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A very interesting and useful place for DIY people in Los Angeles


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I highly recommended this place called your dream garage to everyone who lives near Los Angeles and work on his own cars.
It is Do It Yourself Auto Shop you can work on your own car over there.
They got lifts and complete tool list you can use. It is super clean too.
www.urdreamgarage.com
13409 Garvey Ave., Suite 4 Baldwin Park, CA 91706

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Any contact info on that Brian? Those were all over the place not 20 years ago... I'd given up hope long ago they still existed!

 

Apparently they're extremely common still on military bases.

 

Local travis air field has one that is something like $20/month for a parking space outside, bring your own tools type deal. Dedicated lift spot wasn't insanely priced iirc.

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That's part of the MWR Facilities provided by the profits gerpnerated by the on base post exchanges / commissary, etc.

"Morale, Welfare, and Recreation"

 

It's where I built my 73 while on Okinawa...at a little hole-in-the-wall Auto Hobby Shop that was adjacent to the Army Motor Pool at Torii Station. It wasn't the fanciest place, but it had everything I needed between there and the other hobby shop up the hill...where I found a beautiful South Bend Lathe...Just sitting there like new, put there in the 50's, I was the irst guy who had signed the tool set out since 'Nam (72!!!)

 

Not your tax dollars at work, but redistribution of profits from a community back into it directly. As a Cold Warrior, the irony of fighting Communism while engaging in a Socialist-Collectivist Construct in the US Military caused no end of smirks at briefings...

 

But I digress!

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That's part of the MWR Facilities provided by the profits gerpnerated by the on base post exchanges / commissary, etc.

"Morale, Welfare, and Recreation"

 

It's where I built my 73 while on Okinawa...at a little hole-in-the-wall Auto Hobby Shop that was adjacent to the Army Motor Pool at Torii Station. It wasn't the fanciest place, but it had everything I needed between there and the other hobby shop up the hill...where I found a beautiful South Bend Lathe...Just sitting there like new, put there in the 50's, I was the irst guy who had signed the tool set out since 'Nam (72!!!)

 

Not your tax dollars at work, but redistribution of profits from a community back into it directly. As a Cold Warrior, the irony of fighting Communism while engaging in a Socialist-Collectivist Construct in the US Military caused no end of smirks at briefings...

 

But I digress!

 

I think you should write a book

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Hahahaha! More and more people are telling me that!

 

Having read the life chronology of John Muir (not the nature photographer, his descendant who was an engineer at Lockheed and "tuned out" to become a long-haired VW mechanic -- and wrote 'How to keep your VW alive! a step by step guide for the compleat idiot') this may be in the stars!

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