Finally experienced the feeling....
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Finally experienced the feeling....
I'm sure some of you have read my comments about how my Vette us usually dirty has hell, bugs all over the front and a thick layer of road crust. It is my daily driver. I though all of you guys that spend all day slathering the Vette with various types of Zaino and keeping it in the garage were....silly.
I think I understand now. I spent more than seven hours last night washing, deep cleaning, clay barring, waxing, waxing and waxing, detailing the inside and under the hood. I am actually sore all over from doing the whole "wax on / wax off thing".
Well, today it looks like it might rain and NFW AM I TAKING MY CAR OUT IN THAT MESS. It has to last more than one day. Look what this has done to me. I might have to buy another car as a daily driver. uuuugh.
EDIT: Oh ya, it is a 03' C5 coupe, torch red. Just to make this post appropriate for this forum
I think I understand now. I spent more than seven hours last night washing, deep cleaning, clay barring, waxing, waxing and waxing, detailing the inside and under the hood. I am actually sore all over from doing the whole "wax on / wax off thing".
Well, today it looks like it might rain and NFW AM I TAKING MY CAR OUT IN THAT MESS. It has to last more than one day. Look what this has done to me. I might have to buy another car as a daily driver. uuuugh.
EDIT: Oh ya, it is a 03' C5 coupe, torch red. Just to make this post appropriate for this forum
Last edited by Prosecutor; Mar 26, 2005 at 12:32 PM.
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That's why I have a jeep! Makes a great daily driver.
I look at it this way. If it's raining on a track weekend I'm getting dirty and wet, so be it.
Otherwise, I like the car to look clean and polished when I drive around town and it takes a lot of time to get it there. If it's raining and gross I'm not exactly going to enjoy the vette to it's fullest anyway, so take the jeep. And, on top of it save some miles on the vette. Can't go wrong that way.
I look at it this way. If it's raining on a track weekend I'm getting dirty and wet, so be it.
Otherwise, I like the car to look clean and polished when I drive around town and it takes a lot of time to get it there. If it's raining and gross I'm not exactly going to enjoy the vette to it's fullest anyway, so take the jeep. And, on top of it save some miles on the vette. Can't go wrong that way.
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Originally Posted by Prosecutor
I think I understand now. I spent more than seven hours last night washing, deep cleaning, clay barring, waxing, waxing and waxing, detailing the inside and under the hood. I am actually sore all over from doing the whole "wax on / wax off thing".
Well, today it looks like it might rain and NFW AM I TAKING MY CAR OUT IN THAT MESS. It has to last more than one day. Look what this has done to me. I might have to buy another car as a daily driver. uuuugh.
Well, today it looks like it might rain and NFW AM I TAKING MY CAR OUT IN THAT MESS. It has to last more than one day. Look what this has done to me. I might have to buy another car as a daily driver. uuuugh.
I can drive it, I will drive it and not only when it's sunny out.
Dirt will not hurt it.
I figure if I say it enough times, I may come to believe it.
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Originally Posted by yellow01
That's why I have a jeep! Makes a great daily driver.
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I got a DD with a 100,000 mile warantee. I drive it through all sorts of crap. (and most times, in a grey 4dr, you can blast right past a speed trap and the cop will not give you a second glance
) The vette comes out almost every weekend, if the weather is good.
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I was out today and counted 11 vettes (all C5's) and ALL of them were spotless...IMHO that's the way it "Should" be. You already did the hard stuff, now just give her a wash weekly and a spritz of booster wax (it'll take you all of about 30 min.) and she'll always look nice. The way I see it is...she takes good care of you, right? So take good care of her.
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Originally Posted by C5Jim
The cure for any drought.......washing the car.
If you want a downpour, just add wax.
If you want it to stop, put the car back in the garage.
Murphy's law, gotta love it.
If you want a downpour, just add wax.
If you want it to stop, put the car back in the garage.
Murphy's law, gotta love it.
Man, ain't that the truth. Welcome to the club. They won't melt, and I've driven in the rain a time or two, but shoot, after all that work....no way.Paul
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I was going to get mine insured and on the road this weekend. But it's raining like crap out there and it's going to sit in the garage till it's sunny out there. End of story!!
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Getting a daily driver is not a bad idea. Comes in handy on those rainy days.
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My other car is an F-150. When it's not top down weather, the truck gets a run. Last summer, I think I went two weeks in one stretch with the top down. Of course, now I have some permanent wrinkles in the top, but that's how it goes.
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Originally Posted by Prosecutor
I spent more than seven hours last night washing, deep cleaning, clay barring, waxing, waxing and waxing, detailing the inside and under the hood.
Well, today it looks like it might rain and NFW AM I TAKING MY CAR OUT IN THAT MESS.
Well, today it looks like it might rain and NFW AM I TAKING MY CAR OUT IN THAT MESS.
I have two cars covered up and put away at my place.. both are very nice looking cars that only come out when I want them too. I bet my neighbors think I am nuts!
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