Not enough room at home to house all your cars, beer, flat screens and buddies? Buy a garage condo and the wife will never nag you to store her minivan in there again.
This particular example is located at the AutoMotorPlex in Minneapolis, a sort of country club for gearheads with garage condo units surrounding a bar-equipped clubhouse. The local cars and coffee takes place there, making it easy for residents to show off their metal.
The idea behind garage condos is fairly simple and works just like a regular condominium. A developer handles the permits, the property, the building construction, getting utilities hooked up etc, then you buy a unit, do you what you want with it and pay a monthly fee for services like snow removal, security and for communal services like the clubhouse. In the case of the AutoMotorPlex that adds up to $39-99k to buy a unit then $100 a month in association fees.
The guy who built out this unit opted for one of the larger spaces, then kitted it out with a luxury home’s worth of amenities like a stone-tiled bathroom with shower, two flat screen televisions, a cigar deck and a couch that looks like it’ll be a great place to sleep when his wife figures out how much money he’s spending on this. His plan is to build his dream car, a Shelby Cobra in here while also using it as a place to store and showoff the rest of his collection. Do want.
Its not just a garage…its a Garage Condo. And 100K for the most expensive one. starting at $39. Its more like a mans dream come true at a veryyy affordable price.
A good friend of mine’s uncle has one of these out in San Francisco. There he houses his Carrera GT and McLaren F1 XP4!!! … here’s a quick vid of the set up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xbWd687ZYQ
All the photography in the car condo comes from him and his 60MP digital camera. I spent a weekend on Keuka Lake with him this past summer and got to hear some pretty amazing stories of what a multi-millionaire does with his life…at one point in time he had onwed an Indy car team! However, despite all his financial success ans car condo, I took him out at horseshoes;)
so where does all the smoke go and fumes? or are you saying 100k garage that you can only do oil changes in? no running the car or welding?
cool concept for sure, but that smell would go right thru your house, while attractive to us, not exactly the smell women want in thier bedroom and kitchen
The entire IDEA…is to be AWAY from…“WOMEN”. And I am pretty sure, you would have to buy your own welding equipments, not the Garage Condo’s job to provide. And this isn’t a Mechanic’s garage. Its a place to chill and hang out, relax, show off your ride kinda place.
heh sounds like a waste. tiny house + giant garage you can actually work in > this
I dont think id spend 100k on a hang out that wouldnt be attractive to females in some way, nothing says I’ll never get laid again once im 30 like living in that.
as for chill and show off your cars, you do know, when you go outside, and log off nyspeed. there are car shows!!!
