New workshop -- finally! (Patreon)

Patience and persistence finally paid off and I'm getting a proper place to work in and best of all, it's in the same location where I'm at now! 

It all worked out funny. I actually found a different space in the old Opel car factory in Rüsselsheim, massive space, cheap rent and I was pretty much ready to move there.
I've been asking my current landlords for many, many months if they could give me more space, but all of the garages are rented out and the only place they have is on the pictures above that's filled with their cars.
Once I told them I'll be moving out, they didn't want me to leave and that kinda forced them to see if they can rearrange some stuff.

After a couple of weeks of back & forth, we agreed that from June 1st, I'm getting 2 doors by their entire length right next to where my current garage is! It's around 100 m2 (1076 sq ft) of beautiful clean & dry space, including 4 parking spots in the front. Right now I'm paying for each car that sits in the yard. 

The Opel factory would've been a great option too and for the same rent, I'd be getting 257 m2 but there are caveats.  The place was built in 1909 and the condition of the room is very poor with a leaking roof, but that's fixable. In 2-3 years I would probably need to move out as they are renovating all of it and making Motorworld location there which is fantastic, but I don't want to move again that quickly.
But the biggest negative for me is the distance, Opel factory is 35 km away from my home, 35 minutes without traffic and 45-60 min with traffic. My current place is 4.3 km away from my home, 8 min without traffic and 15 min with traffic. So even though it's less space, it's in better condition, more private and frankly it's so close to my apartment that it just makes sense as I'd hate to waste time and petrol in traffic every day. 

Anyway, I'm super stoked it worked out this way. I was slowly losing the desire to work in that tiny space so this is a much-needed development! 100 m2 isn't crazy big, but I plan to make it my own and arrange it in such a way it'll be easy and efficient for work. You can see in the picture what I have in mind for now. 

Obviously, I'll have to spend a lot on equipment and to shape it as I want, but I'll do it gradually and I'm hoping to get some sponsorship for lifts which would be nice. I'll also save where I can, for example, I'll make my own tables as they are stupid expensive otherwise.
For the 2-post lift, I'll have to re-do the concrete (4x4 meter section) as the current one is not thick enough for safe installation and that'll be probably the biggest work I'll need to do. Lighting I already have picked out and I'll be doing that as well. 

I plan to make a video on the workshop build as it could be interesting, not sure how many parts but we'll see. 

Circling back to the Opel factory and Motorworld, the guy in charge there is a really nice fella and in the future, once the Covid restrictions loosen, this will be the perfect venue for a subscriber meet-up. The place is massive, I can display my cars easily and hopefully meet some of you. I've been getting a lot of messages from fans wanting to drop by and this will be the perfect way to do it. 

All in all, I'm super excited and actually can't wait to start working on the shop! I'll keep you posted on the latest happenings.
On May 28th I'm flying to Skövde to see that M5 and then flying back home on the following day. I was planning to go there with my girlfriend and stay for a few days, but due to lack of time and high travel expenses, I'll be going alone and gonna make it short but sweet.

Massive thanks to all of you for your support and contributing to me getting to this point! Love you all!