This is a building my father has just bought!

It was originally built as a shop for heavy trucks, hence the huge door. We're going to use it for our classic car projects, starting with the next phase of Project Impala and hopefully proceeding to the long-deferred rebirth of Angus the Wonder Truck. I might also put my old Honda motorcycle back together at some point, we'll see how it goes.

(1968 Pontiac GTO not included, alas. Dad did ask about it, but he would have had to sell the Impala, which would have bitten pretty hard now that we're on the doorstep of having THIS PLACE in which to work on it.)

Check out that upstairs area! It was presumably the office when this place was a commercial garage. There's a half bathroom up there!

Also, note the door in the wall behind the stairs. There's a whole 'nother regular-height garage bay tucked away behind there.

It's also where the air compressor lives. There's a fitting for it on the other side of the wall, under the stairs, so you can use air tools out in the high bay without having to hear the compressor roaring away in the same room with you. Awesome.

(I think those tires in the low bay are going away too. They're for a backhoe that didn't come with the property.)

We're planning to start moving things over there this weekend. There's a ton of stuff in Dad's old garage that's going to have to get moved, which is going to take... a while for two broken-down old men to wrangle by themselves. And then there are the vehicles themselves, which will have to come over on a trailer. (I would just drive the Impala, but noooo, my father is the one man in the state who cares that a car isn't registered. Or painted. Or equipped with an interior. OK he might have a point. :)

We're also shopping for a lift, because at this point why wouldn't you? There used to be one there, but some previous occupant took it with them when they left--you can still see where they torched the anchors off the floor.

I suppose I should get busy converting the old Project Impala forum posts into a GOTW-style static blog, like I said I was going to do, like, three years ago...

Anyway, huge shop hype! Harry's Little Dog Garage Mk II is go!

(Did I ever actually mention the Harry's Little Dog Garage joke in the older posts? I can't remember...)

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