How do you park your vehicles?

[Hobby_Man22]

I've never been good at this. How do you park your vehicles to maximize space and make it so 15 things don't have to be moved to gain access to one thing?

 

[jd_1138]

I park the rapidly depreciating boring transportation appliances outside the garage, so I can have room for a workshop.

Maybe if I didn't have a leased Hyundai economy car and a 20 year old Buick I would care more.

 

[Hobby_Man22]

I park the rapidly depreciating boring transportation appliances outside the garage, so I can have room for a workshop.

Maybe if I didn't have a leased Hyundai economy car and a 20 year old Buick I would care more.

You mean Teslas?

 

[zkdiesel]

Multiple buildings for different uses

 

[Captain Spaulding]

Plentiful doors. Cars, truck, tractor mower and ATV all have direct access to a door. Bobcat and boat require moving one other thing to get out. Makes life easier.

 

[partsguy5768]

I park the rapidly depreciating boring transportation appliances outside the garage, so I can have room for a workshop.

Maybe if I didn't have a leased Hyundai economy car and a 20 year old Buick I would care more.

560 at the rear wheels... not really boring.. ( mustang chassis dyno... they run on the conservative side) 4 car garage... two shops and two carports takes care of moving stuff around to pick my ride for the day..

 

[jb3]

I have linear parking so my strategy is to accept I will need to move one or two of my 3 running cars to access the last one. They have to be moved out, then reshuffled back in on planned use or maintenance needs.

This is annoying but tolerable. The only upside is everything gets pretty consistently started

 

[bornbadbob]

Project car in the 2 car garage, pickup and wife’s benz on the driveway

 

[supratreo]

my daily i park outside for a quick getaway. my weekend car..... i have to move 15 things.

 

[lolaetype]

Five cars, five garage bays; four attached and one 15'X30' detached - where any maintenance takes place. Move nothing to get any of the out.

 

[esben57]

This thought came as I read the thread title.

 

[MushCreek]

The wife parks in the attached one car garage. The only stuff in there are BBQ grills and the trash can. I park my '92 Miata in the shop. Overhead in the shop is our rowboat, suspended by a winch that I operate with a cordless drill. Takes about 30 seconds to raise or lower the boat. My old pick-up lives outdoors like a sheepdog. Maybe someday I'll build a carport for it.

 

[brit vet]

I have 5 Corvettes that have to be stored inside for my sanity and because 4 of them will let water in. Until I added the C8 recently the garage worked quite well but now if I have a job to do, I have to shuffle the cars around and it can be a pain in the backside. That being said, I consider myself very fortunate having a decent size garage here in the UK as it's not the norm. It's L shaped, 36' x 36' and two storey and came with the house as an unfinished build of bare concrete walls in & out, no roof, no doors and no services. I've done everything myself over the last two and a bit years as time allows. For a temp job on the roof I used 32 x 10 mtr rolls of felt which has lasted two winters and I'm getting bids in now to do a permanent roof covering.

The big blocks







The bench on the right has the bench grinders, drill press, sand blasting cabinet so any of that in use means the cars have to go outside

 

[racecougar]

With doors on the long side of the buildings, life is easy.

 

[Snapped-off]

Cars parked in the garage. Tools and equipment are in the shop.

 

[finn]

The shop has three doors, the widest of which is 12’. It has spaces for five cars, some of which are projects, the others being collectibles, the Sprinter class B van conversion, and the side by side (in the winter). The F450, an F250, and the CTL live in the enclosed, non temperature controlled lean to. There’s clearly an access problem here if I were to use it for daily drivers. As it is, the Sprinter camper has to be backed out to access either of the collector car drivers or to access the four post lifts.

The house garage has three doors the widest being 14’. It has spaces for the tractor, mini ex, a daily driver (the Mustang GT convertible in the summer), and three project cars. I don’t do a lot of work here. The tractor goes outside at the shop during the side x side season, and the side x side gets re-homed to the house garage from storage in the shop. but there’s been rodent damage to the tractor wiring, so keeping it outside at the shop not a great solution. Bottom line is that I have a 32’x54’ garage at the house with ready access to only a Mustang and a side x side.

The Maverick Tremor and Ram daily drivers live outside.

 

[zimman]

This thought came as I read the thread title.

EPIC!
Zim

 

[zimman]

I've never been good at this. How do you park your vehicles to maximize space and make it so 15 things don't have to be moved to gain access to one thing?

Acreage helps. LOL
Seriously having just one project helps too.
Zim

 

[Hooked]

Between the garage, workshop, and boat barn, everything has it's own access door and parking space.

 

[partsguy5768]

I have 5 Corvettes that have to be stored inside for my sanity and because 4 of them will let water in. Until I added the C8 recently the garage worked quite well but now if I have a job to do, I have to shuffle the cars around and it can be a pain in the backside. That being said, I consider myself very fortunate having a decent size garage here in the UK as it's not the norm. It's L shaped, 36' x 36' and two storey and came with the house as an unfinished build of bare concrete walls in & out, no roof, no doors and no services. I've done everything myself over the last two and a bit years as time allows. For a temp job on the roof I used 32 x 10 mtr rolls of felt which has lasted two winters and I'm getting bids in now to do a permanent roof covering.

The big blocks







The bench on the right has the bench grinders, drill press, sand blasting cabinet so any of that in use means the cars have to go outside

What are you doing parking them junk transportation devices inside??? Get them outside where they belong. Only kidding nice rides!

 

[mrhemi426]

I stack mine in the most appropriate order.

 

[jblnut]

Multiple sheds with enough space and doors to avoid as much shuffling as possible.

 

[Nick Rivers]

2.5 car attached garage high roof with no ceiling. Workbench and Vidmars at the rear, two cars in the garage bays. Passage door from the garage to my den then into the dining room/kitchen. We don't carry house keys anymore, just the garage door openers in the vehicles. Hidden house key in a sprinkler out back in case of a power outage.

 

[brit vet]

What are you doing parking them junk transportation devices inside??? Get them outside where they belong. Only kidding nice rides!

They all get a lot of use. I'm the North West regional rep for the Classic Corvette Club UK and we're active most weekends

 

[bbxlr8]

Over the years, I have found that I expand to whatever the space is (and definitely beyond ) I try to be smarter, but I am always juggling vehicles, equipment, or materials in some form or another.

I was the most organized in my last smaller garage/shop and had to move under less than ideal circumstances and find myself just getting by years later with much more space.

This forum and your ideas/pics give me hope and motivation!!

 

[ronr80]

HAHA I had that issue way back same as post # 13, got rid of 3 of them now only ave the C-7 , but I miss the blue 1970.

 

[tworley]

In my 20' wide garage, both daily's in the driveway and the jeep and motorcycle in the garage and as close to the wall as possible. Usually gives me half the space to work in. If Im working on a bigger project, then I simply park one daily on the street, back the jeep and bike into the driveway. ***** having to move them back in at night, but its about the only thing I can do.

 

[gtae07]

Cars parked side by side in the driveway near the house, unless her car is pulled forward to let the golf cart out of the tiny garage. It can't stay outside because it would be too easily stolen by someone, and/or abused/joyrided/broken by our son...

 

[crewchief888]

Wife’s terrain and my Harley in the garage
F600 company service truck in the street along with my ‘25 tacoma
With a single lane driveway it’s the only choice

 

[Renegade1LI]

All parked outside next to garage. I would like to make room in the garage for her raptor. At least there not under any trees.

 

[NUTTSGT]

However it works out at the time....one Mustang in the garage, one in the trailer. JD in it's bay, a different bay or house garage depending on what I'm doing. Golf cart is living in the "work" bay but can be rolled if anything else needs done.

 

[Sumboodie]

Have maybe 50x100ft area for easy parking, usually enough room. Sometimes need to move stuff a bit if I didn't plan it out, like if offloading a truck with the forklift, but not the end of the world.

Slowly expanding it to ~100x100, have a 30x60 tarp shed and 30x50 q hut to put up one day.

If it something I'm not using often, I have probably 2 acres of parking spots.

 

[purplezr2]

Everything has a place eventually. The shop is still under construction. When finished, I will be able to move all the wood working stuff out of the garage. Then have space for two vehicles(Wife's primary, and my beater) plus the Ranger. My truck will go in a dedicated bay in the shop. With skidsteer next to it, lift and woodworking areas behind the two parking bays.

36x46 attached garage, and 48x76 shop.

 

[dchawk81]

I park them in descending order of oil leakage.

 

[niget2002]

Wife's car in the garage. Truck under the carport. Harleys at an angle in the garage next to the wife's car. Only downside is not being able to get the bike further in the garage out unless the wife's car is moved first. I do shuffle which bike is in which spot from time to time so they both get ridden.

 

[Hobby_Man22]

Plentiful doors. Cars, truck, tractor mower and ATV all have direct access to a door. Bobcat and boat require moving one other thing to get out. Makes life easier.

I park them in descending order of oil leakage.

Why?

 

[dchawk81]

Why?

Because I don't have any JB weld

 

[Hobby_Man22]

Because I don't have any JB weld

Me neither brother

 

[cosmokenney]

In my garage, with my hobbies, I have dirt bikes, street bikes, mountain bikes, skis, fly rods, and tools and more tools. The common theme is that there is always something in the way. If I need to work on a bike or a vehicle, I have to pull out one of the two vehicles. It doesn't help that the previous owner went to town with built-in storage shelfs in the garage that I don't have the time energy to move/remove. There is even an old desk permanently attached to one of the garage walls. And along those lines is the repurposed kitchen cabinets with a counter top and sink complete with garbage disposal. It makes fitting a built jeep wrangler, mini cooper and street bike quite the chore. At least I have a shed for the dirt bikes, though the wasps own the shed now.

 

[cannuck]

I keep the Miata inside the outer (not heated) shop far enough from shelving to allow access. Our front drive is 3 wide and 2 small cars long, so Jetta and Golf occupy to very edge nose-to-tail. My wife's Q7 gets the other edge (I back it in for her so no drama) and my monster Ram 3500CC backs in the middle close to golf/jetta to keep stuff in box out of sight from street. Also, that leaves a garbage bin size space between my truck and her SUV.