This isn't a Jeep road trip I already did that last year. This is the 1998 Indy Pace Car road trip.
I flew up to Maine to get the corvette ready for the trip since it hasn't been used very much in the last few years. My plan was going from my house in Maine to the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY then down to my house in Florida.
The first problem was the AC was blowing hot air, I knew it would be more than just adding freon. So the mechanic said I've got good news and bad news, the bad news I can't fix it since you want to head out tonight.
Okay tell me, he said the AC is blowing cold on the passenger side but not on the driver's side. The corvette has a module that is controlled by the computer that opens and closes the flap that diverts the air. That module is not working and we don't have one, you can get one in Florida. I got a USB fan to blow the cold air over to the drivers side.
C5 corvettes also has a strange setup with two gas tanks, with a fuel pump moving gas from one tank to the other, has something to do with making sure gas is getting to the fuel pick up when the car is flying into a corner on the race track?? I'm guessing 99 percent of the C5s will ever need this. So because of this the fuel gauge will drop to empty even when there is plenty of fuel. I don't know who figured this out but adding Chevron Techron fuel additive fixes the problem for awhile, I had this happen to me on the way to Kentucky. I picked up two bottles and it started working after the second tank full of gas.
Now for the crazy people I saw while on the trip. I stopped at the rest area at Danbury CT, when you drink a lot of Coke zero you need to stop a lot. I go into the bathroom there is a guy with a huge knife with a pineapple on the sink cutting it up. I did say a nasty ass sink in the men's bathroom he is cutting up a pineapple?? When I'm leaving the guy who works there happens to be coming out of his office I told him to go look I didn't tell him why, he stepped in, then came out to go back into his office. I didn't stick around but I'm guessing he call the police this wasn't a kitchen knife.
The next stop was in New York, I get out of the car there was a twenty something loser with a junk car with a busted out rear window, looked like it should be put into a crusher. He starts yell F this F that, I'm a socialist I should have that Corvette, I want that Fing Corvette, people are watching this nutcase rant, I go in the worker there said what is that guys problem? My guess his parents. He watched my car while I took a quick piss.
My car in front of the corvette museum.
Part 2 later stuff to do now.
I flew up to Maine to get the corvette ready for the trip since it hasn't been used very much in the last few years. My plan was going from my house in Maine to the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY then down to my house in Florida.
The first problem was the AC was blowing hot air, I knew it would be more than just adding freon. So the mechanic said I've got good news and bad news, the bad news I can't fix it since you want to head out tonight.
Okay tell me, he said the AC is blowing cold on the passenger side but not on the driver's side. The corvette has a module that is controlled by the computer that opens and closes the flap that diverts the air. That module is not working and we don't have one, you can get one in Florida. I got a USB fan to blow the cold air over to the drivers side.
C5 corvettes also has a strange setup with two gas tanks, with a fuel pump moving gas from one tank to the other, has something to do with making sure gas is getting to the fuel pick up when the car is flying into a corner on the race track?? I'm guessing 99 percent of the C5s will ever need this. So because of this the fuel gauge will drop to empty even when there is plenty of fuel. I don't know who figured this out but adding Chevron Techron fuel additive fixes the problem for awhile, I had this happen to me on the way to Kentucky. I picked up two bottles and it started working after the second tank full of gas.
Now for the crazy people I saw while on the trip. I stopped at the rest area at Danbury CT, when you drink a lot of Coke zero you need to stop a lot. I go into the bathroom there is a guy with a huge knife with a pineapple on the sink cutting it up. I did say a nasty ass sink in the men's bathroom he is cutting up a pineapple?? When I'm leaving the guy who works there happens to be coming out of his office I told him to go look I didn't tell him why, he stepped in, then came out to go back into his office. I didn't stick around but I'm guessing he call the police this wasn't a kitchen knife.
The next stop was in New York, I get out of the car there was a twenty something loser with a junk car with a busted out rear window, looked like it should be put into a crusher. He starts yell F this F that, I'm a socialist I should have that Corvette, I want that Fing Corvette, people are watching this nutcase rant, I go in the worker there said what is that guys problem? My guess his parents. He watched my car while I took a quick piss.
My car in front of the corvette museum.
Part 2 later stuff to do now.
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