Another car show, another dream

This was the annual "All Chevy Show" at Cox Chevrolet in Bradenton. Cox is the sponsor of my car club, the Gulf Coast Corvette Club, and every year we organize a car show for charity. This year we benefited In Stride, which uses horses to do therapy for developmentally disabled children. The little horse in the picture was very well behaved, and didn't complain about the heat or the love bugs, and the charity received several thousand dollars from the sales of raffle tickets and entry fees. The car is a Grand Sport, with over 430 horsepower. This is the car I crave, but cannot have until we sell a condominium. There is one problem - I can't decide on color.

Do I want the dark color, or the red one? I know I need to buy the coupe, since we have Ripley now and I'm not certain he (or I) would enjoy driving 1,100 miles to St. Louis with a dog in my lap. That pretty much shoots down the idea of a convertible.Ripley already knows where he goes in the current coupe, and is very confused when he searches for a back seat in my wife's Z-4 BMW. It isn't there....much canine confusion.

So, I was still not sure where I wanted to be, either the red one or the dark gray one, until I considered options. After much consideration, I decided to go with the model having the best seat covers.