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Guys - I received a private e-mail suggesting I repost this: it came up in a thread elsewhere, buried way on down the thread. I guess I just didn't realize how lucky I was to even see one. Not much of a ride, I admit, but I got to see, sit in, and really look it over and hear it . . .
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Unless the weather is bad, I go out cruising in my 'vette on Sunday mornings, early - 8 AM - 9AM. No traffic, few cops (I don't really drive fast but why tempt fate?). I was out one Sunday about 4-6 weeks ago. I always swing by the Autopark - an area the city has zoned for only car dealers, and check out what's new while the dealerships are closed and no salesmen will bother me: the Porsche/Aston Martin lot and in the used classics lots: I've left lists of cars I'm interested in with a few dealers but you never know if they forget, and its fun just to look, etc.
Anyway, driving by the Saturn dealer (which was closed, of course) that Sunday morning, I spotted a big 18 wheeler, the trailier covered with graphics and a 40 foot picture of a Sky, pulled into the lot in front of the showroom. People had unloaded a car and there were maybe 20 folks standing around looking at a shiny, dark blue Sky. Some of them were photographers and they were snapping pictures of it.).
I pulled in and parked. I don't really think these guys wanted company, but the 'vette just about always works with car guys - and these were GM cars guys. We got to talking. A kind of senior guy was opening the hood and explaining things to a bunch of salesmen, prepping them to take orders or whatever, I think. Anyway, I talked up one of the younger guys who was with the transporter from the factory, and showed him and some other guys wearing Sky polo shirts my vette, and talked cars for a while. Then they seemed to be packing up, so I left. But a couple of minutes later I saw the guy I had been talking with driving the Sky down the street and I did a U and followed. He pulled into a BP station and up to a pump. I stopped and asked if there was any chance I could get a ride, or even drive it (offered to let him drive the 'vette and follow me). He laughed, said he could not give rides on the street, no insurance or whatever (probably BS, but he was a nice guy). As he put the gas filler back he opened the passenger door and said: " Get in," and then drove from the pump around to the air compressor to check the tires (you'd think they'd have an air compressor on the transporter truck, wouldn't you? But I think the guy just wanted to be on his own for a while - he was really taking his time). Anyway, afterward I rode in it again back around the BP station to my car. He never got out of first gear. So I got to ride in it at about 10 mph for maybe a total of 100 feet.
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End of story. Except to say that it was much much prettier than a Solstice and had a really nice exhaust note: I had feared it would sound like a Cobalt.
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Unless the weather is bad, I go out cruising in my 'vette on Sunday mornings, early - 8 AM - 9AM. No traffic, few cops (I don't really drive fast but why tempt fate?). I was out one Sunday about 4-6 weeks ago. I always swing by the Autopark - an area the city has zoned for only car dealers, and check out what's new while the dealerships are closed and no salesmen will bother me: the Porsche/Aston Martin lot and in the used classics lots: I've left lists of cars I'm interested in with a few dealers but you never know if they forget, and its fun just to look, etc.
Anyway, driving by the Saturn dealer (which was closed, of course) that Sunday morning, I spotted a big 18 wheeler, the trailier covered with graphics and a 40 foot picture of a Sky, pulled into the lot in front of the showroom. People had unloaded a car and there were maybe 20 folks standing around looking at a shiny, dark blue Sky. Some of them were photographers and they were snapping pictures of it.).
I pulled in and parked. I don't really think these guys wanted company, but the 'vette just about always works with car guys - and these were GM cars guys. We got to talking. A kind of senior guy was opening the hood and explaining things to a bunch of salesmen, prepping them to take orders or whatever, I think. Anyway, I talked up one of the younger guys who was with the transporter from the factory, and showed him and some other guys wearing Sky polo shirts my vette, and talked cars for a while. Then they seemed to be packing up, so I left. But a couple of minutes later I saw the guy I had been talking with driving the Sky down the street and I did a U and followed. He pulled into a BP station and up to a pump. I stopped and asked if there was any chance I could get a ride, or even drive it (offered to let him drive the 'vette and follow me). He laughed, said he could not give rides on the street, no insurance or whatever (probably BS, but he was a nice guy). As he put the gas filler back he opened the passenger door and said: " Get in," and then drove from the pump around to the air compressor to check the tires (you'd think they'd have an air compressor on the transporter truck, wouldn't you? But I think the guy just wanted to be on his own for a while - he was really taking his time). Anyway, afterward I rode in it again back around the BP station to my car. He never got out of first gear. So I got to ride in it at about 10 mph for maybe a total of 100 feet.
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End of story. Except to say that it was much much prettier than a Solstice and had a really nice exhaust note: I had feared it would sound like a Cobalt.
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