Post a picture of your garage!

Redtail · Post by **Redtail** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:51 pm

I thought it'd be neat to start a thread where we post pictures of our garages.

Here's mine:

It's small, but I feel pretty dern lucky just to have a private garage in S.F.

Post by **ppeters914** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:06 pm

Haha! The 914 list recently did the same thing plus we voted on who's garage we liked best. One submission was a tree w/ a chainfall hanging from it; another was a 3-D CAD drawing of the garage one owner was planning to build.

The winner had a -HUGE- space w/ all the kewl tools plus several 911's and 914's. Everyone was extremely jealous.

Redtail · Post by **Redtail** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:12 pm

Good eye Alvin! My bro has a '73 Alfa GTV - we just replaced the clutch on it last weekend. Thankfully there were no shade-tree mechanics involved on that one.

Interestingly enough, parts for his Alfa cost about half what parts for the Datsun cost, and they're Italian!

wineguy · Post by **wineguy** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:41 pm

Between 2 roadsters, and the pile of roadster parts, I have no room for anything else. What a great problem to have!

Conner · Post by **Conner** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:53 pm

How is the 67.5 project coming along, Chuck?

Post by **ppeters914** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:26 pm

Okay, I saw the Alfa emblem, the beer bottle, and a multitude of other stuff, but what/where is the Alfa sump guard?

Redtail · Post by **Redtail** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:36 pm

The sump guard is directly to the left of my spare trunklid/luggage rack in the first photo. GTV's have an aluminum oil pan that hangs pretty low, so the guard bolts to the frame and protects that fragile pan. Here's a pic of the alfa if anyone is into that kind of thing...

C'mon let's see some more garages!

Redtail · Post by **Redtail** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:56 pm

Nice! who's black-plate 67.5?

Not a Ferrari infront of the alfa - it's a Porche 944.

Conner · Post by **Conner** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:07 pm

Okay, here it is, where the magic takes place...

Post by **ppeters914** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:08 pm

Geez....that "thing" to the left of the spare lid (hmmm, great idea!) looks like a coiled air hose to me, and all I see is a black void in front of the GTV.

How the heck are you seeing that level of detail Alvin? What monitor/video card/resolution you running?

Conner · Post by **Conner** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:37 pm

I have been parking the running vehicles in the driveway in recent weeks. When the frame is back on wheels I will store it away under the body stand, which is on wheels so I can move it side to side while I roll the frame in and out of the garage. That way I can park a car in the garage along with the roadster.

Post by **ppeters914** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:35 pm

Alvin,

You gotta be jerking my chain, ain't ya?

I can barely see that there's an object to the left of the trunk lid on the wall much less tell what it.

The only thing I see in front of the Alfa is the garage opening, and it's a black hole.

In the immortal words of Charlie Brown, "ARRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!"

TampaDatsun · Post by **TampaDatsun** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:33 pm

no datsun's in my garage (yet), but gives you some insight into my psyche...

Mild mannered suburban home...

along comes a motor swap weekend...

when it was done (or nearly so)...

and if I hadn't learned my lesson the first time, I had to do it again...
out with the old...

in with the new...

Post by **dbrick** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:28 pm

Two things
1. Andy's garage is bigger than my house.
2. Alfa parts cast half as much, but you need twice as many

(Kidding, I love Italian cars)

wineguy · Post by **wineguy** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:56 pm

Andy,

The 67.5 is the pile of parts. Havent had much time to work on it, been traveling for work. Body is about ready to come off, just a few more things to do. I like the body support, very nice. Do you have the blueprints? Your project is coming along great!

I need to see it some day.