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Garage Envy - Eight books about garages

What do Popsicles® and garage books have in common? Both come in a myriad of “flavors” and just as your sweet tooth may favor orange over cherry or maybe likes grape the best, so might one type of garage book be more enticing to you than another. For instance, let’s say you want to be entertained while reading about and seeing the fabulous collections of other people, along with the various ways they house and display their treasures. Or maybe you are seriously considering building your own “play room” from scratch, or revising and updating existing garage space. The peek between the covers of eight “garage” books reviewed here will help you identify which ones you want for the shelves of your own library.

Five of the eight books take you on tours of garages and collections. They share in common beautiful photography and how they are organized as each has chapters (ranging from 12 in Wheels, to 20-24 in Dream Garages and the two Ultimate Garages), with each chapter presenting a different collection. Except for one, Motor City Dream Garages which as the title suggests features only collections in/around Detroit, the garages and collectors are an eclectic mix, scattered all over America. Perhaps you’ll be surprised to learn that there is virtually no repetition—each book shows and tells about different garages, collections, and collectors.

One of the exceptions who is profiled in more than one book is Buck Mook. His garage and collection is presented in both Ultimate Garages II and Motor City Dream Garages. Each author—Phil Berg in Ultimate Garages and Rex Roy in the other—approaches the showing and telling differently, thus readers see different cars and learn different aspects of a collector’s personality on the pages of their respective books.

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