Just got back from a 3200 mile jaunt in my C4, to SE Kansas and back (I live in San Diego). The Vette ran perfectly, but had a bad experience in Kansas:

I've been stopped at a road construction, out in the middle of Nowhere, Kansas. The guy has been standing in front of me, holding the STOP sign, for about 20 minutes. In the distance ahead, I can see a truck coming, it's yellow lightbar flashing. Ten minutes later (you can see a LONG way in Kansas!) it's about 30 yards from us and I realize it is painting the dotted yellow center line. On the road. The road I'm parked on. The road I'm parked on... about 18 inches from the center of said road. Where the paint is being sprayed.
I can't go forward to pull off the road; the guy is standing there, directly in front of me, with a stop sign. I can't go back; there is a newer black Firebird three feet off my rear bumper and 50 semi's behind her. So I suck it up and watch the spray nozzle go past close enough for me to open my door and touch it.
The girl in the Firebird has this horrified look on her face as it goes by her.

So, now, there is thick yellow overspray on the lower panels and the same thick paint strung all over the left rear wheel and tire (fortunately, I'd put the stock wheels/tires on for the trip). I know clay bar will take the overspray off, wooden tonque depressors will chip the strings off the wheel, and acetone will take it off the tire (BTDT), but CRAP!! ...why do they DO stuff like that!

A few minutes and miles down the road, I realized I should have gotten out of the car, stood in the middle of the road, and forced the paint truck to stop until I could move the car, but panic short-circuited by pea-brain.

Thanks, I feel better.

Larry
code5coupe

 

You displayed more control then I would have.

 

Thats fecked up! Thats something they should be doing in the middle of the night when there are less cars on the road. I wonder if you can make the state/city pay for damages?? I'd be pissed!

 

My step grandmother got some tar on her vehicle in a similar situation. She complained to the proper authorities, and they paid for the cleaning of the mess. I think I might say something. Find the state website, probably www.Kansas.state.org (not actual website) or something like that. Tell somebody the time, date and location. Maybe they can cut you a check. Worth a shot...

 

I'm glad it wasn't me...I'd probably be in a Kansas jail for pushing the flag dude into the ditch with the front bumper

 

Wow. I would of let the car drift forward, moving that guy outta the way, just to get to the side of the road.

 

definitely woulud have tried to move and perhaps made other people mad in the process.... just a car i guess, but a dang nice/'spensive one!!!

 

Me 2

 

I would have asked the sign pr1ck why I was waiting, and when I found out, would have moved the car. I, however, benefit from your hindsight.

GT6

 

Yeah and the sign guy didnt move, i'd rev the engine and threaten to run him over if he didnt.

 

damn, that wrong. i would have been so upset. not sure what the best plan of attack would have been.

 

I guarantee-he'd moved for me!!!!!

 

Naw, that would have been very corvetteownerish of you. I'm glad you didn't. The Kantrans worker wouldn't have been very pleased with you. You should have went to the hardware store, bought some yellow paint, and took care of their local office with it, or maybe the cars in the parking lot.

Once I left my ford parked on the street, left town day before they posted the notices that it was being repaved.

They paved around the car, over the polished alum wheel, back under the car, around the front wheel... damn the street looked funny after I moved the car. I managed to get the asphault off the wheels, but not off the paint.