The Great GRM Garage Challenge (A.K.A. The Biggest Slob).

I... in no way... can compete

you guys have just too much stuff

I do utilize the rafters for quite a bit....

I am still feeling bad.

You guys have room for your cars in your garages?

in reply to oldeskewltoy: You have a lot of stuff too. As much as many of the pics posted. You're just bright enough to actually have some order in your garage. It's inspiration for me.

This is my submission. Not nearly as messy as some of you guys

Still, hopefully this motivates me to get things clean and organized.

Inside: First is the "find the piano" picture!

Same stuff, different direction.

This is the other side of the 1995 Aspire truck conversion with a 1.6 Turbo motor that can be seen in the first 2 pics...barely.

You have now seen about 20%.

Bruce

I don't see a piano.

Under the chairs next to the shelf in the first picture.

For me which garage is worse is the question.

Okay, mine's bad, and I can't fit a car in it right now, but dang, I can walk in it without risking a pile of stuff falling and crushing me.

Will try to get some pics up if I get a chance. If not, I'll still try to clean the disaster area up.

DrBoost wrote: in reply to oldeskewltoy: You have a lot of stuff too. As much as many of the pics posted. You're just bright enough to actually have some order in your garage. It's inspiration for me.

Odd... Since I know a few friends who are not as geographically stable as I, I've lent out some of my basement space to them...

3 shelves of that industrial bakers rake in the back, those large blue bins, that small stacking cabinet, all the sheet metal.....

Maybe it would be easier to say whats mine... the blue interior panels the box on top of the blue bins, the diff, (not the axle), the welding cart, the A/C unit, the tires, and my flowbench... oh and the supercharger on the top of the bakers rack

I had a normal 2 car garage from 2000 to 2008 which fit 2 cars that we had with LOTS of room to spare. My 2 car garage end up being full of stuff starting back late in 2008 when child #1 was born. Lots of it is stupid E36 M3e that should have been tossed in a year. 2010 child #2 was born and the garage got slammed. Finally cleaned out half of it to get the 1800ES into it in Jan 2012. Finally had to clean the other half to get the 1800S into it Aug 2012. Pretty much 1/2 of the stuff was tossed into the landfill. The rest of it surrounds the garage perimeter which is impossible to access unless the cars get moved outside. Now, the 1800S is covered and stuff piled up between the cars since child #3 was born in 2013. Hard to get anything from the garage now. Having kids is the culprit to having a messy/full garage.

Sine_Qua_Non wrote: I had a normal 2 car garage from 2000 to 2008 which fit 2 cars that we had with LOTS of room to spare. My 2 car garage end up being full of stuff starting back late in 2008 when child #1 was born. Lots of it is stupid E36 M3e that should have been tossed in a year. 2010 child #2 was born and the garage got slammed. Finally cleaned out half of it to get the 1800ES into it in Jan 2012. Finally had to clean the other half to get the 1800S into it Aug 2012. Pretty much 1/2 of the stuff was tossed into the landfill. The rest of it surrounds the garage perimeter which is impossible to access unless the cars get moved outside. Now, the 1800S is covered and stuff piled up between the cars since child #3 was born in 2013. Hard to get anything from the garage now. Having kids is the culprit to having a messy/full garage.

So true

I would have competed but this spring I spent two weeks emptying mine, reorganizing, building shelves and putting stuff where it goes. I was unable to work on a car before since there was so much crap that needed arranged.

How in the world do you guys get anything done.

wearymicrobe wrote: How in the world do you guys get anything done.

By NOT using the garage for anything. It's to be a last resort kinda thing.

Started cleaning up today, not picture update worthy but it's a start.

Seeing my pics made me ashamed. So yesterday I finished reassembling the rear axle, installed an air/fuel meter, planned out my driveshaft loop then got my lazy ass to work.

A bit better, methinks. My so called workbench still needs a little attention but it's beer thirty. Be glad I did not include pics of the inside of the garage fridge; two Diet Cokes had exploded (yet another reason I don't drink those damn things) and it was completely disgusting.

wearymicrobe wrote: How in the world do you guys get anything done.

That's why I'm doing this. It's hard to get anything done. Its part lazy, part not having a place to put something. The later is easier to fix than the former.

Outstanding idea!! I'm in, though I've got a head start on you guys. Not that it's going to help much, but I started on the shop last weekend. I've already hauled off two trailers to the scrap yard and one to the dump.

I even started a thread about it. http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/cleaning-the-shop/86281/page1/

Shop Pictures:

Where I started.

As it stands today:

This isle was completely blocked.

Front Garage Pictures:

I haven't started on this one yet. It will take me at least a month to even get to it because I'm finishing the shop first. It's all getting cleaned, but it will probably take most of the summer to get it done.

I'm jealous of some of the cool toys you guys have hiding in your garages. Mines just full of junk.

PubBurgers wrote: I'm jealous of some of the cool toys you guys have hiding in your garages. Mines just full of junk.

Mine too

This thread begs the question: Is having a white convertible with a red stripe and Challenge number plates the root cause, or symptom of garage clusterberkeleyery?

Mitchell wrote: This thread begs the question: Is having a white convertible with a red stripe and Challenge number plates the root cause, or symptom of garage clusterberkeleyery?

Yes.

I did get a bit ashamed of my mess so I spent some time bulldozing out the junk.

Now can you spot the piano?

The other side as good start.

Workbench, jack, welder, grinder, vice and toolbox!! Even a tiny compressor off screen to the left. You can even see the beginnings of electricity.I can actually walk around!

The trash guys hate me, my burn pile is frightening, my scrap metal trailer runneth over and it will be refilled with tools and such that have been poised to used for years.

Bruce

I don't think I can compete. I haven't lived in my current place long enough to mess up the garage... yet.

Now THAT is a helluva start, egnorant! Congrats! Now if Gearheadotaku will just get rid of the yard clippings (that's like saving toenails, yecch) this thread will have done major good.