zwrenchturner

Personally I think that any engine in a z is ok if its someone elses car. it keeps them on the road and out of the crushers. as for me I'll leave the rotary in the seven and the L in the Z where they belong. both are beautiful by themselves but putting them together would be like buying an el camino.

why would they do that to those poor engines!?!

if I was incharge I'd walk the poor guy down my corvette lineup and let him have his pick. the guy spent a long time fighting with the maintenance dept.'s manager and we finally got ahold of the owner and he was less than helpful. kinda sucks for the dealership because we're making sure that everyone knows what happened so they'll think twice before getting their car serviced there. the guy tried everything, from going through his insurance company to try to fight it, tried the companies insurance company, the bank he got the car loan through, we got ahold of some of the "higher ups" in GM (they didnt care) we tried everything! no one would cooperate with the poor guy. we tried to get the local news involved (not interested) and all that good stuff and nothing happened. given the "reasonable man theory" they should eat the cost of this one vette and given they guy a new one that way they wouldnt lose business from all the bad publicity they're getting now. I guess it all comes down to the $$$ in the long run though.... :stupid:

I was reading up on it yesterday and I guess over the weekend he setteled with the shop and is getting the body work done. if you ask me its not enough, some of the pictures look like the frame is cracked. and if I remember right once the corvettes frame is bent there really is no way to permanently correct it. oh well, its not my deal. the dealership said that if he wasnt happy with the repairs then he could trade it into the dealership and they'd give him something like $17,000 for it. not enough if you ask me (1997 c5 with 40K on the odo?) I found a couple for 28,000 on the net. either way, I just wanted everyone to hear the story about Stewarts auto so you guys would think twice before they put your car up on a lift.

man I'm having a rough time posting links and pics up here, lets hope this works this time...

Heres a copy of the fliers we've been passing out to the corvette owners in the area, (its been updated recently to include the owners name) if you want a copy or if you want to know more about whats going on contact theblackcobrasnake@yahoo.com be sure to tell him where you're from (classiczcars.com) so he knows that other forums are getting involved (nissan forums are here along with toyota, honda, etc...) anyways heres the flier:

thats all I got, I guess you really have to read the whole forum to really feel for the poor guy, if you want to checkl it out I found it on the corvetteactioncenter forums. its really a sad story I wish I could share it with you.

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allright, aparently its not letting me post the link so I'll just show you the pics. sorry. the there was like 27 pages of posts of whats going on with it. they pretty much destroyed the car (1997 c5 corvette) when it dropped 6ft off the lift somehow and the dealership is trying to screw him over by offering to just fix the body when the frame is cracked and the car fell on an oil drum (he was getting an oul change) luckily no one was hurt tho. I forgot to mention that the dealership isnt even springing for a paint job, just body parts.

http://corvetteactioncenter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50014

here try this one: http://corvetteactioncenter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50014 its working for me.

I dont know if anyone's seen this yet but Stewart auto in colma, cali (near san fran.) dropped this guys corvette off of a lift and they're really giving him the run around and playing it off like its minor damage. I thought someone here might be able to help the guy out, or maybe offer some advice. check it out and spread the word about this injustice! http://corvetteactioncenter.com/for...ead.php?t=50014 pics are on page three if you want to check them out.