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Re: [Spridgets] Duquette's Garage

To: Robert Duquette <robertduquette@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Duquette's Garage
From: Linda Grunthaner <grunthaner@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 05:35:05 -0500
very tidy wish I can say the same ; )
Lin

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Robert Duquette <
robertduquette@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> I saw that.  My first thought was that it was worse than mine, until I
> realized that it isn't piled as "high".
> While this is a semi old picture, you can see that it is somewhat better
> than
> it has been at some
> 
>points.http://www3.sympatico.ca/robertduquette/temp/garage.jpg(<http://www3.sympatico.ca/robertduquette/temp/garage.jpg%28>that
> cot frame
> has found a new home and I was able to get the Midget over there this past
> fall without having to use those dollies, the ladders are now suspended and
> don't have to be hauled in and out to lower the lift, etc.  The vacant
> space
> that you see in this image is still occupied by the Fiat in the winter,
> despite me having given it to my son.  One bicycle is gone.  The MGC bonnet
> is
> gone.  My dad's trailer frame is derusted and painted and assembled and put
> aside )  I was able to walk from the front door to the back door of the
> garage
> with all the cars in this past fall!!  That's a major accomplishment from
> the
> past several years.
> I have Miss Marple's performance engine off the shelves and being worked
> on..
> In theory, this April, it should be in one piece again, instead of
> scattered
> about the garage.
> Progression / regression of the garage over the
> years.http://www3.sympatico.ca/robertduquette/temp/the_garage.gif
> Slow but steady progress at this point.  After getting the garage roof
> structure repaired and new shingles last fall, I may drop the ceiling out
> next
> summer and get more vertical space which may save my forehead somewhat.
>  I'll
> only get about another 8 inches under the lift IIRC, which is max., but a
> couple of feet more in some spots.
> And, plans are to fix the pool shed this spring.  If I incorporate some
> squirrel proof storage into the shed, then that gets me a bit more free
> space
> ( I almost wrote "storage" there instead of "free".  :))
> It would be nice to find a 100M in there, but unless I win a lottery, it's
> not
> going to happen.  :)
> Robert Duquette
>
> Ottawa ON Canada
>
> 1965 RHD BRG Austin-Healey Sprite ( project )
>
> 1967 RHD MG Midget ( aka: Miss Marple )
>
> 1955 Austin-Healey 100 BN1 ( aka: Carmen
> )http://www3.sympatico.ca/robertduquette/temp/2009FallTour.jpg
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:14:21 -0800
> > From: healeyrick@yahoo.com
> >
> > Hey Bob,
> >
> > Clean some of that crap outta there, you may find a 100M:
> >
> >
>
> http://bringatrailer.com/2011/01/20/lemans-in-the-garage-1956-austin-healey-1
> 00/
> >
> > Rick
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