The mose Awesome Restoration in the History of Gearheads!!!

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Holy carp! X2 on the you suck.  There's an entire afternoon I won't get back.  Though it is an amazing thing to read.

If you're a mechanical junkie, do NOT click on that link and start reading, unless you have absolutely nothing else planned for the next 8 hours or so.

Okay. This is awesome.

For awhile I leased a warehouse space that used to be a Dodge dealership in the 20's through to the 50's. Rad place. Ruined concrete floors (which we made even worse by introducing a forklift to the equation), ruined, rotting walls, bullet riddled (It's on the border between the good and bad parts of town).

Two floors - the second floor being HELLA reinforced so they could park cars up there, with a 1935-installed insane-assed elevator sized appropriately for cars. The second floor was their showroom - the first was the service department (the only reason we know this for sure was because the original electrical panel still had labels indicating such. Naturally we had to lose that electrical panel for code reasons.

This has given me CRAZY dreams about buying the place off the crazy asians who own it and run a "beauty supply" shop, in every terrible glue-on-eyelashes, plastic sunglasses and spray on makeup sense of the word, in the front where the offices and some additional showroom space used to be.

errr...had great plans for work today..it's over now.