| Re: Sunday Chat 05.03.09 |
Subject: Re: Sunday Chat 05.03.09 by teebee on 2009/5/4 2:39:06 Hi guys, I've been MIA the last three days. Friday I got up early 3:30AM and left for Albuquerque at 4. Drove 460 miles and traded my 94 for a 2001 Coupe, then jumped in the car and drove back home. Arrived back home at about 8pm. 930 miles about 13 hours on the road. Yesterday morning I got up to clean the "new" Vette. Worked about 5 1/2 hours on it and was planning on coming in and posting here, but right in the middle of wiping the Zaino off (2nd coat), my MIL calls and ask if we could come see them today (we were going to go up and back today anyway, almost 3 hours trip one way). The wife says "Sure, Tom's about done with the Corvette). So at 3pm we jump in the Vette and take off for her folks place. An hour and a half out it starts misting, its making my nice clean car not so clean. Oh, well it'll clean up again.... About 30 minutes later coming out of a little town there is this mid 80s Cavalier doing about 60 so I pass it, punch the cruise (set for 70) and continue on my way, the next thing I know this little old Cavalier is riding my @ss, maybe a car length back. Just about this time we meet a KHP officer. Immediately his brake lights come on and he whips a U and comes flying right back up on us. The Cavalier starts to pull over and the KHP starts pulling over too, then serves back on the road and comes flying up on me and turns his lights on. I stop and he gets out of his car and walks up behind me and looks at the temp tag (taped to the inside of the rear window), then come up and asks for my license. He says that the reason he stopped me was that he couldn't/didn't see my tag, but everything looked to be in order. And then he says "Were you and the gray car behind you traveling together?" I said "No, " and then told him what had happened. He said "Well, I turned around to stop her, but when I didn't see a tag on your car I came after you." He then gave me my license back and said drive safely...and BTW, nice car." I had my white 94 for nearly five years and was never stopped once....I buy a RED car and get stopped after owning it for a little over 24 hours.....don't tell me Red doesn't attract attention. Any way we just got home from the in-laws a while ago and the first thing I did was wash the car, and put on a third coat of Zaino. Too dark to take pictures today, but good pictures will be coming. Here are a couple when I got home Friday night...remember it's dirty. Actually this one is in Albuquerque. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/toms94/2001%20Corvette/NewCorvette003.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/toms94/2001%20Corvette/NewCorvette004.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/toms94/2001%20Corvette/NewCorvette006.jpg[/IMG] |
