i know, i know...

...there's a mistake in the banner text. sorry. i will fix it soon.
besides that: yeehaaa! all new design! i like the dark version much better than its multi-coloured predecessor.
black and red. vette colours.
yeah, baby.

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textbug fixed. stickers 29-11-07

roadside assistance

...at least, corvette europe found me worthy enough to send me the corvette roadside assistance card - 8 (eight!) months after buying my baby. thank heavens i didn't need them during these months...

by the way, i still do not have a german user's manual.

not funny

ever thought about your relationship towards your car?
during the last few days, i came to think hard about this subject.

some guys are ridiculed because they love their cars more than their girlfriends... i guess i know the reason why (the love, not the ridicule). some cars are of a striking beauty, and most of them are (normally!) quite more predictable than the average female human... some cars even seem to have their own kind of life, of liveliness - which is especially true for a corvette with its thundering v8 heartbeat. but for me, that's not the whole story.

to be honest - i feel quite incomplete, or let's say, alone, without my vette. when i walk the streets, i really miss it.
think about that, folks... am i nuts?
how close can a human/vehicle relationship be? i don't know. my cars never have been mere objects, they've always been something like family members.
and maybe vettes are different - maybe they even come closer.

this ain't funny.

sometimes...

...strange things happen to those who travel with "eyes wide open" for the unexpected. on his trip to the states, my bes' friend ran into the sheriff on his third day...

original?

(c) by pixar

counterfeit?
(c) by r. hoffmann

now a little task for my readers:
find the 10 differences between the picture above and below and mail them to me!

vette pop-art

less driving leads to frustration. frustration, after a while, leads to boredom. and boredom finally leads to increased use of the computer...

vette pop-art
(c) by stickers

november

it's raining again. the weather has been cold and stormy in the meantime - germany's south last week even encountered the first snow of the year. and since the racing season is over, the main focus now lies on "club life".
if you like to race, it's better to be a member of a local club - you'll get a lot of advice and also technical help there. so i had made contact with the ac höchst in september, joining them for the three dmsb-slaloms i drove this year. and this is why i thought it necessary to tell them about my "other" (and more fervent) passion - my vette, my red baby.
this picture was taken when paying a short visit to one of the club member's place...

it's quite difficult to explain that you're not a rich kid
eventhough you own a dream car...

next topic on my list (still!!!) is trying to get hold of a german driver's manual. i can read and understand english to a certain extent, but when it comes to technical terms, i must admit i prefer my mother tongue.
so yesterday was the third time i rang my GM dealer and asked for this manual... well, you've got to consinder you're in germany. things take a lot of time here - and this is also true for german customer service!

another nice-to-have would be the corvette repair manual. you can't buy them here in germany, you've got to order them in the states, and although the euro gained a lot against the dollar, the price is still quite high (about 100 $ for a new one).

nice try...

my friends gave me a toy car to get me through winter - a corvette bigfoot, a vette body mounted on a bigfoot chassis (picture will follow).
and murmured something like "drug replacement therapy"... LOL!

well... there is no cure for the virus corvetticus, the corvette virus.
nice try! but can't beat the real thing.
once infested, always addicted.
i luuuuv it.