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Only a Vette guy
Was just out cruising the country roads last night in my 81 when what appeared (it was dark) to be an 80-82 pulled out of a street in front of me. Figuring I would meet up with him at a stop light and give him a thumbs up, I followed him. We never did get to a stop light, but I did end up following him to his house, where I stopped in the road and said "Nice car" when he got out. He told me to park my car in his driveway so he could look at it. Well, 3 hours, 4 hotdogs, and a couple Pepsi's later, I had a new friend. Crazy thing was he was 43 years older than me! Only a couple of Vette guys could have that kind of story.
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Happened to me once when I rode a sport bike. I blew past a guy on my CBR1000F. When he caught up to me, I saw he was riding a ZX-9, which I had wanted to ride for a while. He felt the same way, and we swapped for a half hour. Turned out we appreciated the other's bike but preferred our own.
I don't think I could do the same with the keys to my Vette!
I don't think I could do the same with the keys to my Vette!
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Hey Dave,
I had a similar experience about ten years ago. My wife and I were on vacation in another city up north and we stopped at a traffic light one evening, tops off, windows down when a car pulls along side. Before I looked over, I hear a guy say "Hey, nice Vette!" When I look, he's driving the same year, same color Vette that I am! We pulled over, had a good laugh with him and his buddy. They said they were on their way to a house party and we should come along. We went, partied all night and made some great new friends.
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I had a similar experience about ten years ago. My wife and I were on vacation in another city up north and we stopped at a traffic light one evening, tops off, windows down when a car pulls along side. Before I looked over, I hear a guy say "Hey, nice Vette!" When I look, he's driving the same year, same color Vette that I am! We pulled over, had a good laugh with him and his buddy. They said they were on their way to a house party and we should come along. We went, partied all night and made some great new friends.
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Was just out cruising the country roads last night in my 81 when what appeared (it was dark) to be an 80-82 pulled out of a street in front of me. Figuring I would meet up with him at a stop light and give him a thumbs up, I followed him. We never did get to a stop light, but I did end up following him to his house, where I stopped in the road and said "Nice car" when he got out. He told me to park my car in his driveway so he could look at it. Well, 3 hours, 4 hotdogs, and a couple Pepsi's later, I had a new friend. Crazy thing was he was 43 years older than me! Only a couple of Vette guys could have that kind of story.
only kidding, by the way. good story
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Great story Dave. I've got a similar one. My wife and I were driving around one night with the tops out and we came up to a red light when I heard the most awful sounding car ever. I said to my wife "Damn what the f*&$ is that? It sounds like s*&%!!" So she starts laughing cause she had already seen it. I hear 'Hey nice Vette!' As I turn my head a beat up early C4 comes into sight sounding like it needed to be taken out to the woods to be shot. Did I mention I had just spent the past two minutes trashing a Mustang that sounded almost as bad? I told my wife a Vette owner would never let their car fall into such a state of disrepair. :o Guess the joke was on me. oops! Anyway we were headed to the same place so I got to know the guy and his wife. Nice couple. Never saw them again though.
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I know how you feel. I live in a housing tract that doesn't have any major streets that go streight through. Streets turn, dead end, then start again a few blocks over. So, anyway, being semi paranoid, I'm taking the usual round about way home one evening, and I notice this guy following me in a jacked up pick up with tinted windows. So I make a couple extra turns, and he's still there. So I make a U turn and pull to the curb, and get read to rack the slide, when he pulls up next to me and asks if I know of a good Vette mechanic. Turns out, he just moved into the area and has a '70 to my '69. We're now friends.
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I thought it was going to end with him killing you and put you in a rabbit suit and drive around town with you in the passenger seat, but then we would have never found out about any of it!
