I am sure that your statement that we are "not normal" is a compliment.
Isn't it?
My limited advice: I try to keep things neat and somewhat organized.
Non-blue tarps, parking so the trucks look like they might just start up and
get going, clean up after each day's activities, as much stored as possible
on the side yard or in the back yard little portable building, etc. I know
this is not much advice, but it seems to work for me somewhat. I also try
to say "hi" to everyone and involve the neighborhood kids so that it would
be hard to be mean to me. My dad once said that it's harder to refuse
someone when they are standing in front of you as opposed to how easy it is
to say "no" to some nameless face somewhere.
Good luck to all of us on this front. I have had some City folk command me
to do some stuff in another neighborhood and it's a bummer.
Michael Lubitz
1946 Chevy 3/4 ton, stock
1948 Chevrolet 3100, hot rod
Austin, Texas
----- Original Message -----
From: <MarkNoakes@aol.com>
To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] neighborhood Nazi's
> I'm afraid this one caught me too, although in my case it was a
> reinterpretation of the neighborhood covenants that got me. The
> reinterpretation happened after most of the original crowd had moved on
and a
> younger yuppie and family crowd moved in. The rules were originally
written
> to avoid vehicles on blocks in the yard; the reinterpretation is that any
> non-running, non-current registration vehicles are not acceptable. The
> tendency to reinterpret according to the current social norms is what
bothers
> me. . .and guys, in case you haven't noticed, we are not "normal".
>
> I finally had to move my Chevy Sub to my brother Brian's (the GMC was
already
> there), which means that I can rarely go work on it. . .which is why Brian
> will take care of the bodywork for me and we'll put the frame/drivetrain
in
> my third bay garage. . .out of sight of the militants.
>
> Brian has a minifarm in middle Tennessee and so the laws for that are
pretty
> lax. . .for now. Agricultural zoning generally lets you have multiple
> nonrunning vehicles. They are now getting serious encroachment with new
> neighborhoods growing up around them, and I expect that he will eventually
> have problems too.
>
> Forme, there's no real solution except to eventually move somewhere else,
> checking on the local laws, and going for someplace zoned agricultural.
>
> Mark Noakes
> Knoxville, TN
> 58/56 Chevy Suburban 2wd 350 V8 3speed w/OD in progress
> 59 GMC Suburban V8/Hydramatic looking for a 1/2 ton NAPCO kit and a V8,
> destined for straight stock resto
>
>
> In a message dated 2/1/01 9:27:48 PM, cayfords@sympatico.ca writes:
>
> << Got a call from the town office today, seems my neighbors object to my
> "driveway art", elitist snobs that the are. I am awaiting printed versions
> of the bylaws that pertain to my affliction, but will ask in advance for
> any creative solutions to "hide" my addiction. If anyone has a creative
> solution to this problem, I would love to hear it.
>
> Al
> too many vehicles
> too much time robbed earning the cash to pay for their restification
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959 >>
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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