Good afternoon everyone,
Some of you may recall some of my previous posts as I discussed or mentioned two events.
1)the encoutner with the C6 Z06 owner and his car on Main Street in Peace River last summer when he didn't take the time to chat with the other C6 Z06 that was parked right beside him.
2)seeing on several occasions a grey C6 with an attractive blond woman driver in Grimshaw, the town closest to where I live and thinking that it must be a local car.
Well 2013 has been a much better year. Meeting Paul the C6 Z51 owner in the WalMart parking lot maybe 3 weeks ago and have probably what amounted to a 30 to 45 mintue conversation is exactly what I hoped to experience.
This spring I had seen the grey C6 Z51 in Grimshaw a few more times and finally spotted it two or three times parked in front a a furnature store in Grimshaw and came to the conclusion that the owner must work there.
So I was on my way back from a run on the dike in PR when I finally told myself, you have the time to kill, go and see if the grey C6 Z51 is parked at the furnature store today and if it is go in and introduce yourself to the owner.
So lo and behold, said car was in the parking lot at the furnature store. SO I parked beside it, confirmed that it was a Z51 and not any of the other 3 models and then went inside. The store was quite with just one couple looing at furnature and one woman who was helping them. So I waited for a bit and then when the woman asked me if she could help me I asked her who owned the Z51 outside. Insert blanklook on face. The grey car I said. Oh, she told me, "It's mine".
So we started to talk about Corvettes a bit and the story came out. It is a 2010 C6 Z51. She bought it from the local dealer and it was owned by a........farmer who lived north of Peace River who traded it in on a newer one!
What is it with farmers and Corvettes now I'm starting to wonder!
Her name is Nicole and honestly this woman is very attractive, I wasn't mistaken when I had see her driving by last summer in the car.
Funnier yet her husband and a partner of his used to own Great Northern Grain, a grain buying company in Nampa. Why is this part of the story? Because I had a good canola crop back in 2011 I think is was but the moisture content was very high and I was in danger of losing the grain. There were a lot of farmers with high moisture content grain that year and no one was buying it. And as snow was falling I really didn't want to have to go through the process of drying it on the farm. I would take the discount on it from a buyer just to be rid of it and to not have to worry about it spoiling and losing it all. Mom was able to get Great Northern Grain to buy my canola. The crop as good enough that this is how I generated the available income to buy the C6 Z06 in April 2012!! Almost like coming full circle, isn't it??!!
Nicole's husband has sold his share in the business and it has been subsequently sold to Pioneer and I don't remember what she told me her husband does now. He drives a M5 BMW, a white one and oddly I followed it home a few days ago, I was trailing him as he was picking up speed but that was the day that I thought I had the oil level issue if you have read that post and I let him go.
Nicole knows a lot of other Corvette owners locally. But I don't think she is a owner who is interested in moding or anything like that. I told her about the autocrossing though and she seemed to find that interesting.
I have told myself that I need to be bringing my camera with me more often. This was one of those moments. I am thinking about going back maybe in a week or two to ask her if she would have her picture taken with me and the two cars but I don't want her to think I'm some sort of stalker either! I'll see if she'll endulge me though.
Anyway I thought this was a nice, funny and interesting story and just wanted to share it with you folks.................
Cheers,
Garry
Some of you may recall some of my previous posts as I discussed or mentioned two events.
1)the encoutner with the C6 Z06 owner and his car on Main Street in Peace River last summer when he didn't take the time to chat with the other C6 Z06 that was parked right beside him.
2)seeing on several occasions a grey C6 with an attractive blond woman driver in Grimshaw, the town closest to where I live and thinking that it must be a local car.
Well 2013 has been a much better year. Meeting Paul the C6 Z51 owner in the WalMart parking lot maybe 3 weeks ago and have probably what amounted to a 30 to 45 mintue conversation is exactly what I hoped to experience.
This spring I had seen the grey C6 Z51 in Grimshaw a few more times and finally spotted it two or three times parked in front a a furnature store in Grimshaw and came to the conclusion that the owner must work there.
So I was on my way back from a run on the dike in PR when I finally told myself, you have the time to kill, go and see if the grey C6 Z51 is parked at the furnature store today and if it is go in and introduce yourself to the owner.
So lo and behold, said car was in the parking lot at the furnature store. SO I parked beside it, confirmed that it was a Z51 and not any of the other 3 models and then went inside. The store was quite with just one couple looing at furnature and one woman who was helping them. So I waited for a bit and then when the woman asked me if she could help me I asked her who owned the Z51 outside. Insert blanklook on face. The grey car I said. Oh, she told me, "It's mine".
So we started to talk about Corvettes a bit and the story came out. It is a 2010 C6 Z51. She bought it from the local dealer and it was owned by a........farmer who lived north of Peace River who traded it in on a newer one!
What is it with farmers and Corvettes now I'm starting to wonder!
Her name is Nicole and honestly this woman is very attractive, I wasn't mistaken when I had see her driving by last summer in the car.
Funnier yet her husband and a partner of his used to own Great Northern Grain, a grain buying company in Nampa. Why is this part of the story? Because I had a good canola crop back in 2011 I think is was but the moisture content was very high and I was in danger of losing the grain. There were a lot of farmers with high moisture content grain that year and no one was buying it. And as snow was falling I really didn't want to have to go through the process of drying it on the farm. I would take the discount on it from a buyer just to be rid of it and to not have to worry about it spoiling and losing it all. Mom was able to get Great Northern Grain to buy my canola. The crop as good enough that this is how I generated the available income to buy the C6 Z06 in April 2012!! Almost like coming full circle, isn't it??!!
Nicole's husband has sold his share in the business and it has been subsequently sold to Pioneer and I don't remember what she told me her husband does now. He drives a M5 BMW, a white one and oddly I followed it home a few days ago, I was trailing him as he was picking up speed but that was the day that I thought I had the oil level issue if you have read that post and I let him go.
Nicole knows a lot of other Corvette owners locally. But I don't think she is a owner who is interested in moding or anything like that. I told her about the autocrossing though and she seemed to find that interesting.
I have told myself that I need to be bringing my camera with me more often. This was one of those moments. I am thinking about going back maybe in a week or two to ask her if she would have her picture taken with me and the two cars but I don't want her to think I'm some sort of stalker either! I'll see if she'll endulge me though.
Anyway I thought this was a nice, funny and interesting story and just wanted to share it with you folks.................
Cheers,
Garry
