Dream Garages - Hardcover

Palmer, Kris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0760326762 ISBN 13: 9780760326763

Publisher: Motorbooks, 2006

Synopsis

For car and motorcycle enthusiasts there is scarcely a more sacred space than the garage. This is where it all happens: the restoring of relics and resurrecting of wrecks, the polishing of tall tales and tail fins and friendships formed over a shared passion for automotive speed and style. Dream Garages takes the reader into over 20 of these havens for the motor-mad. Some are beautifully conceived automotive shrines, some are grease-monkey heavens, and others are accidental creations. Dream Garages offers a profile of each garage and its owner, along with fabulous images from top automotive photographers including Peter Vincent, Robert Genat, James Mann, and David Gooley.

About this title

Book Description:

Dream Garages takes us into over 20 garages where car and motorcycle enthusiasts park their passions. From the fantastic to the funky, the beautifully conceived automotive shrine to the grease-monkey’s paradise, each of these gearhead havens--and their owners--merits a full profile and a plethora of fabulous images from top automotive photographers including Peter Vincent, Robert Genat, David Newhardt, James Mann, and David Gooley.

From the Inside Flap:

A garage is a special place—not home, not office, not rec room. It may combine elements of all of these reference points, yet it remains unique. Dreams are born, housed, revived, and realized within the walls and beneath the rafters of an enthusiast’s garage. It is his haven from life’s broader concerns, where work is not really work, and virtually anything seems possible.

Dream Garages explores this hallowed space, where enthusiasts store and work on the objects of their passion. Some of the structures are expansive, some more modest; some are working garages, others near spotless showcases of pristine machines and mechanical artwork and memorabilia. Pervading all the garages are a love of motor vehicles and an appreciations for the structure that allow us to harbor and revive them.

Here, readers will find enthusiasts who collect, preserve, and work on sports cars, race cars, motorcycles, trucks, speed record vehicles, and related machinery and treasures. Dream Garages is not a manual on building a great garage; it’s a look at the ideas and passions that can make any garage great.

About this edition

• Publisher: Motorbooks
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0760326762
• ISBN 13: 9780760326763
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192