Most embarrassing moment?
09-03-2009, 08:02 PM
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Most embarrassing moment?
In a C4 of course.
I'll start. Had my 87 vert parked at a local store when some people came up and commented on how nice it looked. I had just had her painted and she was looking great!
They were still standing around (along with others who were coming in and out of the store) when I fired it up.
She cranked and fired and belched out a nice cloud of blue smoke right in front of everyone.:o
I replaced the valve seals soon after that and cured that problem.
I'll start. Had my 87 vert parked at a local store when some people came up and commented on how nice it looked. I had just had her painted and she was looking great!
They were still standing around (along with others who were coming in and out of the store) when I fired it up.
She cranked and fired and belched out a nice cloud of blue smoke right in front of everyone.:o
I replaced the valve seals soon after that and cured that problem.
09-03-2009, 08:44 PM
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Drifting
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I was at a gas station about a year after I got my Vette. While filling up I got a couple of nice comments about the car. Finish filling up hop into the car turn the key and..................................... ............nothing happened! :o Couple more tries, same result, nothing! Had to push it out of the way because I was blocking the pumps. Open the hood and start making sure all the wires are tight, still nothing. Some guy in a suit stops by and asked what the problem was. Listened to what I told him and said it was the starter. Asked if I had a hammer, I didn't but a guy in a pick-up did. He took his suit jacket off and laid down on the pavement and squirms his arm under the car and proceeds to whack at the starter. Couple of whacks while I was turning the key and she fires up! 
Felt like an idiot with a shiny car that didn't work!
Felt like an idiot with a shiny car that didn't work!
09-03-2009, 09:50 PM
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Pulled out of a fast food joint at a busy intersection. Just as I'm half way onto the street, some guy jumps out of the other lane into the empty lane I'm going for, and he's only about four car length away! I'm already half-way in the street, so I nailed the throttle and the Vette did a quick 180 ! There I am pointed the wrong way with smoke wafting out from the rear wheel wells. Damn lucky I didn't swat anybody. I must have been in crowd of pretty cool people, because they all thought it was pretty funny.
I had to drive in reverse about 40 feet to the next parking lot entrance and undo my wedgie! I keep the ASR on in town now.
! There I am pointed the wrong way with smoke wafting out from the rear wheel wells. Damn lucky I didn't swat anybody. I must have been in crowd of pretty cool people, because they all thought it was pretty funny.I had to drive in reverse about 40 feet to the next parking lot entrance and undo my wedgie! I keep the ASR on in town now.
09-03-2009, 09:55 PM
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I was on my way to a job interview. It was the second interview and on the first one my potential boss and I ended up talking about cars. When he found out I had a Vette he said he would like to see it. Half way there it died at a red light. I called him and he came and got me. We missed our lunch appointment and AAA had to load it up in front of him. I got the job anyway but my boss still doesn't trust my car.
09-03-2009, 10:00 PM
#11
Safety Car
Right after I bought mine I stopped at a gas station across the street from the dealer to fill up. When I was done I couldn't get the parking brake released, as I hadn't yet been schooled in the parking brake secret handshake.
09-03-2009, 10:02 PM
#12
Safety Car
I had sprayed my stock exhaust with high temp paint to dress it up. It looked really nice. I took it out for a ride with the top off on a summer night. As I pulled up to the red light thinking this is is cool with the top off and having a vette - a large cloud of smoke overcame the car. I could barely see in the car as the paint smoked like crazy. The people in the cars next to me are all looking at me. Of course I'm trying to look like nothing is wrong.
09-03-2009, 10:03 PM
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Leaving a car show last summer after winning a nice trophy....the protocol was to 'light 'em up' to the taunts and cheers of onlookers. I floor the gas and the car spins them up................then chuggs and limps away........because I had forgotten to click the ASR off. 
Mike
Mike
09-03-2009, 10:05 PM
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Burning Brakes
Beautiful sunny day and i'm waiting to make a right turn at a intersection. Two fine looking girls jogging stop at the corner waiting to cross the street. One says something to the other and they both look at me and smile. So I give them my best cool guy smile and wink as I turn the corner and proceed to ram the curb going up over it and grinding my new wheels for about five feet as I come off it. Doh!!
09-03-2009, 10:23 PM
#16
Well I have not had a mishap yet...except when I couldn't get the parking brake off my 91' after filling up at a gas station. I probably wasted half a tank trying to move it 20 feet to park it in front of the gas station. But afterwards I got a nice compliment from the clerk saying it sounded really nice. Remember if you totally embarrass yourself just remember that your in a Vette.
09-03-2009, 10:31 PM
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The ASR - oh yeah! I had just picked up my new-to-me red LT4 vert from Brandt in Kennesaw, GA. I had left my house about 3AM and flown into Atlanta. Brandt's Dad picked me up and dropped me off to get the car (Brandt could not bear to see it drive away). I was about 1 hour North and realized that I had not eaten in 12 hours.
Pulled into a Waffle House and everyone in there came out to the parking lot to look at the car. Cooks, customers, waitress, bus boys - everyone!
It seems that the Georgia Lotto was giving away a new red Corvette convertible as one of the top prizes. Everyone thought that this was a new car!
The waitress said, "I don't know where you are going honey, but I want to go with you!"
After tipping her $20 I pulled out of the parking lot and dumped the clutch! I was expecting a massive burnout but did launch the car nicely.
Later on I was reading the owner's manual and realized that the traction control comes on on each restart.:o:o:o
Pulled into a Waffle House and everyone in there came out to the parking lot to look at the car. Cooks, customers, waitress, bus boys - everyone!
It seems that the Georgia Lotto was giving away a new red Corvette convertible as one of the top prizes. Everyone thought that this was a new car!
The waitress said, "I don't know where you are going honey, but I want to go with you!"
After tipping her $20 I pulled out of the parking lot and dumped the clutch! I was expecting a massive burnout but did launch the car nicely.
Later on I was reading the owner's manual and realized that the traction control comes on on each restart.:o:o:o
09-03-2009, 10:59 PM
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St. Jude Donor '05
Broke down (VATS) in front of this place. The 89 saw a flatbed once or twice, too.
I can forgive mechanical failure but electrical stuff irritates the hell out of me. Walked down the street had lunch and it fired right back up, never happened since
I can forgive mechanical failure but electrical stuff irritates the hell out of me. Walked down the street had lunch and it fired right back up, never happened since
