Ok so I live in Fulton, NY and work in Syracuse NY, and I need to find some shop space if I'm gonna build a rally car any time soon. Anybody with some space or interested I finding space (might be easier to find a bigger spot and split it)

Scope Craigslist a lot. Search parking/storage as well as commercial and housing for things like "garage".

I don't know about where you're at, but I found a lot of places fairly inexpensive but unfortunately 60-90 minutes away on the opposite side of town. No go. After a year or two I found the place where I am at now, close to Interstate and Turnpike and near where I work, and only $300/mo for 600ft^2, most commercial spaces around here are double that plus utilities.

Be patient but keep your eyes open.

Be nice if it was bigger, but ain't that always the truth? With rollaround carts I can fit one of my cars sideways across the back and then two parked in front normally. Shame I have five cars, not three...

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.



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After a year or two I found the place where I am at now,

In your experience does this kind of thing take that long? Cuz this Friday me and my roomate are buying the tow rig, next week hopefully an EK Civic, then I was hoping the Volvo would be next...

I gotta fuckin move if I'm gonna catch up to Kalle Rovanpera

EDIT: So are you located in the Syracuse area??? Anyone else?



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6 months and you're lucky...

i have rented space i share. took us nearly a year to find.

you can pay lots now (this week ) or wait til you pay less...

There is a lot of right place/right time when trying to rent a property. You can get what you want NOW, or you can get what you can afford NOW, or you can wait until you can get both in one package, because you gotta wait for someone else to move out.

That's why it took me a few years. I didn't want to have a 3 hour round trip drive just to spin wrenches, and I didn't want to spend $1000/month.

And it is the middle of May and it freaking snowed again this weekend and the garage is unheated. Bugger.

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.



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Pete
After a year or two I found the place where I am at now,

In your experience does this kind of thing take that long? Cuz this Friday me and my roomate are buying the tow rig, next week hopefully an EK Civic, then I was hoping the Volvo would be next...

I gotta fuckin move if I'm gonna catch up to Kalle Rovanpera

EDIT: So are you located in the Syracuse area??? Anyone else?

Kurt Theil...good guy. was a yound hot shoe when I lived out in fawkin Bawstin in the mid 90s. He is a Volvo guy trapped in a VW Golf..he wandered off and did some roadracing and ice racing and then duisted off the old Golf a couple of years ago and has been having fun again. He's somewhere aroundf there.
Here's his link HERE
http://www.rallyanarchy.com/phorum/profile.php?5,15023

He's bad, doesn't read the rules so no city/town location..

See why we stress that so much?

Try google

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

Kurt is in Cheshire NY



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Kurt is in Cheshire NY

Thanks, Dave..I figure the kid can gooogle the shop addy and figure if he wants to go talk to Kurt about the wisdom of 240 Volvos...like his big brother used to run..and like he keeps saying he'd do in a heartbeat with the right rust-free shell..

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

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Kurt is in Cheshire NY

Thanks, Dave..I figure the kid can gooogle the shop addy and figure if he wants to go talk to Kurt about the wisdom of 240 Volvos...like his big brother used to run..and like he keeps saying he'd do in a heartbeat with the right rust-free shell..

Got ya!

Rust free 240's are pretty rare out this end of the continent. Have to go west or way down south!

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Kurt is in Cheshire NY

Thanks, Dave..I figure the kid can gooogle the shop addy and figure if he wants to go talk to Kurt about the wisdom of 240 Volvos...like his big brother used to run..and like he keeps saying he'd do in a heartbeat with the right rust-free shell..

Got ya!

Rust free 240's are pretty rare out this end of the continent. Have to go west or way down south!

I told him they don't have Passport Controls at the NY Border---the do at the Mass border and we know why---he can just get on i-90, set the cruise and he's here in 3 days of easy driving..
Load a couple rust-free ones up, have a beer and shoot the shit and back you go..
Way better driving than laying there fixing rust.

Then he can fufill God's mandate, and like his bruva, get sideways for cheaper than about any other car and certainly faster for less.
..Look:

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$119.79

Show me the next cheapest good useful gear set for how much?

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

I sent the dude a pm but he was last on in like December and theres no email or nuttin. What's this shop addy jvl speaks of? My computer got stolen a year ago after I started working and I've been too broke to buy a new one so I'm just on my POS windows phone.

EDIT: NVM found his shops fb page lol



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BIG UPDATES!!!!! Found a nice older brosef renting this weird garage /apartment thingy for $300 a month including electric 15 minutes from my house. And he 's letting us/ wants us to build to suit. And my new roommate is going half on it with me. Now I just have to decide if I should use the rest of my disposable income for the next month and a half on Tools/Equipment or finding a volvus 2Horny

Patience pays off Good score!

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

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Patience pays off Good score!

Pete, youse a mechanic, what should we tell the kid to get for a sorta shop minimum?
Little cheap 2 1/2 ton jack
harbor freight jack stands x 4
something with a brealage warranty 3/8 and 1/2 ratches with the thumb reverse
like this:

3/8 and 1/2 drive breaker bars so he doesn't kill the ratchets.

sockets: 6/7/8/10/12/13/14/17/19
3/4 swivel socket:


For the 240 starter bolts---a breeze with these, hell without..

Combo wrenches
GOOD pozi-drive --not Phillips--screwdrivers in short and stupid long.
Good straight screwdrivers stubby, normal and long..
A BIG pry bar:


A couple of GOOD hammers:

Nice for ball-joints and tie rod ends...

what else?
Minimum so he has money for a car.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

Start shopping yard/garage sales, swap meets, and craigslist, for oddball equipment you don't think you need,
but probably will...

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SteveL
This is the point in the killing spree when you really should turn the gun on yourself