Reply to "What do your neighbors say???"

Many of my neighbors either have, had, or want, a classic, so the Pantera is something that brings them out of the woodwork - one guy now brings his 66 Caddy out, another just bought an old t-bird after seeing the Pantera and deciding life's too short to wait 'til the stars are aligned perfectly before buying, and a few others are over whenever the cat comes out to shoot the breeze we share stories about what we all drove in our youth.
As for working on it, the older guys are definitely more appreciative of what it takes to own and maintain something like this.
Oddly, the guys with the high-end, late-model cars are less likely to socialize, it's the guys who mow their own lawns and decorate for the holidays, and don't mind changing their own oil now and then that I see out and about.