What did you do to your S550 Mustang today?!

[shogun32]

Couldn't find them in 305/30/19 for the GT Level 2, Mik....

why would you put 305 on in the first place? narrower is better. You want max PSI on the ground. Per Tirerack the 275/35 even fits a 11" wide rim.

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[Troutwrangler]

Must be nice to be able to at least look at in the garage. I built a half-wall netween the second and third stalls in the garage to protect it from all the gandson's toys and other crap everyone puts in the garage. I can't even see mine, sitting over all lonely.

That would be tough not being able to see it easily... I can at least go out and sit by it and drink a glass of whiskey if I want to, and see it when I open the door from the house.

If I ever get the chance, I'd love to turn an old gas station into a house, or build a new house that looks like an old gas station. Have 2 or 3 "service" bays for the garage and have the living space right off to the side. Kinda like Dan Tanna in the old TV series "Vegas".

 

[samd1351]

That would be tough not being able to see it easily... I can at least go out and sit by it and drink a glass of whiskey if I want to, and see it when I open the door from the house.

If I ever get the chance, I'd love to turn an old gas station into a house, or build a new house that looks like an old gas station. Have 2 or 3 "service" bays for the garage and have the living space right off to the side. Kinda like Dan Tanna in the old TV series "Vegas".

The gas station idea is awesome. Would love to do that. Or just everyone else's crap out of my garage!

 

[Blithe16]

Got gas, and then parked.

RECEIVED MUSTANG DELIVERY! (as I took a picture from inside the house because it was raining) , got gas, and then parked.

 

[MIDLYFE]

RECEIVED MUSTANG DELIVERY! (as I took a picture from inside the house because it was raining) , got gas, and then parked.

Beautiful!

 

[Mach VII]

RECEIVED MUSTANG DELIVERY! (as I took a picture from inside the house because it was raining) , got gas, and then parked.

All repaired?

 

[shogun32]

I'd love to turn an old gas station into a house

old gas stations with service bays are highly polluted locations and you'll never get it zoned for residential. at least around here.

 

[Blithe16]

Beautiful!

She is! I missed her, moving didn't feel 100% without the mustang in the garage. I don't recommend getting hit by someone in the middle of a move.

 

[larr12]

Used Meguiars X-press Spray wax to clean/protect the windows.

 

[Chef jpd]

old gas stations with service bays are highly polluted locations and you'll never get it zoned for residential. at least around here.

Agreed, the fuel tank removals and inevitable soil contamination cleanup are a bitch.
My grandfather bought a half acre property to develop. Turns out it used to be a garage.
Cost $90,000 in 1975 to get it "cleaned up" for residential use.
Made $2 million on it, so came out in the wash.

 

[shogun32]

Cost $90,000 in 1975 to get it "cleaned up" for residential use.
Made $2 million on it, so came out in the wash.

2 million net or 1.5 million after subtracting the cleanup cost adjusted for current dollars?

 

[Chef jpd]

2 million gross, after the cleanup and levelling the property. Held on to it for 5 years and sold it to a condo developer. Its now a 40 unit condo. He netted around 1.7m in 1980 dollars.
Also, the purchase price was zero, it was an inherited property.

 

[devarin]

Got a sound system put into my ‘20 convertible! After a lot of running around getting quotes and learning as much as I could, I finally found a car audio place that didn’t want to charge me 3k to put a pre fab box and sub in the back and up sell a 7 channel amp and dsp to power my stock speakers (lol) and got them to build a custom enclosure to take up the dead space under the roof housing, as well as replacing the front speakers with some awesome Blam component speakers. The result is breathtaking compared to the stock 9 speaker system!

Before:

After:

Blam Live L165P Power Active:

Sound Deadening on doors:

Helix M Four DSP and Helix M One X Amps:

 

[Troutwrangler]

old gas stations with service bays are highly polluted locations and you'll never get it zoned for residential. at least around here.

For sure-
Pretty much the same in Oregon.
I think it would be less expensive to just build something from scratch.
Here's the however.....
However, out in a lot of small towns in Eastern Oregon there are still some old gas stations that are just sitting empty, and they are in areas that don't have the same zoning laws as the metropolitan areas. If by chance someone could find the right situation, might be able to make it work.
In all reality, I'll never even get close to doing it, but fun to think about it sometimes.

 

[Troutwrangler]

2 million gross, after the cleanup and levelling the property. Held on to it for 5 years and sold it to a condo developer. Its now a 40 unit condo. He netted around 1.7m in 1980 dollars.
Also, the purchase price was zero, it was an inherited property.

The cleanup is the killer...
and dealing with all the DEQ regs would be a nightmare.
I'm sure the regs are a zillion times more complicated today than in 1975.
Good that you came out OK on it.
I'd be better off buying a parcel down the street from the old gas station and building new.

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