Projects Is this your kitchen?

My mom let me put the grill for my ‘57 PU together in the front room when I was a kid. Of course it just came back from the chrome shop, so she didn’t have an issue with it.

 

No in house parts, my housekeeper wouldn't allow it..

 

I've rebuilt carbs in the kitchen but never had this mess.

 

Sounds like a submarine sailor!!
6sally6

 

When was single I had a 55 nomad interior in my bedroom and a 409 dual quad intake and carbs as a center piece on the coffee table next to the ketchup and salt and pepper shakers. Right now the back seat to my 56 Belair is in the spare bedroom.

 

Kitchen no, finished basement has new parts storage.
When my wife questions it, I remind her its a few thousand bucks sitting there, Id rather keep that inside and keep the rubbermaid with about $20 of contents somewhere else.

 

I had just parted several OT GTOs out when I lived in an apartment with my first wife. Had a pair of ‘69 black bucket seats in the living room (built nice frames for them). They were always the first seats taken when friends or family came over. My wife and I watched a lot of hockey and football sitting in them...Randy


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Had a laugh at your kitchen photo. I only have a can of bondo on the counter now. I was cleaning a door panel there this morning.

 

A "buddy" charged you a five spot for cleaning a carb? I've never met you and I wouldn't charge you a cent.

 

My problem is the living room. Freshly machined parts brought home during a stint at the machine shop have to be protected. Running out of room behind the furniture ....

 

I have a bumper under my bed, had it rechromed and did not want it banging around the garage. Who knew it would be there for 20 years, must be dusty by now.

 

I've had a few small parts in the house over the years, mostly stuff I didn't want to walk off. Have rebuilt a carb or three at the kitchen table, with suitable protection over the table. Never any large stuff though, just not enough room for it.

 

Have a picture of my brothers MC 91A he bought new in the 60's on my kitchen table after I rebuilt it in the late 1980's after we sold it in the 70's some where.

 

@HOTRODPRIMER

So you won't mess up your own kitchen but you hang out at Rusty Heaps place......

 

....no I am not married.
My bedroom is filled with carburetors and engine parts for a 215 Oldsmobile, my bedroom closet is filled with tires and tools. My kitchen table is my assembly room and my dishwasher is filled with drying carburetors. A couple of intake manifolds reside in my living room in boxes. I have a two car garage that has my 47 Ford cargo truck (handmade) and my power tools, aathe, three compressors, blast cabinet and other parts for my 63 T-bird radical custom.I can still walk around my 47... The (theBird) is on a trailer in the backyard.

 

No..... Yes, my wife lets me tinker with some stuff in the house, but I have a designated room in the basement for it. Never "HER" kitchen. And, what she spent on her kitchen when we built it there is not only a "NO" but a "HELL NO" involved. Mostly only do upholstery work inside, not in the shop. Cleaner and I can leave it laid out and don't have to put it away when I'm not working on it to do other stuff like I would if it was in the shop.

 

Well......I got this one.

 

At least the plant on the floor looks like you water it........

 

My main two interests are cars and real estate.
I don't put cars/parts in my house, and I don't put carpets in my shop.
When I'm done working in the shop, I want a completely different vibe/back drop to unwind while in my house.
As most everything in life.."To each their own"..unless/until it adversely affects me.

 

Nah. Has his fruit bowl.

Ben

 

LOL, that'd definitely be a death sentence!! Shop rags get washed in town at the laundry mat also. Did that once at home.....never again. Almost cost me a new washing machine over a little oil/grease.

 

I have a large detached garage for my stuff. No parts inside by executive decree.

I did get kicked out of an apartment complex once. It was turning cold and I needed a place to keep my Bultaco Pursang 250 for the winter. My buddy did not show up as scheduled so I decided to simply ride it up the stairs to store in the living room. The problem was that the apartment had inside hallways and smoke lingered for a while. Well, that and the noise.

The next day I was looking for a place to store my dirt bike and the rest of my meager belongings.

 

Great Stove, wash the hand towels and you'll have the perfect kitchen.

 

[QUOTE="alanp561, post: 13905367, member: 307390"I lived in a two room apartment in the back of a guy's garage. My kitchen was wall to wall Harley Davidson, the bedroom was wall to wall bed and the bathroom shower was full of Harley parts. Made it easier to Gunk the greasy stuff in the shower. [/QUOTE]
I have already been there, done that. I had a ‘72 iron head Sportster project that lived in the house for over 20 years!

 

That’s a family heirloom. It was my great grandmother’s stove.

 

No car parts in the house for me...well other than under my pool table in the Pint & Piston (my bar). I needed a place to keep the bed wood warm, dry and flat until it is time to install in the PU.

 

Ha ha! I always thought a good t-shirt design would say: iron head sportster, "keeping dirt bags off the street since 1957". ! Ask me how i know!

 

I mentioned my OT "66 Rivi GS 425 build in the kitchen. Of course I meant cleaning, painting, piecing together parts and such, the block was in the car, and the car was in the carpeted rec. room. The owner of the house before me converted the attached garage into a rec. (recreation room) with pool table, plush carpeting, and all. The garage door was left on the house in an effort he said to avoid more taxes. (Don't know if that worked or not.) I had three daughters so I made a 4th bedroom out of it. When #1 wife had her fill of my self centered, selfish ways and split, and two of my girls left home with husbands, the rec room once again became that, (#3 daughter was still in school living with me.)
So when I found the Rivi. which was close to being a #1 survivor car and having that rec. room available with the garage door available, out came that door and replaced with a new one. Consequently I had a carpeted and white ash paneled single car garage to rebuild it into a show winner. Really nice to lay on your back on soft carpeted concrete, with baseboard heat in the winter months doing a rebuild. I can relate entirely to cleaning parts in the kitchen sink, painting parts and putting them in the oven for drying faster, rebuilding the dual carbs and mounting them on the freshly painted intake on the kitchen dinning table.
#2 wife helped me convert that rec.room/rebuild shop, into more living space and build a 18' X 44' double car garage/shop out back where I rebuilt my '34.

 

In the KITCHEN????