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Its the dead of winter and I'll be in my garage doing some deep cleaning and organizing as soon as its above 40. I no longer have an aging Mini which required monthly maintenance, and have replaced it with one that should keep my sockets in the tool box more often. That said, I want to put that energy into my space and not my Cooper.

Post some pics for inspiration. Even if you don't have a tidy and manicured space, I want to see where your Cooper lives!

I'll start. This pic shows my old JCW, but here it is. Its a 100 year old home with a garage from the 1920's thats was knocked down and rebuild in the 80's (using some of the old materials to have a garage inside a garage). Fits 4 mid sized cars when clean, but I've got 1 bay full of kids stuff, bikes, etc.. My garage was spotless until I bought a '76 Jeep CJ5 that needed lots of restoration. I've got bondo dust and buckets of fluid still occupying space even though the project is 1.5 years complete.

I want power wash the floors, scrub/paint the walls, mount a flat screen to watch the game, and get it to the point where framed vintage race posters wouldn't look out of place.







 
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no loft on left bay so the lift can go way up, I track the mini so it's getting worked on all the time

 
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here is all my junks


 
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Here are a couple pics of my garage area.



Here is my garage space.



My JCW getting a little sun in front his bay door.
 
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here is all my junks


I’m going to save this photo to show my wife next time she complains about cars taking up all the space in our garage. How do you even park those and get out? Crawl out the window? Cars on dollys? Nice collection!!
 
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Originally Posted by burley
Its the dead of winter and I'll be in my garage doing some deep cleaning and organizing as soon as its above 40. I no longer have an aging Mini which required monthly maintenance, and have replaced it with one that should keep my sockets in the tool box more often. That said, I want to put that energy into my space and not my Cooper.

Post some pics for inspiration. Even if you don't have a tidy and manicured space, I want to see where your Cooper lives!

I'll start. This pic shows my old JCW, but here it is. Its a 100 year old home with a garage from the 1920's thats was knocked down and rebuild in the 80's (using some of the old materials to have a garage inside a garage). Fits 4 mid sized cars when clean, but I've got 1 bay full of kids stuff, bikes, etc.. My garage was spotless until I bought a '76 Jeep CJ5 that needed lots of restoration. I've got bondo dust and buckets of fluid still occupying space even though the project is 1.5 years complete.

I want power wash the floors, scrub/paint the walls, mount a flat screen to watch the game, and get it to the point where framed vintage race posters wouldn't look out of place.







Giving the Mini an nice spark bath I see!
 
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My shed garage prior to getting stuffed to the gills for winter.


 
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Old 01-09-2018, 07:25 AM
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Giving the Mini an nice spark bath I see!
LOL, yeah. My buddy helped me work on the Jeep and wasn't watching how close he was. Didn't notice any damage.. Oh well, sold that R53 3 years ago.

Side note: Never sand bondo in your garage. That stuff gets everywhere!

 
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Nice collection and nice maximization of available space.
 
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no loft on left bay so the lift can go way up, I track the mini so it's getting worked on all the time
A lift? You must be a popular neighbor.
 
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My nice little shop 32 X60

Itsme Wayne's jcw




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Grand Daughter in her Mini!

 
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My nice little shop 32 X60
I could only wish, nice looking set up.
 
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How do you even park those and get out? Crawl out the window? Cars on dollys?

I just have to move the car outside to get whatever need, and always have to plan out which car I'll be driving and rotate it all around its a little pain sometime.
 
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I just have to move the car outside to get whatever need, and always have to plan out which car I'll be driving and rotate it all around its a little pain sometime.
You need some of these




http://rigging.com/dollies-and-skate...oaAopeEALw_wcB
 
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This is my garage, poor lighting and not very well insulated. Haha
 
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This is my garage, poor lighting and not very well insulated. Haha
Remarkable. I have almost the same one!


 
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Too cold and old to be doing much more than changing out tires, so this is my garage.
 
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It's heated and during the recent deep freeze in the northeast it turned out to be the warmest part of the house!


 
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It's heated and during the recent deep freeze in the northeast it turned out to be the warmest part of the house!



NICE!
 
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NICE!
Love the exposed beams! One day, I'll have a lift..
 
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One day, I'll have a lift..
Hang in there, burley. This is the kind of setup I dreamed about as a teen and then life happened. 50 years later I finally have it. Never give up hope!
 
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Hang in there, burley. This is the kind of setup I dreamed about as a teen and then life happened. 50 years later I finally have it. Never give up hope!
Is that an S2000 on the right?? Livin’ the dream, my friend..
 
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Is that an S2000 on the right?? Livin’ the dream, my friend..
FD RX-7 is my guess.
 
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Fridge, check. Massive speakers, check. Towering tools boxes, check. Nice setup!
 
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