How many of you guys out there live in a apartment and have a hot rod or are building one?? Do you park your ride there or in a storage lot?any fears of your ride not being there the next day? or do you just wait till you have a house to keep your hot rod I live in one and nobody messed with my old truck when i had it.. just wondering if its any different for the guys with the really old stuff,,(model A's,roadsters,, and such...
I live in a villa complex where there are no garages. I am just afraid of people stealing parts so I lock that stuff up in my house. Although I have had an egg thrown at my car and people write swears on it with there fingurs when it is dirty.
Never lived in an apartment, never will. Know why? I'd rather live in any other kind of sh*thole where I can work on stuff. It's the price of being a car guy. I don't mean this in a jerky way, but if you're serious about cars, move. Good luck with your projects.
I know a guy who built a show winning body-dropped (channeled) mini-truck in an apartment parking lot over three years. It got towed more than once but he figured out it has to have current tags and insurance. After he had that stuff, no problems at all. Yes, it was a gay truck.
years ago I did a ground up build of a first gen camaro while i lived in 2 different appartments. The only difference was that they both had garages.
I do not live in an apartment, but i have had my shop broken into twice. they did not mess with the coupe, but stole carbs and msd boxes right off my two race cars. Thet knew what they wanted.
When I first moved to J-ville in the NAVY I lived in the hood with my 49 AD....I think the only thing that saved it was the military stickers on it cause my next door neighbors car was stolen twice from right next to mine... Heck I even rebuilt the top end of the engine and put an exhaust system in it in the parking lot.... At the end of the day though, I moved to a garage....
Did I mention I have no garage? I built the Peter Beater 'Bucket in a 8x8 shed for 2 years til I upgraded to a 10x16. Not enough room for my '65 Caddy. Oh yeah, I also live in Flint, MI. If you're not familiar, just Google Flint.
Just got myself a house a couple months ago, apt for two years before that. Just need a project to take up the 2 1/2 car garage now.
It ****s you are in an apt. I lived in one for one year when i turned 18 and i haven't lived in one since. Id rather rent a house than an apt anyday. Now that a bank owns my house and i get to pay them for the next 27 years for it i wouldn't have it any other way.
I live in a small (8 apts.) complex. I've got a 60' Belair, So far nobody has messed with it. The only trouble I've had was out of the old lady downstairs from me. She said that my car was "trashy" and she didn't want it here. She would tape nasty notes to my car telling me to move it. But, I found out she is "not quite all there" so I let it go. The landlord talked to her & she has since stopped all that. I've found the best way to keep her quiet is to ask her if it would bother her if I worked on my car. Since I started doing that, I don't hear a peep from her. So I guess it all worked out. "I STILL CAN'T WAIT TO GET A HOUSE WITH A GARAGE" (maybe nico32 will let me use his.) "LOL, Just kidding nico32, just kidding"
I live 40 plus miles away from work but I bought my fixer upper farm with 3 acres no neighbours and pay less in mortgage than I ever paid in rent. Being a car guy has ruled how I live as I lived in Ottawa Ont. and they have communist type anti old car laws.
garage space in 'da city' is on the gold scale. I got lucky... I got a six room flat to myself, a lease with an exclusive on the garage, and a clause that lets me work on my truck. Been here 16 years. If and when I ever do move, it will be into a garage/shop space.
When I was in my early 20's I built a Hemi Roadrunner in the driveway of a studio apartment I was living in. Motor went together in the kitchen, and I'd turn wrenches outside when all the neighbors were at work, or real quietly when they were sleeping. Where there's a will, there's a way...but I'd never want to live like that again.
Been there done that years ago, prolly early 70s I had three projects going at once. It worked good cause the little old ladys that managed the place liked me for some unknown reason. And all the cars were just out side my front room entrance.
Lived in a "condo", which was basically an oversized apartment, for about five years with no garage and parking spaces with everyone in the complex parked side by side under a basic awning. That being said. I rebuilt my '54's suspension, did a motor swap and even did body work and paint, my neighbors never complained but the security company would always try to give me ****. Everytime they would try to tow it the tow guys would cuss out the security ****s for ****ing with an "antique" car. It was cool cuz all the tow guys eventually became my pals.
Maybe an alarm.? Mercury switch hooked to an air horn, hooked to a compressor..? lol...that should get rid of the low life.
well right now im lucky enough to have a place to work on my 53,its outside and i dont mind, besides weather getting in the way its cool ill make do with what i can,, yes a house with a garage would be great to have right now and definatly on my to do list,, but my question was intended more to the guys with the older cars do any of you have a open wheel hot rod and live in a apartment? or would it be best to collect and wait till i have a house?
i live in a 5 bedroom house with 4 other people and no garage. what i save on the house, i use to rent shop space. best of both worlds.
I used to live in an apartment when we were building my fiance's 56 oldsmobile. the parking lot was right behind the apartments, so everyone could see what we were doing all the time! One weekend we needed to get the rubber put on the tires, and all of my connections were over the hill, so we put it up on Jack stands took off the wheels and used a big blue tarp over it so that noone would notice it was missing the wheels for a weekend! When we were working on the motor, the fuel line broke, and we didn't notice until some girl knocked on our door and said your cars leaking gas, I said no way and she said smell my finger, we lost 15 gallons of gas down the storm drain right at the back of the car, but all is well, we only lived a block from the beach, so mother nature took care of it. We also basecoated the whole car in the parking lot, compressor and everything, even used that same blue tarp to cover the beemer next to it!, the super came out and didn't really know what to do or say, so he just said... don't get any on the curb! We got away with murder, ... when we moved out my buddy had left an engine block at the apartment, and we had nothing to do with it, so we just put it on a dolly and wheeled it out across the street by the train tracks and "dropped it off". a month later I realized it would have been nice to take part of the baffle out of the valley in the block. Than two years later my fiance was at an art show up on campus, and saw the block used as and art piece, needless to say she got the baffle I wanted! Ah great times!!!!
Most of the guys I know that live in an apartment. Rent shops for all there toys. To store and work on.
im lucky now got a new place with a 2 car garage and i dont have too pay extra for which is really rare for long beach but it still a little hard to work cause one spot goes to the wifes daily and theres 2 support beem poles in between both spots but this is the best i can get in lb untill i buy a house.....
Yes I do. This is the the single biggest and most torturous hurdle in my life! We pay in rent for a one bedroom what could be a morgage payment. Anyone near L.A. with an extra house they wanna sell us (and carry the loan) All I need is a garage and a toilet, a bedroom or kitchen would be nice but I can go without. I can heat beans with a torch and sleep in my car!! I'm dead serious, & I know your out there GoldChainers, so PM me!! I actually have a great shop, problem is its 3 hours north and I never have enough days to make and clean up a mess (Dad's shop). Also our landlord is the coolest guy ever and he just lowered our rent buy $55 for the next 6 months cause I helped him fix a leaky valve, when do you ever hear of that happening? So, all we could do is try to save and keep dreaming.
It's $85 where I live I can't wait to buy my own home!! I have to pay to have any work done on my stuff right now. It ****s!!
I got a 2 car garage on the house, a 4 car (inclosed on 3 side) carport, a fully insulated 1600sq foot shop, and in the prossess of finishing another 960 sq feet of inclosed garage space to the shop on 2 acers of land and I still need more space...I don't know how you do it at an apartment.
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