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Melting Slicks
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 2,487
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From: Sydney
Hey I waved to a guy in a c4 the other day...he rolled down his window to tell me it was 'a corvette'...assuming I didn't know cause I was a girl!
Mind you, I am in Australia..and there are not many vettes of either gen here.
I proceeded to tell him ' Nice vette', Ive got a 70! he was a little shocked.
Damn I love c4's..Im looking at buying one at the moment......my bf isn't very impressed (I spend too much money)....but Im convincing him...Ive got that Corvette Specs book for 84-96........the best book.
A wave to you all!!!!!
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Mind you, I am in Australia..and there are not many vettes of either gen here.
I proceeded to tell him ' Nice vette', Ive got a 70! he was a little shocked.
Damn I love c4's..Im looking at buying one at the moment......my bf isn't very impressed (I spend too much money)....but Im convincing him...Ive got that Corvette Specs book for 84-96........the best book.
A wave to you all!!!!!
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Team Owner
Joined: Sep 2003
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From: Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
St. Jude '03 thru '24
Went to a Corvette Cruise-In at the Grand Canyon. Some of those people wouldn't wave 
Today running up 99 from Fresno passed a bunch of different years, they all waved.
I waved at 'em all.
Today running up 99 from Fresno passed a bunch of different years, they all waved.
I waved at 'em all.
Race Director
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: St. Peters MO Sometimes you have to prove yourself by doing alot of killing or alot of dying...
Originally Posted by Casper
That's not waves from the C5's that's them waving to you to wait up for them. They are lost and want directions. 
Now that's funny... I don't care who ya are!!!Last weekend was the bi-annual hotrod run in Wentzville MO and I got a wave from every generation vette!!! that was friggin cool!!!
Drifting
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 1,477
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Seems like 99% of C4 drivers wave back, but I got two this weekend that didn't which really suprised me!
IMO C4's tend to be true Corvette enthusiats, while only a fraction of C5'ers seem to be. Most early purchasers of C6's are also enthusiasts thus, I wave to them as well, and I see the majority of them wave back.
IMO C4's tend to be true Corvette enthusiats, while only a fraction of C5'ers seem to be. Most early purchasers of C6's are also enthusiasts thus, I wave to them as well, and I see the majority of them wave back.
Racer
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 300
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From: Mountain View CA
Went for a cruise yesterday. Got a full-on hand out the targa top wave from a guy in an identical red early C4 in response to mine, even though we were on opposite sides of a divided highway with at least 50 yds of grass in between. But not a single other one of maybe a dozen more vettes I saw that day waved back, except an older guy in a nice C2. My theory is like this:
Wavers:
couples/singles out for a weekend spin, which may include...
real vette nuts (like everyone on CF--doesn't matter when/where they're driving)
generally nice people that see you wave and wave back
Non-wavers:
yuppies who buy C-5s and C-6s because they're the best deal on a chick-magnet sports car that makes them feel like batman (usually 30-40 yo single men). Sometimes they just don't get it (i.e. their last car was an Audi A4 and they don't even realize there's such a thing as loving a car). Sometimes they actually think they're too cool for you, esp. if you're in an obviously older vette.
Also in this category are teenagers and 20-somethings who buy cheap C4s for the image, cruise with their buddies looking for chicks, but might as well be driving mustangs or camaros for all they care--as long as it's loud and looks sporty. These folks might also be seen in various permutations of the Honda Civic, Honda Accord, and other fine vehicles constructed largely from rice gluten.
Wavers:
couples/singles out for a weekend spin, which may include...
real vette nuts (like everyone on CF--doesn't matter when/where they're driving)
generally nice people that see you wave and wave back
Non-wavers:
yuppies who buy C-5s and C-6s because they're the best deal on a chick-magnet sports car that makes them feel like batman (usually 30-40 yo single men). Sometimes they just don't get it (i.e. their last car was an Audi A4 and they don't even realize there's such a thing as loving a car). Sometimes they actually think they're too cool for you, esp. if you're in an obviously older vette.
Also in this category are teenagers and 20-somethings who buy cheap C4s for the image, cruise with their buddies looking for chicks, but might as well be driving mustangs or camaros for all they care--as long as it's loud and looks sporty. These folks might also be seen in various permutations of the Honda Civic, Honda Accord, and other fine vehicles constructed largely from rice gluten.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 2,347
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From: Northeast FL
Originally Posted by MARDAG
Went for a cruise yesterday. Got a full-on hand out the targa top wave from a guy in an identical red early C4 in response to mine, even though we were on opposite sides of a divided highway with at least 50 yds of grass in between. But not a single other one of maybe a dozen more vettes I saw that day waved back, except an older guy in a nice C2. My theory is like this:
Wavers:
couples/singles out for a weekend spin, which may include...
real vette nuts (like everyone on CF--doesn't matter when/where they're driving)
generally nice people that see you wave and wave back
Non-wavers:
yuppies who buy C-5s and C-6s because they're the best deal on a chick-magnet sports car that makes them feel like batman (usually 30-40 yo single men). Sometimes they just don't get it (i.e. their last car was an Audi A4 and they don't even realize there's such a thing as loving a car). Sometimes they actually think they're too cool for you, esp. if you're in an obviously older vette.
Also in this category are teenagers and 20-somethings who buy cheap C4s for the image, cruise with their buddies looking for chicks, but might as well be driving mustangs or camaros for all they care--as long as it's loud and looks sporty. These folks might also be seen in various permutations of the Honda Civic, Honda Accord, and other fine vehicles constructed largely from rice gluten.
Wavers:
couples/singles out for a weekend spin, which may include...
real vette nuts (like everyone on CF--doesn't matter when/where they're driving)
generally nice people that see you wave and wave back
Non-wavers:
yuppies who buy C-5s and C-6s because they're the best deal on a chick-magnet sports car that makes them feel like batman (usually 30-40 yo single men). Sometimes they just don't get it (i.e. their last car was an Audi A4 and they don't even realize there's such a thing as loving a car). Sometimes they actually think they're too cool for you, esp. if you're in an obviously older vette.
Also in this category are teenagers and 20-somethings who buy cheap C4s for the image, cruise with their buddies looking for chicks, but might as well be driving mustangs or camaros for all they care--as long as it's loud and looks sporty. These folks might also be seen in various permutations of the Honda Civic, Honda Accord, and other fine vehicles constructed largely from rice gluten.
Seems most, of course not all, of the C5 / C6 buyers don't know anything, and worse don't care, about the heritage of the car. Most of the time, not always, they don't even ackowledge me in my lowly 94. Of course they probably don't recognize it as a vette since they typically don't know squat about cars in general. That's not to say all C5 / C6 owners are like that but there sure do seem to be a lot that are.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Dec 2004
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From: Somerset Co, NJ
1 Most people don't wave back.
2 When they don't wave back, I feel like a cornball.
3 Therefore, I have formally given up "waving"!
4 And...who really cares????
BTW I see one more wave thread, I'm gonna scream!!!!!!
seriously though: I get the whole Vette fraternity thing and its cool, but I "extend " myself to wave out , and most people leave ya hanging, like "Who the hell was that waving at me?" Makes ya feel alittle awkward to say the least, and its not just one type of generation C, it seems to be anybody, must be a Jersey thing, I don't know (probably more apt to get "the bird" than the "wave"!
2 When they don't wave back, I feel like a cornball.
3 Therefore, I have formally given up "waving"!
4 And...who really cares????
BTW I see one more wave thread, I'm gonna scream!!!!!!
seriously though: I get the whole Vette fraternity thing and its cool, but I "extend " myself to wave out , and most people leave ya hanging, like "Who the hell was that waving at me?" Makes ya feel alittle awkward to say the least, and its not just one type of generation C, it seems to be anybody, must be a Jersey thing, I don't know (probably more apt to get "the bird" than the "wave"!
Last edited by C4Jimmy; Jun 13, 2005 at 07:46 PM.
Instructor
Joined: Jun 2003
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From: Dorothy NJ
St. Jude Donor '05
Originally Posted by C4Jimmy
1 Most people don't wave back.
2 When they don't wave back, I feel like a cornball.
3 Therefore, I have formally given up "waving"!
4 And...who really cares????
BTW I see one more wave thread, I'm gonna scream!!!!!!
seriously though: I get the whole Vette fraternity thing and its cool, but I "extend " myself to wave out , and most people leave ya hanging, like "Who the hell was that waving at me?" Makes ya feel alittle awkward to say the least, and its not just one type of generation C, it seems to be anybody, must be a Jersey thing, I don't know (probably more apt to get "the bird" than the "wave"!
2 When they don't wave back, I feel like a cornball.
3 Therefore, I have formally given up "waving"!
4 And...who really cares????
BTW I see one more wave thread, I'm gonna scream!!!!!!
seriously though: I get the whole Vette fraternity thing and its cool, but I "extend " myself to wave out , and most people leave ya hanging, like "Who the hell was that waving at me?" Makes ya feel alittle awkward to say the least, and its not just one type of generation C, it seems to be anybody, must be a Jersey thing, I don't know (probably more apt to get "the bird" than the "wave"!
Last edited by TomHamill; Jun 13, 2005 at 09:31 PM.
