Welcome to Pop's Garage!

Pop's Garage, not a real place, so don't look for it in the Yellow Pages, lol. Actually, my wife has called me "Poppa" since before we got married, and I thought it would be a good name for a garage if I were to ever open one. So I'm using it here.

On to the purpose of this blog. I love pretty much anything to do with cars. Mostly old muscle cars, classic trucks, mini trucks, diesel trucks, hot rods and some sport compacts. Some times, I either get to working on a project, or have ideas for one and I like to share the info with others. There are also times I am working on a car for someone and I need to complain about the engineers bad ideas, or rave about the good ones. So this is my place to do that.

A little background on me and my automotive experience. I have been driving since 1992, when I turned 16. I have worked in the automotive industry in some way since 1994, off and on, either selling parts, delivering parts, installing parts or making parts. I have been in to building custom cars for just as long. I have built about 10 cars of my own and helped my friends on dozens more in the past. I have been in 5 car clubs since I was 16, and president of 3 of those 5. The club names were Syndicate (Dayton, OH), Furious Stylez (president), Crossroads Customs, 0-60 of Dayton (President), and Positive Perception (President, current club my wife and I have been trying to start since '08).

So that's all about me. Later I'll post about some past, present and future projects. C-ya!


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Friday, January 8, 2010

New Garage/Barn/Workshop Plans - Just Dreaming

For the past few weeks, my mind has been running wild with plans and ideas for a new barn to replace the not-so-well-built one we have now. What we have now is 32'x40', uninsulated, leaky - wind and water, and the gambrel roof is deflecting about a foot and roof joists are pulling away from the beams. After the last few major wind storms we have had, a lot of the roof has blown off and I noticed a week ago that some of the gutter and downspouts have blown down. Also, it only has a dirt floor and 7 foot ceiling, poor lighting and a workshop and tack room that are unusable for anything other than storage of items that can't really be hurt by the elements. Plus we have or had a groundhog living under the floor of the tack room. As of right now, we store our golf cart, lawn tractor and my truck in there, along with some old engine parts and my engine hoist.

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