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    johnboy is offline CHR Member Visit my Photo Gallery
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    Car Year, Make, Model: `47 Ford sedan, A.C.Cobra replica.
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    Thanks for the kind words people.
    The shot from the mezzanine shows the stillages that hold all my lengths of steel, pipe, and timber, they're 6 metres (20 ft.,) long, as since we went all metric that's now the standard length for timber and steel, with five 'shelves', and stand five ft tall, so they contain an awful lot of 'stuff'.
    The shed was designed so that I can take a curtain-sided truck and trailer into it and drive straight through instead of reversing out.
    The Morris Minor and Cobra are there, but they're behind the bus and not in shot.
    The mezzanine is home to my personal office, library, diecast toy collection, seven cabinets of magazines, (fifty years worth,) and my collection of McDonalds toys. (Almost thirty years worth...about 10,000 toys. They are not yet on display; a job for the winter months.)
    The house is much smaller than the shed, it's about 1,200 sq. ft., which is as She Who Must Be Obeyed wanted it...She reckoned She didn't want to spend all day pushing a vacuum cleaner around.
    Fine by me!
    My workshop itself, which is where the majority of my tools/ nuts/bolts/ lubricants etc are kept is underneath the mezzanine. I'm gradually getting that sorted too. I can at last see the floor! (Last picture bottom left side.)
    Since those photos were taken I have poured a concrete slab for the (half-way through a repaint job,) telephone booth, which is complete with working coin-in-the-slot telephone. (Thank-you for that Mr Spears!)
    The next inside job is to get more bench space organised around where the draindigger (track-hoe to you lot,) is parked at the moment.
    I've been at it now for about six months, there's a lot been done, and there's still a lot to do; but I've actually impressed myself with what has been achieved so far.
    And I've enjoyed it too!
    Creating order out of chaos.
    And with the landscaping that's been done so far we can at last drive completely around the building.
    Last edited by johnboy; 04-07-2020 at 04:46 PM.
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    johnboy
    Mountain man. (Retired.)
    Some mistakes are too much fun to be made only once.
    I don't know everything about anything, and I don't know anything about lots of things.

    '47 Ford sedan. 350 -- 350, Jaguar irs + ifs.
    '49 Morris Minor. Datsun 1500cc, 5sp manual, Marina front axle, Nissan rear axle.
    '51 Ford school bus. Chev 400 ci Vortec 5 sp manual + Gearvendors 2sp, 2000 Chev lwb dually chassis and axles.
    '64 A.C. Cobra replica. Ford 429, C6 auto, Torana ifs, Jaguar irs.

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