When did you see your first Corvette?

I was about 8 years old and it was on Woodward Av (the famous one in Motown), inside a Little Cesars Pizza place with my dad. I saw a car whose headlights all of a sudden disappeared and I thought it was the coolest thing (still do!!!!).

Anyway I asked what kind of car is that? He told me and from that day on I always knew what a Vette looked like.

 

when my dad brought home the 74 when i was in 5th grade......1986 i think......my 5th grade teacher had a white vette so my dad and him would talk about vetttes at my parent teacher conference...haha


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It was so long ago, I don't remember exactly when, but I was probably around 10. I saw a little white convertible with wire screens over the headlights. I thought it was beautiful and learned it was a Corvette. I promised myself right then that I would buy one when I got out of college. I did exactly that 34 years ago this month, and here it is:



I have never sold it.

 

First Corvette memory...

My dad had a red 84 with the famous miss fire injection system. My very first vette memory was eating ice cream in the passenger seat, i was probably all of 6 years old and having it melt and get all over me and the vette. Years later I actually found a picture taken that day of my and the car covered in ice cream and a very angry look on my dad's face.

First memory of MY Corvette...

I was driving down the highway with a friend of mine "what is that?" "ITS A C3 CORVETTE!...FOR SALE!" 1 hour later it's sitting in my driveway.

 

My dads 1970 blue corvette with so much horsepower it would snap my head back into the buckle on the seat. he would take me to school in it and everyone's jaws would drop and they would look at me with such hate! I LOVED IT! and then i said, if i Ever get a car it will be a corvette. and i did just that too, i saw mine on the side of a freeway and ever since then Me and Christine have been faithfull to each other. if i ever get another girlfriend she will have to meet and accept the fact Christine comes before she does.

 

My friend's uncle played for the Oakland Raiders and it was about 1966-8. The Uncle had a flared Mid-Year with Mickey Thompson tires, the Vette looked "Flat out WICKED!" to the 9 year-old staring at it. The other memory from that era was the blue 67 GTO that a neighbor owned and he was a sales rep for American Racing Wheels, the Goat was raised all around and had 10" Torque Thrusts in back and 8" in the front. The GTO ran 12 second 1/4 miles at Half Moon Bay Drag Strip when my cousin had to "babysit" his young cousin one weekend. We drove to the Strip in a 66 Chevelle SS396 four speed (probably a 325HP motor.) I forgot most of that by the time I was 16 and stupidly went through a Ford then Mopar phase before a 69 RS 302 Z/28 gave me "Chevreligion" at about 20 yrs old. I just sold my Z/28 about 3 years ago to make room in my garage (should have held out for more $$$!)

 

I was five years old in 1974. The local garage in Clayton, WA had a 1958 vette which was torquise and white. The owners of the shop, Carl and Don Calacoats, used the car as a daily driver. I would hang around the shop hoping to go along on a parts run.

Unfortunately, they let a hired hand drive the car. The guy hit a guard rail negotiating a curve few blocks from our trailer. I ran down with the highway to investigate the sound, and I found my beloved dream car had shattered in peices of fiberglass.

The driver survived the crash, but the car remained under a carport at Carl's house for years. They later fixed the front end damage, but the colorful torquise paint was gone. It was repainted primer grey.

I truely loved that car, and I am yet to see a vette which even resembles it.

 

......when I was in high school, I was driving around in a '66 Mustang with a whopping 200ci inline six......some guy in a C3 pulled up next to me, burned them up, then took off like a rocket.......

......I'd like to say I've been hooked on Vettes ever since, but in reality I thought the guy was a big tosser for trying to drag a 6....

......so that was my introduction to Corvettes, which is probably why it took me so long to consider buying one

 

Problem is, these days an in line 6 will wipe the floor with my Vette!

The first Vette I saw in the flesh had a lasting impact on me (I thought all the owners were cross-dressers ). I grew up (or not, as some claim) close to a village called Windlesham. It's a nice place with friendly locals & mellow lifestyle, but there's a lot of large houses there & a lot of rich & famous live there, including a lot of Saudi oil sheiks (have I got some stories about some of them!). Just after we'd all left college we were all skint doing jobs with titles like "Trainee" or "Apprentice" so had to take second jobs just to bring our earnings up to the level of our jobless mates who got more from social than we did in pay. One of my mates worked in a gas station in the evenings with the exciting job of pushing a button to turn the pump on & off & then taking payment. Great stuff. It had its good points though as next to it was a nightclub & the guests would get their gas/munchies from the station. Some really stunning scantilly clad babes would regularly appear at the window asking for 10 B&H, or some chocolate, etc. So, if there was nothing going on or we were too skint to buy enough gas to go anywhere interesting, we'd visit our mate to keep him company, talk a bunch of BS, scrounge his coffee & watch the "scenery". One night a white '81 Vette pulled in and we were awestruck. Sure, we'd seen bags of Ferraris (Windlesham is full of them), Porsches, the odd Lambo, Jensen, AM, etc, etc, but what was this long white thing that rumbled in with the sound of a real "Man's" car & such a smart shape? While we picked our jaws off the floor the door opened & out got some guy wearing a white dress! Well, it wasn't a dress, but it sure looked that way to us. After walking around the car for a while he wandered over & asked our mate if he could fill it up for him. Normally my mate would tell him that it was self-service & that he wasn't allowed to leave the till unattended (but not as politely!), but we were out the door & all over the car in a blink. The guy had just bought it on a whim (he was an arab oil sheik) & was completely bemused by the 85mph speedo. So were we, but who cared if it only did 85mph, looking & sounding like that?! We found the gas cap in about 2 secs, my mate filled it up for him & got tipped £5-00 for doing so (the equivalent to a days pay for me). 20 years later I bought myself a white '81 C3 complete with 85mph speedo - which is why I couldn't help grinning at the kids leering through the window and asking "'ere mister, does it only do 85?" with looks of scorn on their faces! I also feel able to justify the dress I bought.....

 

Started noticing cars back in '67 at the age of 15. Loved the C-2 Vette...but when the 68 came out I was totally NUTS over them. Dreamed of owning one back then, but a 16yr olds part time income was more suited to 10yr old cars. I now live that dream...
Eddie

 

First Vette I can remember was at a local car show I was at with my dad around the time I was 8, it was a mid year Vette, 74-75, black, chromed out, sidepipes....most badass, mean, but strangely beautiful car Id ever seen. From then on Ive not only been a Vette fan, but a true GM fan. I had a chevreligious experience, as someone else said hahaha.

 

I used to drive by a gas station on the way to college that had a white Vette Parked outside and usually one or two on the hoist. the place was known for it's Vette abilities.

20 years later I buy my '69 and when I open the owners manual I find the gas station owners name written inside.
Very

 

My first memory of a vette was when my Mom bought her 1979 in 1980. I was 6. I remember going to the dealership with her and ridng home in it. She drove it for years and even talked with my dad here and there about selling it. I'm glad they didn't because I'm in the process of restoring it right now. I'm 30 and a pretty big guy today, but I can still remember riding around in the back of the car with my brother as a child. Oh how safety standards have changed since then. Try that today with your kid and you'd probably get pulled over...hehe

 

This is easy, I was 9 years old, it was a 1953, and I was riding in it! the best news is it was a new one

 

The route 66 TV Show.

 

The album cover of "Shut Down, Vol 2" by the Beach Boys...

 

My brother and I were 10 and 11 and walking home from baseball practice. Our next door neighbor was driving home in his 1969 vette and offered us a ride. As we both squeezed into the passenger seat all I could see and remember was the center dash with all the gauges, and the two huge round gauges with the tach and the speedometer. Compared to our 1967 Dodge Dart this was a real race car. From that moment on I wanted a Vette.

I have owned a 78 anniversary, 69 convertible, 64 Coupe, and now have a 86 C4, 73 454 and a 72 350.


kdf

 

Our local chevy dealer ( Alva Chevrolet Phila. Pa.) had a brand new 53 in their showroom. I think it was the model introduction, and sitting on a table next to the greatest car I ever saw was a pedal car replica perfect in every detail. It was a promo to be raffled off.My next door neighbor won it. There are many more practical cars but none stir the same feelings as a vette and I was only five at the time...ED

 

I was 5 years old when the new 63 split window Vette came out. I was helping my Dad in the yard when I heard a rumble coming down the road. I stood mesmerized as a shiny new split window went past. I ran over to my Dad and asked, "....what kind of car was that?" He said it was a new Stingray. I told him that was the kind of car I wanted!

Throughout the years I watched to see what the new year models would be like, and when the 68 Vette was introduced, I thought OMG, what an awesome car!!

I bought my first Vette when I was a senior in High School in 1976. It was a 1971 vert with a small block and 4 speed. My insurance payment was more than my car note, so I had to sell it before I left for college. In 1985, I bought the 78 Vette I still have, but my first love is still the early chrome bumper Sharks!!


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I was 4 and my father took me with to shop for a car. I saw the most beautiful blue '67 in that showroom that I've ever seen.I actually got to sit in it. Of course we didn't buy it, my dad bought a blue Chevy II instead. I seem to remember "complaining" quite a bit. I was hooked after that. It took me 37 years to be able to buy a Vette. And even though this ones not a 67, it's mine.

To this day that's one of my most vivid memories. I think the dealers name was Sorenson, in the Chicago area?