Garages

  • 2010 Indy 500 Tech

    Logistics One of the venues for the Indy series of races is Brazil.  So how do you move 54 race cars and all of the associated equipment to Brazil?  You pack two 747 aircraft with everything but the people.  Included… Continue reading

  • IMS – Personalities

    While I wandered around Indy I took some photos of some of the drivers.  See if you recognise any. Continue reading

  • Road Trip – B-Mac’s

      This week I took a short road trip to visit a restoration shop in the Raleigh area.  You hear a lot about places like Chip Foose and Boyd Codington, but there are some very talented shops that don’t get… Continue reading

  • A New Garage Door

      Lately I have been sprucing up my thirty-year-old house with new siding, a new roof, and fresh paint.  It was also time to replace the old garage door with something that didn’t creek, sag, or flake off paint.  I… Continue reading

  • Great Garages – Times are Changing

    Service garages today fall into two basic classes: the dealership and the independent.  The dealerships keep the sales floor full of new vehicles for sale and a service writer between you and the tech that does the actual work on… Continue reading

  • Road Trip – Penske Racing

     I have been following Roger Penske’s career for a long time now and after visiting his race car museum in Scottsdale, AZ, this summer it made sense to take the two and a half hour drive to Mooresville, NC and… Continue reading

  • The New Front Door – a New Entry

    The original post garnered a lot of comment and one of them came from some folks that let us know that their new front door was in the works. So here is a photo of the new entry – it… Continue reading

  • An Amazing Find

    We have all heard the stories of finding a lost Ferrari in a barn out in the middle of a corn field.  They make for a great fantasy. This one is real.  A guy in Portugal finds and buys a… Continue reading

  • The New Front Door

    There was a time when the front door was the way people would enter and leave the house.  The back door was usually off the kitchen and used as easy access to the outhouse or perhaps the barn or carriage… Continue reading