Come use the shop — DIY garage space in California
Rentable bay space for people who'd rather turn their own wrenches.
There's space in my shop and I'm glad to share it. Tool wall, jacks, air, MIG and TIG welders, a compressor — everything you need to wrench on a classic. Change your oil, sort your suspension, or fab a part from scratch. There's room to leave a project here for a while too. Reach out and we'll figure it out.
What's in the shop
How it works
Tell me what you're working on and roughly how long you need. If the bay is open, we pick a day. You get the space, the tool wall, air, jacks and stands, and a bench to spread out on. Bring your own consumables — gas, wire, cut-off discs, fluids — and take your trash home with you.
I'm usually around. If you get stuck, ask. A second set of hands on a gearbox or an exhaust hanger doesn't cost anything, and neither does an opinion on whether that bushing is actually shot.
What you can get done here
The routine stuff is easy: oil and fluids, brakes, bushings, clutch, timing, valve adjustments. The compression tester, leak-down tester and cooling-system tester all live here, so working out whether a motor is tired is a twenty-minute job instead of a guess — handy before you hand money over for someone else's project.
Fabrication is where the shop earns its keep. MIG for sheet metal, brackets and rust repair; TIG for the thinner or prettier work. Custom mounts, a one-off intercooler pipe, a tab for a roll bar, a patch panel for a rotten floor — if you can draw it, there's enough here to make it.
There's paint prep too — a gun, and enough room to lay panels out. A home shop is never going to be a booth, but primer, jambs and small panels come out fine.
Leaving a project
If a car needs to sit for a while — a restoration that stalls out over winter, a swap waiting on a part that's three weeks out — there's room for one project car longer-term. That's a conversation rather than a rate card. Reach out and we'll work something out.