Last week I worked at a demo house. The ones that get bought, tore down for a bigger house.

"XJDano" (xjdano)
05/14/2019 at 13:55 • Filed to: Nardin Rd

The couple left behind a bunch of stuff, a whole bunch of photos too, not many were of cars, but I’ll start sharing the ones that were.

I don’t know much about older cars like this so have fun identifying them.

DISCUSSION (23)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > XJDano
05/14/2019 at 14:04

Lead pic appears to be a ‘40 Chev.

fintail > XJDano
05/14/2019 at 14:05

Looks like a 40 Chevy

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > fintail
05/14/2019 at 14:10

I attempted to narrow it down further. I think, based on the hood ornament, that it’s a Special Deluxe.

fintail > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
05/14/2019 at 14:19

Good call.

I wonder what’s in the background - gives me a 34 Ford 3 window coupe vibe (I don’t think it has a rear quarter window, the dark mark appears to be an anomaly in the pic).

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > fintail
05/14/2019 at 14:20

Yeah, I was holding on “eh, Ford or something” until such time as we have an improved version.

Ash78, voting early and often > XJDano
05/14/2019 at 14:21

We have a builder around here who has started specializing in keeping the floor plan of the old houses, then adding a second story and modernizing the whole thing. It’s apparently getting pretty popular, but the houses are really tall and skinny. The lots are big enough to handle much larger houses (or 3!) but people still want the yard. That’s refreshing -- new construction usually eliminates the yard.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often
05/14/2019 at 14:26

Austin is getting McMansioned to hell. Lovely older single-floor homes in upscale neighborhoods are getting replaced with giant two-story modern monstrosities of aluminum and glass. Sucks to be the neighbor to one of those, I would imagine.

Arrivederci > XJDano
05/14/2019 at 14:36

Looks like a 1940 Chevy Special Deluxe.

Edit - was beaten by multiple commenters, so I agree with them LOL.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn
05/14/2019 at 15:35

Yeah, some of our older neighborhoods are razing the original homes (mostly 3/1 layouts around 1,000-1,200sf) to make way for 3,000sf modern craftsman places. I like those better than McMansions because they’re all one-off designs, but I just can’t do the McMansion planned developments in the burbs . We’re looking to move out of town ri ght now and I’m seeing almost the exact same pattern everywhere we look: 80-100 homes on 15 acres, no landscaping, the same 4 color schemes and maybe 3 facades repeated on every street. 10' between the houses, at most. Then the aerial view is like a fractal design with 20 more of those developments Tetrised together endlessly.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often
05/14/2019 at 15:40

This is one of the newest developments just north of our neighborhood.

Kinja'd!!!

I ride my bike through some of it and it’s impossible to tell the homes apart. And with the height, they feel like they are standing shoulder-to-shoulder. But they sold like hotcakes. Everybody wants new construction, perhaps thinking that since it’s new it’s better. So many of these homes were put up so fast that I’m sure quality is sorely lacking. This is the aerial view. Maximum density achieved.

Kinja'd!!!

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn
05/14/2019 at 15:51

That’s the stuff. I know some of it is due to efficiency and water rights, among other stuff. But I just don’t see how this isn’t just a giant apartment complex just laid out flat on the earth. It’s basically the same thing. Looks like urban Baltimore rowhouses during their heyday.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often
05/14/2019 at 16:07

We are on the north side of the county, and we’ve been relatively unmolested by developers until the last 5 years. Now there are these super dense housing developments and mega apartment complexes coming in on every open piece of land, Amazon has opened a distribution center in a nearby industrial park, and empty office buildings are popping up. The real bitch of this, aside from overcrowded schools, is the astronomical jump in the amount of traffic in our area. The roads just weren’t designed for that kind of volume, but do the developers care? Of course not. There’s money to be made. Does the county care? Of course not. There’s property tax to collect. The only upside is that they are rapidly running out of open fields, so it can only get so bad before it will be as bad as it can get.

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn
05/14/2019 at 16:29

I just threw up in my mouth a bit.

All of the outer suburbs in Chicagoland look the exact same way, more or less.

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher
05/14/2019 at 16:31

Maybe Thanos was on to something...

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn
05/14/2019 at 16:36

Yeah, I’ve learned that Impact Studies can be very easily clouded by the prospect of new tax revenues. At least until 10-20 years later when everyone like you gets fed up and moves elsewhere.

Then: “We have to raise sales taxes!”

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Ash78, voting early and often
05/14/2019 at 16:40

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often
05/14/2019 at 16:45

That’s TX. For years, schools have been funded by property taxes, so the schools in the rich areas are fantastic and modern while the ones in the poor areas are shabby and run down. I tour all over the city to perform for elementary kids, and the disparities are stark. And the rich districts piss and moan about their tax dollars being shared with the poor districts. So the latest plan is to cut property taxes, which really only helps those who own property, and raise the sales tax, which can disproportionately affect those with lower incomes. About 20 years ago they started a lottery which was supposed to go towards school funding. In reality, the legislature just uses it as a slush fund to balance the budget and fund tax cuts and cover tax incentives for corporations.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn
05/14/2019 at 16:49

In Alabama, our cities are all constrained by a statewide law limiting how much can be charged for property tax at the local level . So we often pay rates of 0.50% of assessed value (or less; some very wealthy areas pay more so they can have great schools). Now all of our cities have 10% sales tax and it’s spreading — including groceries and OTC medicines.

You do the math on who that affects the most. I’m all in favor of higher property taxes and eliminating taxes on groceries. I’d personally come out about the same, but a lot of families would get a windfall right where they need it most.

OPPOsaurus WRX > ttyymmnn
05/15/2019 at 09:31

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GLiddy > Ash78, voting early and often
05/15/2019 at 12:06

When these homes were first built, this was a country of 130 million people. Now we’re like 33 0 million and families are smaller so that means that many more single family residences are needed. They have to live somewhere.

Ash78, voting early and often > GLiddy
05/15/2019 at 13:45

My issue isn’t so much that (which is objectively true) — it’s more about how we’re pretending to build all these single family homes, but at nearly the same density as apartments. It’s a weird combination.

Ash78, voting early and often > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
05/15/2019 at 15:23

It’s like if the Jerky Boys used email instead of the phone...

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Ash78, voting early and often
05/15/2019 at 18:30

James Vietch is a hero of a troll.