01 / Intro
A working collection

Built. Restored. Driven.

Don's Garage is a personal collection of American cars — and the roadside iconography that surrounds them. Every car runs. Every sign lights. Restored by hand, driven on purpose.

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02 / Cars
The fleet

Cars that still go.

Hot rods. Pre-war coupes. Brightwork that took a winter to polish. Nothing in the bay is a trailer queen — they fire on the first crank and the speedometers tell the truth.

V8
Drivetrain
3-on-the-tree
Transmission
Whitewall
Rubber
03 / Restoration
Bare metal up

Brought back correct.

Every panel pulled, every wire re-loomed, every chrome piece re-dipped. Architects draw things that have to stand up; Don restores things that have to roll out under their own power.

04 / Shop
The room around the cars

Lit by neon.

Texaco. Gulf. Sky Chief. Siesta Motel. The cars sit in a room built out of the iconography that put them on the road in the first place — porcelain enamel, hand-bent neon, working pumps that wheel out for a fill-up.

05 / Don
The man with the keys

Don Foster — architect, restorer, dad.

Spent a career drawing buildings that had to hold up. Turned the same eye on the cars and signs he grew up looking at. Raised a family of people who think about taste, attention, and craft because they grew up watching someone live that way.

V8
First love, still strong
Restorations completed
1
Drafting table retired
Dad
Best title held