I use the term because it works well with my trademark form of casual prose. I also have the expectation that not everyone in the world has the maturity of a twelve-year old boy and can disassociate the two usages.

This is just the legal doctrine of adverse possession. It exists in the US as well.

This is very cool, but why in the world is it 90k dollars on the high side? If a clean Mini is 15k, and then a full tear down/restoration is another 20k in parts/labor, and you throw in 20k in custom leather and such, then put 5k on top for profit, well, there’s your 60k. For another 30k dollars I would expect some…

Here’s David’s Project Slow Devil, having made it 300 miles from Detroit to West Lafayette, Indiana. He might just pull this off.

Vet or not, I don’t care. If he wants a 2.5t truck, fine. Park it someplace else and not in front of a house or in a yard. Park it someplace where it’s allowed. If that means he has to pay, so be it.   

I lived in the Gables for 15 years plus I’m a native of Miami. That law about trucks, as much as it may not apply today due to the improved appearance of pickup trucks these days, has been on the books there for over 40 years, easy. They have a similar law that applies to boats on trailers. I’m sorry, but if you don’t…

Yeah. I don’t really find fire trucks, airplanes, or military vehicles to be “cool” to look at every day. The charm would wear off rapidly. I live in a sought after neighborhood, and I can’t imagine what it would do to home prices here. RV’s, fire trucks, planes, military vehicles, box trucks, derelict cars, semi’s,…

As somebody who lost five figures on a house at least partly because his next door neighbor on one side decided to get into the scrapping business and his next door neighbor on the other side had a permanently incomplete renovation due to a nasty divorce... I can sympathize with the owners here. And I think the key…

The law wasn’t designed around these people. the law was designed to stop dipshits from parking box trucks all over their property. I get why the law exists, this is just an unfortunate side effect.

These posts are getting old. “Man parks collection of fire trucks in front of house” “man parks airplane in driveway”. Can we stop defending these people? They are any eyesore, and they make the neighborhood look like a circus, which hurts house prices. What’s so wrong with neighbors trying to maintain their house…

Raise your hand if you are sick of these driveway parking controversy stories.

I understand that we as a country try to be supportive of our veterans. Some have sacrificed so much, if not everything to protect our country. They fight for our freedom. However, as a homeowner, I have the freedom of not seeing a huge ugly beast parked by my house.

People will be soft on this because it’s a vet, and we all want to support our vets. If it was out in the country, it wouldn’t be a problem.

I went out in the garage and made this on my potato just for you.

I disagree partially. A stock one that is decently taken care of is a great car. My 62 AH Sprite (Midget) has been nothing but a pleasure. I find that driving it frequently really helps keep everything in perfect order.

David, you need to find an electric motor shop to fix/rewind that generator. It’s actually not a terribly difficult job for them, and turnaround can be as fast as a day or two. It’s typically not cost effective for small stuff like that, but in some cases (like yours) it’s all you can do.

Then I guess you’ll have to be REALLY good with fiberglass because you’re going to need to make your own replacement panels.

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