Just bought Digi Cam-some pics of the cars in the shop...

[ubercrap]

Thought I'd fiddle with the new camera-

[raygreenwood]

Nice shop space.....lucky! That blue two door....what L-96M marathon blue metallic? Sister car to mine. Ray

[ubercrap]

Yep, Marathon Blue! Great color on these cars I think. Yes, the shop space is totally awesome. I bought the the house and shop from the estate of an old machinist who had died. They sold the machine shop next door seperately with all the equipment. He had this other shop that now belongs to me built in '95 for some reason. Behind this shop is an attached carport that is huge. Then, there is another huge shed that is half concrete floor w/ workbenches. Then, I have a 2.5 car attached garage! Ridiculous! Anyway, the house is a pile of crap, but I'm living in it. Before anyone gets too jealous-some drawbacks: House needs entire interior renovation, not in an entirely great neighborhood, right next to railroad tracks (runs right next to my backyard!), a machine shop, and a motorcycle repair shop. In fact there's a train cruising by right now...But I'm still only about a 1 min. drive from work! Too bad none of you guys live closer by, I'd be glad to share the shop with somebody. If you guys ever want to store some cars, just drag 'em over here!

[MNAirHead]

Not sure if anyone's interested...

I know where there's a pair of cali-fasties tucked in Wisconsin.

The seller is quirky -- the cars are nice.. one between the pair.

They're listed at www.TwinCitiesVWClub.com page down to "VW Graveyard"

PHOTO--- Are those Chevettes or Gremlins in the photo (little baja humour for the smarter guys)

[raygreenwood]

Store a car in Ubers shop?....without being around ...Uber...Uber ...Uber. You and I both know...it would be a "skeleton" sitting on milk crates in a week ......the excuse of high humidity, rust and rats....will not work with me! "most" rats don't carry wrenches! Ray

[ubercrap]

Hey, hey now, I wouldn't permanently remove any parts...might need some "test parts." Seriously guys, if you don't have room for that "great deal", just drag 'er on up, it'll be safe here

[vwbill]

Wow nice space to work!!! You can actually have your stuff laid out and have a paint/finished parts area! I'm workin the one car garage with trading the driver with the 412, LOL! Good looking pic; how many mega pix? Man in a few years the digit pics have gotten so clear. When I look at my old mavica pics and zoom they are so fuzzy... The new ones you can zoom in so close and still have detail! Man, I have to stop watching Orange County Chopper and that new show that did Lance Armstrongs car over. We all need a sweet metal shop and sweet welding skills and access to unlimited chromers, painters and motor shop,lol! We need to start a warehouse shop somewhere that teaches like Wyoming tech and specializes in vw t3/t4's..! Maybe we can get The Discover CHannel On Board! LOL! If I find some extra bucks and find some poor sole 411/412s I would glady send them your way! bill

[DeathBus]

I cant beleive you dont have those cars sitting in tall grass with trees growing up around them! AWESOME work space! Heck who cares if the house is a wreck, LIVE IN THE SHOP!!! (hell I do anyway!) Now all you need is a 120 gallon air compressor, plasma cutter and every other nick nack you can come up with to fill that shop out!

[ecdez]

Nice shop! Wish I had that much room. Actually, right now I'd settle for a one car garage .

[raygreenwood]

Uber, thats actually a very nice offer. If I find that deal I can't refuse, I may take you up on that. What I really want...is just a place someday to stash things that just need to been gotten so they don't get destroyed. At one time, before you guys came on the scene...years ago....it just used to break my heart that I would see type 4 cars I could have for free...but had no room for at all...and no one to give them to...and no internet to spread the word with. I used to buy them and strip them for everything I could store. Tons of sheet metal glass and suspenssion went to the scrappers Ray

[ubercrap]

I've been very tempted to live in there...I do consider myself to be very lucky. The place was first sold at auction, but through some sort of misunderstanding of the reserve price, and the deal didn't end up going through. Then place was actually "sold" again for the longest time, but then the bank decided at the last minute they didn't want to finance the people because of the railroad tracks being in the backyard basically. Then enter me on the scene. Thanks to the recklessness of the banks nowdays, they'll lend to just about any schmo to buy a house. This area is also dirt cheap to live in. Heck, on one those renovation shows on TV, some people spent more on labor to landscape their backyard than I spent on the whole damn place! Believe me, if the correct conditions hadn't miraculously fallen into place, I'd be working on the cars with one hand holding an umbrella to keep the freezing rain off of me... (ask me how I know about that one) I can't believe the luxury of actually working in a decent shop after years of doing stuff like lying in inches of freezing cold running water while trying to replace a fuel pump, or having an 1" of snow accumulate on my legs sticking out from underneath a car while working on the exhaust, or only being able to work for about 5 minutes at a time because your hands freeze up and you can't grip a wrench.

Oh, and the camera is a cheap Samsung 3.2 megapixel-it was around $100.

[MGVWfan]

OOOH, OOOH, OOOH Such a shop you've got there. Man, if I lived a few hundred miles closer...you lucky dog! Nice HEATER, too (as I freeze in the unheated garage working on my Nomad).

[ubercrap]

Unfortunately, I need to run new pipe for the gas back to the shop before I can use the heater. It's usually tolerable with no heat. Hopefully by next winter, I'll have it ready to go!

[Longbeach412]

Wow, absolutely awsome space you got there. Who the hell cares about the house itself, I'd have no problems living there. So, thats what L96 looks like!, my 74 is so oxidized, its almost grey. Nice to see what the color really looks like. Can anybody tell me where the color code in the front trunk is? just to be sure.

[ubercrap]

Actually, the car is quite faded, I don't know why it looks so blue in the picture. My dad thought it was silver. The sticker for the color should be inside of the front trunk on the passenger side. Thanks for the compliments guys, it really is a dream place for me. If there was full plumbing, I might live in there. There's just a faucet in there, and the drain below it just runs to a pipe that empties out of the side of the building, so I would have to hook up to the city sewage system. The dream plan is to renovate the house, rent it out, and enclose the carport in the back of the shop to live there (really just an unfinished part of the building). Who knows if I will accomplish it, there's always the specter of some sort of mental meltdown before that can happen. Seriously, be glad if you have your mental health.