How many here do it? I had a discussion with my parents today about me using one as a driver. My step dad thinks I'll hate it becasue I cannot take more then 1 person anywhere, and if I wanted to take some friends to the mountains to go skiing, or go down south for spring break, then I'd hate it. But the way I look at it is I have had my licens for almost 2 years, and only a hand full of times have I taken more then 1 person anywhere. Usually if more then 1 person is going, we take someone elses car. Which was another agument on my side(if more then 1 person wanted to go somewhere with me, we'd have to take their car, so I'd save gas :jester ).

What are your views?

Daniel
PS. Personally I don't like to be in the car with a lot of people. The biggest downfall I see is if me and a friend go to a club and met a couple girls, they'd have to follow us(or one girl ride w/me while my friend rode with a girl or something) if we kept the party going after the club closed...or if I met a girl and he didn't, and she came with some friends, then I'd have to pick which one I wanted to take with me. Other then that I don't see why 4 seats are a good idea, its not like I have a family.

 

I use mine as a daily driver. I always have my wife's minivan when I need to take more than 1 person somewhere. On a daily basis though, it works out great.

 

Im in college right now and my Vette is my only car. I have never had any problems with it being a two seater. If I go somewhere with more than one other person we take someone elses car. I dont really like driving when i go out with friends anyway and having a two seater is a good excuse no to. :cheers:

 

2 people are a heckuva lot less likely to get into trouble than 4!
I just made that up, but I think it sounds good.

 

I drive my convertible '74 at least 25 miles every work day. No seating problems. I'm the only one in my office and my rollerblade equipment only takes up half the trunk! :)

 

they don't care what I get, they just want me to realize the pro's and con's of everything, and to do research, so this is me doing research. :)

Daniel

 

Both my daily drivers only seat 2. Someone else always has a bigger car :)

 

When I was your age, I wanted a two seater badly. I had my eye on a Honda CRX. My stepdad convinced me to get something more practical. Fourteen years later, I'm married, I have two kids, a mortgage, so on and so forth. I can now afford to have my toy and two practical cars. But it's still not as much fun as if I had had one in high school. My point is this, you're only young once. And there's something about a two seater that goes hand in hand with youth. Now is the one time you can afford to be impractical. So try that one out on your folks.

But just the same, there are other considerations. The insurance, is ridiculously expensive. I don't care if your record is clean or not. You're going to pay through the nose for coverage. Then again, at your age, all insurance is ridiculous. And yes, you're going to want to carry stuff. But you're young, and you probably don't have that much important stuff anyway. If anything, maybe having a two seater will teach you to pack lightly and prioritize.

Your folks are looking out for you, so whatever they help you to decide, make the best of it. If they nix the two seater, think of it this way: there are a lot of kids out there who are walking... :yesnod:

 

I think it's a big, huge advantage for a young person to not have a backseat, with people behind you yelling, drinking, carrying on and otherwise distracting you from your driving. I dont care how mature you are, it can be impossible to control the people in your back seat. I have joked with my wife about getting our son a corvette for that very reason! :)


How many 20yr olds will sit behind the wheel and say, "OK, I am not starting this car until everybody has their seatbelt on!!" Even I feel like a jackass saying that to 13yr olds in my backseat!!!! :) MJ


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ok. this is a really long answer, but this is the same advice i got, and i found it to be true. just being impractical as a two seater is not even scratching the surface.first, depends how the weather is where you are.if its like wyoming, get a cheap second vehicle and insure it as a primary driven. i got my vette and a truck. it works great. see, i have a small toyota x-cab pickup as a daily driver, seats 4. saves gas $$, being an efficient 6cyl as opposed to drivin a rather inneficient 8 in a vette, runs great in the winter, never breaks down, never gets stuck(ive tried) and also i insure it as my primary since it snows october-feb. every year, and cause i take it everywhere instead of the vette cause people wont mess with a toyota pickup. since i do this, i get insurance under my name for a "recreational classic" not to be driven more than 10k a year for 40 us dollars a month for full coverage. plus, when it is being stored, i can change my policy to a 5$ month comprehension in case a tree falls on the garage(which it wont, i went after them with a chainsaw immediatley. ha.) heres the funny thing, im 17. regular coverage was 350 bucks a month insuring it as my primary. and thats with 30% off in discounts.so i use two. better discount on ins, save gas on longer trips, can get anywhere i need to since i got a car and a 4wd, and i dont have to pay for an 8 cyl for gas all the time, can always carry my friends, and i dont have to take the vette to places id be worried about it. but if you dont want to spend 2-3k on a secondary, then the answer is no. the vette is reallllly unpractical for anyplace it snows. not only would it really suck to wreck it, but even if you lived in ca, people might mess with it. id stick to using somethin else for a primary, and keep the vette safe in the garage. you dont want to park your vette at the movie theater with everyone elses cars around it. i tried that once. maybe im just paranoid but i couldnt watch the movie. i was too worried about my car. just my .02 but i would stay away from it. :chevy

 

Couldbefun, where in Wyoming are you? I live in Cheyenne. Maybe I've seen your vette driving around.

Anyway, on topic. I have my 80 and a 97 Tacoma as well. I'm actually selling my truck to my dad and buying a LT1 fbody soon. I've decided why only have fun driving for a few months? I love my truck, but it's those damn honda's. They bug the hell out of me. So my Z28 will be my daily driver while I finish restoring my vette. Year round I'm going to have 8 cylinders pumping. It's probably stupid and very impractical, but thats what youth if for. Build up massive debt then somehow get out of it. Like it was said earlier, I'm only young once, I could die tomorrow and look back saying, "I wish I would have bought that damn car." Also, my truck is a 2 seater, single cab. If more people wanted to come along with me they either piled in back or got another ride. Since when am I a taxi? Just my opinion, I could be wrong.

ElSeano80
-1980 L48 vette

 

[Scenario] Really cute girl wants to hang out with you, and your male friend also wants to hang out...sorry dude, only one seat. :smash: Catch ya tomorrow night. :lol:

I never need more than one seat. Occasionally I wish I had a bed, but there is a trailer hitch sitting on the floor ten feet from me that will solve that problem.

 

you all make valid arguments. As for the insurance, its all under my dads name, so it would be next to nothing, even on the sportiest of cars. (Im listed as a driver on his insurance, but not a primary driver of any car, so what the insurance company thinks is, I just drive whatever is in the driveway after my parents pick what they want to drive for the day). :)

Also, I think 2 seats will keep me from doing stuff I'll regret, like taking a group of friends to a party and have someone key my car or something. This way I'll ride with them, and it'll be their car that gets messed up.

They also want me to get something practicle. :jester I don't know what it will be yet, but it will be a convertible. They told me I need to get on the ball and decide.

Daniel

 

I had only 2 seaters until my first kid was born. It wasn't that big a deal usually. It give you an excuse not to drive if more than one person is going along with you.

 

absolutely plus you are NEVER The designated driver :D :cheers:

 

I either drive a regular cab truck with buckets or a vette. I very rarely have a problem with it... If there is we take some elses vehicle.

 

19, and have been driving the 'vette since I was sixteen.
No complaints whatsoever. To and from school, I usually if not always drive solo, and most people are aware of the fact that my car is a two-seater. It's very very handy, in my opinion, as I don't have to drive whenever I feel like pulling that card. :) The only problem about driving the 'vette every day is the amount of trouble you'll get into if you like to have fun. ;)
Seriously though, I never carry more than a backpack, if anything else a laptop bag, and it all fits just fine. No one has ever messed with my car, but I tend to stay on people's nice side. *shrug* A C4 or C5 would be slightly better for day-to-day use because most have ABS and later C4s and on have traction control, and they both have a lot more cargo space. However, I have no complaints with my C3 and its 8.3 cu feet.
-Steve

 

Dan,
I would have killed to have a Vette at Collage when I was going. Drive the Vette and enjoy it. Like someone said above...your only young once.
John

P.S. You pay for the paint job and I'll give you my luggage rack. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Every day for me - rain or shine - is a two seater day.....I dont purchase my cars on the premise that I'll be the one hauling my friends around when we want to go somewhere - I purchase a car for me - If you are lucky enough to ride along - Good for you.. :D

cheers :cheers:

 

Get a 78 or later with the fastback window for more "storage" room. Also, an argument for the parents, it's VERY difficult to have sex in a cramped two seater. :eek: NC is not Wyoming, so I don't think the snow issue is as HUGE problem as in WY, although you do get snow and ice on occasion. Insurance is another issue but you seemed to have thought about that one. One last thing for you to think about, can you AFFORD to keep a 20+ year car running? It's not just the gas and insurance (that are higher than most other cars), but maintenance is very expensive. You'll have things breaking that wouldn't be breaking yet on newer cars. You'll have things deteriorating that aren't deteriorating yet on other cars, and you'll be paying to replace or fix parts that they haven't manufactured in mass quantities for 20 years.

PS mine's a daily driver and I love it, but my wife and I have 4 cars :rolleyes:


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