914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
12/2/22 2:17 p.m.

To follow Sarah Young's thread about what's hanging on your walls, lets take a tangential turn; What's in the Garage?    

Seeing SkinnyG's pristine garage with Lotii plaques up high, what are you hiding out there?

Bench.

Rear wall.

 

Rear wall exit OH door.

Plaques for Shellback (crossing the Equator) and being a Plank Owner (first crew on a brand new ship).  When the ship is decommissioned you get to go back and peel a plank off the old girl and make a fireplace mantle out of the ole USS Neversail, what the hell am I going to do with a 3" thick plate of HY-80?

 

bobzilla
bobzilla MegaDork
12/2/22 2:38 p.m.

Not much. A non-functioning clock, cork board with nothing on it and a framed and signed Rhys Millen poster. 

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Ian F (Forum Supporter)
Ian F (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
12/2/22 2:57 p.m.

My own garage it pretty barren. Mostly because there is very little in the way of empty wall space (my house is similar thanks to so many windows and smallish rooms).  It would be nice to fix that some day. Art can give a work space a nice feel to it. 

My ex- has some interesting items on her wall. Along one wall near the ceiling, she has 8x11 pictures of most of the cars she's owned, along with the license plates from them as she moved around for work and when she acquired custom plates for them. 

jimbob_racing
jimbob_racing SuperDork
12/2/22 3:16 p.m.

I have a grilll badge and emblem collection.

Claff
Claff HalfDork
12/4/22 9:51 p.m.

My little one-car garage is a cluttered, work-unfriendly black hole long in need of cleaning out and reorganizing, but there are some artifacts.

The first two are relics from my days chasing NASCAR Busch North. I don't remember the circumstances where I got the Matt Kobyluck Mohegan Sun rear bumper. I visited their shop once and I guess I saw it and said I MUST HAVE IT even though I had no use for it or, at the time, nowhere to put it. I guess I still don't.

The #0 Bill Penfold door was a convenient pickup. I visited their shop over one winter and they had all the doors cut off the cars because a rule change required some additional door bars added to the cage. They weren't going to re-use what they cut out of the body so one went home with me.

The #41 Chevy front bumper came from the Joey McCarthy/Jim Pritchard team. They invited me to check out their shop the day after a Nazareth Speedway race. Joey was doing well, but got caught up in accident late in the race. When we got to the shop, they were stripping the damaged body to see what was hurt underneath. They weren't going to fix what was left of the front bumper, so I got it. Joey autographed it with the note "To Alan, it was a good race until this happened"

On this wall is 25 or so license plates. I have another stack at least that big in another corner, and eventually I'll mount them all on this wall in a way that they can all be seen and (hopefully) not cause a need for a tetanus shot.

A couple years ago I entered my NC in Flyin Miata's summer camp and got enough votes to be the second-best "Spicy NC." They sent me a poster and a T-shirt for my efforts. I keep meaning to get a frame for the poster before it gets too beat up taped to the wall.

Finally, near the door is a growing accumulation of autocross and Track Night tech stickers.

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