It’s Friday! Just took our new puppy in for her first visit to the Vet. She’s now 10 weeks old and already up to 17.4 pounds. They’re thinking that she’ll probably top out somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 pounds. The biggest dog I’ve ever had was a little poodle back when I was a kid, so this is definitely going to be new territory for me.

The Vette is still at the shop. My cousin ordered new metal clips for the linkage cable so this doesn’t ever happen again. If the weather is good this weekend, it would be nice to take it out Sunday.

Anyway, as many of you already know, I love drones—especially when they’re used in new creative ways. Check out this video of a rollercoaster being chased by a racing drone. The perspective is just too cool. Enjoy the video and the double babes & double jokes!

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It’s Thursday. I have a lot of respect for bikers, I used to ride myself so I know what it’s like out there. That said, I’ve also seen my share of bikers that bring on the problems themselves. The video featured today shows a biker who attempts passing on a blind curve—and instantly regrets it.

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It’s Wednesday. It was such a nice day yesterday that I took the day off and jumped into the Vette with the girlfriend.  She had some realtor stuff to do that took us out to a variety of the western suburbs. We went through cities like Aurora, Wheaton, Batavia, and Glen Ellyn.  In all we were out for a total of 4 hrs. The Vette ran flawlessly as always… until we got home. When we went to turn it around and back it into the garage, it wouldn’t move. The shifter was extremely lose, gliding between gears but not engaging. At first I thought it was just reverse, but it soon became obvious that I had nothing! It was right about then that I had this horrible sinking feeling in my gut. It didn’t make sense, I’ve never had a single issue with the transmission and it always goes through the gears beautifully. So there it sat, stuck in the middle of our cul-de-sac in park, with no way to move it. We couldn’t even push it. I placed a call to my cousin who came right over and started looking over the situation. He first thought was that the cable connecting the shifter to the transmission came loose (the trans is in the rear of a C5). After removing a few of  the interior panels surrounding the shifter, we found that the cable was still connected. That left the possibility of the cable being detached in the rear. After coming up with some creative ways to jack the rear up, he was able to get close enough to see that it was detached. Hot damn tamale baby, it’s not a transmission failure! He was able to manually put in first gear and we limped it back to his shop. In the morning it’ll get a new cable installed and not a new transmission! (whew!)

Okay, enough about my Vette, check out this very fine 2014 Z51 Corvette owned by Mike, a reader from Indiana. He recently traded in his C5 for this stunning Velocity Yellow C7. That’s a damn good upgrade! Thanks for allowing me to share it with the rest of my readers!

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Keep, I have submitted my 1994 corvette and my 2004 corvette to your site. And now after careful consideration, I traded the c5 for a 2014 z51 corvette. What an awesome car. Here’s a pic. Cannot wait until the corvette funfest. Let the summer toys begin. -Mike in Indiana