AUTOS CARS CUSTOM

In the above issue, I was enjoying the article on the Irish car makers and oldest car maker in Ireland (Peare Motor Works) and oldest traffic light, the Speedway Brewing Company near Olympia Washington, Denny's collection, Frank's collection, Larry's collection, John's Porsche collection, Michael's Corvette collection, Jon's collection, news on car shows like the Muckenthaler, the art work of Rick Rucker http://www.drawingcarsiseasy.com/, Booker, and Lambert, the photography of Dean Graham, and a good bio profile of the founder of the Amelia Island Concours, Bill Warner. Plus 5 book reviews I haven't seen anywhere else (Chrisman Legacy and others) plus a garage design company article.

Chock full of awesome garages, collections of petroliana and automobilia, garage art, hood ornaments, advice on garage floors, wall art, garage designs, doors, etc etc, car collections and how that has changed peoples garages (expansion!)

Some famous museums (Mullins!) and work shops too. Check it out when you have reading time, because this isn't a short attention span captioned photo type magazine, this has great writing without all the stats and facts of cars, this magazine tells the stories of the people that desired more that a place to put their stuff, they made great garages! (you can find an issue at Borders or Barnes and Noble) Enjoy! http://www.garagestylemagazine.com/home

read all about it http://www.marque1.com/marque1/2011/03/dream-garages-german-country-style.html

Here's the odd part, 11 bedrooms but only a 5 car garage. Who is going to park in the drive way? About 100 cars.

This entire story is on a really long thread on the Garage Journal, and it's one of the coolest finds ever. Car Craft's Jeff Smith has just published in in the May 2011 issue, and it's worth a look if you see the magazine.

If you saw the above, would you have the ambition to fix it up? Restore it to a working garage? Built in the late 1930's and used by a father as a blacksmith/welding shop and later in the 50's one of his sons did automotive repair there until his death in the mid 1970's. The father carried on until his retirement in the 1980's. The shop was then was slowly under used and finally abandoned.

Nice huh!

I cropped the photos so they are aligned to see that the major cool things haven't changed locations, they've just been freed of the detritus that buried them... the Pepsi machine that takes dimes and was still full of change with all those bottles stacked next to it, to the far left 3 oil tanks (30 gal)

Notice the "All Parts and Labor CASH" sign hasn't moved, and the Pepsi machine

through the door on the left

Arc welder on the right and welding table

I was up til 2 in the morning reading through the whole thread http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51567 and how he cleaned it up, cool stuff and filthy stuff, dug out the hoist and repaired it, rebuilt a couple of clapboard walls with masonry, replaced doors, laid in the drive way, and freed the whole property of 25 years of undergrowth run amok and in that process found the next posts's cool stuff

http://gustavoleme.blogspot.com/2009/02/garagem-de-rico.html a video of the parking garage that is pure eye candy

Larry Wood's 24th Annual New Year's Day Garage Tour
A tour of some garages in the SoCal area with amazing collections of cars, parts, motorcycles, Hot Wheels, toys, and other auto related memorabilia.

http://public.fotki.com/wackydave/car_shows/car-shows-2009/larry-woods-24th-an/

Hot Rods and Hobbies,
Elwoods garage
Richard's Hot Rod shop
So-Cal Speed shop
Glen's Garage
Carroll Shelby's garage
Scott Tuppers "Unreal" drive in
Tucker's
Moto Art
McClusky's
and Sun International

Via Drive! magazine... they have a good article and photos in the hardcopy, but nothing in their website about the April issue at all. Nothing on their website newer than Dec 08

http://gustavoleme.blogspot.com/2009/02/garagem-de-rico.html

http://ultimategarages.net/garages/ken_gross_garage.html

The private garages of Bob Lutz, Ralph Lauren, Ken Gross, John McMullen, Bill Hammerstein, John Shirley