By Ryan Porter

IN-N-OUT Editor

If you’re like me you have a hard time coming up with a Christmas list that has genuinely good gifts on it and that’s why guys like us end up getting socks for Christmas every year. Why not put some items on that list that will make you happy every time you step foot in your garage? Yeah, I’m talking Griot’s Garage style!

Check out some of our Christmas list picks from Griot’s Garage after the jump.

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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?