I've been flaking out here for A few weeks or maybe A month or so. This is A new day and age for me. For years my car hobby was fun and I had bought allot of cars. My garage was always full of cars and parts along with my driveway and some in storage. One neighbor was an issue but I out lived him so I thought things would be normal. My current issue is another couple that's fairly young that moved in. I guess they don't like my hobby. But they have the attitude " they're better than me". And they think they live in a nicer neighborhood than they actually do. So a little over 2 weeks ago I got a visit from the city ordinance officer. This is the third time in the last 3 years. This time I got 2 weeks to clean up my driveway. I was cited as a " nuisance" and She said she would be back. The 1973 Riv was the issue I believe. Well the weather wasn't on my side. The car currently is 90% cut up. A little more to go. But today I got a letter in the mail and my wife got her own about a city hearing I must attend. Great. . I will have to pay a fine. Its ridiculous. But these neighbors don't know me well. I wonder how 3 big blocks idling in my driveway would sound? I can't wait for this hearing..... I'll have a few questions for them too.
Get the crappiest, rotted car you can get ahold of, register it and insure it and park it in front of their house.
Oh I park my multi colored 65 Sport wagon that's filled with parts that has a gas leak out there. A few stains in front of his house currently from it.... I laugh when the guy gets home.... It's pretty funny.
So the millenials have attached themselves to Plainfield now? Light a bag of doggy doo-doo at their front door, ring the bell, and run. Make that a plastic bag. GRRRRRR! Darien was like that too. I had a presentable 1974 Jag XJS V12, registered and insured parked on my drive and occasionally it had a tire that went flat. I was cited for an inoperable vehicle parked within site of the street GRRRRR X2 !!! ws
People like that think they "know better" and can dictate their wishes on everyone else, and often use the fringes of the law to get their way. I had neighbors like that before my 'Cat was done and I'd work on it in the driveway (85' from the street). They were also the reason I went from a single factory exhaust to duals with turbo mufflers. The neighbors left; I still have the mufflers.
I had a problem with my neighbor back in 1993 when I moved in. The previous owner had a tool an die business in the garage an part of the settlement was that in two weeks he would come an get his equipment out of the garage. The Saturday before he was coming to pick up his equipment I brought my cars home an parked them on the grass. Well my new neighbor came storming over. I"M NOT LIVING NEXT TO A JUNK YARD So I told him to get the ( f ) off my property. The day after I move my cars off the grass he came over an apologized said he was having a bad day a couple weeks later I put up a six foot privacy fence all the way around the yard you can't cry about what you can't see. They would call the cops if I made noise after 10PM. To this day they spy on me from the upstairs window ever time I go an work on my cars or my kids go swimming in the pool. Know matter were you go your going to find an asshole or they will find you.
I moved from the city where I had neighbors within 20' on each side to a 10 acre wooded lot with my home / shop smack in the middle. Nearest neighbor is 500' away and can only be seen in the winter when the leaves fall. So far no complaints about my auto activities .
I feel your pain as I'm dealing with some retard neighbour's as well. But to be honest might bother me a bit too. Guy 2 streets behind me has 2 piece of **** fox body mustangs on blocks or flat tires and tore apart. I'm a car guy through and through but I still mutter obscenities to myself every time I drive by
Check your ordinances dude. Here in Florida if the car is on a registered trailer codes officers can't say anything. I had the same issue with a covered car I was restoring but a neighbor I have an issue with complained and I got a notice and I live on 6 acres out in the country. Everyone out here has farm implements, trailers, boats, tractor etc all over the place. Codes officer just shrugged and walked away. Go figure! Put the car on my trailer and problem solved. Mikey
Out here where I live in CA, I can practically lean out my window and touch my neighbors house. Needless to say, we are all very careful about what we do - not to become too friendly, but nice enough that if something is happening that's not strictly by the book then it'll be let go.. I have duals with 3 chambers and it's deep and loud. nobody has ever said anything, and I don't plan to say anything to the guy that revs his fart muffler ricer.
Wow. I feel pretty lucky here. I live in the "city" of Missoula with about 80,000 people, in a quiet older neighborhood with houses that the same people and families have mostly lived in since the 50s and 60s. I moved in about 3 years ago bringing all my cars, bikes, trucks, and whatnot with me, and I'm about 30 years younger than most the residents. I was really afraid of being "that guy" to the neighbors. I'm always respectful, but I do leave for work at 6:30 in the morning, get home at 8 p.m. most nights, and on nice days I drive my extremely loud 552" Mach 1 sometimes, and my Riviera and daily driver F100 truck are not quiet at all. But, when I'm outside in the driveway working or even if I'm just wrenching with the garage doors open, many times one of the older gentlemen or families will just stop over to check out the cars and admire them and shoot the crap with me. I've even got one older couple who will come over and snowblow my driveway if I'm out of town and they can see I'm not home, even though I've never talked to them other than to say "thanks" and wave after I get home. Half the people don't lock their doors and leave their windows down on their cars overnight, with nary a worry because we all look out for each other. Just reading all the issues some people have with those around them makes me realize how lucky I am.
When I was a teenager, my Dad sacrificed his garage space so I could have my car hobby. He used to tell me that during the day, if I needed the driveway, then fine, use that too, but when night comes, it all has to go back in the garage or under a cover because this wasn't a car lot or a junk yard. It seemed reasonable to me and I have basically lived by that to this day. I have lived in many states and had many different houses with different garage sizes, etc. My current abode is actually not the ideal for my hobby, but I make do for the family and area. I constantly think of my neighbors and try to balance out what I do because while I do like my hobby, I do not want neighbors parking non-running vehicles in the neighborhood either for periods of time .... that I have to look at as well. If it's for a little while, that's one thing, but a constant, that's another ..... the price you pay for living in a incorporated city/town, etc., where everyone's rights have to be balanced through ordinances and such where "no residence is an island as to others" unless you spend $$$ on acreage.
Lucas from Montana. it is a whole different world out there. Being from S Dakota, I know how it is. Very friendly people, unless you put a sheep in your yard or steal somebodies horse! Those are hangin' offenses!
When I lived in NY the douche bag neighbors were always calling the cops on me and my sons for one reason or another. Once I had a lowlife confront me about my cars being to loud and a few other neighbors decided to chime in. Since all my cars were garaged a few blocks away and very rarely brought over to my house I decided to tell them all I was sorry they were disturbed and it would never happen again. LOL I waited about a month and payback time had arrived. I was always out on the weekend with my peeps and usually got home around 1 or 2am with one of my souped up Buicks. I would pass my garage (2 blocks away) hit the automatic garage door opener and proceed to the block with the complainers. I would pull into the block with the Stage 1, click on the line lock, bring it up to about 5 grand in low and when it shifted into 2nd I'd let it rip full song for that whole city block setting off every car alarm for a 3 block radius. The Stage 1 would be in the garage before the burn out smoke had cleared. I would then walk home seeing (to my delight) every home with all their lights on and people out in the street. PAYBACK is a BEEEEEE-OTTTTCH ! ! ! In South Carolina I do my best to be a good neighbor and never had a complaint. I even let the neighbors use my lift if they need to fix something on their cars. The kids can skate board on my new driveway. No more nonsense, I'm now MR. NICEGUY.
Hahaha.....yeah, it's a little different here in "Zootown" (it's basically known as a smaller Portland), but where I'm originally from is a 2500 population farm town about 40 miles south of Canada. Out there you're spot on
