Owner Stereotypes
Melting Slicks
Joined: May 2010
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From: Cemetery of a town Montana
Team Owner
Joined: Jul 1999
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From: Huntersville NC
Burning Brakes
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 1,201
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From: Frederick Md
The Stereotype of Corvette drivers may be somewhat true....
I'm 67 and grew up in the 1950's when every kid wrenched on his car or let it set off the road... until he could afford that part he needed to keep it running and the normal way to spend a Saturday morning was roaming around a junk yard looking for parts ... Cars just got into our blood.... I have to wonder if any junkyards still allow you to just roam around with your own tools ... ???
Anyway my generation for the most part are very familiar with wrenching...I just doubt that todays "kids" ever had to work on their cars or walk ...
I also belong to two semi local astronomy clubs... same story my generation was raised in the beginning of the space age before man landed on the moon etc... as a result there are not many young members in those clubs either....
Bob G.
64 72 & 98 Ragtops and 76 79 and 88 couples in the garage along with a 11 inch telescope in my slotted domed observatory in the back yard......
BTW... I do try to stay with the times as I do own a cell phone but I do not Text !!!... LOL
I'm 67 and grew up in the 1950's when every kid wrenched on his car or let it set off the road... until he could afford that part he needed to keep it running and the normal way to spend a Saturday morning was roaming around a junk yard looking for parts ... Cars just got into our blood.... I have to wonder if any junkyards still allow you to just roam around with your own tools ... ???
Anyway my generation for the most part are very familiar with wrenching...I just doubt that todays "kids" ever had to work on their cars or walk ...
I also belong to two semi local astronomy clubs... same story my generation was raised in the beginning of the space age before man landed on the moon etc... as a result there are not many young members in those clubs either....
Bob G.
64 72 & 98 Ragtops and 76 79 and 88 couples in the garage along with a 11 inch telescope in my slotted domed observatory in the back yard......
BTW... I do try to stay with the times as I do own a cell phone but I do not Text !!!... LOL
Cruising
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 10
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I've heard the stereotype that Corvette owners are all just old men. I'm in my 20's and a proud owner of a Corvette. So how many owners are there that are in their 30's or younger? No disrespect to all the older guys on here, but someones gotta be the future old Corvette owners one of these days 
Burning Brakes
Joined: Dec 2010
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From: Winston Salem NC
I bought my '76 when last year when I was 37. I love it. I have the scars to prove how much work I have done to it. My other car is a 68 Plymouth Fury II and I have had that since I was 16. Working on cars is a great hobby!
Drifting
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 1,626
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From: Kanuckistan
2022 C3 of the Year Finalist - Modified
Almost same thing here, 39, '76 bought later year, lot of work (complete rebuild), scars and black nails to prove it.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jul 2006
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From: Sebastian Florida
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Drifting
Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Lewisburg WV
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Racer
Joined: Mar 2008
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I WAS young (20) when I bought my first one. Now 46 yrs old and 5 Vettes later I still enjoy them as much as I did before I was old enough to drive. The sterotypes don't bother me, besides people normally don't try to knock somthing unless that are secretly envious.
Drifting
Joined: Aug 2010
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From: Kanuckistan
2022 C3 of the Year Finalist - Modified
Drifting
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 1,476
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From: Toronto Ontario
it don't matter what Province or State i drive my Batmobile into...only Corvette owners understand, why i own this machine...
it's my 1980 DD that i bought for my 50th birthday present, to myself, 5 years ago
this pic is me at 45 with short hair - beard is grey but the head-hair is full & brown
age don't mean nothin - it's what state yer mind is in
Pete
it's my 1980 DD that i bought for my 50th birthday present, to myself, 5 years ago
this pic is me at 45 with short hair - beard is grey but the head-hair is full & brown
age don't mean nothin - it's what state yer mind is in
Pete
Race Director
Joined: Nov 2002
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From: Taylor Michigan
I've heard the stereotype that Corvette owners are all just old men. I'm in my 20's and a proud owner of a Corvette. So how many owners are there that are in their 30's or younger? No disrespect to all the older guys on here, but someones gotta be the future old Corvette owners one of these days
Drifting
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 1,626
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From: Kanuckistan
2022 C3 of the Year Finalist - Modified
By the time I graduated from the U of Miami I already had 3 new FI Vettes...a one, two, and three...I would think there are many Vette owners here that grew up driving Vettes as I did and still do. But I have a huge problem of hating that damn 62. The reason for that statement is the Vette looks almost the same as it did new and I have that old mans gray hair and I dont look as I did then....The Dorian Gray syndrome in reverse....Ain't fair.....
Instructor
Joined: May 2009
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I am 28 now, purchased my Corvette when I was 15. Used it as my first car for three months, put it into the garage and completed a full restoration. Glad to know I can be one of the few guys you was able to keep their first car, and what better first car then a Corvette !!!