How do we single car garage/no garage Charger Owners work on our cars?

[Dans 68]

My problem has always been lack of space to do my projects. I have worked on cars on my driveway my whole life, and it is not clear that this will ever change. I would love a 3 or 4-car garage to work on cars but need to make do with a single car garage. The thread on "Total cost for your restoration" http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,3797.0.html kicked a thought into my head that I would have a difficult time doing a major restoration on a car due to my lack of storage/work space. I am thus needing a relatively whole car (minor sheet metal work, running gear work, etc.) that can survive the elements as it would generally need  to live outside. So most of my costs would have to be up front in buying a car that is already put together.

How do you garage deficient Charger owners do it? A friends garage? Do you rent space? Do one panel at a time and hope the neighbors don't mind? Or are you single and don't have a wife that gets cold and needs a warm garage in which to park her car? I would really like to know. And thanks for playing.

Dan

[69bronzeT5]

Single car garage full of stuff such as a lawnmower, dirt bikes, a chopper motorcycle, boxes and etc etc

[terrible one]

When it was in the garage I'd have to use a bicycle pump to air up the tires so I could roll it outside and work on it. And really, that wasn't so bad. Still, if it wasn't a roller it would have been pretty much impossible I would think, depending on what you were trying to do.

. . .  but then I got a storage building that I rent with electricity, a.k.a. my "shop!"

MUCH BETTER!  Still, sometimes I have to roll it out for ultimate mobility, painting, etc.

[dukeboy_318]

im using a two car garage but its filled full of my grandmothers craft stuff from when she was in the crafts business a couple years ago, so its really a one car garage, car is stored in the barn about 150 yards from the garage, so it gets pulled out to be washed and tinkered on,  we got several old, i mean old narrow buildings that im thinking bout renovating into a bigger shop at some point. 

[Ghoste]

I have a shop that I rent with a couple of buddies on the outskirts of town but they store their cars in it and so if I'm doing anything, I have to move one of the others out.  If I'm going to have it tied up for awhile, then I have to bring one of the other cars home and put it in my garage.  Consequently, I've learned to do a LOT of stuff in my single car garage at home mostly out of convenience.  Since my rent is proportional to not storing a car there, it's no big.
I do miss the big well equipped shop from the farm I grew up on.  My parents retired and sold the place to move into town and the folks who bought it weren't into letting me continue using it. 

[hemihead]

I have a Carport and it sucks. I put more time and money into repairing the Carport every spring than I think my car. Then I have to redo some of the work on the car that I did in the Fall.

[69hemi]

I redid an old chicken coop out back for about 10K and got a 22x60 foot shop out of it with heat, AC and a bitchin stereo.  I would have rather spent the money on the car but you have to have a place to work and a little spent there will make every job you do that much easier.

[plum500]

Half of the effort in doing up my Charger will have involved working on a place to do the work. I've got a single car garage, but it was a carport that was converted - so it's got about 6 extra feet of space to one side, and at least that much up front too. Then (the house is 40+ years old) at some point someone hacked on a bit of a work area at the back, in addition to that. However, I still haven't been organized nearly  - place has been a mess, and the garage itself has needed a lot of work inside and out to gain control of the space and get a bit of climate control. I'm still in the middle of that. THEN I will start work on the car

Had planned to do a bunch of stuff this summer, but, well, we didn't have one, so work outside wasn't much of an option either.

Anyhoo, I just finished moving a whole bunch of stuff out to my new shed last night. Most encouraging progress I think I've made so far Managed to get some power run out there before this place turned into Siberia (about a month and a half before I expected it would  ).

Also burned a bunch of crap I ripped off the old roof/ceiling last night too.

[70 Charger RT]

I use my double car garage but I have to remove the wifes car out when I want to work so there's room to move.  Once I get my 47x60' shop up next year, there'll be lots of room

[Old Moparz]

I didn't always have my own garage, that only happened 10 years ago. Before that, I had used a small, 1 car garage while I was living at my mother's house from the time I started driving in 1980, to about 1986. Then I had rented various garage space at various locations. All that pretty much sucked, & made any progress on the car come to a halt, or just move at a snail's pace. Most places I rented were for storage only since the owners didn't want the space used for work. When I got sick of not having the car at my own house that I bought in 1989, I bought a portable Cover It garage & used that until I built the garage I have now.

I sure as heck don't miss working on an old car in a gravel driveway in the middle of winter. 

[alfanta]

wow, be thankful for what space you have. check out what i have to deal with... and troy, i know you tole me not to tear it apart, but i couldnt help myself. I got a daytona anyways 

[PocketThunder]

Can you add onto the side of your one car garage?    Or are you land locked with the easement to the property line?  Can you add onto the back of the garage and have a tandem 2 car?  Just tell your wife it wont be so bad parking on the street, tell her that my wife parks on the street and I have 2* Chargers in a 3 car garage in Minnesota where its below Zero for weeks at a time.. 

Here is my garage  http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,30720.0.html

Paul
In St. Paul







* soon to be down to one Charger...   right Dan      

[68charger383]

I have a two car carport, usually can't work on the car until the wife goes out with the kids for an hour or two at a pop. So not much gets done.

My biggest problem is that my carport seems to be a magnet for black widows. Makes you think twice before sticking your hand blindly around the car.

[BMOTOXSTAR]

Single car garage full of stuff such as a lawnmower, dirt bikes, a chopper motorcycle, boxes and etc etc

I could help you make more work space by taking that dirt bike off your hands.
Looks like a vintage Honda 50?

[69bronzeT5]

Single car garage full of stuff such as a lawnmower, dirt bikes, a chopper motorcycle, boxes and etc etc

I could help you make more work space by taking that dirt bike off your hands.
Looks like a vintage Honda 50?

Its a '77 Honda 50....and sorry, my uncle already has dibs on it for my cousins

Man, I'm in the need for a new dirt bike....not right now though, spending money on the Charger but my current dirt bike is a '77 Honda XR75 thats been in the family since new!

[Dans 68]

Can you add onto the side of your one car garage?    Or are you land locked with the easement to the property line? 

Easement problems, of course (during working hours I'm a contractor...all my knowledge does me no good when talking to the building department.  )

Can you add onto the back of the garage and have a tandem 2 car? 

The kitchen at the end of the garage nixes any extensions.    I told my wife that we should add a second story, with an extreme roof pitch, and add a lift in the garage so we can put two cars in it. She fell to the floor and did this...

Just tell your wife it wont be so bad parking on the street, tell her that my wife parks on the street and I have 2* Chargers in a 3 car garage in Minnesota where its below Zero for weeks at a time.. 

You tell her. She was born in Minneapolis so you both should get alone fine.   

Here is my garage  http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,30720.0.html

Sure, rub it in. Someday....

* soon to be down to one Charger...   right Dan      

Absolfrigginlutely.    The New Year will bring some quality lifestyle changes...

Dan

[resq302]

Well, I have a kind of advantage on my side.  We have one of those Cover-it Garages that is 12' high, 20' deep, and 12' wide.  Inside this garage is a 4 post lift that we double stack my charger and el camino.  The lift is the BEST investment we have ever made.