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My Yellow Grand Sport is finally here. A dream realized thanks to Corvetteforum.
I didn't grow up with access to cars like these and I've not always been a Corvette fan, I was originally going to get a BMW M4 but the C7 blew me away and I decided to get myself a Z51 (fit my budget, needs and the looks were better than anything else I considered) - I test drove everything from F-types to the i8 to a 911 Turbo S and everything in between. I'm happy to say the American sports car won out for my needs.
I'm young and don't exactly have family money, so it took me 2 years of saving, planning, a spreadsheet that grew to ten tabs including everything from the OEM configuration from GM to all the aftermarket parts and treatments I wanted done to the best pricing for everything. Further tons of photoshop and install documents to visualize what I wanted as my end result.
Jeremy and John Elegant can attest to my meticulous planning / insanity. John has been super helpful in answering so many questions over the last year, wouldn't have been possible without him. Jeremy has been my second opinion on a lot of design ideas (Haha fellow yellow fan). Mike Puzach was another person who was super helpful in helping me find alternate ways to track the car during the final stages of delivery on the train more meticulously than the standard rail tracking number allows. I bugged Steven Bell a bunch too. Many others have helped me make this possible both on corvette forum and stingray forums.
The wide body becoming available with the Grand Sport in the time I took to plan made it all the more wonderful... it was the perfect corvette for a natural aspiration fan like me that tracks the car occasionally yet needs a comfortable daily driver with great fuel economy. Winter tires and aftermarket parts are all over my dining room at this point.
Took me a really long time and I finally lined up all my ducks in a row and placed an order with Macmulkin as soon as orders opened for the Grand Sport. This one's a grand sport 3LT coupe, not completely finished - lots of stuff to be installed over the next couple months. I also just got engaged and have lots of relatives visiting over the next month, so it's going to be a bit of a mess.
Pending part installs, XPEL treatment and opticoat pro plus. This is just in the dealership's service bay.
I present to you the Yellow jacket (vanity plate YLWJCKT). I'm a Georgia Tech alumnus/electrical engineer and the car matches our mascot Buzz's (a yellow jacket wasp) colors as well.
The people in the picture are just the dealership folks btw. I'll be sure to take better pictures once the car is actually complete with all the parts I want put on and XPEL and Opti pro plus done.
And cold starting the car. The dealership did it, didn't Rev it that hard and I think it's in touring mode. The burbles and pops and crackles from the exhaust are amazing even so.
Nice! Glad to see I'm not the only one who put together a spreadsheet to help me save. I analyzed where all of my money was going and where I could cut back.
Nice! Glad to see I'm not the only one who put together a spreadsheet to help me save. I analyzed where all of my money was going and where I could cut back.
Haha. The tabs are all dynamically linked (so pricing changed all around) and the summary had a process flow for when the car gets delivered to get critical path on all the things that needed to be done. I manage several engineering programs for cloud servers and once upon a time parts of a certain major gaming console, so I used all those work skills lol.
I even had a script at one point that would pull most pricing from websites for the parts and keep all the spreadsheet tabs updated.
Haha. The tabs are all dynamically linked (so pricing changed all around) and the summary had a process flow for when the car gets delivered to get critical path on all the things that needed to be done. I manage several engineering programs for cloud servers and once upon a time parts of a certain major gaming console, so I used all those work skills lol.
I even had a script at one point that would pull most pricing from websites for the parts and keep all the spreadsheet tabs updated.
That's definitely above and beyond what I did with mine. luckily I didn't have a need to create all of the links and macros that you put together. My main focus was saving up about half the purchase price of the car for a downpayment as quickly as possible. everything after getting the car Is still half baked ideas still in my head.
Mine was mainly tables and formulas showing my expenses, savings plan, expected savings amount by date, etc. So I just put how much I spent that month, and my spreadsheet would tell me how much I could afford to save based on that, and update my expected savings amount accordingly.
08-16-2016, 01:19 PM
My Yellow Grand Sport is finally here. A dream realized thanks to Corvetteforum.
