Yes, it is true. We are under the final negotiations to take over a shop in Austin. Our friend Greg, posted up in a myspace bulletin that he was ending the lease on his shop. He hasn't been running it for the last 18 months or so, but his buddy John has. Well, John is tired of the drive and his wife is ill, so June is his last month there. I contacted Greg immediately and got all the details.
I was kind of bad, but agreed to purchase all the equipment (lift, air compressor, tranny jack lift, oil recovery cans, couch, water fountain, desk, and misc. other things) without discussing it with Jeff, but it was pretty much too good of an offer to turn down.
We have talked about the shop all week and have agreed to throw caution to the wind and jump in with both sets of feet and try and make a go of this. This is our dream and our future, plus the cost of renting the shop is about 1/3 of what we had been looking at.
We are meeting with the landlord and Greg, hopefully, next week to sign the new lease and we will be moving in July 1st.
The shop is 50 x 25 feet. Has a bathroom and 2 garage doors, one in front and one in back. We have been laughing that the one in front will be for our trucks and the one in back for the cars. You will see why when you look at the picture.
We probably won't have a Grand Opening party until August sometime, just to give Jeff time to get some work caught up and get us settled into the new surroundings. All the garage cam and rave lights will be moving to the new location.
We will be by appt. only for the first few months just to see how sniffing glue we get...but planning on being there after work during the week and on weekends.
Pics of the shop....