SRQStingray

This morning, I started my 71 Vette to move it out of the garage to get my 14 Vette out to go to work. I put the 71 back in the garage and started pulling out of my driveway in the 14 and suddenly, there is some guy standing at the end of my driveway. It was 8:12AM. I roll my window down and ask, "Can I help you?". He says, can you start your cars quieter? I'm like, WHAT! I said, "They're Corvettes, they don't start quieter". Besides, I said, it's after 8. He was pissed and I said, "Wait until I start the Harley up." What a freaking tool bag. We've lived in our house on Siesta Key for 12 years without even a peep from any of our neighbors and now this jerk is upset that my cars are too loud.

MMD

revilingfool

ill be your neighbor. haha

If people want total peace and quiet then they can move to the country.

SRQStingray

Wow, you must be a whiner like my neighbor. It's not like I was mindlessly revving them up in the driveway. I was moving them around. I start the 71 about 5 times a month. The guy lives alone and spends his days out by his pool either naked or in a banana hammock. We have a clear view from our pool deck. Do I go over there and tell him to put some clothes on? No, I mind my own business.

MMD

robert miller

Not care where you are at man someone will have crap to say about something. I had a woman that called the law on me now she lived out of my neighbor in my a MAIN street told the law that I was ripping up this main street every day at 7:30 AM . So the law finally got me & pulled me over & told me that.

Now on this main road that I was ripping the road in speed limit is a big 30 mph I told him he better tell that woman she needed to get use to it. I had a aftermarket exhaust on my car that was within the law. He also told me I was doing 32 mph that the same time.

Now if you were out every A.M in the drive with the HD & doing crap really loud I could see that now. So people just like to be smart azz.

I am 68 yrs old and still wk every day, & tell my wife to get up out of bed all weekend long. We will have all the time in the world to sleep when we are 6 r 8 foot under. Life is to short for some crap that some people have nothing better to do. Robert

RyanC7

I just open carried mowing the lawn when I moved in....no issues with any neighbor.

They leave the single redneck dude with 3 cars alone. lol

DickieDoo

Trying to understand this one.....
If the guy standing at the end of your driveway was fully dressed, it means that he was already awake. If you do this infrequently, just to move the cars around, and you didn't wake anyone then WTF?
If you sat there revving the **** out of the C3, then okay, i can see someone getting annoyed...
then again, there are some people just looking for a noise or anything to complain about... ask your good neighbours if you bother them, then you'll know...

fsvoboda

Repeat after me, "Sorry, guy. I'm being as quiet as I can, but they are performance cars."

Why that response to this fellow? Because this neighbor who is sitting around doing nothing (in the nude!?) all day has nothing better to do with his time, and you don't want to become his next project to improve the neighborhood.

What you want to do now is say something similar the next time you meet. "John (or whoever), I'll try to keep it down, and you'll notice I'm not running these cars in the early morning if I can help it, but they are Corvettes and so a little noisier than some cars. They do meet the noise laws as they come from the factory."

You might even be a hero and offer him a ride along.

Billy346

A good policy for me is "seek first to understand". The guy may be a butt head, but at the same time, maybe he has a good reason. I never cared about loud cars in my neighborhood, in fact, I rather enjoyed listening to them then getting to know the owners. That was until my wife and I started having children, and discovered that our children are allergic to sleep. My next door neighbor has four Corvettes and a Harley. He has his own business and works long hours. Sometimes he gets home late in the evening (8:30 to 9:00) and starts moving his cars around. A nice sounding Corvette or Harley is the worst sound in the world when you know it is going to wake up your kid and force you to rock them for another hour and a half before they fall asleep.

Before you pass judgement, ask the guy what his deal is. If he just doesn't like loud cars then he can just deal with it, but if there is some other consideration than maybe it would be neighborly of you to find out what you can do to make his life easier.

GOC

Sometimes the neighbor might have something against you just because he doesn't know you and assume you are this guy with these loud sport cars showing off

But if you just talk to him in a neutral or nice way next time you see him, more than likely he won't care anymore as long as you just start the car and go and not rev it. No point having your next door neighbor hate you unless they really deserve it.

GOC

Maybe he'll hop in his car nude?

C5Driver

If you know where he lives drop a couple sets of ear plugs in his mail box.

MMD

VENOM ACR

Um no, have to disagree strongly

If the car is being rev'd up and idling and he's pulling away like he's leaving the pits at a NASCAR race, then he should be more considerate. But starting your car up and moving it or leaving your house, no I'm sorry that's not an issue. I have neighbors dogs who bark at 7am. Or they are barking late at night. It's a dog, it barks. And last thing I want is to complain to the owner and then the dog gets hit or something. It's noise, it doesnt go on for 30 minutes straight. We don't drive a Prius. I want my car to be as loud as humanly possible. If I could get it to sounds like an NHRA pro stock car, I would. I have lived in apartments hearing a guy start his Harley every morning. Wasn't a big deal and neither should this be. It's noise for a few minutes, learn to live with it and not be so uptight (not saying you are, but his neighbor).

mschuyler

When you get into situations like this, you can make an enemy, or you can make a friend, depending on your reaction. Your choice, really. I once had a neighbor mad at me because I painted my house a bright shade of blue with purple trim. He freaked out, took pictures and took them to his lawyer, who pointed out there are no covenants here, and the end result was---he moved.

MMD

SRQStingray

I have to ask, do you even own a Corvette? My 14 is stock, no mods. My 71 has chambered exhaust, certainly not loud. Why would I invite the LEOs to my home to check my exhaust systems? I am a 68-year-old professional. I don't sit in my driveway revving my cars like some teenager. I move them when I must and drive away to work, in the 14, and a car show or two, each month, in the 71. I have driven in front of and next to county sheriffs many times without being pulled over for noise. Most of the time the LEOs give me a thumbs up.

Vet Interested

Bright shade of blue with purple trim! Who can blame him!

Snowwolfe