racecar storage
Over the past few months, Matt has seriously considered selling the racecar. With spare time so precious these days, making it to a race weekend, not to mention maintaining the car himself, is almost impossible. We also have no garage and no real off street parking or driveway to speak of. This weekend we had every intention of bringing back the car (currently being stored on my family’s farm) and putting it up for sale. We knew that there was some question as to whether or not the trailer would actually fit through the gate into our backyard, but we figured we could park the trailer on the street and store the car in the backyard while we put everything up for sale. After measuring the trailer’s width (it IS too wide to fit through the gate) and reading up on ordinances (it is illegal to store the trailer on the street), we aborted on the mission.
Once we got back home we started problem solving and the wheels in our brains (which work very differently and can be a very good thing) started whirring. What could we do to make it possible to store the car in the yard while we are trying to get it sold? Well, of course the gate would need to be wider somehow, which would basically mean replacing the fence. But the fence is in poor shape anyhow, it honestly wouldn’t hurt to replace the gate along the side and behind the house, right? But, how much would THAT cost. [Looked online for pricing information.] Oh, not that much. Much cheaper than we originally thought. What about a permit? [Looked online for permit required.] We wouldn’t need a permit as long as we stuck with wood fencing. We can do that ourselves. If we replace the fence and the gate, we’ve solved the problem. We can store the racecar after all in the backyard…but it will kill the grass when parked near the fence. But, the grass there isn’t growing that well anyway. Should we make a permanent parking spot there? Should we put gravel down? Oh, what about those extra bricks by the shed left by the previous owners? We could use those to extend the patio out a bit, place a walkway to the parking spot, put bricks down for a parking spot and also make a walkway from the parking spot to the shed. Yes! That would look really nice. We should really look into this some more this week.
So, if we can store the racecar in the backyard, is it worth keeping?