Anyone have extremely stupid neighbors?
Not neighbors, but a couple of stories for y'all:
* Worked with a guy years ago that had a Plum Crazy Purple 340 Duster. At least it was one Friday when I left work. Pulled into the parking lot the following Monday and it was silver. Turned out he painted it over the weekend using the spray attachment on his vacuum cleaner! Painted right over all of the factory stickers and all. One of my co-workers looked at it and said, "What did you do, fill a sock with paint and swing it around your head?"
* A friend of mine got married and acquired a Chevy LUV truck (remember those?) that his new wife's former husband had Pro-Streeted. Nice looking little truck with nice paint, blown SBC and big wing back in the bed. My buddy was fixing something under the dash and found the former husband had used some household lamp cord for some underdash wiring he'd needed to do and didn't have the correct guage wiring for. A fire just waiting to happen.
Just remembered one more...
* There's a pickup that I've seen in parking lots here in town several times. Jacked way high up in the air - high enough that you'd need a ladder to get up in it - with BIG off-road tires all the way around. Also has the required multi-loop role bar and off-road lights facing front, rear, and to both sides. Pretty paint and too-nice graphics for it to ever go off-road. I got a chance to see it up close this past weekend and see it's only rear-wheel drive! No solid front axle, no transfer case, no front drive shaft - never have been any. All of the expensive front end work is just to get it up in the air.
The ultimate poseur...got to have way more money than brains.