mad, mad world

one day i complain about losing my sundays on slalom, and on the next one about not losing them... isn't that crazy?
well, some of my colleagues have spread again flu viruses, and now my biological firewall is trying to fight these viral intruders. this is why i decided to skip the race tomorrow and stay at home, because i can't afford reporting sick for the second time in my new job.

so i'm sitting here indoors while the sun is shining (and my club comrades most probably going for another victory), trapped, feeling weak, nay, exhausted, hoping to get better until monday.
it's a mad, mad world.
or just another f***ed-up vette-less weekend.
sh*t.

slalom and the lack of time

well, the headline says it all - slalom driving is eating up my sundays and bank holidays.
sad but true - it's getting even difficult for me to spare some time for vette driving...!

to be honest, i can't complain. i knew that when i started the slalom "business", and i had hoped that i could cope somehow with the increasing lack of time. now the season has begun, and i need lots of practise, which means i better participate in all events planned and don't skip any.
aaargh....!

vette photo project

some years ago, i was really good at black & white photography, especially when it came to architecture. but one by one i stopped taking pictures, since my job life didn't leave me much time for that, and when i got my digital sony later, my old "mechanical" cameras had already been stowed away for quite some time.
well, this could change now, since i'm thinking of a self-made vette calendar, portraying my baby for 2009 or 2010 for myself and maybe also for friends and family, which means, for all that suffer from my stupid vette-mania...

don't know whether i'll succeed in making really good vette pictures - i haven't practised for a long long time and "shooting" buildings in b&w is much easier than making good (color) pictures of cars. and of course, there a thousands of good vette pics...

well, let's see... it's a project, it's just for fun. but nevertheless, i already digged out my old non-automatic cameras, a nikon EF (1972) and a practica (the gdr version of the west-german "leica" camera, 1951). since the practica doesn't work (the shutter has jammed) and the repair shop i used to ask in such cases has closed down, i'm gonna use the nikon only. and if i get any good results, i promise i'm gonna publish at least some pictures here on this blog.

the roof recall thing (2)

you could call it a kind of resignation, but i'm really tired of dealing with that garage.
after asking several corvette "colleagues" (i. e. fellow drivers) who all assured me that if there's a color difference at all, then it is only a very slight difference (because they nearly didn't notice), i decided to leave the replacement roof as it is.
maybe i was paranoid. and then, maybe not...
well, the decision is made. alea iacta est.

i've attached the "stickers" stickers again.
now my baby is "complete" again...

beemer slalom

sorry, non-vette stuff again.



well, that wasn't exactly "floating like a cadillac" nor "stinging like a beemer"...
unfortunately there was only one race in fulda, but in its second run i was able to close up to the other participant's timing. yet still a long way to go (drive)...

"PEP CARS" us cars meeting

1st may, 2008, bergen-enkheim (at the outskirts of frankfurt)

of course, these vehicles weren't the only ones worth looking at. this is just a small selection of fine cars presented at the meeting, and there were lots more...!


first panel: a black c6 (model year 2006?) and my baby (2005), followed by a pair of c3s
second panel: a rare "split windows" (1963) and a silver c5 (1997) followed by a pair of mustangs

short update

today is a bank holiday, and i'm gonna check on my roof again.
this was originally planned for yesterday, but yesterday after work it was raining and became dark very early, so i left my baby indoors...

i only hope the roof color is right. i'm sick of having trouble with this garage.

today there's also a us car meeting in bergen-enkheim, one of the outer parts of frankfurt. let's see whether i can get there - or better, how, i can get there, because the roads will be closed for the henninger race, a bike race around the so-called "henninger steeple".

i also gotta check on my beemer.
btw, last sunday i came in 7th (out of 10) and was able to improve my timing again for about 4 seconds.