Voodoo13

And that I am my friend. Enjoying it, but one thing I found out in life is that there are mostly no rules, mostly there are exceptions.

I think you are near Seattle/Tacoma, same weather for sure. I wash mine 2 or 3 times a week, always have with all my cars. - if there were a sunny place in Canada like California or Arizona, I would be there in a shot! well I would have to convince my wife

schnellerkerl

That's right, it won't melt.

Need to drive them. That model will never be a classic (Too many built).

So drive it! If you don't drive 'em they - well bad things happen. Mostly electric. Just bought my 7th Vette - 1999 FRC and drove it from Oregon to Florida. Only 34K on the clock when I bought it.

So use it!...

DevilDog II

I think we can agree on one thing . . . we all love and drive our Corvettes for different reasons. If you drive your car in the rain or snow that's awesome. If you choose only to drive it when the weather is nice, that's awesome as well. We're all intelligent enough to know that our cars won't melt or rust. Personally, I've never given a second thought to how someone uses their car. We all have different tastes and enjoy things differently, so let's not get lost over that fact that we all don't always do the same things. At the end of the day we share the same passion. Some of us just go about it differently. Enjoy your car the way you see fit, and don't be critical of those who enjoy their cars differently than you do.

oldC5

JR-01

JR-01

Fifty years from now, they could very well be classics.

C5Dobie

The F-bods and 5.0's fox mustangs are becoming collector cars @ the auctions now, no doubt the C5 vette variations will be collectible @ some point.

daytonagary

my C5 and my C7 gets driven hot or cold, rain or snow, doesn't matter. Maintaining the monetary value of the car means nothing to me. The smile put on my face when driving these cars means everything. No garage queens in my life. I have great pride in ownership but get no thrill just looking at it in garage. I would rather lose a few dollars when I pass it on to the next owner due to some wear and tear than lose all the enjoyment I could have had out of it.

schnellerkerl

Correct.

Its not always about the money.
Fire it up in the garage when you get ready to take it out - well sometimes you just can't put a price on something.

charliesc5

drive it ..........

itsonlyairandfuel

In the end it is your car, It has been treated well. Seems like everyone wants you to trash it down to their cars level of average driver,LOL. Is it the reason you picked this one over the rest ? It's what separates yours from the rest of the beaters, and everyone can spot that instantly. Just saying. Ron B.

C5Wolfe

From the picture on your avatar you are a man after my own heart!
These are "CARS", not priceless antiques that must be kept from the elements! I'm in the process of finding another Vette right now as I sold mine last summer and miss it. I hope I can score me a pristine one that the owner never actually enjoyed full time so I can buy it and drive the "crap" out of it!
PS. Coupes rule!

speedmaster64

That's my kind of guy! This thread has ruffled some feathers indeed. When reading some of the posts, I started imagining OCD-like behavior from some Corvettee owners, and then picturing their annoyed wives thinking to themselves "he treats his Corvette better than he treats me."

C5Dobie

All depends where you live and what you can put up with. I like to drive mine in good weather - I live in MA, we get extreme weather - you CAN'T drive a corvette in the winter here, unless you have a death wish.

I don't think I'm extreme in keeping it nice, but I just enjoy the car a helluva lot more when its nice, sunny, and dry out. When the roads are covered in salt/sand like we just had = not fun, headaches. When it is so cold I can't go WOT until 4th gear = not fun. When (IF) I hit a pothole large enough to destroy my rim, front suspension, and clip/bumper = not fun. Driving it in torrential rain where you can't get on it anywhere and have to worry about hydroplaning constant = not fun.

Go ahead and argue otherwise, tough to plead your case in those scenarios.

If I lived in CA I'd probably drive my vette year round and treat it a little rougher, but I'd still have something else as a DD.

If I wanted a sport/fun DD that could handle the year round climate of new england, well then I'd be driving a subie STi tuned and bolted.

CaseyJones

mrlmd

I love the rain, and sometimes if I'm feeling lazy and I want a quick car clean-up, I'll drive it out into the rain from underneath the carport where it sits under my house, and I'll lather it up with the car soap and the sponge, and let the rain wash and rinse it off. It works great, and the water's clean. After the rain stops, then I'll dry it off, either with towels or with the blast from the leaf blower if I'm really being lazy. My car looks great, to me and to others, and I'm not interested in having it absolutely mint and pristine. To me, there's the law of diminishing returns, and I'm not that obsessive and compulsive. I wasn't the original owner, the car is now 15 years old, I drive it whenever I go anywhere with the exception of the home improvement store to pick up a load of lumber, then I'll use my Suburban. It came to me having gotten wet before and has the few and far between paint nicks or dings from being driven, and I doubt the value has dropped because of it getting wet or the rare and tiny paint nicks from driving it. To me it's much more important for it to be reliable and as perfect mechanically as it can be, rather than being pristine in appearance. I appreciate the cars of you guys who keep them that way, it's the icing on the cake, but it's just not that same priority to me. I love my car, the second C5 I've owned, and as long as it runs, will keep it looking good by waxing it and then cleaning it once in a while when it gets dusty and dirty. We each have our own opinions of how we live and use our possessions and we don't have to flame each other for our differing values. Just enjoy the ride.

Lee DeRaud

Fifty years from now, most of us will be dead.
Whoever owns my car at that point can either (1) pay a buttload of cash for a full restoration, or (2) suck it.

JR-01

Some of us will be dead for sure. Fifty years ago a lot of Corvettes were trashed because some folks didn't they would be worth much. Perhaps 30 years from now C5s will start to be classics.

schnellerkerl

I should live so long....

Only certain C5s will be classics.

The FRC is one because they didn't make many of them.

duramaxsky

They made too many of them.