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Re: Repair Nazis

To: british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Repair Nazis
From: uclyjjd <uclyjjd@ucl.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 12:02:41 GMT
Chip Old writes
> In Baltimore County it is illegal to work on a car on the street
> in front of your house or even in your own driveway...

Barry Fox writes.
> Went out, bought a new Ford/Chevy/Dodge and parked it in front
> of his house.  In ten minutes the "neighborhood association" were
> there telling him it was "illegal" for a resident to park any sort of
> commercial vehicle in their own yard.  If he wanted to keep it, he had
> to park it some where else, not even inside his garge was allowed!  A
> review of the documents he signed when buying the property verified
> this.

John Kolb writes
> If only 
> my local Homeowner Nazis... er Homeowner Association was as resonable.
> They have decided that the removable hardtop for my Midget is an
> eyesore if it is not on the car, and that I can't leave it off the 
> car for EVEN ONE SECOND without taking it off to storage.  No negociation,
> no compromise.

John Kolb also writes
> They also once gave me a violation for the brass kickplate on the door
> being corroded.  Seems the builder used brass plated screws instead of 
> solid brass screws, and the plating scratches off under the head
> when installed, and the resulting dissimilar metal contact caused
> corrosion under the protective lacquer coating on the brass plate.

The Land of the Free ?

Julian "An Englishman's home is his castle" Daley
        _____________________________________________________
       | Julian Daley,                     j.daley@ucl.ac.uk |
       | Department Clinical Physics, Guys Hospital, London. |
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