My Av Is GONE!

[Chief]

Well not quite, but you'll love this story.

So I walk out this morning to go get into my Av which sits in the driveway. Today is the first REAL day of spring the Pacific Northwest has seen since 3/21. It's clear, it's warm, and hardly a breath of wind. All I could think about was dropping the midgate, taking off the panels (to get the sand out via wind), opening the sunroof, and dropping the windows.

No Avalanche in the driveway.

Gone.

I suddenly feel sick as I read last night that Seattle/Tacoma/Everett is number nine in the nation for car thefts.

I open the garage door.

There, sitting in the garage is my wife's Thunderbird.

You see my wife gets up about 1-1/2 hours before me to go to work. But what was a more telling story was what was also sitting in the garage.

The car seat out of the Avalanche.

The contents of the bed.

Also what was telling was what was missing from the garage.

The hard cargo cover panel holder.

I noticed that the dome light had been left on in the Thunderbird. When I looked in to turn it off there inside was my ID badge for work, my cellphone, and my sunglasses out of the Avalanche.

Yep - she done the old bait and switch.

Seems as though she eyed the weather forecast too and decided after our beach trip that a quasi-topless Av would be far more fun to drive today than a covered Thunderbird.

At least her car has a better stereo!

 

[spork_av]

man, you shouldn't do that to us... about had a heart attack!

 

[MrBill]

If my wife did that without telling me, I would be single again.

 

[Chasman]

Good grief! You had me on the edge of my chair, Chief.
Thanks for the warning; I'll have a little talk with my wife this evening.
My heart obviously isn't as strong as yours.

 

[gandolphxx]

You may never get it back, sounds like she did a pretty thorough swap to me.

 

[Wind4Power]

Too Funny Chief!
This is Wind4Power's wife....we share custody of our AV. I get custody during the week and he gets it on the weekend. Occasionaly, he pulls a fast one and I walk outside only to see that he has broken our custody agreement. LOL! Really bums me out when he does that.

 

[kps]

My wife only drives mine nights and weekends. When it needs gas.

 

[dvc]

Ok, Ok,

Whoa, I will need to have a talk with the wife, her passion is Home Depot, so she often asks to take it, I could just see her doing the same thing.

Boy, make you wonder though, is there really any product that can prevent my favorite Truck from becoming theft bait.

dvc

 

[dreimer]

Luckily my wife just got the last model year of the Firebird...so she has no real desire to drive the AV...whew!

 

[tfreimiller]

I have a silly question

Why is your AV sitting out in the cold and the rain and a FORD of all things is in the garage.

Now if it is one of the new Thunderturds then I could understand but still its a ford. When we bought our AV I told the wife that we would have to move the lawnmower. She asked me where I was going to put it I told her where the SportTrac was sitting

 

[gandolphxx]

I have a silly question ?

Why is your AV sitting out in the cold and the rain and a FORD ? of all things is in the garage.

Now if it is one of the new Thunderturds ? then I could understand but still its a ford. ?When we bought our AV I told the wife that we would have to move the lawnmower. ?She asked me where I was going to put it I told her where the SportTrac was sitting

So, tell us how it is sleeping in the AV after that statement.

 

[tfreimiller]

Believe it or not I managed to fit everything in the garage. Of course I give my wife a week before she runs over the lawnmower.

Anyway this is something that she is used to. When I had the vette I was always kicking the SportTrac to the driveway for what I called Zaino weekends.

It also helps that she doesnt like the Sporttrac (Which she had to have) first long trip she was ready to get ride of it.

 

[kbm]

That's one thing I don't have to worry about - all my wife does is complain about that "too @#$% big thing of yours that takes up most of the garage." The only time she has any use for it is when she needs plants and flowers picked up that she refuses to put in her car!

 

[NJAV]

I'll tell ya something, you really had me going there for a second...I think I got that same sick feeling reading your post....thank god...it was the wife and not the hoodlums...who grabbed the Av....

Heart not palpitating anymore...

 

[wrchism]

Trade the Thunderturd in on Av #2! Sounds like a reasonable solution to me - the only thing better than being an Av owner is being a TWO Av owner . . . . lets see one Z66 and one Z71, or should that be a 2500? How about a Northface? . . . it boggles the mind!

 

[Chief]

We love our Thunderbird. It's five years old and will roll over 41K today - so it's been babied for most of it's life. It is in near showroom condition although it appears my wife was doing a touch up job on her nails at one point and time and got some acetone on her leather driver's seat (just a tiny splatter) something she vehemently denies.

It's loaded out, last of the full frame, V-8, rear drive, two-door quasi-luxo cruisers that Detroit use to build. It has been bullet proof all this time with no major issues. To give you an idea of how babied it is the OEM brakes were replace 14 months ago - the OEM TIRES were replaced six months ago and it just got a new set of wiper blades. Also just had the steering system flushed.

Nah, we plan to keep the T-bird forever and eventually when it reaches antique status run it around at car shows. No one can believe it's a 97 when they see it. Trust me - I've got more blemishes on the paint of my Av in 1/2 a year and 8,000 miles than on her T-bird!

It's a sweet car - but on a 70 degree day I can't think of anything sweeter than driving my Av with the back window out, the sunroof open and the windows down!

 

[AVYNUT]

U R MEAN! ?

... ?Nearly giving us heart failure!

I'm old enough not to need that kinda news!

"There once was a little boy who cried wolf..."

GRRRRRRRRRRR ?

 

[MassiveAvalanche]

First new car iv ever bought, and made a dumb mistake. forgot to make sure the AV would fit in the garage. It doesnt. so mine as well is parked outside..
and in AZ, this cant be good once we hit June and July.. after a few years i have a feeling its gonna be sunbeaten to death. oh well. that gives me an excuse to get a 2005 or 6 or whatever year it is. haha.

 

[BruceCr_ms]

It won't fit? Is it too long, too wide, or too both?

With the way my wife parks, I'm thinking of parking the AV in the third car area and moving the GGJ (General Garage Junk) to the spot between us. If she doesn't pull all the way over, the AV is a tight fit.

 

[the_wifes_av]

First new car iv ever bought, and made a dumb mistake. ?forgot to make sure the AV would fit in the garage. It doesnt. so mine as well is parked outside..
and in AZ, this cant be good once we hit June and July.. after a few years i have a feeling its gonna be sunbeaten to death. oh well. that gives me an excuse to get a 2005 or 6 or whatever year it is. haha.

We also live in AZ, and I could not see having to have a car outside at all times of the year.
When we went looking for an AV, we went to the closest Chevy dealer (about 4 miles from home) and actually took the test drive, and the sales woman home, and put it in the garage with my car, just to see how things would fit together. I will have to tell you, that without the 4 foot extension we were smart enough to have on the garage when the house was built, I don't think the AV would have fit into the garage from the front to the back. If it would have, it would have been mighty tight. As it is, it gives us about 2 feet between it and the fridge in the garage.
What, you gotta have some place to put all of the Mt. Dew Code Red for me to drink while I'm out putterin' in the garage....

 

[baron138]

I don't have to worry about my wife borrowing the Av. She has driven it just once after I picked it up in October. She said "Ok, I drove it thats good enough." She hates to drive in general. She likes her E.B Explorer though. I think she is intimidated by the Av. I also think she doesn't want to be the first to damage it. She also hated my Z28, my Bronco, and she probably won't want to drive the Vette when I get it.