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Nice new thread and I’m post #1! Here’s to a great new thread in the new year.

To keep this car related my wife gave me a nice Christmas present this year and curbed my back right passenger wheel!

 

This cannot be allowed, we will need pics posted up so she can be properly shamed!
Only way to keep it from happening again.

Let's see the cringe. Lol 😀 🍿

Ps- for 2026, I plan on fixing the ugly dent I made in my tail gate.

 

I've got to send the Ody through the wash today. It was parked at an outside airport lot while we were on vacation and dealt with wintry mix, rain, and just the general dust that comes by being parked at the airport.

 

Just for you!

Not sure how she curbed half the wheel like that but I already got it fixed over the break.

 

Ouch! That rim took a hit!

I'm sure you can get it refinished for a couple hundred bucks, there is a place here that does or did it for $100.

 

did some car maintenance to close out 2025. Viper is a very easy going car maintenance wise. Just fluids.

 

Awesome set up. 🏆
Extra cool points for the lift and the toolbox.

First class man cave.
Is the tv and couch on the other side of the garage?

 

I didn''t know you had a final Viper.

I really quite like those, they look great....and the inside is supposed to be super nice.

MASSIVE ENGINE.

I was never really a Viper fan until this one. I mean, I respected the beast it was but the heat it would put out inside was insane and it wasn't comfortable.

 

Didn't this happen before too? If so, it's a gift that keeps on giving.

 

I just read the 6.7L GM V8 will make 525-550hp.

I said 525 and would guess that version will go into the Escalade, etc. That's a huge upgrade over the current 6.2.

This should move the GM SUVs back to the front performance wise.

They call it the Chevy 409. (409CI)

https://www.hagerty.com/media/news/t...Ze7D3pdCIvnHEA

 

Shame, Shame, Shame. Haha 🍿
Yeah, she curbed it good.

#maximum_cringe

 

If it winds up being 525hp in the Corvette GS, I'm guessing truck tune will be more like 485-500hp but with more (and lower down) torque. If the GS is at 550, then truck might be ~510 or so.

 

Yeah! We'll see. I do think the next Escalade/Denali will have comfortably over 500hp (the 525), not that 510hp would be anything to sneeze at.

I think it'll be more like 550 in the GS Corvette.

But we will know soon enough!

 

Yea it has the GTS Laguna interior option, most luxurious version. Heat is bad on the other gens, especially the G2 because of the bad A/C. A/C is great in the G5, been on road trips with it without issue