The 12-Gauge Garage

The 12-Gauge Garage Jack's suburban two-car garage. It's cleaned up for its pictures, but it's a working shop. I do automotive work, metal fabrication and carpentry in it.

There's much more info on it at: http://www.12-gaugegarage.com Also see the photos link below: This is my two-car garage. Sure, it's strange to have a page for the place where you park your car, but this little garage is popular out there in cyberspace and has a lot of ideas packed into it for people looking to make the most of a fairly small working space. I did everything myself, from

setting the tiles and building the cabinets to digging out the pit for the hydraulic lift. The total budget was less than $3,500, last time I checked. I use the place for automotive work, metal fabrication and carpentry. The car you see in it is my track/weekend 1972 Porsche 911.

Over the years, Joe Rogan has talked a few times about my garage and my car. I don't add much to this page these days, b...
02/19/2026

Over the years, Joe Rogan has talked a few times about my garage and my car. I don't add much to this page these days, but here's a clip that somehow got popular on Instagram. )I'll post a YouTube link here, though.)

Aside from the Rogan show, the footage was shot by Justin Evidon, Sean Fannin, and Josh Clason.

There were a couple of shows where podcaster Joe Rogan talked about my car. The other morning, I was cleaning up space on my phone, and I decided to just tak...

The Petersen Auto Museum paid a visit a little while back in order to make a clip about my garage and my 'car collection...
11/10/2021

The Petersen Auto Museum paid a visit a little while back in order to make a clip about my garage and my 'car collection.' If you watch, you'll get to enjoy seeing just how uncomfortable I am on camera -- but there's more: you'll also get some glimpses of the camper and the sailboat floating goofily above my driveway.

Porsche has always been at the forefront of racing. Since the brands inception, has taken more than 30,000 pole positions. Those victories are carri...

Petrolicious made one of their earliest videos about my car back in 2013.  They came back again more recently to do a vi...
04/27/2021

Petrolicious made one of their earliest videos about my car back in 2013. They came back again more recently to do a video focusing more on my garage. It was initially behind their paywall, but today they set it free. The ridiculously-talented Sean Fannin shot this clip.

We featured Jack Olsen’s multifunctional 1972 Porsche 911 during the very early days of Petrolicious films, and for this episode of Master Mechanics we met u...

I might have swallowed a 10mm socket, or it might have been a 3/8... :)
12/16/2020

I might have swallowed a 10mm socket, or it might have been a 3/8...

:)

Then and now.  One photo from 2012, and one from last week.  I can see some differences -- but the place really hasn't c...
12/07/2020

Then and now. One photo from 2012, and one from last week. I can see some differences -- but the place really hasn't changed much in the past eight years.

One of the surprising things is how few of the light bulbs have needed replacing.

I'm not sure how I missed this Carbuzz article from a year ago.  Or why they mixed me in with this group.  But here it i...
01/07/2020

I'm not sure how I missed this Carbuzz article from a year ago. Or why they mixed me in with this group. But here it is -- a bunch of super-deluxe ultra-garages, and then a much smaller one that has lights made out of cake-baking pans. :)

For most of us, a garage is a practical space. Room for a car or two or three, maybe a couple of bikes, a t...

Happy New Year from the 12 Gauge Garage.
12/31/2019

Happy New Year from the 12 Gauge Garage.

A flashback for a Friday.  Eight years ago, over a million copies of Popular Mechanics went out with a short article abo...
09/06/2019

A flashback for a Friday. Eight years ago, over a million copies of Popular Mechanics went out with a short article about my garage in it. I still have a hard time getting my head around that.

This is a 44-second snippet from a new Petrolicious video about my shop.  The clip itself is (or will be) behind their m...
07/02/2019

This is a 44-second snippet from a new Petrolicious video about my shop. The clip itself is (or will be) behind their membership paywall. (I'd love to see them change their mind about that. But we'll see.)

For now, this is all I get to see.

Learn more about Petrolicious Membership, and become a member today at: http://petro.li/Membership - or continue to enjoy our regular Tuesday series’, Made t...

06/28/2019

Last week's garage project: a Murphy bed with a desk that remains level when the bed is lowered down.

The best quick clean-up ever, in that my daughter came out and -- without even asking -- picked up a broom and started s...
06/25/2019

The best quick clean-up ever, in that my daughter came out and -- without even asking -- picked up a broom and started sweeping. I was very happy to have the help.

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