[firehawkclone]

Well my shop is pretty bad (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) I don't get to come home very much, about 3 days a month. So this is how it ends up with the trash before and after an event. And a motor swap.......I'm off to work (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/banghead.gif)

What does yours look like? Maybe i won't feel so bad about mine (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/fir...one/Shop001.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/fir...one/Shop007.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/fir...one/Shop008.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/fir...one/Shop009.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/fir...one/Shop006.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/fir...one/Shop010.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/fir...one/Shop011.jpg

I collect alot of stuff

[CrashTestDummy]

The shop has been a dream of ours since before we bought our current place. It was one of the items on the list when we were house-hunting; enough property to build a shop. We now have 2.5 acres. We could have probably put it on less, maybe 1.5, but anything less, and things feel crowded.

It's been more than 10 years coming. The original plan was to deck out a second floor for a 'gameroom', glorified efficiency apartment where I could go to get cleaned up, or guests could sleep in so they don't have to deal with our mutts. The estimates with the gameroom were over the top.

It's 3200 square feet, with a 20X80 'carport' on one side. It's 20' high, so there's room for the gameroom in the future. Since we had the place built, and still had our cars in various storage, I decided to paint the floor while it was clean and empty. My wife and I and a friend cleaned, prepped and painted the floor in a 4-day weekend. We used U-Coat-It. I am quite pleased with the way it turned out.

The three covered cars were at three different storage units. We have a cover for the SVO, but it's kind of worn, and I'm putting it back together from the paint work.

Cost? In Texas, ~$137K. That didn't include fleshing out the power or the floor coating. We have 200 amp breaker in the shop, with power pulled to it, but I haven't put in outlets or lights yet. That'll probably be next after I get all the storage units emptied up and that monthly drain on the checkbook is gone. We have water to the outside of the shop. I'll probably build a small bathroom in the corner where we had them put in a frameout, just so I have water and facilities inside.

Right now, I'm trying to get a partial driveway poured, but concrete is obscene. Heck, 1/3 the cost of the building was in concrete alone. If I can get a driveway poured to where our gravel driveway ends, then I can park the race car/trailer and truck back there. Until then, the race car stays in the garage, and our daily drivers stay outside in the weather.

It's getting there, and it sure is cool to open the doors and see all our cars under one roof. Some day I'll get to work on them, and not the shop. ;-)

Kevin,

I know what you mean about organizing things. I added an additional level to the two storage racks we have today. Step 1: remove the stuff on the upper shelves so I could partially-disassemble them to start the move vertically. I think the extra shelf space up there will be quite handy. I only put light/stored stuff up there, like the spare dish racks for our home dishwasher and the original headlights for our 95 SS (we have export T85 lights in the car now).

Tomorrow I get some more plywood, cut it up, paint it so it will work in the new shelving unit I have to assemble tomorrow. Then we can bring some more crap home from storage.

This post has been edited by CrashTestDummy: Jul 26 2009, 03:18 AM