Great looking garage, you are a multi-talented person. the Mural looks great, very creative way to use a wall of your garage, and great perspective. Nice work in inventor too on that rolling bench. I assume you imported the casters but perhaps you modeled them. I definitely appreciate the notion of sketching and modelling out something like that before starting, Almost any change that happens in my garage is first laid out in a sketch.
Love the vintage 444! I almost bought an old 544 with the B18 engine for $1500. Was pretty rough with rust but had a good engine and interior. Ended up with a 1960 Willys pickup for $900 soon after, so I still have a project. Love the thread on the work you've done to it so far, call me crazy but I enjoy fabbing and welding in patch panels.
Great work, enjoyed the thread so far!
Thank You for Your kind words, Mr.360.
It seems we have a lot in common. What is Your profession? I work as a project-engineer, with construction and design of equipment for heavy industry as one of my tasks. Inventor is my most important tool both for design and presentation.
I really like Your hand-sketches. Very detailed and correct layout. I too like to sketch almost everything before start with my home projects, it has saved me from a lot of mistakes. Even though I make a lot of them anyway
Yes, the casters were imported. There are many standard 3D-models out there now, and it saves time.
The 444 is truly my longest project. I enjoyed the panel work very much, and it came out pretty good, I think. So I perfectly well understand Your enthusiasm for sheet metal work. It's fun.
Some day I will finish the project too, Its too nice to be just sitting in my garage. It's a beautiful car, our good neighbors the swedes did something right there. You can see they were inspired by american cars from the 40-s.
Good luck on the Willys pickup. Hope to follow the progress in Your thread.
Truly amazing talents pals444! don't know how I missed your thread. Spent the last hour reading it all. Saw your avatar in another thread and had to check out your garage. l Have owned many Volvos and always wanted a 444 or 544, were a bit rare in middle of the US but I thought they were really cool as a kid in the 60s. It's obvious you don't sit down much just by looking at your shop space. G wagon is top notch! Enjoy your vacation and keep posting progress. I'm off to work on my son's 87 Volvo wagon now, he's 3 hours away and i'm late, just couldn't stop reading.
Ah, a fellow Volvo-enthusiast. Hello, JTH. I have owned a few Volvos though the times as well, and frequented the Brickboard-forums a while ago. Kind of miss that, great forum. Volvos are special to me, and my next project will be a 142 or 122 I hope.
Hope You got Your sons wagon on the road again?
I just finished putting compressed air piping in my garage - you're going to like it. It's so much easier than stringing hose out all the time.
I put my hose reel over the centre of the garage, couplers around the sides, and I'm working on putting some couplers in underneath my workbench. Leave yourself places with extra plugs so you can expand the lines later.
Hello Matthew. Yes, I'm sure it will be a lot easier when I'm done with the pipes. A coupler underneath the workbench was a good idea. I't possible to add that later on. Thanks for the tip.
Some pics form todays progress. Test installation that will also be final I hope. I will not dismantle this again, if I don't have to. It was a PITA to install. So the painting will have to be done in place. But that's no hassle. Just loosen the pipes, paint and let dry, and screw them in place. Just hope I don't find any leaks.
Above workbench. Please don't pay attention to the oversized support in the middle, it's holding the pipe in place temporary:
Inlet pipe and drain valve:
Above:
Have a nice day, everyone.
....any updates??
....NICE, more pics please 
