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Barney12



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Show us Your Garage
Prompted by another thread and the general discussion of putting your beloved Defender to bed in its garage at night my mind wandered to the thought "does anyone actually have room to put their Defender in the garage?".

So how about a "show us your garage thread"........... Thumbs Up

I'll kick it off with a couple of mine:

Here it is when I was just finishing the build (largely my own work):


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Inside finished with hard rock tiles which are used in dealerships etc. Loads of storage (IKEA):


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Oh and now one bay corner has become my home office:


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Outside just about finished:




and the big question........

Can I fit ANY of the cars in it? HELL NO. Too full of "stuff".

Big Cry Big Cry Big Cry

In my defence. We actually live in the flat above our garage as we haven't built the house yet!

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GREENI



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Bad idea for a thread...

I spent too long drooling at 370+ pages here/... http://www.luxury4play.com/automotive/3656...-pics.html

As for your house....just build more garages and stay in your flat...I would.
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X4SKP



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Hello Barney12

Nice... Mr. Green

Great Idea for a Thread...if I can 'bend' the Show us Your Garage request to show you
Jack Olsen's Garage he built for his 911, Top Chap and more Garage Envy coming up...



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Hufflepuff



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I hate these threads! People have incredible custom build garages and I'm struggling on the drive way! (at least I have a drive...). I also have a garage which is TOO LOW TO FIT IN ggggrrrr Big Cry
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Yup. Some people are in the very fortunate position whereby they don't know what it's like to want for something....
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Barney12



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Yup. Some people are in the very fortunate position whereby they don't know what it's like to want for something....


I've met some incredibly wealthy people who want a great deal that they cant have and would dearly want. As the adage goes "money can't buy you happiness"
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That would suit me as a house full stop! Bow down Bow down Running Restoration Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/post323197.html#323197

Self confessed mileage hunter Very Happy
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Barney12



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X4SKP wrote:






I'd like to see that with a Defender. By the time it hit the roof I reckon you'd have about 2" of clearance under the wheels Mr. Green

Still very cool though.

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Go Beyond



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Still building mine

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Admin note: this post has had its images recovered from a money grabbing photo hosting site and reinstated Mr. Green
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Barney12



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Looking good! I would have built one as big as that. But we live on the National Park.

It took me 14 months to get permission for the one we have.

We still don't even have full planning for the house and today I've been informed that our site is going to be registered as a breeding site for 4 different species of bat so we're now stuck again. The soonest we can even start the application process for a licence from Natural England is next May! Big Cry
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X4SKP



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At the other end of the 'Garage Scale'

Recently I finished the last job on the Dinitrol to-do-list...the Bonnet
and my 'pop-up garage', a Coleman Event Tent was all I needed.
(12' x 12' Version on 'Telegraph Pole Stilts' gets a 90 underneath, the
15' x 15' size gives more room still and would be good for a 110).

Not the best photo, but you get the idea.


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Go Beyond



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Barney12 - That'll teach you to live somewhere beautiful ! Mr. Green
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Barney12



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That'll teach you to live somewhere beautiful !


I know. Its such a trade off though. If you ever watch Grand Designs and think that the stress levels of self builders is hype for the TV you'd be wrong. Its very real! I can see why so many couples end up with a pregnancy on Grand Designs, I reckon its stress relief! Laughing
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Barney12



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X4SKP - Thats rather cool!
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that's a mega oil trail / leak out the back of the porche at 5:30min in the vid.

a lot worse than any I've had in the def Shocked
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