verts?
Pro
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 624
Likes: 1
From: Melbourne, Fla. 6 months- New Middletown, Ohio 6 months
How are they referred to in the NCRS manual?
That isn't the "Not Correctly Restored Stingray" manual by the way!!!!
Wait a minute, did I have one too many exclamation points there?
That isn't the "Not Correctly Restored Stingray" manual by the way!!!!
Wait a minute, did I have one too many exclamation points there?
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 8,721
Likes: 108
From: Canada
Race Director
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 12,239
Likes: 19
From: Chino CA
Burning Brakes
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 779
Likes: 0
From: San Bruno California
Before I owned a corvette, I refered the rag top as convertible or roadster. Now that I have a convertible, I use the term, "vert" when writing a discription on a form or something. For me, it's not like I can't spell or being lazy. If you use the word rag top, convertible, roadster or vert. everyone kind of knows what your talking about if you own a corvette. If someone gets upset over whether the term is used correctly, that way too much brain power wasted.
Team Owner
Joined: Jun 2000
Posts: 38,923
Likes: 1,481
From: Southbound
Cruise-In II Veteran
Convertible or convertibles.
Allen is also correct on his "roof panel" point.
I understand the term "vert," I choose not to use it. I usually don't use "Vette," but I understand the origin of the term.
No big deal. I can remember when there was no C* designation for anything. There were Classics, Sting Rays (or Mid-Years), and Sharks. We can thank the C4 for the origin of the C* stuff.
Alas, life was simpler then.
Allen is also correct on his "roof panel" point.
I understand the term "vert," I choose not to use it. I usually don't use "Vette," but I understand the origin of the term.
No big deal. I can remember when there was no C* designation for anything. There were Classics, Sting Rays (or Mid-Years), and Sharks. We can thank the C4 for the origin of the C* stuff.
Alas, life was simpler then.
Last edited by Easy Mike; Feb 18, 2010 at 04:12 PM.
Race Director
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 13,182
Likes: 99
From: West Chester OH
2020 C6 of the Year Finalist - Unmodified
Cruise-In IX Veteran
St. Jude Donor '08 thru '13
Corvette Stories
The Best of Corvette for Corvette Enthusiasts
Top 10 Most Expensive Corvettes Ever Sold on Bring A Trailer
Brett Foote
10 Things Every Corvette Owner Needs (2026 Edition)
Michael S. Palmer
8 Most "Only Corvette Owners Understand" Quirks and Problems
Pouria Savadkouei
10 Reasons the C6 Z06 is Still A Performance Benchmark After 20 Years
Joe Kucinski
How Much Horsepower Every Corvette Engine "LOST" in 1972
Joe Kucinski
Top 10 DOs and DON'Ts for Protecting Your Convertible Top!
Michael S. Palmer
Top 10 Most Explosive Corvettes Ever Made: Power-to-Weight Ratio Ranked!
Joe Kucinski
150 hp to 1,250 hp: Every Corvette Generation Compared by the Specs That Matter
Joe Kucinski
8 Coolest Corvette Pace Cars (and Replicas) of All Time
Verdad Gallardo
Le Mans Master
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 7,353
Likes: 72
From: Graceland in a Not Correctly Restored Stingray
Pro
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 624
Likes: 1
From: Melbourne, Fla. 6 months- New Middletown, Ohio 6 months
I bet there are some out there (not me of course) that will use the term "vert" from now on just for "sh#ts and giggles"
I could understand this discussion on the C6 forum but not here. After all, years ago I remember a C5 or C6 forum where there was a discussion with numerous responses on the proper way to wash a car!!!
I could understand this discussion on the C6 forum but not here. After all, years ago I remember a C5 or C6 forum where there was a discussion with numerous responses on the proper way to wash a car!!!
Le Mans Master
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 7,353
Likes: 72
From: Graceland in a Not Correctly Restored Stingray
Racer
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 272
Likes: 0
From: Palm Beach Gardens Florida
ragtag74
In the archive in my memory,I always believed that a roadster was a car that had a removable top but no roll up windows,only side curtains as on old MG's ,Jaguar, and other sports cars. 32 ford roadsters were windowless.I always call my car a convertible never a vert. 
ragtag
ragtag
Burning Brakes
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 1,245
Likes: 21
From: Abingdon MD
What, no T-Tops now? No Vettes, no Verts, no frame-offs, no frame-ups? How about matching numbers? But Sharks is o.k? How about Flat Tails? You don't hear that too often. 
Methinks we are all getting a little testy waiting for spring! Actually, my biggest buggaboo regarding car ads is when I see the term "needs restored". Grammatically, it should either be "needs restoration" or "needs to be restored".
Ah, I feel better now,
Rickman
Methinks we are all getting a little testy waiting for spring! Actually, my biggest buggaboo regarding car ads is when I see the term "needs restored". Grammatically, it should either be "needs restoration" or "needs to be restored".
Ah, I feel better now,Rickman
Thread Starter
Racer
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 275
Likes: 1
From: Lafayette/marquez La/tx
yup...... it's been a long cold and wet winter here. I never thought such a question would generate more responses than any of my mechanical questions. I suppose cabin fever is setting in. At least here in south Louisiana i am able to drive my "vette:.........i mean corvette in the winter.
