What does your garage look like?
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What does your garage look like? I'm sure all of us are Tim Allan/Home Improvement (rerun) fans. Well, Tim always did spot on his TV show called "The Mans (insert room here)". He did a mans bedroom that had a bar come out of the wall... stuff like that. Well, one of our members, Dolph(viper board), Made a Man's House. Really. Here is what is looks like from the outside, a rather non-descript 15,000 sq foot industrial building with a concrete lawn:
It even has a Garden:
When you walk in, to the right is the "shop":
Behind the shop is a 900 sq. ft Saloon:
To the left is the 2000 sq. ft house (with cedar exterior, rusty tin roof, and inside - all the walls are oak flooring, the floors are tile, and the trim is all stainless steel, I swear, you could clean it out with a compressed air blow gun:
The left wall is his garage, all his vehicles are lined up... sorry, the first picture is out of focus:
What's next? who knows... but the place is big enough he can drive his 4 door Dodge Dually Diesel inside, and unload his Viper from its trailer!
It even has a Garden:
When you walk in, to the right is the "shop":
Behind the shop is a 900 sq. ft Saloon:
To the left is the 2000 sq. ft house (with cedar exterior, rusty tin roof, and inside - all the walls are oak flooring, the floors are tile, and the trim is all stainless steel, I swear, you could clean it out with a compressed air blow gun:
The left wall is his garage, all his vehicles are lined up... sorry, the first picture is out of focus:
What's next? who knows... but the place is big enough he can drive his 4 door Dodge Dually Diesel inside, and unload his Viper from its trailer!
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Originally Posted by moddestmike
What kind of 401k did he invest in when he was my age.(20years) Because I would really like to be set like that when im a older.
90% of the guys I know via the "viper" group are not only younger adults than you would think. They are also self made. Meaning, started their own buisness etc...Very few of them work for "somebody". Statistics say that the average income of a viper owner is 250K. That isn't surprising, but what is, are the amount of 20-30 y/o owning these cars outright...not to mention their other "belongings".
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I would love to meet some of these guys. I'm in the process of finishing a Mechanical Engineering/Physics Degree from Lamar University (#4 Engineering School in the South)for those that know where it is. Would love to see if any would like to invest in a small starting business. Can't decide if I should try a hand at the Consulting Business are persure my passion after completing the PTAP program at UTI (Porsche trainig program). As you guys can probably tell I got a lot on my plate. I'm just kind of second guessing my major because I haven't run into any engineers (young ones at least that make that much income.(Maybe a Patent Attorney would suffice.) Help me please I'm about to crack up. 
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Originally Posted by moddestmike
I would love to meet some of these guys. I'm in the process of finishing a Mechanical Engineering/Physics Degree from Lamar University (#4 Engineering School in the South)for those that know where it is. Would love to see if any would like to invest in a small starting business. Can't decide if I should try a hand at the Consulting Business are persure my passion after completing the PTAP program at UTI (Porsche trainig program). As you guys can probably tell I got a lot on my plate. I'm just kind of second guessing my major because I haven't run into any engineers (young ones at least that make that much income.(Maybe a Patent Attorney would suffice.) Help me please I'm about to crack up.
Send me a pm...i can get you in touch with the right people. Especially an Attorney that is certified to deal with patents.
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yeah, it is funny, i saw that samething on svtperformance...lol, yeah, i would love to have something like that, and hopefully after i get underway w/ a petroleum company, and eventually start my own, i can have somethink like that, i just have 4 more years to go at UT... i hate 5 year majors
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Originally Posted by moddestmike
I would love to meet some of these guys. I'm in the process of finishing a Mechanical Engineering/Physics Degree from Lamar University (#4 Engineering School in the South)for those that know where it is. Would love to see if any would like to invest in a small starting business. Can't decide if I should try a hand at the Consulting Business are persure my passion after completing the PTAP program at UTI (Porsche trainig program). As you guys can probably tell I got a lot on my plate. I'm just kind of second guessing my major because I haven't run into any engineers (young ones at least that make that much income.(Maybe a Patent Attorney would suffice.) Help me please I'm about to crack up.
Well im an mech engineering major at A&M and im for sure persuing my passion when im done with school, the first thing im doing once im out is go to Laguna Seca and enroll in Skip Barbers school(Grad present) and get my SCCA Liscence
so in a couple years we might be able to hook up. 
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Originally Posted by moddestmike
Hey Spaz and Dark, we should definetly keep in touch. And Supertrooper, I'll PM you later on in the week. Got a test coming up soon. Thanx in advance.
I just added both You and Dark to my buddylist, as for supertrooper it sorta easy to get a hold of him.