Projects bilding a motor inside your house

Rebuilt 1 Ford 4 in my second floor apartment kitchen .Built a Truimph chopper and a Honda Dream in my step dads 1st floor apartment.built a second Ford 4 in the dining room of our new house.I can still get away with some small parts work in the kitchen but now I have other suitable areas to work.My brother in law built his T bucket here in what is now our den during the winter of 1962 then this was part of a large addition being done and wasn't much more than a shell attached to the house.He sold the T got Pilot training with the money and has since built several Experimental Aircraft in the basement of his Cromwell Ct. home

 

OT but I helped a friend recover a stolen ATV once. 13 year old thief needed to hide it from his mom, so he put it in the unfinished attic. You know, with a pull down folding staircase and insulation laying all over the place. It sure looked funny perched up there reassembled.

 

Thats what im talking about, That reminds me of when i was a kid and my dad had his bike

 

350 TPI motor on the 11th floor balcony when I lived in an apartment building. Dining room was full of doors and other parts for my V8 Astro Van project at the time too. They seemed to have a hard time getting it rented after I gave notice....

 

Built a couple of VW engines in the house.......

In '73 did the first one on the kitchen counter in a small house that we were renting. We had a co-worker of my wife come over for dinner and the look on her face was priceless.

The second one I did on a card table in the living room of the house we have been in since we bought it in '74. That one was sitting there when we had my cousin's family over for Thanksgiving Dinner in '76. Got some strange looks, but it was for their car so they couldn't say too much. The house has an attached two car garage, but ya need a clean place to put an engine together and back then there was just too much stuff in the garage to trip over.

 

hell i was 14 before i relized not everyone had a harley motor on there coffee table. got a gmc 6-71 under my endtable now with a 6 2 barrle upper and a lower for a nailhead. my son bed room has a c4 vette tail panel and a 73 camero front end on his wall

 

Thats fine but most of these pictures i see are guys building their stuff in nice houses and stuff and they look like should be able to afford a small garage. I'm a die hard motor fan and have been around them my whole life but building one in your house or your kitchen like some of these guys have done is just a little bit too extreme would you agree

 

naa more fun to have them inside

 

Those shots are poster-worthy!!!!!!

B

 

When my buddy and I started racing we didn't have a garage so we built our first few BBC's in his bedroom. I built a big and small block I'm my bedroom but me mom drew the line when I started washing parts with gas.
Years later when we were on tour with the fuel car we did some work in the motel room, the motel manager wasn't as understanding as my mom was.

 

I know some jackass that lived in my house before me tore his engine(s) down in our house....and even set a tranny up on the kitchen island....which broke it. When they moved out, every piece of carpet in here was covered in oil, the walls had grease on them. They were morons. The craziest part is that the garage is 35X30. More than enough room to do that shit. Even has super nice work benches built in. The owners had to drop 25 grand remodeling...putting everything in this house back brand new. Good for me....shitty for the owners. I'll keep my motors in the garage. I have pulled my bike in the house when I was younger. On cardboard. Never stained anything, but I would rather replace a section of carpet than my bike.

 

built a 289 in the spare bedroom, plastic sheeting on the floor, it was like an Operating Room in there! It was a bit cumbersome to wheel the stand out through the hallway, through the kitchen, out the door into the carport.

I'll do it again too...

 

Oh wow! I am in love, thatis super sweet! I used to have Ducatis of the same vintage, well maybe a little earlier.
But that Trumpy is just right!
Doc.

 

I've built a few in the house. I had a triumph chopper in the house as I had no garage. we had a party and I started it up and did a long burnout in the dining room. Took the tile to the hard wood. The house filled up with smoke and the girlfriend of the week was freaking out hard. Everybody else was amazed someone would do something like that for real.
I thought it was just another "day at the office"
Hmm, another triumph in the house story......

 

A friend once hauled a Merc 390 up the outside stairs of his Mothers apartment.The engine was apart at that point.He rebuilt it over the winter in a corner of the kitchen.The floor in that corner dropped an inch or so.He is a big strong dude,and with the help of an even bigger pal they took the engine down the stairs on a toboggan.Of course it got away.No real harm done,but not the smartest thing ever.

 

I can't believe we are still discussing this.
Look OUTSIDE your house.
What do you see?
Dirt, darkness, rain, snow, spiders, neighbors shaking their fists at you...and no place to plug in power tools.
Whyinhell would you build an engine out there??
Inside rules.

 

I had a 26 T Roadster body in the kitchen & a 42 Harley in the laundry - does that count? I've still got some Merc rims stored in the kitchen next to the dishwasher - my wife is very understanding......

 

I built a 73 Triumph T150T Trident in my 3rd floor apartment kitchen. I was a chore getting that thing down the stairs.

I also built a couple of transmissions, a smallblock and 2 -235 inliners in my house.

Right now I got a motercycle, 3 transmissions, 4 wheels, 2 mounted tires, my chevy's interior,an air compressor, a 56 chevy rearend, and about 150 other parts in my "office".

I have a very cool wife.

 

just brought home a roll a round, hand made, one made out of whatever could be found, the best kind, used to belong to someone at the plant who died, going to put foam on top and make a rolling dash stand so i can finish my dash. my wife will be thrilled to get it off of the coffee table

 

Started with VW motors on my grandmothers mahogany coffee table. Moved onto vw motors in the basement. I tortured my mother several times with helping me get engines out of the basement. Several bikes were built on the side porch and then rolled through the house. One was ridden through the house. I'm glad she had a sense of humor.
Nowadays there has been the kids pocketbikes and quads built in the dining room. Several engine parts have gone through the dishwasher(work really well but clean the evidence). There is one 392 in the basement that I have no idea how the hell i'm getting it out without tearing it back down. Over the years I've achieved half of the "older and wiser" goal.

 

Assembled my first motor in my parents basement, 355 sbc, and carried the short block up the stairs to the garage..... Obviously younger than now.

 

I built a Honda 750 engine in my friends living room. Not quite a car engine but an engine none the less.

 

never a motor or anything like that but when i was building my 34 my moms computer room was my parts room and ive wet sanded a few stearing columns and grille shells in the bath tub along with a few other parts

 

I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old my mom put together a 283 in the living room... my dad wouldn't let her do it in the carport cuz "it made the yard look bad". Lots of parts have been through the dishwasher, too... Man, how lucky am I to have a mom like that...

 

Now I remember why I hate you.
I've rebuilt a turbo and a carb or two but never an entire engine, I think id be single if I ever did.....hmmmmm now there's a thought.

 

your mom sounds cool, wish i had a mom like that.

 

mr moriarity you are my hero

 

more stories, there where some good ones.