Whew! I'm back! Just a touch after 3am and I gotta tell ya watching that car is HARD WORK! I mean truly EXHAUSTING!
Simply amazing how one can disappear into "the void" we all otherwise refer to as our garages!
What an incredible day. Like everyone said, the delivery process was simply AMAZING. Larry and his wife were wonderful people and I really didn't want them to go so soon! Had fun showing them the other toys - especially the ZR1...the Viper and the ZR1 looked really cool together and it was neat to see them together in person, let alone in my own garage. Never thought that day would come actually...
We spent a good hour talking cars, Larry and I...a buddy of mine came over and watched the whole thing - Bill and I are trying to get him to buy a Graphite GTS he has up there in NE and I think we wore him down today when he finally had the chance to sit in the drivers seat of a real Snake! I kept poking my head in the garage to simply stare at the stunning piece of machinery that had just arrived.
All of the plastic was on the car so I was able to take delivery of the Snake just how I wanted to. Tons of extra little goodies with the car (brochures and tapes and all the little candy stuff that us car nuts love to collect with our cars). Larry took his shoes off before backing the car off the loader and put a blanket in the car atop the plastic even just to be ultra safe! Now THAT'S what I call catering to your audience! He treated that Viper as if it was made of glass and was the last known example in existence...I was in shock. It's amazing today how MUCH that means to people like us simply due to how rare it is to find people like that. I decided right then and there that if I needed to buy anything Dodge/Ford/Chrysler from here on out that I was dealing with Woodhouse & Bill for the rest of my life. And you know what? There's a new Lightning coming out in '03 as an '04 model and I think I wouldn't mind replacing my L with a new one then...Bill, call me and let's chat about that!
So back to ViperTalk - unfortunately for me, the rain here cleared just enough for Larry to back the car out of the trailer and straight into my garage. In other words, she's just sat in the garage since this afternoon! As I write this I still have yet to drive my Viper!
But, as I said to my wife this afternoon during one of my several visits to the garage, "@uck driving it - I'm just gonna stare at it for a few days!"
So I have lots of pics and video of this afternoon and need to get it all cleaned up and ready for the website (a little on the large size right now).
Tomorrow is a full Zanio day + Texas inspection (bleh). And if it stays clear enough this weekend I'll get her out and take some REAL pics...
Thanks a ton for all the great posts, BTW - not all the other forums I frequent are keen on owning more than just whatever car
that forum caters too...a lot of 'vette guys reacted with criticism and disgust at the idea of owning a ZR1 AND a Viper - really shocked me I guess. Hell, I'm like Leno I suppose - "If it's fast, I like it!"
And besides, I get to meet even MORE great car nuts like myself all over the place instead of just the same people in the local clubs over and over again!
And for the 1,000,000th time - THANKS BILL!!!!
You and Larry made a huge day for me just that much better with the attention to the little details and that means a ton to me - it means a customer for life in fact.
I think I hear her calling me...must...resist...urge...to....ah hell I'm heading to the garage!
