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VeeArrrSix
11/24/09

In reply to How We'd Store Our Ferrari
Epic. The bright wood and glass is just my style. Add Ferrari, Ducati, Herman Miller chair and ottoman, the Helmet, the car models on glass shelves... damn... I am weak in the knees.
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trev
11/24/09

@VeeArrrSix:

That is not a Herman Miller chair.

That is the single greatest piece of furniture ever created. It is the Eames Chair. Herman Miller sells it.

It is the most comfortable thing ever created.
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VeeArrrSix
11/24/09

@trev: I stand corrected.
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trev
11/24/09

@VeeArrrSix:

I'm just glad you recognize the greatness of the chair, regardless if you know what chair it is. <3
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VeeArrrSix
11/24/09

@trev: I was in very nice house once and the owner told me he had purchased said chair at Herman Miller. Since my office chair is from there I just presumed.
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trev
11/24/09

@VeeArrrSix:
Yea, Herman Miller carries a lot of high end designed furniture. I'd guess your chair at work is the Aeron Chair?
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VeeArrrSix
11/24/09

@trev: Yep. Best. Chair. EVER.
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trev
11/24/09

@VeeArrrSix: Yea, had one at my internship this summer. I'm an architecture grad student, thus an inherent furniture nerd.

#tips
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alexander_the_car_salamander
11/25/09

@VeeArrrSix: Or rather sit corrected.
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Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
11/25/09

@VeeArrrSix: Besides of the chair discussion (interesting as it is), that is also not a Ducati but a classic Suzuki GSX 1100 S Katana.

I'm almost glad it's a Jap bike, owning exclusively expensive Italian machinery can seem a bit strained and poseresque.
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VeeArrrSix
11/25/09

@Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est: Man... I need glasses I guess... but I thought all those bikes owners were dead by this point. 1100 Ginxr? Crackpipe!
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Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
11/26/09

@VeeArrrSix: Your enthusiasm more than makes up for your lack of research/eyeglasses. I'll still write you a letter of recommendation for Jalopnik U.

#tips
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Pessimippopotamus
11/24/09

In reply to How We'd Store Our Ferrari
It should be visible from the bathroom.
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VeeArrrSix
11/24/09

@Pessimippopotamus: It is. [www.flickr.com]
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Pessimippopotamus
11/24/09

@VeeArrrSix: Perfect.
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Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
11/24/09

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Nice concept. Could use some workshopping.

And I hope that glass and enclosure has a one-hour fire label. Sprinklers much?
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livinlvis
11/24/09

@Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Not necessary in a single family residential structure. All those windows wouldn't be framed in wood if it was rated.
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Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
11/24/09

@livinlvis: Check your building code and get back to me. One hour fire separation between different uses required.

A garage doesn't have to be rated, but a shared wall/floor/ceiling between a garage and a living space does require a fire rating. Most circumstances manage it fine with a little drywall and most folks would never notice.
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Novaload
11/24/09

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This is my dream, "Living Garage":
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Novaload
11/24/09

@Novaload:
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Uncle Bo
11/24/09

@Novaload:

My dream too, only I want mine on Planet Risa.
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Novaload
11/24/09

@Uncle Bo: All you really need is a time machine!
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Maymar
11/24/09

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That whole place looks a little too Ikea Showroom to have a Ferrari in it. I'd suggest a Saab Sonnet III or maybe a Volvo P1800ES. I suppose a Koenissegg would count, but just barely.
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that ain't the way to have fun, son
11/24/09

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I hope it has an automatic exhaust fan....
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skaycog was here
11/24/09

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For me, there's a drawback on having this garage. I wouldn't want to smell the car's exhaust fumes and vice versa.
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Mobius
11/24/09

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The question, then, is which you will want to be repo'd: the Ferrari and leave behind a treacherous house, or the house, leaving behind a Ferrari and a bike and live on handicapped parking spaces?
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Rust-MyEnemy
11/24/09

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All very well if you just have the one Ferrari.

I have to keep mine in a rack.
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area_educator
11/24/09

@Rust-MyEnemy: in the cellar. The Ferrari Cellar.
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Rust-MyEnemy
11/24/09

@area_educator: Undercroft. Way classier. It's where I keep my Spumantefreeze.
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Turboner
11/24/09

@Rust-MyEnemy: Don't you mean "stable?" ;)
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Rust-MyEnemy
11/24/09

@Turboner: There's nothing remotely stable about me...
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Turboner
11/24/09

@Rust-MyEnemy: Why do you think I heartclicked you?

#tips
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tonyola
11/24/09

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"Coming up on the next episode of 'Your Ego Home':

First, we'll tell you how to freeze-dry your trophy wife before she wrinkles. Then, we'll build a glass display case for her next to the Ferrari. Finally, we'll install mirrors on all vertical surfaces of your house so you can walk around naked admiring your manhood."
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JC Whitless
11/24/09

@tonyola: Puhleeze. Ferrari owners don't need mirrors. Objects of some sizes fail to reflect light with an unaided eye.
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JC Whitless
11/24/09

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This would be exactly like having a pool table in your house.

All sorts of fun and great times, till the kids begin to use it as a landscape for army men and the wife is folding towels on it.

This isn't what you do to a car you love? You drive a car you love. This is someone who is treating it like furniture.

Do you know what people do on furniture?

The same things people do on pool tables.

Also, anyone know how I can fix a pool table? I have one in the basement that, ahem, broke recently since my wife and I got back from our honeymoon...
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tonyola
11/24/09

@JC Whitless: I once visited some people who had a gorgeous gloss-black $60,000 Steinway grand piano in the living room. As a piano player myself, I was extremely impressed - until I found out that no-one in the family knew how to play it.
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that ain't the way to have fun, son
11/24/09

@tonyola:

Look at how many have nice cars, yet don't know how to drive them....
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Turboner
11/24/09

@that ain't the way to have fun, son: Zing!
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smalleyxb122
11/24/09

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Without a firewall between the garage space and the living quarters, I can't imagine that that would meet code in any part of the country.

But I guess when you have Ferrari money (even if it's "just" a 355), anything is possible.
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
11/24/09

@smalleyxb122: Depends on the area. Basement garages are pretty common all over the Southeast, at least. Saves a lot of footprint on the house, but if either of our cars ignited, our living room would be the first to go.

AFAIK, the only universal requirement is a "step-down" to the garage so that heavier-than-air gases can't seep into the living area. That's why even slab homes have a couple steps down into the garage.
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Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
11/24/09

@Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig): Basement garages, in upstate NY at least, seem to be common on houses built on hillsides in the 50s and 60s. Fire hazards aside, it makes sense from a design standpoint.
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smalleyxb122
11/24/09

@Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig): My garage is, more or less, a basement garage, since my "house" is really an apartment perched atop a 6 car garage. It was built in the '40s, so there is some grandfathering, but the garage ceiling is fully plastered as a fire stop. Open rafters would be very little impedance to a fire.

Current code for anywhere that I'm familiar with requires at least drywall and a steel door on the adjacent wall for attached garages to, at least, slow the spread of fire to the living area.
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that ain't the way to have fun, son
11/24/09

@Paul Y. don't drive too fast.:

After being @ 9K feet in CO, I can say basement garages rock the casbah.

Ours was huge. "Only" a two car garage, yet it held two large cars (one Intrepid one Grand Cherokee), three large, yet not Harley, motorcycles, a large sofa which could be used where it stood, an appropriately large snow-thrower, and tools, yet wasn't ever the slightest bit crowded.

I really wish idiots hadn't moved in, next door. We might still live there.
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
11/24/09

@that ain't the way to have fun, son: Yeah, we've got 2 cars, all of our storage (no attic space), a workshop area, and a full workout area with free weights, treadmill, pullup/ring gear, etc. Plus easy access to all the plumbing, HVAC, and electrical.

Full footprint garage basements are definitely nice. But speaking to insulation, there is none. When I look up from the cars, it's just plywood subfloor and joists. Our house would be toast if there were a car fire.
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that ain't the way to have fun, son
11/24/09

@Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig):

Yeah, car fire was a definite potential hazard in our place. The garage was finished, so the ceiling was insulated, as were the non-ground-facing walls (and the doors), but still, a car going up would have cooked us before we knew it was happening.

The master bed/bath was over said garage.
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Tanshanomi
11/24/09

@smalleyxb122: RE: drive-in basements:
When my wife bought our current home a couple of years before we married, she was required to sheet-rock the garage area and build dividing walls between the cars and the furnace & water heater. Same thing with my sister's home in St. Louis. I helped my brother-in-law sheetrock the garage ceiling—something I never plan on doing again!
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YankBoffin
11/24/09

@Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig): We rented a house with a drive-in basement (not a garage next to the basement, literally a garage door in the basement, pulling the car in between the water heater and the laundry station), which I thought was awesome in respect to working on cars since i could pull in right up to the workshop area. The downside was that it resulted in a ton of heat loss in the winter, to the point where I didn't pull into the garage unless necessary.

You certainly couldn't build anything like this arrangement now. In fact, a coworker was complaining just the other day that it violates code to run HVAC ducts into an attached garage b/c of the potential of fumes to travel into the house through them.
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
11/24/09

@YankBoffin: Wow, that's exactly what we have (forced air ducts in the basement, along with the cars). The heat loss isn't too terrible, given that a cold winter night in Alabama is 20 degrees. The basement gets some sympathetic climate control from the main house, which makes it a nice transition area between outside and in.

Most newer houses are slab construction (for cost), so the last homes in our style seem to have disappeared in the early 90s. Nonetheless, still a great use of space.
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Wes Siler
11/24/09

In reply to How We'd Store Our Ferrari
What you're missing Matt is that this is actually a storage solution for the timeless Suzuki Katana, with the red Ferrari merely serving to provide a vibrant background to its classy black paint.
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amclint
11/24/09

@Wes Siler: More like a custom Bandit 1200 or 1200S, the Katana has a crapload of cheap plastic around it was a junker of a sportbike that was allowed to exist far to long.
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Wes Siler
11/24/09

@amclint: I meant the real katana, not the GSX-F they passed off as one in this country during the '90s: [www.katanacentral.co.uk]
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ozyran
05/27/09

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That is the cooliest, yet most horrificly ugly car I've ever seen. Pure awesomeness!
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ozyran
05/27/09

@ozyran: I meant to say "coolest".
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Stoatmaster
05/28/09

@ozyran: 'Cooliest' is good. Think of it as meaning 'most like a Chinese peasant'.
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Stoatmaster
05/27/09

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In the olden days, the UK advert for the 2CV ran

"A 2CV travelling at 60mph will easily outpace a Ferrari travelling at 50mph"

Might be time to revisit that one.
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