How does everyone store their parts?

[68GTXNH]

So obviously a car is ALOT bigger when you take it apart. In trying to stay organized during disassembly, i typically put all the small parts and hardware in baggies with what they are written on it. But baggies are sooooo annoying sorting through later. Small shoe box size bins seem too big for most things that baggies are nice for. Those big footlocker sized totes are nice for lots of things piled in but always too short for most pieces of trim to store them safely. Do they make longer but shallow bins? And big parts like fenders or deck lids usually take up so much space they get spread out. I have two old panel trucks full of random parts from all my cars. big shelves like the mini pallet rack style shelves at lowes are great but i cant fit any more of those anywhere. I have one just full of engine blocks... How do you guys do it? Between taking a car apart and having a pile of new parts to install, some of you guys must have a pretty decent method to organize and store everything.

 

[bobtile]

I throw all my parts in a spare bedroom downstairs. Thats why it takes me 10 years to build a car.

 

[dieseldazzle]

Costco shelving and 14 3 tier shelves inside 7 8x40 cargo containers. Inside stuff also goes on Costco racks in the shop and home garage

 

[eldubb440]

I throw all my parts in a spare bedroom downstairs. Thats why it takes me 10 years to build a car.

is building a car in a bedroom is kind of like building a ship in a bottle?

 

[68GTXNH]

Costco shelving and 14 3 tier shelves inside 7 8x40 cargo containers. Inside stuff also goes on Costco racks in the shop and home garage

You have 7 shipping containers? Id kill for just one. Someday i want to build a shop with 3, sides and back with clear span trusses between them

 

[Phillipkj4]

Last car I did a full resto on I stored everything in the formal dining room since no one went in there. I did have to push to get parts back on by the holidays that year though

 

[ws23jrt]

I have yet to find a good way to keep track of my parts. The trouble I have is finding what I need when I need it.
Most of the huge pile of parts that I have-- ended up on shelves and pushed to the back when more parts survived the dumpster.
I usually know that I have what I am looking for at any one time. But in my search I tend to find things that I had to buy because I forgot I had them.

A bag and tag system is great as long as -that bag- with those parts- are where you should have put them at the time of tagging.

 

[bobtile]

is building a car in a bedroom is kind of like building a ship in a bottle?

No, my wife wouldn't give a ship if I built a ship in a bottle!

 

[GetX'd]

I store all mine in my wife's closet...... I wonder why that lawyer called me today......

 

[khryslerkid]

Buy some metal shelves. I save a lot of quart coffee cans with lids. Write what's in there on the lids. Easy to see looking across them on the shelving. Plastic butter tubs, peanut butter jars ect. Some parts I'll use masking tape to fasten the hardware to it.

And take lots of pictures, download them on the computer and make copies. I even save pics on a thumb drive so I can bring the pics up on my phone when I'm out in the shop.

 

[idrivemopar]

I have a bunch of shelves in the basement now, but when I was rebuilding my car, this was my living room full of new or restored parts!

 

[BeeKool]

I store lots of the parts in totes in the trunk of the car and backseat and passengerseat. And in boxes underneath and in front of the car. It's a pain in the *** but works if your pressed for space.
Put bolts and nuts and small things in coffee cans inside of totes

 

[flypaper]

parts are cleaned/refinished/bagged and tagged then boxed up and ready to go
i have closets stuffed from floor to ceiling stuffed full of boxes of parts
fiber drums filled with cleaned and replated bagged and tagged hardware ect.
i try to make it easy to figure out where it goes
a car like a 71 road runner has a lot of parts to it.

 

[Mike67]

40x60 shop, 2 walls with dedicated cabinets for my project (about 20')...still buying stuff that I had forgotten I've already aquired...
Stuff to sell at the swap meets I guess...

 

[wahya]

I told my buddy that I needed one of his motorhome storage units for a couple of months (it turned out to be more like a year.)

 

[BeeKool]

I told my buddy that I needed one of his motorhome storage units for a couple of months (it turned out to be more like a year.)

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A years not bad. I'm not sure what the average time is to restore a car but I'm sure a year is well ahead

 

[wahya]

A years not bad. I'm not sure what the average time is to restore a car but I'm sure a year is well ahead

I just got the good out of this convertible and took the shell to scrap. I finished most of it at home.

 

[Kern Dog]

All of my pets are allowed inside. We have 3 dogs now and one more that we are fostering. I couldn't leave them outside, they are a part of the family!

 

[BeeKool]

All of my pets are allowed inside. We have 3 dogs now and one more that we are fostering. I couldn't leave them outside, they are a part of the family!

Good man

 

[conv67bdere]

I store my parts anywhere and everywhere that I can find a place for them . . . so when it comes time to put the parts back on the car I can't find them . . .

Go figure . . .