thanks to 4cruizn for moving this over here
seems right that the restoration starts with outfitting the garage - that is, if you haven't already done that
as mentioned above, i picked up a lift from the fellow who sold me the car - he is downsizing his shop as he gets more into real estate - it is a rotary 2 post lift - my garage is a small 1.5 to 2 car space, but is blessed with very high ceilings - 12' - so the 2 post lift made the most use of the height, while the taking up the least floor space
can't install the lift until the garage door is "high lifted" - so the tracks will go all the way up toward the ceiling and then make the turn so that when horizontal, the door will be 6" or so off the ceiling
that has the advantage of getting rid of the center overhead lift, as it will now be lifted by a residential "jack shaft" opener - that is what most of the rollup commercial doors have used for years - they came out with a residential one a few years ago - works really well - also, there is less door on the horizontal intruding into the garage's air space, as more of it stays along the wall on its way to the ceiling - if you think of the space in cubic feet instead of square feet of floor space that helps by not eating as meany cubes
the other foundation tool for the shop is a compressor - bought a 1962 Saylor Beall 80g vertical, 3hp number - really pretty - cleaning out the valves at the moment - hope to have her running at the same time that the garage door and lift are finished, or say in about 2 weeks
before any of that could happen, needed to electrify the garage - so ran a 100 amp sub panel from the basement to the attached garage - then went about putting in receptcales and whole bunch of flourescent lights - added a 220v electric heater to take the chill off the winter days
i'll try to post some pictures at some point before too long
thanks
