Denee007
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Hi, dne' here, yes, I hope to be posting more now since I have great potential in my new garage since losing the other one to Harvey. No need to go into detal about what happened, let's move forward and have fun! It's great to be back on here!!
This is my version of a TEXACO GAS STATION; in the works anyway
This is a thread of the abrupt pathway change in life and probably for the better.
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=7075118#post7075118
Our new place is located in Cypress, Tx, only 10 minutes from Tomball! I saw the garage and immediately my mind saw the Vintage gas station which I've always wanted; and of course a shop to play! I'll post a pic someday of the actual home, but I live in my garage, so to speak
The previous owner, a lady raised dogs, bred them, at any given moment there were 15 dogs on the property. This room was were she did whatever a dog breeder does, and grooms and prepares for shows. I don't know what kind of dogs; I'm not raising dogs
There were doggy doors for each kennel seen here and they were much larger outside! They had to go
This is the front garage on the left side, stuff piled up, particle type walls, ugly!
After taking 3 loads like this to the dump, the place was starting to show potential!
At the flooded house, I took the small garage door from there and installed in the south side wall. When open a breeze flows through wonderfully! the purple walls;new sheet rock I did alone. Gary is a geologist and pretty busy, so I'm pretty much alone doing what I do. I did have to wire 110 and a couple 220 outlets as there were only outlets in the doggy area.
Me and Chewie, chilling for a moment I never mentioned it, but this part has Central AC/heat! Can you believe it
YOU CAN TRUST YOUR CAR TO THE WOMAN WHO WEARS THE STAR
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After a google search, this is kind of what I wanted it to look like, but it won't exactly, but at least it's a model to follow
from this~
To this; didn't take much actually, just some Direct Green (Texaco's color) and a nice Texaco sign, but just needs more props, like a gas pump or two. Not shown, but I did pressure wash the driveway a couple days ago and looks really nice!
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The RV section. The previous owner had a large RV; I never saw it. The gutter was kind of a turn off, but we had a new gutter installed as the previous one leaked horribly. This still isn't leak free, but working on it. Notice the gantry crane, just brought it home a few days ago. I couldn't find anyone that wanted to bring it here, so we bought a new 14' trailer; it's pretty This area had no lights, no 110, nothin, but I fixed that. Where the trailer is, I'm going to install one of my Maxjax lifts there and a 4 post lift towards the opening door.
I don't include pics of the RV doors as it's quite an embarresment, but we have a new door being made. It will be similar to vintage gas station doors; it will be 11' wide by 12' tall. I just have to case in the casing~ they wouldn't do it, so I get to
can't wait, it'll be about 3-4 weeks until we get it, but I get a weeks notice to build the casing.
I'll put the middle area garage/workshop on in a little while, need a break from typing
I can't wait to get more props for my Texaco gas station!
This is my version of a TEXACO GAS STATION; in the works anyway
This is a thread of the abrupt pathway change in life and probably for the better.
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=7075118#post7075118
Our new place is located in Cypress, Tx, only 10 minutes from Tomball! I saw the garage and immediately my mind saw the Vintage gas station which I've always wanted; and of course a shop to play!
I'll post a pic someday of the actual home, but I live in my garage, so to speak
The previous owner, a lady raised dogs, bred them, at any given moment there were 15 dogs on the property. This room was were she did whatever a dog breeder does, and grooms and prepares for shows. I don't know what kind of dogs; I'm not raising dogs
There were doggy doors for each kennel seen here and they were much larger outside! They had to go
This is the front garage on the left side, stuff piled up, particle type walls, ugly!
After taking 3 loads like this to the dump, the place was starting to show potential!
At the flooded house, I took the small garage door from there and installed in the south side wall. When open a breeze flows through wonderfully! the purple walls;new sheet rock I did alone. Gary is a geologist and pretty busy, so I'm pretty much alone doing what I do. I did have to wire 110 and a couple 220 outlets as there were only outlets in the doggy area.
Me and Chewie, chilling for a moment
I never mentioned it, but this part has Central AC/heat! Can you believe it
YOU CAN TRUST YOUR CAR TO THE WOMAN WHO WEARS THE STAR
*********************************************************
After a google search, this is kind of what I wanted it to look like, but it won't exactly, but at least it's a model to follow
from this~
To this; didn't take much actually, just some Direct Green (Texaco's color) and a nice Texaco sign, but just needs more props, like a gas pump or two. Not shown, but I did pressure wash the driveway a couple days ago and looks really nice!
**************************************************
The RV section. The previous owner had a large RV; I never saw it. The gutter was kind of a turn off, but we had a new gutter installed as the previous one leaked horribly. This still isn't leak free, but working on it. Notice the gantry crane, just brought it home a few days ago. I couldn't find anyone that wanted to bring it here, so we bought a new 14' trailer; it's pretty
This area had no lights, no 110, nothin, but I fixed that. Where the trailer is, I'm going to install one of my Maxjax lifts there and a 4 post lift towards the opening door.
I don't include pics of the RV doors as it's quite an embarresment, but we have a new door being made. It will be similar to vintage gas station doors; it will be 11' wide by 12' tall. I just have to case in the casing~ they wouldn't do it, so I get to
can't wait, it'll be about 3-4 weeks until we get it, but I get a weeks notice to build the casing.I'll put the middle area garage/workshop on in a little while, need a break from typing
I can't wait to get more props for my Texaco gas station!
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when I need so many other tools that were destroyed!(welder, leather sewing machine, etc).
It will be a while before I get to the Mustang, oh I may start tearing into it as a "restoration", pieces here and there, pull the engine/trans out. Dream about what I may do to it, maybe change the color scheme, perhaps a fuel injected modern engine~ meh, who knows, however, the TR6 which I installed a Miata engine with a 5 speed trans and other neat stuff is first on the list as it was only half flooded. I think I can get it going again in a years time.
Not sure what I'm going to do with the Mustang~ I'd really like a fuel injected modern day engine with a much better transmission~ getting ahead of myself, that's way down the road, but it's on the back burner design department in my brain
