NSR: Back to the Mother Ship

[Stig / Major Tom]

All of us Silverados regularly report back to the Mother Ship* for service, and further assignment.





Beats crawling around on the driveway....oil running down your arm from the filter and shooting out sideways when you pull the drain plug!
Besides, Dunkin Donuts is straight across the street...

Stig

* National Pit Stop, shop has been there for decades - I tip them a Sawbuck for their attention to detail.

[randyo]

my Silverado has to go in for a couple stoopid things on my part. wiper on the passenger side is stripped cause I turned the wipers on before I unstuck it from the windshield after an ice storm, I also pulled the door handle off  with a hard tug thinking the door was frozen, and I never lock my doors but this time I did. getting in now is pulling one of the rods that stick out the hole where the door handle was. Been driving mt Tacoma when it rains

[Stig / Major Tom]

my Silverado has to go in for a couple stoopid things on my part. wiper on the passenger side is stripped cause I turned the wipers on before I unstuck it from the windshield after an ice storm, I also pulled the door handle off  with a hard tug thinking the door was frozen, and I never lock my doors but this time I did. getting in now is pulling one of the rods that stick out the hole where the door handle was. Been driving mt Tacoma when it rains

I don't mean to laugh....frozen wipers can happen to any of us...
But pulling the door handle off of a locked door....well that's a new one!
We all could fill pages with our own dumb stuff!

Thanks for your post!

Stig
My wife called and said her wiper blade came off! "The whole thing disappeared.!!"
I went to auto zone and bought a new pair.  Same length.
I get to her car, newer Equinox, and the blade is laying there below yhe windshield.  ....and it is some weird clip on thing. I figured out how it clips back on...finally.
My new blades were wrong snyway....out of the packaging so non returnable.
Crazy Chevy!

[randyo]

my Silverado is an '02, Twenty two years old, with a quarter million mile,      i have my eye out for a replacement, It will be another Silverado, or maybe even an older Chevy. Friend of mine restored a '73 Chevy truck. I've driven enough F150s and Rams to cross them off,

[Stig / Major Tom]

my Silverado is an '02, Twenty two years old, with a quarter million mile,      i have my eye out for a replacement, It will be another Silverado, or maybe even an older Chevy. Friend of mine restored a '73 Chevy truck. I've driven enough F150s and Rams to cross them off,

Mine is an '06 - just turned 73,000.
My FIL gave it to me a few yrs ago - his wife couldn't get in an out any longer.
He kept up with all the sched maint. Old school that way.
Good truck - but rides so much rougher than my work truck (1987 Silverado crew cab w/8' bed) which I drove for nearly 30 years for the State.
So, after 35 yrs of driving a Chevy Silverado - I'd say they are pretty good!

Looked at replacing the plugs...but no way. I'll let the garage do it some day!
A/C still works great!
Don't see any rust.
Stig

[Neil955i]

Mine is an '06 - just turned 73,000.
My FIL gave it to me a few yrs ago - his wife couldn't get in an out any longer.
He kept up with all the sched maint. Old school that way.
Good truck - but rides so much rougher than my work truck (1987 Silverado crew cab w/8' bed) which I drove for nearly 30 years for the State.
So, after 35 yrs of driving a Chevy Silverado - I'd say they are pretty good!

Looked at replacing the plugs...but no way. I'll let the garage do it some day!
A/C still works great!
Don't see any rust.
Stig

My longest owned car was 20 years with a MkII Ford Cortina (UK spec 1600cc) which, at 125,000 miles I sold on to a friend who owned it for a further 5 years and 90,000+ miles!  That car took me all around Europe in the early 70's when I was getting over the loss of my mother.  (I used the money she left me to fund the trip.)

[randyo]

My longest owned car was 20 years with a MkII Ford Cortina (UK spec 1600cc) which, at 125,000 miles I sold on to a friend who owned it for a further 5 years and 90,000+ miles!  That car took me all around Europe in the early 70's when I was getting over the loss of my mother.  (I used the money she left me to fund the trip.)

my older brother raced NASCAR MiniStock, while he had a VW Type 3, and most of the competitors in the series drove VW Beetles, there was one guy that drove an imported Ford Cortina, he was competitive enough to place in top 5, but never won. Only Cortina I have ever seen.

Longest ownership for me is my Silverado at 7 years, I bought it just before I retired with 195k already on it. With retirement, my annual milage has dropped from about 40,000/yr to 4,000/yr

[Stig / Major Tom]

my older brother raced NASCAR MiniStock, while he had a VW Type 3, and most of the competitors in the series drove VW Beetles, there was one guy that drove an imported Ford Cortina, he was competitive enough to place in top 5, but never won. Only Cortina I have ever seen.

Longest ownership for me is my Silverado at 7 years, I bought it just before I retired with 195k already on it. With retirement, my annual milage has dropped from about 40,000/yr to 4,000/yr

Randyo
The type 3 notchback, squareback or fastback?
I'm guessing he'd be racing the fastback?
I had a Beetle,  my speed-freak older brother had a fastback, in Give Me A Ticket yellow. He was a frustrated F-1 driver his whole life. I only made the mistake of letting him drive one of my new VW's one time. Red lined that poor Rabbit in every gear.
He was a character....one night I was driving my VW bus as my Dad took us three couples to dinner at Wright Patterson A.F. BASE
.
My brother said "you know, only terrorists drive these things."
(this was pre 9/11, but post "Back To The Future" movie.)
As I passed through the base gate, with armed M.P.s, my brother said "Praise Allah!" out the window as I drove thru. Even The Colonel, my dad, laughed.
Stig

[randyo]

Fastback,  feature races were short, 25 laps on a quarter to half mile track depending on venue, + a 10 lap heat race and practice laps. Engines didn't have to last a hundred miles max. It was my brothers belief that an engine runs best just before it blows up. He would rebuild the engine for every race, with used pistons, and his engines smoked a bit to, enough that other drivers stayed clear, strategy worked, track champion at local track, won over half the races. We also crossed the border to race at St. Pie Quebec, 1.3 mile road course & 1/4 mile oval. When we raced the road course, we had to change an engine on a pit stop, still came in top 5