One of my neighbors built a makeshift fence for the border of her yard cause she didnt like me and my buddy mudding with our tractors that we got going about 35 mph...it was fun ok....and she hate when i start my 65 chevy but stills smiles and waves to cover it up and my neighbor to the other side is ok but he doesnt like me ridin my dirtbike around the yard....i kinda tore the side of his up....but i guess those reasons are my fault......o well haha
the 2 that dont have older cars (55 chevy 4 door and 56 pontiac star cheif). otherwise, fireworks, riding my bike, walking my pitt, all get cops called on me
My neighbors love me. We're all rednecks and when I fire the dyno up, they come running. The b**** that still lives in my house, raising my kids is another story. It's right next door and if she doesn't hate me, she has a funny way of showing it!
I never had problems until the house next door went up for sale 3 years ago. I guess they thought it wouldn't sell as long as my truck was in the drive way. Hah! This was at the top of the fucking real estate mania. It sold almost immediately for $1.2M. The buyer laid down without a counter offer. 3 years later he's trying to sell except he can't even get an offer at $1,050,000. Nice guy and I feel sorry for him but he's screwed and he did it to himself. Meanwhile the city sent me a notice about the unregistered car in my drive so I moved it out of sight. Probably the real estate agent complained. It's a little annoying to get a message like that but it wasn't exactly unreasonable and I'm not a real prick. I prefer having a decent relationship with my neighbors and I do. I'll put that to the test when I start firing up some of these motors I'm building. Open headers and all that. I occasionally will get a look from someone driving by when I'm working on a car out front. I used to smoke and I think I would actually frighten some of them when I would smoke in the street at night looking up at the stars. I really enjoyed smoking in the evenings. Hahaha! Mr. Badass. My family has owned this place for almost 40 years and paid a fraction of what it would go for now. There is no way I could hope to buy into this neighborhood today. That's California real estate for you. Folks are extremely uptight about perceived property values. Myself I like to fly under the radar of the powers that be.
Well one side of the house they do and the other I don't thank so. Anyways the ones that do I try and piss off as much as I can. When I had my dirt car I would start it up and rev it to the moon when they were outside. ha. The 31 sedan will be sone by May and it will be LOUD!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im pretty sure that the neighbors across the road highly dislike me with all the grinding goin before 12am on saturdays but I dont have to like them either. The lady that lives behind me has this annoying dog that barks constantly with her sitting right beside it so, I like to shoot my 8ft. long potato gun at midnight, it sounds like a cannon and makes her dog bark in her house she hates me and the feeling is mutual. yeah....im a bastard other then that my neighbors like the stuff I build.
Back in the 70's, my neighbor painted cars in his backyard. BUT, he'd get mad at ME for doing mechanical work in mine. Anyway, he shot the vent window out of my car 3 nites in a row with a BB gun. I'd fix it, he'd shoot it again that very nite. He also poured brake fluid on my girlfriend's Z-28. He was a contracter, and had a couple work trucks out in the street. Ya know, with big, dual wheels out back. I'm gonna cut the valve stems, but they are METAL. I'm so fucking pissed now, I get bolt cutters instead of a pair of wire cutters, and knock on his door. FUCK HIM. I want him to see me cut all his stems. I bang on the door, he comes out, and I tell him, you mother fucker, you fuck with me one more time..........................................and I cut all 6 stems on his one truck as he watched. He never fucked with me again. Years ago that was. My current neighbors love me
My neighbors are scared & jealous of me and at the same time hate me, I bet theyre going to be soo happy when they see all my cars gone next week when I move into my new Pomona home to make a good name for my self there. I tried to get along with them for about 15 years but I learned you just cant please yuppyies or snobs, oh well....
I get " i never knew anyone who built their own car, bike, boat, whatever Im working on at the time. They watch and I think they are either in awe or think im a fucking idiot! But they all act nice and who do you think they come to for advice, tools etc. Most of my neighbors have garages with nothing in them! go figure. I couldnt stand it. I did get one of my neighbors fired up though, he's a stock broker and really nice guy but doesnt really know how to do much mechanically. Well he bought an old jeep and is rebuilding it. Spent quite a bit of money already and hes doing a good job, a little slow but he's learning.
Basically we end up running most of our cars with open headers, and if it does have mufflers it's still really loud. I know one neighbor is a little annoyed but in good fun (I hope) and the neighbor next to him says his windows rattle every time we start up something. Those two are accross the field from us. The guy right accross the street is up to something. He moves in and has a little dune buggy in his yard. I'm like ya ok cool...then one day he rolls in with a '67 Z28 with a dual quad tunnel ram 327. He only drove it like twice and wont talk to us. I havent seen it in almost a year lol, he's probably secretly fitting some nitro burning, supercharged big block.....great -Dean
i have some neighbors that are chps... and theyve tried to get my cars towed for the craziest reasons....safe to say they hate me...
They all like me with the exception of one. You can see in the picture below hoe close the back of his house is to my driveway and garage.....Hee Hee!
i have neighbors??? lol. i only talk to one of them and they love me and the other is a dirty whore!!!
the one nice thing about when somebody calls about my mess is the person that comes to the house lets me know what the laws are and i have gotten really fucking good at staying just barely within them. now when anyone comes by from the county i hand them the stack of paperwork from their co-worker that came by last time and they usually shoot the shit,hand me a complience report and say "have a good one"! some of them just call and ask what's up? and just send the report.
i live in lakewood ca. and im the only mexican on the block. they yell at my kids and friends when ever they get a chance. fuck um all...............
I'm the guy with all the tools & equipment!......they can't afford to not like me! potentially, I can fix whatever they break!
Mine are assholes, I would weld and fix things for them, then they turned me into the county. No more free fixes for them.
1 loves the rides but hates the late night burnouts in the driveway and especially the garage (echo chamber). The other neighbors are too scared of the tattooed crew thats always around so they won't even look. Cool thing though, after 5 years of me owning the house ,the coppers have never been called!
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