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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:54 PM
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Does your car/truck/whatever live in a garage?
Heard an ad a bit ago for automatic garage doors, and it occurred to me that in 49 years I've never parked a car in a garage. Carports, yeah, but never a full-on garage.

Garages have always been a place for Stuff.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:55 PM
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1. Mine is big enough for stuff and my car and
there is an attic in there for even more stuff!!
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:56 PM
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2. no
my car doesn't has that luxury
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:59 PM
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3. YES! My car and both of my husband's cars .....all live in garages...
We are so fortunate as to have two garages built into our home....

A single one for me, and a double one for my husband...

It is wonderful! Greater security, the cars stay cleaner and drier and like that.....

:bounce: :bounce:
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:35 PM
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4. Nope. My garage was built for a Model T
and is loaded with stuff. I've never kept a car in a garage.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:38 PM
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5. Our cars sit outside
because my 2 1958 Oldsmobiles live in my garage...

RL
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:40 PM
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8. Dude!
Photos! :bounce:
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:45 PM
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10. They look like this
One wagon, one hardtop...



RL
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:29 PM
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13. Sweet!
Man, I loves me some Bulgemobiles. :toast:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:39 PM
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6. We have two cars
and two garages and yes, my friend, neither car has ever been in either of the garages.

They're places for stuff. :D
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:39 PM
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7. Yes.
My husband's car and my van both go in the garage.
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trogdor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:43 PM
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9. Of course my car goes in the garage.
It gets cold and nasty here in the wintertime. Leaving your car out is asking for trouble.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:49 PM
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11. sort of
My "whatever" is a mountain bike. It lives in the unfurnished half of our basement. My car sleeps outside under a car port.
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:52 PM
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12. Yes.
But right now, my car is refusing to give up the keys - they're stuck in the ignition. Annoying as hell.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:32 PM
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14. yes my car is in the garage, we have 3 bays, 1 big one for cars
and the 3rd that has a seperate door is for stuff. Growing up we had a car port or just a driveway so actually getting used to putting my car in the garage was pretty weird.
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:32 PM
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15. My wife..
... gets the 1 car space in our two car garage. The rest of the space is stacked with crap.

We clean it up about once a year, and for about 2 weeks you could park another car in there. About 2 weeks :)
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:32 PM
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16. No. I have an uncovered parking space for the LeftyMobile
My bike hangs out in the relatively dry space under the upstairs neigbors' balcony.
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Dangerously Amused Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:34 PM
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17. Fuzzy llama - funny llama - here's another little llama



Llama llama llama llama....
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:39 PM
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18. I've never had a garage
My car lives in the driveway under some trees that drip sticky sap in warm weather so I keep a cover on it in the summer. We had a garage when I was a kid but the only time cars were in it was when they were being worked on. Otherwise, it was full of Stuff.
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Dave Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:40 PM
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19. Not at the moment,
there is 4000 pounds of hay and a dead tractor in the way.
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merbex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:02 PM
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20. I wish
I have seen our car in our garage once in 17 years and that was only because we cleaned it to reorganize stuff and we decided to drive the car in for a gag; it came out and the stuff went back in- just neater
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haydukelives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:21 PM
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21. When I lived in Steamboat Springs
yes, always. To much snow and cold.
Now that I live in Denver, not so much.
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:21 PM
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22. At my former house in Texas, the car went in the garage.
Then I moved to Oregon and got a house without a garage. So now the car stays outside.
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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:24 PM
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23. Yes.
I've never understood why people will fill their garage with $5 nicknacks and momento's, and leave their $20,000 car sitting unprotected in their driveway.
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huskerlaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:26 PM
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24. Yes indeed
Hooray for California's subterranean parking! My car actually lives under 6 stories of concrete.

Great protection from the nonexistent hail... Unfortunately, that's gonna suck pretty hard core when the Big One hits. Ah well.
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:29 PM
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25. My much loved Vespa LX50
scooter stays in a corner of the underground garage at my apartment building. I am so thankful for that garage. Each tenant has a garage door opener so that means the door should always be closed. I would worry about my scoot being cold if it was not in a garage.

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