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The biggest reason I have for not building something cool is I have no-where to build it. I hope to be moving job soon so all going to plan I will have some cash but I cannot find anywhere to work on it.
The Mother in law has a garage but I wanna avoid it as I am sure my mother in law is the one Les Dawson used to get all his material from!
Work is out of the question as the management insist we pay to work on our own cars (£30 an hour for me to work on my own car. For £30 I'd expect a better mechanic than that!)
Which leads me to ask the question... Where do you do yours?
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Driveway.
Garage is too full of wibblepoo!
I do have a considerably larger than average driveway to work with though....
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1997 TVR Chimaera 2009 Westfield Megabusa
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markbognor
South East
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Club RR Member Number: 56
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The work on the benz has been done in the layby outside my old flat, come the summertine the front garden (just big enough to stand a car on) at our new house will be pulled up for a hardstanding.
Smaller things, like my old bike are built in the workshop I teach in. Alas, they blocked up the roller door and filled the pit a long time before i arrived.
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work if I need it(and I don't get charged 30 quid, the robbing t**ts) luckily we have a sprayer at work, so that makes it easy , or road if it's a small job, the merc is on a mates back garden at the min, so thats where some of the work(when I start) will be done
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1984 merc 190E - in need of a little love
1991 vauxhall nova - was stolen by a 16 year old chav
1996 ren megane - in a ditch
now camping it up in a mk5 transit camper
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usually out in the street. occasionally on the street at mrstigmas. and if its a really big job requiring more tools and skill than i have, in phoenixC's garage or yard. my garage is about 1/4 mile from the house, with little room and no electric, so is mostly used as car and parts storage.
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I'm lucky as i have an 18x28 foot garage.....but its a mess.
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The Doctor
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 48
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ahemm officer, i'm not spilling any gearbox or diff oil on the ground. Honest! ;D
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Have carried out essential repairs in the street outside the flat before but the local sprogs try to nick everything as soon as you turn your back. Snap-on spells smack to them! The work used to let you work on your own car after work for free but now we have a 'Carbon footprint manager'!(I 5h1t you not!) who insists lights, heating compressors are turned off outside working hours. The only option is to book it in and pay the discounted labour rate during working hours! Fu*king Nazi b4stards! I'll be glad to see the back of them!
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Smaller things, like my old bike are built in the workshop I teach in. Alas, they blocked up the roller door and filled the pit a long time before I arrived. We've still got a car bay! Hardly used for car related things anymore but will be pulled back into action soon
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1997 TVR Chimaera 2009 Westfield Megabusa
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harris66
Part of things
drive it, break it, fix it and make it quicker!
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where do i work on mine? usualy where ever it breaks down!!!!
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1.2 corsa daily, 1.8t a4 avante, 6.3ltr austin a40....
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I used to work on the car in the street when at uni but I hated it as I had to watch all my tools and couldn't leave the car for a minute not to mention having to cone off an area around my legs (protruding from under the car), now I work on the drive well away from the road and soon my brother and i will have a purpose built garage dedicated to nothing other than car stuff, I will be ordering the blocks and cement any day now so should have finished building it in time for summer.
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i have the workshop though no work being done on any of mine in it at the mo as we're currently doing spykes chevette at the mo will be painting it on the 8th as i want to get that and Mrs Nightmaresracings polo done and painted by wheels day
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in a unit that i can barely afford to rent, that makes me skint each month, thats miles from my house, thats cold, that leaks etc etc...
..but thats being devoted to the cause i guess!
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Mr S
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10-4 Good buddy.
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Currently either my driveway, or my spare double garage... Although that's mostly full of curse word at the minute as it's at my sisters house.... I've just demolished my single garage ready to build my double length (plus), double width garage
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Suzuki GSXR1000 K2 BMW R1150GS BMW K1200RS Chevy K5 Blazer Chevy Suburban LT Jaguar XKR
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Odin
Posted a lot
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On the drive usually. I've got a single garage but it isn't big enough to work on a car in.
I've done a couple of jobs at friends garages where they have air tools and lots of space - much nicer!
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I've built and fitted a new custom wiring loom to a friends car on her majesty's highway before! You do what you have to don't you?
Best to plan your project around the resources you have. If you are going for that Wagon R idea, plan for fairly easy mods that you can do in short working periods, not leaving the car looking unroadworthy overnight.
You can do anything if you try.. But its still best not to set yourself up for more than you feel capable of taking on. Biting off more than you can chew just gets you depressed when the project is going nowhere for ages.
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not having space to work is no excuse really - as i have too much space and still can't produce anything worthy that space being an old cracked farmyard, an open fronted covering (like a huge lean-to) with 4 cars in it, a barn that holds up to 3 cars or 1 in bits like now, a garage for 1 car, a workshop, a dry parts shed, another huge shed that used to be a creamery, another shed that used to be a animal shed of some kind but now has the worlds biggest CZ parts haul in it, and another 4 small sheds i'm forbidden from filling. oh and a 1/2 acre field to put parts cars in (or drive them round pulling the handbrake in the mud, y'know) like i say, that space plus 3 generations of tool accumulation (dedicated work areas with bench drill, lathe, blasting cabinet etc) and still no talent = no car i can call finished.
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A car-less neighbour with a big, flat(ish) driveway is nice enough to let me use it to work on and store my car, she even makes me tea sometimes ;D I moved the car into the road to take the waterpump off though. I'd love a nice garage.
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Last Edit: Mar 2, 2008 22:37:31 GMT by 14500rpm
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not having space to work is no excuse really - as I have too much space and still can't produce anything worthy that space being an old cracked farmyard, an open fronted covering (like a huge lean-to) with 4 cars in it, a barn that holds up to 3 cars or 1 in bits like now, a garage for 1 car, a workshop, a dry parts shed, another huge shed that used to be a creamery, another shed that used to be a animal shed of some kind but now has the worlds biggest CZ parts haul in it, and another 4 small sheds i'm forbidden from filling. oh and a 1/2 acre field to put parts cars in (or drive them round pulling the handbrake in the mud, y'know) like I say, that space plus 3 generations of tool accumulation (dedicated work areas with bench drill, lathe, blasting cabinet etc) and still no talent = no car I can call finished. 8-)This place is as cool as a freezer in the North Pole.
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Very true. I think I am just used to working in a big reasonably equipped garage. Wagon R idea is on the backburner for now as decent ones are out of my price range and I need to sort out paintwork for what I have in mind which would blow the budget, be near impossible outside (Sprogs trying to nick paint, horizontal rain!) So this week I have been mainly thinking about E21 BMWs. My possible new employer is the largest BMW dealer in Scotland so an old Beemer might help me fit in?! And I like the E21 shape more than E30/E36 models. Will see how it goes if I get the job. Could be a Toyota 'Rolla for sale soon!
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