Tubby & Peanut's Mom
06-08-2005, 10:14 AM
Some of you may remember this post Turn the Page... (http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?s=&postid=488564#post488564) when I sold my motorcyle. (Sorry but all the pics were lost when Imagestation cleared my account. The one that shows up is the only one I have here on my work computer so I was able to replace it. Will try and replace the others when I get home tonight.)
So.....yesterday I sold my Corvette. No money has changed hands yet so I hope I'm not jinxing anything, but we're supposed to "deliver" the car this weekend and we have agreed on price and everything, so all that's left to do is deliver the car, collect the money and sign over the title.
This is all part of our "big plan" to ultimately sell everything and go full-time in the motorhome, but I only put the car up for sale a week ago and it wasn't supposed to happen this fast, so it's all bittersweet.
There are so many stories I coud tell about the fun times that were had with this car, but I'll try to give you some of the highlights.
Here's the car, photo taken by a professional photographer behind the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY. It's a '91 Corvette ZR-1, Polo Green with Saddle interior, serial #1173 (meaning it was the 1,173rd ZR-1 off the line in 1991).
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid163/p6b3061bbbf45605734c9a79d268127ac/f4a56e44.jpg
This is one of my all-time favorite pics. We were up at Road America (race track) in Wisconsin. Terry is in the front and I'm right on his tail! We didn't know at the time that this pic was being taken, and I don't think the photographer knew we were together, he just snapped a pic of two similar cars coming into turn 5. We had the cars up at the track a couple of times and really enjoyed "playing" with them in that way. We could really run the cars the way they were supposed to be run without fear of getting a ticket.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid172/peb43f91976d1f1f0d4095a75c2cfe26c/f3c90e45.jpg
Here's another one of our shining moments with the cars. We attended an open road race near Fort Stockton, TX. They close the entire road down for 60 miles and then let us run however fast we want to, using the entire road and with no fear of getting a ticket. Terry hit a top speed of 167 mph and I hit a top speed of 140 mph. It was a fantastic time and one neither of us will ever forget. Here we are getting ready to line up and take our turn at speeding on the open road. :D
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid172/p32c9f306e7a9e172024474d66160bd6b/f3c90e4f.jpg
Good times, good times. The girl to the guy's right and me to his left were the only two who had ZR-1's, the red head had a newer model (C5) and the blond had a Grand Sport. The guy was the chief engineer at GM at the time the ZR-1 was being made and is considered the father of the ZR-1 because without his continually pushing at the bureaucracy that is GM, the ZR-1 would never have gotten produced. We are at Beech Bend Drag Strip in Bowling Green, KY.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid172/pa04e966a1fe8a7ac3b8e2b751e10e9f9/f3c90e4d.jpg
And finally, this is a poster I had made up so when we showed the cars people could see what I had all done with it. Looks great in poster size, not sure how it's going to turn out in small jpg format here.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid172/pdf2ffbf4a50385a226d7195873848c43/f3c90e4b.jpg
Soooo many good times.....:( :D
So.....yesterday I sold my Corvette. No money has changed hands yet so I hope I'm not jinxing anything, but we're supposed to "deliver" the car this weekend and we have agreed on price and everything, so all that's left to do is deliver the car, collect the money and sign over the title.
This is all part of our "big plan" to ultimately sell everything and go full-time in the motorhome, but I only put the car up for sale a week ago and it wasn't supposed to happen this fast, so it's all bittersweet.
There are so many stories I coud tell about the fun times that were had with this car, but I'll try to give you some of the highlights.
Here's the car, photo taken by a professional photographer behind the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY. It's a '91 Corvette ZR-1, Polo Green with Saddle interior, serial #1173 (meaning it was the 1,173rd ZR-1 off the line in 1991).
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid163/p6b3061bbbf45605734c9a79d268127ac/f4a56e44.jpg
This is one of my all-time favorite pics. We were up at Road America (race track) in Wisconsin. Terry is in the front and I'm right on his tail! We didn't know at the time that this pic was being taken, and I don't think the photographer knew we were together, he just snapped a pic of two similar cars coming into turn 5. We had the cars up at the track a couple of times and really enjoyed "playing" with them in that way. We could really run the cars the way they were supposed to be run without fear of getting a ticket.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid172/peb43f91976d1f1f0d4095a75c2cfe26c/f3c90e45.jpg
Here's another one of our shining moments with the cars. We attended an open road race near Fort Stockton, TX. They close the entire road down for 60 miles and then let us run however fast we want to, using the entire road and with no fear of getting a ticket. Terry hit a top speed of 167 mph and I hit a top speed of 140 mph. It was a fantastic time and one neither of us will ever forget. Here we are getting ready to line up and take our turn at speeding on the open road. :D
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid172/p32c9f306e7a9e172024474d66160bd6b/f3c90e4f.jpg
Good times, good times. The girl to the guy's right and me to his left were the only two who had ZR-1's, the red head had a newer model (C5) and the blond had a Grand Sport. The guy was the chief engineer at GM at the time the ZR-1 was being made and is considered the father of the ZR-1 because without his continually pushing at the bureaucracy that is GM, the ZR-1 would never have gotten produced. We are at Beech Bend Drag Strip in Bowling Green, KY.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid172/pa04e966a1fe8a7ac3b8e2b751e10e9f9/f3c90e4d.jpg
And finally, this is a poster I had made up so when we showed the cars people could see what I had all done with it. Looks great in poster size, not sure how it's going to turn out in small jpg format here.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid172/pdf2ffbf4a50385a226d7195873848c43/f3c90e4b.jpg
Soooo many good times.....:( :D