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August 19, 2010
Seriously Gorgeous Garages
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Like a lot of people who are severely into cars, I’ve always found the idea of parking in my living room to be pretty appealing. So of all these beautiful high-dollar garages, the ones I like best are those that incorporate some kind of living space, from the loft above the immaculate bowties to the full-kitchen bar alongside the Italian exotics to the the little nook office with the view and the spiral staircase at the back of someone’s rustic two-car. In reality, though, true living-space garages–the ones where you literally drive your car into your home–might make it difficult to do anything more than light-duty tinkering. I like cooking almost as much as I like cars, but a kitchen full of diesel smoke would kill the appetite in a hurry. Anyway, hit the jump for a gallery of absolutely drool-worthy parking setups: notwithstanding the cars that’re in them, which garage do you like best?
From this thread at Luxury4Play, via duPont Registry’s Facebook Page.
April 26, 2010
Where Do You Work On Your Ride?
By David Clarke
highspeedhijinks
We all love to work on our cars–for the most part. A big factor in whether or not you truly enjoy wrenching on your ride is where you are doing it. I’ve done oil changes on a lift, on a pair of jack stands, and on a piece of cardboard out in the street. Let’s just say I enjoyed doing it on the lift more than on my back. Recently, I’ve had to bounce my ride from place to place in search of a decent place to work. Luckily I have a cool service manager at work, and he’s agreed to let me service my ride after hours at the dealership, as long as it’s back outside when I’m done (there’s always a hitch haha). Most of the work I’ve done in the past took place at my grandfather’s garage, but it’s great to have access to a lift for those projects that really need one. So how about you–are you fortunate enough to work out of a garage, or are you doing your wrenching on the asphalt?
November 19, 2009
Are You An Extreme Garager?
By Sam Barer
Sound Classics
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?
August 4, 2009
Speaking of Supercar Garages…
Gotadime
I just happened to stumble across Mecca. Jason Thorgalsen recently photographed the most impressive Supercar Garage I’ve ever seen and it couldn’t have come at a better time. You guys aren’t going to believe what he found. Here’s a direct quote:
Recently, I was invited to a friends place to check out his house and car collection. Among his collection he has 2 Challenge Stradales, Murcielago, Carrera GT, and a F40. The black CS has some nice mods done to it including straight pipes, gold rims, and a Scuderia stripe in matte black. The Murcielago has the AWD system converted to RWD with a few other mods so its a real monster! Last but not least the Carrera GT has straight pipes! When you finally leave the garage, you walk through the house and come to find the F40 sitting right next to the living room! The whole room is dedicated to Ferrari, so having a real one in there just seems right. Then in the living room is one of the best video game setups I have ever seen. Four of us sat down and got to racing on Forza 2. It was pretty fun racing head to head while trash talking to the person right next to you.
Sixteen more pictures after the jump.
March 24, 2009
A Quick Tour of Richard Griot’s Personal Garage
Weston Henderson
Last weekend Ryan and I headed down to a Fife-based garage outfitting and car care company called Griot’s Garage, to take a tour of their warehouse and the owner’s personal man-cave. Griot’s Garage has been around since 1990 and has been working on bringing forward the most innovative and time-saving tools and devices for your personal garage or shop. Richard Griot, the owner, described the company as “the culmination of 20 years of my love for cars.” And he simply wants to help others share in that love.
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October 17, 2008
Park on Your Balcony!
By John Coyle
Editor
When Jen was driving across the country to come work at CarDomain, she was faced with a terrible situation. For the first time, she had to park her beloved Escort in a place that she couldn’t see from her window, and it was pretty traumatic. She even tried to get the motel desk clerk to switch her room, then she tried to convince him she wasn’t crazy. Unfortunately, both attempts failed. But it turns out there are plenty of people who share her paranoia—in Singapore, at least. The Hamilton-Scotts building will allow its residents to bring their exotic whips straight up to their sure-to-be-palatial pads, and while I honestly think this idea is awesome, I have a couple of questions. First, if this cat is driving a Veyron, why isn’t he on the top floor? And second, since these apartments are going to sell for like a gazillion bucks, why didn’t they do a better job with the demo video? Doesn’t this look kind of weak?
via Jalopnik
May 24, 2008
What's Your Dream Garage?
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
I always admire pristine garages like this one, but I don’t think I’d ever actually manage to set up something similar for myself. It just seems too clean and neat or something–I like my garages to be a bit dirtier. But the ’62 Bonneville is sick!
May 19, 2008
Poll: Injured While Working on Cars?
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
I heard somewhere that burns are the most common kind of injury resulting from automotive work, and I can vouch for that—no matter how many times I sizzle off a swatch of flesh on a hot exhaust during an oil change, I always go in there after the filter while everything’s still hot. I’m also big on lacerations, often from stupid things—like the knuckle scar I got from my college garage job when I tried changing a sealed-beam headlight without removing the rim first (that’s what you get for cutting corners). I guess there’s some perfect pollies out there who never get bloodied working on their rides, but most of us end up with a few scars over a lifetime of wrenching. And some of us are just klutzier than others. What automotive-work-related injuries have you had to endure? Take our poll, then tell us the story in the comments.
March 15, 2008
What Does Your Dream House Look Like?
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
For lots of car nuts, the garage is more important than the house. And the more square footage, the better. I don’t have that much stuff–it’s my cars that are the problem. Right now I rent a garage for my Mopar, and I’d definitely add more cars I had room for them (I love cheap, non-running project cars, but can’t stand to see them get wet). For my dream house, I’m thinking I’d want space for at least four cars. And, since I tend to like urban areas where land is at a premium, it probably makes sense to have the cars live on the first floor. I found a pretty good list of garage-oriented house plans here. Lots more pics after the jump.
March 6, 2008
Where Do Your Cars Live?
By Ron
aka WayTooFurious
Being the owner of three cars, I consider my rides’ accommodations to be an important part of their ongoing maintenance. Like most people who hold down a regular job, I can only ever dream of owning a garage that someone like Jay Leno has. However, the absence of fabulous wealth shouldn’t prevent you from building a nice home for that special member of your family. A couple of years ago I actually built a garage especially for my Dodge Charger and its restoration. Lacking the space to go sideways in my backyard, I opted to go up instead, building a two-story garage with room for the Charger, a small workshop downstairs, and a larger workshop upstairs. It worked out great, despite the death threats from my neighbours, ’til I actually surprised myself by running out of space! I have since moved onto greener pastures, and have now built a new two-car garage with workshop at my new housethough I’ve already decided to expand it into a three-car garage with a separate workshop. What’s your car quarters of choice? Are you as crazy about building homes for your cars as I am?
