People relax this is just a hobby.Until the parts don"t fit.

 

I've made life long friends through a mutual interest in Corvettes.....don't think how much each of us work on our cars ever came up

 

When I flew model airplanes I started the hobby to fly. I really enjoyed the building just as much. After about 10 years I still enjoyed building and flying, but the most fun aspect was sitting around the field shooting the breeze with the other club members.

We bought a Corvette (C5) to drive with the top down. We joined the club and love spending time with the members and that is an important part of this hobby. Working on the C3 that my wife made me buy is like icing on the cake. I love that part too.

All hobbies are different to different people and it may change as time goes by.

 

Okay well driving an enjoying the cars detailing them all of that is a hobbie without question what I said was flipping a product is not so much
Didn't mean to offend anybodie

 

Can it be a corvette hobby to just stir up s**t on the forum?

 

I was thinking the same thing....

"My hobby is cooler than yours OOOoooooooh!"

Andy

 

hey watch that spelling fella.it's s#%t.

 

I'm one of those people who Steve has helped to 1st sell my Corvette and then buy my next Corvette. Thank You!

This might have been a worthy topic for discussion without singling someone out with a personal attack. I'm a bit surprised at the piling on though. I never realized there were so many rules that needed to be followed to be considered a hobbiest. That's what's great about this forum the chance to learn something new presents itself every day.
Maybe another topic for debate is "is owning a Corvette a hobby or a sport"?

 

You're welcome 3J. It was a pleasure helping you because I've enjoyed everything about Corvettes for a long time.

Your point is well-taken, though. A legitimate question would be if a guy buys a brand-new C6 and does nothing but drive it, wash it and wax it, is he a hobbyist? I'd say yes, but I'm sure some people with the ability and desire to rebuild a car might disagree. Semantics? Whatever.

Like you, I find the personal attack, especially based on pure falsehood about me, is curious. I guess a lot of the personal attacks here must originate somewhere else? Hard to guess sometimes.

 

Anything that takes me away from the daily stress of life and work can be considered a hobby to me. If I get pleasure from pulling a motor that's a hobby. If it's nothing more then sitting in the garage with a beer in hand looking at the vette that's a hobby. To me hobby means stress relief and that can come in all forms. VB 5869 as far as I'm concerned has a great hobby !! I wish I was doing what he has done.

 

I couldn't afford to go out and buy a Stingray. So I imported a project and did the bulk of the work myself so I could have the car I always dreamed of owning. Serious wrenching began for me when I was broke and my kids were small, as a means of survival! Head gasket blew in my old Ford back in 98, so I bought a shop manual and fixed it myself. Never looked back from there, but if it were up to me, I'd let some other buggar do all the work so I could enjoy driving them! But if I didn't do all the work, I wouldn't be here now. So, do I have a hobby? I look upon it as a part time job whereby I invest my labor for a return. BTW, I also lift weights and play rugby. But if I had to name a hobby, it would most likely be building models. Sorry for the ramble, but that's my 2 cents as you guys say!

 

Do owners like Vettebuyer5869 deserve to call themselves corvette hobbyist? Definitely. He owns and drives corvettes for enjoyment and relaxation. If he traded through 10 cars a month and even made a profit doing it, it would have no bearing on a passion for the model as well as the extras that go along with it. Shows, cruises, clubs, etc.

Let me ask you this. If you bought an airplane, took lessons and flew it on weekends but let the professionals maintain it, would you still be considered as enjoying the flying hobby?

If you skydive but someone else makes your chute, someone else packs it, another flies you to altitude and then you jump and do nothing more than pull a cord, would you be considered as a hobbyist?

Same thing with people who enjoy golf, bicycling, scuba, guns, etc. They do not need to build it or even maintain it to consider it a hobby.

Where would you draw the line? If he did oil changes or changed brakes would he be then or does he need to build his own engine or paint his own car?

If a carpenter pre cut and fitted the parts for that rocking chair and you then screwed it together yourself, what would you be? That logic would basically eliminate over 50% of the owners because they just bolt parts that someone else makes, together and don't manufacture their own parts but simply bolt them together? The fact that someone enjoys working on the car and doing work that is in his ability might make car repair your hobby but not necessarily a corvette hobbyist.

If he enjoys doing what he is doing and he considers it fun and relaxing then it is HIS hobby regardless of what any of us think. Even if he makes money at it. He has shown everyone here his devotion to the hobby by all of his posts here, even when they are harsh.

 

Having read Vettebuyer's posts over the years and watched the progress on his beautiful black '69 convertible, I have to say he is a true Corvette hobbyist. The OP is WAY OFF BASE bringing this subject up by pointing to Vettebuyer as not a true hobbyist. I may not agree with everything Vettebuyer says, but he is a true Corvette fan and hobbyist, one we are all fortunate to have in our hobby.

 

At what point does the ownership of any motor vehicle turn into a 'hobby?'




Who says you even have to own a Corvette to be part of the hobby?
I have friends that love hanging out and tinkering with them. We get togther 1 day a week and act like we know what we are doing. Some of these guys dont even own a Corvette, but just by enjoying the car, being around them, tinkering, maintaining and talking about them, they consider it their hobby.

 

I could afford a C6 but have no interest in owning one. Never understood why I see so many C6 owners at cars shows. If I wanted to see a bunch of C6 cars together, I'd go to a Chevrolet dealership. They find a thrill at having OTHERS pull and replace their new wheels, suspensions, and exhausts with high price after-market stuff. Well whatever but not me.

I find no greater satisfaction than doing the work myself. I like that I'm improving my 40 year-old car. I do accounting work all day. Using tools rather than a pencil or a keyboard is a welcome change. Some days I spend 8 hours straight working on the car and wonder where the time went. A tedious and frustrating labor of love.

 

nothing wrong with that but some of us can't find 8 hours that we could. On my job I can start at 4 AM one day and end at any time by my Friday, not to mention some days are 15 hours long and extend into the next morning, jet lag and rotating days off and then there are jobs that must be done at home. Right now I haven't even been able to drive the car in a couple of weeks.

If you can and enjoy working on them that is great but I know how hard time constraints can be so I have a different outlook than some on letting someone else do the work and me using what time I can muster to just enjoy driving it. I have always worked on my cars in the past and I know the enjoyment of accomplishing something yourself also.

 

Milo... 8 hours on the weekend!

Different attitude after your convertible conversion?

I agree with you. Just drive.

 

I hate to think what someone will say when I call this hobby my Therapy.

 

Yep my whole attitude changed. I just want to drive now and give myself a break. My days off have now just turned into do what chores that have to be done and recuperate for the next week. During that conversion fiasco, I had more drive to make time for it but that came in spurts. My attitude will change and I will get out and build a new engine for it down the road but for now I am just coasting.

 

I've never considered my interest in corvettes a hobby. Let me explain. Up here in Canada if I own a small farm as a sideline , but I have greater revenue from something else, the farm is considered a hobby farm, and so I'm not able to have the same tax deductions as a person who makes the majority of his income from farming. I owned a small SCUBA business years ago. Since this was the smaller of my incomes I would say it was my hobby. A friend sells tables and chairs he makes after hours. Thats his hobby. It all depends on how you define a word. To me, if you're making money during your leisure time activity, then you have a hobby. So now I have no hobby , I just have a money pit