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Old Dec 13, 2013 | 08:38 PM
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I want to be a Florida corvette guy when I grow up!!!!!!
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Old Dec 13, 2013 | 08:57 PM
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Boy can I really relate to that!! I'd love to just be able to get back to the warmer weather of Kentucky someday!!
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"I want to be a Florida corvette guy when I grow up!!!!!!"

... Yes you do!!! It's the best time of year in South Florida!!! Can't wait to go cruising with the top down this weekend . We have plenty of room for you, so come on down. The weather is still warm and the girls are still wearing bikinis . I have to go now... the girls should be done with my car wash by now. Have a great weekend!!

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Old Dec 13, 2013 | 10:48 PM
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Going to be in the 80's here at the beach in Southern California this weekend and I know both sides spending half my life in North Jersey.
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Old Dec 14, 2013 | 06:16 AM
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Right now it is minus 3 with 18 inches predicted for the weekend. It may call for snow tires and chains for the 54.
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Old Dec 14, 2013 | 06:41 AM
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Did the up north snow & ice thing for decades - you couldn't blast me out of Florida with dynamite at this point.. I'm going to a car show this evening and my big decision is whether or not to pack a light windbreaker along for the possible "chill"...

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Me and some of my Corvette friends come to FL. in January every tear to the MCRS Winter Regionals and I look forward to it and to getting out of the snow and cold but. I don't think I could live in FL. all year round. I do like and I think I would miss the cold weather and sometimes snow at Christmas time. Other then that I don't care if I ever see cold or snow again all winter. That is one of the reasons we come to FL. in Jan. it to also get away from the cold and snow but mostly to do the NCRS Corvette Event and see Corvette friends that we have made over the years. Yes we are coming back again this coming year. . See you all in January.
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I've lived in FL since I graduated from high school in 1964 except for 2005 to 2011 when we moved to Minnesota to take care of my wife's parents. I will NEVER go back.


The summer heat is brutal down here but not nearly as brutal as month after endless month of zero temperatures. The joke I heard when we first moved up there was, "We pray for summer to fall on a weekend so we can enjoy it before winter sets in again."


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Originally Posted by RK-TECT
"I want to be a Florida corvette guy when I grow up!!!!!!"

... Yes you do!!! It's the best time of year in South Florida!!! Can't wait to go cruising with the top down this weekend . We have plenty of room for you, so come on down. The weather is still warm and the girls are still wearing bikinis . I have to go now... the girls should be done with my car wash by now. Have a great weekend!!

Thinking about flying down for the day, picking up a dirty rental car and take it to get washed
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Not me pal...
When a hood emblem gets closer to the "action" than I do any more - times are pretty sad...
I may as well "pack it in"...
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Originally Posted by RK-TECT
"I want to be a Florida corvette guy when I grow up!!!!!!"

... Yes you do!!! It's the best time of year in South Florida!!! Can't wait to go cruising with the top down this weekend . We have plenty of room for you, so come on down. The weather is still warm and the girls are still wearing bikinis . I have to go now... the girls should be done with my car wash by now. Have a great weekend!!

I'm neighbor from GA , be right there...
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Old Dec 14, 2013 | 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink
Not me pal...
When a hood emblem gets closer to the "action" than I do any more - times are pretty sad...
I may as well "pack it in"...
Frankie, don't think that way!! On South Beach, all you need is to cruise one of your Vettes on Ocean Drive. Then you park directly in front of one of the "hot spots" and buy drinks for a couple girls. By the time the night is over, that hood emblem will be jealous of your action!! Trust me, I see guys in their 70's with hot 20-30 year old eye candy hanging all over them on the weekends. Don't "pack it in" until the power is out for good!!
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Too humid for me.
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Originally Posted by RK-TECT


When I got my car a year and a half ago I told my wife that my goal was to never let it get wet.


I may have that goal set a bit too high.


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Originally Posted by RatDog
When I got my car a year and a half ago I told my wife that my goal was to never let it get wet.


I may have that goal set a bit too high.


-- Steve
It's about 34 degrees and raining here in southern Ohio and the 6 inches of snow on my roof is starting to slide and fill the gutters with slush. Temp going down tonight so all that slush will freeze and probably rip the gutters off the house.
But it looks so pretty right before Christmas.. Yes dear you are right.........
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I wonder if the girl on the hood slide over the crossed flags?

If so i am glad it is 2013 because if it was 1970`s i suppose her "velcro" would rub her to a halt That could hurt

I dont think i have seen a girl with "velcro" since before 1990
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Originally Posted by TheSaint
I wonder if the girl on the hood slide over the crossed flags?

If so i am glad it is 2013 because if it was 1970`s i suppose her "velcro" would rub her to a halt That could hurt

I dont think i have seen a girl with "velcro" since before 1990
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