"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
07/03/2018 at 23:27 • Filed to: None
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"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
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I grew up in Palos Verdes, one of the wealthier suburbs of Los Angeles, and it has gotten wealthier since I left. Candidly, I did not like its stuffy and uptight nature. One of the reasons I love cars is that getting my license gave me freedom to escape and enjoy myself in the rest of SoCal. My dad helped me get met my first car, a 1981 Celica Sparlingco conversion convertible (RIP) that is the reason for my Sunchaser obsession. My parents were shockingly permissive about me driving to shows and god knows where else as I explored Hollywood, Santa Monica, Long Beach, and others. It was this time when I felt like I really started to figure myself out.
Anyway, I finished high school and headed to Colorado for college. I never looked back, and when I moved back to SoCal I moved to Santa Monica. Eventually, life took me across the country and back, and I made my home in Fresno. My parents retired and left Palos Verdes, and my onetime home faded - I never missed it.
By chance, an old SoCal friend (a car enthusiast) has an extra ticket to Dead & Co. at Dodger Stadium Saturday night, and invited me to go. It so happens that Palos Verdes has a Cars & Coffee that day, so I decided to take the Sunchaser and hit my old stomping grounds and enjoy a Cars & Coffee where the cars will be worth millions. It feels weird to be back there in a car so similar to the one I drove around the area as a teen. I may have to take a spin around town to see how things look after all these years. It is an odd feeling.
wafflesnfalafel
> ImmoralMinority
07/03/2018 at 23:47 |
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E mphasis on “sort of”- the area I grew up is basically unrecognizable due to Microsoft/tech money. It was semi-rural hicksville - I remember distinctly riding in my folk’s VW Kombi and there was a single stoplight in the middle of town. Now the local cars & coffee is turning away quarter million dollar vehicles because they don’t have enough space and 10,000 new residential apartments are set to come online this year alone.
Thomas Donohue
> ImmoralMinority
07/03/2018 at 23:51 |
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This is good Oppo.
I’m an East-Coaster, but have spent a lot of time in CA, mostly because of work. I will admi t that I prefer Northern Cal to the LA area, but I could really get used to Santa Monica, Malibu, and Santa Barbara.
Enjoy the shows, and the trip.
smobgirl
> ImmoralMinority
07/04/2018 at 00:11 |
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I was playing on google street view in my childhood (until I was 9) neighborhood. I was so sad to see that my favorite neightbor’s house was razed and something hideous was built on the lot. I mean logically I knew that there was no way this couple was still alive but that really ruined the place for me.
RacinBob
> ImmoralMinority
07/04/2018 at 00:47 |
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This is about as close to my high school car as you could find. This is a ‘64 289 Fairlane 3 spd automatic. What was my dad thinking to buy it for us boys.
The thing that brings it back to me is a pre PCV (positive crankcase ventilation) car with a little blowby (probably a lot of blowby.....) .
That smell of half combusted motor oil, in Davenport IA , yes.
His Stigness
> ImmoralMinority
07/04/2018 at 00:53 |
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Do you think you’d have time to go back up to Neptunes Net, or around that area, after Cars and Coffee? It’s too far away and too early for me to make it all the way down there for C&C.
winterlegacy, here 'till the end
> ImmoralMinority
07/04/2018 at 02:09 |
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Cars that are worth millions are interesting a few times, but lose the allure once you start seeing them all the time.
The most interesting cars are those that are worth millions to their drivers, whether it be through a strange turn of events that gave them an interesting/quirky car that they can tell you everything about or the story and legacy behind the vehicle’s existence.