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RE: The Garage

To: "'Terry Williams'" <t.williams@mrg.ca>, "'spridgets@autox.team.net'" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: The Garage
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 09:10:50 -0700 charset="iso-2022-jp"
Where is the HOIST?  jeez!!!
Boy I'm ready to worship.....   The shrine thing.....
Sounds like a little piece of heaven.
David L. Vrba
'62 Sprite MKII
Dublin, CA


-----Original Message-----
From Terry Williams [mailto:t.williams at mrg.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 6:17 AM
To: 'spridgets@autox.team.net'
Subject: The Garage


I love this thread! As I may have written previously, when we bought this 
house 6 years ago - there was no garage, so I had one built. The 'Garage 0' 
M' Dreams'...

- 24 x 30 - fits two Bs, a Midget, benches, shelves, and still room to 
swing the proverbial cat (uh-oh)
- obligatory octagonal window
- power outlets in the ceiling, two separate banks of breakers
- waist-high plugs every six feet all the way around...'cept for the 
door....(which just got it's automatic opener - no more trying to call 
ahead to get someone to open the door in the rain!) again, on three 
separate circuits
- had a clothes dryer vent mounted in the foundation near the door to act 
as exit for exhaust hose, for those rare occasions when a car has to be run 
with the door closed. This also works as a vent for my little paint booth, 
simply attach the length of dryer hose that runs from the mini booth.
- 220 curcuit for the ceiling mounted warehouse heating unit (doubles as a 
fan in summer)
- a 220 curcuit, wired to 110 specifically for my compressor
- a BF sound system, AM, FM, CD, Cassette
- phone
- cable outlet (for those Sunday morning F1 races - lug the wife's mini TV 
out there)
- rigged up a pulley system to hang the B and Midget hardtops from the 
ceiling. I have several noggin marks from the height adjustment period...
- the bench runs almost the full width of the back wall, once again with 
plugs about every 3 feet, again on separate circuits from the ceiling and 
other walls..
- and most important - SMOKE/FIRE AND CARBON MONOXIDE ALARMS! Plus two 
extinguishers, as someone mentioned, at each end of the garage.
- I was fortunate to still have a lot of wall space, even with shelving all 
over the place, so the finishing touch - Automobilia! I have an MG steering 
wheel collection(6), grilles from a B, a Z Magnette, and a MG 1300. A large 
silk-like showroom banner from '64 and the introduction of the B ("All new 
from stem to stern.."), two large metal 'service' signs - one with the BMC 
rosetta, the other the Leyland 'L', licence plates from every car I've ever 
owned, all kinds of metal signs and posters, including one from the 
'92/'93? CART season, personally autographed by Scott Goodyear - the year 
he missed Indy by the proverbial - hair....(He's a Canadian, eh? Wasting 
away in the Indy League, but I digress..)

Last summer, with time on my hands, I replicated the MG logo as used on the 
radio blanking plate - and painted it on one section of the wall - it's 
about 6' long, 2 1/2 feet high....the logo, not the wall....

All in all, it's a great place to be...the neighbours think it's some kind 
of shrine...

Well...yeah...

This is after years and years of a) no garage b) crappy garages w/ no room

Terry 'Taking The Rest Of The Week Off To Play In Said Edifice" Williams
'70 BGT
'68 MG roadster
'77 Midget

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