Me and the old man have been busy sorting out our garage as over the years it's been getting incredibly disorganised and as we have a couple of our own projects in the pipeline (Complete Series 1 E-Type 4.2 FHC restore + my own seven style track car) it made sense that we look at sorting the mess out. It will allow us do work on our other cars and as i'm moving back home it will be the place for me to learn skills off my father. Hes had around 30 years experience in the motor trade from bodywork repair at various coachworks, repairing and finishing at official Porsche repair centres as well as being an inspector and team leader at Vauxhalls and IBC vehicles final finish line for around 15 years.
Needless to say i'll be learning from the best and the garage will be my playground where i'll be learning how to spray cars, finish to the highest standards, learn how to weld, fix dents as well as correcting paint defects/moping.
Anyway here are the pics for the first portion of this thread, the garage clean up.
Part 1: Garage Organising
The car is usually parked in there but as you can see we have already started to move things around. It's a lovely double garage which has ample space for single car projects.
We started to erect some simple shelving units to contain all our cleaning materials, polishes and other random items.
One of the shelving areas has been put up and as you can see filled up very quickly. There is still a lot of clutter which will be organised properly later.
It was getting quite late so we tidied up as much as we could in order to get the car in for the night, as you can see even my lovely mother got stuck in! Shes now retired but also has 20 years experience in the motor trade, working mainly at the Vauxhall factory firstly making and fitting the car interiors and later moving into the engine production line. The only mother I know who can build you a V6 Vauxhall motor from all the separate components
If I end up putting a Vauxhall lump in my seven you can guess who i'll be asking for assistance!
Starting to look very clean.
Lot of crud and mess still on this side of the garage.
Mounting our bikes and the nephews bikes on the wall has cleared up a lot of space as well as mounting gardening tools on the wall.
More shelving gone up with lots of empty red containers which will be useful and ready for nuts and bolts when taking cars apart/organising bits and pieces.
Clear plastic containers were bought from Focus, allows us to keep items clean such as sponges, polishing clothes, the various polishing wheels and also the long box contains the rotary polishing machine and other bits and pieces. Work bench also acquired as well as a heavy duty vice. We had a couple of metal cabinets from the Vauxhall factory closure and Clarkes trolleys which will be handy in the future.
More shelving put up on this side of the garage, ample room for all the tool boxes.
These two shelves dedicated to mainly car products, the above shelves for household and gardening liquids.
Needless to say i'll be learning from the best and the garage will be my playground where i'll be learning how to spray cars, finish to the highest standards, learn how to weld, fix dents as well as correcting paint defects/moping.
Anyway here are the pics for the first portion of this thread, the garage clean up.
Part 1: Garage Organising
The car is usually parked in there but as you can see we have already started to move things around. It's a lovely double garage which has ample space for single car projects.
We started to erect some simple shelving units to contain all our cleaning materials, polishes and other random items.
One of the shelving areas has been put up and as you can see filled up very quickly. There is still a lot of clutter which will be organised properly later.
It was getting quite late so we tidied up as much as we could in order to get the car in for the night, as you can see even my lovely mother got stuck in! Shes now retired but also has 20 years experience in the motor trade, working mainly at the Vauxhall factory firstly making and fitting the car interiors and later moving into the engine production line. The only mother I know who can build you a V6 Vauxhall motor from all the separate components
If I end up putting a Vauxhall lump in my seven you can guess who i'll be asking for assistance!
Starting to look very clean.
Lot of crud and mess still on this side of the garage.
Mounting our bikes and the nephews bikes on the wall has cleared up a lot of space as well as mounting gardening tools on the wall.
More shelving gone up with lots of empty red containers which will be useful and ready for nuts and bolts when taking cars apart/organising bits and pieces.
Clear plastic containers were bought from Focus, allows us to keep items clean such as sponges, polishing clothes, the various polishing wheels and also the long box contains the rotary polishing machine and other bits and pieces. Work bench also acquired as well as a heavy duty vice. We had a couple of metal cabinets from the Vauxhall factory closure and Clarkes trolleys which will be handy in the future.
More shelving put up on this side of the garage, ample room for all the tool boxes.
These two shelves dedicated to mainly car products, the above shelves for household and gardening liquids.
Good job!
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