Guy at the end of the street has a nicely restored spitfire...never seen it leave the garage. Another guy has a 2nd gen Camaro that never leaves the garage.
Guy at the end of the street has a nicely restored spitfire...never seen it leave the garage. Another guy has a 2nd gen Camaro that never leaves the garage.
Mazda787b wrote:Woody wrote: There's a Ford guy around the corner who has a real 260 Cobra, a TVR Griffith and a '64 Thunderbolt. He used to have Mustangs and a pair of F-code Thunderbirds, but I think those were sold.Not sure if I'm more excited that the Cobra is a 260 or that he also has a Tunderbolt....
My mistake, it's a 289.
Across the street is a clean '78 Corvette Anniversary edition and a really nice CJ5. Both have left the garage once in the 3 years I've been here. 
Everyone else drives beige or SUV's except me. There are some nice boats around though.
Mazda787b wrote:Woody wrote: There's a Ford guy around the corner who has a real 260 Cobra, a TVR Griffith and a '64 Thunderbolt. He used to have Mustangs and a pair of F-code Thunderbirds, but I think those were sold.Not sure if I'm more excited that the Cobra is a 260 or that he also has a Tunderbolt....
I love thunderbolts but the F-Birds are on an even higher level of awesomness, I mean who can hate a centrifugal s/c on a baby bird?
Around me, there are a few notable ones. Both my neighbors to the southwest and southeast have weird stuff. the east one has a 429 powered torino GT and an early 40's willys overland 4wd truck. The neighbor to the west has a 30x50 garage filled with nothing but 64.5-66 mustangs and a 50x70 pole barn filled with nothing but antique tractors. The next neighbor west of him has old mercedes and our farm's old '47 Chevy grain truck.
A nice plum TR6 lived about three doors down, he's moved.
A 1961 T Bird across the street, not my style but man it's CLEAN.
A 1981 Camaro in nice shape that lives under a car cover.
A rough XJ6 under another car cover.
A Cobra replica.
A super clean '83 RX7 in that cool metallic blue/gray.
An E20 BMW that hasn't moved from the guy's garage in years.
A 1986 Civic Si in very nice shape that unfortunately rides on a set of the ugliest wheels I have ever seen.
There's a 1971 914 sticking half out of a garage a couple miles from me, it's one of those houses like they showed on 'Hoarders'. It's obviously been sticking out like that for a long time.
Not many cool cars parked around here. I saw an old MG a few blocks away (not moving, obviously) and one of the fitness-crazed girls next door just got a new Civic Si.
Other than that, there's a primered/beaten MKIII non-turbo supra that i've also never seen moving. Also, a couple houses down, i spotted a clean MKIII non-turbo supra leaving once.
If you count cars driving around, i've seen a Cobra (i'm guessing kit car), an old GT40 (again assuming kit car, but still awesome), and does rolls royce make something like a 2 door fastback looking ghost? I could swear that's what I saw... We live near a really nice country-drive road, so there's a lot of 'leisure driving' going on close by.
I guess you could also count the high school nearby as parked cars, in that case there's a guy (kid?) with an early 2000's mustang GT. I'm not really into the xenon lights or chrome slatted grill, but he does keep it immaculately clean and i've never seen him driving recklessly through our neighborhood, so i gotta respect that.
Cars in the 'hood: AC Bristol, AC Aceca, MGTC, GT500, the guy with a dozen perfect old Nortons, E36 M3, Miata V8, Torino big block, '53 Ford pickup (460ish 5 speed), and the Pantera.
Friends in town (we are 12,000 pop): Alfa TZ, Alfa SVZ, GTV, Tiger, 356A, BB512, 66 GT350, ex-F1 Titan. Almost forgot the MG/BMC crazy.
Guy in the next town has a BMW collection - 15 cars or so - not counting his wife's FF and his Boss 302 Vintage racer. When folks meet me at block parties its always "oh, you are the car guy" to which I answer "its a freakin' MUSEUM!"
Too lazy to count the hot-rods, Mustangs, chebbies and such . . . .
Within 3 blocks of me: Ford GT, 3 Ferraris, 2 Maserati GTs, a gullwing Merc STS, a Bentley Mulsanne, more Porkers than you can wade through and one Murcielago, but I think he may have moved as I didn't see it this summer.
In my driveway, Jensen CV8, Jensen Interceptor, Jamaican MGA, MGA coupe, MGC convert, 88 turbo Fiero GT, 09 Pontiac Solstice coupe, Lamborghini Islero S. I doubt that the guys with all the new iron even know what the old stuff is. Tried waving at the Murcielago once when driving my Lambo and got a puzzled look in response.
I live in a very GRM-friendly town. There are a lot of cool cars in my town, and the town even puts on car shows at the town hall every week during the summer. We even have a few really good junkyards right in town.
That said, all my neighbors are weird. On one side, I have a guy that used to have a Buick Wildcat, but he sold it a few months before we moved in because he was sick of messing with cars. He now has a Camry hybrid.
The guy on the other side is into cars, but he has never talked to me in the 3 years I lived here. He just stares at us when he's outside. He has an early 90's Vette in the garage and a few trucks. He also has a hot tub on cinder blocks in the backyard.
Dude across the street is a complete jerk. He never wears anything more than a pair of shorts and sandals, even in winter, and is always yelling at either his horses or his wife. He has Toyota appliances.
The guy behind me has a huge shop and is building some sort of 30's street rod. He has what appears to be a V8 S10 too. I need to make friends with him.
Everyone LOVES my Trans Am, even if it's been broken and sitting under a tattered cover for the past year or so. A guy that lives up the street told me that he used to have a late 70's T/A too, but the wife made him sell it. He told me this in front of his wife, a brave move. 
My trash guy offered to buy it 3 times now, but he eventually gave up and bough a 1st gen Camaro. I'm pretty friendly with him now.
End of the cul de sac, 55 chevy gasser, a couple of doors down is a nice 66 chevelle. The rest of the neighborhood is chocked full of SUVs and minivans.
Next door is a plain C5/6 anniversery edition convertible w/AT. Down the street is a new turbo 911 in the garage and his son has a Miata nicely done. Also a guy with 3-4 Corvairs (non-running), a Fox Mustang and a older 5-series BMW. Sometimes he has his dad's Opel Manta in his driveway too. Down the street further is a guy with 3 914's, 2 in the garage and a bumblebee in the driveway. There is also on older retired man that is constantly tinkering with something. He finished a El Camino SS a couple months ago and now has a Cutlass he's tinkering with. I think he sold the El Camino, I did think about buying it but didn't like some of what he did. Got rid of the SS decals (who cares), shaved the door handles off (?) and got rid of the SS wheels and put 14" stock steelies with wire hubcaps (
). Also had a U.S. Marine emblem on the grill, he's a retired Marine. Since I'm retired army, that would have to go.
3 houses away a 356 'vert... 7 houses away a 57 BelAir.... 20 houses away a simitar, a miata, 2 - 1st gen MR2s....
Next door neighbor used to have an SCCA GT5-spec 240z that he sold. It sat unused since the early 90's in another garage. Ended up in his for a few months before he sold it.
Same guy is rehabbing his dad's old '90 300ZX TT. 92k miles, but kinda rough.
Years ago, there was a guy with a mid-80's Maserati Quattroporte nearby.
I really didn't expect it when we moved in, but I've discovered a bunch of cool cars around our 'hood.
There's a guy with an RX8 that's also doing some sort of engine work/swap on an S13 240SX. I keep meaning to "happen to drop by" while walking the dog one day.
Across the street from him is a bugeye WRX that's tastefully modded.
Around the corner is an old-schooler with a ZAV-esque Chevy pickup from the 60's and a C4 under a cover most days. I saw it once and it appeared to be in pretty good condition.
There's a young couple who have two lowered AWD Civic Wagovans. One with some cool old JDM rims and the other on Integra "blades". I have to say my inner ricer kinda digs them.
The best one though, is a guy I wanted to talked to for awhile. He had a clean E30 325i, a beautiful dark green NB w/hardtop lowered on gold Rota RBs, and two 911s of the 80's variety under covers. First time I walked past his house, I was all like "yeah, we moved to the right place". I finally get to meet the guy and not only did he share my profession as a graphic designer (now retired), but he has been road racing and autocrossing with the SCCA and PCA since the 60s. His son currently competes in Spec Miata and he's getting his grandkids into it as well. Oh yeah, his wife used to hold hillclimb records and not in a "ladies" class. I just hope to grow up as cool as him.
Nothing here. My neighbor drives circle track and last I knew had a neon.
I keep waiting for someone else in the my neighborhood to post about my cars....
Nothing that cool that I know of on my street (not really a neighborhood). Definitely not a car-enthusiast friendly street, as the garages are all 1 or really small 2 car garages, and you can't park on the street even during the day (too busy).
My parents street, the guy across the street from us has a 55 Chevy, an 82 Mercedes convertible, and a bunch of other stuff that he keeps off site. His wife DD's a Marauder. Another guy down the street has a Z06, his second. He let me drive his first , at the ripe old age of 17
Otherwise I think that we win. Depending on the time of year and who is "home" from college or wherever we've relocated to, we have an E30 convertible, a 10AE Miata, and a G37. The "boring" stuff is the Tundra and 4Runner.
Now that I think of it, there's a Buick Wildcat convertible that I pass every morning, two 'hoods over there's a guy who has two Morris Travellers and a '64 or so Midget. There's a 1500 Midget (black bumper car) about a mile or so away.
I definitely win the 'wot the 'ell's that thing?' award, though.
Living in Northern California has its benefits - In my surrounding neighborhoods I have about a half dozen BMW 2002s ranging from decrepit to minty.
A faded orange daily driver Porsche 912 that I am coveting.
Another mint 912 on a different block that also has as a sweet unidentifiable 1960s Pininnfarina coupe with sort of a 280z silhouette that looks like it was sprayed with blue house paint.
A 356 Porsche that comes out of hiding once in a while.
A blue 69 El Camino that never leaves the garage around the block.
A mint original mini restomod with flares, a sliding canvas roof, airbag steering wheel and minilites.
Just yesterday I spied another original mini with a big 23 on the door in the back of a neighbor's garage.
Multiple first generation corvairs.
A mid 60s Mercury Breezeway sedan with the power retractable rear window.
Beat up Celica Sunchaser.
What I believe to be a 1940s Plymouth lead sled built at least 30 years ago - chopped, frenched, pinstriped and dragging on the asphalt. Parked on the street daily.
Two Eleanor style Mavericks. One yellow one orange.
Many more...
All these in a one block radius:
Unfortunately none belongs to me.
Funny thing is that unless you lived around here, you would never know ... Most of this cars live in the garage and only come out on weekends. They are rarely parked outside.
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