Old Farts and Corvettes

God, I love mine. Bought it as a daily driver / beater car. I drive it everywhere, rain or shine. I even drive it on gravel roads, down alleys, etc.

It's an auto, too!

RMX
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That is a great looking car.

Didn't mean to come off as snob, should have qualified my statement more: At this point in life, I'd rather spend the money on a Ferrari(s) than a Vette.

I've had '69 big-block roadster and a '63 split window coupe, kinda been there, done that, even though a '65 or '66 roadster still gets my attention

 

As much as I love 69 BB cars, if I only had a spare $52k, this would suffice...

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3s-for-sale-wanted/2358302-1971-corvette-conv-454-w-air-conditioning.html

RMX
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I've set up booths many times for my company at Bloomington gold and Corvettes at Carlisle etc.

I've got no axe to grind with the vette guys but i do like to make fun of the chains and bad hair pieces that come with some of the Corvette crowd. One guy came to every show i went to for a few years wearing the same pair of shortened red shorts. He had a bad toupee, fake tan and gold chains galore. Lots of Tommy Bahama shirts and straw hats attached to big gutted guys suckin' on a big stogie too. Not bad people just a little tasteless and fun to watch. The best are the guys with the black satin jackets with the collar tuned up..

Middle sixties vettes are beautiful breathtaking beast IMO

Goodtimes.

 

My '69 was dark green/tan, otherwise much the same car in appearance.

Guy who bought it from me in summer '99 restored it to similar condition.

 

Dingo- Sounds like the cirriculum has gone downhill since I went to Clemson in the 1960s. Learned how to drive in a 1961 Corvette, have had 10 since. The latest ones are world class except for the interiors. No rattles, go like stink, corner extremely well as long as the road is not too rough. Not Ferraris, but great cars. People who badmouth Corvettes on Ferrari sites are usually ill-informed snobs who are not real car enthusiasts. Gets old. Do not have one now, last was an 08 C6 Z06, but not because they or their drivers are worthy of disdain. Eventually everybody gets older. Hopefully you will be treated with more respect when you are older than you show people now. Just takes some of us longer to grow up, I guess.

Taz
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Not to side track, but your description fits a BMW 8-series owner that I've seen last year. I still can't figure out if his "date" was or still is a man. Back on track, a sub-contractor I deal with owns a very nice '68 427 tri-power in (my best description) 'Meadow Green".

 

Papa- British Green Metallic in 1968 if still original color.

Taz
Terry Phillips

 

I love my 2002 Torch red vette, it has 88000 miles on it i drive it every chance i get. It stills pulls real hard and very reliable.
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I have had a number of Vette's......but as I was between 24 and 27 when I did. Not exactly an old fart........

 

Um, Yeah... how about, No

You want to race against my Vette ? I dont wear chains in my Vette, Nomex instead
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William you do have one bad ass vette, if i ever get down your way i would love to see it in person.

 

To all you young guys making comments on this thread, guess what, you're gonna get (and I hope you are all lucky enough to live to a ripe old age) old too. I am neither fat or bald, but I am in my 50's and I love cars just as much as I did when I was a teenager. I used to be quite a good driver (did some racing in my 20's), and I am still not bad, but I know my reflexes are not what they used to be. I drive a supercharged 997, and a RWD Gallardo, and I do not own a Gold Chain (I did have one in the mid 70's), the stereotypes do get old. Though I must be getting older, I am looking at getting a DBS.

 

Cosmic,

I can't believe you see many corvettes in Clemson, anyhow.. How many 20s or 30s aged guys live there anyways?

(I graduated a few years ago)




I agree with another poster.. that corvette stigma is long gone. I hear alot of people try to say the corvette is now like 80s IROC Camaros.. somewhat of a white trash car. My opinion? They are the same guys who rag on vettes for having pushrods and "leaf springs". I say... whatever It's still a fantastic car.

 

now that is some funny ****!

 

Why thank you, glad I made someone laugh instead of dive bombing a Vette owner.....

 

Nice recovery. Hope you can afford a Ferrari some day, too.

Taz
Terry Phillips

 

It's not a stigma, it's reality. Every Corvette I see is driven by a guy 40+.

I saw an S2000 with a "Corvettes are for senior citizens" decal on his rear diffuser and I laughed because it's so true.

 

I went to this Corvette show for my friend who owns the restaurant in the background. He wanted pics of events in the street for the bar. Over 350 and almost all were C5 or C6's with only about 3 old significant models. Nature of the club involved maybe. But most were 50+ guys and I don't mean to stereotype. It's just demographics. Ageing boomers with some cash to have some fun. Some bought Harleys, some bought Vettes.
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The S2000 sticker should have said "Torque is for men".

 

Couldn't this just as easily be "old farts and Ferraris?" Young people usually don't have the cash that a Ferrari or Corvette requires.

 

That's a really good pic of that line of Vettes, perfect angle.

 

Thank you. The 4 best colors of new Vettes repeating

 

Many an hour in a '65 396ci black coupe. Beautiful breathtaking beast hardly describes it.