Are You An Extreme Garager?

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I’ve invented a new sport called “extreme garaging.” Okay, maybe I didn’t create it, but I have officially christened it with a somewhat memorable name.

Simply put, extreme garaging is the art of cramming way more vehicles into indoor storage than was ever intended. Collectors all know that extreme garaging is a sport of necessity–we can’t leave our cherised classics and exotics out in the elements. Why don’t we build a larger garage or rent space? Sorry, Charlie, that takes money… and we obviously have already blown all our Shekels on cars.

When I bought my current home last year, it was listed as having an “attached three-car garage.” Over the last ten months, it has housed five with plenty of room to spare.

Yesterday I took my extreme garaging career to a new level. I upped the ante by bringing home the Sound Classics Infamous Craigslist Ferrari Dino 308 GT4 Project while I wait for a computerized ignition system to arrive from Austrailia. With a little help from a set of Go-Jacks, I have six cars (plus my daughters’ battery-powered pink Corvette) staying warm and dry inside.

The best part is that moving the Sunbeam back two feet will free-up another fifteen feet and change–enough room, for instance, for a Porsche 930 Turbo, ‘65 Mustang or Dodge Viper. Sure, everything would be wedged-in tighter than the members of Judas Priest in their vintage 80s leather, but I could still even maintain the sitting area with couch, coffee table and chair.

So can you beat my extreme garaging feat of putting six-plus cars (with room for one more) in a three-car garage?

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Posted at 2:57 am in Garage, Garages, Sam Barer, Sound Classics, storage, StreetFirehp

Comments

XTZTwinTurbo
Nov 20, 2009 at 6:29 pm

Nice. Check out my mechanics garage at the following link.

http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/3/2228/861/30567930138_large.jpg

GTwildfire
Nov 19, 2009 at 8:18 pm

Most folks, if they even have garages couldn’t squeeze in more then one or two cars, even if they got creative.

sarahsmile90
Nov 19, 2009 at 8:01 pm

Certainly can’t beat that! Nice collection and way to go teaching your daughter young to take car of her car.

degolladoresq
Nov 19, 2009 at 12:39 pm

His ride page is right here. Durrrr.
http://www.cardomain.com/id/sbarer

4spdCharger
Nov 19, 2009 at 9:21 am

I’m an extreme garager. I have a ‘63 model 2 car garage (1 door) that I manage to fit a ‘70 Charger and a ‘71 New Yorker (4 door) in. To open the drivers door on the Charger, the passenger side is 2″ from the wall. And I can drive either of them at all times. If I ripped out my bench I might be able to pull both forward enough to fit my GF’s neon in, sideways…

bitchnbobb
Nov 19, 2009 at 6:38 am

Extreme piggy bank you mean? Wheres your ride page Mr. Sam? If you move that little pink car you might be able to put that silver vett in their with out having to remove the rear bunper cover. You will also clear up some wall space!

lejourinator
Nov 19, 2009 at 5:04 am

I think you win by default. nobody can have such a stuffed garage with such variety of (clean) cars. usually its some old guy with 5 rusty not so rare Mopar’s (or any 60’s- 70’s American for that matter) and a backyard restored Malibu with a modified 454 from a suburban. or a super rich collector with an imense, finished indoor parking lot rather than a garage.

And you’ve got a pink corvette; +10pts