Well, my copy came in the mail. On the plus side, I've now got some pictures of a model in my garage -- something I never expected life to bring me. It was surprising to see an article without the usual handful of minor factual errors. I'd only spoken to the writer while the photographer set his equipment up, there were no follow-up emails and nothing for me to proof. But he got it all.
I'm very happy that the Garage Journal link is in there.
I've got nothing against showroom-style garages, but it was nice to see that all the garages they chose were in the dirty-fingernail family. Some of them are definitely 'dream garages' in terms of the quantity of cars (and sometimes memorabilia), but not the white-glove-clean place to park my Ferraris kind of garages. (Again, nothing against them, but they get a lot of attention already.)
Negatives? None, really. I was the only garage where they asked me to park the car somewhere else. But I understand that an old German car tuned for road course racing is not what Hot Rod focuses on. I think the only thing I'd change is that there really isn't a picture in the article that shows the whole garage. The detail shots are cropped so tight that it's hard to imagine how the whole place fits together.
Of course, I've posted so many pictures of my garage online that if someone wants to do a search, it'll be easy to find a wide shot of the place.
Here's a couple of clipped pictures and a scan of the main two pages. It's probably too small to read the text, and there are two other pages with detail shots in them. But this gives you an idea without making me feel like I'm going to cut into Hot Rod's magazine-stand sales.
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