Yesterday I had a bunch planned to get done on the roadster, but the guy across the street came over and started talking. Next thing ya know, ghosts and goblins are running up and down the street and I have to retire without getting anything done. Today I roll the chassis out to do what I wanted to get done yesterday and the guy next door comes over and helps. I got more done than I have in months. He went and got more beer, I called out for pizza delivery. Cleaned up every tool we each had that we needed to use today just in time for the delivery girl. It was a great day, thanks to a helpful neighbor. Some days, it just goes right!
My neighbour is like that, a real good guy and a car guy! He isn't into hot rodding, he is into old Willys Jeeps! He has 3 of them, a '43, a '47 and a '54...I help him out with his and vise versa... I love good neighbours.
Cool beans! When I'm working on my roadster my neighbors just give me dirty looks while they mow their lawns, edge the sidewalks, trim the hedges... every single day... Yard people...
My next door neighbor, the one that helped me, isn't a hot rod guy, but he is a gear head. One of these days he'll pick up his 67 Nove at his dad's and we can start on that. We help each other on all types of projects. What tools I don't have, he has.
your lucky...the cops just came last week and arrested my neighbor , so i don't think i can count on him for any help
count your blessings for sure. I got: grumpy the garbage man beside me, dick the drug dealer across from me, mac the mutt breeder across the street, and slick the city enforcement code ticket writer for when you leave the hood up all day looking over your shoulder, and no garage to hide in.
my neighbors are two, 21 year old chicks. one rarely wears a bra. this is just as helpful when they visit me in the garage.
I used to have an electrician neighbor, good guy, taught me lots about wiring theory and soldering, weak on the mechanical stuff but we mostly drank beer when we got together. One of my buddies had jerk neighbors that call city enforcment to dispose of his "garbage" (projects). he has a couple but the yard is clean. I guess some people think anything older than 10 years old. When the city enforcement officer came to his yard to threaghten salvage my buddy told the officer he would take away his golf clubs and throw them in the river because it was the same thing.........
All my neighbors seem to want something stupid drilled out or welded at the very exact point I am starting to get stuff done.
Pics would be nice. One neighbor came over when I just moved in and proceeded to berate me for taking out the /6 in my Dart and putting in a 360. After that he would always offer to buy my car so he could rip out everything and make the car right. been here 8 years never said anything to any neighbors. Works for me there is always drama goin on.
No gearheads round me....but my across the street spinster is sympathetic to my car affliction and lets me store parts (IE the cab of my truck) in her garage so I can have more space.... She's awesome!
Lucky Bastard! I live the next city over in Chino, and somebody calls the city on me every damned time I do anything in my driveway.
I don't have any gearhead neighbors but do have a friend that will drive 15 miles to help me pull a motor or replace a clutch cable. I return the favor just because people like that are rare!
Some of you guys sound like youve got it pretty good! To the left of me are meth/pill heads. To the right of me are some really cool neighbors, the Boudreauxs, they're like family to me. Not gearheads, just super nice people. Across from me are sketchy college kids. Kind of boring, minus the methheads, they get into some funny shit
best neighbor is a fence! as long as my neighbors understand they should about their business and not mine everything will be fine. when that stops its on! i always thought 1 acre would be big enough but i was wrong. i will say that i have met some pretty cool county code enforcement people and they really hate having their time wasted on bullshit. they don't even come by anymore they call from the office and i send them pictures!
Some people are doers and others are talkers and users. Keep that cool neighbor in beer, he's a　keeper. My neighbor is a computer repairmen which comes in handy and no gear heads near by my place. There is one street rodder a mile away and his one big asshole, you know the type a roadster gold chainer.　 CRUISER
When I first bought my house, I had some cool neighbors. Just this last year, my next door neighbor who was retired moved to Hawaii. He was a cool retired military guy. He wasn't a car guy, but he would let me borrow any tool I needed. He would alos give me tips on upkeep of the house. When he moved out, some Drug Dealers moved in. The old lady across the street has had health problems lately, and is gone alot. The guy behind me is cool, he looks like a Hells Angel! The other next door neighbors are pretty dirty and always have a broken down car in their front yard. Their teenage sons, always come over and ask me questions about old cars!
For the most part my neighbors are just lops.. Not a real problem.. I just don't want them too close.. Last month we had new people move in across the street.. These two fuckbubbles have nothing better to do that stir up crap.. Called code enforcement on two neighbors and me. Animal control on another and started a petition to have me remove my van from my driveway. They said the push plate and lettering made it look like I was runnung a tow business from my house. ( see photo of tow truck below)... Oh.. And I hide the flatbed behind the rose bed... I, in response, started my own petition.. It asks that before his wife comes out of thier house.. She place a bag over head large enough to cover her face. Her husband refused to sign.. Go figure....
My neighbors a pretty damned cool. Two brothers next door, one a local Cop, the other civilian military. The other side is a guy who works for the county, nice guy. The only one who was an issue is the guy a few doors down. Too many dollars, not enough sense, coupled with a 'holier than thou' attitude... great combination. I had finished rebuilding the original factory carb on my '68 Thunderbird and was putting it back on, he strolls over, telling me that that year didn't have this particular carb, and that I was killing the resale vale, and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah (yes, he went on for a while). He then proceeds to tell me about the car in his garage that had been completely restored to factory spec. We go to take a look, he rolls up the garage door, and there sits an MGTD. Unbeknownst to him, I have restored probably 20 TDs in my career from the ground up. I asked him who had done the resto (Vintage Restorations in Union Bridge, MD), then spent the next hour telling him everything that was either incorrect, or flat out wrong with the car. Then explained why the biggest mistake he ever made was going to Vintage for his work (He was charged almost $80,000 for a TD restoration that was total shit)!!! That was a year ago, he hasn't spoken to me since. Oh, and the TD hasn't run in 6 months.
Can't complain about my neighbours, keep pretty much to themselves, but on the one side the youngish couple have let me keep a car in their garage while I am working on my garage. They didn't have to do that and it has helped me a lot. Mart.
What a nice thing to read a positive story about folks next door, I thought I was going to read about another goofy neighbor bitchin about "them damn old cars' thread, ahh a breath of fresh air, I smell pizza!! I am thrilled for you! Congrats! ~Sololobo~
I have pretty good neighbors now the dug dealers moved out! The neighbor in my back yard is about 80 and hes a real stand up guy. And the neighbor across the street in front is a cool dude, but his wife is a mega bitch, all she does is bitch and yell at him and he just takes it all day long. The only thing that drives me up a wall is the assmunch that lives behind and to the left, he thinks his shit dont stink. I had a seadoo jetboat I was rebuilding the motor in and it took a while so it sat outside for about 1 summer. He comes up to the door and said "Im going to buy that boat off you today whats the price?" Its hard to convay over the net , but it was said in an erogant stuck up dildo kind of way. So I said its not for sell, he said everything is for sell. Well he asked about it a few more times over the next couple of weeks. I had no intentions on selling it, but just inspite I called a friend of mine up and asked if he was interested in it he said yes, so I sold it to him and the neighbor hasnt talked to me since!!!!yea!!!!But other than the one ass the rest of my neighbors stick to them selves as do I....
My next door neighbor is my brother, he bought the house two years ago and we work in my garage every weekend. As for the rest of the neighbor hood...I don't know any of them.
my neighbours are unique... the 2 houses beside me i hardly see, the one across the street gets visitors all the time, people always coming and going. hold some big parties seems every 2 weeks.. but there relatively quiet,, great living across from a graveyard.
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