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How do you park your vehicles?

Crazyjake8493

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Car and truck are parked side by side in the driveway right in front of the garage. Never gave it any more thought than that...
 
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nadogail

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My 1999 Chevrolet Express 1500 Cargo Van is parked on the street usually in front of my house.
The new car, a Subaru Solterra is the Queen of the garage.
 
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Hobby_Man22

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I'm thinking if I angled them at around a 45 degree angle against the wall like they do in parking lots, I could get more than one out without having to move anything. Yeah, so just basically move everything off to the side and you pull out through the middle door.
 
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Squankum

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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

I thought I was the only one with a tubular magazine garage! :D
 

Mike65

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My wife's Bronco Sport goes in the attached carport; my Mustang & my wife's motorcycle go in the garage & my F150 is either parked next to or in front of the garage.
 

Skellyii

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It's complicated.

Oversized three car garage with a loong overdue project car, the house female's car and either my daily driver, or in the nice months, my convertible. In the driveway, my Suburban in front of the overdue project car door, and during the nice months, my daily driver in the driveway beside the garage, which leads to the 2.5 wide x 2 car deep parking pad in the back yard where my pickup is parked.

The driveway in front of the garage is 3 wide (kinda) and two long bed pickup trucks deep. We try to keep the driveway as clear as possible, we live at the bottom of a poorly designed cul de sak, and the street parking is very limited, so we have family and visitors park in the driveway.

In my leased shop, 25 x 55, I have two 4 post lifts, side by side, both at the rear of the shop. One is a direct shot from the single 14' wide door, the other is off to the side. The one to the side has a future project car with my next flip car underneath. My Miata is parked to the side. There's an X3 I'm fixing for a friend on the second lift.

Fortunately I've flipped three cars since the beginning of the year, so the only time I have to move something is when I need to use the pickup that's parked in my backyard.

My plan is to not buy any more vehicles until I fix and sell another one, since I'm enjoying rarely having to move vehicles around.
 

Beerhippie

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I park on the south side of the house with the car facing east so the morning sun helps defrost the windows.

Project--'85 Vanagon waiting for a Subby-swap--is parked to the west of the house.
 
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