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Ultimate Garages II™ by Phil Berg

For the ultimate group of car collectors and restorers, only the ultimate garage will do. In this larger, lavishly illustrated sequel to the best-selling Ultimate Garages, author Phil Berg takes readers inside more than two dozen exotic private garages that house some of the rarest and most beautiful cars in the world.

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Ultimate Garages III™ by Phil Berg

Third in the original top-selling Ultimate Garages series, this coming Volume III includes newly finished and cleverly designed garages of the best-known collectors from all over the country. More full-color beautiful photos fill this 224-page 11 x 11-inch high-quality display book, as well as stories of Americas top car nuts. Author Phil Berg once again taps into his network of passionate man-space creators to bring you inside the lives of 25 unique and fascinating automotive success stories. No drooling, please, as we visit car fanatics who have turned their dreams into realities.

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Ultimate Garages™ by Phil Berg

The garage is more than just a place to store cars. It is a place to work, hang out, and show off the vehicles that are an integral part of car lovers' lifestyles. This lushly illustrated, large-format gift book caters to America's fascination with the garage and looks at 25 of the most incredible garages in the United States.

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Since childhood GMs top engineer excelled making more out of less.

The first evidence of Tom Stephens car nuttiness emerged when he was about five years old: I used to watch The Mickey Mouse Club, and I would see kids driving miniature cars in DisneylandI couldnt see that the cars were on tracks and the kids were just riding alongand I was so jealous. I wanted to drive.
Pursuing that desire was made easier because Stephens grew up a few miles north of the epicenter of General Motors engineering at the tech center in Warren, Michigan. With no money to buy a car, he spent his high school years borrowing cars to drag race, and helping friends and neighbors work on their drag cars.
The first engine Stephens rebuilt was a Briggs & Stratton hed attached to a homemade minibike when he was ten. I thought it was cool, although you could probably run faster than it would go. The second, however, was a small-block Chevy V8 just a few years later. To date the number is in the many hundreds.

I would ride my bike to the tech center, sit there by the lake in front of Chevy engineering, and watch guys come out of the main gate, and theyd burn rubber. Stephens befriended Woodward Avenue drag racers, too. We would go watch the big time racers, but when I was in high school, we could never afford to do that. I felt lucky just to ride in those cars.
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Add Extra Space for a Doorway and Workbench
If youre building a new home or putting on an addition, adding just three feet to your garage can make a world of difference. You can use that extra space for a workbench and a full-size entry door, which new garages dont have. Most builders and remodeling contractors assume you go from your car right to your house when you pull in the garage. Car nuts dont live that way. Most of them have more cars than spaces in their garage. So they put special cars in it and their daily drivers stay outside. All of the Ultimate Garage owners Ive met spend more time in their garages than in their living rooms. They use their garages to work on cars so expanding the back or side of the garage just three feet will give you plenty of room for a workbench. One confirmed car restorer built his workbenches the width of a carpet runner, which covers the bench and is two-feet wide. When the inexpensive runner is full of grease and grime, he replaces it.
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