Fall Garage Cleaning Day

[njsteve]

I just spent the past couple hours getting all the cars running in time for the Fall garage sweep out. They all actually started up without a problem! I then drained all the gas out of each one, put it all in the wife's Suburban's tank and then drove each one to the local gas station and filled each one up, along with the requisite amount of Sta-bil fuel stabilizer: great stuff, I've never had fuel go bad and gum up anything with this stuff in the tank. Total gas bill, about $120. In looking at my old gas slips, it looks like I drove the Viper, the least: 34 miles since last November!, The Hemi Charger: 200 miles, and the Camaro 300 miles. I seem to have been driving the Firebird the most and I only picked it up from my parents last month!: 400 miles. Now that they're all well fed, I now have to bathe them all before putting them to bed for the winter! I'll probably keep driving the Firebird for the next month or so, since the kids still like to cruise around in their Great-Grandma's car.

Anyway the whole group looked kind of patriotic just in time for election day: all red white and blue sitting in the driveway

[GM-26]

You have a great collection of cars! Excellent picture!

[hvychev]

Steve you DO have some very cool cars with GREAT stories!

[njsteve]

I need to do a little write up on the Viper for the Members Rides section. It's definitely an oddity. It might be worth something in 10 or 15 years or so . I "built" it during my tenure as the tech editor at Mopar Muscle Magazine and Musclecar Review way back in late 1992/93. I watched the car get assembled at the New Mack assembly plant and photographed the entire process. We used it as a magazine project car for 2 years. Got a bunch of back door help from Dodge. At the time they couldn't paint the car blue for us because the panels all came prepainted from their vendor, so instead they provided us with all the paint and prototype blue emblems to redo the entire car immediately after delivery. During the magazine days I used to race it at Sebring International Raceway in SCCA class ASP (A-Street Prepared). I even held a lap record for a year until the car was pretty much declared obsolete by the introduction of the Viper Coupes in the same class. The car now has 7700 "Sunday only" miles on it! After driving it today I forgot how truly scary the first gen Vipers were . If you don't have both hands on the wheel at all times, even when shifting you will be in deep doo-doo very fast! Probably like driving a Cheetah back in the 60's