Having got the ridiculously heavy thing up the drive and into the garage the next job was to carefully plan where the platforms should be. The roof space to lift larger cars into or ones with stupid spoilers like the Evo’s becomes a bit tight so I needed to get this right. With some cardboard […]
(First posted on MLR forum in March 2012) I know they were never standard on the VI but I always liked the look of the door decals on the earlier Evo’s so got some. Some masking tape comes in very useful in helping make sure the decal goes on straight and matching in position to […]
Yes! The lift arrived! But….. now it was stranded at the end of the drive and I couldn’t even lift the top box on my own to carry it up to the garage. So if the box on the top was that heavy, how heavy were the bits underneath going to be?!?! My mate […]
The new floor needed sealing before I could even think about any car jobs being done, getting the concrete soaked with oil would mean paint would never stick properly. Also the lift couldn’t be installed until I had a level floor. Started by chipping off all the bits of mortar dropped when bricklaying. New […]
I have spent a lot of my spare time playing with cars ever since buying my first Mini and I don’t expect that will change much in the future so the whole garage extension was not only about providing a space for Jem’s Mini but also a decent workshop for me to play cars […]
I’m itching to get on with things inside the garage but some jobs outside needed sorting. I kept hold of the old fence panels as they were in usable condition and I thought I might be able to reuse parts of them to fence up to the garage walls. This saved me a […]
An empty garage is no good so I reckon it’s about time the Evo was in it! The Evo where it belongs. 🙂
Firstly just a couple of things like trimming and fitting the other original door and… …fixing the frame in place Now is the moment of truth! Can we get Jem’s Mini in and out of the door opening that’s left and does it even fit in the space??? It’s in! Well […]
When my nephew visited a few weeks back I showed him the garage and explained it still needed a roof. He immediately walked off and returned with the roof off his Duplo garage we’d just built, telling me I could use it. I guess it might work??? Anyhow, with some steels the right […]
A bit nervous now as it’s being built meaning we finally find out if my drawings were right. Had a few sleepless nights worrying about a few things as the build has progressed. When we got a start date the Mini got a clean and was parked in the back corner and covered up. I […]