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Forgot about this one at a car show. They announced if your hoods and trunks weren't open your car wouldn't be judged. One of the judges came by and said "raise your trunk". I told him I didn't have one and he said, "Then what this lock for?"
Forgot about this one at a car show. They announced if your hoods and trunks weren't open your car wouldn't be judged. One of the judges came by and said "raise your trunk". I told him I didn't have one and he said, "Then what this lock for?"
Had an old man walk over to me at the gas station and say "why, this thing doesn't have a trunk! where do you your put your suitcases when your want go somewhere?" Uhhh, in my other car?
But I did show him the space behind the seats and he seemed satisfied.
Last edited by BarryB72; Jun 26, 2016 at 02:18 PM.
its funny how ppl that don't have one tries to put us down for any reason. i hear "but its not a stingray" all the time. at good year, the employee said my car wasn't even worth getting the alignment done. after it was put on the hoist, he asked if i would sell it.(probably noticed the full frame off restoration).
the weirdest comment I've received so far was from an older gentleman at the gas station. He says that a corvette in michigan is pointless because of the fiberglass and that I should've bought a mustang because it can drive in the winter. i just said nicely"that's what my blazer is for"
Had an old man walk over to me at the gas station and say "why, this thing doesn't have a trunk! where do you your put your suitcases when your want go somewhere?" Uhhh, in my other car?
But I did show him the space behind the seats and he seemed satisfied.
I recently started talking my 7 year old son to the golf course, my '79 is still up on jack stands but will be back on the road soon. I was legitimately wondering if we could get both of our golf club sets into the car so we could take the corvette to the driving range.
BTW if you told me a few years ago that I'd be pondering the possibility of getting golf clubs into the back of my corvette, I wouldn't believe you.
Last edited by AboveTheLogic; Jun 26, 2016 at 03:09 PM.
I ve gotten a wide variety of responses. from women wanting to take their pictures with it, or wanting me to take them for a ride...to a group of late teenage rapper wannabes , standing right behind it ...with C O R V E T T E spelled out on the rear bumper, and say... " YO YO, bad azz car dawg, what kind is it??"
I ve gotten a wide variety of responses. from women wanting to take their pictures with it, or wanting me to take them for a ride...to a group of late teenage rapper wannabes , standing right behind it ...with C O R V E T T E spelled out on the rear bumper, and say... " YO YO, bad azz car dawg, what kind is it??"
My '72 vert is an old show car from when it was new, owned by a series of two chicks in Southern Md, outside DC.....the car has had many paint jobs....factory white with Dark Saddle interior....it was a wonderful Ditzler burgundy when I got it....but the move to Florida and the accidents and so forth, NONE of which was my fault BTW.....
I get comments from all age groups....'what year is that?'...mainly because of the rectangular '68 OLDS tail lights from the show car daze, and the fender flares have the skirts and look like from a late shark, which is why the wider '89 vette wheels/50 series tires look 'right' on the car....
SO I grin and say, 'What year do you LIKE?' which flatfoots them ALL, then I laugh and say the car has CORVETTE parts on it from '65 through '94, but it was BORN in '72.....
There is nothing stock about my car, stem to stern, wheels through roof, NOTHING....see sites for a few pix.....
and just last Feb some jerk ran over the car with a jacked up pickup in a parking lot...missing the bumper entirely but smashing hell outta the front end.....it took 3 months to find a decent glass man and get it shot again so the paint is all the same....PIA......
Every time I go out with the car, I get comments...and questions....
IF they seem to know anything about cars, I will pop the hood, and from the sites you see an LT1 injection with an HEI up top in back like GOD intended.....
Had these two comments within a month about my 78SA.
Was waiting on the side of the road in a country town for my wife who was looking at shops when I bike rider walked up with his partner and said "That's not a car. That's a work of art.".
Second comment was when I parked my Corvette outside a Auto themed diner and walked past this family group eating their burgers on the outside booths. The father says to me with an envious look on his face "I hope you don't mind but I really hate you.". I replied that if he owned the Corvette instead of me I would hate him as well. Then we talked corvettes for awhile.
That's one thing I have found since owning my Corvette. You get a lot of strangers wanting to talk to you.
Made a trip to Lowes and parked at the end of the lot away from all the other cars. When I got in to leave I slowly proceeded up the drive toward the store when a man stepped out directly in front of me. When I stopped he asked, "What year is it?" I replied, "It is a '76". He paused for a moment and then said, "I never like the corvette that year!!"
Really? You stopped me in a public parking lot to let me know that you never like my year vette when you had to ask what year it was?????????
While at an all Corvette show several years ago a guy who looked like a tweeker was wandering around the show. As the class judge and I were looking over my '69 coupe he walked by and laughingly asked "What's that in the back of your car, a pizza carrier?
I don't have the luggage carrier on the back deck, which the comment might have made some sense if that was the case. The storage compartment was empty soo...
The guy kept on walking, the judge had a WTF look on her face and we just shook heads and laughed.
Oh fun.
*after winter is winding down* Hey, get that vette out there and blow the salt off the roads for me, glass don't rust ya know.
Everyone wants to take a picture.. not even of them in it or near it, just can I take a picture of your car.
had someone walk up to me and ask why my vette didn't get put in the garage last night but I put it up the next morning. Now mind you, my car was in my backyard where I was washing it, not up front outside of the garage. I simply told him none of his business and to keep walking. Figured, I just didn't want to be buddies with that one.
Kids asking to get in it
Had a cop pull into a parking lot after me just to BS about the car. Super nice guy, made sure I wasn't in a hurry or that he was keeping me from anything to chit chat with him. Local guy, waves to me each time I pass him now.
Why did you make your hood open backwards.
#1 question - How much power you got in that thing. Oh poor L48.... she sounds great but the bark is much worse than the bite.
Sometimes my buddies and I kid around and call mine the Batmobile. Funniest comment:
I have two friends, brothers named Steve and Charles. We are all in our late 40s. Steve, older brother, has an '82, black Crossfire L82, doesn't run. Charles, 46 years old, has a silver '78, does run. He said his dad had a black '74 just like mine. Didn't make 'em black in '74, oh well it was 40 years ago, maybe repainted. Said it would pull the front wheels. I have never doubted anything more in my life. His dad, about 70 years old, saw my 'Vette one day and confirmed he did have one just like it. Did it pull the front wheels? I said he definitely did NOT remember that!
Last edited by Richard Daugird; Jun 27, 2016 at 12:47 PM.
Did you tell him that if he can find it he could look in it?
That's hilarious right there!
I rec'd some gratifying comments when I took my restored-freshly painted & '78SA vette back to the original dealer 100 miles south of us in Junction City Oregon.."Guaranty Chevrolet".
Gave them copies of the original factory invoice, window sticker..and some good 8x10 glossy pics of the car as it now is..
Dealership still owned by the original family But only two old timers still there in Service dept.
Funnest comment was concerning the window sticker.Hard to believe the car asking price was under 10K.....Jim
You're correct, except regardless of how many times you listen to that song, the only place the word "little" is found is on the printed title on the record/tape/CD cover. Most people think the song is "Lady in the Red Corvette". I still don't think a pavement-eating big block is little.
He says "Little" in the chorus every time. Damn I'm embarrassed that I know that. Almost makes me NOT want to paint mine red.
OOPS I guess I was not the first person to catch this. Not QUITE as embarrassed now.
Last edited by Richard Daugird; Jun 27, 2016 at 01:19 PM.
My '72 vert is an old show car from when it was new, owned by a series of two chicks in Southern Md, outside DC.....the car has had many paint jobs....factory white with Dark Saddle interior....it was a wonderful Ditzler burgundy when I got it....but the move to Florida and the accidents and so forth, NONE of which was my fault BTW.....
