This $8 Million Texas Ranch Is Every Car Enthusiast’s Wildest Dream Come True

This is a home of the “you’ve just died and gone to car heaven”-type. It’s a sprawling and incredibly striking ranch in Texas, just outside of Dallas and Fort Worth, currently on the market for $8 million, give or take a few cents.

Dubbed “the ultimate dream car garage” and a regular “car haven,” the property at Chaparral Lane in Roanoke, Texas, is the equivalent of real estate insanity, but in the best way possible. Built in 2014 and covering a total of 435,600 square feet (40,468 square meters), the property includes the ranch itself (which has a living surface 7,419 square feet/689 square meters) and annexes. These include a pool with poolhouse, an “oversize” lot that serves as parking space, and a 10-slot garage with an auto repair shop.

We’ve covered mansions with extensive auto galleries or auto art before, but this ranch is a first – not in that it’s the most expensive (it’s not) or has the biggest surface (it doesn’t), but in the fact that it’s so clearly a labor of love. Whoever built this has a passion for cars and this is obvious from the two annexes that double as impressive “man caves,” but also from the astounding collection of automotive memorabilia and auto art.

Another thing this ranch stands out for is the fact that the seller is so confident it will appeal to a like-minded millionaire like himself and sell, despite the high $8 million price tag, that not one of the three listings we found includes any photo of the actual house. You can see the pics in the gallery above, but the video at the bottom of the page probably does the estate more justice.

First things first. The ranch is a two-story building with two master bedrooms with ensuites, and nine other rooms, including two different media rooms. There’s also an entertaining house (with built-in wine cooler!) that can accommodate parties of up to 60 people or provide long-term accommodation for friends or family. In total, the estate has five bedrooms, with five full baths and two half-bathrooms. The tiered pool comes with its own poolhouse with kitchenette and wet bar, so you can fully entertain guests outside. A private gun range is also available.

And this brings us to the most important part. The garage is actually three full custom garages in one, housing everything from two car lifts, boardroom, lounge, bar, full-size paint application booth, a tire changer, and a legit auto repair center. If the ten spaces inside the garage are not enough for your car collection, there’s also the adjoining lot that can be styled into a secondary garage.

Further proving that this isn’t just a massive estate fashioned to include an oversize garage is the amount of auto artwork scattered throughout. Not one of the listings goes into specifics, but photos do speak louder than words if you’re into cliches.

Both outside and indoors, there’s a most eclectic mix of auto art. A dismembered Chevrolet truck sits inside the media room in the auto repair shop as a repurposed bar. Also there, an old gas pump is restyled as a fridge for soda drinks, while more, rustier pumps are used as outdoor decorations. Rusty and stylishly wrecked classics are scattered throughout the property – like an old Ford whose engine bay was repurposed as a huge pot plant, as highlighted by one particular photo. The ceiling in one kitchen, which could be inside the entertaining house, is lined with old license plates, while elsewhere, pieces of cars were used to make furniture: side mirrors on a sink, wheel caps on chairs, a metal steering wheel as part of a table centerpiece.

Looking at the art alone could be enough entertainment for the future owner for at least a couple of months.

Again, mansions with large auto galleries are not uncommon. But a piece of real estate that’s so delightfully insane as this Texas ranch is rare.