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?