Well, it's finally been listed. Now, we wait :)
holy shit, your house is cool! and it's only 330,000 :shock:
Man, it would be super hard for me to separate form this fantastic habitation!
I still remember the pics you shared during the refurbishment works back in the early 2000s.
You did one hell of a great job!!
The prospect of a new home in the coastal region is quite tempting on the other hand.
There are some challenging and exciting times ahead - I keep my fingers crossed!
Good luck - bad weeds grow tall! :)
Hey there guys, thanks for the nice words, it's my belief that anyone of any skill level could build the same thing if given 15 years to do so :)
Maddel wrote:
Man, it would be super hard for me to separate form this fantastic habitation!
I still remember the pics you shared during the refurbishment works back in the early 2000s.
You did one hell of a great job!!The prospect of a new home in the coastal region is quite tempting on the other hand.
There are some challenging and exciting times ahead - I keep my fingers crossed!
Good luck - bad weeds grow tall! :)
Red's really stressing out. She's worried about leaving her "dream home" and not being able to get something else she really likes that fits all our needs. Needless to say, I'm not allowed to get rid of any of my tools :D
Super_Randy wrote:
holy shit, your house is cool! and it's only 330,000 :shock:
It's a lot different than buying a home in a city or even large town/county. We're seeing absolute dumps for more in our target locale. We're having to stretch our search area a bit to get the prices down a bit. Around these parts, we're competitively priced but most people here are looking at "rustic" houses, meaning houses you can build with a chisel and wooden mallet.
Tomorrow morning is our first showing, maybe we'll luck out and get a buyer right out of the gate :)
im blown away by the 330k because the house im living in (if the kitchen and floors were redone) would be around (possibly over) 700k and it's only a 3 bed, 2 bath, idk the square footage (guessing just over 2000) with detached 2 car garage, on a quarter acre lot. and that's the norm for the LA/OC area, and why i don't own a house :(
We're actually selling an extra lot alongside the house, so with that, we're actually sitting on 2+ acres, which the realtor said was a pretty big deal. It seems not many houses have any property to speak of and people here are looking for some guaranteed privacy and space for garage/etc., like we were when we bought the extra property.
We've always watched those house hunters/reno shows and we're always blown away by the teacher married to a nurses assistant looking to renovate a home they bought for $1 million. We bought this house for 117k 16ish years ago. With what we're selling it for, we're making a little bit but not a lot and that's valuing my labor at $0. This area is also going through the realty boom going on now but it's not as pronounced as it would be near you.
I know it won't happen this way but I'd love it if the market would go ahead and crash right after we sold our house and before we bought the next one :)
they shipped them out!
It's nice to see that it's back. Is it as good as it used to be?
i haven't actually read any of it yet. but it isn't the 2000's VW Trends. its got the old school guys working on it.
the photography in it is really good!
7 feature cars (1 of which is a 90 Corrado). plus one "feature" called "Pile of the Month" which in this issue is just Dan Leadbetter's project 57 oval that im sure will get used for tech articles later on. (not a complaint)
2 tech articles. how (not) to buy a bug, and a gas tank restoration (both of which seem actually helpful to a DIY'er)
coverage of 3 events one of which is an off road race (all from 2020 so they look like smaller gatherings)
a feature on artist Johnny Jalopy.
a shop tour of Coolrydes Customs.
a Ron Petro drawing.
and an interview from Shannon Rae (the model on the cover that also graced the magazine back in the 80's and 90's)
it's 96 pages, and mostly content!
and the paper feels like nice quality (it's thick). and everything's in color.
Damn! Stone chip caused a massive windshield crack. :evil:
No way to pass vehicle inspection with that damage and changing the windshield is way to expensive.
So it's time to say goodbye to my beloved Audi... :cry:
That car served me extremely well for over 17 years and 315.000 kilometers (195.732 miles).
Maddel wrote:
No way to pass vehicle inspection with that damage and changing the windshield is way to expensive.
So it's time to say goodbye to my beloved Audi... :cry:
That car served me extremely well for over 17 years and 315.000 kilometers (195.732 miles).
WOW! Does a windshield replacement cost more than picking up another vehicle or are you just going to downsize your fleet?
:? i see cars much worse on a daily basis roaming the streets here. it's a non issue. and the wtf part is, you can have someone come out and replace it for a few hundred bucks.
schwim wrote:
WOW! Does a windshield replacement cost more than picking up another vehicle or are you just going to downsize your fleet?
Super_Randy wrote:
...you can have someone come out and replace it for a few hundred bucks.
Well... It's the cost-value ratio mainly.
The car was daily driven for 28 years, survived 28 salty winters and was never parked in a garage.
An extremely reliable workhorse but there are signs of disintegration in many places:
interior, rubbers, electrics, suspension, brakes (again and again) etc. A bottomless pit...
Plus I still refuse to tackle water cooled vehicles except for basic maintenance. :D
So I accepted the inevitable.
You know, I keep forgetting about the rigorous nature of your inspections and the brutal treatment of the road treatments. It's heartbreaking to see under some of those neat cars on my Youtube subscriptions that have lived the hard life up north.
I'd love to see what you end up picking up as a replacement, hopefully something fun :D
well almost a thousand dollars later and my truck has new tires on it. stoked and relieved (original tires were like drag radials. scary last time it rained) but almost a thousand bucks :shock:
Oof, I feel your pain. I need tires for Bog and even buying the cheapest, crappiest Chinese tires available, it was upwards of 900$. They now more closely resemble slicks than M/T tread.
I don't want to jinx it but this is the garage space of the house we're under contract for buying in Virginia:
HELL YEAH!!! :o :shock: Soooo coooool! 8-)
And Zippy will love it too (as well as Bög).
Judging by the size of the garage I wonder if the house is sort of a cathedral? :)
Maddel wrote:
Judging by the size of the garage I wonder if the house is sort of a cathedral? :)
You would think so but actually, it's separate to the house. It's just a big old lego block sitting by itself. It's actually got an apartment over it where Chloe and her boyfriend are going to live. It's going to be a compound! :)
Here's the listing if you'd like to take a gander at the property.
went to bug -in 45 today. a pic's/videos thread will come sometime this next week. 8-)
it hit 90 degrees and there was no shade. the line to get in the gate was literally a mile long (i used my trip odometer. 1.2 miles from the back of the line to my parking spot :shock: )
here's a teaser
Holy cow, a mile+! I've never been to any show with that kind of turnout!
yeah, it took about 25 minutes.
even more fun was the traffic on the way home. an F150 had violently butt rapped a Suburban and 3 lanes of traffic were blocked. if you're bored find where the 60 crosses the 605 and fallow the 605 south to Whittier Blvd. i passed the 60 at 3:45. i crossed Whittier Blvd at 4:30 :shock:
the line! https://www.instagram.com/p/CQWNSV9Ju-m/
i think i may have been driving up the street the other way while he was filming this cause i recognize a lot of cars in the line and wound up parked close the blue Subaru/Scion/Toyota with the wing on it seen at 1:29
That's just insane. I think I'd be scared to death the whole time of getting rearended.
schwim wrote:
I'd love to see what you end up picking up as a replacement, hopefully something fun :D
May I introduce "Hektor" my new workhorse?
Not just yet sure about the fun but he's functional at least... :)
