This is a funny story from my recent trip from Las Vegas to Lake Tahoe. I made a random pit stop a couple hours outside of Vegas to stretch my legs and take a quick bathroom break (bathroom at the gas station was out of order and passengers needed one too) and when I returned to my car there was what seemed to be a random guy kind of looking it over. While I do get the occasional head turn since it is lowered and on more aggressive rubber, I'm not used to people giving my car a good looking over. As I approached he asked if it was my car and proceeded to ask what I had done to it and why. His questions weren't stated in the way most casual observers would ask them, they were far too specific as to what I was looking to gain and how I felt about the results. We talked for a few minutes and then he asked if I knew how to "drive". I knew exactly what he was asking since we had been talking about performance and handling mods so I let him know that I had no professional training. He asked if I had ever considered it and where I had looked into. When I told him I was planning on doing the "better driver mod" in the not too distant future, but was new to the area and hadn't decided on a school yet he pulled out his phone and gave me a name and number for somebody at Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch, a place not too far from where I live. When I asked him who I should say referred me he told me Rupert Bragg-Smith. I should have known since I'm a GM man at heart and am familiar with his work with Corvettes. When he said that I instantly remembered why Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch sounded familiar, it was the school he founded under a different name (I remember reading an article about it after the name was changed) and remember the picture of him next to a new Z06. I was stunned by how down to earth he was, he even invited me over to see his car collection as he lived just down the road. I really wish I wasn't on such a tight schedule as I would have loved to have spent more time talking with someone with his automotive background. I really think that chance meeting was the highlight of the entire trip.
Had I been in any other car (except maybe a stand-out Vette) I doubt he would have stopped to have a look and take the time to talk with me. I really do love my car and that random situation proves to me that the ms6 is a real drivers car.
Had I been in any other car (except maybe a stand-out Vette) I doubt he would have stopped to have a look and take the time to talk with me. I really do love my car and that random situation proves to me that the ms6 is a real drivers car.
