Our shops & garages
	Sneak a peek inside Miin Leong`s mini garage. With one car removed it can be a full service bay for two CJs. That ceiling hook-up ratchet strap hoist can lift any bike or car engine up to 1000 lbs.
	Richard Cook's facility: "Nothing much in the way of the giant tidy shop I'd like. My garage is a detached building at the end of my driveway with an oddly sized door. If I park my roadster just right I can get the Chang out."
	"The guard cat oversees work every evening."
	"The Chang is getting a tranny oil change with Royal Purple 75-90. Th big JBL speakers I plan to finish and test this weekend."
	"The carbs are next week's project. Today I also made a cover for my badly pitted frame battery area out of a stair cover."
	"The garage is full of stuff I need to move and projects I intend to do."
	Let's take a look at Glenn Ethington's shop in Tucson, Arizona. This place is bigger and cleaner than my living room. There's Glenn's CJ too.
	I'll hazard a guess and say this shop doubles as a graphic arts studio. Look at all the prints.
	Oh man, there's another bike I dream of owning. And some CJ (or M72) artwork on the wall. This shop is excellent.
	Dan Mullins' place in Arkansas is next. This is more like my shop, except it looks bigger and much cleaner. (You'll see at some stage.) Anyway, there's Dan's 6V CJ solo.
	Side Valve and Flat Twin signs flank a ROUTE 66 sign. These are the kinds of things that make a guy's shop his special place.
	I say you can never have too much paraphernalia hanging on the walls.
	In the enlarged image you can see the STOP lens in Dan's Model A taillight. Decent shelving sure makes a difference.
	I saved the very best for last. Lurking on a shelf, sort of behind the scenes sits this engine, a fairly rare and very good quality Lanxiang 6V SV. This is Dan's spare engine. If you ever have an opportunity to get your hands on a Lanxiang, jump on it.
	Let's take a peak inside Holger Behncke's place next. Holger lives in Germany and is the man behind the excellent little web site schlingels.com.
	And what a fine shop he has here. The bike on the left is a 1955 IFA BK350, built in Eastern Germany. I'm sure you recognize the other bike in the picture. This is what he calls "the shack".
	It's just that, a little wooden shack built against his brick garage.
	Nice huh?
	Just a few days ago Holger cleared and cleaned up the workshop in the cellar of his house. And because he knew it wouldn't last long in this condition he took some pictures.
	Just look at the tools and equipment.
	This is a terrific shop indeed.
	And it's even cleaner than my kitchen.
	A fellow could get a lot of projects done in here.
	It's perfect.
	And this is my secret lair in 2005. It only held three cars, two bikes, a million parts and had a little room left for doing stuff, but not very much. It's heated with a kerosene "salamander" so portions are blocked off with sheets of plastic during the winter. You can see part an Edsel on the extreme left. It's a 1959 "Villager" station wagon.
	This is how it looks in 2007—with a second addition. It now has a five-car, two-bike capacity.
	This space is normally occupied by an Edsel. Today it's occupied by my CJ, sans sidecar bucket and jugs. Most of the stuff on the shelves is Edsel parts. That's a 223 straight six engine in front of the bike. There's a 352 V-8 behind the CJ wheel.
	I should have tidied up a bit first, but hey, I've got projects going.
	My spare tire adorns one of the walls. The cover came from Gerald at LRM. Soon the Beijing MC memorabilia and Chinese license plates will also decorate this wall.
	Yeah, yeah I know, it's a big mess. It usually is.
	Ahh, there's the old girl now. Hi Sweetie.
	I'm refinishing part of the sidecar bucket this week. So far it looks like crap.
	Brothers Marc and Patrick Lalumiere have the coolest bikes in all of Montreal, possibly even all of Quebec. And this is where they get worked on.
	Indoors or out, there's nothing prettier than a black SV Chang.
	There's some pretty heavy maintenance going on here, possibly an annual winter CJ project like mine.
	I notice two things right off the bat. First, the excellent bike posters, and second, this sure looks like a nice warm and dry environment for storing bikes.
	This picture is my favorite. There's just something about it.
	My eye keeps wandering to that nice little Bimmer in the background. Say, did you know that cars are Bimmers and bikes are Beemers? Well, that's what I've been told, anyway.