Art & Inspiration Virtual Shop Tours... Lets See Yours!

Here’s a still for now. I will try to get a video walk through, but first I have to clean up a bit to make sure I can actually walk through [emoji6]

It’s not nearly this organized right now. The picture was after first moving in. This next picture is more current.





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@Petejoe posted this one on another thread and thought I’d add it here

 

We shall see if this works, if so thanks Tim.
canadian tractors and hot rods
That does not look like it is a hot link so try a youtube search for that heading.

 

Here’s mine.


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There ya go @hemiorange

 

Love the ceiling in shop!

 

Love all the tractors especially the Case stuff......also, thanks for the explanation and rationale on the "farm truck".

 

No matter what you have, some will have less, some will have more. We all like what we have.

 

Really enjoying seeing where everyone builds their cool shit.


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Ok. I'll take the photo and text approach. (And I'll sneak in a few photos of my next door neighbor's shop. Most of you know who he is.)

Folks who drop into my shop often walk away more amused by what's on the walls and the stories behind them, than impressed by the outrageous hot rod sitting in the middle of it all.

Here's a tiny sample of my favorite conversation starters that live in my little garage.

First -- ta da! a hot rod! My '34 5 window Ford coupe. The engine's about seven years past the H.A.M.B. line of demarcation, sorry!

For more info go to https://patganahl.com/2018/10/05/the-hot-rod-next-door/. Pat is my neighbor, he wrote that piece about me and my project. I wish he'd give a tour of his shop -- yup, it's waaaay cooler than mine.




Below: after I sold my muscle car in '87, I needed a speed substitute. So I took up skydiving in the 90's. Gee, that was smart. In my defense; my wife was Ok with it, and even happily took the photo at the top left of me landing. She thinks I'm normal. No, she never skydived but... she loves hot rods. Her dad was an outlaw street racer in the 1970s who let his speeding tickets pile up until he had to do jail time. Somehow, I think that's, well, kinda cool.



Thankfully, my little boy has yet to look up and see those photos of me skydiving. For now all he sees is the "cool car", as he calls it, in the middle of the garage. He thinks it's his. I think it is, too. He looks waaaay better in it than I do. And he's not afraid of it having three pedals. Good kid.



And now my personal favorite conversation starter in the shop; Elvis Presley.

This is a crappy fan photo showing Elvis leaving the International Inn in Tampa Florida, headed to his September 13, 1970 concert in town there. I grew up down the street from the Inn, freeloading in their pool on an almost daily basis. One day in September 1970 my mom grabbed my brothers and I from the pool and said "Let's go see Elvis." Who? I was six years old.

We went to the back of the hotel where a limo and a gaggle of teenie boppers were waiting. Out came Elvis and his entourage. My mom went weak in the knees and shouted out "Elvis you're a living doll!". Cameras popped, and off Elvis went in his limo.

We took no photos that day. But several years ago I found this fully ID'd fan photo of that very moment in a fan publication. If one could magically zoom wider in that photo, you'd see a little six year old me standing bewildered at the spectacle.

Seven years after that hotel sighting while working, yes, in my childhood garage workshop my dad setup for my brothers and I, my AM radio crackled the news "the King is dead." I rushed inside, my mother was weeping at the kitchen sink. "Mom, what's going on? The king died? I thought we had a president." Yup. I really said that. Ladies and Gentlemen, a crappy photo of the King that means a lot to me;



Ok, here's a tiny glimpse of Pat Ganahl's garage, sort of.

Here, some neighbors and I are helping Pat move his 1959 dragster back into place after he had taken it for some runs at a track. Who's driving?





Below: I think this may be my favorite thing in Pat's garage. Yep, it works!



This is my boy and I hanging out with Pat a few years ago. That's his son Bill's '64 Riviera behind us -- Pat did the body and paint work on that.



Ok. Bug Pat if you want more. There's four really nice cars in there, and lots of cool stuff on the walls. His recent blog post about his model building room is a great piece about his model shop. (https://patganahl.com/2020/03/30/whats-on-your-model-table/)

Below: Attached the the back of my garage is a tiny, renovated workshop. I think it was a chicken coop in the 1930s. I renovated it as a hobby space -- I'm kinda into Ham radio for one. And I do some car stuff in here-- electronics stuff, usually. But since the big Coronovirus lockdown, I've had to work from home, so this little space is now home to my profession, where I work as a reality TV editor. Messy, aint it? What's that old saying "if a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the sign of an empty desk?"

Most recently I was finishing an episode of Deadliest Catch. I have also edited on Jay Leno's Garage. (and yes, I got to go there. Now THAT is a cool "garage"!!!!)



That intricate strand of blocks on the lower portion of the edit screen are the individual pieces of video and audio (dialog, ambience, sound fx, music) I select and assemble to form an hour long (well, 41:55 - the rest is for commercial space) program. These represent thousands of decisions I have to make to complete a single show over the course of two months. Sometimes I’m creating a 42 min program from hundreds of hours of raw footage. Sometimes more. (One of my showrunners told me that a 25 - 30 hour season of Deadliest Catch is edited from over 50,000 hours of raw footage. I call the final DNA-like locked cut strand “the stuff that headaches are made of”. Reality TV may seem simple, but editing shows like these is a major mental workout.



Here's the state of my coupe now. About to put it back together. I was about to crank up the engine before the Coronovirus thing hit. Might still do that, open headers and all, let everybody know what a garage should be used for. I suppose I might get some complaints -- save for Pat, who might just bust the six-foot social distancing rule and drop in if he hears this thing growling. And if anybody does complain, I'll take my late father's greatest lesson to heart. Dad was a fighter pilot. He used to keep this sign above his desk (far below). It's Latin. Translates to "don't let the bastards get you down."






Stay safe, y'all.

 

A bit cluttered right now.
But it’s the happy place I can’t wait to get back home from work to.
Usually take pictures like these before I leave. To geek out to while I am away.


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Another one of my buds



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I'm really digging that old, green chair!

 

Here’s another one of my guys,
I promise to talk him out of putting that engine that shall not me named in his ‘57


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Another one of the curbside free items that found it’s way home with me while walking the dog.
But thanks, I dig it too!


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Should I or should I not give a tour of my hole in the wall?

 

Should!


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Absolutely you should!

 

I am in the middle of converting old porcelain light fixtures to LED so I took some pictures while up in the rafters.

 

Epic!

 

Yes please! @Royalshifter

 

Mark (moriarity) wins, I think.
Just down the road from heaven.
Enjoyed seeing all your stuff, Mark. You did some really nice work on Public Nuisance.

Nice to see everybody's workspace and treasures. I look forward to sharing mine before very long. I'm completely starting over... and I have more to do before I'm finished transforming this 2 1/2 car garage into a functional and presentable workshop.
Finally... sink or swim... start on the Chrysler and it'll be my turn for show-and-tell.
You guys might actually see me do something. I might actually see me do something.

Come on guys... everybody... show us where the magic happens!

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Man, I love that yellow 3 window !

 

Please!

loving all these!
@BLAKE shy don’t you share that video of everything idling in the garage to get us drooling

 

Always spending time on stuff management. I guess I'm a hoarder.

 

C'mon Joel, don't be a tease! Give us the whole tour.

 

More? There's more?!?
More than a hot rod coupe, a GTX and a Duesenberg?
What the...?
LOL, that's awesome.

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Back before I closed my speed shop years ago,some things we'd do,I would kind of clean up one bay{had 3 bays}of my speed shop one time a month ,so we could hold club meetings. I look at old pics too find some shop pic's. but failed and run across this one,. So this is my poor add. Fact is most pic of cars I worked on are out side shop,it was always too messed up for inside pics most of the time. Yup,that's me doing too much talking as always with window behind me.
My guess would be about 1970?or earlyer