What Would Your Automotive Fortress of Solitude Look Like?

While it’s true that many of us refer to this space as a Man Cave, isn’t it true that this space performs the same job no matter what name you give it? While Hagerty clearly caters to the car enthusiast, we don’t want to assume you must treat this space like a stereotypical garage.

There are also She Sheds, spare bedrooms, basements, attics, and even sanctuaries for sacred thoughts and actions. Well, maybe the last one isn’t available to everyone.

References to campy, dystopian 1970s Sci-Fi movies aside, we all want a sanctuary where we can lean into our passion for the automotive hobby. What that entails might be unique to you. I write that with full knowledge that my tastes are certainly, ahem, distinctive.

I’d want a massive water feature with concrete steps taking me to a perfectly curated, fully equipped Garage Mahal. It should look a lot like a certain location used for the above movie, as that will inspire me with every entrance and exit from my sanctuary.

From there it would be any ol’ storage facility used to collect many old cars and the stuff needed to keep them in pristine condition.

I know that my sanctuary would be someone else’s nightmare. It’s horrendously expensive to build and maintain. It completely detracts from the intended purpose of collecting old cars. But I hope my vision inspires you to think big.

Big on the scale of Superman’s Fortress of Solitude, because you can have an unlimited budget for this question. So let’s hear it from you:

What would your automotive Fortress of Solitude look like?