onspeed's pic makes me feel a LOT better about seeing this after jacking my vette up for the first time after purchasing it. i'd imagine most of our cars probably look somewhat similar to this?

 

I scratched the right rear fender the day after I brought her home when the hose sprayer flew out of my hand as I was giving her her first wash. Also drove all up on the curb stop when I pulled up to MTI for my coilover install. For just a second I actually thought about deciding not to lower her down more....but only for a second

 

My car definitely doesn't look like that and it is a DD with 107 about to be 108 .

 

Yes, but got car that way, but I added some more...

 

oh? sucks. but hey i paid $13k and it had 32k miles when i got it. i can live with some scratches you'd have to have your belly planted on the ground to see if it's not on a lift.

 

Also, you probably don't live in a city that has crappy "bubbled" road surfaces where the center is literally a foot higher than the outer edges. My car is the stock height, and there are intersections, not pot-holes or driveways, but intersections, that I can't drive through without scraping the black thing on the bottom. I've learned my lesson; I zig-zag.

 

Just installed the front and rear grill inserts, didn't mess up the car, but tore the S@$@#^!@#$ out of my hands... but worth it...naturally...

 

After reading all of your notes I am more convinced than ever why I go to and will go to Able Chevrolet when I need something done. If I were to terrify a mechanic I would walk to wards my car with a screw driver in my hand. I have a Model A that I have to stare at for an hour before I touch what ever it is I think I am going to fix. I am always sorry.

 

Been waiting for this to happen! Came close a couple of times and yes the top does get hot.

 

Yea and it doesnt look like its cracked so thats good, Ive got some scratches on the front of my car and the front air dam just about got ripped off the other day when I ran over that deer....

 

I wish they only thing that rubbed on my car was the front air dam as its pretty flexible and doesnt get hurt when you rub it up against something. Ive been having trouble with the back part of my exhaust bottoming out recently and the collector on the headers and now with my car lowered I have to be even more careful.

 

I did some damage like this a couple weeks ago. In my work parking garage I cut a corner too close and went over a curb

Nice long scrape on the passenger side right in front of the rear wheel. You can't see it unless you're under it but the sound it made I thought for sure I ripped something clean off the car

 

Pulling a patio stone from my trunk. Made me sick but I fixed it with some paint, compound and some serious buffing.

 

Rushing to get the dim HVAC display fix done I missed the connection for the fuel door release. Running low on fuel on the way home,,discovered it wouldn't pop open,,and couldn't find the emergency pull cable. I made it home pulled the center armrest/storage assembly and got it reconnected and still had enough gas. A year later got a new stereo installed,,and since they have to pull the same stuff out. After going through that I checked the fuel door and guess what,,,THEY forgot the fuel door connection!!!Live and learn!!!

 

Hopped a curb on passenger side leaving a golf course late in the evening. Scratches on bottom but no breaks. A year later did it again, different golf course. They hide those damn curbs at golf courses pretty well. However I won't give up golf or vette for now.

 

Other than a few minor scratches here and there, nothing major to complain about. Been lucky in that regard.

 

My wound actually healed itself !

Years ago I had my Irish Setter in the passenger seat for the sunny neighborhood cruise ... (leash hooked to the seatbelt)

Later I noticed he drooled on the passenger Dash/ABS Panel...

At home when dry it looked like a shinny spilled soda, so I tried to clean it ...

It wouldn't wipe off with a water wet cotton rag, so I got some full strength Simple Green and kept spraying and wiping for about 3 minutes ...

When is took a closer look the Simple Green had SOFTENED the Black Dash Pad to the point where it was getting rippled !

Big Bummer

So I just kept wiping it with cold water for a few minutes, felt sick about it, and walked away ...

A few hours later it was dry & ALL GOOD

That was a gift ... and I am thankful !

 

When I put my headers on I must have jostled the clutch master cylinder, which has a bayonet mount to the firewall. It is EASY to rotate! So when my wife and I were on a cruise I pulled up to an busy intersection and when I depressed the clutch it fell off the firewall --so no clutch! I didn't realize this and thought that I had a clutch failure.

I called AAA for a tow, but it took a while for them to get there. Many motorists were pissed at the location of my breakdown blocking the intersection. The police came and shut down the intersection so the flat bed could get in position to load my car.

The tow truck driver pulls out chains with big hooks and attached them to the rear suspension. I said NO! NO! NO! and we almost got in a fight over how to load a Corvette on a flat bed truck (My wife got freaked out by me, a 60 YO 160 lb guy almost coming to blows with a 300 lb tow truck driver. He finally agreed to use rather thin nylon tie down straps). In addition, the ramp of the truck was to steep for the overhang of the front fascia (he didn't have any 2x10s with him even though I told AAA that he should bring some). So as a result the bottom of my fascia got scuffed up and the pressure on the nose broke one of my front marker lenses.

So lesson learned. I always check the clutch master cylinder to make sure that it is screwed in correctly when I work near it (The correct position isn't vertical, as you might expect). I also now carry nylon tie down straps designed to fit in the jack point holes in the frame and a blanket to put under the nose of the car to prevent scuffing should I need a tow again.

 

 

It's not that I am to proud to post THEM it just hurts to much to think about them. I just remember how upset I got at myself each time.