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#31 of 133 by speedshift Jul 21, 2002 (10:09 am)
Andre by himself accounts for 3% of all cars registered in his county.   You can see the rise of the two-car family in housing. Up until around 1950 in my area, and up to about 1960 is surrounding areas, almost all houses had just a one-car garage. Mom stayed home and ran the house. Consumables like vegetables, baked and dairy goods (and ice in the days before refrigerators) were delivered every few days. People ran errands on the week-end when Dad and his car were available.   You also see evidence of the one-car family in apartment buildings built through the '70s--I guess renters, being less affluent, got their second car later. Virtually all these older buildings in my area have just one parking space per unit, resulting in a serious parking shortage today.   The Model T may have put a car in almost everyone's garage but the subsequent Depression and World War II apparently delayed the second car for a good 20-40 years depending on what rung on the economic ladder you occupied.
#32 of 133 7 cars and holding... by andre1969 Jul 22, 2002 (6:37 am)
...although I had to fight back the urge to pick up another R-body at the all-Chrysler Nationals. It was a '79 Newport that was a little ragged but probably not too atypical for a car that's 23 model years old. If I had gotten it, I was going to get rid of my Gran Fury. Maybe swap out the wheels first, and the brakes, if they'd swap easily.   I wonder if it will get to the point that 3-car garages become the norm? They seem to becoming popular with more expensive homes. I've started seeing townhouses nowadays with 2-car garages, so I guess the garage will continue to proliferate.   People are often shocked when I tell them that my condo, which was built in 1973, has a 1-car garage. I guess they're still a rarity for condos.
#33 of 133 by Mr_Shiftright HOST Jul 22, 2002 (9:08 am)
No, 3-car garages won't be the norm because there won't be the resources to support that on a very large scale. Some people are already sucking up about 25 liftetimes of their energy allotment. I wonder how long the sun had to shine to put enough energy into the earth to run 3 SUVs for a year?   However, if you just want to collect them and look at them and start them up once in a while, or putter over to a car show, I guess you can have as many as you want, like that guy in Washington--he had...what...a couple thousand cars in his collection. That would be fun. I'd like to have a thousand cars or so and "review my fleet" every now and then in my WW II command car.
#34 of 133 A couple new "mansions" built close to here by carnut4 Jul 22, 2002 (12:50 pm)
have 3-4 garage doors on the lower level, and 2-3 more on the upper level. Doctors and Lawyers I guess. These are what you get for $500,000 around here. Down in the bay area, they'd be what-a mill-and-a-half? I remember when the Falcon came out in 1960, it became alot of people's first second car. Especially the wagon. Most of the LA suburb tract homes in the late 50s-60s had 2 car garages. For my Dad, though, it was a 48 Crosley, and then, um, a 58 Renault Dauphine. Hey, would you rather have a Falcon or a Dauphine??
#35 of 133 You can't over estimate the importance... by andys120 Jul 22, 2002 (2:31 pm)
of the "second-car" phenomenon in propelling the growth of 1.) small imports (VWs, Dauphines and MGs) and 2.) domestic compacts ( Corvairs, Falcons etc. It was also instrumental in the creation of a large market for intermediates.   The difference between then and now is that the second car is likely to be a truck.
#36 of 133 by speedshift Jul 22, 2002 (4:16 pm)
A new "mansion", especially one with a three-car garage, would start around $3M in this part of the Bay Area. Most new homes have just a one-car garage because land is too expensive to use for parking cars. Maybe this means a trend to the one-Suburban family.
#37 of 133 by Mr_Shiftright HOST Jul 23, 2002 (6:57 am)
Yeah, he's right. A real, certifiable little dump of an old house in my town is $850,000. A decent but not in any way showy or large house is 1.5 mil, and it might not have land or a garage (maybe a car port). A 5,000 sq ft. home would be 3 mil, no problem. This is one reason most of the people in my town are gray panthers.   And it's also why I can't collect old cars anymore! Garage space is ridiculously priced. If I wanted to store an old Falcon, I'd eat up the entire value of the car in about one year's garage rent. Crazy world, ain't it?
#38 of 133 Bill Gates by isellhondas Jul 24, 2002 (11:02 am)
Lives about fifteen minutes away from me. Maybe I'll go knock on his door and ask him how many cars his garage holds.   I think his recently completed Lake Washington waterfront mansion has something like a fifteen car garage or something?   Then again, getting through his security just might be a problem...
#39 of 133 by Mr_Shiftright HOST Jul 24, 2002 (2:10 pm)
It has to be a suicide I'm afraid. They'll never let you in otherwise. So maybe you could write and ask.   Actually I have no problem with 50,000 square foot houses as long as 46,000 sq ft are devoted to cars. And of course we can always convert those extra ground level bedrooms into tool rooms. And kitchen cabinets make great parts bins.
#40 of 133 Well.... by isellhondas Jul 26, 2002 (7:36 am)
Not long ago, I was on Lake Washington and we cruised by his mansion. His guest house must be 4000 sq feet by itself!   He is a car guy and I understand he has some kind of Porsche (959 maybe..can this be right?) that he can't even drive because it isn't legal in the U.S.   He has some other interesting cars as well I hear.

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