Car Enthusiast Leading in Neighborhood ‘Horror House’ Contest for Project Car Display
Community praises his Halloween dedication, while he insists he has no idea what they’re on about.
CORONA—A local car enthusiast has found himself at the top of the neighborhood Halloween contest. Not for your usual Spirit Halloween crap like cobwebs, skeletons, or pumpkins, but for his extensive collection of half-started project cars currently scattered like unsupervised Legos across his front yard.
Neighbors say its extremely fear-inducing effect has transformed the block into a spectacle. “At night, the stripped Civic chassis with no headlights looks like it has a dead body in it,” said resident Mary O’Donnell. “And those rusted brake rotors? They glint like cursed tombstones under the porch light. Honestly, it’s the most dangerous and impactful haunted house in town. It’s so scary, it’s bringing our property values down.”
The car enthusiast in question, Hector Ramirez, says he’s baffled. “What contest? Those are just my builds,” he explained while putting spare parts in the back seat of a tarp-covered Foxbody Mustang. “People keep congratulating me for my ‘commitment to the theme,’ but I don’t even like Halloween.”
Kids have already begun visiting the property in droves. “I swear I actually saw tetanus inside that E36,” said one trick-or-treater. Scientists later confirmed it was, in fact, severe tetanus that had begun evolving into a creature under the sheer weight of rust.
Even the local homeowners’ association has gotten in on the act. “We’ve been fining him for this months now,” said HOA president Kyle Jennings. “But now it benefits our contest. So we let it go.”
Despite his new celebrity status, Ramirez remains unamused. “I’m just waiting on parts, they’ll be done soon. Stop hating,” he insisted, brushing aside extremely realistic cobwebs.
Voting for the “Horror House of the Year” ends on Halloween, though neighbors say Ramirez is already the runaway favorite. As one judge put it: “Anyone can buy fake tombstones from Big Lots. It takes true dedication to let a Miata decompose naturally on your lawn.”