Quote from: FiveSevenLiter on 2025-01-23 10:16Jeff,
Reminds me of the service manager's 'tower' office in the old dealerships.  The vibe passes the West Coast inspection.
Terry

Terry.... That is EXACTLY the vibe I am going for.

Quote from: djfordmanjack on 2025-01-23 11:08Jeff, your shop office already looks so inspiring! And cozy ! Love the old materials, especially the windows! That's something else !
With the decoration items, are you going to go all out like Matts IronTrapGarage upstairs collection, or are you going to decorate the office walls modestly, like an og. filling station or garage that would only have a few brand specific advertising porcelain sings?

G!..I am gonna stuff this thing with all I have... And when I run out of space... upstairs to that storage space... which is a modest 1000 square feet.

I have so much in storage...
BUT.... the work areas where the cars are will be strictly for automotive business..... 
we have many more cars yet to be built in the future.....I really want a 57-58 Ranchero...... and a 29 Roadster on Deuce rails..... and a 66 Fairlane.......... and....... hahahahaha

Quote from: djfordmanjack on 2025-01-23 11:20On a side note, concerning industrial windows and such. This is Vienna's oldest parking house (built 1935), which recently went out of business, because of the age of (still family) owners 100+ yo.
Hopefully it will be brought back to use, it is said to be the oldest and largest building like that in Europe.
It once even hosted a filling station and several car repair shops (in the upper floors). I love industrial architecture !

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

^ Beauty is international ! 
I do have more pics of that garage, that unfortunately I cannot post for privacy reasons. It is like a time warp, some of the old shops have the full tools and chests intact, including belt power transmissions for lathes and such. It is an incredible time capsule from back in the 1930s to the 1950s, because it was family owned and obviously hardly anything was ever changed or thrown out.
The architecture is insane. the flooring has hardened glass tiles in it to disperse natural light in the lower floors... we are talking 1935 !!!!

It is in the same block as the Austrian parliament ! The American embassy in Vienna had a fleet of 1957 Ford wagons in the 1950s (Do not ask me how I know... ), so it's a 99.9% certain that some '57 Fords were parked in there, back then....

Your plans according to your new shop sound great, I totally get why you don't want to use OSB.... great construction material, but probably not the right thing for your 'specialty'  ... well new 'home' dare I say 
I had a local carpenter cut me rough spruce boards for the inner wall, to get the 'old' feel. Ferdinand Porsches first shop in Austria was just covered in rough cut boards.
rigged up to dry over winter.

Both places are way too cool!
(I'm jealous!)

I wanted to do ruff cut on the ceiling and floor...... BUT.... the floor. completely Impractical..... and on the ceiling..... Firecode.....
No way I could get a pass on final construction .... 
But.I do have a place to use it.... I love textured Old things......

...wait a minute..... that didn't sound good.

G,. it is truly amazing that the architecture survived the war.... truly amazing..... (I love them big doors!)
Now. get to Vienna. and to the basement. and find them 57 Fords...... that is your mission!

Did you use a VW chassis to haul Lumber?!?
AMAZING


Hahahaha

You are probably all wondering what's going on with me and not saying anything about the political stuff. Well, to be open minded, the first few comments made were not very specific......no names or parties mentioned. So I let it slide.
I do apologize for that, I thought about making a comment about the posts getting too close to being political. I did not, and I should have.
I can't believe how out of control it got TODAY. Enough is enough. Any further political comments will be deleted and dealt with, with a possible banning of the user.

Jeff, I just love the windows in those huge steel doors (of the old 1935 garage). the rounded corners of those windows are really neat! It's really awesome that you were able to find these old factory windows. They will make an important impact, of how your shop office looks.

I often wonder, how many of those old cars may still exist...just recently a 1950-ish Studebaker was found, also a former ambassador's car.

Yes I did weld a few crossmembers to a leftover VW chassis (a totally rotten 1960/61 beetle that I parted out long ago), so I can use to store or transport heavy stuff on the property. has come in handy many times before for moving around steel tubing, heavy engines, spare VW bodies etc. Very easy to push around by hand. The original tires still hold air and roll much better on unpaved grass than any other set of casters ever would.

Quote from: Jeff Norwell on 2025-01-23 16:48G,. it is truly amazing that the architecture survived the war.... truly amazing..... (I love them big doors!)
Now. get to Vienna. and to the basement. and find them 57 Fords...... that is your mission!

Did you use a VW chassis to haul Lumber?!?
AMAZING


Hahahaha

Jeff, the new garage is really coming along well, and love the vintage vibe. And Gunter, that old parking garage is amazing. Hopefully it is not located in a really high value area of town, and ripe for demolition, in the name of "Progress". Wouldn`t that make an awesome location for an automobile museum?

Took these in a Buick Distributors building in Tacoma Washington in 2013.  All Buicks on the west coast would be shipped here before going to other dealers.  Three floors, roof top parking, turntable in the showroom.  It was like a Marx tin toy garage.
Terry
 

It was a specialty car dealership when I was there, basement was full of cars as well.
Terry
 

wow, Terry, that is also a terrific location. I just love how the 'Service Master' sits in a room of glass, that could easily double as a next millennium star cruiser in a Science Fiction movie !

Unfortunately the garage in Vienna is nearly downtown, so obviously in a very expensive environment. But they are working on making it a listed historic building. There are several ideas of making it an event location, classic car  auction house or even fill it with smaller shops and offices. you could literally drive up to your office and park right next to your desk. Fancy ideas, but who knows what's going to become of it. Naturally the building has a certain amount of decay after 90 years, but the concrete structure is still good and luckily no roofs or glass have been knocked out, so it's still pretty well sealed and even the roof top (which is also a parking lot, with a breathtaking view, obviously) has been kept maintained and sealed with rather recent coats of epoxy.
So I want to think there is a future for this very interesting building. It would be unheard of, if there could be a car cruise or show inside....( we already freaked out and let our imaginations flow. I would hire a 1960s Surf type Rocknroll band and stage them in the middle of the first floor, where the old filling sation is, Then we would use light effects to color the basement and lower 2 floors in deep blue or turquoise, to give it that underwater effect)....not impossible!  asfaik the owner has also other listed old factories and industrial buildings and is renting out for car shows, concerts, wedding parties and such. But it is all VERY expensive, unfortunately, NO-GO for a private person or small car clubs.

I Google mapped Vienna and found the location, would like to cruise around that neighborhood. The Buick building is still there, I will post a few more interior shots. 

Jeff needs to post completed pictures with the treasures in place.

Terry
 

Took these when I snuck into the basement.
Terry