Yup! Looks pretty nice! Do you wet yourself from excitement en you walk in now?!😁

13 hours ago, JUSTA6 said:

Uhhhh  that would be 24.  I picked you up one of those signs while you were on vacation.😁

Technically true but I did cruise Woodward that year, just not during the actual Dream Cruise because the wife had the inconsideration to book a family vacation on the holy of holy days in the car show calendar. 52 weekends in a year and she had to pick that one weekend! She doesn't do that anymore.....let's just say that!

9 hours ago, Fitzy said:

Forgive my ignorance, but those plates are license plate size, so is the idea that you are allowed to put them on your car as you cruise? Try anything like that in Australia and you'd be dragged off to jail and treated like a terrorist.

Justa is correct, they are way bigger than license plates. They started out as actual road signs that were posted up and down on Woodward so that "normal" drivers on Woodward would yield to cruisers. A local vendor known as "The Sign Guy" was originally commissioned to make them for the local road commissions, so he made extras and sold them as souvenirs and they became popular.

2 hours ago, Last Indian said:

Yup! Looks pretty nice! Do you wet yourself from excitement en you walk in now?!😁

How could you tell? I should start calling you Kreskin!

I spent yesterday putting up more signage, including the big sucker. I did this without help too. The kid was working. 

Gratiot Auto Supply was our local Detroit area high performance store back in the 70s and 80s. Linda Vaughan was their spokesperson, “Tell ‘‘em Linda sent ya” was often the tag line.

The GM-Pontiac sign was off a semi trailer. The grill shell is from a real 1929 Oakland. The picture is of a 1938 Pontiac coupe.

OMG...the Gratiot sign is waaaay to cool.  You don't even need air conditioning in the Mahal now!!!   Like the rad grill too.

oh mate you have some pretty cool signs!!!!

Thanks Kiwi! 

Ive been slowly trying to figure out where to hang everything. It’s been a lot of hemming and hawing for sure. 

very cool signs and now you have the perfect place to hang them.👍🙂

Looks awesome bro 

Frosty, are you thinking of installing a hoist or will you play Russian Roulette and use concrete blocks under your car? Consider this a public service announcement.

Fitzy - a hoist is definitely in the plans. Right now I am debating the merits between a 2-post and 4-post lift. Cost is not a factor at this point. Which one will this lazy sumbitch more readily utilize is the real question?

I've seen Justa's concrete block horror story pictures before. Somebody has to be the "bad example". I'm not going down that route.

Edited August 1, 20223 yr by Frosty

Went to a small swap meet yesterday. I picked up another AC Delco sign. This one had "Quality Parts". I might swap the "Batteries" sign for "Quality Parts" and mount the Batteries sign somewhere else.

 

I am not happy - when I came into the garage yesterday. Water has clearly come though the door or under the wall. There is snow built up in front of the doors (I didn't photograph that). The snow is melting and there is not real good place for the water to drain to. Bad design if you ask me.

2 hours ago, Frosty said:

I am not happy - when I came into the garage yesterday. Water has clearly come though the door or under the wall. There is snow built up in front of the doors (I didn't photograph that). The snow is melting and there is not real good place for the water to drain to. Bad design if you ask me.

A couple questions Frosty. You own this right?! Do you know what the soil type is under you? Sand, clay, etc? I ask because if you can’t control what happens outside of your door, possibly you can control what comes in on your side of the door! 
To explain; when my house was built the city had a ordinance forbidding a garage drain. Which to some degree I like because I have a flat floor that is simply sloped towards the overhead door. Which makes it more convenient for working on, as opposed to a floor in a funnel arrangement towards a center drain. Still when my cars shed water from melting snow or for some other reason, it heads towards the door. Which in the winter is a bad thing as it will get under the door & form ice or it just lays on the floor & makes a mess till it’s mopped up. 
So since I sit on sand I did two things. First, when I bought the vinyl for my floor I bought the vinyl bridge that you can use to transition from one floor to another. I use these pieces in two places one where I transition to the carpet & one at the overhead door. In both places it acts a as a blockade. It rises about 1/2” - 5/8” up & this is enough to stop a water flow. At each end I core drilled the concrete & than using 4” PVC pipe built a hole saw to core drill the soil below to a depth of about 3’. Now when water goes to the overhead door it is directed to those two French drains & the water I dispersed into the sandy soil. In you case even if you have clay you could do a similar arrangement. You would just need to have a auxiliary pump that would pump the water out to an other place once accumulated, but at least your interior floor would stay dry. JustA thought.

We talked about this last Year didnt we Frosty ? 

is the concrete outside lower than where the roller door stops on the concrete ? if so what about cutting a rebate/step into the concrete 

or worste case sennaro, create a small bund inside of the roller door, not ideal 

, as you have to drive over a small bump.

now you know how we love pictures around here  do you have any showing what fall you have outside that door ? 

1 hour ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

We talked about this last Year didnt we Frosty ? 

is the concrete outside lower than where the roller door stops on the concrete ? if so what about cutting a rebate/step into the concrete 

or worste case sennaro, create a small bund inside of the roller door, not ideal 

, as you have to drive over a small bump.

now you know how we love pictures around here  do you have any showing what fall you have outside that door ? 

What I’m speaking of has to be done inside. Outside would be a futile wasted effort. That said it works very well. Water never goes past the vinyl bridge & drains into the to French drains. Mine is to keep any water from getting to the overhead door, causing ice to form in the winter. Because no matter how good of a weatherstrip you have on the bottom of the door, water will still get by it. 
In Frosty’s case he needs it to work in the opposite way. Keeping whatever water comes in from going any farther than the vinyl bridge than into the drains. It’s just a matter of whether a French drain will work or if he needs it to perform as a crock.

Edited January 29, 20242 yr by Last Indian

Garage Mahal? That’s freaking brilliant man

Well the kid called me this past Thursdays night. He wanted to come to the garage and start up and change the oil and filter on his Hummer H3 that’s been in my way for the past year plus now.

We agreed to meet at 12 noon today. I needed to sweep out the garage, especially the mice turds. I also needed to wash the Roadmaster before putting it away for the winter. It was covered in bugs. A trip to the local automated car wash did the trick. We took all the vehicles out of the garage to sweep up.

When we took the cover off the Hummer and opened the door, we found mold on the seats,,steering wheel, and interior plastic. I am going to have to find something that will take the mold out of the cloth seats without staining or ruining the cloth material.

Next thing we noticed was all the flakes of paint and rust that came off the frame. It left a nice trail on the shop floor that we had to sweep up.

Finally it came time to do the actual oil change.First we had to remove the two skid plates to get to the oil filter. The under side of the car was covered in oil. I have no idea where my old oil filter wrenches went. So I ran and bought new ones. Lo and behold, the one I bought for the Hummer’s new oil filter is too big for the old filter. Damn. So I bought a special oil filter pliers and that did the trick.

Next we drained the oil. We decided to replace the drain plug, since either the filter or plug was dripping a ton of oil. We degreased the underside with about a half roll of shop paper towel and half a can of spray parts degreaser/cleaner. This included the skip plates too.

The Hummer takes six quarts of fresh oil. We poured that in after replacing the drain plug and oil filter. We poured the used oil back into the 5-quart jug. He can take the used oil into the dealership where he works and they will properly dispose of the used oil. What worries me is we didn’t fill the five quart jug with the used oil and we put in six. So what happened for it to be so low on oil in the first place?

The kid thinks he’s going to drive the Hummer again this winter instead of his Silverado HD 2500 High Country. However, he’s going to have to figure out a way to plate and insure it before he can do that.

After the oil change, we sweep out the garage and  put all the cars back in, put the battery tenders back on, and put the car covers back on.

Edited October 28, 20241 yr by Frosty

I got tired just reading that. Sounds like a decent oil leak when less came out than what is supposed to.

What about some of those containers that absorb moisture? Put a few of them in each vehicle if you're getting water ingress issues. Cars don't like being stored - I had a look at the inside of my tyres and they are mouldy - mostly to do with our moist tropical climate than anything else.

I wonder if some bicarb will work on those cloth seats?

Sorry for the long winded story Fitzy. I know this story was not as epic as driving a Corolla around New Zealand.

Funny you should mention descant bags. All my cars get descant bags - 3 or 4 per car, they are 3 lbs each. There were 3 in the Hummer as well. Now the Roadmaster and Trans Am also have cloth seats. So if I had a mold problem, you would think all my cars would have it. They don't (al least not yet). I get the descant bags from Griot's Garage online. I buy them for all the vehicles in my garage plus my in-laws Pontiac Solstice.

I am at a loss as to why only the Hummer developed the mold issue. Only thing I can think of is whatever the boy used to clean the interior before putting it away. That's justa guess though. Now for some reason, it's my problem to fix it (according to the boss - not the kid that wants to drive it).

Large container of Damp Rid in each car. Went through this mess with JustaG6.  Including the moldy seats carpet.  Actually removes moisture from the air and fills the bucket. To be emptied when full.  You then add a refill to canister and your good to go.  I have rubber backed carpet under the Sunbird.  Parking on cement inside where it never gets sunlight or wind to dry it, retains moisture and sweats.  If your cover goes to the floor, or even if not all the way put a second Damp Rid under the car!  If you have the mouse problem you say, at least make an aluminum foil cover for your exhaust so they can't build a nest in there.  I use the Damp Rid in my trailer and cabin.  The stuff works.

My thought would be to steam clean the cloth, and then stick a portable dehumidifier in the car, short of leaving it out in the sun for a day 

I would agree that steam cleaning is a possibility but I definitely need to kill the mold too, without staining anything.

3 hours ago, Frosty said:

I would agree that steam cleaning is a possibility but I definitely need to kill the mold too, without staining anything.

add a few drops of dish wash detergent to the water in the steam cleaner 

it kills every thing 

or !!! white vinegar 

I've read about white vinegar. That comes up often on internet searches. There must something to it. I mean, after all, the internet wouldn't lie, now would it? 

i think your right about what ever was used in the past, mold doesnt grow unless it has a reason, hence the heat and water from steam cleaning should kill and clean the surface. 

i would be inclinded to scurb every thing with a good detergent first then steam clean, 

no matter what, your gona need lots of elbow grease