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12 | July/August 2016 GARAGES ARE FOR WHAT? Cleaning supplies? Hammers? Lawn chairs? Lawnmowers? Weed whackers? ey may be clean or messy or organized or locked or coded or where you hide an extra house key. ey hold our quiet histories, our hobbies, our fixer-upper moments, ex- tra screws to who-knows-whats and boxes of holiday decorations. ey also hold the car. Maybe it's a car—or the car—or her car or his car. Cars that belong to not only people, but the histories of people. Of lives lived, of lives being lived. Comings and goings and reunions. Cars with memories and stories and historic time-stamped moments. Diehl Jones, a real estate appraiser in Fayetteville, points across his garage. "I've got every cleaning product known to man over there." But that's not the true soul of his garage. Instead, what he's pointing across is five cars that have been tetris-fitted into his three-bay garage that he and his wife Pat built six years ago. e garage they built because keeping their acquired collection of cars outside grew to be "a little chancey." e garage that he says is finished nicer than his first home. Housed in the garage is a Rosso Dino Ferrari, a silver Mustang, a "pimento-red" Chrysler, a green MG and a yellow BMW Isetta. "We had to figure out how to squeeze them all in," he said. Each of these cars has a story. Diehl is a member of the Antique Auto Club of America. Over the years, he has had four cars in the Concours d'Elegance in Pinehurst. His cars have won awards at e Dogwood Festival. But it's not about that. It's clear as Diehl walks me through his garage, car by car, that these cars are linked to his life through stories. rough the way the car was acquired, the miles on the car that belong to him and the miles that belonged to someone else. e whole way around the track, even to the memorabilia hanging up on the walls. DIEHL JONES Local car enthusiasts share their stories The soul of a man may be found IN HIS CAR living BY ERIN PESUT PHOTOGRAPHY BY MATTHEW WONDERLY

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