"OMG its the mecca of car culture. I want to move to LA!"

"Noah - Now with more boost." (antriebverliebt) 04/03/2018 at 10:33 • Filed to: None

3

37

Your car remembers Gerald Ford, but it still has to pass smog. There are fun roads to drive, but there are other places in the US with elevation changes. Also, your rent? LOL! Goodbye car budget. Not that it matters; your non OEM engine swap, mild exhaust, and forced induction setup is illegal.

/rant

If you live in LA I’m very sorry to hear that and respect your right to self-delude. Yes! The Peterson! Hotrodding! Let it out. Let it all out...

edit: It must be said that this is all in good fun. I live somewhere that also sucks. Everything is rusty and the most fun roads are closed or too dangerous to bother during the winter. And it fucking snowed a couple inches yesterday... April 2nd.

jimz > Noah - Now with more boost. 04/03/2018 at 11:06

2

I’ve been to the area a number of times. Ok in small doses, but I would never want to live there.

Noah - Now with more boost. > jimz 04/03/2018 at 11:09

0

NYC is similar. Totally epic but only if you’re there on vacation. Unless you’re all about the urban sprawl.

HammerheadFistpunch > Noah - Now with more boost. 04/03/2018 at 11:09

7

but have you heard about how great New York City is? No place to drive or park and the alternative sucks (Have I told you about how much the subways sucks today?) but what a great place to host a car blog!

Chuckles > HammerheadFistpunch 04/03/2018 at 11:14

2

This is why I love Eastern PA. I can be in Philly or NYC in under 2 hours, or I can get to the Appalachian Trail in about 30 minutes. There’s ample parking and reasonable rent. The biggest downside is that your car will eventually be transformed into rust.

and 100 more > Noah - Now with more boost. 04/03/2018 at 11:14

1

Ok, name someplace that has all of LA’s “car culture” and none of the downsides?

Dubai, maybe.

Noah - Now with more boost. > HammerheadFistpunch 04/03/2018 at 11:16

2

Ah yes... New York. In the summer it smells like trash juice!

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Noah - Now with more boost. 04/03/2018 at 11:19

0

Everyone has different priorities...

Noah - Now with more boost. > and 100 more 04/03/2018 at 11:19

0

Italy! Dubai only has a couple mountain roads

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > and 100 more 04/03/2018 at 11:20

4

And Dubai has the downside of being Dubai.

Noah - Now with more boost. > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 04/03/2018 at 11:20

0

This is all in good fun. I live somewhere that also sucks. Everything is rusty and the most fun roads are closed or too dangerous to bother during the winter.

and 100 more > Noah - Now with more boost. 04/03/2018 at 11:22

0

To be fair, I don’t know shit about Dubai... Today I learned!

HammerheadFistpunch > Noah - Now with more boost. 04/03/2018 at 11:23

5

In the winter time the temperature falls well below the legal minimum, or rather it would do if anybody had the common sense to set a legal minimum. The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

In the summer it’s too darn hot. It’s one thing to be the sort of life form that thrives on heat and finds, as the Frastrans do, that the temperature range between 40,000 and 40,004 is very equable, but it’s quite another to be the sort of animal that has to wrap itself up in lots of other animals at one point in your planet’s orbit, and then find, half an orbit later, that your skin’s bubbling.

Spring is over-rated. A lot of the inhabitants of New York will honk on mightily about the pleasures of spring, but if they actually knew the first thing about the pleasures of spring they would know of at least five thousand nine hundred and eighty- three better places to spend it than New York, and that’s just on the same latitude.

Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyway, so their opinion can and should be discounted. When it’s fall in New York, the air smells as if someone’s been frying goats in it, and if you are keen to breathe, the best plan is to open a window and stick your head in a building.

Douglas Adams, Intergalactic treasure.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > and 100 more 04/03/2018 at 11:25

4

I’ll tell you which place has an equally interesting “Car Culture” but even worse downsides when you actually have to live there. Tokyo.

Noah - Now with more boost. > and 100 more 04/03/2018 at 11:25

1

I would still love to go for the carspotting! Must be insane for a first time visitor gearhead. I don’t think I’d travel with someone who wasn’t into cars, for their sake...

For Sweden > Chuckles 04/03/2018 at 11:26

1

But if you live there, Mr. Regular knocks on your door to distribute libertarian literature.

Ash78, voting early and often > Noah - Now with more boost. 04/03/2018 at 11:26

1

How about the homogenized, nondescript place that occupies the space from Arlington, VA to Manchester, NH?

I heard once upon a time those areas all had a distinct culture from each other, a rich patchwork of something other than just a bunch of people angrily stuck in traffic and complaining about high taxes and bad roads while living in the world’s biggest unofficial city.

/joining the teasing

//I-95 corridor can suck it tho

Noah - Now with more boost. > HammerheadFistpunch 04/03/2018 at 11:29

1

What I really want to know is why NYC has this communication via honking culture, and in Mass, its almost taboo. People get REALLY mad here. I don’t even use my horn unless I’m ready for a shouting match because that is exactly what will happen if you end up next to them at the following light.

Noah - Now with more boost. > Ash78, voting early and often 04/03/2018 at 11:32

2

Are you insinuating that the entire East coast looks exactly the same!? And that we don’t maintain our roads despite our awful weather!? FAKE NEWS

promoted by the color red > Noah - Now with more boost. 04/03/2018 at 11:37

1

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Let’s unpack this.

1.) Not really, CA is more than just the coast and big cities. I’m about two hours from LA and my rent is less than my car payment.

2.) There’s plenty of CARB-legal tuning options that allow your car to pass smog. I can go out and order a turbo or supercharger kit and exhaust for my MX-5 right now. You can also smog a Chevy-swapped Toyota 4x4 should you choose. Or save yourself the headache and buy a pre-’97 diesel.

BeaterGT > Chuckles 04/03/2018 at 11:37

1

Cheers to this from South NJ. All the nice beaches and tranquility with none of the New Yorkers. Atco and NJMP too....I mean, it’s terrible; no one come here.

Noah - Now with more boost. > promoted by the color red 04/03/2018 at 11:39

0

Lets unpack further.

- Concern for the environment is good!

- Dope food culture!

- No winter. My car has been off the road for 2 months because it keeps snowing so I can’t work on it.

- 10/10 politics.

This was just for fun! All bluster no substance.

fintail > Noah - Now with more boost. 04/03/2018 at 11:53

0

No car culture in Seattle, so everyone can look somewhere else.

Please.

promoted by the color red > Noah - Now with more boost. 04/03/2018 at 11:57

1

Ahh well it was a good excuse to waste time looking at 350-swapped Toyota 4x4s. :D

Noah - Now with more boost. > promoted by the color red 04/03/2018 at 12:05

0

I wonder if you could sneak a VH45DE swapped Nissan Hardbody past Cali smog folks. They *were* made at the same time...

Chuckles > For Sweden 04/03/2018 at 12:36

0

I’ve actually met him for beers a few times. No literature was exchanged.

Chuckles > BeaterGT 04/03/2018 at 12:41

0

The Lehigh Valley is the fastest growing region in PA, so that cat is out of the bag where I live.

RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire > Noah - Now with more boost. 04/03/2018 at 12:49

2

LA is so awesome, I’ve given up driving and now take the bus and subway to work.

Also avoid the canyons on weekends since they’re crawling with F&F/Initial D wannabes (both wealthy and not).

Food’s nice though.

Noah - Now with more boost. > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire 04/03/2018 at 12:53

0

I really want to try actual mexican influenced food. The stuff we have up here... I don’t know what to call it haha. Slop?

gettingoldercarguy > and 100 more 04/03/2018 at 12:56

2

Can women drive there? Is pot legal? Craft Brew scene! Only 50C out? Winter coat time!

and 100 more > gettingoldercarguy 04/03/2018 at 13:07

1

Not saying that Dubai > California, I was referring to the car culture aspect only. Even then, as was pointed out, it’s not a great place to drive, which is a huge aspect of living in Southern California to begin with.

That said, I know jack-shit about Dubai. I just know there’s a lot of money there, and a lust for cars of all kinds.

RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire > Noah - Now with more boost. 04/03/2018 at 13:41

1

Wifey gained a good 20+ lbs not long after moving here - I think that speaks for itself.

I’m being harsh on the car culture thing. It’s definitely unique and permeates the place like nowhere else but sometimes I’d like to just get to work without fighting through traffic.

The car culture thing is more than just the usual car meets and events; there’s just car nuts all over. I’ve exchanged thumbs up with some gas station employees wrenching after hours on a brutish sounding Subaru and a guy taking his Grand National for a late night cruise. I’ve had ‘86 Corollas with tofu shop decals rev at me, and I’ve dodged supercars duking it out in the Malibu canyons.

Speaking of Malibu canyons, I was going to link to Rock Store Photos and found out that he’d closed up shop. Lots of awesome cars but also way too much stupid.

http://www.thedrive.com/sheetmetal/15303/famous-mulholland-car-photographer-group-rock-store-photos-disbands

http://shop.rockstorephotos.com/f297562463

(For what it’s worth, I paid him for the photo he took of me. No, not the Jag.)

and 100 more > For Sweden 04/03/2018 at 14:01

1

HaVe I tOlD yOu AbOuT oUr LoRd & sAvIoR,

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

gettingoldercarguy > and 100 more 04/03/2018 at 14:15

1

Yeah, you’re right on that. I was going over the driving if you’re not male and cruising with windows down. There beer just because beer rocks. Pot just found its way in there. I see a lot of ads for tourism in Dubai. Haven’t seen one for Maldives. Odd.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Noah - Now with more boost. 04/04/2018 at 14:28

1

I am very much enjoying my new home of LA. I will agree though that it kind of sucks compared to places like the Smokey mountains in NC/TN or places in the PNW or other areas in UT/CO. BUUUT I gotta go where the job goes and its far better in LA than where I used to be in NJ. I definitely think that if there were like 4 million fewer people in the area, I would be extremely happy here. So on less crowded days or off in the mountains far from the city, its my favorite place in the country. I make enough to pay rent easily and I do not have crazy car modifying aspirations so its all good for me.

Noah - Now with more boost. > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 04/04/2018 at 14:30

0

Yeah I mean this was just total BS trash talk haha. Those roads look incredible. I have been struggling with a rusted knuckle on my 9 year old WRX for the past couple weeks. Winter is no fun.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Ash78, voting early and often 04/04/2018 at 14:33

0

This is very true. The diversity you can find in the Los Angeles area is EXTREME compared to the East Coast. I used to be able to drive for 2 or 3 hours from my home in Jersey before anything even remotely changed. From home in LA now, I can go from the beach with 75 degree weather to a ski slope with 35 degree weather on the right day and swim and ski within that same time period!!

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Noah - Now with more boost. 04/04/2018 at 14:42

0

Haha I was just about to comment on that and tell you that you need to be somewhere rust free to avoid those problems. I could eat off the bottom of my STi without needing a tetanus shot. It never ceases to amaze me how many clean “normal” cars I see though. I am still just used to that never ending cycle of everything becomes grayish in the winter and people dont keep old cars because the floors rust away. It’s quite the first world problem now anytime that it rains I have to skip doing a wild canyon run that day. But 75% of the year there is less than 1% chance of ever finding rain.