Do you consider it a "shop" or a "garage"?

Ooooooooohhhhhh, rrrriiiiiight...

I forgot about that- thought there was some new crazy kid lingo thing going on there.

Party on...

irish44j wrote: you must have been in Manassas . That's where the good 'ol boys in this area live...

I'm the son of a professional Civil War historian. So yep.

paranoid_android74 wrote: I forgot about that- thought there was some new crazy kid lingo thing going on there.

Nope. Just your normal GRM forum silliness.

oldtin wrote: a garage is where you store e36 m3. a shop is where you build e36 m3.

Agreed.

Years back, in the heyday of eBay, I sold a jeep for an acquaintance. Accurate pics, description, etc. Low reserve, so I was flabbergasted when it went for several times said reserve. A truck came, loaded it, and took it out west to wherever the buyer was. He was furious, claiming I had misrepresented the jeep, which I had not-he just got caught up in the bidding excitement like so many of us did, and failed to manage his expectations.

The punch line? He couldn't believe someone who owned a SHOP would sell such a piece of crap to such an innocent such as himself. When I said SHOP, I was referring to my 110V, no air having, cracked floor 1.5 car GARAGE.

That is all.

To me, it is like this:

If you build things in it unrelated to cars, it is a shop. A shop can also serve as a space to work on cars. So, if you do wood working projects and build race cars in the space, it is a shop. Now, if you do enough fabrication ONLY related to cars (fiberglass bodies, engine builds and tunes, machine work, etc.) you might transition into a shop if you've got polished floors and such. Think McLaren, but that is ONLY because if you call the McLaren facility a garage, some horrible person with an unintelligible accent that is somehow supposed to be English is going to break your kneecaps.

A garage is where cars are parked, built and worked on to the exclusion of everything else. A garage can also serve as a parking space for cars without any work being done on them. This gets confusing, because a garage that does extensive work to cars involving engine builds, machine work, etc. might have a machine shop attached to it, but it is usually not part of the garage proper. The difference between McLaren and this sort of garage is that the garage is probably going to be slightly dingy, smell of chemicals and grease and probably have one really old guy named "Pops," Ol' Bill or something similar that sits on a couch most of the time (probably napping) but will come out when something really intricate needs to be done or some obscure old part needs to be identified.