biggd

I'm 62 and my first Corvette encounter was when I was about 10 years old. I was already a real gearhead building model cars in my basement dreaming of building a real car some day.
A guy down the street from me had a 63 fuel injected SWC that he would back out of his garage on Saturdays and tinker with it to get it ready for the track on Sundays.
I finally got up the guts to go talk to the guy and hung around while he worked on it. He must have thought I was a pain in the *** because I asked a lot of questions.
I still think of that car today and wonder where in might be.
I bought my first Corvette when I was 17, a 64 Coupe with a smashed nose. I ended up putting a shark nose on it then sold it.
My next one was a 63 Conv, what sweet ride. The girls all loved it!
Then I bought a 69 427 Coupe which was my last Corvette until I bought my present 67 Coupe project at the age of 55.
I got married, had 3 kids all in some kind of activities that kept me busy every night and weekend. Life just got in the way but I wouldn't change a thing.

TheSaint

I remember when i was a youg kid about the age 9 or 10 i had bought a car magazine and i remember that the car on the cover was a Corvette C2 convertible.
I do not remember which year it was but i remember telling myself that one day i will own a car just like the one in the pictures

I bought my Corvette Coupe back in 1993

I knew about Corvettes but the ones i knew a little about was the 1968 and newer Corvette and i do not think that i had ever seen a Corvette C2 before i bought that car magazine with the Corvette C2 on the cover

capevettes

Same age here. It was the Route 66 TV program that first caught my attention. The lure of the open road in a Corvette was too much for me to resist. At 18 I bought my first Vette, a 65 Glen green convertible. I paid $1,500 for it and still have it.

biggd

I remember that show and I always thought the guy up the street from me that owned the 63 SWC looked just like George MaHarris. I believe that was the actors name. Correct me if I'm wrong.
By the way that 63 fuel injected SWC was white with tan interior if anyone on here has one with a history that goes back to the original owner on Smith Street in Waltham, Ma. I was told the guy moved South down to Georgia sometime in the late 60s.

Bill32

Me 2. Bought my 63 convertible when I graduated H.S. (1969). I had jobs at 13 years old to fund the purchase.
Bought my 67 in '73..........still have it.

Mike Terry

I was about 5 when my cousin Janet would baby sit me and my brother and her boyfriend (now husband) parents owned a Chevrolet dealership and he would come in a 60 Corvette to see her all the time and he would take by brother and I a ride in it every time he would come over to see her. Janet's father (my uncle) bought a 63 SWC from her boyfriends parents. I remember it was white with red interior and automatic. He would take me and my brother rides in it for about 5 or 6 weeks. Then he traded in in on a 63 mint green Belair station wagon because the seats hurt his back. From that time on I had always wanted a Corvette. My first was a 77 T top car an then a 82 then C2 cars and I have owned as many as 7 (SWC) at one time. But now I just try to keep it to 4 or less at any one time. Is that what is called a Corvette Hoarder??

ChattanoogaJSB

These are great stories!

This is a photo of me in the first one I ever drove at my mentors shop- about 1997. There were always great cars around there, and he is the man who taught me as best he could how to paint.

The car is still owned by the man who bought it from him around the time this photo was taken... Maybe it will be mine some day... <br >

MidShark

When I was 9 yrs. old in '64, I was in the driveway when my brother drove in with a white '57. It was the coolest thing that I had ever seen up close. I was hooked. Six years later, I had my own '57. Here's a pic from probably the winter of '70-'71, when I had my project stored at his house next to his car:

dahogan

I was 12 in the fall of 1962 and I saw a SWC on display w/n the Great Lakes Mall in Mentor Ohio. It was love at first sight. I knew someday I would own one.

SDVette

That's me at age 2... And I'm still driving the same car! (it has aged better than me though)

biggd

I'm not one to live in the past but every now and then it's nice to travel down memory lane. While we still have a memory to recall.

phil2302

Great stories guy's!
My first memory was when as a kid in the back seat of my dads 57 Belair a red 63 or 64 flew by us and it stunned me how good it looked. I beggeg my pop to speed up so we could get a good look at it and he did. We caught up at a light and I remember just staring at it thinking if a car could look like that why would anyone want to drive anything else?
Fast foward to 1971 when I bought a 65 coupe. A real nice L79 car. In 76 I wrecked it when a knock off wheel loosened and fell off. The car was fixed but it was not done well. I could always see the repaired areas and it bothered me so much I sold it.
In 86 I bought the 66 vert that 30 years later I still have today. Still miss that 65 kinda like you miss an old girlfriend.

biggd

Like an old girlfriend, "fixed but not done well"? Those are stories for another time and place.

Kerrmudgeon

Nobody had a Corvette when I was a kid.....we'd see them, mostly on TV. And, we all thought of them as like alien space ships as compared to your fathers family driver. Your father told you they were a selfish car with no back seat to carry others, highly impractical for hauling stuff around, and what's with that "fiberglass" body??? So as a kid it was sort of an unobtainable car.

That was....until you saw one or heard one in person, or someone you knew bought one. Then it was like watching Ursula Andress walk out of the sea in a white bikini....OMG!


That put it on the drug adict like "must have" list, and it's been a life long addiction since that moment. And I see no signs of it letting go.....

The first son, my big brother, was the first in the family to buy one, which I found....BTW! I found it in the paper, A 60 red/white chrome reverse hardtop car for 1800$. I said why don't you look at it, and he bought it! I was 14!
Since then all three brothers have had Vettes, with me being the only lifer....
Here's the 60 that started it off.....

jasonsamara

I was at a car show in 2007 and saw a z06 and fell in love. It took 2 years of saving to get one but I did it. Shortly after I got it I was walking my dog one day and pulled him out of the road because I heard a car coming. I turned around to see a 1960 coming up the road. I instantly fell in love. It was my old boss from the bank I used to work at. I remembered her telling me she had an old vette when I would drive my camaro to work. 5 years later I bought it from her and although it's not correct it is my favorite of the 3 I own. Well I better get back to work.

karkrafter

Circa 1968, when I was 10...I'd sit in my brothers '65 and listen to the Mama's and the Papa's in the 8 track player until the battery was dead....ask me how much trouble I got in for that..

capevettes

George Maharis was the co-pilot. Martin Milner, of Adam 12 fame, was the driver. After Maharis got sick, Glenn Corbett became his co-pilot. My red 61 says ROUT.66 on the plate. Maybe I look a little like Milner

3JsVette

I'm 62 also. The '63 SWC did it for me. I've been hooked ever since. It took me a while before I would own one though. My first was a '74 then a '76 and a '78 Pace Car. A '65 and a '67 mixed in between. Then a '86 and now a '85. At some point I would like to have a Grand Sport replica. There is a '40 Chevy street rod, a '55 Chevy Nomad, and a '69 Z/28 entagled in there too. Those I still have.

Geralds57

I was 7 in 59 and my brother had a Black 57 dual quad 3 speed that he bragged got 6 mpg (jokingly) and he would scare the crap out of me when I rode in it but I loved it. I was hooked. I bought my first 61 Corvette in 1971 when I turned 19 for $900 bucks.

HiVoltge

I was around 4-5 years old and saw a 65/66 coupe at a Harvey's burger joint and fell in love ��