Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Garage Floor Solutions (Matt Boyd)

[Peter Rychel (dino308gt4]

So I’m just crazy then.

 

As per Gary’s pic, as far as I know, the owner did pass away.

 

In addition to the Bugatti, he had one of the three Abarth 205 Vignale coupes (pictured on the cover of one of Al Cosentino’s books and now restored in Europe), as well as a chain drive Frazer Nash (which now Jay Leno owns).

 

Peter

 

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From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+dino308gt4=hotmail.com [at] ferrarilist.com> on behalf of Erik Nielsen <judge4re [at] gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 12:43:53 PM
To: PeterGT4
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Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Garage Floor Solutions (Matt Boyd)

 

Old joke, what is the difference between crazy and eccentric?

About $5 million.

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 2:36 PM Gary Reed <gary [at] garyreedsales.com> wrote:

How about a Bugatti in your house?

 

Here's one that I saw when touring a very eccentric guy's car collection about 20 years ago in the 

Port Townsend area (50 miles from Seattle)

 

I'm not sure if he's still alive.

 

 

 

 

Gary

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Erik Nielsen

To: Gary Reed

Cc: The FerrariList

Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 10:39 AM

Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Garage Floor Solutions (Matt Boyd)

Great point.  Here are the two ends of the lunatic fringe spectrum.

Clean room:  https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a14453949/the-only-mclaren-f1-technician-in-north-america/

Old school:  https://petrolicious.com/articles/french-bugatti-workshop-saw-three-generations-of-owners

I'm aiming for the latter, with a well stocked wine cellar.

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 12:32 PM George <ygpz4re [at] hotmail.com> wrote:

Matt,

I've read all of these posts and have a question:  do you want a working garage or a showroom garage?

If it's to be a "working" garage, I'd do nothing to the floor, put down the big mats that Gary recommended, and put a couple of large drip trays lined w/ "Pig Mat" (available at your FLAPS) to catch the oil drips from the PIII and a smaller one under the red car.  Also consider the "Raceramps" (?) Charles linked to prevent flat-spotting (been meaning to get some of these for "Old Blue", but just haven't yet....).

If you want a "showroom" garage, based on Charles's remarks about the Racedeck, I think I'd go with that.  I'd almost bet money that it's far more affordable than a high-end coating.  And you can *still* put drip trays under the cars.  (In fact, you probably should no matter what...)

Perhaps the best of all worlds is the Racedeck with the big mats under the cars, and drip trays to catch oil drips.

I thought about doing something similar to the new garage (which you still have yet to see!), but in the end, just considered it a lot of money spent for very little actual benefit.  But then, I'm not driving wet, dripping cars into the garage.  And no matter how much I clean it, it's still a garage, subject to spiders and cobwebs, dirt and dust, never completely sealed from the outdoors, etc etc.

FWIW, YMMV, yadda yadda....

gp

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