Goodbye Hawaii
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Goodbye Hawaii
My Ragtop will be loaded on a Matson ship Monday, and I'll fly out to SoCal on March 10. Too bad there wasn't an opportunity for us Camaro people to get together and socialize. Weird how that works here in Hawaii, sigh. Here we are on little Oahu and can't hardly get two people at a car event, or just sit around and BS, like the cruiser groups do. Oh well, in the more than 30 years I've been here, it's been about the same. I'll be relocating into the SoCal area, so if anyone visits out there, send me a PM and we can do some burnouts or something, there's a lot of ThirdGen people in SoCal and they always seem to be doing stuff. So finally, "Aloha y'all"
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Re: Goodbye Hawaii
Damn Ed... I didnt realize you were shipping out again...
Glad we got to hang out for a bit while you were here.
Glad we got to hang out for a bit while you were here.
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Re: Goodbye Hawaii
BTW, I'm looking for a 3-spoke non-airbag steering wheel for my ragtop, if you see one around could you grab it for me?
If you need some parts from AZ or CA let me know!
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Re: Goodbye Hawaii
If there was any way humanly possible I could end up living in Hawaii, I wouldn't leave at gunpoint!
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Re: Goodbye Hawaii
It is humanly possible - all you have to do is do it. Lots of nice ThirdGens in Hawaii too, and you have them all so close, considering Oahu is about 30x35 miles and populated with more than one million people. It's your life - your choice.
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Nah. I'd go for the big island. I was on Oahu, Maui and Hawaii 30 years ago and it is truly paradise, at least to me. Interestingly enough, my wife and I are seriously considering AZ now as all the kids are grown and gone. Any thoughts about there?
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Re: Goodbye Hawaii
Here's the link to photos with some of the Kingman ThirdGen people over for some fun.
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/sout...-part-3-a.html
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Re: Goodbye Hawaii
Sure, rent or buy my almost new 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with a boat-deep garage in the house on a 3/4-acre lot in Kingman, AZ on Route 66. It also has a 1300 sf mechanics garage with compressed air piping, painting filters and airflow reducers, 220 and 110v outlets, running water, heating and provisions for cooling. It's ready to rent now and I'm in the process of packing my stuff and will be moving to SoCal in a week. The guy who built the house also built hot rods, it's perfect for a car enthusiast.
Here's the link to photos with some of the Kingman ThirdGen people over for some fun.
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/sout...-part-3-a.html
Here's the link to photos with some of the Kingman ThirdGen people over for some fun.
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/sout...-part-3-a.html
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Re: Goodbye Hawaii
Paradise? Well no, it's actually not, and especially so if you want to go on a road trip. Island life means driving in a small circle, forever. Add more than a million people crammed into an area 30x35 miles = insane traffic jams. Kingman AZ is a great hot rod town with roads to everywhere, I like it there. But for the past few months I've been in Southern California, truly and historically the birthplace of hot rodding in the US. For hot cars, this is paradise like no other place. Plus, there's lots of ThirdGen enthusiasts here.
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Re: Goodbye Hawaii
hawaii has it pros and cons....
people who lived in hawaii all their life dont see hawaii like any old tourist from the mainland who see it as....
just like any other place in the world
people who lived in hawaii all their life dont see hawaii like any old tourist from the mainland who see it as....
just like any other place in the world
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Re: Goodbye Hawaii
Well, not exactly - Hawaii offers some perks to one's quality of life not available elsewhere, and for those things it will always be head and shoulders above any other place in the world. But "rock fever" often afflicts those who become disgruntled with living on a island in the middle of nowhere, as it did me. Living 30+ years in Hawaii was too much for this SoCal guy born to the open road and used to roaring across the US in any direction. And closing the racetrack was the final straw ... sheesh...
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