I took my son out for a Sunday drive yesterday around our quiet, sheltered town. One thing you have to understand about where we live is that it's a laid back island community, mostly stuffy rich people and old folks. Classic cars are commonplace, but only concourse, period correct of course. My car is definitely not that, especially not with the recent exhaust work.
I got just a little sick pleasure from watching everyone scrambling to cover their ears and take cover on the bike path as we interrupted their silence yesterday. It's been a while since I was the teenager roaring through parking garages to count how many alarms I could set off. I forgot just how much fun it was! Is that wrong? >
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Nope. I checked with my conscience and he said it was okay. Not only okay, but a good lesson for your boy. You don't always need to fit in to society's confines.
You know, you could just as easily have been out tooling around in your concours, period correct Cobra or Daytona, and it would probably have been just as raucous. How would they have felt about it then, I wonder? I wouldn't worry about it.
I had an old gray primer PU truck that had a loose front bumper and it made an awful noise from the bumper vibrating and rubbing against the blunt end of the chassis. I saw mothers grab their children and look at me like I was something out of a Stephen King story when I would drive slowly through the neighborhood.
We are the reason they leave their lights on at night. Run with it!
Blasting through at 6 AM Sunday = douchebag.
Blasting through at 1 AM on a week night = douchebag.
Blasting through a residential neighborhood at 40-50 or more, any time = douchebag.
Blasting through on a main road, pretty much any other time = just fine, as long as it doesn't sound like a weed eater.
I think the kids call it being a troll. If you derive pleasure from the causing other people discomfort or irritation then yes, it is wrong AKA sociopath.
Wrong? If a laughable reaction occurs with out malice or intention then it's not sociopathic or troll behavior. Anal car owners and helicopter moms create their own situations through their own phobias and fears.
I make a game out of it. I can idle down our street at 25MPH in the 69 Camaro and with just a little burp of the loud peddle set off people's car alarms. So on summer weekend mornings when we head out to car shows I try to see how many car alarms I can set off.
My mechanic buddy who does most of the work on my cars has a crabby woman living next door to him who always complains about the hot rods he's always working on. So after visiting him and backing out of his driveway onto the street and straitening out if I see she's outside I take off in a cloud of tire smoke and exhaust gas leaving her to yell at my buddy who is laughing his azz off.
I figure going on 62 I should have as much fun as possible while I can.
LOL at the sociopath/troll comment. My son got a kick out of it. I got on it just enough for it to be loud and he yelled "faster, faster!" the whole time.
Was that you on the treadmill flicking me the bird? You're right, I am #1! It's amazing how this one sentence post sums me up so perfectly. Thank you for the smile, @Huskinhano.
There are plenty of annoying “enthusiasts” in my neighborhood.
There’s the guy with the loud motorcycle. The guy with the Camaro. The guy with the loud bass system. The other guy with the loud motorcycle...
I’d complain but I’m just as annoying as they are ?
My flowmasters makes more people happy than pissed. When i ran dumps, my young kids used to love it when we would run through a parking garage and set off all the car alarms ? - is that wrong?
Count me in the group of people that appreciates cars and motorcycles but don't really like exhaust systems that are loud enough to be discussed. ...so, my vote is that a deep mellow system is better to have.
Is there a noise ordinance? If so yes it was wrong (you knew what you were getting into when you bought the house), if there isn't an ordinance probably not a problem, but you won't make a lot of friends. (But those you do make will like your car!)
I own a shelby cobra replica and know a lot of guys that set car alarms off while driving. I would say don't worry about the neighborhood just have fun with your car, life is too short.
I own a shelby cobra replica and know a lot of guys that set car alarms off while driving. I would say don't worry about the neighborhood just have fun with your car, life is too short.
Flowmasters with tailpipes isn't even that loud. 80% of the Chevy pickups running around here have the same exhaust. I won't even start my car in the evenings or mornings. I'd really like mine to be quiet but it's just a necessary evil right now.
Speaking of car alarms, go to 17:30 at the beginning of the road test and 18:20 for car alarms. Oh boy do I want this car! Hands down my favorite custom car build!
Speaking of car alarms, go to 17:30 at the beginning of the road test and 18:20 for car alarms. Oh boy do I want this car! Hands down my favorite custom car build!
Yea and to set off multiple car alarms outside is quite a feat! On my '66, I have 2.5" side exhaust with glass packs and it always sets off alarms in parking garages but I've only occasionally had it happen cruising city streets. I also love how this Fairlane sounds like it's breaking apart the entire drive irate:
Regarding noise in neighborhoods, even if there is a noise ordinance, which many HOAs impose but rarely do they quantify, there needs to be more understanding that older cars aren't going to quietly hum along like newer vehicles. Many HOA noise rules infuriate me because they include the subjective statement that "loud" noises are prohibited. Does this include peoples kids screaming at all hours, people cutting their lawns with ride-on mowers, or trash trucks making a ruckus getting trash? Everyone is fine with those noises but as soon as a louder than stock car is heard people have meltdowns.
Oh well. Whenever I want to drive my classic car, in a considerate manner, then they can deal with a bit of extra noise in their day.
There's a time and place for everything. I have set off car alarms in the parking garage in the middle of the day. I set off the one on my wife's vehicle in our driveway just starting mine to take the kids to school. I don't intentionally raise sand to pi$$ people off. I have to go to complaint calls sometimes where that is the case, and a whole lot worse, I promise you. I cherish peace and quiet more than the average person after a work week of chaos, I assure you. At the same time, I love the mellow rumble, the coming roar and the crackling scream of a good exhaust system when it's going from idle to cruise to W A O when the time and place is right. :grin2:
I like a healthy, mellow sound with a roar at wide open. Don't care for window rattling exhaust. Used to have a neighbor with EXTREMELY loud obnoxious exhaust that fought to keep from drowning out his thumping stereo. He would come rolling in from second shift after midnight.
I won't write the words that come to mind what I thought of him.
Nothing more frustrating than spending hours trying to get a sick baby to sleep only to have them woke back up crying because some #%@# thinks his loud exhaust is cool.
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