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Tobra 12-14-2016 09:23 AM

That white car looks way too shiny for you to be buying.

Didn't you just get that '52 Beetle?

widebody911 12-14-2016 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Tobra (Post 9396329)
That white car looks way too shiny for you to be buying.

Didn't you just get that '52 Beetle?

I've had it for about 10 years now; I had the '56 Ghia for a little longer than that.

sammyg2 12-14-2016 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by widebody911 (Post 9395722)
So is East LA the sort of place you need to bring a spoon?

Only after 3 pm.

Serial, only about one murder per month on average in that area, but you could walk in in an hour.
Boyle heights is right next to it, 13 murders ytd same as east LA.

Pretty darn safe compared to cheecago.



http://homicide.latimes.com/neighborhood/east-los-angeles

Scott Douglas 12-14-2016 02:28 PM

My brother and I visited there a couple of years ago.
The thing that stood out to me the most was the 911/12 (I forget which it was) Targa they had brought in on a flat bed. It was sooooo rusty I couldn't see how they possibly could have gotten it onto the flat bed without it coming apart.
We wondered around and ended up in an area where we shouldn't have been. There was a guy 'restoring' one of the cars, shooting the wheel wells with new shiny black undercoating.
The warehouse we were taken to to look at the car my brother was interested in was really something. ALL kinds of cars, most not in the best of shape.

Craig T 12-14-2016 02:59 PM

I considered one from BHCC when I started my long-hood hot rod project. The price seemed too good to be true. The car was advertised as "minor rust". In my opinion it was a rust bucket basket case. When I think of "minor rust", I imagine some bubbling at the bottom of the doors and maybe in need of floor pans. It was WAY beyond that.

In his defense, rust measurement seems to be very subjective. A resto-body guy like John Esposito might have agreed it was minor rust, but John can take a total rust bucket and in a few months enter it in the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. When quarters, floor, and metal around windows needs to be cut and and replaced, I call that major rust.

widebody911 12-14-2016 03:13 PM

Pretty scary when you have to register "homicide" as a DNS CNAME!

look 171 12-14-2016 04:17 PM

Interesting cars out of that place for sure. I looked in there once there were a bunch of air cool 911s sitting under that metal roof.

That area isn't bad at all. I would go there at night without any problem. It is the starting point of the division from the normal neighborhood to "The Hood" Go south from there and it gets a little scary at night. During daytime, there's nothing to worry about.


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