It’s Friday! Brrr! We’ve been stuck in a wicked pocket of frigid air for the last several days. As if that isn’t bad enough, factor in a 20-30 MPH wind that makes it feel like your face is going to crack. That’s not your ordinary cold. Nope, that’s what I like to call bitch-ass cold! In Canada they probably call it light sweater weather.

Battlebots is back! At the risk of revealing my nerd credentials, I’m a huge Battlebots fan. The new season kicked off last night with a 3-hour episode and it was a blast! If you’ve never heard of it, it goes something like this. Teams engineer, build, and operate their own remote-controlled robots to battle other teams in an enclosed stage. The matches are in bracket form and usually involve one-on-one battles that last 3-minutes or until one of the bots is disabled. The goal is basically to destroy as many bots as possible and become the last bot standing.  Since the bots can be equipped with a variety of weapons like flame throwers and rotating shredding devices, you can imagine how much fun it can be watching the carnage ensue. You can check it out yourself on Thursday nights on the Discovery channel or streamed on Discovery+.

Okay, let’s wrap this week up with some new amateur goodness along with the Friday double babes & double jokes. Enjoy!

-keep

Keep, great website and love your work. I know this may not be the most imaginative picture but it’s a start. I’m just happy she agreed to this! Keep it anonymous please. -Anonymous

It’s Thursday. I’ve had people tell me that my Corvette is the bomb before, but this guy has taken it to the next level. Fresh from the WTF department, I have an interesting photo of a Corvette towing a trailer with a rather curious payload. First, a Vette pulling ANY trailer is already a big red flag. Second, when the payload happens to be a huge bomb, well, that’s definitely a red flag as well. Could there be a rational explanation for having a bomb, let alone taking it out for a drive on the highway? After taking a good look at the photo, I wondered if it could be a replica of Fat Man or Little Boy. After a quick search on the net I found several people with full-size replicas of Little Boy, the bomb dropped over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. I’m no military historian but it looks very similar to Little Boy. And why it’s being hauled by a Corvette is anyone’s guess!

-keep

Howdy Keep and Happy New Year! Just stumbled upon this post on Facebook and had to share. -Mbump

It’s Wednesday. “Relax, alright? My old man is a television repairman, he’s got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.” – Jeff Spicoli, ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’

-keep

Tornado Damaged C8 Corvettes Have Been Destroyed

While the tornado which hit Bowling Green, Kentucky was a horrific event primarily because of the homes and livelihoods which were lost, we and many other enthusiasts mourned the loss of the rare and highly sought after C8 Corvettes damaged in the storm. Some were hoping GM would sell those mid-engine sports cars at a reduced price, kind of like when you go to a dent and scratch furniture store, but that was never in the cards.

Instead, GM has crushed all the damaged C8 Corvettes rather than have the potentially defective cars end up in consumers’ hands. That might seem like an odd decision since people wreck Corvettes and they end up in salvage yards, then are fixed and sometimes not very well.

While that might seem like the same thing, the truth is those Corvettes wrecked by customers weren’t in the possession and control of GM, so the automaker couldn’t do anything about them. Once a car is delivered to a customer it’s pretty much the new owner’s problem, barring anything covered by the warranty or found to be caused by faulty manufacturing practices.

Two photos taken by Kornel J Werner and posted on Facebook show dozens of C8s, most if not all without doors, front clips, and a few other parts all lined up neatly like they’re in front of a firing squad. Those cars were damaged in the storm and have already been crushed, so there’s no convincing GM to stop like how the electric car people tried to stop the automaker from destroying the EV1. Maybe Michael Moore can make a movie about this automotive industry coverup?

Sadly, this means at least this many customers who have been waiting for their new C8 Corvette are going to be waiting even longer.