[Rdd3]

After a long wait, my car really flew through production once it got to 3000. It was built and shipped on 12/16 and I thought I'd be getting a nice Christmas present (after originally planning on not seeing it until mid-January).

Unfortunately, cars coming to Washington state ship by rail. So my car spent 2-3 days being trucked to Toledo (which is about a 6 hour drive, but oh well), and then got loaded onto a train heading West. When it got loaded on to the train, I thought, OK, now its got to be here in a few days. I mean, how long could it possibly take a train to get half way across country? Well, the answer is 8 days so far and no end in sight (there was a rumor that it had made it all the way to Wyoming as of Monday)!

And once it gets "here" (a rail depot in Kent, WA), it still has to get offloaded and trucked to my dealer. Who knows how long that will take. And then they have to prep it. So best case we're looking at close to three weeks from "shipped" to in my driveway. In contrast, a forum member in Texas had his car built and shipped the day after mine and he was driving it two days later. So the moral of the story is, depending on where you live (and potentially some other factors outside of your control), Chevy may very well save a few pennies and take their sweet time getting your car to you. Just throwing that out there so someone else doesn't end up nail-biting based on unrealistic expectations of how long it might take.

Now I'm hoping to see it by New Year's, but I'm not holding my breath (OK, I kind of am - I am ridiculously excited about getting this car).