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Oh, oh, oh, oh, Mr Carter! Mr Carter! I know, I know.....its 42. Of course, that's the simple answer, to the question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Horseshack is a respectable name too. It means the cattle are dying. I can't wait to see you back on the road with the Goat or the Bird JUSTA. Get some rest buddy, you've earned it.

Here is the Corvette plant itself. Seems that GM bought the property from Chrysler back in the mid-to-late seventies. It was an air conditioning plant under Chrysler. The tour is $7.00 per person, except to current GM employees and retirees and their guests, as well as active military personnel. The marquee above this entrance will display the names of all the owners who are taking delivery at the NCM that day. Charlie and Betty’s name are there. Back at the NCM, here is the nursery, where new Corvettes come that will be delivered soon. Here they are gassed up, cleaned, detailed, and prepped. Up to about 8-9 cars per day are delivered by the National Corvette Museum staff. You must show your driver’s license, proof of sale or origin, insurance, and provide a license plate in order to drive off with the car. Of course, the car is paid for or loan paperwork is done well in advance of this stage. The guide will walk you through all the controls, menus, and features of the Corvette, and all the various does and don’ts of the car. In the museum itself: The only 1983 Corvette left in existence, the other 42 that were built were crushed. Flint Michigan built Corvette - 1 of the first 300 made - this is # 282 A tribute to both the Mother Road and the TV show - Route 66 (staring Martin Milner and George Maharis and later Glenn Corbett) A nice tribute to Chevrolet dealerships The original Motorama Corvette medaliion that was never seen by the public The Hewlett-Packard "Corvette" Unix workstation. I supported these during my years at GM. We used them for both high-end CAD as well as CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) workstations. GM licensed the Corvette name and logo to HP for use on these workstations at the time. Now Unix itself is nearly dead. in favor of Linux. More photos to come...

The 27th Annual Michigan Widetrackers Spring Dustoff car show, which is open to all Pontiacs, Oaklands, and GMCs, is set for Saturday, June 13, 2015 at the Springfield Oaks County Park in Davisburg Michgian. Pre-registration ends June 8, 2015. Early registration is $15.00, $20.00 the day of the show. Swap meet and vendor areas are also available. Here is a link to the Widetracker's website: http://www.widetrackers.com/ Here is a link to the registration form: http://www.widetrackers.com/2015%20Dust-Off%20Flyer.pdf JUSTA, notallthere, and I will there. I believe Indymanjoe will be there as well. We hope to see you there.

Nice jersey's Justa. Indymanjoe and I have ones that look JUSTA like it !!!! Congrats on the bronze medal win !!!! I know it was a lot of hard work and aggravation on your part to pull this team together and get to this point. You definitely earned this award buddy. So now can your life return to normal and get your cars the love and attention they've been demanding? I know for a fact that the GTO and Sunbird are jealous of all the attention the V-ball team has been getting.

Help us a little....what motor are you running in your Lemans? Is is a straight four, a Buick nail head, or a Pontiac V8? This will make a difference were to look for the VIN number on the engine.

Ah, the '63 Lemans with the infamous rope driveshaft. So what powerplant are you running? The Indy 4 (half a Pontiac V8)? The Buick 215 V8? Or a 389? Oh, yes....pictures please.

I continued working on the grilles on Lucy. I had to repaint the slightly rusty mounting brackets with Eastwood chassis black. I also applied some touch up paint to the Denali. Oh, and Lucy has been in the upholstery shop since May 13th !!! I wonder what she will look like when she comes out !

$2.769 at Shell this morning - just in time for Memorial Day weekend.

What? There are splice/tap connectors out there but if they are done incorrectly, they can end up cutting the wire in half rather than splicing or tapping into it. The old fashion method is my preference in most cases.

What a tool !!!

My friends did because they got there 2 hours before I did. I saw it, but did not go in because of time. Wayne, the NCM guide said the place has been added on 3 times.

Orange Cheetos chips and sticky "man juice" in the keyboard - again???? Yeah, you've warned him about it. Of course, he didn't listen about the job with Stacey neither.

A tribute to Pro's 305. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs We can help you with that 305 problem you know. You can call notallthere, GE, or I anytime!!!

That's always been your call !

I'll bet you wish you hadn't !!!

Yup....pretty much.

The best advice I give anyone is to invest in a shop manual for your specific car. My personal preference is to get a real GM manual, but sometimes that is not readily available. The next best thing is to get either a Chilton or Haynes manual. All three have lots of illustrations for assembly/disassembly plus the step-by-step instructions. It is money well spent.

Ringo needs pay someone to add one !!!!

Rimshot !!!!

Lots of quick one/two line jokes.....ones even GE can understand. I got invited to a party and was told to dress to kill. Apparently a turban, beard and a backpack wasn't what they had in mind. After a night of drink, drugs and wild sex, Dave woke up to find himself next to a really ugly woman. That's when he realized he had made it home safely. A boy asks his granny, 'Have you seen my pills, they were labeled LSD?' Granny replies,f**k the pills, have you seen the dragons in the kitchen? Wife gets naked and asks hubby, 'What turns you on more, my pretty face or my sexy body?' Hubby looks her up and down and replies, 'Your sense of humor! The wife's back on the warpath again. She was up for making a sex movie last night, and all I did was suggest we should hold auditions for her part. I've accidentally swallowed some Scrabble tiles. My next crap could spell disaster. My sister-in-law sat on my glasses and broke them. It was my own fault. I should have taken them off. I spent a couple of hours defrosting the fridge last night, or "foreplay" as she likes to call it. After both suffering from depression for a while, me and the wife were going to commit suicide yesterday. But strangely enough, once she killed herself, I started to feel a lot better. So I thought, "Screw it, Party on!" I woke up this morning at 8 am, and could sense something was wrong. I got downstairs and found the wife face down on the kitchen floor, not breathing! I panicked. I didn't know what to do. Then I remembered McDonald's serves breakfast until 11:30 am. Bought the missus a hamster skin coat last week. Took her to the fair last night, and it took me 3 hours to get her off the Ferris wheel. The other night, my wife asked me how many women I'd slept with. I told her, "Only you. All the others kept me awake all night!" My missus packed my bags, and as I walked out the front door, she screamed, "I wish you a slow and painful death, you bastard!" "Oh," I replied, "so now you want me to stay!" A government survey has shown that 91% of illegal immigrants come to this country so that they can see their own doctor. I've just installed strobe lights in the bedroom. It makes the wife look like she's moving during sex.

Bring it !!!

Yeah I do bud. I put well over 2,200 miles in two weekends on the GMC Envoy Denali between Chicago/Pontiac Illinois and Bowling Green Kentucky. I passed 4 GM assembly plants this weekend too on either I-69 or I-65. Flint Truck Assembly (1500HD and 2500 trucks), Lansing Delta Township (Traverse, Acadia, Encore), Fort Wayne Assembly (1500 light duty trucks), and Bowling Green (Corvette). It was a very worth while experience. I was at the museum from around 7:30 am yesterday morning until 2:30-3:00 pm Central time. I got home at midnight Eastern. I took both pictures and some video. We did the plant tour about 8 am before the crowds really came in. You can pay $7.00 to tour the plant on your own, but you get put into a tour group and its first come/first serve. So the group size can be 15-20 people. Our NCM delivery group was 5 (4 of us plus the NCM guide), so it was much more enjoyable and self-paced than the big group. The walking tour takes 60-90 minutes depending on the speed of the group. I never did find the front half of the '83 Corvette (the year of lost production) that is suppose to be near the entrance to the plant. Of course, it may be there, just not at the entrance we came in. If you want to see how the Corvette is built, watch the Velocity Channel and look for a show called "How Its Made: Dream Cars". They just did an episode on the C7 Corvette. I have already seen the show. It shows more about how the Corvette is built than what you will actually see on the walking tour. I knew more about things on the line than my guide did because of the show. The museum sure added on since the last time I was there in 2002. The whole entrance has changed, they have added the archives, the new delivery entrance along with the delivery "nursery",a theater, cafe, and much, much larger souvenir shop. The Skydome area is still closed as you can see from the picture above. The floor has been repaired. They expect the repairs to be completed in June/July. Pilings have been driven down to bedrock to support the floor and rebar has been added to the concrete floor. Ultrasound and core drilling have been done through out the rest of the property to see that this does not happen again. However, you must consider that Mammoth Cave is only 25 miles north of the museum and it is the largest known cave system in the world with 350 miles of explored caves. So that whole area is filled with sinkholes and caves. We got a lot of compliments from folks at the museum on Charlie and Betty's Corvette. It was the only convertible scheduled to be delivered for the day. They didn't get the Z06 engine. just the LT4, but they don't want or need that much performance either. You can really hear the difference between the 2 engines when the cars are started. The Z06 is significantly louder! The museum prep/tour guide, Wayne, spent a lot of time with Charlie and Betty going through all the controls, menu options, does and don'ts, etc. for the car. He tried to program their phones into the bluetooth compatible link but their phones need to be upgraded first (even though they are bluetooth capable). I will post pictures later tonight once I get the photos and video off the camera.

I will be selling popcorn and beer at this event !!!! This is something I wanna' see !!!

There are museum webcams in many locations around the museum, plus one on each of the cars scheduled to be delivery for that day. Ours happens to be the second delivery of the day. It starts at 7:45 CDT today. http://www.corvettemuseum.org/webcam/ The car has a special museum placard with the owner's name on it. Doesn't this Corvette concept model look like the 1988 Pontiac Banshee IV? Corvette concept.... Pontiac Banshee IV.....

The floor is fixed. Five of the eight Corvettes are not.