My 1980 Chevy C10 Restomod

[84chevysilverado]

geez your going all out with this restomod. looking really good

[80stepsideguy]

I hear ya. I dig that kind of stuff too.

BTW, is that a steel building that you have? I'm trying to collect thoughts and ideas. Was it fairly inexpensive? Looking to build a 30'wide x 40'deep with a 20' x 20' off the left rear side.

Its a 40x40 steel building yes.I got it in 2006 and the total w/ the garage and insulation and a crew to assemble it in 3 days and concrete the total was 32,000. I highly reccomend to go thru olympia steel buildings www.olympiabuildings.com  there located in pennsylvania.We also added 2 skylights and its well worth them oney let me tell you.I like doing this wagon since its really old but i couldnt do this on a daily basis as i am a fanatic to quality and meticulous to detail.But the restomod truck will be taking some time even i have to stretch the build by 1 more year i want this to roll on out of the garage and scare the neighbors letting them all know a new beast has risen from the ashes lol....

thanks
pat

[frogman68]

Wow that seems high

I am looking at a couple thru a local paper

http://www.thebargaineeronline.com/retail_section/?haspdf=1

I cant see cement costing 20k for that much I will take a class and pour it my self

[oldwhity]

Thanks Pat. That's a good reference point to start with. Hopefully when the market gets better I'll be able to do something. Rolling around on the driveway is getting harder especially with my joints being effected by the cold now. I need to replace my clutchand rad in my beater and don't look forward to doing it in the cold. Thanks again.

Rob


Frog, it may include ground clearing, excavation, footers and slab(or monolithic) and maybe they pulled the permit. I don't know, we'll see. I'm itching for one bad. It's just hard for my wife to justify.

[80stepsideguy]

32,000 was for the permits, the building itself,the crew to assemble it, the concrete,the land clearing, the electrical, the blueprints,the 2 10x10 doors and side entrance door.Because in this town you gotta go thru stiff codes to get it approved cause it needs to withstand hurricane winds.Well here is the result of what 32,000 gets you,



thanks
pat

p.s. and its enough room to put a 2 post lift and the peak of the roof is 14foot ceilings.Plenty of room here. When i moved to florida in 2002 the 1st house we were renting i had my cougar in a 2 car garage and my fathers motorcycle.I said if we buy a house i want a 40x40. Well i stuck to that all these years in 2004 i had a brand new 32x76 foot double wide put on a piece of property we bought.And  in 2006 we refinanced the home just for this reason.I was tired of paying for storage rental fees and the rental place was like 25 miles away.Well i`m very happy with this and also our shop couldnt exceed the square footage of the home  if it did it be considered a business but i couldve gone 50x40 but eh i am very happy with this.

[frogman68]

Pat I didnt think of the Hurricane winds here in MD I think ya need a 135lb snow load we have to get permits too .
I am thinking of buying one having it installed (those prices include labor to install) then lay the concrete later if I need it

Like Rob above my old bones dont like laying on the driveway in any weather

[80stepsideguy]

I hear ya frog
My garage in rhode island was a 26x48 but could only fit 3 cars 4 if you were lucky.But in the winter months man if that 112,000 BTU burner wasnt working it was cold.But i am very satisfied with this garage, only real thing i gotta do is repaint the entrance door as its rustig in a spot so i`ll do that in the spring.

thanks
pat

[oldwhity]

That's awesome. Yours is real close to what i'd like. Just a little taller door for the camper and the dimensions from the earlier post. Part of me would love to just have it all done, the other part(pocket) tells me to do as much of it myself as possible. Looks great thanks

Rob

[80stepsideguy]

Rob,
its well worth it And the company can build it to your suit.If you want skylights, windows, and so forth.I plan on putting in a exhaust fan cause in the summer it gets hot in the shop so drawing out the hot air will cool it down some.

thanks
pat

[oldwhity]

I hear ya. I'm deffinately going to check them out along with others. I'd like to compare the cost of a steel bldg with the cost of stick bldg one.

[1983stepside]

wow pat that building is nice i wish i had something like that instead of the inlaws 2 stal garage because my house doesnt have one and i still have to work on my truck in the drive way because my father in law is a huge pack rat and wont through any thing away so theres just enough room for my tuck then i have to push it out to work on it because its still just the frame it sucks major*** but yours is awsome i cant wait to see some pics of the restmod

[Captkaos]

Nice new home for the truck!

[80stepsideguy]

Well i finally got my intake in that i bought off of craigslist.Its a  endurashine oval port and its a sweet looking intake and i can`t wait to see it on top of the Big block once its built. I may buy the waterpump for it this year but that is really it as far as spending on it for the year. Heres a pic of it.



thanks
pat

[JRConnieK10]

Now thats purty.

[hotrod24]

very very nice