Where do you keep your retros?

[ianmk2]

Don't worry, I'm not after addresses, or GPS co-ordinates, or even towns or cities...but where do you store your cars? Are you blessed enough to have room at home to store them, or do you rent a unit, share storage, have a 'Garage Community' etc

I am quite fortunate in that I have a friend who has a lot of land and he lets me keep mine there, although sometimes I wish I had my own storage area where I could come and go as I please, and maybe have another car or two..

[Richard TR7]

I bought a house with room to fit a garage on the side, got the garage built and now it lives in there. It is fighting for space with a lot of household stuff these days but it safe and dry.

[mexicansteve]

Outside. Wet. Rusting. Cold. Definitely should have studied harder at school.

[AB car pix]

Communal car park, a borrowed double garage, a rented lockup and at garages whilst getting or awaiting work.... logistical nightmare!

[gazz81]

Mines outside on a gravel drive, well I say on the drive, it's gradually disappearing into the gravel!
But it will soon be under cover when my 8m x 5m Workshop goes up next week!

[BT]

Hidden, very well hidden, behind enough Shackles, locks and gates to give me enough time to grab a suitable length of scaffold pole and hit any potential intruder square over the head should anyone be inclined to try and find it.

[rattlecan]

Mine are in my purpose built man cave, ( all 4 of them, plus 1 of my sons & 6 motorbikes )12m x 9m garage with 2 post ramp, compressor, huge Snap-On tool box etc etc.
But it's just as you'd expect, too full now. The more space you have, you just fill it up, nice though!

[jimjimthehumanbin]

Mar 22, 2016 18:11:33 GMT mexicansteve said:

Outside. Wet. Rusting. Cold. Definitely should have studied harder at school.

Same.
Though I have bagged a space in a barn for a few months so that should mean I get the new wreck water tight before back outside haha.

[pistonpopper]

Mar 22, 2016 18:13:31 GMT AB car pix said:

Communal car park, a borrowed double garage, a rented lockup and at garages whilst getting or awaiting work.... logistical nightmare!

as above... Really could do with having a culling of my collection.

[composimmonite]

Garage, carport, drive(space for 4), patio & council lock-up

[ianmk2]

Mar 22, 2016 19:48:32 GMT rattlecan said:

Mine are in my purpose built man cave, ( all 4 of them, plus 1 of my sons & 6 motorbikes )12m x 9m garage with 2 post ramp, compressor, huge Snap-On tool box etc etc.
But it's just as you'd expect, too full now. The more space you have, you just fill it up, nice though!

I cannot tell you how envious I am of this setup.

i thought I'd reached a new level of awesomeness the other week when my friend and I fabricated (knocked together out of an old scaff board) some home made ramp extensions so I can drive it forwards onto metal ramps, having a two poster is real holy grail stuff 

[vulgalour]

[deanflowers]

I have a 2000 sq ft unit which is full so have to sell some off

[mikeymk]

There's more to this than the obvious, as a driveway can be more protective than a garage.

I say this because i know of a damp garage with a rotten Seat Ibiza Cupra in it, in fact everything in there looks like it was on the Mary Rose, and i've had a shocking experience lately where my car dissolved on my new driveway - because it never got an hour of sunlight. It sat there for two years in a damp bushy bay, literally foaming up. May as well have parked it in acid.

So now, with a new body, i park a little further from my house, but the car spends every sun-risen hour under the rays. Not in the damp. From sunrise to sunset, i'ts on full display, and only the clouds can disrupt it's shadow.

It's a gamble, but it should be a good one.

[1eighteen]

I moved house to get myself a double garage, which also has an apron outside big enough for two cars, still of sight and secure. The garage also has a pit ;-) ............. Now you see why we moved ? I have also built a large workshop now at the back of the garage. I do realise I am pretty lucky to have such a great setup. Before this I spent a fortune on a lockup.

I spend more time in there than I do in the house !!

[retrorob86]

Mine stays on the drive, I am lucky enough to have a garage but its so full of kids toys I can't get a car in there

[rattlecan]

Mar 23, 2016 3:16:42 GMT mikeymk said:

There's more to this than the obvious, as a driveway can be more protective than a garage.

I say this because i know of a damp garage with a rotten Seat Ibiza Cupra in it, in fact everything in there looks like it was on the Mary Rose, and i've had a shocking experience lately where my car dissolved on my new driveway - because it never got an hour of sunlight. It sat there for two years in a damp bushy bay, literally foaming up. May as well have parked it in acid.

So now, with a new body, i park a little further from my house, but the car spends every sun-risen hour under the rays. Not in the damp. From sunrise to sunset, i'ts on full display, and only the clouds can disrupt it's shadow.

It's a gamble, but it should be a good one.

Roll on shot interior then, faded paint etc. That's why we see cracked dashes, thread bare rear seats etc it gets mighty hot under that glass, even on a 'not too hot day'

[mgmrw]

Classic in the garage
Daily on the driveway accompanied by Mrs heap.
Retro at mums, on drive, under covers

[LowStandards]

Outside where it's meant to be

Garage's are for working on cars, not storing them!

[waveman1500]

In my parents' garage 800km away!