This will Make you feel Inferiour

[dfreeman616]

yes there are some interesting ideas...and a really nice shop on page 16 (desert racer build shop)

 

[TRC51]

As far as inferior is concerned.... I didn't need that page to make me feel inferior. This forum does fine all by itself.

 

[A_Pmech]

As far as inferior nah; not one one of these places has a Monarch 10EE.

Yeah, my thought exactly. Not a single Monarch, American, Deckel, Moore, or other interesting machine in sight.

Blah

 

[Danglerb]

I didn't finish, they all reminded me too much of a high end car dealership.

 

[JCQuick]

wow thats all I can say

 

[speedminded]

The ridiculous attitudes and blatant BS in this thread amuses me. I remember when a "garage" was a place to park vehicles with minor work and a shop was where the real work was done. Just like many of you say you wouldn't work in a place like that, I say I would never leave a car like those parked in a place where you (or I) work on them. Working garages/shops are inevitably horrible conditions for any car: oil spraying from the air tools to chunks of debri flying while grinding to paint over-spray to sanding dust and welding fumes. Why would anyone park a car in those conditions. Much less one that would cost $25k-50k to repaint?! Come on, use some common sense.

No, most aren't working garages, those spaces are private showrooms: a step above and beyond a garage. Who says every person that owns a automobile has to work on them though? Does it mean the cars don't get driven? Many of those cars are investments with more equity in them then our houses, today or 20 years from now...even if they're driven on a regular basis.

Personally I enjoy stripping a car down and building it how I see fit and maintaining it as well. That doesn't mean if I busted my *** working to afford a Ferrari I wouldn't want it sitting as artwork in the middle of my living room or a beautiful showroom attached to the house. I've seen artwork in homes worth more than the average Ferrari. The last time I checked most sculptures don't scream down the road with flat plane cranks and I can't drive a painting through the mountains on a beautiful fall day...to detail it and park it back inside.

I'm a automotive photographer, car enthusiast with experience in fabrication and modding cars, and a background in architectural design. I dream of places like those. I also imagine the possibilities of working garages adjacent to the showroom with the budgets some of those owners have. :2cents:

 

[Mr. Welsh]

I also imagine the possibilities of working garages adjacent to the showroom with the budgets some of those owners have. :2cents:

Same here. You probably noticed as I did that these owners don't have a single bay devoted to a work area.

I guess I find it to be disingenuous. If you own multiple vehicles that rarely get driven, you're going to have flat tires, dead batteries, and other basic issues even on newer cars and certainly on older ones.

While there are a few exceptions, I didn't see even the most basic maintenance items such as battery tenders or air compressors in those photos.

The other issue I have, as I mentioned before, is that many of these "collectors" have apparently purchased what everyone else thought they should. It's like they watched a rap video and then bought every car in it based on image alone. Again, there are several exceptions, but if your "collection" of cars is 10 Ferrari F50 equivalents, I know you aren't a car person, and that's OK.

 

[zackwatt]

Man, Those are nice!

 

[Daniel Dudley]

The ridiculous attitudes and blatant BS in this thread amuses me. I remember when a "garage" was a place to park vehicles with minor work and a shop was where the real work was done. Just like many of you say you wouldn't work in a place like that, I say I would never leave a car like those parked in a place where you (or I) work on them. Working garages/shops are inevitably horrible conditions for any car: oil spraying from the air tools to chunks of debri flying while grinding to paint over-spray to sanding dust and welding fumes. Why would anyone park a car in those conditions. Much less one that would cost $25k-50k to repaint?! Come on, use some common sense.

No, most aren't working garages, those spaces are private showrooms: a step above and beyond a garage. Who says every person that owns a automobile has to work on them though? Does it mean the cars don't get driven? Many of those cars are investments with more equity in them then our houses, today or 20 years from now...even if they're driven on a regular basis.

Personally I enjoy stripping a car down and building it how I see fit and maintaining it as well. That doesn't mean if I busted my *** working to afford a Ferrari I wouldn't want it sitting as artwork in the middle of my living room or a beautiful showroom attached to the house. I've seen artwork in homes worth more than the average Ferrari. The last time I checked most sculptures don't scream down the road with flat plane cranks and I can't drive a painting through the mountains on a beautiful fall day...to detail it and park it back inside.

I'm a automotive photographer, car enthusiast with experience in fabrication and modding cars, and a background in architectural design. I dream of places like those. I also imagine the possibilities of working garages adjacent to the showroom with the budgets some of those owners have. :2cents:

Stop making sense, will ya ?

I also get a kick out of the notion that guys who have money are incapable of working on cars. I'll bet some of you would be surprised by what some rich people know, and how incredibly smart many of them are. I don't mean one in a hundred smart either, I mean one in a thousand, one in ten thousand.

A lot of people think that all things should be what they think they should be. That kind of thinking can really hold you back. I have worked for and with some incredibly successful people. You cannot stereotype them in any meaningful way, except to say that they often have a different way of looking at things, and a different way of dealing with things.

I personally might like to own or drive some or all of those cars, and maybe a few more besides. I also think it would be crazy for me to go at one with a wrench, and I am a pretty good mechanic.

I'm pretty good at installing insulation too, but after 30 years of it, I now tend to delegate it, or even use products that are not made out of fiberglass, that work far better, and may even pay for themselves, in more ways than one.

I'm pretty sure that all of us know what we know. But there is a lot of stuff we don't know. And much of that stuff we don't even know we don't know.

But we like to talk as if we know every darned thing.

 

[Zoobee]

My brain cannot process that thread.

 

[jonny01blaze]

As far as inferior is concerned.... I didn't need that page to make me feel inferior. This forum does fine all by itself.

HAHA add another one here. Beautiful garages in that thread tho. It seems to be becoming quite popular across the internet as well.

I personally enjoyed the all vette garage!

 

[Cobradriver]

If I parked my car in my kitchen it would still be a kitchen, unless there was an engine hoist in the corner, then it would be a garage with nice cabinets, and powdercoat oven.

When I worked out at LAX int the early 90's a mid 40's co-worker was getting married for the first time. He said the worst part was removing the 69 Mustang quarters from under the bed and unbolting the grinder from the kitchen counter.

I am almost that bad,but not quite.

I just use a vise grip to hold the grinder in place. I would never drill holes in my countertop.

I have lost track of how much **** I have cleaned in the dishwasher...

Chris

 

[Falcon67]

Allright, who parked the Z-28 in the library? How many times to I have to tell you, it goes in the den.

Nice places - little bit to clean and neat for me, but they do a good job of showcasing the stored toys.

Hey, my floor is painted - I'm cool.

When I worked out at LAX int the early 90's a mid 40's co-worker was getting married for the first time. He said the worst part was removing the 69 Mustang quarters from under the bed and unbolting the grinder from the kitchen counter.

I am almost that bad,but not quite.

Well, get with the program! When my wife and I were dating, she came over the house for dinner. (at 21, only cat in the posse that owned a house with garage) Next to the bed was a sizeable round "night stand" with a gold bedspread over it. "What's that?" "I got a good deal on some Trans Am tires from my bud at Goodyear." A stack of 275-60x15 blems with a piece of 1/2 plywood, a bed spread and a lamp. In the clothes closet under the shirts and hanging jeans, all the parts for a 289, including the block.

She can never say she wasn't warned. She could have hurled and bolted, but she didn't so it was meant to be.

 

[mrpowderkeg]

Those are display areas, not garages.

I'd have those places so f'ed up, it's amazing what a little grinding dust, welding splatter, and grease can do.

 

[bazzateer]

Where are all the tools?

Out making the money to pay for those 'garages' most likely.

 

[ati2de]

Well, not that those guys would do so, nor that my garage comes anywhere close to theirs,but it is possible to do work in a fairly nice place without destroying it, or what’s in it.
I have painted two cars in this garage:
painting link:
http://www.customfurniture.net/speedster/page2.html

 

[dmw56]

I wonder when making money becomes more important than fixing your own stuff.

When you make enough you don't have to!


Yes, those are garages. Garages are where you park your cars.

Shops are where you work on them!

 

[Ryan]

The first sign of weak ambition and low character? Counting other people's money. Think about it... and think about why people do it and then generalize.

.....

I'm not a showroom garage guy at all. I like my shop space to be workable... but some of those are amazing.

 

[Griot's Garage]

Thanks for sharing. There are some beautiful garages in there (though I am a little bias toward one of them ). It's really amazing to see the unique ways people incorporate their cars as art pieces. Also, here are some more details on the garage full of Vettes (www.hookedonvettes.com) and his collection.

~derek

 

[RbrtAWhyt]

The ridiculous attitudes and blatant BS in this thread amuses me. I remember when a "garage" was a place to park vehicles with minor work and a shop was where the real work was done. Just like many of you say you wouldn't work in a place like that, I say I would never leave a car like those parked in a place where you (or I) work on them. Working garages/shops are inevitably horrible conditions for any car: oil spraying from the air tools to chunks of debri flying while grinding to paint over-spray to sanding dust and welding fumes. Why would anyone park a car in those conditions. Much less one that would cost $25k-50k to repaint?! Come on, use some common sense.

No, most aren't working garages, those spaces are private showrooms: a step above and beyond a garage. Who says every person that owns a automobile has to work on them though? Does it mean the cars don't get driven? Many of those cars are investments with more equity in them then our houses, today or 20 years from now...even if they're driven on a regular basis.

Personally I enjoy stripping a car down and building it how I see fit and maintaining it as well. That doesn't mean if I busted my *** working to afford a Ferrari I wouldn't want it sitting as artwork in the middle of my living room or a beautiful showroom attached to the house. I've seen artwork in homes worth more than the average Ferrari. The last time I checked most sculptures don't scream down the road with flat plane cranks and I can't drive a painting through the mountains on a beautiful fall day...to detail it and park it back inside.

I'm a automotive photographer, car enthusiast with experience in fabrication and modding cars, and a background in architectural design. I dream of places like those. I also imagine the possibilities of working garages adjacent to the showroom with the budgets some of those owners have. :2cents:

Well said. I'm thinking I see a bunch of damn haters...

 

[gatewaysysop]

Well said. I'm thinking I see a bunch of damn haters...

While perhaps true in some cases, I wouldn't say people who either bag on these places or simply refuse to drool over them are necessarily haters just because of that.

Personally I don't hate on any of these people, but it's also not my thing. If I had that kind of money, sure, I'd have to buy an exotic car like that just to see what it was like. Five to ten, much less over a dozen of them? Can't say I would do that no matter how much money I was into. Just not my thing.

It's a very slippery slope to call people haters just because they aren't enamored with a high dollar garage full of exotic cars. Plenty of extremely wealthy people out there who don't have garages or cars like this, despite being more than able to afford it. They can't very well be haters, can they?

To each his own.

 

[Question]

I've been in one locally.. unbelievable

Six Ferrari's , 3 super cars and some day drivers plus 3 American Iron... all done....

 

[Jaguar Fan]

There's no "work" being done in these garages because no work needs to be done. These people do all their work in private jets, in glass offices, in very old palatial estates. The money is flowing so fast and piling up so high, they have to spend it on the most expensive toys and buildings and rarely even see or use their stuff.
Believe it or not (you don't have to!) I have an uncle - my mom's brother - who is rich like this. Bought into a Mexican cigarette company many years ago. 8 homes, 50 cars, 3 wives (who all get along because the money is so intoxicating!). He "works" (meaning keeps moving) 18 hours a day. The money rolls and the stuff accumulates and accumulates. People tend to all his stuff, all the details.
He may say: "Have the Scuderia ready when I arrive (in France)". Then lands his private jet, takes a limo to the estate and someone has the Ferrari warmed up for a trip to his freinds villa - where they talk about the performance of their shared f1 team. It's so foreign to how my (any of our) minds work....
It's a whole nuther world...and there's no wrenching involved!

Back in the '70s I was at a dinner with Bob Noyce (who, among other things, co-founded Intel Corporation and invented the integrated circuit). Bob was a very successful guy who loved airplanes.... but money never changed him ... and at dinner he complained about just not being able to get a mechanic worth two sh*ts to work on his plane; he was sure he was being taken advantage of... the conversation could have been any regular guy talking about local mechanics not being able to fix his 7 year old daily driver.

 

[Jaguar Fan]

I don't see it as "either - or." I like to think of it as "both."

This is what I mean. I personally admire many exotic cars both for their extraordinary performance capabilities but also because they are art. Rolling art, but art nonetheless. They are beautiful. Th

Building a beautiful structure to hold beautiful art extends the experience. That structure shouldn't be called nor compared to a working garage; a beautiful structure that holds art should be called a private museum.

At the same time, I admire the working garage, too, and the skill of guys who work magic inside them. I don't compare one to the other - it is "apples and oranges" so to speak. I said guys perform magic inside these working garages - sometimes it is magic, and sometimes it also is art: "performance art." I admire the artist who uses wrenches as much and many times more than the artist who uses a brush with paint. I admire the canvas of a mid-restoration classic muscle car as much as the canvas of a portrait artists.

There is always someone with more money. (I went to college with a guy who's last name is "Al Sabah", as in the royal family of Kuwait). I could waste a lot of my time and energy worrying about the success of other people. But I don't.

 

[AndrewBigA]

makes me feel like my little garage is so ****** & i love what i have =(

 

[rebrewer]

Well said, OldtruckDude. Just because someone has money and is able to afford something like this doesn't mean they aren't car lovers. Not many "working" garages, but those guys (or gals) are keeping some good techs employed somewhere, too.

I had the opportunity to fix a Ferrari F40 in one of those 'showroom' garages. I got tossed the keys afterwards for a test drive... really nice guy.

That was a pretty Enzo, wasn't it...

 

[Question]

When the guy with the Ferrari's got his first one he parked it in my driveway and left it there, top down with the keys in it, and went next door. About 15 min later he came out and had a smile from ear to ear, I tell him I would have to get a rag to wipe the drool off of it. He said lets go... you drive.. and don't baby it..the big sneakers in the back never made a sound, it just went.... He does wrench on his American iron to a point but if its a total restoration ..out it goes, keeping the local shops in business..

 

[marty_p]

...I'm speechless

But really, thanks for the link!

 

[54FordPanel]

Just do some cruizin' thru that forum, Luxury4play.com . It's a site for rich people to be snobs.
Sorry, but if I ever get as full as myself as those douchebags, somebody can feel free to shoot me.

Oh, hey! What jeans do you guys think I should buy?
http://www.luxury4play.com/apparel/33479-i-need-some-new-jeans.html

 

[Rickster]

Quote:
Originally Posted by bmwpower
I wonder when making money becomes more important than fixing your own stuff.

When you make enough you don't have to!

When you have enough it's what you GET to do all day long!