Neighbor across the street has an LS powered FD RX7, actually spoke to him for the first time at an autocross. "hey, does *streetname* mean anything to you?" "Yeah?" "I'm your new neighbor across the street!"
We occasionally help each other out with automotive conundrums.
He let me drive it at an autocross after the Fmod broke. Fun car, like a mustang that actually has good suspension.
Not the douche in the brodozer that is tuned to constantly be in spool.
Guys down the road who berkeley around with diesels recently had a 50s chevy pickup with a duramax shoved under it going by the sound.
Only a tubbed small block powered S10 that my neighbor owns lately.
The absolute coolest thing to ever come by my old shop in Toledo were M1A1 Abrams tanks. They would come out of the Lima plant where they are built and be taken up to the Detroit area to have the power plants installed I think. They had there own train, 4 or 5 cars max. Northbound the turrets were off of them, a week or so later the came back by heading South as complete tanks. The caboose was a tower with a couple guys carrying M16's
Nothing cool at the "old" house. The new place I've seen an old Belair drive by a few times while moving already.
Back in Cali though, at the Lincoln house out in the rice fields, every August a parade of 1910s-1930s cars would drive by on their way to somewhere. A lot of them were driving projects, which I thought made it cooler that they weren't all restored garage queens.
Nothing neat in my neighborhood. A crx blasts by sometimes. My parent's neighborhood is full of neat cars though
hobiercr (FS) said:Not the douche in the brodozer that is tuned to constantly be in spool.
That guy lives on my street too :(
berkeleying obnoxious.
Does hot rod power tour count the one year it literally passed by my house?
In reply to Ranger50 :
They will be driving by my house this year.
I didn’t have a camera handy but a deviation from the parade of soccer mom’s driving their black Range Rovers past my house was a daring, brave, & provocative soccer mom driving a metallic blue Range Rover past my house few weeks ago. I haven’t seen her since; hope she’s alright.
During the October 2018 fires in Southern California, I saw tons of awesome stuff being carted out on flat beds (Mercedes Gull Wing, 80’s turbo Porsche 911, concourse ready Lotus Europa, etc.).
The reality is that where I live has mostly new money (i.e., they’re rich enough to have amazing cars but they’re working so hard that they don’t have time to show off their treasures, they just sit hidden in garages while their owners work).
Old English White MGA.
My first house was cooler. Guy across the street owned two mint Buick GSX's and the guy next door had a Sunbeam Tiger.
My buddy is kind enough to buzz my house a couple times a day in either his new nsx or his evora, both modded and delicious sounding. My other friend has a 928 with headers and an exhaust. They all beat on it for me every time. Good peeps.
My neighbor builds a lot of turbo Hondas so there's always something around making tractor and VTEC noises. There's a Procharged V6 S550 Mustang down the block, a crackle tuned BMW 135i and a rowdy RS3 that makes the rounds.
We live on a pretty busy street close a couple tuning shops so lots of tuned diesel trucks, Hellcats, Corvettes and some LS Swapped old trucks.
Nothing! I live on an all weather road = a dirt road. Lots of pick ups, SUVs, rarely a tractor, every once in a great while a motor grader. Lots of four wheelers and an occasional golf cart. And, my 250.
There was a R32 GTR street parked below my place. See some ferrari cruising to the country club next door. Glad the covid shutdown is easing so there are no longer packs of sportsbikes using the roads as their personal GP tracks. Oh and construction too so they won't want to anyways.
5 firetrucks right in front of my house. House a block away got hit by lightning. Guy who lives there is a firefighter 2 weeks away from retirement.
A couple of the guys up the street have some interesting Hondas.
One has a caged and stripped turboed CRX that's being set up for Street/drag racing. I keep trying to get him to come to an autocross.
His roommate just bought a really cool, old Civic wagon.
We don't get a lot of traffic.
There is a red 1966 Mustang two doors down from me. On nice days it comes out.
Neighbor across the street has a 1967 Mustang, but it has been at the shop for about 2 years.
That is about it.
Scott
There are two real Shelbys in my neighborhood, but I've never, ever seen either one of them out on the road, or even at a car show.
One guy has a 289 Cobra, and the other guy has a '65 GT-350 that's not even listed in the registry. It's one of those "lost cars" that you read about every once in a while. I offered him two Porsches for it.
I saw a guy driving a dark gray S60R up my street a couple days ago, and this isn't even a "but it was me" joke.
I live in a boring old-people neighborhood, so the only interesting sounds come from retirees idling their Harleys up and down, but the next door neighbor occasionally has a visitor with a late model S4.
There's a 79-81 Camaro a few houses down I've heard cruise past. Across the road, I actually stopped and talk to them, have a hoard of fox bodies, various other fords plus their dad lives over on another street with a 53 ford panel, 80 Mustang, and a 55 f100. They also have a rented out warehouse across town to park them all. Plus there are plenty of old "near perfect" pickups running around town.
I've done a 180 on Gremlins. I used to think they were the "worst" of all cars of the 1970s. But now I kind of like them.
I saw a really, really old VW bus today. Round tail lights, lowered, mismatched primer and moving uphill very quickly. Must have a hot engine in it, but didn’t sound like a Subaru. I was glad to see an old hippie at the wheel.
A white RX8, likes to go by in a big drift in the winter.
A very original looking classic Mini.
An Isuzu SUV with huge loud mud tires, saw it go past completely covered in mud today.
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