How do you heat your Garage?

FI Spyder · Postby **FI Spyder** » 10 Dec 2010 15:08

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Last TR

It got up to 10 (f) here today. Don, Merv, & Jim, you guys in the Northwest don't know what cold is! I would still rather have this than your rain that I grew up with, though.
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I grew up in Manitoba (20 years) and lived in Calgary for 13 years before settling for good on the west coast. I've seen 14 foot high snow drifts as we took the team and sleigh into town, been skating on the drainage ditch on Halloween, experienced -80F wind chill, and driven on flat bottomed frozen tires that go thump, thump, thump. Thanks but I'll take my rain and mild weather and one white Christmas in ten.

The white on white picture looks good though.[:)]

TR7 Spider - 1978 Spitfire - 1976 Spitfire - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - Yellow TCT

DNK · Postby **DNK** » 10 Dec 2010 15:41

This is why God made hardtops [:D]

Don
"No More Cars For You"
71 TR6- Perpetual remodel
80 TR7 V8 Kick in the pants

Last TR · Postby **Last TR** » 10 Dec 2010 18:09

True statement Don. And Merv, maybe divine intervention is also why my white TR6 lives in white Alaska, and my green TR8 lives in green Oregon. And I suppose one of our southern neighbors will point out that it doesn't have to be a choice between snow or rain. That constant sunshine gets so annoying, though.

I just wish that my lot had been big enough for a larger garage addition. I recently visited a friend who built a barn-like fabric and steel structure behind his house for his Jeep collection. But getting back to the original thread, his barn is uninsulated and impossible to heat here in the frozen north.

Ken
Anchorage, Alaska

1980 TR8, 1973 TR6, 1965 Volvo PV544, 1958 MGA, Jeep Cherokees

Spectatohead · Postby **Spectatohead** » 10 Dec 2010 19:17

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Last TR

It got up to 10 (f) here today. Don, Merv, & Jim, you guys in the Northwest don't know what cold is! I would still rather have this than your rain that I grew up with, though.

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Your 6 looks like the '71 I used to have. The hardtop made a huge difference in the winter. I also had a '69 that didn't have the hardtop. I found dried mushrooms under the seat of the '69 one summer. I didn't have a garage back then.

I grew up in central Iowa, my first car was a '62 Spitfire. It had a hardtop but it also had gaping rust holes in the floor and foot wells. The heater was at best anemic. I had to bundle up pretty good to drive it when things got down below 0F. I saw -20 and -30 several times in my youth.

As much as I'd like to drive the 8 year round, I'll have to settle for my Nissan Maxima or the wife's Subaru at this time of year. Heck the 8 still doesn't have a top, heater, or windshield wipers.[:D]

Jim Clark
'80 TR8
'97 Maxima 5spd

Spectatohead · Postby **Spectatohead** » 10 Dec 2010 19:21

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by DNK

[quote]Originally posted by Spectatohead

It rarely gets below freezing here,
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Didn't you get cold that spell 2 weeks ago?
My thermostat is set at 40* to keep my supplies for work from freezing and my heater was running a lot

Don
"No More Cars For You"
71 TR6- Perpetual remodel
80 TR7 V8 Kick in the pants
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I did say "rarely." We only got about an inch or less of snow and it was gone in a couple days. Yesterday was above 50F and we had over an inch and a half of rain. Usually it takes days to get that much rain.

Jim Clark
'80 TR8
'97 Maxima 5spd

Shauniedawn · Postby **Shauniedawn** » 10 Dec 2010 20:24

So whilst it's cold outside - guess the car....

Shaun

Last TR · Postby **Last TR** » 10 Dec 2010 20:30

Jim,

My first car was a '57 MGA. Plenty of rust from those rainy western Oregon winters and no garage. No rust in those floorboards, though - they're plywood. But lots of rot. Talk about a mushroom farm when it rained!

Ken
Anchorage, Alaska

1980 TR8, 1973 TR6, 1965 Volvo PV544, 1958 MGA, Jeep Cherokees

Odd · Postby **Odd** » 11 Dec 2010 13:06

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Last TR

I just wish that my lot had been big enough for a larger garage addition.
Ken
Anchorage, Alaska <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"> Ken,
if I have pinpointed your address correctly - don't you have a large marshy area, down
towards the sea, you could expand into? Behind the house as seen from the street area...
/Odd

FI Spyder · Postby **FI Spyder** » 11 Dec 2010 17:29

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Odd

Ken,
if I have pinpointed your address correctly - don't you have a large marshy area, down
towards the sea, you could expand into? Behind the house as seen from the street area...
/Odd
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That's were the musk ox roam since they've been reintroduced to Alaska.[:D]

TR7 Spider - 1978 Spitfire - 1976 Spitfire - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - Yellow TCT

Last TR · Postby **Last TR** » 11 Dec 2010 21:46

Odd,

I think you must have me mislocated. No marshy area; there is a forested area east of us toward the mountains, but it is used by the Army for artillery practice!

Ken
Anchorage, Alaska

1980 TR8, 1973 TR6, 1965 Volvo PV544, 1958 MGA, Jeep Cherokees

Odd · Postby **Odd** » 12 Dec 2010 00:05

OK, sorry. My mistake...
/Odd

Last TR · Postby **Last TR** » 12 Dec 2010 04:25

Hey, I wish I did have the big marsh down to the sea, although there's a rifle range in one end of the marsh. And then there's the drug dealers up the street. A guy can get himself shot around here if he's not careful...

Ken
Anchorage, Alaska

1980 TR8, 1973 TR6, 1965 Volvo PV544, 1958 MGA, Jeep Cherokees

FI Spyder · Postby **FI Spyder** » 12 Dec 2010 15:23

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Last TR

And then there's the drug dealers up the street. A guy can get himself shot around here if he's not careful...
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So many guns....so few people. Hey...I watch Sarah Palin's Alaska!

Can't wait for the episode where she goes drug dealer hunting with her dad's varmit rifle.[8D]

TR7 Spider - 1978 Spitfire - 1976 Spitfire - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - Yellow TCT

Spectatohead · Postby **Spectatohead** » 12 Dec 2010 16:03

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by FI Spyder
[ Hey...I watch Sarah Palin's Alaska!

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Don't encourage her!

Jim Clark
'80 TR8
'97 Maxima 5spd

RadioGuy · Postby **RadioGuy** » 12 Dec 2010 19:21

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Don't encourage her!<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Why not ? Get-em girl ![:p]

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