Tom Suddard
Director of Marketing & Digital Assets
7/12/22 2:24 p.m.
I'm tired of seeing perfectly organized workspaces posted online, so here's your challenge:
Drop what you're doing, take a photo of your shop/garage/parking spot/etc. (wherever you work on your car), then post it here. No cleaning or rearranging allowed. Let's see how everybody REALLY works.
wae
PowerDork
7/12/22 2:29 p.m.
I'm not there right now, but this is fairly representative of the front half of the shop:
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657650587_img_20220520_230003647_mmthumb.jpg)
Tom Suddard
Director of Marketing & Digital Assets
7/12/22 2:33 p.m.
And here's my submission: ![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657650816_image_mmthumb.jpeg)
Tom, why is your garage so much neater than your office??
Tom Suddard
Director of Marketing & Digital Assets
7/12/22 2:35 p.m.
In reply to Marjorie Suddard :
Priorities (and the Miata is at the wrap shop).
Tonight is garage organization night but here it is as of right now:
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657651000_2022_07_12_18_36_361_mmthumb.jpg)
Tom Suddard
Director of Marketing & Digital Assets
7/12/22 2:46 p.m.
In reply to wae :
What lift is that? Looks cool!
I haven't finished building it and it's already a mess.
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657651591_img_20220629_193548_mmthumb.jpg)
Mr_Asa
PowerDork
7/12/22 2:52 p.m.
Tom Suddard said:
I'm tired of seeing perfectly organized workspaces posted online, so here's your challenge:
Drop what you're doing, take a photo of your shop/garage/parking spot/etc. (wherever you work on your car), then post it here. No cleaning or rearranging allowed. Let's see how everybody REALLY works.
Welp. I guess I'll win Best In Show when I get home...
Here's the portion of the garage that I mostly work in. As such, it's the least cluttered
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657651962_3b9074b5-4d51-4fa1-b80f-1f079fddb968_mmthumb.jpeg)
Taking a picture from there...
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657651995_85fdae60-bc0b-47a6-be19-b987be52c582_mmthumb.jpeg)
I dream of someday having my shop space as clean as what some of you consider "messy".
In reply to Rusnak_322 :
Props to your organization. The homemade bench in front the bike is awesome. My disaster area will be shown after work.
I'm jealous of yall garage space!
We just finished moving from SC on Saturday so it's a mess, shelving/pallet racking and come cabinets are going to be needed before it gets cold up here.
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657654127_img_2939_mmthumb.jpg)
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657654139_img_2940_mmthumb.jpg)
Nobody has a shop larger than mine. Here's my 4Runner in my shop, which extends to infinity in one direction (up).
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657655074_img_0885_mmthumb.JPG)
One of the E30s in the shop:
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657655316_dsc00200_mmthumb.JPG)
wae
PowerDork
7/12/22 3:57 p.m.
Tom Suddard said:
In reply to wae :
What lift is that? Looks cool!
It's a Titan SL-6600 sicssor mid-rise lift. Bought it after seeing AccordionFolder's and it's the best $1700 I've ever spent!
After posting in wrong thread--
Admit that camera was not pointed at cluttered workbench.
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657656686_18ce476e-ef30-40e8-9640-9ac24bae6c32_mmthumb.jpeg)
I got tired of working in clutter, so I keep it pretty clean
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657657970_758ff530-3f19-4d9a-87ac-9866052eb519_mmthumb.jpeg)
and just so you don't think I picked the good side
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657658061_ea2aaf9f-404d-48de-a151-c484b00ba499_mmthumb.jpeg)
I'm pretty good about cleaning up my shop between projects and I just did it last night so right now it looks pretty much like this.
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657657560_image_mmthumb.png)
Here's a messy bench with three projects going on at once.
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657657718_image_mmthumb.png)
I'm checking to see if the new Chinese digital scale has the same output as the ones I designed the DRO on my lathe around (they don't), I've got a Holley carb rebuild going on and apparently I've got a cylinder head apart. FE Ford perhaps?
Here's a messy shop picture for you. This one was taken while I was building the engine for my Crossle
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657658106_image_mmthumb.png)
From one side
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657659684_img-1602_mmthumb.jpg)
To the other
![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/uploads/2022/07/12/1657659703_img-1604_mmthumb.jpg)
Two car attached garage with a one car (two if you're a GRMer) addition off the side.