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What do your neighbors think?

Started by Piston_Freddy, December 13, 2010, 07:41:50 PM

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Piston_Freddy

Got the idea from THE H.A.M.B. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=122681

My neighbors probably hate me and don't "get it" .One neighbor asked me what I'm doing with that "thing" when I bought my Charger.  :slap:
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Cooter

Well, my neighbors that USED to live next door was the type that the Guy "Robby" was cool, but his 'ol Lady was a BEEYOTCH about anything that made noise...I mean, I couldn't even fire up the General even with mufflers on it, without her telling the entire neighborhood how "loud" my junk was....Thank Goodness, they moved....As for the rest? well, one likes to do burnouts in the street in front of his house with any old junk he happens upon because I live next door, the other, has farm equpiment that makes all kinds a racket, and the other side have block parties till 2:00 AM with thump,thump,thump music Almost EVERY weekend...
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bull

Sometimes the complaints are legit, sometimes not. There's a big difference between rolling your Charger out once a week to fire it up and parking it on the front lawn on blocks next to the couch and mini fridge. If you keep your area somewhat tidy most of the time no one is probably going to bitch when you make some noise or work on a project.

Right now I've got a 35-foot motorhome that's been sitting across the street from my house for the past week. That ain't going to fly much longer.

Wicked72

Well I was worried about my neighbors. I got one of the HOA members across the street, then the prez of the HOA two doors down. They honestly love the car and cant wait to see when its done. Every time Im out making noise they come over and check out the slow slow progress then tell me about their cars from back in the day and pound down a couple beers. The neighbor to the left is scared of his own shadow but they think its cool since they have never seen anything like it before, but his wife and kids love it the most....sad. The one on the right he comes to check it out and doesnt mind one bit. Thank GOD!! I have never lived in a community before, I am used to tons of land and no one to bother or bother me.
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Khyron

the old man next door hates the Charger....unfortunately my driveway to my garage out back is right between our houses, I get the "when are you going to put mufflers on that junk" all the time from him, he doesn't like the flowmaster 40's with the turn downs ;-)

He likes the mustang because it's quite, and just shook his head when the 36 came home.... but, I never make noise past 9:00... I never keep the Charger idling or revving, nor do I burn out anywhere near my street... most of the neighborhood loves the Charger.. others just think it's "old loud junk" LOL


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FLG

I have fights with the old grouch next door constantly, he's a old italian man that is a pos in my book....he wasn't complaining years ago when he nearly cut his hand off with a chain saw and my mom made sure he was ok and they were able to fix it all up.

No one else on the block complains (remeber guys this is brooklyn, there no space between me and the njext guy). I don't make a lot of racket and when I come home late I don't idle or revv it, granted 12pm on a Saturday you might catch me wrenching or making some noise but again everyone likes me and no one complains, exept the old man of course...called the cops plenty. They come in and they pretend to talk to me, all they do is bs about the car lol! Matter a fact one of em used to own a 73 charger.

Old Greg

Everyone just asks me if i want to sell my car. They don't complain about the noise yet.

Charger RT

here its not as much your neighbors as it is the stupid laws and a car needs a tag if its on your property. I had one lady across the street that hated me and my wife and would call code enforcement on my wife for her cats code says she can have 4 she has 18 around the house and for my untagged cars. I found giving her the bird everytime she would leave pissed her off more then she pissed me off. She is now gone since she had her husband locked up and the house was repoed.

The guy down the street is pretty cool. I had my 15 year old son out driving the charger before he turned 16 and he saw us and waited by the edge of the road and yelled is that Richard Petty driving?

But for the most part I could care less what anyone thinks.
Tim

terrible one

I live in a duplex so it is a blessing that the guy sharing it with me doesn't seem to mind. It's mostly the noise factor I'm worried about though. My neighbors to one side I've never met and to the other side is another duplex and both residents there I am friends with and they congratulated me on the first start.

The neighbors across the street though, are some that I can definitely say aren't down. All I've gotten is cold stares from them since I moved here and now that the car is running, I know it's worse. When I was circling the neighborhood for the first time and squealed the tires I saw the woman grumble and shake her head to the husband. Ah well. They are always yelling and shit anyways.

One surprise when I looped around and checked my mail the other day was this older dude that came out to check the car out and shoot the shit. He knew it was a 68, said he loved the vintage mags, etc. Etc. So that was cool.

All in all I'd say my neighborhood tolerates me for the most part. I could have neighbors that were a lot less accepting so I think I lucked out.

greenpigs

I keep the noise and speed low, too many kids around. The wife said EVERY guy that was outside stoped to watch us drive by when we all went for a ride around the neighborhood a few months ago. :yesnod:
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Neighbors - What are those?  :2thumbs: Ok, I do have them. I just can't see any from my house anymore.. the house across the street got torn down to make way for my "neighbors" horses.  :shruggy:
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The70RT

Touchy subject for me - I don't care what they think, been there done that for years. I have out stayed most of my current neighbors. When someone is looking to buy or move in next door I make sure they know that I am always working on something outside and make plenty of noise. I had one guy complain because I was making noise building my garage, people are not gonna dictate whatever the hell I'm doing. I have made some move but I am within the law and if they don't like it that's too bad. I have been turned in many time and they cant do anything about it! In the last 15 years There has been at least 5-6 different owners on either side of me and they all end up moving sooner or later....sawey  :'(
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elacruze

My only real PITA neighbor across the street died, and his PITA girlfriend moved to KY. My next-door A** neighbor is bi-polar I think, has yelled at everybody in the area at one time or another. He's aware that if that happens again he'll be injured, and been quiet since I came home. Otherwise, I live in a quiet old neighborhood subdivision where boats and motorhomes in yards are allowed, and everbody has something that makes noise-Harleys, Cars, Boats. Nobody gets crazy and nobody says doody about much.  :2thumbs:
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SFRT

I live in a weird area thats a mix of old chinese people, up and coming yuppie couples and a bunch of well off russian immigrants...

the old chinese ladies will just goggle at my stuff then cross the street....the yuppies...well the husbands try to bro it up, then the wife appears and gives them 'the look' and they slink off to their sensible volvo wagon or whatever. The Russians dig the car.

I got one cranky old retired non bathing weirdo next door always pulls a face out his window when I fire a vehicle up, so I just torture that dude. I am friends with the locsal head police sgt guy, real cool guy, irish guy,gearhead guy he has a nice convertible firebird, so me and a couple of other dudes in the nieghborhood wot have cars have basically a 'free pass' from the cops as far as noise and goofing around etc.



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71green go

I recently moved to an older area of town......my old place was mainly yuppies that didnt understand working on old stuff.......they used to come over and stare....never complained but never understood my passion...they would get into their BMW's or Porche and drive off.....but they were super cool about it..

My new place has a 3 car detached garage.......I insulated it with noise and sound insulation which cuts out allot of noise......I keep the doors closed while grinding and banging.......no complaints at all

Anything i keep in my very long driveway is kept under tarps......

I think the key is to respect your neighbors, keep your place clean. mowed and try to keep noise levels down at night .....then what do they have to complain about?


Back N Black

I live on a court and have good neighbour's , the guy to my left is a chopper pilot and loves the charger. Every time his friends or family come to visit he always brings them over to look at the charger. The neighbour directly across from me   owns a car dealership and appreciates old cars and his son is 12 years old and a big DOH fan, so he is at the garage all the time. The other two neighbours appreciate the time and effort i put into it and they don't mind the Charger being worked on or fired up. They all drop by for a beer and shoot the shi#.

THE STIG

I've got a bunch of gearheads in the neighborhood but the ones who know what I have still don't like it much. My addition is about 2 square miles and there are about 8 Mustangs, 3 on my street alone. Last spring the guy at the end of the street was working on an engine block I pulled up in my F150 and asked if it was a 302 and we started to BS when I told him I got a 70 Charger w/ a 440 he shook his head and said he had to get back to work, and I laughed. When ever I drive by his house I rattle my pipes when I pass his house, can't wait for my 3" exhaust!!! My neighbor across the street is a cop when I first brought the car home he was cutting his grass and looked over at the car. I got the vibes that he hated it if nothing else just because he's a cop and it's a 70 Charger.

twodko

We live in a semi-rural area in a small agri town in NorCal. Used to be nothing but apple growers and poultry ranchers here and its still old school in many ways. Lots of gearheads around and many barns that house treasures for sure. We have a Foster's Freeze here which sponsors monthly cruise-ins as well as car washes that are always well attended. Unfortunately there has been an ever increasing influx of Berkeley types bringing their 'tude with them. These aberrations of the gene pool don't like anything unless it falls within their own hypocritical ideas of how Berkeley-like it should be here. Yeah, these are the ones who insist that wearing tinfoil hats will protect them from the scourge of RF etc. Its open season on 'em and their Volvo's/Pious-es!  
One neighbor across the road is a great guy and loves old iron. We're both woodworkers and make a lot 'o racket anyway. An ancient woman lives next door and she's never said anything.........Polly can't hear much. Other neighbor next door lives on 5 acres so there's no issue. Other neighbor cross the road just moved here. They've got 2 acres that was a gorgeous woodlot before with all the wildlife you'd expect therein. They clearcut the property and put up a monster house far different than the modest ranch homes already here. Needless to say no one gives a rats ass what they might think. I would never think of lighting 'em up driving by their abortion property....oh no. :poke: Haven't done it but the temptation is strong.

I like they way 71Green go said it and treat folks the same.

"I think the key is to respect your neighbors, keep your place clean. mowed and try to keep noise levels down at night .....then what do they have to complain about"  :Twocents:
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One next door neighbor is 80+ and near deaf, he doesn't care what I do. The other next door neighbor makes more noise than I do with their barking dog, screaming rugrats and Harley. Across the street is too far away to matter.
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derailed

Dont really know as I never really took the time to care enough.

The70RT

I respect my neighbors but if you work on your cars most everyday like I do their not gonna like it. No one likes to sit on their back deck and hear air tools.....but quiet hour around here is 11 PM. If it in nice outside my doors gonna be open...sorry. I work during the day so I work in mine at night and if it's after 11 I'm quiet. I was turned in to the city for working on cars. They said it look like I had a shop back there and I told them yeah I restore old cars. She say so these are all yours and I said yeah so what's the problem? She said I guess nothing and left.....that was 2 years ago. Just because my neighbor mowed his yard today doesn't mean I'm going to.  :-\
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mopar0166

mine are great most are cops and love the charger.  They get mad sometimes if they dont hear it start up on a nice saturady night but i have one that gives me the stare everytime i drive back.  he is just a dreamer and not a do type of person

mauve66

Quote from: terrible one on December 13, 2010, 10:44:25 PM
I live in a duplex so it is a blessing that the guy sharing it with me doesn't seem to mind. It's mostly the noise factor I'm worried about though. My neighbors to one side I've never met and to the other side is another duplex and both residents there I am friends with and they congratulated me on the first start.

The neighbors across the street though, are some that I can definitely say aren't down. All I've gotten is cold stares from them since I moved here and now that the car is running, I know it's worse. When I was circling the neighborhood for the first time and squealed the tires I saw the woman grumble and shake her head to the husband. Ah well. They are always yelling and shit anyways.

One surprise when I looped around and checked my mail the other day was this older dude that came out to check the car out and shoot the shit. He knew it was a 68, said he loved the vintage mags, etc. Etc. So that was cool.

All in all I'd say my neighborhood tolerates me for the most part. I could have neighbors that were a lot less accepting so I think I lucked out.


i was wondering about the people across the street when you did your first drive, you can see someone in the driveway when you peeled out................. :2thumbs:
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mauve66

i thought everyone here was cool, about 6-8 neighbors came by in the month of Oct to check out my progress, all of them stayed and shot the breeze, then 2 wks later i get a complaint form the HOA so i know one of them turned me in (never work before 7am or after 6pm) so everything is on hold until i can get a house again................. renting sucks, you have no rights and you can't fight back
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The70RT

Quote from: mauve66 on December 15, 2010, 10:03:05 AM
i thought everyone here was cool, about 6-8 neighbors came by in the month of Oct to check out my progress, all of them stayed and shot the breeze, then 2 wks later i get a complaint form the HOA so i know one of them turned me in (never work before 7am or after 6pm) so everything is on hold until i can get a house again................. renting sucks, you have no rights and you can't fight back

That's too bad, I know what you mean. I have neighbors come over to borrow tools or want something done for free and I have done it then they turn you in :rotz: I had one neighbor lady tell another neighbor that I was probably a drug dealer since there are a bunch of cars at my house all the time. Then she commented back and said say what?....those are all his cars  ::) So yeah kissing your neighbors ass don't always work. The lady that told me what the other said, her husband used to be a car dealer till he passed so she understands my passion for cars.
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Old Moparz

The nice thing about where I am, is that even though I am still close to many conveniences, the street I am on is almost like being in a semi-secluded, location. It's a dead end street with only 13 houses, including my own. It extends into a large wooded area & my house is the very last one, so I only have one "next door" neighbor who is still about 200 feet away. My next door neighbors like old cars so there has never been a problem. The husband has a 2010 Ram pick up & used to have an Olds 442 many years ago, his wife has a Sebring convertible, loves Mopars, & their 14 year old son isn't interested in cars & could care less.

The rest of the families on my street are all decent people. There are a lot of kids here now all between the ages of 2 & 14. One guy had a '63 Impala for a while, & another has a 66 under a cover. I've been here since 1989 & can only remember one guy, who has since moved away, that would be the type to complain. I'm sure the days I fire up something with the open headers I have a few people wondering what's going on, but it shouldn't bug anyone doing it on a Saturday afternoon. You can't see my house from the rest of the houses so the distance is a factor. I also don't have my yard decorated with abandoned or broken down vehicles because I don't want to see it.

I don't make a lot of noise or race up & down the street even though it's actually about 1320 feet long & very tempting.  :D

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nvrbdn

alot of my neighbors have projects also. or just stop by to ask for advise about their vehicles. since they have seen my cars out, when one of the hotrods cruises by they have to rattle the pipes to let me know they are out. i love it. :yesnod:
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hemi68charger

I would say the youngsters think my car is cool. Some of the older men like it and most, most of the neighborhood, don't have a clue what the Daytona is. We have a lot of 1st generation Indian families on my street and, as previously mentioned, don't have any idea what that "winged car" is all about. I'm usually the one complaining about the cars hauling arse down the street and/or the barking dogs at all hours of the night. Luckily, in this new neighborhood/subdivision I live in, there's not a single unruly dog, but the speedy cars are numerous. I have no problem, if I see them coming down the street, getting out in front of them and letting them know they need to slow it down. Typically, they are teenage-friends of teenage residents. All fine and dandy, they usually heed my warnings..  :icon_smile_big:  Like so many teenagers, they don't like getting embarrassed.. I'm definitely the only classic car owner in this 110 home subdivision and the only one with a 4-car garage and portacache. Everyone calls it the garage-mahal.......

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jb666

Every single neighbor around me is Chinese. NONE of them speak a word of English... One time my wife was outside when I left in the General.. she heard one of them yell to the other "Genwaw Gow!". So now we refer to my car as the General Gow...  :lol:

My car's louder than sin.. I actually feel BAD when I have to leave with the car on a quiet Sunday morning at 7AM, so I do my best to respect them and leave as quickly as possible...


HOTROD

My neighbors think I`m an asshole just because me and my wife argued this year with the windows open ,before that no one ever said any thing about me working on my cars to date ! There all a bunch of analasses that care more about there lawn .- no one works on there cars but me , I heard from friends of ours three blocks over ( do u no that guy he's a biker ) I said what -- because I wear a due rag when I'm working on my cars -its funny I love it !!
They would rather call the police on me for my dogs barking !!
What the Hell-Dumass !

doctor4766

I'm sure my neighbors think I won the lottery or something when I first brought home the Charger.
My car never graced the bricks on my driveway once until it was complete and licensed. Prior to that it lived at my workshop and no one in my street had any idea that I even had it.
Just as well really cos they prolly would have called the council if I'd had it out front in it's original state.

I'm sure it pisses them off on those Sunday mornings when I have the car at home and start her up ready for an early cruise day, but hey... ya get that
Gotta love a '69

mauve66

Quote from: hemi68charger on December 15, 2010, 02:00:03 PM
I would say the youngsters think my car is cool. Some of the older men like it and most, most of the neighborhood, don't have a clue what the Daytona is. We have a lot of 1st generation Indian families on my street and, as previously mentioned, don't have any idea what that "winged car" is all about. I'm usually the one complaining about the cars hauling arse down the street and/or the barking dogs at all hours of the night. Luckily, in this new neighborhood/subdivision I live in, there's not a single unruly dog, but the speedy cars are numerous. I have no problem, if I see them coming down the street, getting out in front of them and letting them know they need to slow it down. Typically, they are teenage-friends of teenage residents. All fine and dandy, they usually heed my warnings..  :icon_smile_big:  Like so many teenagers, they don't like getting embarrassed.. I'm definitely the only classic car owner in this 110 home subdivision and the only one with a 4-car garage and portacache. Everyone calls it the garage-mahal.......

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hey man, tell that camera man to stay focused on the car, we don't want to see your ugly mug........................ :2thumbs:
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alignment

chargd72

I'll let you guys know what mine think after I break in my engine with open headers soon    :D

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Quote from: chargd72 on December 16, 2010, 10:14:18 AM
I'll let you guys know what mine think after I break in my engine with open headers soon    :D


yeah baby uncorked headers  :yesnod: :dance: :dance:  finest sound  in the world  :yesnod:
:drool5: :coolgleamA: :2thumbs:


some in  my street have said in the past , things  along the lines of gasguzzler ,  killing the planet ,  why did you not get a new car or newer car !! that one was  when i first  got it !!  , also , are you going to paint it orange !!  , not so bad with noise now just as long as idle it / just off idle  , till on main road !!   :D  but when i first got it it had straight through /glass packs ,  :D
had to choose the right time to do timing , cam break ins & stuff like that  :yesnod: , or ever just firing it up !! ,  main thing every one in a half mile radius wanted to know what the noise was  :lol:
Feel free to post any relevant picture you think we all might like to see in the threads below!

Charger Stuff 
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C500 & Daytonas & Superbirds
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Interesting pictures & Stuff 
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71ChallengeHer

The old lady downstairs hates the Challenger. She'll fly out her door when I start it up or come home.  ::) My other neighbors think it's funny when I start it up. Since it annoys the nosey old lady.  :D  The Rod's Shop is right behind my house. Rod had the 440 Rat Rod out one Sunday. He backed it up in the garage . And started frying em on the cement pad.  I was sitting outside laughing. I got blamed for.  :shruggy:  :smilielol: :smilielol:

Ghoste

Most of my neighbors are pretty cool about it.  The guy next to me has a 34 Model A and the one next to him thinks I have the coolest garage in the world.  Across the street is a Harley and beside him is a guy who owns an autobody supply business (his father has a 70 Chevelle SS and a 55 Chevy).  On the other side of me is a guy with a couple of Porsche's so I have a few car guys around.

chargermike

i keep my charger in a airplane hanger with my drums and guitar amps. i can make as much noise as i want. no one to complain cause airplanes are louder than i could ever get. plus nice to be next to the plane fuel.  but everyone around stops and has to check out my charger.  most have never seen one up close. plus a nice place for my mopar friends to come and park and hang out and bbq and play some music. ... life is good.  bad ass mopars good food and live music.   sucks to have crappy neighbors. oh well they will get over it.  LET THAT MOPAR ROAR..........

ACUDANUT

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68blue

I lived in the burbs when I started the charger project but now I live in the woods about as close to the frontier as you can get in Indiana. The HOA where I lived before has rules about stuff in the driveway but it was not a problem as I kept it in the garage. The problem started while my new house started construction and I put the old house on the market as the real estate people had fits over the "junk" car in the garage. They had problems with other aspects of my decore, animal heads, dated furniture, etc., but I put that stuff in storage pending completion of the new place. I was surprised at the issues they had with the car, covered up and in the garage so I finally had to move it from place to place. It's great to have car friends. 

68X426

Man I am the luckiest Mopar guy, 'cause I'm on 5 acres and the only two neighbors are super nice (and over 70!).

One still races motorcycles and the other loves to hear my Road Runner with open headers. So life is great in the 'hood. This topic reminds why I live away from cities and burbs.

Now about the wife and the smells of a vintage Mopar ....... :'(


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bill440rt

Years ago when I was still living at home, I hated the neighbors there. Couldn't fart without causing a commotion. They once called the cops on me because I was spray painting in my backyard. With a rattle can. Yep, SPRAY PAINTING.  :flame: :flame:

Now, I couldn't be happier with my neighbors. I knew it was the right neighborhood when I saw some older cars around the area outside, & driveways with newer musclecars. The house across from me had a tubbed '69 Firebird on a trailer, so that sealed the deal. Made great friends with them, turns out their son is now one of the track announcers here at Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ. We've helped each other out with many projects. His mom always loves it when I start the cars. No complaints.
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The70RT

Quote from: bill440rt on December 17, 2010, 10:14:00 PM
Years ago when I was still living at home, I hated the neighbors there. Couldn't fart without causing a commotion. They once called the cops on me because I was spray painting in my backyard. With a rattle can. Yep, SPRAY PAINTING.  :flame: :flame:

Now, I couldn't be happier with my neighbors. I knew it was the right neighborhood when I saw some older cars around the area outside, & driveways with newer musclecars. The house across from me had a tubbed '69 Firebird on a trailer, so that sealed the deal. Made great friends with them, turns out their son is now one of the track announcers here at Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ. We've helped each other out with many projects. His mom always loves it when I start the cars. No complaints.


Now that's what Im talking about. Now you don't have to weed eat because your neighbor did  ::)
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Sublime/Sixpack

What do your neighbors think?
To the best of my knowledge they value me as a neighbor, because even though I'm a car and motorcycle enthusiast I keep the noise down, keep my home and yard looking as nice as anyone elses, and I love the little kids too much to ever speed through the area. Some of you guys probably think that sounds pretty square, but I've lived around low life neighbors in the past, and I genuinely value my current neighbors. It's a mutual respect thing.
Once I exit the neighborhood and get onto the highway then I open the throttle up and enjoy.
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Quote from: hemi68charger on December 15, 2010, 02:00:03 PM
I would say the youngsters think my car is cool. Some of the older men like it and most, most of the neighborhood, don't have a clue what the Daytona is. We have a lot of 1st generation Indian families on my street and, as previously mentioned, don't have any idea what that "winged car" is all about. I'm usually the one complaining about the cars hauling arse down the street and/or the barking dogs at all hours of the night. Luckily, in this new neighborhood/subdivision I live in, there's not a single unruly dog, but the speedy cars are numerous. I have no problem, if I see them coming down the street, getting out in front of them and letting them know they need to slow it down. Typically, they are teenage-friends of teenage residents. All fine and dandy, they usually heed my warnings..  :icon_smile_big:  Like so many teenagers, they don't like getting embarrassed.. I'm definitely the only classic car owner in this 110 home subdivision and the only one with a 4-car garage and portacache. Everyone calls it the garage-mahal.......

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You let somone else drive your Daytona?

moparsons

I have pretty cool neighbors......one gave me shit cause my new challenger is too quiet. said it needs to sound more like my Dart (straight 3 inch with glass packs)  :rofl:

myk

I dunno, I guess they're o.k. with it.  But really, who the hell cares what they think?

BigBlockSam

well, i live in the inner city . one mile from Manhattan . i have over 100 apt's for neighbors . nobody says anything to me when i start all 5 cars once a week and run them for 15 minutes . but the city is so loud,  that to survive you have to be tolerant  :cheers:
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Quote from: chargermike on December 16, 2010, 06:07:18 PM
i keep my charger in a airplane hanger with my drums and guitar amps. i can make as much noise as i want. no one to complain cause airplanes are louder than i could ever get. plus nice to be next to the plane fuel.  but everyone around stops and has to check out my charger.  most have never seen one up close. plus a nice place for my mopar friends to come and park and hang out and bbq and play some music. ... life is good.  bad ass mopars good food and live music.   sucks to have crappy neighbors. oh well they will get over it.  LET THAT MOPAR ROAR..........
Hey! I used to keep mine in a hangar too:


Troy
Sarcasm detector, that's a real good invention.

clanton

.....Nice challenger!!!!......What year is that?......(car alarms)......(dogs barking)...... :2thumbs:
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Quote.....Nice challenger!!!!......What year is that?......(car alarms)......(dogs barking).....

yep definately car alarms but it gets to the point that i don't hear them no more .

that's a 73 challenger . very rust free body . that's getting the motor out of my daytona and i'm building a 440 sixpack motor for the dayona  :cheers:
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440

My neighbors used to look down on me also. They always complained I had too many cars. I don't blame them for some things as I used to start work at 6:00, so 5:30 I'd jump in my built 400CI truck with nothing other then Moroso mufflers and head off to work. I sold an 85 T-bird because of them which I now regret selling.

My neighbor (a car guy) said every morning he had to pull his wife off the ceiling....

It was a pretty yuppie area so......  :lol:

chargen86

I wish more people in Australia loved cars as much as I do.  spend pretty much all my time with cars when Im not working and even though my cars are first priority even above myself, I get really lonely. Ive pretty much woken up one morning and realised that Im a single guy in his twenties who will never find a girl who loves cars too. They are all butch the ones who do, just sad thats all. Even with my friends I have to pretend that I like them more than I actually do coz the truth of the matter is they dont get cars so they dont get me. I just wish I could fly to America to meet some of the forum members then maybe life would be more fun for me  :'(

440

You'd be surprised how many Aussies there are here....

RallyeMike

I have great neighbors, but that's also because I try and be respectful by keeping the noise under control - not too too early, too late, or too often.

We have pretty good lots sizes at the homestead (6/10 acre) which helps some. This week my one neighbor asked me if I had a business working on classic cars. I have bought and sold 5 or 6 cars this last year or so, so I guess too much change and too many Mopar visitors I guess    :lol:
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