out to someone so I wont use it by myself.
Maybe someday!! Good luck..
