Waianae is where you find all the low-rider Volkswagens, IIRC. And Toyotas.
I used to like that side of the island because it was unlike the rest of the
island - dry and almost "southwestern-like." I never thought the people there
were hayseeds (but maybe I didn't notice because I AM a hayseed) but I do
remember going to a junkyard over there to get parts for an MGB. It was up in
the hills along a long, narrow dirt road. The yard owner's kids let me drive
right out there and pick what I want, and there were about a dozen MGBs there.
When I drove back with a car full of parts later in the afternoon, the guy was
ripshit, hollered at his kids, and tried to overcharge me for the parts.
Probably didn't trust military guys. Can't blame him, there were a few guys
who gave the rest of us a bad name. He calmed down after I said I'd spend the
rest of the day putting them back if he wanted, but I wasn't going to pay what
he was asking.
But the person listing the vehicle is in Kailua, which is right off H3 near
Kaneohe.
> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:30:35 -0500
> From: Michael Rowe <mdrowe@optonline.net>
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Really?
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
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> This car is located in Waianae, which is far out in the country. There are
> jokes about "girls from Nanakuli," and Waianae is farther out than Nanakuli!
> (I confess that my family lived even farther out on a different island. My
> mother drove 100 miles for groceries every weekend - not Wyoming, perhaps,
> but pretty isolated.)
>
> Although most people in Hawaii are "worldly," many are extremely isolated
> and naive. They have never been much of anywhere or done much of anything,
> and don't realize how much they don't know (or maybe they just don't care) -
> rather like Manhattanites. With in-migration and TV, etc., it is not as
> bad now as it used to be, but it is certainly not California. These people
> would see this car as a rare antique no one has ever heard of, and they
> would not think to look online to find out what it might be worth. What
> would most people in your neighborhood think if they found a 1938 Bugatti
> under a pile of junk in a shed?
>
> Michael Rowe
> Country Boy
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