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Originally Posted by MidEngine4Life
Shop for electronics at Fry's and eat at In-N-Out Burger. Mmmmmm Mmm
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so true. Welcome to CA. It's great here in socal because we're essentially in the heart of the car world. Everything sort of converges here. You get to see all kinds of great cars on the road It's one thing to be able to see them at the numberous shows here, but seeing one spontaneously on the road is sheer bliss (like when a blue Ford GT drove past me)
The one big drawback is the utter lack of racetracks. Even drag strips are few and far between. All of our good road courses are either up north or out in the desert. The former El Toro air base should become a road coures!!! What a waste of fine runway.
Anyway, I use cingular and am very happy with it. Wamu is my bank but I think I'd rather use Wells Fargo. Vons is ok for shopping but they've moved upscale a bit and can rip you off. Albertsons is alright. Best deals are at Sam's club where you can buy in huge bulk. I personally boycott 76 gas stations since they got rid of almost all of their cool orange balls (replaced them with flat red circles). I used to go to Chevron but some of my local ones watered down the gasoline (probably isolated incidents but I still do not go to them anymore).
In the last two years Walgreens pharmacies seemed to have popped up everywhere. They're pretty good and many are open 24 hours. Pick your part and ecology are both good salvage yards with tons of cars. Don't expect to find anything great in them though. They are mostly for older more common cars.
If you're ever in the middle of Orange County, you can visit what I feel is ricer central. Just south of Lampson on Beach blvd we have the US's only super autobacs (an automotive super store full of ricer paraphernalia and other stuff). You can see all sorts of horrendous cars. It is a good place to find an easy and amusing street race though.
This April there is a replica car show at knott's berry farm. There you can see more replica cobras than you ever wanted to. Anyway, they all cruise down to Huntington Beach on Friday (the 27th?). It's fun to cruise around HB with "Cobras" all over the place. As mentioned by others. the cars and coffee meet is great fun. More cars show up in the summer months. There are a ton of other car events but there's just too much to list. Oh, don't miss the Long Beach Grand Prix this year, ALMS will be there!
Lastly El Torito makes some pretty good Mexican food.