Million dollar garage

TNPhoon

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Re: Million dollar garage

so you build a $5 million garage and then fill it with a ****ing Chevy Cruze, Jeep Wranger, Audi, Chevy Pickup and Land Rover and a Mercedes sedan?

I mean, the motorcycles and shit were cool, but I was expecting some very rare high end exotics in the bomb shelter. Doesn't make sense to me. Oh well. Maybe if I sold a software company and had more money than God it would, but to each his own I suppose.
 

5678TA

New member
Re: Million dollar garage

he spent all the money on the garage and couldnt spring for the cars. haha that just made me feel more poor than i am.

BTW Sparkwire, i've heard the ls9 cam is supposed to pickup quite a bit of power on boosted cars over the z06 cam.
 

sparkwire

Donating Member
Re: Million dollar garage

I was expecting more of a car collection, the garage was empty, nice bikes, must have ran out of money after the expense of the garage!!
 
Re: Million dollar garage

He has an amazing collection, he just didn't want it shown. ;)

Do some googleing and you'll find it.
 

ziembic

Donating Member
Re: Million dollar garage

his collection at one time included an F50 and a McClaren F1 and 400 others. Sounds like he has sold a bunch of the high ticket items. All the houses were for sale including the "bunker" in May.
 

TNPhoon

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Re: Million dollar garage

Apparently he lost a lot in a warehouse fire recently. Think I remember hearing something about it. And at some point his collection included over 400 cars (Per CNN)

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/20...20827_1_warehouse-georodriguez-fire-officials

Here's his house that's for sale for $50million
http://sierrastarlaketahoe.com/

Interesting thing is, it doesn't appear that there's many photos of his collection, and none I could find are actually verified. I found this one which claims was his:
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August 27, 2012|Ihosvani Rodriguez, Sun Sentinel
FORT LAUDERDALE — High-end and rare cars were among some of the items damaged during a warehouse inferno that kept firefighters busy for several hours under tropical storm-related weather, officials said.

The collection belongs to a Fort Lauderdale man who made millions on the Internet during the dot com boom.



On Monday, fire officials were still cleaning up the damage caused by the blaze that broke out about 11 p.m. Sunday as the bands of rain from Tropical Storm Isaac lashed the area.

The cause of the fire has not been determined, and nobody was hurt.

The hulking warehouse, which contains no business signage and is located at 1400 N.W. 62nd Street, is owned by a firm called Cypress Creek Florida LLC, according to property records.

The firm is registered to Tom Gonzales, who splits his time between Nevada and Fort Lauderdale. An employee at his office in Nevada said Gonzales was in Fort Lauderdale attending to the incident. He could not be reached for comment on Monday.

The warehouse was used for personal storage by the owner and it contained vehicles, jet skis and other personal items, said city of Fort Lauderdale spokesman Matt Little.

An inventory was not immediately available, but Little said the vehicles sustained all types of damages ranging from minor to severe.

Fire officials said the battle against the blaze was hampered by the area's severe weather. The heavy winds kept fanning and rekindling the flames. The building itself sustain a partial roof collapse and nearby lightning forced rescue workers to temporarily come down from their ladders, Fort Lauderdale Fire Deputy Chief William Findlan told several TV stations from the scene.

"Once the roof opened up, and once the large bay doors opened up on the east end and exposed the whole warehouse to the wind, the fire became a blow torch," Findlan said.

In addition to storing personal luxury items, the warehouse was often used by SWAT members with the Broward Sheriff's Office.

"The owner graciously lent us the building on occasions for warehouse-type operations drills," said agency spokesman Jim Leljedal.

There were no department property in the warehouse, Leljedal said.

A CNN.com article published in May indicated that Gonzales once had built a 12,000-square foot subterranean parking garage in Lake Tahoe to store some of the most valuable cars in his 400-car collection.

Gonzales and his late son, Thomas Gonzales Jr., founded the e-commerce pioneering firm called Commerce One in 1994. He now owns Fort Lauderdale-based TG Investments.

The CNN video here, he didn't show them anything either. http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/04/real_estate/unique-homes-lake-tahoe/index.htm
 
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