Hello from Baltimore, MD
Monday evening – August 29, 2016 (fourth post of this travelogue)
Well, the trip is winding down. We are at a Candlewood Suites hotel close to BWI airport. Our flight departs at 7:00 AM, so it is going to be a short night/early morning.
On our flights, we cracked out and upgraded to seats with a bit more leg room. It makes all the difference in the world, and is not all that expensive. On the way out, we really did not have much choice, as our assigned seats were terrible. On our flight tomorrow, it is not sold out, but they cut the cost of the better seats the day before departure so we grabbed a window and aisle. Looks like the center seat will stay vacant given the number of seats available.
We did not do any touring today – kind of took the day off. The drive down was a bit over an hour and quite picturesque.
I have to tell you my Corvette story. Most of the Corvettes we saw were late model and stock. They looked good, but you know me – I like old stuff. Probably the iconic Corvette was the 1963 “Split Window” Stingray. I have always loved that style. As I looked over the parking lot at the hotel there was a beautiful yellow ’63 Split Window. I wanted to take a picture of it but never had the camera available. Later, I was parking our rented car and I got a good view of the back of the car and noticed that the suspension did not look period correct. Then I got to looking closer and the wheels seemed to fit inside the fender wells much better than stock. To make a long story short, it was a Kustom Corvette produced by Karl’s Kustom Corvettes (link).
They take your C6 version of the Corvette (2005-2013) and adapt new custom front and rear body panels. Their work is fantastic. I never did get a picture of the one in our parking lot, but have included a couple of photos from their website. Now if we hit the lotto……..
That is all for this trip.