My neighbor called me tonite to hear his new Flowmasters he put on his car. This got me thinking about a post I had read on here a while back about someone who's neighbors called the police because they were running their car after hours. My neighborhood may be the perfect Hotrod Neighborhood. :yes: First let me explain that this subdivision is a rural subdivision and the lots are around 2 acres each. I have a 72 Chevelle that I am going to take to cruise ins this year and i Have a 84 Trans Am in my detached garage I have been restoring. My Borhter in law lives around the corner and has a 46 Chevy truck street rod and a 30 something coupe street rod. My neighbor that called me lives cat-a-corner from me and has a big block Mopar. A friend that lives down the road from our subdivision has a 'Cuda with dual quads sticking out of the hood. And last, my next door neighbor who lives on the other side of a small wooded lot has a '69 Z/28 that he restored along with a 1000 horsepower rail that he and his son races. When they fire the rail up in the garage it is like the Pied Piper. We all come running to his house. :hurray:

I want to hear if you live in a area with other like minded dudes as well and what kind of vehicles are around your location.

Thanks,

When I fired up my 463 a few years ago, the neighborhood come over to check it out.:D:thumbsup:

Im the only Muscle-car guy within 5 miles, everyone else likes those obnoxious dodge black-smoke trucks with mudflaps and dual stacks... :rolleyes: even the ladies do! :rolleyes::rolleyes:

My next door neighbor has a 4x4 with a 502...no problems here...:thumbsup:

sounds like you live in an oh so perfect community.

with myself living in the city, the roost here is turbo jap cars en-mass. roving gangs of them that will circle around you on the interstates neons and all like velociraptors around a t-rex. yeah, well i'm getting electric cutouts this season, and i'm gonna dump the exhaust @ 4500 grand next time they do that, and they will end up deaf.

-Scott

I am in the city but have a few cars on my side of the block - my 72, 2 houses down the son keeps his nitrous'ed Stang at his dad's, the dad, Horace, usually fires her up on Sunday mornings. At the far end we have a 94 Z28 that puts out somewhere in the neighborhood of 425 HP to the rear wheels and right next to him I have seen a convertible Mopar in his garage. The lady across the alley has called the cops on Horace for firing up the Stang. Also, more than half the neighbors in the alley have stopped at some point to say they love my car. Can't complain to much here.
Frank

One neighbor has an 1980 Malibu with a 454 that I helped build and install.
He also has a 72 Mustang fastback,identical to the one in the orignal "Gone in 60 seconds" including the color :cool:
And there is a nice 66 Caprice and a 1985 Mustang GT around the corner too.
No one has ever called the cops on me and I have been in my house for almost 14 years.

yep mine is a "Hot Rod hood' too.

me with my SS 454.
on my street are
69 Mach 1
65 GTO
70 super bee 440 tubbed/wheelie bars

around the corner
71 Chevelle SS 350 4speed
70 Camaro 427
67 Camaro rs - restored to better than showroom condition

& 2 streets away
68 camaro 396 #s matching
another 65 GTO (looks like the one on my street but sounds waaaaay diferent)

The closest thing I have is the Old couple across the street that give me his recent issues of a couple of car magazines. The other is like 7 houses away where a son has stored his Buick GS at his mothers outside for the last who knows how many year untouched, but did finally put a cover on to stop attracting people who want to but it.

Let's see, 60% of the people in my rural neighborhood have pole barns/shops. We are right on the city limits outside of town.

The President of the Indy GTO Club lives down the street. His bud's show up all the time.

69 ElCamino.

Theres's a 32 Ford Coupe with a 406 & tri-power.

At least 5 guys in the hood have loud Harleys.

New guy just moved in & built 3 bay two story garage, He's a corvette guy.

One guy has a corvair convertible.

There's a 68 Firebird Convertible.

One family has three boys that run go-carts up and down the street.

Oh yeah, I have 2 65 Malibu's and a 66 Mustang convertible

Nobody has ever said a word to me when I fire up the 65 with open headers.

Oh yeah, There's my buddy that lives in the farmhouse with 5 acres next to the hood that has an annual neighborhood Bar-B-Que and invites everyone. We shoot skeet and all kinds of automatic weapons on Saturday before all the people show up for the B-Que.

I have never seen anyone do a burnout in the hood, (including me). Everyone seems to respect that. It works.


Mike

My neighborhood is what finally pushed me over the edge to buy my first muscle car.
My oldest sons best friends father ( a mile down the road) has a 70 Boss thats built and he always has a second car that changes every couple years, now it's a 65 Fastback K code Mustang, two years ago it was a 69 Nova SS(Cortez Silver W/ Black Vinyl) the year before it was a 70 Challenger vert.
Anytime he'd get a new car, he'd spin by my house and light em up to antagonize me.:D
Then there's two guys in the neighborhood in between us , one has a 55 Belair with a 502, the other has a 69 Vette, a 70 Coupe Deville Vert and claims to have a 69 Velle that's been at his friends shop for years now, I've yet to see it.:confused:
And just about a mile past the end of our road another guy with a 68 GTX and one with a 66 Lemans Vert, so lots of classics close here:yes:
As a matter of fact I've decided to follow suit with Scott (ssal396) and have a car guy/TC barbecue this spring or summer.
Chris ( Mr 4Speed) I hope to have running water by then :D so keep it in mind:thumbsup: You too Dan:)

I used to be in one, but the house was too small for me. There was my car, neighbor had a 70 (I think) Nova with both 1/4s off, a 70-73 Camaro Z28 a few doors down, end of the street was a nice looking white 70 that I never saw leave the garage-he also had a red 60s non chevy too. Across and over one was a Studebaker POS. 2 streets back, this guy had a house/shop where he built his daughter's dragster: http://www.midwestwildbunch.com/Profiles/cassie_simonton.htm

Interesting thread! My neighborhood is also a rural neighborhood here in Virginia. There is my 67 big block chevelle. A 68 BBC Camaro down the street and a 66 327 Corvette a couple of doors down from him. We have more exotics then anything. There are 4 Dodge Vipers, one Plymouth Prowler, too many Vettes and Porsches to count and a lime green Lamborghini Murcierlargo LP 640 (with lime green rims) I'll take my 67 thanks!

My immediate Neighbor has a 72 Lemans with a 500 HP Pontiac and 4 link. My other neighbor works for GM in the aftermarket stuff, so he is ALWAYS over and we talk. I have a 64 Chevelle, and a 95 Camaro Vert with a LT1 and M6. There are probably 10 muscle cars in various stages around me. I am starting a car club in the spring. Lastly, I happen to have a brand new blacktop'd 1/2 mile road about 500 yds from my house and I just bought the corner 4 acres for my house and (hopefully) 40x 80 barn. I am not even sure if the township will let me build that big.

Lastly, there is a guy in the sub that has a BAD A$$ 69 Camaro BBC drag car, 10 sec easy that took him 7 yrs to build from scratch. I can hear that thing fire up from my house!

This is one of the things I LOVE about living in (near) a GM town (Flint MI). Be sure to come to the Back to the Bricks cruise and show in August, there will be about 4000 cars there and of course all of us "car guys".!

Hmmmm - Well I like to enjoy each day especially with da cars. Nothing in the neighbourhood but lots of friends come by with their rides causes quite a stir folks wonder by and look. One day last summer a friend and I were tweaking on my 496 hooker headers with 2&1/2 flows connected to super 40's. One particular neighbour who has never enjoyed the car action around here walked over and said "This car is too noisy and I don't like it "I said well you don't look like you are old enough to enjoy this sound so you had better go back home and close your doors for a while . -- he did --

Old couple across the street had an Avanti, and two old Studebakers. Even his wife called him to come look when several friends came over with a 67 RS SS a 71 Cuda and a 55 Chevy with a serious dual quad 302 at 14:1. They moved and two gay guys moved in and don't you know one of them has a 57 Belaire? Cool. The guy next to them has had Vettes since the 60's and called me one day when I fired up the Camaro to tell me it sounded good. The guy next to me on the corner has an old 40 something fire engine that is louder than my Camaro. Not sure about how it will be compared to the Chevelle. He even said he had no problem with me building a garage closer to the line than code allows. Now all I got to do is convince the town. We are lucky to have good neighbors. Hope I am one too.

Oh yeah and a guy around the corner has a 65 or 66 Vette that he leaves outside in the weather all summer long. I think it needs a new home. May have to build the garage bigger than I planned.

Cool thread.

The guy at the entrance to my neighborhood has a '69 Z-28 and a '70 El Camino SS396. Just down the street from him is another dude with a '70 Blazer and a '72 El Camino with a 350 4spd. Around the corner from him lives a lady with a '55 T-Bird. Across the street from her lives a guy who has 2 1980s El Caminos. Then there is me with a '66 Chevelle SS396 and a '69 Malibu. I might have to buy another project just to stay ahead of everyone else.

I wish... my neighbors are boring, and nobody talks to each other. The only time you see anybody outside is when they mow their lawn.

Last year I had one pretty cool neighbor, who built demo-derby cars... big waste of time, money, and effort, and his place always looked pretty bad with junkers in the driveway, but at least he was cool enough to drink beer with and socialize... they moved out though last fall.

for the most part I have good neighbours who don't mind, but I find if you run open headers, you can't hear complaints from the ones that do.:D

None of my neighbors speak English, so I can't tell if they're complaining or not.;)

They don't call the cops, because they're all illegal.:D


Randy

My neighborhood is lame. In the summer I'll see a '67 Chevelle about 3 times a year, and I'll see a working project '71 Chevelle about every two weeks. I don't know where they go/come from but they use my road.
All my neighbors are into guns, I live in the country so its not uncommon for the weekends to sound like shooting ranges. (what the heck do you need a .50 cal. for anyway?)
I would rather buy parts. :yes:

I'm really lucky where I live my next door neighbor had some Hot Rods back in the 50's and 60's so he likes to check out stuff I'm doing. The guy on the other side of him has a dirt track car. The guy across the alley from me has a dirt track car and my closest gearhead friend is 1 block away and has all kinds of noisy toys! So I'm probably the quietest guy in the neigborhood!

I live on a 1/4 mile gravel road. We have myself, a supergas racer, 2 mud boggers and 3 kids with dirtbikes. The dirtbikes seem to bother everyone but me for some reason. We had a guy who had a Hemi Roadrunner but he recently moved out. It is a luxury because between all of us, we can usually save someone a roadtrip for things and will help each other out as needed.

Nope, no hotrods in this comlex...couple neighbors stop by occasionally to BS about the stuff they had in the old days...Manager here had a VW with a built 440 chrysler in it. :confused:

no one here but me with the Healey and the Chevelle, the guy on the corner with his two Harleys, and the guy next to him with his. Two guys looked at the house for sale across the street yesterday and they showed up on a pair of Harleys. Don't know if they're gay but wouldn't that be a hoot.

My neighbor across the street loves our cars at my place but up at my parents where our shop is is where it really goes down. Its up in the Northern part of Hall County in Northeast Ga. within a 10 mile radius there are probably a few hundred hot rods the road we're on is basically all family and each of them have a couple shops and do frame offs so there are always hot rods around and when you hear one bust off you walk outside to see if they lay into it as that is kinda the thing to do lol. Its hotrod heaven in North Ga.

my street is not to bad either, my 67, across the street a son has a 72 nova, his first car that he and his dad work on and tinker with, and then at the end of the street the guys have 3, 4 whele drive f-350 with major aftermarket turbo't that they love to wind up, across from them the guy has an altered ranchero and a "mini dragster, a 55 chevy prostreet, and a few bikes that he races, we works for MSD here in town and on a couple of occasions brought home the MSD 55 chevy, then on the other end, my buddy he has a another 67 its parked somewhere else but i still consider it part of the neighborhood and his dad is prety big into offroading and has a late 80 dodge shrotbed raised sky high that over the years he has one several off road competitions with...and not to mention my neighbors right next door are older so they cant hear very well!!! its kind of a block "rule" respect thing that we stop doing major work to the cars at around 9 p.m. or so unless you are in the garage. All in all i cant complain one bit, and the cops have never been called...knock on wood!!!!

my subdivision's got a 69 camaro (guy also has big block tubbed s-10 that goes 9s), 68 stingray, 72 shortbed chevy p/u (guy has a late model dirt track car too), a tan primered duster 73 maybe..with a 383, an early 70's mustang with the louvred rear window, a couple of street/strip fox body mustangs, etc..there are LOTS of big trucks around. there's a guy with a black diesel ford dually with freight train exhaust that has to have 50" tires, on 30" wheels i kid you not...and of course, my red 72.

no one around my hood have muscle cars but they all have 90k+ mercedes and bentley's but they sure wish they had one! becasue al though my car does'nt rake it more than 22-25k, they still stop and gazeee in awe haha :thumbsup::beers:

I live out in the country and we do have some nice hot-rods but I think I'm the only one that drives mine, I always see nice rides in garages but never on the street. I got one friend at the end of the street that anybody would love to hang out. He shop is over 2000sq ft with 4 -3.5 ton ac/heaters,
paint booth, 2 lifts and some nice toys. He's got a 55 chevy street legal with a 400 SBC no power adders that I watch run a 10.19 on his first pass, the next day bolted the exhast back on and went to the sonic drive in. He use to race top fuel boats and still has some wicked boats, I rode in one that went 183mph and that was his cruising boat. twin 700 cu in hi helix blown motors.

Pretty boring neighborhood where I live. The guy two houses away has a restored '70 or '71 Mustang Mach 1 or something (he rarely brings it out, and I'm not a F*rd man). There's a guy on another street that has a '68 or '69 El Camino that's dropped in the weeds with big wheels. His project is stalled and the car is stuffed in the garage. That's about it. I've spotted Chevelles and El Caminos driving through, but don't know where they live. I'm pretty much the grease-monkey in my neighborhood. The four LEO's in the neighborhood don't seem to mind the loudness, even when I fire up my boat engine in summer :D .

I've been visited by the police a few times over the years,but think I have that handled now.Quite a few hot rods n such in the neighborhood,let's see what I can remember here-my street has my '70 and the truck,further down there's a '70 Mustang that's a beater about the same as my car,across from him there's a '68 Chevelle project and they drive a Lil' Red Wagon truck,behind us are some Harleys,there was a clone to the Silver Bullet street race car,not sure if they moved or sold it,or I just haven't seen it,then a loud LS1 T/A.Next street is the neighborhood nuisance drunk that speeds around in his loud truck.Next street my buddy Donny lives on,he races dirt bikes and has had an "official visit",he also has a '78 Chevy 4x4 that we've done a lot of work to,guy with 2 project '56s in the back yard,new people with a V8 S10 blazer that sounds and looks good,Freddie that has a bracket '71 Challenger.Scattered there's another Challenger-beater with a snorkel,1st gen Camaro drag car,'67 Nova drag car,couple of LX street race cars and third gens,A couple dirt/late models racers,a sprint racer (not sure if they're the same),people that either got rid of a Viper or don't drive it because they have a new Z06,2 '72 Chevelles and one '71-all 2 doors,the village idiot with his '71 Nova,a Roush Mustang,'67 twin turbo 440 Belvedere that was in Hot Rod a few months ago,the other Donny with the '70 'cuda and blown Mustang GT,his neighbor with the Road Runner,the other Road Runner,a 10 second Bug,a beater Camaro bracket car.

But the coolest car in the 'hood is a '49 Merc,that's chopped,channeled,and sectioned,has lake pipes,is pearl white with flames.

I wish I lived in a Hot Rod neighborhood. Nobody around here even cares about cars. Next door neighbor understands the car thing but isnt into cars. He comes from an Auto Shop backround but now operates his own business related to the heavy duty truck industry.

The closest car guy I know of is a fellow team member and NCC member. John D. And his friend and neighbor, Kyle, that lives across the street. Thier only about 5 miles from me. If that.

In about a 1.5 mile stretch of country road I live on there are several cars. One guy has a 68 or 69 chevelle. Don't see it much. I have a 65 chevelle. Right next to me is a 65ish nova and 56ish chevy. Two houses beyond them are a 36 chevy and two 40 fords one a vert. Next to them is a 69 camaro and a few houses past them is another 36 chevy.

:thumbsup: My neighbor has a 62 Plymouth Sport Fury with a 440 wedge motor which puts out an honest 800+ HP. Right around the corner there is a 64 Ford falcon drag car. My 68 velle. Oh ya there is a 69 Grand Torino 390 a few blocks away as well. :DNot bad for a regular suburb!

wow, a lot of you guys have awesome neighbors. nothing but the turbo imports around here, although i talk to 2 guys who own a couple one has a 96 twin turbo 6spd toyota supra with around 650 horse at the crank of his TT I6, and the other guy has a 96 twin turbo Nissan 300ZX 5spd that makes 800RWHP. the nissan guy oogles over my chevelle and thinks it's the coolest thing in the world, and these guys are just like me, we just all went diffrent ways with cars. these guys are fast as well, they are no joke like ricers, in fact they hate ricers becausr they say it gives all of them a bad name. they also don't "rice" out their cars, with wings, clear lights, stickers etc. i also know a guy down our block a bit that has an old lamborghini countach from the 80's LP500 or somthing like that. he also had a deloreon DMC-12 with turbo stage package, cool older guy. i asked him to run my chevelle in his old 80's lambo, i'll throw 2:73's in the rear just for the event even though i know i'll have my ass handed to me at anything over 150MPH :D most of the muscle car people are up at the farm, but then again that is mopar mecca, so i approach with caution. haha