Garage / Workshop

The garage and workshop, when it all started (2003 to 2010)

Here in Canada, almost all individual house has a basement. This basement is often used as a storage area, play room for kids or workshop before it’s converted in actual rooms when, for example, family grows. In my case, this is the place where I store all the SM parts and where I work on these parts with a lot more space than in my little garage.

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Fortunately, there is some space

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I try to keep everything organized and clean

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After replacing my old PC, I used the old one here to view the SM documentation, mainly the parts catalogs

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Perhaps the best investment I made, a sandblasting cabinet, which makes a good work

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My painting room 😉

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The parts storage area

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I don’t have enough shelves, so there are parts everywhere

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There is more and more parts ready for reassembling, this is encouraging!

My garage is not very big, but it’s obviously essential for my restoration and maintenance tasks. I try to keep it in good shape. Here are some pictures taken in August 2005, after a makeover I made while it was empty.

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I put new paint on the floor and I also painted the lower part of the walls, which where still in rough concrete on one side and wood on the other

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The water outlet and drain are extremely useful, especially during winter

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This is a laboratory! But it will not stay as clean for long 😉

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I installed an automated door opening mechanism. Again, some long work hours to install it correctly

On September 2007, I have the opportunity to salvage some shelves at the company I work for. So it’s the occasion to reorganize the storage area in the basement.

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Two shelf lines replace the temporary tables I used before

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I save a lot of space

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But this way, it’s not as impressing as the tables full of zinc-plated parts 😉

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Behind the shelves, the “mess” area 😉

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Now with saved space, I can use the tables elsewhere, to take care of the seats for example

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The garage and workshop, today (since 2011)

In December 2010 everything changes because I found a house ideal for my automotive adventures. The house includes a workshop and a garage suitable to store and work on multiple cars. This is simply the house of my dreams 😉

Let’s start with the workshop section that was a machine shop before. It’s big and pretty well equipped, with a good lighting, a compressed air network and even a washroom. A lot of cleaning was needed, everything was greasy, even walls and windows.

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The SM section

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The parts section

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On the other side, this is the double garage, for the SM IE and the Jag.

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This is really fantastic to have all my cars at home

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The previous owner is a fan of the “Monster Garage” TV show, I have to find a way to remove what he wrote on one of the garage doors

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There is storage space everywhere, that’s great

In 2012, I repainted the garage and workshop floor, I painted the inside part of the garage doors (mainly to hide the inscription on one of them) and I installed a hydraulic lift. Yep, I was dreaming about such a tool for a long time and I finally decided to get one. So here are pictures of what it looks like.