Sorry if this is a repost but I would be willing to see it twice nice garages
Sorry if this is a repost but I would be willing to see it twice nice garages
Those aren't garages silly :p Those are show rooms.
wow - nice layout. 
They are Cathedrals to Automobiledom.
I particularly liked the one with the Lola T70 in it. And the one with the polished marble floor that looked as if it was watered down. But red brick and red Ferraris are always nice..........+
What happens when your challenge car blows an oil cooler line and pukes 5 quarts of nasty used oil that need changing 6000 miles ago all over that Terracotta tile?
porksboy wrote: What happens when your challenge car blows an oil cooler line and pukes 5 quarts of nasty used oil that need changing 6000 miles ago all over that Terracotta tile?
If you are a Trazillionaire you have a team of people to clean it up.
porksboy wrote: What happens when your challenge car blows an oil cooler line and pukes 5 quarts of nasty used oil that need changing 6000 miles ago all over that Terracotta tile?
If you are a Trazillionaire you have a team of people to clean it up.
I found it funny that these garages have all sorts of exotics- owners probably have all the money in the world, and their race cars are miatas.
Teh E36 M3 wrote: I found it funny that these garages have all sorts of exotics- owners probably have all the money in the world, and their race cars are miatas.
I found it astounding how completely bland the collections were in these palaces. Always pseudo-modern exotics. Occasionally an older halo car. Only those Spec Miatas and the Lola were honest race cars.
Where are the vintage Formula Fords, Formula 2 cars, post-war specials, rally cars, hill climbers, and the like? (we all know where the Challenge cars live)
I'm guessing this lack of depth or breadth says quite a bit about how the funding for these vehicles and enclosures was acquired, but that's probably more appropriate for a liberal-arts thesis than a message board...
Check out this thread on the Garage Journal board, then...a guy in the Phillipines who owns an awsome, ultramodern garage. His cars include a MG-TC, an Elan, a Dino and a Stratos. 
He works on them himself in the same garage, too, so there goes that argument.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=71002
http://philberg.com/index.html
Some back stories on Ultimate Garages.
Clearly the only real interesting garage is the one in the thread with the spec miatas and the carts (first garage post 5) .... No not because of the Spec Miatas or the carts ... That Scout is the Shizz Nat!!
I like the underground bunker with the Lotus 7, LM002, Alfa, F1 car on the wall, 5X? Ford Thunderbird, a bazillion pre-90s Ferraris... that person has taste IMO...
Most of these are definitely 'garages' (where you park your cars) as opposed to 'shops' (where you work on your cars). We of lesser means lose the destinction between the two. Given how dirty a shop can get, I'd keep them as separate buildings or partitioned off if I could as well.
It's neat to see shots of Griot's personal garage outside of the catalog.
Wow, thanks for sharing!
I really like the castly looking one with all the really old cars. That one is impressive.
TRoglodyte wrote: If you are a Trazillionaire you have a team of people to clean it up.
Is a Trazillion bigger than a Gobajillion?
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:TRoglodyte wrote: If you are a Trazillionaire you have a team of people to clean it up.Is a Trazillion bigger than a Gobajillion?
Exponentially.
Anyone else notice that there seemed to be an abnormally high number of Maseratis?
My favorite - because it has parking for a little pink bike with streamers on it.
So, what's it smell like upstairs when he fires up one of the classics after a bit of sitting time?
Keith wrote: So, what's it smell like upstairs when he fires up one of the classics after a bit of sitting time?
It's just a matter of air-changes and given how much he spent on that building, adding a supplemental exhaust system controlled by a fume/CO sensor would be easy. (this is the sort of stuff we do for a living... albeit for less photo-worthy projects)
Keith wrote: Anyone else notice that there seemed to be an abnormally high number of Maseratis?
I read someplace that it started as submissions for a contest that Maserati was having.
Bringing this thread back to life as an excuse to post this video about a condo complex made exclusively of enthusiast car garages: http://bcove.me/a52ky1yi
How sweet is that?
Milton Robson's place was in that post, I've been there a few times.
Now that post is reminding me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_0LS6eU2dY
It's sour grapes, I know, but somehow publishing or publicizing your excess doesn't seem as sexy as it did last time.
nderwater wrote: Bringing this thread back to life as an excuse to post this video about a condo complex made exclusively of enthusiast car garages:
I've been out to the Motorplex a couple times for car shows, it's a pretty neat place. The thing is, they have all different kinds of garages there - some of them are pure fab shops, others are showplaces, but most of them are somewhere in between; they're fancier than most people have but the owners are still using them to work on their cars.
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