http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-t...-c3-owner.html

I have every post from the beginning till my post in the thread.

I took the data and parsed it out into two histograms. One with the current age of everyone that posted as of today (or close enough to it) and then another with the age that the person posted that they own a vette.

It would be neat to start a new thread asking the questions:
How old where you when you purchased your vette? What year was it? How long did you keep it?

Since we really only reliably have data for the person's age and whether or not they currently own a vette I left it at that.

For the Current Age of everyone posted I removed people that had posted more than once and "aged" them to today's date. For the Age of posted I left everyone's duplicate posts since I considered the 2002, 2004, and 2009 sufficient time gaps to consider each year a snap shot in time at each point when the thread was resurrected.

I then decided to go ahead and show these snap shots per the year of the post. Each "snap shot" or year grouping is everyone's current age of the year that they posted on the thread.

Current Age Data:


Mean 45.5
Median 45
Mode 43
Min 22
Max 78
Range 56
Number 269




Posting Age of All Posters


Mean 40.9
Median 40.5
Mode 36
Min 17
Max 78
Range 61
Number 276



2002 Posting Age


Mean 34.4
Median 35
Mode 42
Min 17
Max 59
Range 42
Number 91




2004 Posting Age


Mean 40.4
Median 40
Mode 36
Min 17
Max 63
Range 46
Number 125




2009 Posting Age


Mean 51.7
Median 53
Mode 62
Min 25
Max 78
Range 53
Number 60



Any questions about what I did just let me know. I think its interesting that the snap shots tend to show an aging trend of owners. Not sure if this is because younger generations are finding it harder to find the funds to purchase a C3, indicating that prices are appreciating, or their tastes are changing. Just some thoughts.

What does the data tell you?

 

Hi K,
I think it's interesting that the data you've compiled 'looks' very much like the range of people you see with cars at Corvette shows.
I think in the 60s and 70s the cars WERE more affordable to the average guy who wanted one badly enough. The cars cost what many people were earning in a year, and could thus pay one off in 2 or 3 years. Now I think the new Corvettes cost a lot more than what many fellows who would like to have one earn in a year... so it's more of a financial stretch for a longer period of time. Thus the new cars are going to older people with higher earning power.
Thanks for your effort!
Regards,
Alan

 

A lot of people over 65 don't have a computer, that may mess with the data a little.

 

Good point, it could also mean that the 60+ age group is becoming more tech savy and contributing more online.

 

Thanks for crunching some numbers for us!
It tells me there a lot on happy Corvette owners. The lines on a C-3 just look so good and you can buy one at any price. Bless those people can afford a NCRS correct car but for me I drive my car everywhere every day (if it's not raining). All C-3 are like a one man 'Car Show' Take a poor condition Vette for gas and tell me you don't get a bunch of comments and questions! Take a nice one and be prepared to pop the hood.
Merry Christmas, Pete.

 

why is this relevant?
The Forum membership is a very small segment of the Corvette ownership universe, and additionally, not all members include their age.
What is it you are actually trying to determine and why?

 

I have to agree. I own a retirement community. Most of the people are over 70. 15 of the 17 households are very active on their computers. Only the two 90 year olds don't use a computer.

PS They love my vette.

 

Very interesting. I would confirm to me that we have the cars that we admired when they were new.

 

This data, is it just for the c3 section? if so, it would be very interesting to see the c6 data for age or all c,s for that much, that should keep you going over the hallidays.

have a good one
Todd

 

There was a lot of posts on the average age that were just sitting there. No one had compiled the numbers yet so I did. Why is your comment relevant? What are you trying to accomplish??

I pointed out the limitations and asked others to post what they saw in the data. Never once did I say this held any answers. Statistics is technically never an absolute answer.

 

Ha ha! When I get another big break in my work I'll see if I'm up to it.

 

Baby Boomer's win again!

 

One of the cardinal rules of communication (online forums included) is to KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE. Some of us will find this information useful for both posting on the C3 Forum and for understanding the frame of reference for some posts.

Thank you, Kipring, for compiling and posting this information.

 

I thought it was very interesting, thanks for doing the work and posting the info!

 

interesting, thks for putting the effort out

 

I dig the work ya put in on this...
At BARELY 43 ...I realize I'm middle aged...BUT I'VE LOVED THESE CARS FROM DAY ONE...

Come on...they're sexy !!!! And when does that go out of style ?

 

I wondered about that myself. I don't respond to the How Old Are You?"...Were You"...Will You Be?" type of threads so the data is of no interest to me. I'm in that group GM never surveys when they are thinking about designing a new Corvette.

 

I wasn't trying to be a pri(k, I just don't think the data is particularly representative of anything. It isn't a universe of C3 owners, and it isn't a universe of Forum members, since some don't reveal their ages.

The samples range from 60 to 276, which is pretty small, considering how many C3's there are still in existence today.

Didn't mean to offend, I just don't think this tells much, or is representative of anything except some random posts.