Barn filling up...shoulda built a bigger one..Doh.

[J_D]

Charley.............if you don't have enough room, I would be glad to store some of them here in Iowa.

[resto4u]

Very nice charley! Well done.... It's always nice to have a clean room and workshop separate. Let me know if you need a personal caretaker for a inhouse restoration shop. Roger

[427TJ]

It'd be fun to back that RG '69 L89 up against the far wall and fry the tires the length of the building. The floor's probably slick enough (and the '69 powerful enough and the belted tires hard and skinny enough) to get deep into third gear (at about 5 mph) by halfway. Just spin the tires right out the door. Yep, that'd be fun.

[All American Racer]

Poor guy can't afford shovels, weed whackers, kid's toys, bicycles, lawn mowers, lawn furniture, and all the other luxuries I have in my garage. Don't worry bud, your ship will come in.

[hugger_69]

Seems to be a common thing lately. I went to a friends place last night to look over his cars and he is also out of room. He has 11 in there and is about to build another shop to further his space. Very nice problem to have Charlie!

[Charley Lillard]

Very funny All American... My 6 car garage holds 2 cars and the other shop is filling up also. No matter how big you build you will be out of room in such a short time.

[Pantera]

I am in the planning stages of a new shop on the back of the house. I am trying to get it up to 4,000sf but may have trouble with the neighbors. One thing I am planning is to make it 2 stories tall. I can put a lot of parts upstairs and plan on having a car lift that will reach the upper level with a body or two.

I learned long ago that you can just never build one big enought. I built a 3,000 sf bodyshop bulding back in 1980 and it was not big enough quickly. Cars take up more room that you might think. That is if you want to be able to walk around them and not worry about opening the doors onto anothe car next to it. I did build it 2 stories tall and it was only cost me $4,000 more. I know it was a lot cooler in the summer with that tall roof.

I would love to hear what others have done that they would not do again? I know that I would not put skylights in the roof again! They sweat and drop water on the cars below. Buddy of mine suggested that I put them at the top of the wall just below the roof on each side.

Pantera

[budnate]

you allready know the obvious tricks but one that I saw last year was really cool and a affordable option..the guy had grabbed a lift gate off the back of a delivery truck. Grandpa bolted the track system to the outside wall...he could load up the gate run it up slide the stuff off upstairs into a hole and back down for another load when done it would fold up against the wall and stick out maybe 8" or so I was impressed as on this last garage I spent the extra money for custom rafters to have a storage area above the garage but only have one of those silly folding ladders for access..

[Canucklehead]

I'm also in the process of designing a garage. I wanted to build a second floor but was wondering how to get access to it. I was watching the biker build-off shows on the discovery channel and they had Arlen Ness's new shop on it, and he has a 4 story building. He has access to every floor via a ramp on the side of the building, but that takes up more space. I thought of a car elevator inside the building, but the ramp idea seems to be more practical.

[Pantera]

Ramps are a security problem. You have to have a way to lock each level that way.