Ted Lytle, who in July celebrated three years as owner of the Performance Garage Club, explains, “There’s two parts to the Performance Garage Club. There's vehicle storage and there's the club portion. The club is for car enthusiasts and you can have your car stored and not be a member of the club or you can be a member of the club without storage. I have a lot of members of the club who do not store vehicles.”
Benefits of being a club member include the two lounges—one downstairs with a coffee bar and snacks and a larger lounge upstairs with a big screen TV and a sound system. Members can relax, and watch a movie or play a DVD. There is a shop. The shop has 7,000 pound auto lift, rotary car lift, and a 1,000 pound motorcycle lift and a detail bank. Ted says, “ All the hand tools, air tools, and power tools are supplied by the club. They're all included. So all you need to do is if you want to work on your car is bring the car and any parts you might need.”
The club has events for the members. They go on trips to car shows, wineries, car museums and take club drives and have barbeques and other get togethers. Ted says, “It’s a club for enthusiasts. You don’t have to have any particular kind of car to be a member. It’s a place for car enthusiasts to gather and get together. It's mostly auto centric, but I am trying to build the motorcycle aspect as well.”
The garage is a place to store cars and keep them safe and accessible. People from New York, Philadelphia and the local area make use of the garage. He explains, “Someone in New York may own a classic car and have and they're paying exorbitant storage for it if they don't have their own garage, and they don't want to put it in a public parking garage so what I'm doing is offering storage to those people so they can store their car here at a much lower rate.”
On the second Sunday of every month Performance Garage Club has Cars and Coffee events and it is open to the public. It is a time to get car enthusiasts together to have a cup of coffee, group tours and videos.
Performance Car Garage is located at 843 NJ-12, Frenchtown, NJ. To contact Performance Garage Club, call 908-788-4743. For more information, visit www.performancegarageclub.com.