"You would think the owner/developer of a web site like this would have a nice garage (like Tim's) ...", John Milliman.
John & Others,
John set me off to post this long rant/recollection. Please delete/destroy/move this post as you see fit, John.
I left a gigantic garage complex behind with my house in NY. It had five garage-bays and plenty of attic/second-floor storage over two of the garage bays. We lived in that house/garage from 1978-2015. I completely gutted/renovated the house/garages.
The original 1795 NY house (originally a big-old 16' x 16' shack/house) was added onto (in 3-4 stages). That first "house/shed" was/is a second-hand hand-hewn post-and-beam 1795 shed/cabin/shack (the oldest continuously inhabited structure in my very old Rensselaer County - near Ichabod Crane's famous ride).
I have stories/explanations about why the house/owner/dutch-family was settled here. I won't further bore you with those stories (unless you ask).
But, I will bore you with these stories:
The 1888 32'x32' 2-floor addition had two rooms and one inside "bath room" (there was no inside bath/water in the original house/shed). There were no closets. Water came from a well - the well had to be relocated every 20-40 years (another story).
My wife did not disown me during the 25+ years-long gut/renovation of the house (and, garages).
During 25 years of ownership/residency, I added-to and rebuilt the garages into a gigantic complex (with a lot of help from my neighbors). The garages "complex" had plenty of electricity and plenty of compressed air (all built/installed by me and my neighbors).
We moved from NY-to-NC in 2015-2016. All my NY Advance-Design/New Design junk/parts/vehicles/tools had to be stored in our new home in NC (seven garage bays of junk).
Luckily, my daughter found a beautiful house in Jarvisburg NC with a 60'x 24' 3-bay two-story garage - one bay was tall enough for my 1954/55 2-ton very-long-bed beautifully-restored-by-me-and-my-friends GMC COE truck (which I later gave away as a gift).
I bought that NC house/property (another story) that now has an insulated/cooled/heated gigantic 3-4 large-bay garage.
It was build by the original owner for working on "race/stock cars".
The one wide-bay has a full-height roof with a 30' peak. It is tall enough to put my Suburban on a new four-post lift (for an old man to never have to crawl under an old truck).
Ain' life grand?
I will die here.
My two grand children will have an inheritance that will allow both of them to build garages to store her/his 1954 truck (a 3106 Suburban or a Deluxe 3104 Hydra-Matic pickup).
I apologize for boring you with my life-story of accruing (1948-1955st) Stovebolt-engine Advance-Design/New-Design era GM trucks.
As I posted above: John set me off to post this rant recollection. Delete/destroy as you see fit, John.
Ain't life grand?
Tim
