Just wanted to introduce myself

Welcome! And bad luck with Wilma! I hope it is covered and can be fixed.

Well, might as well introduce myself too. I been posting for a few weeks now, but maybe it is nicer to introduce myself.
Well, I am from Holland, but I currently work in Hamburg, Germany for Airbus. Yes, that big European Boeing competitor... Anyways, I am a technical design engineer and I love aerospace. In fact, I was almost an airliner pilot for KLM. Spent some time in USA for my Polytechnic study in Calofornia. Also did some work there illegally (well, i was apparently not the only one). Also worked on the JSF project at Lockheed-Martin in Ft. Worth, Texas.

Anyway, I got my cashmere 2003 CTS here in Germany since april this year. It had 40K kilometers (25K miles) on it and very clean and neat. Just like new. Since I was in California in '97 I fell in love with Cadillac. The first car I ever had personally was a '77 Sedan DeVille. Tan on tan. I had license plates made for it: CHEASY, since it had a cheese color, I am from Holland (cheese country), and it was an 'old men car' (cheesy and take it easy). That's a long story and I got lot's more to tell, but I'll keep it short this time. One license plate I took home, the other one was left on the car when i went back to Holland. There's a lot more to it, but maybe I'll tell you later.
The other license plate, ironically, was stolen along with my briefcase out of my current CTS. I told about this theft in another thread.
I had three more Cadillacs, as one was wrecked; i bought another '77 SDV same color! and a '64 CDV and a '70 Eldorado from the insurance claim. Both got towed away when I was back in Holland and never saw them ever again.
When I was in flight academy in Tucson, AZ I bought my current '70 Eldorado from Stockton, CA and drove it all the way to Tucson. I shipped that one to Holland and I still have it. Love it!
So I am the HAPPY owner of two Cadillacs. Now that is quite extraordinary in Holland. Like I said before, there are not many CTS's in Europe, so you feel quite exclusive in this car. Very special. I get lots of compliments and questions on the car. People just don't know this car over here.

So, since I still have my residence in Holland and work and live in Hamburg, I make long trips every month. The Autobahn is a driver's paradise. Just not on Friday nights when everyone is going home... I actually get the chance to test the CTS to its own speed limit. Though, I have to ease on that, because the gas prices... dang!

I found this site, because I needed some information on the dvd player and google brought me here. I stuck ever since, because i find this group of people very friendly, funny and helpful. And at least I can talk about Cadillac in a way I cannot over here...

So there you go.

TripleOught said:

hmmm...raises the curiosity level a few notches...

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Ok, atfer my study (actually, thesis for my Polytechnic at a California company) I went back to California to work there, using my contacts I made at that company. It didn't work out the way I planned, but it was a hell of a life experience, including doing work for $7 an hour and sleeping on the bare carpet for 2 months. Just what I needed, because I was accepted at the flight academy and i wanted to get some more life experience before I would step into e serious life as an airliner pilot. So, in that I succeeded. But I had no green card, so it was not legal...

TripleOught said:

so what did you find? where did the limiter kick in?

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I had it tick twice at 250 kmh (155Mph) in the beginning. But since it was serviced for the faulty AC compressor it ticks at 240. Have to say it still handles very good. Better than my 70eldo which also can go over 130Mph but starts acting very instable at those speeds.