what are you workin out of ? my house came with a garage under the house with the driveway going down to it on an eight ft pitch and yes it does fill up with water and the seven ft ceilin height is great when your trying to get the suburban with the 33s in their NOT.Well Ihad the room after about 20 oak trees and a backhhoe and went to 84 lumber and got the 28x28 deal insted of two door iwent with one 16 x8 door put the bench on the side 100 amp service overhead storage in the rear (for all them pieces ) outlets everywhere ceiling and wall lights and a 60 gal comp in the left rear the el ,s on dollys for now so i can rollit out of the way when the trucks screw up . and made the basement garage a shed ice skatin rink.

Excessively overcrowded (with a lot of my wifes' junk I might add) 2 1/2 car garage. Ice skating rink in your garage huh? You play hockey? Drywall? Lets rethink this! :lol:

The house I have now the first one to have a garage, it's a 2 car & is nice to have. Since the weather is nice most of the time here in the south, a garage is not as important but still nice.

Since the weather is nice most of the time here in the south, a garage is not as important but still nice. Excuse me Msgt Tom, but a garage IS the most important room of the house, more than a frontroom! I even have a reclining couch (comes in handy when the wife gets mad) and a refridgerator (for beer and ham sandwiches) in mine. Now if I could just install a turlet...who needs the house! Oh yeah, the wife! :lol:

Nothing. Working on cars outdoors sucks too. Am planning to build a gargage either this summer or next. Depends on the green paper stuff as I'm sure most of you can understand.

What did the garage in the back end up costing you? My one car garage is filled up and spilling over into the backyard. I'm doing a frame off on my '67 chevelle and keeping my '81 Elco running.

My bad, factory! I was working on the car the other day with the kitchen door open & it felt like I was working on the car in the house. Too Cool!

Bellfast Maine? I used to live in Georgetown Maine where the Kennebec River meets the Atlantic when I was stationed at NAS Brunswick. No garage? Oh the humanity! :lol:

The first placed we lived there was no garage so all repairs were done outside....Ever done a brake job in a snowbank in 0 degrees?...When we went house shopping we didn't even look at the place unless there was a 2 car garage.
Now I have my garage, heated and insulated with a 60 gal 5hp compressor in the basement (no dust or fumes to explode) plumbed out with 3/4" pipe with filters., shelves and work benches...happy as a clam :-D but as with all of us I need a bigger one! so I have a place to put all the parts when I dissassemble the car...I think I need to step up to a shop!

I have to consider myself lucky that I have at least a one car small garage. After I "shoehorn" the elky inside, I have maybe three inches of room on the drivers side and can't even open the passenger door all the way. So, I can't do much work inside. But it does work very well for winter storage here in the North East.
http://levitanj.home.mindspring.com/elky/restor2/page2/hoodpin11_done.jpg

Working out of a carport with some side space. The storage area is full of automotive tools, parts and supplies. The spare bedroom/computer room serves as storage for new parts in the boxes. I'm gonna pull the body off the frame and use the back patio for front clip storage when I do that. As long as I can get to my BBQ grill all will be ok. 8O

I currently do my wrenching in a 24X26 attached garage. But, I've got too many toys/projects and I need more space. I've been cutting down trees and clearing the land this past week in preparation to build a 28X32 garage/shop on the back of my property. The plans call for 12' ceilings to accommodate a two post lift, and it'll have an upstairs loft with an additional 580 sq/ft of storage space. This the dream garage I've always wanted.

I work out of a 2car garage, i wish it was a little longer because when i pull in the elky it leaves me about 3feet to the wall, i need to put the garage door down. we have alot of family stuff in the garage, alot of bikes, lawnmower etc..,In the garage i have bench grinder, vice, and my craftsman rollaway :D

-Eric

My house is an Englis Tudor, old style architecture, nice house, BUT! Back in 1937 they had smaller cars. The drive runs up the left side of the house, a nice big paved drive apron across the back of the house (nice for shooting hoops) and then the garage door is at the rear right corner of the back of the house. It's a "tandem" garage. It runs the distance of the depth of the entire house. I could park a fire truck in there, if it were a "skinny" one. We have to park the two cars end-on-end.

Once, on a week-end, I had the family Buick in first and decided to do a tune-up on the Elky. It needed plug wires do to the heat at the headers and I decided to change plugs also. I bought a spool of wire, a bunch of plug ends and a crimper, plus new plugs. I messed up the sequence/order on the wires and snapped off on of the old plugs trying to get at it.

I didn't get everything fixed and corrected until Sunday night at mid-night. My wife couldn't get the Buick out all weekend (to go shopping, or whatever women do on weekends), It took lots of "honey-do" projects to make up for the trouble I was in.

I envey anybody with a side-by-side garage. Maybe on my next house.

Elky77

I've got a fairly large "carport" that get's the jobs that don't get done in the open driveway! :lol:

Closing it in making it into a garage is one of the things on my "Project List".

Hi guys, you never can have too much garage space! My first house in town got the biggest garage the city would let me have. What abunch of hasles with the city inspectors. Now I'm out in the booneis much better. I built a 1400sqf. house with a 3 1/2 attached. The out house (shop) is 24x32 and heated with a 16x24 unheated attached. I put double walkthough doors inbetween so I can get stuf threw. the top is open for storage. On a corner of the lot I moved a 12x20 garage for the yard stuff.I have 1 stall open for working on something. Right now I'm thinking about putting a pole buiding up next to the 12x20. My shop needs more cabinets. The stuff on the shelfs get really dirty, and my tools are all over the place. I should have built a bigger shop.

24 x 24 with 12 foot high walls that I built earlier this year. I can't describe how great it is to have a nice, well lit place to work on the elky after either having to "borrow" garage space or do work in the driveway for years. Now, if I only had a lift...

How much does a pole barn run? lets say a 30X30 insulated pole barn cost?

-Eric

I have a two car garage. I use to keep my boat there along with the Wife's car. After the 76 came along the 76 went there, the boat moved and the Wife's car stayed. Now that I'll have the 80 and the 76 there the wife's car must go.

I have a mixed bag of blessings just outside. I have a very large shade tree which covers the entire driveway where I can work on em outside. But then with that really nice tree I get the blasted birds that crap on anything clean.

I can't remember if I have had the boat at the lake since I have had the 76. It use to have a pretty nice cover on it. I need to go fishing!

YEA I KNOW THE FEELING THAT YOU NEVER HAVE A BIG ENOUGH GARAGE!!!! I BUILT A 30X40 AND NOW I WISHED THAT I BUILT A 30x60, JUST DONT HAVE ENOUGH ROOM.

Well I got a three car garage but with 7 cars it is not enough. I have to put out my nice car in the middle of winter to work on my beater and in Wyoming you can't work out side. If you wish to know I got three 1968 El Caminos one 1969 El camino 1970 Nova , 1972 Monte Carlo, and 1969 Firebird. Drive the El Camino's every day rain or snow.

My son and I are fortunate enough for the time being to have a 3 car garage for his body off project. And it has pretty well taken over the garage! A few weeks ago the body went back on the frame, that saves a lot of space, but right now we have the fenders, doors and hood all spread out. You can never have enough space can you?

I'm pretty luck to live in Hawaii where we can actually work outside year round. I laid out a 20X40 concrete slab in the back of my house and made a concrete drive from the front of the house to the slab. At first I used to work under a tarp until the neighbors complained so I built a permanent roof over the slab and I also added a 14X20 steel building for secure storage and equipment. I have a 60 gallon/6hp compressor, sandblast cabinet, 220v mig welder, mid level hydraulic lift, and all the tools I need. I can work on two cars at the same time. I'm really happy with my "workshop" since I can finally do all the things with my cars that I always wanted to do, the only thing I need is more time.

just bought a new house with a 1 car attached garage and carport with a second detached very large garage in the back. the detached only has one garage door but I think I can fit my '79 and my seadoo's in there.

I have a one car carport to work in with a sloped driveway infront of it and here in a couple of weeks I will be swapping engines from a donor car into mine. Talk about needing more room maybe I can borrow a garage

I have a small shop and a carport too. Here's a link to my shop pics....
http://www.72ss454elcamino.com/shop.htm

SS454 i like your shop, Thats the kind of shop i'd always wanted , though i wouldn't mind having a lift :D

-Eric

My garage is supposedly 2 car, but they would both have to be compacts. My Dodge Ram sure wouldn't squeeze in there when my wife's van was in there. Right now it just hold my Sprint and all the other junk we own that has no place in the house (which is taking up half the garage). I wish now I had had more outlets run and an air compressor installed when the house was being built. Guess I'll have to get off my butt one weekend and run some wire. :cool: