In My Garage

Michael Paul Smith’s Model Community

Homes and storefronts glow while snow blankets the sidewalks. Classic American iron lines every street, preserved, as if never driven. In fact, the auto dealership has a full lineup of ‘61 Chevy’s, right off the truck. There is a quiet calm. A rightness. You can almost smell the apple pie. This is Elgin Park, and [...]

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Race on Sunday, Sell on Monday: Griot’s GP Challenge in Photos

After experiencing Pacific Grand Prix, we just had to share it. So, this past weekend we hosted the Griot’s Garage GP Challenge event. The local BMW and Toyota clubs made strong showings, trying to “Beat the Griot” time. Brian, the Toyota club’s ringer, ended up finishing .1 second ahead of the best Griot’s Garage time [...]

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Track Day at Pacific Grand Prix

Paul Zalud’s 11-year dream project was completed four months ago, bringing one of the coolest karting facilities in the world to the Pacific Northwest. Knowing a few of us at In My Garage might be interested (yeah, uh huh… “might”), he invited us out last Thursday for a little track time. This job is never [...]

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Gearhead Hobbies: What are yours?

What does it take to call yourself a true car guy? For me, being a gearhead is an overall obsession with everything even remotely related to automobiles, and it comes out in my hobbies. Slot cars, scale models, memorbilia, books, vintage parts, tattoo’s, vacations to car museums. Nevermind the weekly beg-and-plead with my wife [...]

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