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Filmed on location at the Three Lions Garage

Charlie, the family auteur, temporarily transformed Three Lions Garage into a mini movie studio to shoot a video showing him at work on his L’Ordinateur sculpture based on Rodin’s “The Thinker”.  His project is still in progress–Can’t wait to see the sculpture when it’s completed.  Enjoy.

Our other vehicles need love too

True Confession time: It’s not all vintage vehicle fun at the Three Lions Garage.  Our newer vehicles need care too.  While I’ll admit that I’ll rarely decide to sacrifice any of the few precious hours I can manage to dedicate to the garage each week on projects as routine as oil changes or tune ups […]

Curse you, W. N. Woodruff!

Late in the nineteenth century, a Connecticut inventor named W.N. Woodruff invented the Woodruff Key, a way to mate parts to rotating shafts.  Mr. Woodruff came up with the ingenious idea of inserting a semi-circular key into a keyway cut longitudinally into a shaft so that a portion of the key protrudes as a tab […]