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One of the things I loved about my '69 Roadster were the 4 wheel disc breaks. They saved my life once. That car could stop on dime.
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Hi, I am a new member to this site, I am 19 for another month and a half and I've had my vette for about 7 months now, greatest 7 months of my life.
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I'm 63 and bought a new 67 Vette when I was 24. Owned a 67, 58, and an 88 in the past. Now own a 66 and a 02 Coupe. I'll never understand non-Corvette people. Even my kids think I'm nuts. For the money, nothing drives and handles as well or goes as fast. WRAP YOUR ASS IN FIBERGLASS!
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I just joined the forum today. I'm 62 years young and my 30 year-old son and I co-own a 2000 C5 convertible. My first muscle car was a '67 GTO which my wife insisted I sell back in '74. She said that it was time for me to grow up. Well, here I am 34 years later and I still haven't grown up....nor do I plan to.
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Corvettes keep you young. Go to corvettes at Carlisle 3rd weekend in August. I am like a kid at Disney land. Thousands of corvettes and everything you need and want for Christmas is there. Welcome to the forum guys. Corvettes are great at any age. Young guys need to watch out for tickets or your corvette experience will be short as insurance costs will make it too expensive to play. Good luck save the wave Posts: 2786 | From: Pennsylvania | Registered: Jul 2001
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Drove my first vette..a 63 split window! at age 18 got the fever and suffered with it till I was 50 ! I then bought an 02 Mill.Yellow roadster (Hey I was able to afford one now!). Then when the 04 Commemorative Editions came out I just had to have one of those..I mean they had magnetic suspension!!! lol so I traded in the 02.Now at 55 I think I will hold on to this one and leave it to my son one day. Still can't get myself to like the C6's yet... but I do love their horsepower for sure. Who knows when the C7's and C8's come out maybe I'll look! lol Oh yeah the 04 is a Roadster too!
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I am 24, bought my 97 M6 at 23 last year. Was looking at Mustang and Camaro SS, stumbled across the Vette, got a sweet price, and insurance is less than the 03 GT convertible I almost bought!
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I fell for the corvette at age 9, when, while working, (odd jobs for relatives) to earn money for a set of wooden Riviara child waterskis, (out of the Sears catalouge; price $33.00) I was paid $3.00 by my cousin-in-law to help with a few chores; one of which was to wash his 74 light blue stingray. Washing a C3 corvette is an excellent excuse to caress one of the most exciting and beautiful bodies to ever travel down a roadway. I was hooked and have desired a corvette ever since. I was born in 1969, (my life began with man on the moon!) and finally realized my dream of vette ownership in the past week with a beautiful one owner torch red C5 coupe w/ 6 speed! Seems that I remember growing up around relatives that for some reason or other saw the corvette as being so impractical and extravagant that it was almost sinful to own or drive one. Vette drivers were the kind of people that might have a tatoo, stay out late drinking and carousing, propose dangers to "respectable citizens" on the roadways and would one day most probably drive that vette straight to hell. maybee I'm embellishing, but this is a child's memory, so bear with me. I find that I did much more of the above listed activities when I drove a Nissan! (Please forgive this indescretion...I was young and needed money). I hope to continue driving vettes for a long time, no matter how much fear it may strike into the hearts of the auto-conserative minivan crowd. Viva Corvette!!!
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First car I ever stole was a late 50's corvette. I was five years old and the owner up the block left the car on the street with the keys in it.
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Great story JB what a great snag that must have been! Wonder how it turned out? I first rode in a 62 brand new red with white convertible top corvette.. At 10 it was when corvette fever was first contracted. Only thing that distracted me was women. Vettes and women what a life.. America is beautiful
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I'm 37; have been a sports car fanatic since childhood, building models, subscribing to Road & Track and Motor Trend. At 34 I got the vette bug from a friend of mine who let me borrow his '02 coupe and that was it. I had my first vette, an 89 coupe, about 3 months later. Sold it and upgraded to a '99 pewter coupe in March of this year. My friends ask me if it's a mid-life crisis; they just don't get it!
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I am 37 years and own a 00' C5 Vert and a 07' C6 vert. I grew up in the Netherlands where owning a Corvette was damn near impossible. The initial cost of the car, Insurance and Gas was astronomical. SO of course it is probably the most covetted (sp?) car for me. Never would i have dreamt to own a corvette never mind 2. NOw that i have them its a dream come true and make sure that whenever i call my brother in the Netherlands to mention what a nice ride i had in one of my babies. lol
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