The little Lego garage

 
Starting in the early 1960s the little Lego passenger cars were sold in a special pack consisting of a transparent plastic garage with a paper wrapper around it, as opposed to the little cardboard boxes that continued to be used for the trucks and VW buses. 

By this time the range of passenger cars consisted of seven models, with two more (E-Type and Victor Estate) for the UK and Australia. Initially the early Taunus De Luxe was still in the range, soon to be replaced with the later Taunus 17M. The image above is from a UK folder from early 1965 and still shows the De Luxe while Continental folders already showed the 17M by this time. The range of passenger cars would next be extended by the Citroën, Fiat and Morris models, but by 1968 these separately packed cars had disappeared from the Lego catalogue as larger vehicles made of bricks replaced them.

The garages themselves have a base and opening door in grey plastic. Usually the pale grey shown in my photographs, but also (I think two shades of) a much darker grey. I've incorporated them in a couple of buildings, but also have the two blocks shown here which I find useful in their own right. A little folder that came with each garage suggested they could also be used as display windows, and I have a pair of garages that lost their doors that I intend to use for that.