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Is Your Neighborhood a Car Guy Hangout?

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tony barnhill

tony barnhill

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Here are the 'special' cars that live in other garages in my neighborhood:

Next door - RWA Midget
Across Street - TR6, Boss 409 fastback, Boss 302 convertible
Up Street - 427 Cobra & a couple of early Mustangs
Down Street - mid-70's Camaro

That's just within a block...if I venture a bit further I'll probably find more
 
Nope, not here. I'm pretty much it. Save the guy down at the end of the block who has a Factory Five Cobra replica and a guy around the corner who thinks he’s cool because he’s got a Boxster.

The guy with the FF5 Roaster seems pretty cool and I got to give him props for making his car all by himself. Whereas the poor Boxster guy who thinks he’s all that – is a major poser and I’d bet big money that he probably hasn’t ever done anything to his car other but put gas in it.

The rest of suburbia is a mass of vanilla sedans, minivans, SUVs, Pick-ups and econo boxes.

The old folks with the mid-90's White Buick across the street call me the guy with the noisy old cars. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif
 
Great thread, Tony!

I have a few. One neighbor has a TR-5 and a '69 Chevy Malibu, here are a few more within a 5 block radius;


> TR-6, TR-4 & a GT6 at one house!;
> 2 911 Porsche race cars (and a really cool garage);
> 1948 Plymouth, near perfect;
> '65 Mustang convertible;
> '60 TR-3;
> '57 T-Bird;
> 1924 Model T(?) Ford, very nice;
> 1948 Dodge Power Wagon, perfect & a driver;
> 928 S4 Porsche, absolutely beautiful (don't know the year)
> An adjacent, ritzy neighborhood has more exotic cars than you can shake a stick at. And of course, we have more than our fair share of adolescent UVA students driving around in collector cars and Porsches.

Those are the ones I've seen lately, there are probably more.
 
Mostly SUVs and commuter cars here. A few around:

* Postmaster has a nice 911 (we had a nice chat one day about old cars, as I had driven the Tunebug to the post office)
* Friend a few streets over has 2 MGBs

I live in a small country (read, pretty hick) town, and when I moved in I noticed a foreign car repair place. I stopped in to chat, and it turns out the owner is a certified Mercedes mechanic. He had an older (40s? 50s? not sure) Mercedes in the shop that day, beautiful. Doesn't do much on LBCs, but he's my backup if I ever get truly stuck.

I do keep an eye on his shop when I head into town for groceries -- never know what will be in there. Had a decent looking RB MGB outside for a while.
 
On my street
'32 Ford Flathead Hot Rod
'61 Porsche 356
70's Porsche 911
60's Ranchero

Within a few blocks (cars that I know of)
2 MGBs
MGA
MG TD
A dozen or so classic Bentleys (all at one house!)
La Bertoni
A few various Triumphs
MG TC
Two old Chevy trucks
 
Zilch...

Except...

I've seen a baby blue Twinkie around town 3 times.
(in 15 years)

It's more of a 'phantom ship' than real.
(I've asked people about it and no one knows anything)

Oh and...A friend of ours has a beautiful Devin-C that he vintage races & is road legal.
He's in his 70s and has SCCA raced for 40 years.
Funny...He is really mild mannered and soft spoken until he gets in that car...
Then he'll blow by you like a 16 year old in his Dad's Porsche.
 
Quite a few classics and sports through "Historic Concord", as it seems to be on a lot of car club drive routes. Seen gaggles of Ferrari's, Porsches, various old Detroit tanks etc passing through.

My favorite neighbourhood car sighting though was when I took the Lotus in for a sticker inspection at the local garage. A guy pulls in driving a drop-dead georgous 1949 Maserati open-wheeler race car (red of course). He was just back from the Mille Miglia in Italy, and wanted to register the Maserati for road use here. His personal mechanic also pulled up to oversee the process. Talk about Big $$.
 
WhatsThatNoise said:
Zilch...

Except...

I've seen a baby blue Twinkie around town 3 times.
(in 15 years)

It's more of a 'phantom ship' than real.
(I've asked people about it and no one knows anything)
Click to expand...

*I* know ~something~.

An Elan coupe lurks in your area. A leftover (or holdout) of "The Western Pennsylvania Lotus Mafia".

I am a Founding Father.
 
DrEntropy said:
An Elan coupe lurks in your area.
Click to expand...
A Loti would be a real hoot.

Can't even find a rusty Spridget or Rumph round these parts.

I'd have to give chase if I saw one of those /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/driving.gif
 
Only thing I hear from time to time is a shelby. Not sure if it's real or not. It's about a half mile from hear. A friend of mine was at a rehersal studio the other day and another musician pulled up in from what he said was a clone of my GT. I see an MG around here from time to time and your hotrods but nobody really close to me.
 
Lots of goodies in my little "burg"
within 3 mile radius, stuff I can think of is
58 Corvette
57 Dodge truck
countach replica (with a 351 ford)
My buddys body shop with a pack of 40s-60- american iron, plus race cars
TR3
MGB
I know of a Jag XK140, but it's beeen parked for decades
a Vintage car dealer, "ottos wheels" (at least 40 cars, mainly american)
2 67-68 GTOs
oh man... lots of other stuff that I see pretty regularly, but I don't know where it lives.
This place is oozing with goodies.
 
Mostly Detroit Iron in my neighborhood. Fellow forum member and co-worker Longbranch is a couple of blocks from me, with a Bugeye and an original pink '61 Sprite. His neighbor has, among other stuff, a Fiat 124 spider, a 914, a Superbird, a Daytona Charger, and a '57 T-Bird.
Across the street is a '57 Chevy BelAire 2 door HT and a '56 Ford Crown Vic.
Pretty mundane stuff.
At work, we've got a Ford GT, and one of the upcoming Dodge Challengers.
Jeff
 
hmmmm... there's a 70's Camero down the street... a classic mini red with white meat balls around the block... the other direction there's a 70's Triumph... I think the guy with the Camero also has some other vintage car, always under a cover, never seen it so I dunno what it might be...

I wouldn't really call this a "car guy" neighborhood, but it's better than others that I've lived in as far as classic wheels go.
 
Close, Hmmm.

XKE several doors up.

Use to be a Tiger next door.

A TR several blocks away.
 
There's a guy around the corner with an early
AH3000 that he's been working on forever,he also
has a '52 Chevy,a '40's Chevy p/u,& an early 1900's
Chevy.There's a '68 Shelby replica a few blocks away,
a CB MGB a few blocks in the other direction,an early
'70 MGB that's been sitting forever,+ lots of other
interesting stuff in the general area.

- Doug
 
The guy across from me has
29 Ford convertible
30 Ford 2d sedan
31 Ford Victoria
62 Ford Zephyr

There's a Bugeye and a Spitfire a few blocks away. There used to be a Mini 850 automatic that they never drove and they sold it.

Parked down the street are a multitude of the average
Skoda, Seat, Trabant, Opel, Avensis, Tatra, Citroen, Peugeot, and also the other trash.
 
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