It was the girlfriends birthday this weekend so I let her drive the Corvette. We were out cruising around on Friday. She starts getting comfortable with the car and takes on a 1986 Corvette convertible and beats the guy (0-50ish) run. She then ( all on her own) taken on one of those riced out Subaru WRX's, and wins. Being in the passenger seat I wanted to but was unable to communicate to the drivers of the other vehicles that they had just gotten beat by a chic !

Now I am getting bugged to let her borrow the Corvette for a day, I just don't see that happening anytime soon.

 

Dman,

I know what you mean! I have never been challenged in my 77. No one ever revs the engine or even sprints up behind when I'm driving. However, my wife has been challenged by and beaten the following:

40ish man in his volvo
teenage guy in his mid-80's civic
2 lawn care workers in their deisel work truck!

I guess it's something about a hot woman in a fast car that just gets other guys wanting to show their "manliness". I laugh every time I think about the rednecks in the diesel lawn truck :lol:

Russ

 

I don't know DMan, according to my Grandfather females take extreme care when driving heavy equipment or fast cars. :) He says I'm the only one he would trust to drive his car or the bulldozer. :jester Besides, she probably knows how you feel about the car and would be a nervous wreck (no pun intended) if allowed out in it by herself.

 

I thinks its more of an education/experience thing. Letting someone take a 25 year old high horsepower rear wheel drive car needs to have some time behind it, especially if you want the car to last.

Before I would let the car go unsupervised I would want to be confortable that the driver could recover from a spin, know what all the gauges are ( no idiot lights) Be able to operate things like the t tops and really know the car inside and out.

If someone were to hit my 1-2 shift with wet tires at anything over half throttle they would need some decent driving skills to keep the vette pointed straight.

 

I let a girl drive my corvette once. and only once. and im not saying all girls are like this, in fact i find it to be a huge turn on when a woman can drive a stick, speed shift, and get a good launch, stick or auto. especially if its in a muscle car. *drools* but anyway...

so after litterally 3 hours of her bugging me i finally say ok for 10min. to get her off my back. plus she was good looking and was throwing arround promises that were speaking directly to my darkside. :bb were crusin arround a windy road and she isnt doin to bad, all the sudden she says "wow were only doin 20!? it feels like forty!" i look over and say "we are doin forty" and she point to the tach and says "no see 20!" and i laugh my azz off and point to the speedo. she started laughing and said oh.
a minute later after she sped up she nailed a huge bird!! but guess where... with the rear tire! weird huh. bird was in mid swoop and gabunk! my back end poped up in the air. im not saying it was her fault, but i dont like my toys to be use for killing. unless its killing hondas, fords etc... so when i meet a woman that can effectively launch a car or beats me in a drag race because she is a better driver, she can drive my vette. oh and im not sexist, i dont let any of my guy friends drive it. only people i would let drive it are people who can pay the $25K to replace it if its totaled, people i trust not to hurt it, and people who are just like me but let me drive thiers... :cheers:

 

Sweet! Don't let her get away, especially with your Vette! :D

 

My wifey-poo drives my vette to work everyday....sometimes she even drops the top....but she has the windows up....funny combo for Florida...allthough up north in winter, that's the way I drove a lot.....
she took her daughter for a spin one day at lunch, and took a corner fast, scared the daughter.....wanted to demonstrate how I drive....;-)))

GENE

 

I agree, I still haven't let my husband drive my car. :lol: But I also started out driving a 65 vette when I was 16. The first time I drove a front wheel drive with power steering I must have looked like an idiot, expecting the car to push instead of pull. That was a long time ago though so I'm sure I'll need some practice myself. :D