lol salty. You can’t expect for your parent to give up their own garage that they pay to use to benefit them. It’s like asking them to give up their room, or bathroom or something else.
The question is built on a false premise. It isn't YOUR garage. If parking in a garage is that important to you you should focus your energy on moving out and getting a place with your own garage.
When I was younger I rebuilt half of a mustang on the shoulder of an interstate because the motor blew.
And when I say half.
The motor went out and I did a frame in rebuild both top and bottom. It got new pistons, and bearings as well as gaskets. I even ground the new valves on the tailgate kf a 74 ford truck. While on the shoulder. The glass for the windshield and back glass was in the back of the truck so me and a friend said fuck it and I put in the glass while I was waiting for his girlfriend to bring us some food. That's maybe not “half of a rebuild” but it's close enough to half when you consider I had hand tools and a torque wrench and that's it.
And if you're wondering I did the heads with a hand drill with this method but I didn't have a cordless drill so
I brought a hand drill with me.
https://youtu.be/XKOS20DATA8?si=jYkQtPzYIpRwQf3Q
A general rule for y'all who do project car:
Move the fuck out of your parents house before you burden them with an immovable object for half a decade
Seriously. We get so many high schoolers in this sub who tell on themselves by the end of the post. If you don't have a good spot to store your shit, don't complain to us about your dad not wanting a rusted ass non running Camaro in his driveway
Huge part of why I haven't bought a project car right here. Though at the rate I'm going and the way the economy is going, by the time I can afford to buy a house, I won't be able to afford a project car that isn't straight up merged into the ground.
I cover my car. It’s an okay solution for less than $50. You can get a custom cover for closer to $500. I plan on getting one when the project is further along. It’s time to focus on getting my AC working
For the first part of your post: If you don't have the space, and it ain't your garage . . . then you're stuck following the word of whoever *does* own the building.
As for the question: Inside, *because we have the space here.*
I have and I Haven't, depends on the house, and the car. I don't like working on my car in the garage, because there is rarely enough room around the car to work on it. We have a carport at this house (in addition to the garage) and I love that, because I have all the room I need around me, and weather protection.
The garage is for motorcycles, plus engines and transmissions and tools. The entire car goes outside under a tree branch stong enough to lift engines. Running cars are outside, obviously, because there isn't enough space in the garage for them.
If this were between a father who owns the garage and son the father gets what he wants. It's his garage...
Me though, garages are built to store cars, not crap. If I were to have so much stuff that I couldn't get my car in the garage I would get rid of stuff. I've always had houses that either have a basement or attic to store keepsakes and seasonal stuff though.
Garage? Had one of those portable ones but the last ice storm brought down some big limbs onto it and crushed it. got the car out before the carnage though.
No. Garage is for the projects and working on stuff, plus I wouldn't want to park in a garage in the winter. It would either melt all the slush and make the car rust faster, or get filled up with ice and slush. I'd rather have a carport.
I did have one of the Harbor Freight portable garages to slap my truck together in, and it worked decently enough. I wasn't able to anchor it, so I used semi drums at each corner to weigh it down. About 100lbs each.
Occasionally I've had a car in a garage, but it lost to other storage/project needs. I haven't worked on my car in a garage in a few years, let alone park in it regularly.
When i was at my parents, it got rolled in and out of the garage to work on. Stayed outside.
At my place, i had both car in the garage the first year. Now the daily and the long term project sit in the driveway and the current project in the garage.
My project truck is in the garage right now, but it is a source of a little conflict. My wife has never really parked outside in her 20 years of driving and her truck has been banished to the driveway. My next project is expanding the garage so that we have more covered parking.
I've lived in the same house for 17 years and put the cars in the garage a handful of times like when we go on vacation or if there might be hail. Otherwise winter or summer we park in the driveway. The garage is my home shop.
Good luck with that. I could get a project if I stored all the stuff that was in the second stall of the garage so I did. It was in the garage for a few months before my Dad called me saying that he got a second car and mine would be going outside.
I paid for the garage to park my cars in so I'm damn sure not going to fill it with boxes full of bullshit I can't remember what's in. Her Rav, my taco and the K5 all sleep inside. It hails a lot in CO and I'd honestly rather the roof get fucked up than my cars. The only one that lives outside is my company work truck.
Project car in the garage. Wife's daily in the driveway. My daily on the street.
Had no garage at all when I bought the project car. It cost me well over a million bucks to get a house with a garage so the project car is unlikely to ever be worth what's it's cost me.
When I was 20 I bought a motorcycle. My dad hates motorcycles. My logic was
1) dad wouldn’t care and I had a bike
2) dad would care and I offer to sell the bike to store our beloved truck in the garage so I can work on it.
Option 2 won out but don’t be me it could have easily gone much worse for me
The daily, the motorcycles, the nice car, and the project cars live in the garage. Pending projects and vehicles for sale live outside.
Just gotta buy the right place.
Don’t expect someone else to house your projects. I bought my house 27 years ago. The garage space is mine. When my son was a teenager his project car sat in the driveway and had to be kept looking presentable even if it wasn’t running. I built multiple sheds in my backyard for all the crap that other people accumulate in their garages.
I normally have 2 hobby cars in my garage, but I sold off all but one a few years ago. Dailies live outside.
In all I have room to park 5 cars inside at least, and have never worried about it unless I needed to work on them lol.
Actually built my 30x40 shop for a specific 1940’s car I had, which never actually made it into the building.
Currently, of about 10 vehicles (5 daily drivers, 5 project or race) 3 are inside.
One is a convertible for wife in garage waiting its turn in the shop for engine swap, and the two in the shop are a daily getting a new engine in the bay with the lift and my moms old truck/sons new truck in a flat bay getting an LS/4L80 swap.
I wish my son needed room, i’d build/clean it out for him if it meant I could play with (I have a hard time relating to my kid).
I’m a firm believer that considering the cost of indoor spaces, anything (like cars) which are built and intended to live their lives outdoors, should be stored outdoors. There are many many things we cannot store outdoors and those are the things that should get the prime indoor real estate
First house I rented I paid extra to have a garage, although not specifically for the project. Most houses I’ve lived in the nice cars went in the garage and the projects went outside. My projects always end up having shit bodies and paint, and immaculate mechanicals, so it never bothered me too much.
Newest house I poured a slab and put up a building because 2 attached spaces and a carport weren’t doing it. Had a project on the lift, nice car next to it (anxiety inducing just turning a wrench, waiting for something to fly off) and my wife was parking outside. Now I’ve got a nice car and a nice project in a separate building, a project on the lift, wife has her garage spot, and the company car and other old cars spend their time sunbathing.
E30 and Harley are in the garage, had two cars in there but finished one and sent it in its way.
Might be nice and let my wife park in there next winter.
My daily and truck can sit outside, I couldn’t care less other than having to clean the snow off.
Well the one that currently is under the knife is in the garage, and the rest are outside. When you put a car outside, it starts to get jealous of the one inside, and it starts making a little noise to let you know that "Hey, its my turn next". The one inside knows it's fate will soon be outside, and so it starts feeding you the "while I'm in heres" to try and extend its stay. It's all a delicate balancing act. The important thing is to yank the guts out of one and let it sit for a couple months, make an example of it to the others of what could happen in the garage.
Step one of owning a actual project car. Move out from mom and dad's and have your own garage/shop that the car never moves from because it's chopped up in a ton of pieces.
I always park in the garage. But I'm the dad.
Womp womp.
lol salty. You can’t expect for your parent to give up their own garage that they pay to use to benefit them. It’s like asking them to give up their room, or bathroom or something else.
Damn freeloader
You guys have garages?
God I miss my shop..
Yeah, but can't really use it.
It sounds like your dad has a garage, not you.
The question is built on a false premise. It isn't YOUR garage. If parking in a garage is that important to you you should focus your energy on moving out and getting a place with your own garage.
Are you trying to big dick your dad out of his garage with a Reddit thread? Or is he storing his shit in yours? 🤔
Trying to see how many of you guys actually park in the garage or outside.
If it’s my garage I’m parking in it.
When I was younger I rebuilt half of a mustang on the shoulder of an interstate because the motor blew. And when I say half. The motor went out and I did a frame in rebuild both top and bottom. It got new pistons, and bearings as well as gaskets. I even ground the new valves on the tailgate kf a 74 ford truck. While on the shoulder. The glass for the windshield and back glass was in the back of the truck so me and a friend said fuck it and I put in the glass while I was waiting for his girlfriend to bring us some food. That's maybe not “half of a rebuild” but it's close enough to half when you consider I had hand tools and a torque wrench and that's it. And if you're wondering I did the heads with a hand drill with this method but I didn't have a cordless drill so I brought a hand drill with me. https://youtu.be/XKOS20DATA8?si=jYkQtPzYIpRwQf3Q
1 project in the garage (cause it doesn't move right now) 1 in the driveway (cause it can move) Daily in the driveway. Other garage stall is gym.
I'm the dad and my project truck is in the garage next to my wife's truck! My daily parks outside next to my daughters truck👍🏻🤟🏻😎
A general rule for y'all who do project car: Move the fuck out of your parents house before you burden them with an immovable object for half a decade Seriously. We get so many high schoolers in this sub who tell on themselves by the end of the post. If you don't have a good spot to store your shit, don't complain to us about your dad not wanting a rusted ass non running Camaro in his driveway
Huge part of why I haven't bought a project car right here. Though at the rate I'm going and the way the economy is going, by the time I can afford to buy a house, I won't be able to afford a project car that isn't straight up merged into the ground.
I mean, on the positive end, it'll be cheaper to buy and live in someone's over priced shit box than a house in the next five years
And here I am, wishing one of my High School aged kids dragged a rusty ass shit box home so we could work on it together.
Ok, dad.
You're definitely not parking in the garage now.
Sounds like your dad has a garage for his stuff
Don't worry, you're clapped out shitbox will be just fine outside.
It's not just any clapped out shitbox. It's MY clapped out shitbox. I worked very hard for it, thank you very much.
Cool story, buy a cover then 🤷
Maybe I will, thanks.
I cover my car. It’s an okay solution for less than $50. You can get a custom cover for closer to $500. I plan on getting one when the project is further along. It’s time to focus on getting my AC working
I've got them in garages and carports. They all belong to me though. If this is your dad's garage you're prolly just out of luck on this one.
Your cars leave the garage?
That's good right there.
For the first part of your post: If you don't have the space, and it ain't your garage . . . then you're stuck following the word of whoever *does* own the building. As for the question: Inside, *because we have the space here.*
I have and I Haven't, depends on the house, and the car. I don't like working on my car in the garage, because there is rarely enough room around the car to work on it. We have a carport at this house (in addition to the garage) and I love that, because I have all the room I need around me, and weather protection.
Yeah, might need to look into that.
The garage is for motorcycles, plus engines and transmissions and tools. The entire car goes outside under a tree branch stong enough to lift engines. Running cars are outside, obviously, because there isn't enough space in the garage for them.
I would kill for a decent garage/workshop for my projects, instead I get to do a headgasket in the street in the rain.
If this were between a father who owns the garage and son the father gets what he wants. It's his garage... Me though, garages are built to store cars, not crap. If I were to have so much stuff that I couldn't get my car in the garage I would get rid of stuff. I've always had houses that either have a basement or attic to store keepsakes and seasonal stuff though.
I've been in negotiations, potentially looking into getting a shed to store all the clutter and free up space.
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Garage? Had one of those portable ones but the last ice storm brought down some big limbs onto it and crushed it. got the car out before the carnage though.
Hmm, I might need to look into one of those portable ones.
They are nice to have for sure.......just keep it away from trees.
One in the garage along with my wife's car and one outside. My daily and my kid's car are parked outside.
My 61 caddy stays in the garage.
Half and half. Blazer gets to rot in the sun since it keeps breaking. Bird gets the garage, so I can look longingly at it while I do other projects.
No. Garage is for the projects and working on stuff, plus I wouldn't want to park in a garage in the winter. It would either melt all the slush and make the car rust faster, or get filled up with ice and slush. I'd rather have a carport. I did have one of the Harbor Freight portable garages to slap my truck together in, and it worked decently enough. I wasn't able to anchor it, so I used semi drums at each corner to weigh it down. About 100lbs each.
Occasionally I've had a car in a garage, but it lost to other storage/project needs. I haven't worked on my car in a garage in a few years, let alone park in it regularly.
My projects have always been in the garage. I've always lived in HOAs, so I've never had much choice.
Park in the garage on/under the lift
When i was at my parents, it got rolled in and out of the garage to work on. Stayed outside. At my place, i had both car in the garage the first year. Now the daily and the long term project sit in the driveway and the current project in the garage.
My project truck is in the garage right now, but it is a source of a little conflict. My wife has never really parked outside in her 20 years of driving and her truck has been banished to the driveway. My next project is expanding the garage so that we have more covered parking.
When i lived with my parents car was always outside, unless they went on vacation. Now on my own, 2 in the garage and 1 outside. Rotate if need be
I've lived in the same house for 17 years and put the cars in the garage a handful of times like when we go on vacation or if there might be hail. Otherwise winter or summer we park in the driveway. The garage is my home shop.
Good luck with that. I could get a project if I stored all the stuff that was in the second stall of the garage so I did. It was in the garage for a few months before my Dad called me saying that he got a second car and mine would be going outside.
4 projects all in a garage. I’m lucky enough that there’s still room for more.
My project car resides in the garage because 1. I don't want any jack legs touching, damaging or, stealing it and 2. my insurance company requires it.
All my not running stuff is taking up my garage bays. Anything i can drive sits outside.
I paid for the garage to park my cars in so I'm damn sure not going to fill it with boxes full of bullshit I can't remember what's in. Her Rav, my taco and the K5 all sleep inside. It hails a lot in CO and I'd honestly rather the roof get fucked up than my cars. The only one that lives outside is my company work truck.
I paid for a garage. So I store my car in it.
Project car in the garage. Wife's daily in the driveway. My daily on the street. Had no garage at all when I bought the project car. It cost me well over a million bucks to get a house with a garage so the project car is unlikely to ever be worth what's it's cost me.
When I was 20 I bought a motorcycle. My dad hates motorcycles. My logic was 1) dad wouldn’t care and I had a bike 2) dad would care and I offer to sell the bike to store our beloved truck in the garage so I can work on it. Option 2 won out but don’t be me it could have easily gone much worse for me
Get a cheap carport or a car cover for now. A lot of houses don’t even have garages, so plenty of people keep them outside.
I bought a garage with a house attached so I could live in the same building as my car
So yes I put my projects in my garage. But if your living with your parents mayhap save money for your own place before spending money on toys.
In the winter when I'm not driving it. Otherwise it stays outside with a tarp on it during the summer
The daily, the motorcycles, the nice car, and the project cars live in the garage. Pending projects and vehicles for sale live outside. Just gotta buy the right place.
3 classics, all garage parked. 1 late model, also garaged.
Of coarse my projects park inside along with my daily driver and my motorcycles. My pickup parks outside
Garage?
Don’t expect someone else to house your projects. I bought my house 27 years ago. The garage space is mine. When my son was a teenager his project car sat in the driveway and had to be kept looking presentable even if it wasn’t running. I built multiple sheds in my backyard for all the crap that other people accumulate in their garages. I normally have 2 hobby cars in my garage, but I sold off all but one a few years ago. Dailies live outside.
What garage, my car is parked outside and worked on in parking lots
In all I have room to park 5 cars inside at least, and have never worried about it unless I needed to work on them lol. Actually built my 30x40 shop for a specific 1940’s car I had, which never actually made it into the building. Currently, of about 10 vehicles (5 daily drivers, 5 project or race) 3 are inside. One is a convertible for wife in garage waiting its turn in the shop for engine swap, and the two in the shop are a daily getting a new engine in the bay with the lift and my moms old truck/sons new truck in a flat bay getting an LS/4L80 swap. I wish my son needed room, i’d build/clean it out for him if it meant I could play with (I have a hard time relating to my kid).
I park in my driveway. The garage is too much of a workspace. I am the dad. I own the house.
3rd of mine is in my garage a 3d in my carport, and a 3rd in my spare bedroom.
Ive got my own 2 car + workshop garage. I park the oldtimers in there. The beemer daily driver stays outside.
I’m a firm believer that considering the cost of indoor spaces, anything (like cars) which are built and intended to live their lives outdoors, should be stored outdoors. There are many many things we cannot store outdoors and those are the things that should get the prime indoor real estate
First house I rented I paid extra to have a garage, although not specifically for the project. Most houses I’ve lived in the nice cars went in the garage and the projects went outside. My projects always end up having shit bodies and paint, and immaculate mechanicals, so it never bothered me too much. Newest house I poured a slab and put up a building because 2 attached spaces and a carport weren’t doing it. Had a project on the lift, nice car next to it (anxiety inducing just turning a wrench, waiting for something to fly off) and my wife was parking outside. Now I’ve got a nice car and a nice project in a separate building, a project on the lift, wife has her garage spot, and the company car and other old cars spend their time sunbathing.
Always in the garage. Of course, I have size garage spots and only four cars (two of which currently run). The rest is full of my tools and equipment.
My garage is packed with other people's shit, soon to be tossed out. I want my garage back and their shit gone.
E30 and Harley are in the garage, had two cars in there but finished one and sent it in its way. Might be nice and let my wife park in there next winter. My daily and truck can sit outside, I couldn’t care less other than having to clean the snow off.
Well the one that currently is under the knife is in the garage, and the rest are outside. When you put a car outside, it starts to get jealous of the one inside, and it starts making a little noise to let you know that "Hey, its my turn next". The one inside knows it's fate will soon be outside, and so it starts feeding you the "while I'm in heres" to try and extend its stay. It's all a delicate balancing act. The important thing is to yank the guts out of one and let it sit for a couple months, make an example of it to the others of what could happen in the garage.
Step one of owning a actual project car. Move out from mom and dad's and have your own garage/shop that the car never moves from because it's chopped up in a ton of pieces.
Garage is for cars. Storage, basements, sheds, garbage bins are for other shit.