Some people in the neighborhood take Halloween seriously. Animatronic displays of skeleton playing saxophones, larger than life horror-movie characters, or even Frankenstein thumbing through Reader’s Digest. Its certainly a creative community.
There’s always a couple of houses with truly scary decorations. Always that one disturbed family that focuses on witches and ghouls. The one that puts Barbie dolls on the rotisserie of the BBQ; the kind of stuff that’ll give little trick-or-treaters nightmares.
But what about gearheads? Cars play such a strong part in Halloween with all of those scary movies like the 1983 classic ‘Christine‘ or the 1977 B-movie bomb ‘The Car‘. Who will focus on the role of the automobile in this beloved holiday? The Demaras Racing family will!
Parked in our front yard is a 14′ long, inflatable hearse. It comes complete with skeleton driver and passengers, but it’s unclear if it’s carrying any cargo (don’t get to close, or you might find out!). With its bat-like fins, it’s clearly a classic Cadillac from the late ’50s.
You should leave that out all year!
I need the parking space!
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All jokes aside, I have a lunatics’ neighbor with a 20′ tall skeleton in his front yard that stays up all year. What a goof! He puts a Santa hat on it in December, zip ties a box of Valentine’s chocolates to its hand in February. With all that effort, he could just take it down after Halloween. But he never does.
While I’d be impressed by that if it was my neighbor, I’d also be annoyed