ripped from another forum....
http://www.luxury4play.com/automotive/3 ... ource=9593
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Feb. 16, 2010 5:37 p.m. wbjones HalfDork
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Feb. 16, 2010 5:44 p.m. maroon92 SuperDork
I often prefer six speed online.
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Feb. 16, 2010 5:46 p.m. SlickDizzy SuperDork
motorworld.net ain't bad either.
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Feb. 16, 2010 6:12 p.m. wbjones HalfDork
whoops, my bad there were suppose to be pictures ...
I'll try again later
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Feb. 16, 2010 6:16 p.m. maroon92 SuperDork
There is a mean looking Exige in Dizzy's link..
I can't get the picture to work here though...
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Feb. 16, 2010 8:07 p.m. wbjones HalfDork
this should show the pics I was trying for the first time...
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Feb. 16, 2010 8:20 p.m. mtn SuperDork
Wow. Those are some nice garages.
I feel like I've seen this one in an ad or magazine http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2717/4033553835_a059ed8d0f_o.jpg
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Feb. 16, 2010 8:37 p.m. wbjones HalfDork
I had seen that one before somewhere.... might have been in CM....
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Feb. 16, 2010 8:52 p.m. ea_sport Reader
mtn wrote:
I believe that's the house of the Griot's garage owner. I think I saw it on Roundel before.Wow. Those are some nice garages.
I feel like I've seen this one in an ad or magazine http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2717/4033553835_a059ed8d0f_o.jpg
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Feb. 16, 2010 10:15 p.m. MitchellC Dork
This is sure to cause a pileup on the highway:
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Feb. 16, 2010 10:25 p.m. RossD Dork
That blue BMW 3.0 was dead sexy.
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Feb. 16, 2010 10:27 p.m. maroon92 SuperDork
why would anyone transport those on an OPEN carrier?
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Feb. 17, 2010 5:06 a.m. problemaddict Reader
I love that there is a "Culinary" sub-forum on that Luxury4play site.
In the forum there's a thread "What, no CAVIAR thread?!?"
Yep, very Grassroots
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Feb. 17, 2010 9:23 a.m. minimac Dork
maroon92 wrote:
why would anyone transport those on an OPEN carrier?
To save a couple of bucks, of course. Either that or to show the world how to overcompensate for a small part of the human anatomy.
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Feb. 17, 2010 9:30 a.m. 914Driver SuperDork
Youbetcha! Everyone here has a garage just like this one!
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Feb. 17, 2010 10:31 a.m. JG Pasterjak Production/Art Director
mtn wrote:
Wow. Those are some nice garages.
I feel like I've seen this one in an ad or magazine http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2717/4033553835_a059ed8d0f_o.jpg
That's Richard Griot's (Griot's Garage) home shop. Of the ones in that thread, honestly it's one of my favorites. It's the only one that looks like you could actually get some stuff done in.
Although, there's something kind of intriguing about the underground catacomb with all the Italian exotics and and single-wide door. It just screams "lair." Although, if you want to drive a car parked in the back your henchmen have to do a lot of shuffling.
jg
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Feb. 17, 2010 11:36 a.m. alex Dork
I'll second JG. Griot's is the only real garage the group. The rest, while impressive in the 'I don't know what else to do with my money' sort of way, are just showrooms. No work happens in them.
My dream garage has, above all, 3 times the space I know what to do with at first, but also a few lifts, air, 3 phase, floor drains, a magic cabinet that allows me to reach into the Snap-On factory (kinda like Narnia, but in Wisconsin)...all the stuff that would help me actually do stuff, not just show off the expensive stuff I can buy from somebody else.
Now, in the loft above that garage, that's where the bar, giant TV, bigger stereo, convoluted interior lighting design, cool racing and concert posters, and the collection of vintage guitars and amps goes.
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Feb. 17, 2010 11:52 a.m. Slyp_Dawg Reader
dream garage for me: 4 bay garage, with in-ground hydraulic ram lifts (as opposed to a two or four-post lift) for 3 of the 4 bays, a 4 post alignment rack in the 4th, enough room behind these bays to fit two cars end-to-end, fab equipment (a tubing bender and notcher, MIG and TIG welder, plasma cutter, band and scroll and circular saw, basically everything needed to make a proper tube chassis), a separate room for engine work, full complement of high grade tools, tire mounting/balancing machine, strut/spring compressor, engine hoist, drainage, oh and a floor that is perfectly level for alignment and cross-weighing a car and such, a separate room for storing critical fluids (fuel, oil, etc.), and it MUST be separate from the house, for safety reasons.
ok, maybe I'm just a little bit ambitious...
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Feb. 17, 2010 1:23 p.m. alex Dork
Hey, like the linked site said: dream big. Our dreams are just a little different from theirs.
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Feb. 17, 2010 3:44 p.m. Slyp_Dawg Reader
true, I suppose the 1+ mile long, twisty and technical dirt road driveway snaking through a relatively dense forest was the more ambitious part of that whole dream...
or the 6 mile DH/FR/XC mountain bike trail loop running on the same property...
or the little lake the garage and the house would be built by...
or the addition of a boat garage built onto the back of the car garage, built just big enough to house a rowboat and a LSx powered sprint boat...
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Feb. 17, 2010 8:08 p.m. MitchellC Dork
alex wrote:
I'll second JG. Griot's is the only real garage the group. The rest, while impressive in the 'I don't know what else to do with my money' sort of way, are just showrooms. No work happens in them.
Most people probably view working on cars as a chore no more rewarding than vacuuming. These people have the luxury of farming out the labor and enjoying the fruits of it.
I'm not really envious at all; I enjoy a small-scale lifestyle. Of course, I would never turn down keys to an F40.
Edit: Namely, this F40:
Sinister.
