"The Garage" was an Official Selection to 87 Film Festivals, where it received more than fifty Awards and Nominations.
This movie was inspired and created by Writer and Director Carl Thibault's own experience of working at his dad's garage (B&B Transmisions) while growing up in Massachusetts during the late 1970s.
The character "Schultz" was based on Carl's childhood friend, who was nicknamed "Schultz" from the television series Hogan's Heroes (1965).
When "Matt" holds up a photo, near the end of the film, it is an actual photo of the three boys, on whom the film is based, taken from the early 1970s.
Photos on the wall in the opening scene were all personal photos of Carl Thibault. The last photo, at which "adult Matt" looks (a tow truck), was Carl's dad's truck, taken in front of the actual garage in 1977. The other truck in the photo (up on jack stands and truck bed missing) was the truck, in which Carl and his younger brother were almost killed, after taking out a telephone pole one late summer night.