That has a tinge of "speaking from experience" to it...Is there a good story?

Hi bigoak:

Very long story made as short as possible

I had purchased the lot behind my home, with the intention of building my dream garage. At the time of purchase we were in "the county" with Residential Zoning... By the time I was ready to start building, our neighborhood had been 'annexed" into the City that had grown to surround us....

The City Zoning Regulations were pretty vague as to the size of one's garage so I thought I had it made - - - but as the people involved at the City Zoning interpreted the Reg.'s - I was out of luck.{They saw it as a possible "commercial" building}

26th Z then sent me a set of plans - - that most likely would have passed muster.. with the entire ground floor as a garage (wash out area for hurricane/floods etc - so it didn't really count as garage space)...

Sure enough - Florida was hit that year, and the entire Gulf Coast the following years, with hurricanes!!! That sucked all available building supplies out of this area - plus it put all builders/contractors into overtime rebuilding or restoring hurricane damage - which in turn sent the price of my "dream garage" skyrocketing from the $150K range to well over $275K.... I'm crazy but I'm not stupid... and I do have a wife... So there went the dream garage....

I still have the lot - - -and prices are starting to come down again in this area.... hope springs eternal!

I designed, redesigned and redesigned my dream garage... now if prices will come down just a little more... I might have a go at it again!!

FWIW,

Carl B.

Hmm..with the housing crash, those builders should have plenty of idle time right now. Might be the time to strike.

Here's one on the east coast...looks interesting...

http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=136786

And here's one on the West Coast:

http://eugene.craigslist.org/car/751589769.html

Carl, have you checked into steel buildings? I'm putting one up next summer for a friend- it's gonna be an indoor equestrian center- 100w X 160d X 14h for under $75k for the shell. I imagine that's somewhat bigger than you plan, but they scale down well. Add a pad, some furring, insulation and sheetrock, etc. and instant building for almost peanuts.

A few pix I took Friday eve. The 510 is a blast to drive. I think we are going to take the Z and the 510 to the drag strip in a few weeks to see what they will run. I want to dyno my car as well.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14049800@N00/2706921749/" title="IMG_9575 by RVAE34, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3024/2706921749_ee1fa4244e_b.jpg" width="1024" height="683" alt="IMG_9575" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14049800@N00/2706923183/" title="IMG_9601 by RVAE34, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3251/2706923183_6597bfc878_b.jpg" width="1024" height="683" alt="IMG_9601" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14049800@N00/2706924417/" title="IMG_9603 by RVAE34, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3127/2706924417_bc8079406c_b.jpg" width="1024" height="683" alt="IMG_9603" /></a>

I love industrial photo-shoot locations!. That downtown pic is great as well.

Awesome cars man, I wish I had another Datsun in my area I could drive around with and be cool too.