Over The Hill Gang , Old Farts with Young Cars

[ragzl1]

Found a picture of the 1957 corvette at the 2016 Corvette Funfest. Pretty nice picture so I thought everyone might enjoy it. The man on the left is the owner of Mid America Motor Works. He sells a lot of aftermarket corvette items.

[70rsz28]

very nice John.. one of my favourites

[ragzl1]

The photographer seem to get a great profile of the car. I think he had done before few times.

[Trickskier]

Excellent John!!!

[RubyCamaro]

Cool pic!

[zandron263]

Good morning everyone I must say I am disappointed in GM this week. I am having convertible top problems again. Back in 2012 I had the fifth how bending issue for the third time in a few months span. At that time I received a component coverage letter that extended the warranty on my top till December 13, 2016 or 82,000 miles whichever occurred first. After that I have not had any issues with the top till a few weeks ago when the how bent again for the 4th time.

My issue is the top had not been down since sometime in October 2016 after that it was just too cold here to lower it. I put it in storage in November as I always have so it was not being used when the extended coverage expired. The first time I used the top in early May it broke again. I contacted my dealer who told me to contact GM who basically told me sorry about your luck coverage denied. If I had lived somewhere like Florida where I could have used the top past October this would have happened during the coverage period and they would have had to fix it.

Now it appears I am on the hook for an expensive repair that I fully believe will happen again because the design of the top is flawed. To make it worse I spent a lot of money on mods this winter because after 4 years of no issues I thought my top issues were behind me. I would just sell this car but i have it looking just the way I want it and we really love it. Besides I don't think I can get enough out of it to get into another toy vehicle without taking on at least a small payment which I don't want to do. Sorry about the long rant.

[70rsz28]

Originally Posted by zandron263

Good morning everyone I must say I am disappointed in GM this week. I am having convertible top problems again. Back in 2012 I had the fifth how bending issue for the third time in a few months span. At that time I received a component coverage letter that extended the warranty on my top till December 13, 2016 or 82,000 miles whichever occurred first. After that I have not had any issues with the top till a few weeks ago when the how bent again for the 4th time.

My issue is the top had not been down since sometime in October 2016 after that it was just too cold here to lower it. I put it in storage in November as I always have so it was not being used when the extended coverage expired. The first time I used the top in early May it broke again. I contacted my dealer who told me to contact GM who basically told me sorry about your luck coverage denied. If I had lived somewhere like Florida where I could have used the top past October this would have happened during the coverage period and they would have had to fix it.

Now it appears I am on the hook for an expensive repair that I fully believe will happen again because the design of the top is flawed. To make it worse I spent a lot of money on mods this winter because after 4 years of no issues I thought my top issues were behind me. I would just sell this car but i have it looking just the way I want it and we really love it. Besides I don't think I can get enough out of it to get into another toy vehicle without taking on at least a small payment which I don't want to do. Sorry about the long rant.

Zandron sorry to hear about your top issues, I would still try and contact gm again on it . hit upper management , see what happens ..they might even offer some assistance such as pay for half or full ..it would not hurt to escalate it .

[zandron263]

I am going to try to escalate it and see if they will cut a deal like covering half.

[Trickskier]

One Step Closer --- Got the rear-end installed this weekend!

[RubyCamaro]

Sorry for the problems Zandron. Hope it works out somehow.

Lookin' good Trickskier.

[69supersport396]

Hi gang!

Vette looks great John!

Sorry to hear of your top issues Zandron. Hope it works out for you.

Looks great Trick. I put one of those adjustable track bars on my Caprice.

Car cruise pics from this week;
http://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=142921

Heating up here, not sure how much longer I will be driving over to Scottsdale every weekend. I'll stay local until it cools off.

Digging in my back yard continues. Getting too hot to work quickly, so I have to take my time.

[Mr V]

Us Old farts remember these

[69supersport396]

[RubyCamaro]

One experience I could have done without!