Ultimate Garages | 
enlarge | Author: Phil Berg Publisher: Motorbooks Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4 reviews Sales Rank: 439501
Media: Hardcover Edition: 1st Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 224 Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3 Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 10.2 x 1
ISBN: 0760314713 Dewey Decimal Number: 728.98 EAN: 9780760314715 ASIN: 0760314713
Publication Date: September 2003 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Some wear on book from reading, spine creases, wear on binding and pages, we guarantee all purchases and ship all items via USPS mail.
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Product Description
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 24 of the most incredible garages in the United States. The list of garages compiled by author Phil Berg is a mix of over-the-top garages built by some of the most well-known names in the auto industry, including Bob Lutz, Ken Gross, Brock Yates, Jay Leno, and Bruce Meyer. Amazing garages from Peter Mullen's fantastic underground garage full of Delahaye roadsters and famous celebrity garages are also featured in full color detail. Past garage books have outlined all sorts of ways to turn your garage into something it isn't. This book isn't about using your garage as an office, a library, or an artist's loft. It's a peek into the collections of some of the most famous car and motorcycle enthusiasts alive. The cars and motorcycles alone are worth the price of admission.Chapter Outline:, The Garage as a Palace , Real World Garages, Garage, Inc. , Non-Traditional Garages About the Author:Phil Berg spent eight years as an editor at Autoweek magazine and ten years as a senior editor at Car and Driver before moving on to a career as a freelance writer for Popular Science, New Car Test Drive, Trips, and other specialty automotive magazines.
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Ultimate Garages and Stories October 21, 2007 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
More than just garages, this book tells wonderful stories about the car nuts, their automobiles and the garages that house them. It gives you an idea why guys like Jay Leno have built their garages and how their obsessions with the automobile developed.
After receiving this book as gift, I have greatly enjoyed Ultimate Garages by Phil Berg and have given three books as gifts to friends.
I just ordered, and am looking forward to, Ultimate Garages II also by Phil Berg. I did get Motor City Dream Garages and have not enjoyed it as much as the original Ultimate Garages.
Extremely Useless Book December 27, 2005 28 out of 40 found this review helpful
I was very dissappointed in this book. I rec'd it for Christmas and actually asked my wife to send it back. It a pictoral of 'showrooms' (not garages) of the filthy rich. Cars that nobody but the owner can afford. Hardly a tool can be found.
I was looking for a book that would help be design or build a very 'usable' functioning garage for the space I had.
There is nothing normal or useful in this book.
Sorry.
Dream garages for car/bike lovers December 19, 2004 9 out of 12 found this review helpful
Like exotic McLaren F1s, Italian supercars, Porsches, etc., the garages of the rich and famous are equally exotic in materials, size and construction. Not many of us who are car crazy will ever have a garage like the ones in the book but then again, something normal wouldn't be inspirational. There are slightly less exotic garages also included in the book but millionaire garage or not, all of them house historic, exciting automobiles and motorcycles and are an inspiration to all of us who aspire be the best at what we do with our much loved motorised possessions.
Ultimate Garages February 21, 2004 16 out of 19 found this review helpful
This is a great book, of classic cars and garages. While the cars and garages may be unrealistic for most, it gives us ALL something to dream about and strive for... Great photo's and great descriptions about 13 grown boys addictions; their cars and their respective garages.
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