Hey all -- I just wanted to share the transformation of my fairly mundane garage into a kind of Porsche sanctuary. It might not yet be at "dream garage status," but I'm pretty happy with... well, just having a clean, organized, well-lit workspace.
After living with a cramped, dingy, and dirty one-bay garage with an asphalt floor for my 944 Turbo for a number of years, one of the selling points I looked for in a new house was a nice, big garage to call my own. The dirty little garage was literally impossible to keep clean, as the roof frequently leaked brown runoff right onto my car and left a coat of slime over everything. I tried to make the most of it, but after a few years, I was ready to move on.
When I bought my new-to-me house last October, it came with a lot of pluses: 2 acres, a screened-in back porch, a nice big shed... but being the car nut that I am, I was perhaps the most excited about finally having a real garage to work with. This is the view of my new garage when I started moving in during early October, with my Volvo wagon standing in for my Cayman S while it was being repaired:
As this nice little 356 Speedster (my cousin's; she let me borrow it to drive over my wedding weekend) shows, one bad thing about the garage is that its placement at the top of a hill means that leaves are constantly being blown onto the floor. I would have to do something about that...
In any case, after awhile, I started to set up the garage and make the most of that pegboard and those benches.
Still, I knew that I had a lot of work to do, and paint for the ceiling would be first.
There's plenty more to come. Next up: incremental improvement.