Thank you first of all to my Alpha Males, oh and Leigh too

So last night started out with me compounding the "sand blasting" out of the tiger shark nose, followed up with PBA Dad's recommendation of Turtle Wax ICE (nice stuff Jimmy ). Spent THREE hours detailing the vette - I was disgusted by the way it looked Thursday night. Just as I was finishing up.........Barry calls. "Lets take a ride to Steve's and change the brakes and install the harness bar" he says. GREAT IDEA!!! Figured we'd meet at Steve's garage around 9:30-10pm. Car looks fantastic, and I'm up for a nice drive now!!

Hop in the shower, get ready and jump in the car. Much to my surprise my fog light switch is acting up again and I have no interior lights, fog lights OR tail lights - but I DO have brake lights. Happens every time it's humid out. No sweat, I figure they'll come on after a few minutes. 1/2 mile into my drive, guy pulls up next to me to tell me I have no tail lights......."yeah I know" I say. I get on the highway and figure I'll stick to the right lane (NOT an easy thing for me) so's not to **** of the other drivers. Within two miles......and you all knew this was coming........flashing red and blue lights I pull over, shut the car off (no seat belt mind you). Trooper walks up the window and before he can even get the words out I say "Tail lights right?" "Yes" he says. So I explain about the short in the system and that they'll come on within a few minutes. He smiles, says no problem, just be careful. Thank you officer and I'm on my way. Not a WORD about the lack of seatbelt. Get onto the Wantagh Pkwy and.......yup, you guessed it........MORE red and blue lights. Ugh! Same thing......pull over, engine off. Trooper walks over and I repeat myself again saying I was JUST pulled over two miles back. He also smiles, hands me back my license and says to be safe.

I figure best thing to do now is call Barry and have him drive behind me for the remainder of the trip. Third trooper is bound to not be so nice. I meet him at his place and while waiting outside for him - parked on a hydrant of course a dorky security guard walks up to the car. All I see is the arm patch at first and my first words to him were "NO"! Thankfully all he wanted was to flirt and ask for a ride. At this point, my lights FINALLY decide to come on So Barry pulls up and we take a nice "cruise" to Steves garage......whew the worst is over...........NOT!!!

We pull up in front of Steve's garage with me right on Barry's tail and I fail to see the GRAND CANYON in front of the bay door . Barry pulls a u-turn to park and BAM I go nose first into the crater . Steve and Leigh are just looking on with mild amusement as my car literally gets stuck! I had to back it up - the hole was so big you couldn't even drive over it. I get out cursing and look at the damage........UGH!!!!!!! As if there wasn't enough damage from the hood flying off on the crab run

BUT, I pull the car in.......Steve and Leigh get right to work pulling off the rims while Barry makes short work of pulling out my seats. Steve puts on the rotors, pads and is just putting the wheels back on when he realizes "Oh ****, I put the OLD pads back on" Wheels come back off......race pads go on Barry gets the harness bar installed and now all we need are the harnesses. Me, well I was quite useless - although I DID pull the neoprene seat covers off the sport seats so I contributed SOMETHING.

Thank you soooo much Steve, brakes feel great! You're always the first one to help and you never say no. I owe you!

And Barry.....what can I say? There aren't enough "thank yous" on the planet for you!! I LOVE the harness bar! Can't wait to use the new belts on the track, no more sliding around in my seat. Your rendition of JJ from Good Times was HILARIOUS and I needed a good laugh. Thanks for being there on a moments notice and driving over with me and especially for running interference (and going an exit past yours) with the BMW on the way home that didn't like how quickly I came up on him on the highway. You were 100% dead on in knowing I was in NO MOOD to entertain that clown when he decided to try and "out drive" me That might not have ended so well. Bonnie & Clyde live on

You guys are the best!! Thank you all so much. Oh but Steve....FILL IN THAT DAMN HOLE and Leigh, for pete's sake google Marlo Thomas and THAT GIRL

Here's what the car looked like AFTER three hours of detailing and one 40 minute drive The nose is now seriously misaligned and the bolts tore loose from top part of the nose taking some figerglass composite with them.

 

Ouch Deb .......so sorry for damage. Your car looks soooo great. It'll get fixed as good as new.

Ed

PS -- I have a great body/paint guy if you need it

 

Thanks Ed......as you can imagine, I'm not a happy girl. One of the things I'm most proud of is that I drive/race the crap outta my car, but I always try to keep it looking "showroom". It was just plain STUPID that I didn't see that crater.......but it WAS dark out.

I have two great body guys, one is currently painting my new hood from that whole fiasco. The nose was slightly misaligned from the original hood flying open, now it's just plain crooked He was going to blow some paint on the nose and polish it out for me anyway, so hopefully he can fix this too.

Looks like the chin spoiler bolts tore loose from the tiger shark taking some composite with them so the paint is probably the least of the damage. The asthetic damage seems to be confined to the chin spoiler so if it can't be fixed, I suppose I'll just have to take it off

 

Yikes!
Good luck with the repairs!
I hate even hitting a small pothole on the road but reading that you went nose first into a bomb crater turns my stomach.
Again, good luck with the repairs!

 

Aren't you at the E-Town Show & Go Poppy?

 

wow deb you had a crazy night good luck with getting your vette fixed!

eric

 

No not this year......weather is iffy, long drive to get wet, wedding prep's, long week etc. I assume you aren't either, or is this on a blackberry

 

No I had to work , just got the new roof installed and I am gearing up for the run to Carlisle with you on Thursday in a few weeks, can you believe it is here already???????

 

A coat of Zaino will fix that right up no problem............It always sucks no matter what the damage.

 

Luckily the damage isn't that bad. It should be back to new in now time. I think you should sue UT
At least you didn't get any tkts. hhmmm....I wonder if I would've had the same fate...

 

Here from the title I assumed you were going to tell about Alex coming over to fix your computer...
That is a Boston size pothole, to be sure.

 

Hey hey hey......this is a sympathy thread for Deb.....either show me some sympathy or GTFO



I'll get to work on that this afternoon

 

You know I always told you that I thought the chin was too low to the ground. Take it off Deb! You can fix it but you know it will happen again.

By the way. I'm glad I don't hang out with you too much. You're just trouble looking for a place to happen girl.

 

Honestly, the chin spoiler is probably what SAVED the nose from being torn up this time. That hole was easily 6-8" deep!! If the chin didn't catch, the nose would have taken the worst of it.

And heeeyyy, I'm not trouble.......well ok maybe a little, but I don't mean to be

 

That time of the month????????





I do sympathize though.

 

Deb... sorry about the car.... glad Barry and Steve were there to help..

I'm starting to wonder just a little bit...didn't I read and old post when you had coolant leaking from your car??? who was there to help???

I'm gonna keep a sharp on those 2 ... just kidding ..glad they got you up and running again...good luck

 

It's ok Deb. You're not bad trouble........ You're good trouble...........

 

Need a hug?

I guess I can give back one from Thursday.

 

Barry who? I don't remember hearing that name here on CF.

Seriously, if you don't want to do HPDE's with us all you need to do is say so, you don't need to keep having things happen to your Vette.




Sorry to hear about the front end. Lots of outgoing folks round here more than willing to help others out.

 

Sorry to hear about you troubles Deb, if you need a light fixture/service change/outlet installed/building wired/transfomer wired/telephone pole set/or your shorts checked, i'm there.