would these people be grassroots folk ?

ripped from another forum....

http://www.luxury4play.com/automotive/3 ... ource=9593

I often prefer six speed online.

motorworld.net ain't bad either.

whoops, my bad there were suppose to be pictures ...

I'll try again later

There is a mean looking Exige in Dizzy's link..

I can't get the picture to work here though...

this should show the pics I was trying for the first time...

http://etrscca.org/etrsccaforum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5299

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

I had seen that one before somewhere.... might have been in CM....

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

I believe that's the house of the Griot's garage owner. I think I saw it on Roundel before.

This is sure to cause a pileup on the highway:

That blue BMW 3.0 was dead sexy.

why would anyone transport those on an OPEN carrier?

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

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.

Youbetcha! Everyone here has a garage just like this one!

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

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.

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...

Hey, like the linked site said: dream big. Our dreams are just a little different from theirs.

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...

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.