New Neighbours - More Shiters?

[mercrocker]

We live in a small close of 10 houses, somewhat at the lower end of property values owing to small plots and an unadopted road which is usually in a bit of a state.   For some reason most people like it here and rarely move so we don't often get new neighbours.   However there has been a sale recently and rather than wonder what type of person might be living there I am usually interested more in what they drive! 

 

In the street currently we have a couple with a Xsara and oval grille Fiesta, there are 2 houses without cars and the rest have, between them, R Reg Corolla, R Reg Astra, 51 Mondeo and R reg C Class.   The only 2 who let the side down are a lady who always has new Ford rubbish and a couple opposite who have a newish BMW of some sort and one of those horrid Fiat things that's supposed to look like a 500.   So, the balance could be tipped by the incomers.....

 

Looked out of the window this morning and see a lady strugging with the front door key in the manner of a new house-owner.   Parked in the drive is a V reg SEAT.   Encouraging!  Here's hoping hubby doesn't turn up later in some sort of baby van and disgorge a load of window-licking kids.....

[Christine]

Might be a member on here already !

[DVee8]

You don't want to live were i do then.The driveways here are littered with new bmw's and 4x4's

[xtriple]

I live in a shitty part of Torquay at the mo' and there's loads of shite round here: Bloke up the road has a Peugeot 206 2 litre something in black that sounds lovely and an MG ZT with one steel wheel. It actually looks quite nice, just wish he'd sort that wheel out. Then there's a lovely old Beetle (proper one not new shite), a woman that's got a Jap import Toyota previa 4X4 diesel, a Diahatsu and a Jap import 4X4 ( I can't remember the models!) any number of old Vauxhall Corsas of mid  90s flavour, and other assorted chod.

 

There's also a Lexus IS300 hybrid (nice) a Porsche 944, a 911 of early 90s, a couple of Audi TTs (one a V6 with flappy paddle gerabox that sounds lovely when he canes it) a nearly new Smart car, an 02 Smart car with gold wire wheels (my mate Steve's over the road) that are 'well' wide, a couple of MX5s, but, the piece de resistance is a Ford Galaxy of late 90s flavour and it is the most beaten up heap of shit I have seen in a long time! Every panel is scraped and dented and a different shade of blue and the inside looks like my recycling bin. It also sounds absolutely fucked... it's the kind of thing you don't want parked too close to your car in case it catches something!

[DVee8]

The bloke over the road has a 59plate merc C220d estate that he got on the scrappage.Next is an old girl with a 04 micra with 2k miles,then we have a bmw 530d gt and a audi a1,next is a bmw 220i and a bmw 320d.

 

You getting the picture the only real interest is my daimler v8 and the bloke next but 1 has a williy's jeep and round the corner there is a chrysler crossfire.

[mercrocker]

Well the removal van has turned up....LDV Convoy Luton.   Bodes well!

[privatewire]

New people have moved in across the road from me, she has a 13 plate Citroen C4, he has a 64 plate Fiesta ST. They both park like utter cunts.

[gordonbennet]

Near enough the only shiter down our road and definately the only twat knows how to open a bonnet or use a jack, used to be a bloke up the road had a 106 on winter tyres, he was the only other sod apart from us who could get out when it snowed cos he had the sense to reverse up the hill, he's bloody moved out now and some identikit modern eurobox shit is parked where his 106 used to be so that'll be stuck there when it snows.

 

Mostly old folks in all the bungalows and those who own cars are all into moderns, hopefully we lower the tone enough to even things out a bit, retiree next door has modern VW shit, his kids when they visit have identical cars even the same colour, his outlaws turn up in some horrible cloned Audi hatch of some sort, even thats the same poxy colour, all of 'em grey.

 

Lovely old lady in a house a street away has a minter Starlet, if i ever see a for sale on it i'm gunna buy the bugger.

[Hendry]

I'm back staying with my mum and dad at the moment and their neighbours are mostly the brand new car every 3 years keeping up with the Jones` type.

 

There's a 14 plate Cashcow, 14 plate Note, 64 plate Mitsubishi ASX, 14 plate Clio, 14 plate Auris, 14 plate Ford B-Max, 14 plate Renault Captur, etc the "worst" cars in the street are an X reg VW Transporter van, W reg mk4 Golf GTi with replica Audi S-Line wheels, and a 55 plate Vectra C facelift saloon. My dad with his 09 Jetta is the only person in the street who doesn't own a brand new car or an utter banger, its one extreme or the other here.

[New POD]

The people who just moved from their £166K house (advertised for sale at that) opposite us, had a 64 reg lexus hybrid saloon, and a 14 reg BMW 4 series (Well it was a coupe with a rear spoiler that appeared to be broken in the UP position)

 

Luckily the Polish Lads down the road have a mk2 golf convertible on the front lawn, that they are going to fit a turbo'd VR6 engine to. (Apparently) and the builder next door but one has a rusty old transit van.  And then there's 87 year old Fred, who drives a mazda 323 with pop up lights and more dents than he remembers doing.

[vulgalour]

Home-brew then is it, the Golf?  It's probably a Mk1 or Mk3, they strangely didn't make a Mk2 floppytop.  Fred sounds like one of life's heroes.

[mercrocker]

One of the blokes in our close is really getting on - his is the R Reg Astra that he resolutely refuses to upgrade.   Like most blokes of his age he is deeply mistrustful of anything he can't get a spanner on.   Sunday afternoons is when all the offspring visit the various old giffers (us included...!) in a parade of 62-plated whirring silver or off-white shite.  They seem to take up so much bloody room and can never fit on the driveways where old Astras and Fiestas sit comfortably...

[dave21478]

A new guy has moved in 3 houses down from me and he has the Autoshite dream garage. 2 Panhard Dynas, a 4CV, a Simca of some sort and a couple of other things I havent seen clearly.

 

Unfortunately, he is an odious, unbearable, extreme right-wing twat.

[wuvvum]

I was quite pleased to note that I have absolutely no idea what a Mitsubishi ASX is.

 

Bit of a mixed bag in my area.  Obviously I do my best to raise* the tone, but there are a few others as well, including a chap down the road who has a scruffy Rascal pickup and an even scruffier diesel Hijet that always sounds like it's about to put a leg out of bed.  He does have a very tidy Moggy though.  Then there's the lass at the other end of the road who runs an F-reg maroon Nova as her daily.  There's a fair bit of modern stuff too though.  Next door neighbours are a case in point - they run a 13-plate 1-series, but they also have a shonky R-plate Mégane which gets its fair share of use, and which they spent several hundred quid on a couple of years back fixing a case of OMGHGF.

[Jim Bergerac]

This is directly across a junction from me:

 

That's as good as it gets. It's not a 'nice' area but lots of people have newish cars for whatever reason.

[vulgalour]

I don't even know what that camper is.  It looks like it's got a stumpy bonnet like a Bedford CF but isn't much bigger than a Bambi.

[mercrocker]

Looks like a Glendale CF.   We had two CF campers in our close of 10 houses not so long ago.   Bloke over the road passed away and they got rid of his coachbuilt CF, at the same time I owned a pretty deplorable ambulance conversion*.   Mateys widow is the old bird with the R Reg Corolla - she wouldn't sell me his Beddy cos she couldn't bear to see it again.  Understandable, I suppose.  

[Christine]

I don't even know what that camper is.  It looks like it's got a stumpy bonnet like a Bedford CF but isn't much bigger than a Bambi.

 

Need a big bit of paper to draw that on ,eh ?

[wuvvum]

 

This camper is small.

 

 

This camper is far away.

 

[theorganist]

We have an interesting street. Apart from my cars we have at least three other interesting "driveways".

 

Household over the road has a D reg Porsche 944 and a H reg Peugeot 205 GLD

Man up the road has a collection of Morris 6's or 8's about six I think, including a genuine green Post Office Van he is a member of the club also drives a Rover 45 and a V reg Astra

Friends dad has a Triumph Dolomite 1500HL, Spitfire and has just bought a TR6, he started getting into "classics" after I did, I think I was a good influence!

Someone at the other end of the street has a H reg VW Scirocco

There is also someone with a BMW 5 series of 1990 vintage I think

There is another guy with a Y (82-83) Land Rover SWB

There is an X reg MGBGT which seems to be washed every week but I have not actually seen it move in anger although he is at the other end of the street.

My elderly neighbour has a mint 05 plate Metallic Blue Rover 45 which has done very few miles

 

I think that is all!

[r.welfare]

I quite like the Mitsubishi ASX.  However given that Mitsubishi appear to be on their arse in Europe I would have expected them to hold their value less.

 

I live in the smallest house in my road and hence chod levels are low.  My neighbour across the road has just bought a new 3-series 4wd six cylinder diesel which, by my reckoning, lists at just over 40 grand.  Naturally it's on a private plate.  That's the kind of money I would spend on a loft conversion personally.  I don't think he is too impressed by my smoke-belching, farty-exhausted Mazda. 

 

However my next door neighbour on the right - who looks like he could be Michael Palin's older brother - is very impressed by my commitment to the shite cause and often compliments me when I'm out with the axle stands.  He used to have a rusty T-reg 323 which has now gone so he tootles about, complete with flat cap, in a Mk1 Eunos. Surprised he can still get in and out of it as I reckon he's pushing 80.

 

The other side has a sea of VWs in the drive - my neighbour there, whilst admiring my wife's new (to us) Almera Streetwise, told me he was a long-term Nissan man until he had a Primera P12 which was the most unreliable piece of shit he'd ever experienced.  He now has a Passat CC.

[quicksilver]

All of my immediate neighbours have modern German estates and those further away drive things so generic I can't even remember what they are (I think one might be a Toyota something-or-other). The chap opposite sounds very much like r.welfare's neighbour - he had a series of Nissans until his P12 Primera chucked it big time in France and was never seen again, and now drives a Passat.

 

There's a bit of interest on the main road though: the N-reg 306 second car that hardly ever seems to move and the retired professor with his Xantia estate. Also a stupid looking Mazda 3 that's been slammed but is otherwise totally bog standard so it just looks like the suspension has collapsed! Round the corner lives a Mk3 Astra with the most hideously flat and orange peeled respray I've ever seen; fortunately that one can't be seen from the house. 

[Angrydicky]

I've currently got an F reg Nova opposite me, an F reg MK2 Fiesta Pop Plus (lowered on pepperpots) a few doors along and a G reg Renault 5 Campus at the other end of the road. Not exactly rich pickings, but better than most of you by the sound of it.

A bit further away there's a rusty Triumph Acclaim, Subaru Brat and '77 Mini, as well as a few others (Minor, 205, couple of 70's/80's Mercs).

My next door neighbour, who I share a drive with, drives some awful Auris hybrid thing. He doesn't "get" the old cars I drive, mainly because they always seem to be broken.

There used to be a vast amount of tat in my parents road but a lot of it has disappeared over the last few years. The most interesting things left are a D reg Sierra 4x4 estate (derelict) and a Pageant Blue S reg Allegro estate with equipe alloys (which is road legal, but rarely moves).

[Matt]

The small street that I loved on in the 1990's had a few cars that at the time were neither here nor there but are shitetastic now and if they are astill around they are probably in brilliant condition with low miles as the vast majority of them were garaged and hardly ever used because most of the other people who lived there were retired. The couple across the road whom my family were good friends with had a K10 Micra in white which they later replaced with this 306:

 

 

1994 Peugeot 306 D Turbo - C.1998 by MattLikesCars, on Flickr

 

An elderly lady a few doors down had, I think, a very early K11 Micra, again hardly used and garaged, another retired gentleman had a Saab 900 which I was always fascinated with when I was very young. My miserable old bastard of a neighbour was a proper shiter though. He had one of those Fiat Bravo's with the thin rear lights then a Fiat Uno which he used to leave parked on the grass verge of the bypass nearby with the keys sitting in it (it was stolen twice, recovered the first time then lost a fight with a lamppost the second time). His daughter had a yellow Scento covered in pink stickers.

 

These days I live on a much bigger street. A chap down the road has a lovely Rover Mini Cooper Sportpack in light blue that he only brings out on really nice summer days and someone nearby has an ancient Morgan 3-wheeler that you can feel going past in your chest, it's obscene how loud that thing is.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

In my cul-de-sac ,they mostly force a smile and accept my 8 cars on a 4 car drive. Just as well most of them only have 1 car, to my right is a 64 plate Zafira Tourer , to my left a 14 plate C class dizzler and an 04 Gaylander.

The most interesting is Peter a guy who gave up work and company 5 Series about 5 years ago when his missus died and he had 3 boys under 7 to bring up, I gave him a tatty old Primera I'd ended up with as a p/ex. It only had a couple of months ticket ,but got him out of trouble temporarily ,well that was the theory,the fucking thing won't die,it needed a tickle on the crossmember under the rad last year for ticket but otherwise he's not spent a penny on it. He's recently started shagging a woman in Newcastle which is a 500 mile round trip from us, so's thinking about upgrading- last week he asked if I wanted to sell the ex-Angry Rover of Zoom, I don't !

The remaining house is the biggest and most expensive,the woman drives a BMW 330d flippy flappy folding hardtop thing, her husband had a Range Rover Sport up until about 3 years ago when the Police came to visit one morning at 04.30 complete with a helicopter,dogs and guns. When he got out he didn't come home ,but my wife saw him in David Lloyd in what sounds like an Audi R8- remember kids,crime doesn't pay.

[mercrocker]

Blimey, some of you live in more interesting streets than I do!   Its all giffers and roll-up fags here but that's fine by me.   Update on new neighbours - it was bloody dark this morning when I fired up the Minor at quarter to six (they will get used to that, I am sure...) but it looked like there was a pig ugly maternity van on the drive behind the SEAT.   Will investigate, meantime shite status on hold.....

[mercrocker]

Oh, and I should mention (as I am not ashamed too, I am amongst friends, yes...?) that I can still recall all the cars and most of their registrations that populated the 32 houses in the street where I grew up.   I stopped caring in 1976 when the first Datsuns began to appear, although I would now of course.  

[eddyramrod]

Well, since we're going into such detail...

There are 14 houses in my little street, but fortunately some don't have cars as the only parking we have is the street itself. The new tenant in No.1 has a black BMW 1-series, sadly. No.3 doesn't have a car; No.5 seems to be empty but I hardly ever saw the last tenant so there could be someone very quiet in there. If so, he/she doesn't have a car. No. 7 has a 53-plate diesel V40 which they've had for years apparently and propose to keep forever. No. 9 has a W-plate Octavia estate. Both of these also have a motorbike. No.11 seems to have acquired a silver Clio, on an 02 I think.

On my side: No.2 doesn't seem to have a car. My Mercury usually lives at that end of the street. No. 4 had a Passat estate when I moved in, on an 07 IIRC, which he traded into an 09 Insignia estate; then recently sold that and bought his daughter's 04 Vectra. Every last one diesel. No.6 has a 62-plated 208 and a 13 Clio. No.8 is us, and the Disabled space outside is where the Blob lives. No. 10 doesn't have a car. 12 has another 62-plate 208. 14 has a 13-plate Corsa. 16 has a Golf. Mk4? Might be. It's on an 02 "private" plate. Black, diesel, huge alloys with no sidewall.

That end of the street comes into the alley beind the houses of the next street, and the house bang opposite our street has a W-plate 325 coupe (silver, obv) which she parks in the alley rather than her own street. As do all her visitors and those going to 11 and 16. What fun it can be!

[New POD]

Home-brew then is it, the Golf?  It's probably a Mk1 or Mk3, they strangely didn't make a Mk2 floppytop.  Fred sounds like one of life's heroes.

 

 

Yeah, Mk1 but they overlapped them with the Mk2 hatches, so It's a J or K reg I think.

[Bobthebeard]

New next door neighbours have a 53 reg Kia something or other and a M reg Mazda MX5. The Mazda has been parked up on the lawn for a few weeks now. Was in regular use up until then. Now has a flat tyre and the grass is being mowed round it. No idea what the story is, but am entertaining ideas of a cheeky bid!