The Vette "Nod"
Racer
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From: Lakewood CA
I wave if they look at me or throw a rev if they don't see me. Almost every C6 owner I see does not acknowledge me at all. Keep in mind my C4 is Torch Red with muffler elims. Not very hard to miss.
I seem to get way more attention from C4's and C5's. They are very good about the wave.
I seem to get way more attention from C4's and C5's. They are very good about the wave.
Drifting
Joined: Apr 2007
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From: port charlotte fl
a C6 coming towards me today actually waved with his hand out of the window and the woman in front of me in a beat up old datsun was waving back.Of course i waved as well.Then it struck me maybe they new each other.What the hell.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Sep 2006
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From: Monroe Twp, NJ
TRADITION,its all about tradition.Ill let you in on a secret. Most Mustang,Porsche owners etc wish such a tradition existed among themselves. I drove Saturn's for several years and took part in the active Saturn fans web page. For years Saturn owners tried to start a wave thing like the Corvette tradition. It just didn't work.This has been going on since the 1950s with Corvette owners, and tradition is built into every Corvette.
Burning Brakes
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From: Hickory Flat Ga
I don't know why but ALL generation vette drivers wave like crazy at me around here. We are just better educated, smarter, more polite with generally positive attitudes and quite better looking than most.
The same old ones always chime in about inappropriate posting to the point that they become inappropriate as well and generally ignored like gnats in the summer.
The same old ones always chime in about inappropriate posting to the point that they become inappropriate as well and generally ignored like gnats in the summer.
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Instructor
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From: Ocklawaha, FL
My 2 cents. I also feel if you don't like a thread's content, what's the point of negitive feedback. It goes against the whole reason for this forum and the reason for the wave/nod. It may seem to be a silly subject and if you feel that way that's your right. But by making unsolicted nasty comments on this forum, you're only showing your own insecurities. Anyone able to think beyond their own small universe, knows that petty attacks are the tools of a weak mind and character. I like the wave, it is the very essence of the mindset that underpins this forum. Some people aren't aware of the tradition, others may have their attention on something else and some may just not feel comfortable due to any number of reasons. But if you like the tradition as I do and I suspect many here do. Then by all means lets keep it going. When I used to own motorcycles we also waved. I had the time to write this because by back is killing me from bending over my "96 CE LT1 most of this week. Time to finish-up the R&R of the wires and plugs.
Racer
Joined: Apr 2007
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From: Lakewood CA
TRADITION,its all about tradition.Ill let you in on a secret. Most Mustang,Porsche owners etc wish such a tradition existed among themselves. I drove Saturn's for several years and took part in the active Saturn fans web page. For years Saturn owners tried to start a wave thing like the Corvette tradition. It just didn't work.This has been going on since the 1950s with Corvette owners, and tradition is built into every Corvette.
To me, it takes a certain type of person to own and drive a Corvette. You have to really know what they are about and want to drive one. They are a pain in the *** to get in and out of, and it's not like they have a V6 version that anyone can just go out and buy. I think that Corvette owners are way more aware of what they are actually driving than the slutty college girl (probably featured on Girls Gone Wild) whose parents bought her a shiny red automatic Mustang convertible as a birthday present.
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Pro
Joined: Jul 2007
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From: Phoenix AZ
I have to agree. When I used to have a 5.0, all the other Mustang guys around me would just try and drive like an idiot or try to race me instead of just being respectful and giving a thumbs up/wave or something. Not only that, but owning a Mustang doesn't automatically make you observant and aware of other Mustangs.
To me, it takes a certain type of person to own and drive a Corvette. You have to really know what they are about and want to drive one. They are a pain in the *** to get in and out of, and it's not like they have a V6 version that anyone can just go out and buy. I think that Corvette owners are way more aware of what they are actually driving than the slutty college girl (probably featured on Girls Gone Wild) whose parents bought her a shiny red automatic Mustang convertible as a birthday present.
To me, it takes a certain type of person to own and drive a Corvette. You have to really know what they are about and want to drive one. They are a pain in the *** to get in and out of, and it's not like they have a V6 version that anyone can just go out and buy. I think that Corvette owners are way more aware of what they are actually driving than the slutty college girl (probably featured on Girls Gone Wild) whose parents bought her a shiny red automatic Mustang convertible as a birthday present.
dd
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No kidding. 
But don't forget, in each "wave/nod" thread, there's the obligatory "people in newer Vettes aren't REAL Corvette people."
PS, in several thousand of the other wave threads, the earlier car owners included the C4 in the group that wouldn't wave.
But don't forget, in each "wave/nod" thread, there's the obligatory "people in newer Vettes aren't REAL Corvette people."
PS, in several thousand of the other wave threads, the earlier car owners included the C4 in the group that wouldn't wave.
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OK, enough! Obviously, ALL of you completely missed the jist of this entire thread. If you read it from beginning to end, you would have determined that the subject was not the "nod", or how devastating it is my innewr child not to receive one, but that the NEW Vette(C6) enthusiasts seem to be more chasing after a Horse Power fetish rather than appearing to be repeat Corvette buyers. It's funny how quick people are to respond to something before really understanding the context of it. I've read quite a few threads that obviously took off in a completely different direction than the author intended. Maybe I'll have to dumb it down a little from now on.
DD
DD
I started getting annoyed at this predictable attitude when it included the C5s, because whenever someone having an emotional meltdown because some stranger didn't wave at them, they commonly started ripping C5 owners. The usual garbage was precisely your "gist" ... that they couldn't possibly be "repeat Corvette owners." My response is that my C5 is parked next to my '58 and my '69, and is just one of 15 I've owned since 1978. And, the vast majority of C5 and C6 owners I know from my Corvette club and the rest of the Corvette Community have owned previous Corvettes, often several. So maybe you paint with a broad brush.
If you are going to be so thin-skinned you might have more problems than just thinking you are so above the crowd you need to "dumb things down."
Last edited by vettebuyer6369; Aug 11, 2007 at 07:41 PM.
Racer
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From: Tidewater Oregon
Racer
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From: Nesquehoning PA
This is absolutely the best thread ever...I can't get one response to a tech question while I'm waiting for my FSM to come but this gets what....52,385,174 responses...it reminds me of....ummmmm the jeep forums where the guys in grand cherokees are whining about the cj guys being jeep snobs.....no...that's not it....oh yeah.....it's like the Harley forum where the guys on skirtsters are crying about being the ugly redheaded step bike.....no it's actually like the Porsche forum where everybody snubs everybody.....well anyway....I think that the responses have been hilarious....that's the only reason I stayed with it to the end...
Race Director
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From: Middletown, DE
I promised I wouldn't post again, but I think we gotta kill the wave. Well, not really, but.........
My wife and I are riding around last night, and the wave thing comes up. So, she tells me her friend in work, who has one of those square box Scions, reports that it's become common for square box Scion people to do the wave. I wonder if they're starting to post in their Forum that owners of the new model that just came out are uppity because they don't do the wave??
I guess in the end it's just an acknowledgement of having something in common. Nice to do but surely not a reflection on anybody whether they do or don't.
My wife and I are riding around last night, and the wave thing comes up. So, she tells me her friend in work, who has one of those square box Scions, reports that it's become common for square box Scion people to do the wave. I wonder if they're starting to post in their Forum that owners of the new model that just came out are uppity because they don't do the wave??
I guess in the end it's just an acknowledgement of having something in common. Nice to do but surely not a reflection on anybody whether they do or don't.
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Pro
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From: Phoenix AZ
I think you have some issues, but obviuosly my opinion is occasionally subject to harsh criticism.
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