AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Hamptons car collectors spend big on luxury garages that double as private retreats
Wealthy car enthusiasts on Long Island's South Fork are pouring tens of thousands of dollars, and sometimes seven figures, into bespoke garages built less for parking than for living, entertaining, and showing off prized collections. Arthur Aidala, a New York trial attorney who started collecting cars when he bought a 1986 Alfa Romeo Spider for […] The post Hamptons car collectors spend big on luxury garages that double as private retreats appeared first on American Almanac .
Wealthy car enthusiasts on Long Island's South Fork are pouring tens of thousands of dollars, and sometimes seven figures, into bespoke garages built less for parking than for living, entertaining, and showing off prized collections. Arthur Aidala, a New York trial attorney who started collecting cars when he bought a 1986 Alfa Romeo Spider for just over $3,000 at age 25, now keeps a rotating stable of six vehicles in a 500-square-foot garage at his Quogue home. The other nine cars in his 15-vehicle collection sit in off-site storage. He estimates he has spent roughly $25,000 turning that modest garage into something closer to a private lounge, designer flooring, a flat-screen television, a refrigerator, and a cigar station, the New York…Open