Driving your vette in November Part VIII!
11-03-2007, 05:05 PM
#1
Team Owner
Thread Starter
Member Since: Apr 2001
Location: Elmhurst, IL (West Suburb of Chicago) & Home of MEGA Horsepower
Posts: 26,714
Received 584 Likes
on
399 Posts
St. Jude Donor '06
Driving your vette in November Part VIII!
Well this is the time of year where you stereotypical vette owner pulls off the insurance (excpet comprehensive) and stores his/her baby for the winter. But with the INCREDIBLE weather we had in October (best i ever remember) and now NOVEMBER starting off GREAT in the Midwest and Chicago area, I am enjoying my vette to its fullest, as the fall makes for the best pure driving weather of the season (not too hot, not too cold, great horsepower and fantasitic fall colors). 
ENJOY your vettes guys/gals while the going is still good and DON"T STORE em until you ABSOULTEY have to b/c life is just too darn short and these vettes will still be around when we are long gone!!!
ENJOY your vettes guys/gals while the going is still good and DON"T STORE em until you ABSOULTEY have to b/c life is just too darn short and these vettes will still be around when we are long gone!!!
Last edited by Mopar Jimmy; 11-03-2007 at 05:09 PM.
11-03-2007, 08:07 PM
#5
Race Director
...I'll drive my '75 til the "white salt film" starts gettin' on the roads.
11-03-2007, 08:54 PM
#6
Safety Car
Member Since: Jul 2002
Location: St. Charles IL
Posts: 4,269
Likes: 0
Received 3 Likes
on
3 Posts
Cruise-In 5-6-7-8-9-11-12 Veteran
A CI-6 Car Show Winner
I'm with Paul. I don't stop until I see the salt trucks. Drove the 75 to Al Capone's tonight, couldn't get a table. Ended up at another local haunt. The Anny is laid up in prep for Vettefest. I've been waxing and detailing underneath.
11-04-2007, 07:05 PM
#10
Team Owner
Thread Starter
Member Since: Apr 2001
Location: Elmhurst, IL (West Suburb of Chicago) & Home of MEGA Horsepower
Posts: 26,714
Received 584 Likes
on
399 Posts
St. Jude Donor '06
Perfect weather today for this time of year November 4th (Sunday). Drove 160 miles in the vette with 4 close friends in a vette caravan then we shot a couple hundred rounds of ammo at this awesome outdoor gun range in Ottawa, IL!
The pics at the end of this link really captured the moment of a perfect wild and crazy day in the vettes with great friends!
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1854688
The pics at the end of this link really captured the moment of a perfect wild and crazy day in the vettes with great friends!
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1854688
11-04-2007, 07:38 PM
#11
Safety Car
A little cool this morning but had the vette out and went out for breakfast with my wife. Got a new message on the computer read out today, "Active handling warming up" and then "Warm up completed" .
Never had these messages before and I've driven it in cooler temps, not even sure if the cooler temps had anything to do with it.
Anyhow, then spent 2 hours blasting around on a '07 Yamaha R1, great day.
Looks like a high of upper 40's for this coming week. This may have been the last nicer weekend for a looooooooooooooong time
Never had these messages before and I've driven it in cooler temps, not even sure if the cooler temps had anything to do with it.
Anyhow, then spent 2 hours blasting around on a '07 Yamaha R1, great day.
Looks like a high of upper 40's for this coming week. This may have been the last nicer weekend for a looooooooooooooong time
11-04-2007, 08:51 PM
#12
Team Owner
Thread Starter
Member Since: Apr 2001
Location: Elmhurst, IL (West Suburb of Chicago) & Home of MEGA Horsepower
Posts: 26,714
Received 584 Likes
on
399 Posts
St. Jude Donor '06
PETE,
Sounds like fun and next time we have to get you shooting with us. I bet you were going very, very slow when the active handling sign came on the DIC?
The 2 C5 Zs I have owned both did/do this when the car is not fully warmed up yet and is driving/coasting at very slow speeds, and if you pick up the speed the dic message goes away.
Sounds like fun and next time we have to get you shooting with us. I bet you were going very, very slow when the active handling sign came on the DIC?
The 2 C5 Zs I have owned both did/do this when the car is not fully warmed up yet and is driving/coasting at very slow speeds, and if you pick up the speed the dic message goes away.
11-04-2007, 09:20 PM
#13
Team Owner
Member Since: Apr 2001
Location: S.W. Ohio. . . . . . NRA Life Member
Posts: 54,200
Received 173 Likes
on
107 Posts
Yvonne took me to dinner today in her new(er) 2003 50th vert 
Ya know, for as long as we've owned Corvettes, I don't think we've ever pulled the insurance due to winter. If the streets are dry and salt free; we'll be tooling along in them on weeknights and weekends 
where you stereotypical vette owner pulls off the insurance (excpet comprehensive) and stores his/her baby for the winter.
11-04-2007, 09:35 PM
#15
Race Director
Member Since: Mar 2003
Location: Northern Illinois
Posts: 10,789
Received 888 Likes
on
553 Posts
Oldtimer
I put mine away on October 25th. I don't keep it at home and like to get it put away before the other cars start arriving where I store it. I'm usually one of the first in and last out, but I don't have to worry about it being moved several times to get other cars out in the spring. Actually, it's kind of nice having it out of the garage for a few months. I'm sure I'll be biting at the bit to get it out around the middle of January.
11-04-2007, 09:40 PM
#16
Safety Car
PETE,
Sounds like fun and next time we have to get you shooting with us. I bet you were going very, very slow when the active handling sign came on the DIC?
The 2 C5 Zs I have owned both did/do this when the car is not fully warmed up yet and is driving/coasting at very slow speeds, and if you pick up the speed the dic message goes away.
Sounds like fun and next time we have to get you shooting with us. I bet you were going very, very slow when the active handling sign came on the DIC?
The 2 C5 Zs I have owned both did/do this when the car is not fully warmed up yet and is driving/coasting at very slow speeds, and if you pick up the speed the dic message goes away.
Yup, thats exactly what happened. When I pulled out unto the street from the lot is when it said "warm up competed" and all was well.
Good to know its normal.
11-04-2007, 10:23 PM
#17
Racer
Member Since: Sep 2006
Location: Gurnee, IL
Posts: 367
Likes: 0
Received 26 Likes
on
22 Posts
St. Jude Donor '12
I was out on a spirited drive with my son on Saturday...just remember that the morning cold pavement and these run-flats are squerly!! I found out very quickly last Fall and nearly found a ditch
11-05-2007, 12:34 PM
#19
Burning Brakes
Member Since: Nov 2005
Location: Marengo Illinois
Posts: 1,109
Likes: 0
Received 2 Likes
on
2 Posts
Cruise-In VIII Veteran
St. Jude Donor '06
It must be a sickness because if I don't go for a ride for like 10 days, I have withdrawals and start to shake.
I would never consider dropping insurance or putting her to sleep.
I would never consider dropping insurance or putting her to sleep.
11-05-2007, 01:02 PM
#20
Team Owner
Thread Starter
Member Since: Apr 2001
Location: Elmhurst, IL (West Suburb of Chicago) & Home of MEGA Horsepower
Posts: 26,714
Received 584 Likes
on
399 Posts
St. Jude Donor '06
TIM,
Glad to see you alive and well BRO as you have been MIA and I understand how that sh it happens. Are you going to be around for are upcoming get together?