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MushyHeirloom
04/25/09

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Only in California would an authentic AE86 with minimal rust be simply left on the street.
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A strolling player
04/25/09

@FuzzyPlushroomanyte: It sure as hell wouldn't happen in Shibukawa!
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ursa
04/25/09

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I thought anything post '84 was FWD for that Corolla. My 84 coupe was RWD, but the next year I'm pretty sure was FWD.

Nice looking car but with FWD where's the fun?

(Now I did see a late '80s Supra that wasn't blinged or stickered up recently, straight six and RWD!)
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something_unique_and_descriptive
04/25/09

@ursa: The GT-S and SR5 stayed RWD until '87.
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Murilee Martin
04/25/09

@ursa: You could get a Corolla with front- or rear-wheel drive in the mid-80s. After seeing how well they do in LeMons races, I'm going to say the FX16 (FWD) is my favorite.
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Electro Gyrocator
04/25/09

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The Japanese cars still get no respect.
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A strolling player
04/25/09

@LamerX - Reverse donuts on your lawn!:
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413wedge
04/25/09

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You guys are lucky! 'Round these parts in this little farming hick community, it doesn't matter if its parked on the street, in a carport or behind a privacy fence out of sight. If a vehicle is parked ANYWHERE outside and hasn't moved for 30 days, or has a flat, or an expired plate, or a broken window, or no insurance, or looks like it dont run, or more than ten years old, or not street legal (like a race car), or someone important bitches its gonna be GONE like shit thru a goose to impound and held for ransome. They dont even have to tell you that they are taking your vehicle, they just take it. Government goons will knock your fence down if your gate is locked then fine you for the pleasure.

Suppose one should just be thankful and feel lucky and blessed that they are still kind enough to let one keep non-running, non-licensed, non-insured and/or non-street legal vehicles inside an enclosed garage or structure.
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Four-banger? I hardly knew her!
04/25/09

@Ash440: Sounds like a ripe opportunity to put up a security camera and nail their asses. There is no way it is legal for them to trespass on your property to take your property without due process.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
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MushyHeirloom
04/25/09

@Four-banger? I hardly knew her!: Or, y'know, claymore mines.
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A strolling player
04/25/09

@FuzzyPlushrotacon: Do you think love can bloom on the battlefield?
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Six Flags Over Tomsk
04/25/09

@Ash440: I smell a class-action lawsuit...
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Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
04/25/09

@Ash440: If they tried that on me, I'd make use of castle laws and put a few new ventilation holes in the trespasser and the trespasser's truck.
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Murilee Martin
04/25/09

@Ash440: Fortunately, this part of town is very urban, so that sort of nonsense doesn't come up. Drunken fistfights in your yard when the bars close, Bunny and Tigra driving cars with the boom, meth dealing at the nearby dive bars, sure, but no homeowners' associations getting on your ass.
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MushyHeirloom
04/25/09

@Strooooolling the Jalopplayer: I'm going to light you on fire and laugh for that one.
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Mobius
04/25/09

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You know you've been watching too much manga when you start calling a Corolla "AE86".
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A strolling player
04/25/09

@Mobius_1:

Shining car of your dreams

Show me the way for lovin'

Amazing cars and cute girls

Automesse just for youuuuuuuuuu
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Murilee Martin
04/25/09

@Mobius_1: Never touch the stuff.
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Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
04/25/09

@Mobius_1: On a technical note, you watch anime, but read manga.

but what do I know

*NOT an anime fan AT ALL*
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Murilee Martin
04/25/09

@Plecostomus will never win COTD... but has a: I approve of Japanese weirdness, but never got into manga/anime. I read a lot of Oe, Murakami, Dazai, etc, if that counts.
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A strolling player
04/25/09

@Murilee Martin: This is normally my answer as well, but Initial D is an exception. Awesome cars, terrible (but hilarious) music, great show.
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mechimike
04/25/09

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Is that rust? On a car in Alameda?
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Novaload
04/25/09

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So the offer of what--51 cents? 11 cents? Can't tell--isn't enough? Put a new quarter up there, Murilee, and see if that bid is accepted.
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.357
04/25/09

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I guess these parking idiots don't understand that this is a classic.
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tomlewis
04/25/09

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I would probably get mad over the weeds before I got mad over the car if they were my neighbor.
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Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
04/25/09

@tomlewis: Personally, I believe that whatever I choose to do (or not do) with my own property is none of my neighbors' business- and vice versa.
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UDMan
04/25/09

@Ash225/6: I hate to be a prick in this conversation, but that is THE reason why zoning laws were created.

There is no way in hell I would want a house next door to me with peeling paint, with a rotting front porch, or a mobile home, or a junked car in the front of it.

Now, if you want to move said car in the back yard, behind a fence, or behind the garage, and covered, that would be fine with me.
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Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
04/25/09

@UDMan:Good thing we're not neighbors then: check, check, check, and check. What are your feelings on outdoor appliances? ;)

How about if you put up the fence (or pay for my fence, that seems reasonable)- after all, you're the one with the problem.
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Novaload
04/25/09

@Ash225/6: Well, y'know, it's a slope; can you pile up a giant midden heap of stinking garbage in your backyard? That attracts rats? If your house burns down, will you live in a station wagon on the front yard and use the back yard for a latrine? (happened in our town). Can you spray paint obscenities across the front of your house in 10 foot tall letters?

There's a line somewhere; the question is finding it and justifying it with legitimate reasons.
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Maymar
04/25/09

@UDMan: I get wanting to live in a clean neighborhood, but then you've got to question the logic of whomever broke the windows, making the car more decrepit.
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Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
04/25/09

@Novaload Misses Murilee: Well, now you've gone from a "junk" car and a weedy lot to a biohazard zone. I'd say the line is somewhere in the middle there.
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mechimike
04/25/09

@Ash225/6: I tend to fall a bit more on the libertarian side of this argument, but still, at some point what you do to your property does affect mine.

I had an argument with a lady last year- she lives next door to me. She came over one night all angry that my ants (yes, you read that right) were a danger to her children. She claimed they were living in my pine trees and if I didn't cut them down, she'd get her "friend" in the county to force me to. I was incredulous, and basically nicely told her to piss off.

A few months later I caught her burning old carpet in her backyard. Yeah, she's a piece of work.
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CaveTroll
04/25/09

If you're going to have a bunch of decrepit vehicles and trash in your yard, you move to "the country." Like my cousins, for instance. They have at least three F-150s buried up to their axles on their property and at least two Chevy Silverados in a similar state. Then there's the Ford Tempo they buried in the ground because it was somehow full of snakes. Then there are some other cars just lying around, like a '70s era Grand Prix and some others that I can 't remember. Oh yeah, and the Rolls Royce limousine (I think it's either a Phantom V or VI) stuck in their front yard (no joke).
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unclemonkey
04/25/09

@tomlewis:
I plead guilty to collecting junk cars. I know it pisses people off, but I can't help it. I would have a junkyard behind my house if my wife let me.
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MushyHeirloom
04/25/09

@unclemonkey: Same, but in my case it's mostly not wanting to see the cool old stuff that's beyond salvation get crushed.
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UDMan
04/25/09

@tomlewis: We have anti-blight laws in the town I live in. And it's not like I's a neat freak anyway. I have in the backyard: A boat on a trailer, a utility trailer, my camper, and the Corvair I'm getting ready for LeMons, along with my other boat in the garage. However, the lawn is neatly trimmed, weeds are kept under control, and when the paint gets too thin or starts flaking off the house or garage, time to take care of it. All the other stuff is hidden under covers, of behind the garage so that it's not an eyesore.

I'm also very lucky that I don't live in a deed restricted neighborhood that seems to be popular in Connecticut. Deed restrictions like no trucks in the driveway, no trailers, no campers, and no boats in the yard, and all the yard work tidy neat and well kept. Ugh.
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A strolling player
04/25/09

@UDMan: Ah yes, the historic neighbourhood problem. My lease states that no nonrunning vehicles are allowed on the street or in driveways (not that I have one). I'm going to have to start seriously niceing up to my parents to let me use their garage for my LeMons car next year...
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Murilee Martin
04/25/09

@tomlewis: The car isn't parked in front of the owner's apartment building. It never does.
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joneez wants the clunkers he paid for
04/25/09

@CaveTroll: That's all fine until the county comes and hauls your shit off as happened to me. Being out in the boonies doesn't save you either. I am two miles from the county road behind two locked private gates, you can't see my stuff until you're a 1/4 mile from the house and my nearest neighbor is over a mile away. The county showed up one day with an aerial photo of my property and told me I had 60 days to clean it up. When I failed to meet their criteria at the deadline, they showed up to "help" me and proceeded to haul off everything, including a 40ft pipe and sheet metal storage building. My biggest mistake was doing this in California and being too broke to fight them.
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cq is experimental
04/25/09

@Strooooolling the Jalopplayer: If we can get the truck on the street we can probably start appealing to clay's mom (aka my not-yet-mother-in-law) for the garage it lives in...
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A strolling player
04/25/09

@cq is experimental: Mmmm...
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MushyHeirloom
04/25/09

@Strooooolling the Jalopplayer: Waitwaitwait.

So you can park one on the LAWN?!

(Oh, and your LeMons car will run! It just won't be inspectable.)
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MushyHeirloom
04/25/09

@Awww fer f*cks sake joneez!: And you didn't pull a Killdozer... why?
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A strolling player
04/26/09

@FuzzyPlushroomanyte: No lawn to speak of! Just much gardening. I have "fashion-conscious" landlords. They're awesome.
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MushyHeirloom
04/26/09

@Strooooolling the Jalopplayer: What they do in their private bedroom is no business of yours!
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Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
04/25/09

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Why do people have to be such pricks?

Too bad he's like 3500 miles away, the owner of that Toyota could park it in my yard as long as he wanted. (Not that I'm a fan of Yotas, but it's the principle of the thing). I've got a tarp and some bungees he could use, too.
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mechimike
04/25/09

@Ash225/6: I'd offer, too. Shit, what's one more decaying, rotting old car carcass when you've already got 14?
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Uncle Bo
04/25/09

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Neighborhood vigilantes or surreptitious plot to lower value of potential LeMons entry?

Murilee reports, you decide.
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Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
04/25/09

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Looks like that Yota is just about ready for its run at LeMons fame.

Are those coins sitting, unmolested, on the Caddy's tasteful padded vinyl landau roof? Shame about the rust
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Murilee Martin
04/25/09

@Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Yes, someone tossed some change on the Cad's roof. Been there for quite a while.
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MushyHeirloom
11/21/08

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It's beautiful. Somebody save it.
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SundaySunday
11/21/08

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I sure do miss the old purpose-built factory limousine. Nowadays, they just chop and stretch everything: Hummers, Lincolns, '57 Bel Airs, Land Rovers. None of them with any style whatsoever. Blah.

/offa my lawn, stupid kids!
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Zarba
11/21/08

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We had a '78 Sedan DeVille. While the 425 didn't have long legs, it had torque in spades. It pulled strong, for the day, and had acres of stretch-out room.

My junior year in HS, my dad and I took it from PA on a tour of colleges throughout the South. The A/C was very strong, and the car rode well. Cornering? Not so much, but hey, it's a Caddy.

Very fond memories of that great beast.

I agree that these 425cid's were the last great Caddies. After that, they just got weaker and weaker. Generic GM engines, and then the final insult: Front Wheel Drive.
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MushyHeirloom
11/21/08

@Zarba: Then they gave us the Northstar... but it was STILL front-wheel-drive!
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