i know a lot of people Bitch about their neighbors....

Furthermore, I bust my ass to live in a nice neighborhood, and sacrifice expendable income that could go to my cars to provide a nice home for my family, so a little goddamn consideration from a guy who doesn't even occupy his house isn't asking too much. Attitudes like hamboner are why there's so many assholes around these days.

 

Awesome neighbor.
I have some good ones, I'm the youngest in a neighborhood of mostly retired folks, and the only one who tinkers on stuff.
When I have an old car or truck in my driveway the ole guy across the street will ride his HUGE John Deere lawnmower over to check it out, he doesn't walk too well.
Another neighbor is supposed to have an unfinished kit car of some kind stashed in his basement but I've never seen it and I've been living here 25 years.

 

Was it these guys? I let 'em stay for a little while. Then the loud punk music and empty beer cans made my neighbors call the cops.

 

I always wondered what they were trying to say about hot rodders with that commercial.......

 

You don't want him living there but you are going to make it a pain in the ass for him to sell it? Seems kinda counter productive.....

 

He DOESN'T live there like I said, that's the thing. He lives at the beach with his woman, and the house is unoccupied. But it also means the property is seldom maintained, and it's usually his neighbor on he other side cutting his grass. And I would imagine any realtor in their right mind is going to tell him the hedge has to go. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's huge and completely overgrown. But maybe I am exaggerating on "doing everything in my power", guys do that on car boards sometimes. I'm not seriously going to go out there in a KKK or Nazi uniform, let's be realistic. If they buyers seem like good folks, fine with me. But I certainly am not going to lift a finger to make anything any easier on him.

 

My neighbors are cool. I live alone so I get a lot of cookies when one of them is baking. Another is a landscaper and I repair / work on mowers / trailers for him. He also has 2 damn fine watchdogs, ANYTHING they dont recognize that gets within 200 yards, they alert you. This guy is an ex-biker/ drugee/ Viet-Nam Vet/ now a born again Christian (Only drinks 'Crown). Next to him another Vet / gun guy, across the road a vet .now LEO. We are pretty remote, but well armed,not many strangers show up out here. I.m a Viet Nam vet and do some repairs on most of their rigs and try to keep my own stuff on the road. I'm the only one that welds, usually in the Summer I don't buy much beer, seems like a case or two just show up in my garage. Oh yeah, we all have keys to one anothers places.

 

so outside of that Mr. Lincoln, how was the play?? By the way, I like that '55 you have, NICE!!!

 

Thanks!! You think the new neighbors will like it???

 

Great story, can't wait to see the pic's.

 

If they are crack heads they might. Lots of stuff to sell down to the pawn shop.

Right now I have two empty houses by me. Both were damned good neighbors.

Last summer the lady across the street came over one morning about 7:00 when I was swapping the engine in the Raven's roadster and just posing in general. I had Lenerd Skinerd (sp) blasting out of my garage (not them really just a reproduction on CD). She was pretty old like 86 or so. I thought damn, woke the neighbor up.

She had two cups of coffee handed me one and sat down on the stoop. So I walked over and appologized. She said not to worry she liked Skynerd. So I sat down with her and we drank coffee and listened. When the album was done she thanked me took my cup and headed back to her house.

I just don't get any better than that.

 

I also have some cool neighbors. Next door the age is 95, 92 and 67. They laugh every time I start the race car and say thanks for getting the heart going. Recently sold one of the race cars and am now in the process of making arrangements to pick up a Plymouth coupe. Don't want to say too much until the title is signed over and the car is on the trailer coming home. I am definitely excited to once again have a cruiser to work on.

 

It's a damn shame, a lot of good folks have lost their home because of political bullshit and the deadbeats out there making it harder for honest folks.

All in all, I like my neighborhood. There's a handful of gearheads, the kids aren't too bad, the older folks are pretty understanding. Of course, I've lived in this house for 33 of my 34 years, my wife and I bought it from my dad several years back, so that counts for something. There's usually a mutual respect and understanding, except for the prick next door, who isn't on anyone's favorites list, it's not just me.

 

Hell I don't like him and I don't even know him.

Yea folks next door just moved wife was sick and couldn't make it up the stairs. it belongs to the bank now. The lady across the street made it into a home because of failing health. It was reverse mortgage so it already belonged to the bank. I hate to see what is going to happen.

Better make sure I have a good supply of road flares I guess.

ya never know maybe someione with a decent knowlege of cars will buy and want to help me lift heavy chit.

 

I always love it when a fng comes out both barrels blazing and then get put right in their place!

 

I'm curious to see what a $200 (including delivery...lol) '41 Plymouth coupe looks like...pic's???

 

My lesbian neighbours get drunk and tell me all about their sex life....

 

TMI my friend tell them if you can't come over and participate TMI.

Hey Shaggy, when do we got to see the new prize? I know its on the back burner now but we still want to look, we like to look.

 

Careful, there's porno movie lesbians, and real lesbians.

 

I actually have a real lesbian friend in New Orleans. We used to go out and drink whiskey and pick up chicks. She was a good hand in a bar fight that's for sure.

 

You want a picture of the 86 year old woman that used to live across the street from me? That's strange man.

 

I can't complain about my neighbors....they all wonder about the noise from the garage from time to time but am considerate and shut it down at a reasonable hour...that said there is only one grumpy dude on my block and if I hadda live with his wife I'd be grumpy too....

That said I have two sets of neighbors that occassionally mow their yards in their bikinis....I must say I like doing my yard work on those days...they are easy on the eyes....

They leave me alone and we watch out for each other and the various kids in the neighborhood....the one older (driving age) kid that lives down the street is a very good driver and does not speed or act like an ass...me, him and his dad were talking in the driveway one day and when I found out he got his D/L I informed him that if I ever caught him speeding or acting like an ass on our street around all of the young kids I would personally whip his ass....his dad looked at me and told me that I had better like whipping a dead kids ass cause he would kill him fore I got to him if he pulled that shit.....I can respect his position....that said he is always under the limit on our street and courteous as all hell.....I like that and help him out when I can.

 

I've got a friend like that. She's an ass kicker, she played semi-pro football in a women's league for the Philadelphia Liberty Belles, and not that lingerie stuff, full pads, full contact. Cool lady.
My wife is also in a Roller Derby league (Diamond State Rollergirls), and there's some pretty bad-ass ladies doing that stuff!! I'm actually trying to set up a benefit show between my car club and the derby league as we speak.

 

Jeez-Another Bitch Fest on the HAMB-Imagine that. And just what is the connection to traditional hot rods?

 

Hey hamboner,
Not to Hijack this thread, but I dig your Avatar, since you only have this post. How about letting us see a little more of that nosed A? It sure does look sweet!

 

May be a new guy but it seems a lot smarter to help get the house sold so the ahole doesn't own it anymore, and the hedge can be cut down, than to be an ahole too and make sure that you have to put up with the hedge forever.. Kinda like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I'd do anything I could to help get a hopefully better neighbor..

 

Not my style to help someone who purposely fucks me over, I'm quirky like that. This house has been "on the market" with no for sale sign for 3 years now, so maybe if he shows some serious effort to sell, I may be more inclined to do something.

And let me say, to you or whoever else wants to weigh in on it, when you've lived next to this asshole for 20 years, had him purge his pool filter into your back yard multiple times, accuse you of selling his delinquent son cigarettes even though you've never smoked a day in your life, had him carry on till the wee hours with his dickhead friends half the summer, fight with his old lady in the goddamn street, accusing her of, and I quote "Cleaning your cunt out with another guy's cock" (admittedly, damn funny at the time), on top of this monstrosity of a hedge, yet never complained about ANY of it except this damn hedge, because I didn't want to be "that guy", I'll put a little stock in your opinions on the situation.
And I'm the unreasonable one. I mean I value the opinions of HAMB folks, but Jesus, unless you know the situation, you just don't know the situation.

 

Neighbourhoods are like everything else in life: you get out of it what you put into it.
I have cool neighbours, and I am a cool neighbour in return. My life is good.

 

You should learn to be the bigger man. Karma will come around and real scumbags will move in next door. Then you'll wish you had that little hedge problem and nothing else.