Garage space, the final frontier … or it will be for you after you peruse this site I literally just tripped over (and that’s why I’m posting late today, this site is a real time sink).

Called “Bring A Trailer” it’s like a combination of Hemmings, Craig’s List and the “practical” side of you’re brain that talks you out of buying things like basket case Renaults and into buying things like fully sorted Saab rally cars.

Oh yes, car guy heaven. The things they have.

Things like 1967 Alfa Romeo Duettos in pristine shape for $27,500. 1969 Porsche 912s for only $8K. Early Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprints for $23,102

Damn!

“Barn finds, rally cars, and needles in the haystack…We put together Bringatrailer.com because finding great vintage cars online has become too much of a hassle. There is no need to keep sifting through hundreds of hopeless projects or overpriced dealer inventories to find that one car you’ve been looking for. We pick the winners and save you the trouble… the best bargains, the best dream cars, and the best rarities.” So say the boys that run the site, and who am I to argue.

Now we’re talking!

Now I got to go find more garage space.

Shoot! That’s the/my problem (apart from funds): Garage space.

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Got this in the mail from a friend of mine earlier today … ah, youth … or more specifically, my youth.

Although I grew up in a sportscar-oriented family, all of my friends were more of the hot rod type of guys.

Camaros, Firebirds, Mustang Fastbacks and, at the top of the heap, Mopar stuff.

Good friends of mine’s father (Big Ed) ran a brake & muffler shop, but mainly as a way to finance his drag racing habit. Within the family, there was a hierarchy of cars. Apexing at Big Ed’s bracket car (a fastback Barracuda with 426 built to within an inch of it’s life), and running all the way down to mom’s Polara station wagon … with a 383 Wedge motor dropped in.

Before any of the boys got their own car, they would have to “share” the wagon with mom.

On many, many occasions, we would be out at Lower River Road or out in Felida, park at the now-deserted start line of the unofficial/official drag strip and something close to the following scene would transpire:

“Whose are those?”

“Looks like it could be off of Du’tiri’s 442 … ”

“God! That guy is SUCH a horse’s ass!”

“Yeah … was it him or that shotputter guy from Bay that stuffed it into ditch last term?”

That guy from Bay, I think … ”

We were, of course, looking at a set of burn out marks, usually at some wholly inappropriate place along the strip.

By the end of senior year, I loathed Du’tiri, but here’s the funny thing: I had never met Du’tiri. Not once. Never even seen him. But boy did he have a rep … a rep of being the kind of guy who would take a car that daddy had bought him, and gone an shown off by doing burnouts 200 yards into the strip for all of the assembled multitudes (OK, dozens on a good knight).

Ah, burn out marks …

From space limited Japan, comes housing developed around motorcycle & scooter owners.

A neat idea if you ask me. First, I’m a sucker for good design. Second, it seems really efficient, and besides, story any kind of vehicle outside makes me nervous.

Essentially, the work of Japanese architects Yuji Nakae, Akiyoshi Takagi and Hirofumi Ohno works like this: you get to your dedicated motorcycle/scooter garage from a swoopy interior courtyard

And from there, the rest of the house is stacked on top, and then the stacks are arranged side by side, and then yo can have a whol block of like minded people.

You know what would be really interesting about this concept?

Make a bigger version for cars and build it on the edge of an old, disused track.

Real estate is dropping, so if you could get, say, ten car buddies together … just sayin’.

There’s more pictures after the jump.

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Car Magazine has an interesting quiz asking what type of car are you? I think I did pretty well, the only questions that threw me off were the racing history questions. I must admit I’m no racing enthusiast, and therefore missed a few questions.

The quiz is fun, and gives you interesting results based on your score. As you can see above, I got a BMW 3-series coupe, which I assume is pretty decent. Unfortunately, it doesn’t tell you the right answers after you got one wrong.

What type of car personality are you?

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I finally took the leap and got a Flickr account. I just uploaded most of the pictures we took from the 2007 Chicago Auto Show. You won’t see most of these on Automoblog.net; the Flickr set is my personal collection, which include 160 of the pictures we took.

Automoblog on Flickr

I have the pics up from the Auto Show (here’s the set,) and some Pagani Zonda R pictures from the post that will be up tomorrow. I plan to add many more pictures in the future.

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The folks over at Hyper made a pretty cool marketing effort for the new Nokia Car Multimedia system. If you go to the-passenger.com, you can play a sort of driving game based in night time Paris. The game is actually all created from real video: “The driving footage was shot with a car-mounted camera in all the streets of the Ile de St. Louis over 3 nights in November 2006, with additional scenes filmed at the Tour Eiffel, the Arc de Triomphe and the Heliport de Paris.” Continue Reading…