Winging Neighbours

Do any of you guys have problems with neighbors wining about when you start your hot rods.
I live next door to a winging old bag who is a councilor who got upset big time last weekend when I started the rod and had it idling for about 5 minutes.
I've got to tell you the women is a little unstable but as soon as she's on the back foot out comes I'm a single woman and the people next door are bastards and start the car all the time etc.
The true story is the rods lucky to do 50kms for the year and if started 95% of the time its rolled to the front before its started ( Garage 9m x 6m )
Engine in the rods 350 fuel injected in 32 ford roadster

my neighbor 'doc' collects old cars and fixes them/resells them.
Whenever I fire something up he comes over to check it out.

Other neighbor is an old annoying man. He called the law when I built my shop... he claimed I was opening a diesel repair shop. Anyway, most annoying complaining types are known as annoying complaining types....
Took thirty seconds for the tax guy/building guy to see I was not opening a business. I spent half an hour bs'in with them about neat cars/trucks that I have/had.

yup yup yup . i have had it happen many times .but were i at now they can kiss my a$$ one guy is a biker so i put up with him and is buddys with drag pipes . the other bone head next door likes me to hear his rap when he coming home at 300 in the morning from the bar . i do not keep my cars here but one day very soon i going to back up at the end of the block i will need the room:D and show them who is the big dog on the block . do a rolling burn out in front of there houses with a 548 blown big block with 4 inch EX dancing off the 7500 RPM chip sounds like. or you can do what i always did when they bitch at me look them in the eyes tell them to call the cops .alot of the time i was good but there where times i push it so there abit of give and take .so when i think i taken all there $hit i give back just a wee bit

go ahead pat! you can come by my house like that any time. My neighbors really are not that bad. I also have one that will play rap at 1:00 in the morning. all i do is crank up my stereo at 8:00 a.m. so that can listen to clapton and hear what real music is. My other neighbor is a crack head so he does not like the cops either. he tried taking something once from my garage many years ago. I went out with my winchester 30/30 and he promptly put it back. have not had any trouble since.

ok barb i be right by :3dSMILE:you can not miss me you will hear me way long before you see me . you will not miss seeing me. i will be the car only with a gas tanker truck filled with race fuel for my gas tank:eek:

My neighbors like my cars. :) I've even let one of them drive a couple of mine. The home owners ass. is another story! :mad:

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Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

ok barb i be right by :3dsmile:you can not miss me you will hear me way long before you see me . You will not miss seeing me. I will be the car only with a gas tanker truck filled with race fuel for my gas tank:eek:

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I will be here with my ears to the wind. lol

I kinda see both sides of the argument. In my earlier years I was pretty inconsiderate of my neighbors and would work on my cars till all hours and my Wife would have to remind me to keep things quiet sometimes. Now that I am older I feel bad about some of that and understand why they sometimes had code enforcement paying us visits. These days I rarely bring my hot rod home out of consideration for others living here, and if I do it is during daylight hours, never at night.

My pet peeve now are those thumping base stereos that some people feel they have to share with everyone else within 5 miles. Our current residence isn't bad but the last place we lived at was not so hot and I was always going out to remind someone that everyone else living there did not want to have to listen to their racket.

Don

I`ve always been considerate of the neigborhood with my cars, we had new people move in across the street, from one of the pacific islands, well to say the least calling the cops got to be a weekly thing on Friday nights, so the other neigbor next to them directly across the street from me had me and my son bring his 370 ci dart with open hedders to do a tunning session in his driveway at 6:00 am the following morning prior to going to the strip, my son had climb in on the trailer, hit the throttle once and hit the key the car exploded to life, he then backed it off the trailer, I`ve never seen so many people come flying out of a house so fast in thier underwear, that was the last party they had, we had told them that this was going to be a every week thing if they had continued with their partys til two in the morning, they had moved a year later.

Could understand the winging bitch if I was revving the car but it was just idling.She evan had a wine a few years ago when we left for a trip up North in the car at 5 am in the morning and I just cruised slowly past.Trust me if it was'nt for the wife worrying about the bitch I'd be revving the car all day long.grinding and bashing as well just to teach her what noise is

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Originally Posted by roadster

Do any of you guys have problems with neighbors wining about when you start your hot rods.
I live next door to a winging old bag who is a councilor who got upset big time last weekend when I started the rod and had it idling for about 5 minutes.
I've got to tell you the women is a little unstable but as soon as she's on the back foot out comes I'm a single woman and the people next door are bastards and start the car all the time etc.
The true story is the rods lucky to do 50kms for the year and if started 95% of the time its rolled to the front before its started ( Garage 9m x 6m )
Engine in the rods 350 fuel injected in 32 ford roadster

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Aww,mate,you want to try having South Africans as neighbors..Lotsa fun..You cant make ANY noise at all,BUT,they can make noise if they want to..:DLong story,lets just say,that after whining to the local authorities about me working from home,and he got no joy from them,in fact I was within the bylaws,,so,eventually,he sold the house and moved closer to town,,hoping it would be quieter...yeah right..:D
I dont make a lot of noise at all,but what little I did make was too much for him.

You better becareful Barb.
Your better than a dream come true for most of these guys.
Work on your own cars, play good music, and guard the shop too.
One of these guys will get a divorce and show up in VA trying to Wine and Dine you.
It would probably that DeepRoots fellow. HE! HE! HE!

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Originally Posted by lamin8r

Aww,mate,you want to try having South Africans as neighbors..Lotsa fun..You cant make ANY noise at all,BUT,they can make noise if they want to..:DLong story,lets just say,that after whining to the local authorities about me working from home,and he got no joy from them,in fact I was within the bylaws,,so,eventually,he sold the house and moved closer to town,,hoping it would be quieter...yeah right..:D
I dont make a lot of noise at all,but what little I did make was too much for him.

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I'd chuck a party if she'd move.I'd even pack her

Reading these makes me happy that I live where I am right now (we're moving to VA eventually). I've never had a complaint, but a few years ago I had a guy stop by wondering what the "music" was coming from = my now long gone T-bucket with straight non muffled pipes. He was from 2 blocks away. We do have on Nova a block or so away that gets a little noisy occasionally, but even that's for a couple of minutes and during the day on Saturday before the drags. Now - the hound owned by the Statie across the street, that mutt was out last night at 11:30 yapping away, and since my wife just took a part time job with the town we live in.........:3dSMILE:;)

i dont have problems with my neighbor .. but when i crank up my stang with open headers it only takes about 2 minutes for the state trooper down the road or a county mounty to ride by

amazing hoss.... and yet if something of yours gets stolen "they can't help"
or if someone breaks into your shop, it'll take them thirty minutes to show up.

B4 I retired and moved to Da Mountians, I lived in a pretty conservative area.
Neighbors were always bitchen about the noise my Hot Rods made.
I tried to be considerate, but ya always got a few jerks.
Anyway, the weekend I moved out, I had a buddy of mine bring over his T/A dragster, we rolled it outta the trailer and stuffed it in my garage.
Ya see where I'm goin with this?
About 7 am on Sunday morning,we rolled it out in the driveway and lit it off for about a minute, then loaded it back in the trailer.
And off I went to the new house in Da Mountians.
Bet sum are still wonddering what happened.:confused::confused:

i am sure that woke them up da:LOL:

I guess the bottom line is that we ALL offend our neighbors in some way from time to time. Our last home had great neighbors and we all tolerated each others little offenses very well. I made a little noise with my car and boat projects, the guy behind me had some loud pool parties, etc, etc, but no one ever said anything to anyone about it.

We did live in one neighborhood years ago, mainly populated by ooooooooooold people (:D) and they hated us because we were younger and had teenage kids. Even the fact that we had 4 daily drivers in the driveway irked them (I had to explain to one guy that "We have 4 licensed drivers, so YES, we have 4 cars!"

The guy next door would call code enforcement on us once a week and finally I got fed up with it, so I went to city hall and got a copy of all the laws so I knew what I was dealing with. One law was that you couldn't have anything out by the street on your property EXCEPT YOUR MAILBOX. I noticed this cranky neighbor had a post stuck in the ground out by the road, so he was technically in violation.........so, I CALLED CODE ENFORCEMENT! :D

A half hour later I was out cutting my grass and here rolls up a code enforcement car, and the officer starts writing up a ticket for the guy next door. He comes walking out of his house and I watch an animated conversation where he is telling the officer he has that post there to keep people from driving on his lawn. No dice, the officer makes him take it down right then.

As he was dragging the post across the lawn, taking it to his garage, I shut the mower off and walked up to him. I said "How does it feel? Every time I see you break some law I am going to have them back here at your door!" :eek: We never had one problem after that! :LOL:

Don

These are funny stories..My car is locked in a shop about 2 miles from
my home behind my son's house about 1000 ft off blacktop, mostly country
with several houses...I don't get it out too often for a burnout, but when
I do everyone within 3 miles knows who it is and what it is....I know of
two deputy Sheriffs living close by also, but I only do a couple burnouts
and put back in shop..No one has complained, as a matter of fact I have
had people who heard it coming down the lane come out to the road to
watch. Lot of thumbs up, but keep in mind this is not city folk, lot of
rednecks around here including cops.....Guess I am lucky.

I used to have jerk next door that had a little Jap dirt bike with open exhaust, the ones that go ring a ding ding, ring a ding ding and drive you nuts. He'd fire it up after his in-laws left, his wife and brood were living with them, and do donuts in the back yard. I put up with it as long as I could until one day I fired up both the Mustang and 62 1/2 ton with the headers open. That pretty much put a stop to it until the day he sprayed the Mustang with rocks with his dirt bike. I went back into the house and came out with a baseball bat and threatened to knock him into the middle of the next week if he ever got close to my Mustang again. That pretty much solved the problem.

Man I guess I'm the only lucky one here. Guy across the street has a big block 69 Camaro & a 34 Ford, guy diag from us has Harley's, next door neighbor is currently looking for a project (we see him at the cruise ins & the track) & the people behind me have a boat with a small block. Oh the guy 3 houses down has a 9 sec Mustang. We all help each other, swap parts, & don't complain when one of us comes home @ 2:00 in the morning.

i live about 13 clicks from town, most of the people around the street, are
hot rodders, dirt bikers , demo derby racers!:toocool:
the crybaby whiners live on the other side of town!
what is really neat is that the noisemakers shut down the cars by 10:00pm or so!

Grew up in Seattle. Dad was always working on the Rod - grinding, hammering, welding.....but always during 'normal' hours, and the neighbors were fine. Of course, a college professor moves in directly behind us and all of a sudden, the cops are called all the time for noise complaints. Got to know a few of them on first name basis and they all enjoyed a tour of the Rod as well as a cold Pepsi when they showed up.

After I moved out, I brought over my buddies 2.5 litre inboard hydro to dial the cam in. I estimate it took the prof about 2-sec to make it from his office to the back of the boat to scream at me after we fired it up. I told him to go ahead and call the cops - think Ron was on duty that day and I hadn't seen him for awhile. LOL.....

Seems there is at least one in any given neighborhood; just do not like "car people". What I do that seems totally innocuous, sets someone nearby off, no matter what or where. My daily drivers have always had duals and RRUMBLY pipes, and neighbors have mostly suffered me quietly; mostly, but not always. The guy who lives behind me asked me if I was going to be working on cars and trucks in my yard, when I moved in; the question was couched in a tone of distaste and disgust. I told him "yep", and that sometimes I'd be running them, or banging on things, and would have machinery and equipment around almost all the time, but that I would try to be reasonably considerate; he promptly built a six foot fence at the back of his yard, but he's never complained about running engines or such.