Peter Vieira
Wow, you're reading this? Thanks! If you're into RC cars and I seem vaguely familiar, it's because I spent over 25 years writing and editing RC car news, reviews, and tech articles in print and online. What else, what else ... I have a degree in Film Studies (useless), most of a degree in Graphic Design (useful), and I'm married to a wonderful woman with horrible taste in men. Thanks to her, we have a terrific daughter who just earned her Journalism degree and is way, waaay more together that I was at her age. Or right now.
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Wow, Mark. Bet you could put a lift in one of those bays…
Ceiling isn’t tall enough. I already checked. It’s ok, I have Quickjacks.
That blows my 24×26 garage with an unfinished attic out of the water!
Jellyyyyy.
That garage has me pulling my sunglasses off and staring with bewilderment, like I’ve just entered Jurassic Park.
We only got about half as much snow on the other side of the border, but it’s gonna be cold and stick around for a while. I tend to not freak out when the snow falls, but the wind the last few weeks has been absurd.
Have Mark do before and after photos of the garage space. Mark, with a 30×30 you could have and entire RC track upstairs! Oh the possibilities. My wife would never see me again if I had a garage like that.
Darn, I am going to Toronto next week and knew it was going to be cold, but didn’t realize there was going to be a lot of snow.
Toronto. January. Seems like a given.
This winter has been a rollercoaster. We’ve been getting walloped in Ottawa, too.
So jealous of Mark with that garage
Thanks everyone for sharing your activities.
Brian, I had an apartment, wow 35 years ago, that had those hexagonal tiles on the floor. I miss them. They look so cool.
Stephen, my brain froze when I saw that rat’s nest of wiring. Good luck, man.
Mark, nice “man cave” barn. Have fun.
Thomas, I lived in Rochester, NY and then the east side of Cleveland for three winters. Growing up and then moving east from CA, I’d never heard of lake effect snow. Oh, but I learned about it.
During the Cleveland era, we had a detached two-door garage with individual openers, and that the previous owner had installed lock and hasp hardware on the inside of a double-hung window on the back side. I looked at it and thought, hmmm, what am I going to do if the power goes out. I moved the lock and hasp to the outside.
One morning, it had snowed and blown all night and was -20* F when I woke up. My wife was in the shower when the power went out. I waded through thigh-deep snow drifts, opened the lock and the window and crawled in head-first into the garage, pulled the ropes and started our cars. By the time she had run the 30 feet or so to her car, her hair had frozen solid. It wasn’t unpleasant outside for me. It was sunny and dead calm. Just the sounds of nasal hairs and snot freezing were weird.
The only time I ever experienced -20*F temperatures after that was during a blizzard in Winnipeg and that was a lot less pleasant. My rental car, a Toyota Yaris, was buried, and I decided to walk four blocks each way from the hotel to the work site and back to the hotel I was staying in, because the nearest parkade was two blocks from the work site. The blasts of wind removed all the heat I would build up inside multiple layers of clothing. Even the locals were griping about it. So, I didn’t feel like a total wimp. And other than mosquitos, Winnipeg is very nice in the summer.
That garage rules.
Peter, FYI I’m not sure if this was released correctly, I’m able to see this in my Apple News app (paid version)
Weird, the box to NOT do that is ticked. Investigating …
Aaaaand I missed one
You’re right, I’m deeply envious of that garage. Shoot, I would pay just to rent a warm little corner of it to wrench!
I think the garage looks great but selling used cars this nice in Michigan? I think a tough sell but Spring when replacing damaged cars is a thing should clean you out.
I have garage envy. I can only use my poorly-sealed, badly insulated barn with the written permission of the squirrels and other wildlife that call it home.
I have a barn and then a separate 1.5 car workshop/garage. The barn is awfully nice to have, but I wish it were a little more weatherproof.
I’m actually glad. As soon as I moved here, every in-law wanted me to store a car for them. My mother and father-in-law were talking about finishing the upstairs to an apartment for them. I need to keep the barn unsuitable for those uses, but a heated garage attached to the house would be great.
My mother in law built a cottage on our property. It’s fine though now we hardly travel. I suppose that’s better for all the projects I have.
Your bathtub is a shameless braggart. That condom is larger than it needs to be. Max XXL? Sure, Pal.
Mark’s garage sure looks like the new Autopian Clubhouse to me. “Mark? Tell your little friends it’s time to go. NOW!”
Brian, that tub and penny tile are gorgeous! Don’t ever rip them out.
Yes Stephen I always am amazed by translated instructions. I’m sure it works both ways, but any Chinese language to English can be frustrating and humorous.
I think someone should do a story using that as the story idea. Let’s go!
Very nice, cast iron bathtub and hex tile in what’s probably a full mud job, that’s a solid bathroom right there
Really mailed this one in, huh? Not much meat on this bone
Don’t worry my next piece is 8500 words of meat. You’re welcome.
I am no longer puzzled as to where our Chritmas dinner parcel went!
“Don’t worry my next piece is 8500 words of meat”
What kind of meat?
And what kind of pudding?
If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?
Dang. You both beat me to it as I was working my way down through the comments. I guess I’m just another brick in the wall.
YOU! Yes… YOU behind the bike sheds.
STAAAND STILL LADDIE!!!
Poisonous.
Well you still have to eat your meat or you won’t get any pudding…
I avoid pudding as it will make me fat.
Wow that’s a lot of squirrels
I ran out to the driveway on my lunch break to take photos and put together a few paragraphs for this post and didn’t have any time to eat thereafter.
Thanks a lot, Kookster.
Boy, am I now hungry!
What’s book on an ’03 SL? I’d like to read more about this car and then try and talk myself out of it.
My car (wth 67K, in ZIP 28401, in “Good” condition) is Private Party sale valued at $10,600 per Kelly Blue Book!
I have it for sale for $6500.
A 302hp V8 and an aluminum space-frame chassis (hood, fenders, doors (inner shells), and trunk lid): it flies!
I looked it up, got interested, then the wife talked me back down. Apparently we have enough coupes that are also convertibles right now.
Boy, that escalated quickly.
“Really mailed this one in, huh?”
I think they e-mailed it in.
Next OFB will have a big chunk of bicycle stuff, if you’re into that
trust me when I say this is the most exciting thing that has happened in my life not related to cars in months
Mark’s Autopian Staff Member garage math doesn’t add up. It’s a three-bay garage and according to his bio he has three cars, therefore he can theoretically store them all inside. He either needs fewer bays or more cars, or preferably a combination of both.
That means Mark needs to hit SWG’s driveway clearance sale and pick up some additional bad automotive decisions…err, a Mercedes-Benz SL and some other driveway ornaments to shift up to Michigan.
Mark: that is the GARAJ MAHAL! Envious.
The puns people come up with on this site crack me up. It’s making me a little worried that I don’t come up with the puns I used to, as I do believe they are one of the highest forms of humor.
I had a HS instructor whose lesson about the Prohibition Era was how bathtub gin was made. There was a lot of American History he DIDN’T teach us that resulted in an abnormally low ACT score way back then. I normally did very well on admission tests back then. That one was the outlier. It didn’t really hurt. My SATs were more than acceptable.
I wonder if Brian is going to celebrate getting his tub re-glazed by using it to make a shit ton of bathtub gin?
See my comment above. I had meant to post it in response to your comment, but I have had too much non-bathtub gin to reply to the correct post.
I wish I was doing stuff that cool the past couple of weeks. Instead, stupid me went and bought a Switch 2, and now I’m a bit video gamed out, so maybe it’s time to get back to my alien-do list.
My video gaming is essentially just GT7 these days.
In VR?
No I’m not that much of a weiner, but I understand the experience is amazing. I’m considering getting a wheel and pedals as I feel I’ve reached my limits with the controller.
that head unit looks like it’s from an OEM 2012 Tiguan
It sure does! Here it is.
When my kids are grown up I plan to build a garage like that and live in it. No house, just a garage with a bedroom and a kitchen. I’m divorced, so I can get away with it.
You might want a bathroom, too. Just a thought.
All intake, no exhaust?
Dig a ditch out back and put a board over it
A little cold in the winter, but I suppose it would work.
Buy a jobsite toilet. Dig a deep hole, cut out the bottom of the toilet and place over hole. Then people will just think you are having work done, not living with an outhouse full time.
I’ve actually done this in remote camps.
Mother of god, that before pic…….. hahahahhahaha
Reminds me of the Worst Toilet in Scotland