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So this may seem like a silly question (I am laughing that I am even asking this), but those of you who have multiple Corvettes... How do you decide what to drive?
Do you baby one car, and thrash another? Do you baby both of them? Rotate between? Do you never drive any of them?
Just Curious, I just entered the world of multi corvette Ownership. (Pics to come, it's raining today and yesterday was spent climbing all over the thing like a spider monkey...)
Got a 1988 Z52 4+3. 61k miles. Leather is immaculate, very little wear no cracking. Paint looks like it's fresh off the Assembly line. Came with both the Red Top and the Bronze top, which has absolutely zero crazing or cracking and it appears to have new seals around the top and doors. Came with a Cover and the two FSM books filled with Post it notes on the pages where the previous owner either did work, or had it worked on.
Liberated it from a dealer yesterday for $8k after arguing them up an extra $1500 on another car we had sitting around that was probably not worth what they gave me for it.
Haven't had it long enough to worry one way or another about which is driven as it's kind of the off season in Indiana, but was curious how folks decided.
92 needs an Opti which I have in a box, just need to install over this winter on a day that's not -100 where I have the hours in the day free to do it.
My '02 coupe is pretty much my Sunday driver and road trip/touring/cruising car. Sometimes it doesn't get the use I would like but it's always ready to go.
My '87 coupe is pretty much my autocross/track day car so it isn't really that comfortable for anything but short trips/local driving. It rides rough, it's loud, and it's a handful on the streets because of the alignment and brakes. Still fun to drive.
Got a 1988 Z52 4+3. 61k miles. Leather is immaculate, very little wear no cracking. Paint looks like it's fresh off the Assembly line. Came with both the Red Top and the Bronze top, which has absolutely zero crazing or cracking and it appears to have new seals around the top and doors. Came with a Cover and the two FSM books filled with Post it notes on the pages where the previous owner either did work, or had it worked on.
Liberated it from a dealer yesterday for $8k after arguing them up an extra $1500 on another car we had sitting around that was probably not worth what they gave me for it.
Haven't had it long enough to worry one way or another about which is driven as it's kind of the off season in Indiana, but was curious how folks decided.
92 needs an Opti which I have in a box, just need to install over this winter on a day that's not -100 where I have the hours in the day free to do it.
Simple - the Aqua one is for summer driving, no snow or bad weather for her - she sits in the garage all winter. The red one is for Winter driving - she's an outside car, she sits just outside the garage the other one is INside. She'll rest during the summer months, probably under a cover to keep the sun off her tender (old) skin.
This may promote jealousy .. but I wonder if maybe the Aqua one might not be jealous of the Red one for getting out more.
Last edited by MaxDaemon; Jan 3, 2015 at 04:41 PM.
And yet the red car sits on dry concrete while the aqua car is sittin' in the snow...
Damn! Ya got me there.
That's actually her bay, she just came out to warm up, take a trip around the block, and pose for pictures. She scuttled back in as soon as the flashbulbs faded.
90 automatic coupe is my road trip car, everything works on her, rides real nice. the 86 droptop (with things not working) 4+3 , gets to play when wife gives me the "LOOK" for spending so much money on both of them...LOL...86 gets out a lot....Ziggy
So I bought a new 2008. Drove it a lot the first year then sold another car to buy a beater C4 vette to DD (therefore keeping mileage off of the '08 C6). Decided I liked the C4 a lot so I sold it to buy a better C4 ZR-1. The ZR-1 was too nice to DD so I bought a mustang 5.0. so, no, I don't really drive them as much as they ought to be.
Generally, I have had one that is a daily driver and a nicer one that gets driven less on nice days, shows, club road trips, shows, etc.
The blue '85 was my nice one for about 25 years. The gray '88 was my daily driver, but it was an automatic and I wanted an LT1 6 speed, so I got the white '94 to replace it.
Currently C5 6M is my daily driver and the dark red '95 6M is my nice one. I am not driving the long commute (about 100 miles/day) anymore, so I find myself driving either one a lot more often.
Multi Car Question...
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