If you're like me, you've been at home a lot more lately- and that means you have seen a lot of stuff drive by in the last month or two. What are some highlights? Here are mine:
-3000GT VR4, very loud, big turbo by the sound of it
-Powerstroke Van with side dump exhaust
-UPS truck with some sort of LS and what sounds like a chambered muffler
-C6 Corvette, unbelievably loud with an imitation C6R paint scheme
-Lotus Elan, red w/ yellow stripe
-A lot of tractors
-A lot of motorcycles
Tractors galore, a few compound turbo cummins, every style of hot rod you could ever want, depending on time of year 100s of mopars, mustangs ect. The perks of living by the track.
This month:
Vintage tractors
5 or so 30s era ford coupes that are hot rodded
some vintage mopars and mustangs
Turbo LS 240sx in Jewish racing gold
Street stock pulling truck
Fire trucks
5.0 mustang Police car
There are only four other houses on my street, so the choices are limited, but I do have a new neighbor...
The pediatrician across the street used to own a used orange Lamborghini Murcielago, but she got tired of being treated like a rock star everywhere she went, so she sold it. Her collection currently includes some kind of BMW coupe, an Audi, a BMW X5, a Mini Cooper and a Honda S2000. Everything else in and out of our neighborhood is pretty mundane.
In reply to Woody :
I say, that looks rather like a Gremlin!
My neighbor has GM muscle cars (mostly A-bodies), so I get to hear interesting stuff all the time. One of their buddies has a '69 Camaro with "very 80's" paint and graphics. Other than that, a lot of H-D's and a few fart-can exhausts. My "office" is in the back of my house, so I don't get to see much during the day other than guitars and amplifiers...
My road is pretty popular with the cruise crowd.
One of the coolest things to go by are the Slingshot owners club.
There's also Corvette clubs and Jeep clubs.
My neighbor owns a pretty absurd Fairlane that the State 5-0 occasionally pulls him over in.
One of the other neighbors has two 3000gt VR-4's.
Lots of pretty cool motorcycles.
One of the rednecks down the road was driving a trike with a dump bed fully loaded brush a day or two ago.
There's also a Yellow Lotus Esprit and metallic blue Lotus Elise I see about from time to time.
1966 BSA, 1979 Spit, 2000's Triumph sportbike, all the same old dude
there are other neat things tucked into garages but i never see them out
Our house is exactly in the middle of a loop. Pretty much nothing drives past my house expept the mail man and the garbage truck. Even my next door neighbors don't usually drive past my house.
I'm on a cul-de-sac, nothing really passes my house :(
Having nothing interesting go by is certainly preferable to the unmuffled jake brakes the trucks use past our house at 4 am.
Oh, yeah. Just remembered another guy in the neighborhood has a bright yellow '37 Chevy old school hot rod. Corvette bits underneath.
I pulled out of my house the other day in the Cayman and waited behind a Lotus Esprit at the stop light.
There's a dude that goes by my house on an old old old moped that he re-engined with a Harbor Freight Predator engine, and this thing keeps up with traffic going by my house. And I live on a 55mph road. Rain, snow, 20 degree cold, this guy goes by hunched over the handle bars, wearing an old-school metalflake open-face helmet, doing 55-60mph. I hear that thing rattling along in the distance and look for him. I love it. Its batE36 M3 insane.
This guy lives in my neighborhood - we're on a street that you don't get people driving on unless they live here, but we this guy when we're out walking the dog. His son has an NA Miata that looks awesome as well, although last I saw it had the engine out.
My neighborhood is parade of beat to crap lifted Xj's, big diesels with no mufflers screaming through 6" pipes, crackle tuned 15 year old WRX's and straight piped harleys.
A few blocks away is a dude who has a business specializing in vintage Datsun stuff but I have never seen one actually driving. Just sitting in his yard. He has had some sweet Datsun 1200s and 510s
Oh, also have a C7, BMW i8, a few Kia Sedona's, and a 60's Mopar in a garage with about 2 panels attached to it. No clue what is going on with that as they just moved in.
A guy across the street had a Sebring Healey in his garage, and now a 60's Mustang, but I've never actually seen them on the road.
Karacticus said:Having nothing interesting go by is certainly preferable to the unmuffled jake brakes the trucks use past our house at 4 am.
I have I-95 on one side (half mile or so away) and the NE Corridor rail line on the other (a few hundred yards), so I definitely understand where you're coming from. Although in my case it's usually sport bikes screaming up and down I-95 at 3AM.
I occasionally see interesting things tool by this house. Nothing specific springs to mind, but sometimes stuff that catches my eye or ear.
I will never top the summer before we moved here, probably 1990-91, right around the time we got married. We used to live on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake. One of our neighbors had a big house overlooking the Bay at the end of about half a mile of straight, dead-end road through farmland. We lived at about the midpoint in a farmhouse right near the road.
The neighbor had been collecting Italian exotics since the mid-'70s and had some really nice stuff. Mostly (but not all) Ferraris, with a few Maseratis thrown in.
That summer he hosted the East Coast FCA summer meet at his house. I got to see all kinds of new (for the time) and vintage Ferraris driving in that morning and out the next afternoon, and also got to see a lot of speed runs up and down that half-mile straight in between. Everything from an F40 on down.
It was a great weekend.
Someone up the street has a 2nd gen Viper convertible and has a friend with an R8 cab that visits him and they go out for a drive. Someone else has a big cam 70s Camaro, restored with a drag tire setup (same guy has 1/4 midgets that he drives around the block occasionally). Aside from that we have the most interesting cars in our neighborhood
1988RedT2 said:The pediatrician across the street used to own a used orange Lamborghini Murcielago, but she got tired of being treated like a rock star everywhere she went, so she sold it. Her collection currently includes some kind of BMW coupe, an Audi, a BMW X5, a Mini Cooper and a Honda S2000. Everything else in and out of our neighborhood is pretty mundane.
Is she married?
I live next to the freeway, so the highlight is the MotoGP heat every warm night at 10:30. Suzuki seems to lead the manufacturers' standings.
Apart from that, my road has the two best corners locally, so Miatas and Corvettes and BMWs come by pretty regularly.
Do trains count?
The only other stuff is a 30s Ford hot rod that comes out about once a month and a corvair occasionally. I've heard stories of other cool stuff like a pair of Shelby mustangs buried in a garage a few doors down but I've never seen them.
I’m in a small sub. My neighbors have the following:
1973 Corvette
1967 Corvette Convertible
1965 Mustang convertible
1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass
1966 Lincoln Continental
1980 Chevy C10
1974 Alfa Romeo small coupe
I'm 57 years old and I had a home office from 1999-2013. Every Friday I was in the office I would stop and watch the WM garbage/recycling/yard waste truck empty my bins. Three trucks a week.
Somehow I am fascinated by it.
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