The Alfa next door

In today's era of the "Garage Mahal," where over-restored cars sit on spotless marble floors, surrounded by sleek cabinets of gleaming un-used tools, it's refreshing to visit a garage that hearkens back to the day when a car was just a car, and a garage was just an unfinished space to keep it out of the elements and store your lawn chairs. In this humble context, we can appreciate the automobile as machinery for use, not just a status object. There's nothing like standing over the engine of a rare, unmolested Alfa TZ1 with a glass of beer in your hand, and your breath condensing in the crisp, uninsulated air. Magical.

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Comments

[James]

Where on earth did you find that beauty?

[syed]

hell yeah. that is a man's garage.

[F1 Tommy]

Very cool. Thats like the good old days before we were around when a super rare Ferrari, Maserati or Alfa race car was cheap and could be owned and driven by the not so super rich.


Tom Tanner/Scale Designs/Ferrari Expo 2012-Chicago March 17th 2012

[Automobiliac]

It belongs to a local Alfista. He also used to have and race an Autodelta GTA.

[Walter Jamieson]

Is the term "Garage Mahal" original with you? Congratulations if it is.

[Automobiliac]

I wish it was my term, but alas it has already entered the common lexicon among car nuts