http://www.corvetteactioncenter.com/history/wave.html

Stumbled across this short read about the "wave." Felt somewhat compelled to send it to the C5 guy acrosss the hall

 

Damn. Hard to believe the article was written back in 1969. It's as true today as it was then.

 

thanks for the link

 

 

Wow, it's like history repeats itself or something, heck, I wasn't even born when the article was written, much less when the tradition was started!

 

link

 

I've ran across that article myself...some people with vettes really need to read it that for sure.

 

Yea I've read that before too. It is amazing how the tradition has been carried forward today. I have to say as well, that you really don't see the wave that much anymore though. Much of the time you feel like a real dumb a__ giving someone a wave and they just cruise right by. I've actually stopped doing it the last couple months though, its almost an automatic response when you see a fellow vette owner so you have to conscienceously keep from waving.

Its too bad though, something as a little pride that goes with ownership is being lost.

 

Nice little read. I think alot of vette owners these days know nothing of the heritage surrounding the car they drive. Now days alot of people are just to busy to care. They just bought a vette because it looks cool or classy or they just wanted a sports car and stumbled upon a Corvette, without a clue.
So, I just wave without care for sake of tradition. To any model of Corvette. I dont really even watch or anticipate a return. I did wave to a C5 driver just yesterday in slow traffic where he was in the oncoming lane and we were practically crawling, we made eye contact and I gave a nod and a wave and he just frowned and turned his nose up and his glance away, looking like Paul Schaffer from the Letterman show on crack. I just chuckled inside and thought "what a choad" and just moved on. Not 3 minutes later I rolled up on a sweet C3 and had the same exchange but this cat was cool and our waves were mutual. I was thinking "Yep, my car is newer, but you're car is still beautiful" And he was probably thinking "whoa, a C4 driver thats not a choad"

I dont at all understand the year model discrimination. They are all Corvettes. Maybe it's just that the richer class driver of the newer models doesn't ever have to raise the hood, and if needed, they just take it to the dealer. They dont care about heritage. They just have a new classy Richie Rich status car. Whereas us older model guys may appreciate more the road our fellow vetters have traveled to get or keep their cars where they now are. Hence the comradeship. I dont know for sure and I do know it's not ALL of the new model guys. Alot of C5 guys are super cool. So, it's up in the air. It's probably just the fact that the world is getting more and more callused with every passing day.

In conclusion to my rant. I say if you care about the heritage wave but if not, thats cool. The other guy probably will just chuckle and think to his or herself "what a choad" and move on. Either way, It's ALL GOOD to be a Vette Captain.

 

As a former C4 owner who waves at every Vette (Generation does not matter) who now owns a C5, I have to tell everyone this...
South Florida is full of C5's. I wave to all of them. It does not matter if you are in a C4 or C5, they just don't wave back. These are also the people who don't know about the forum, because if they did know about it, they would be waving as this topic is visited at least once a week.

Start telling every Vette owner about this site. I turned on 3 or 4 people last week alone. Hopefully, they joined.

 

I didn't think yours was a rant, more so a good observation. Albeit my curiousity got to me so I looked up the word choad and was a bit surprised at its definition. Good one you got a way with using the substitute for the f word numerous times. Learn something every day I guess... : "Speakers of the Hindi, Bengali and Gujarati languages have confirmed that `choad' is in fact an Indian vernacular word equivalent to `f__k'; it is therefore likely to have entered English slang via the British Raj."

I did not know that.

 

Had to add my two cents. Today coming home (I live on Hill Air Force base), a passed along line of people turning to go out the gate on their way home. In the line was a red C4, about 5 cars back was a nice C5. I waved at the guy in the C4, he looked at me and then looked away (don't know what that was all about). Before I could wave at the C5, he popped his hand out the window and waved; which I naturally returned.

From what I've encountered here in Utah, it doesn't seem to matter what year they're driving, there are just a lot of people who feel that they're too good to acknowledge anyone else.

 

Well maybe this was an inappropriate term then. I own a skatepark and am around this younger skater crowd all the time and sometimes it rubs off. They use the term constantly as a replacement for "idot", "jerk", "moron" or for just a person that nobody likes in general. Also, I dont want to turn this into anatomy 101 but I'm told that the slang term also supposedly defines the blank patch of flesh between the rectum and *******. In any case I felt it accurately described a non-waver.

 

Nah not at all, actually I presumed it meant one of those you mentioned, I was just surprised when I looked the darn word up and what it said. Then I had to laugh. I dunno about the anatomy thing, I think I'll let that one alone LOL...

 

Wow, I didn't even know that had a name. Good to know the next time it comes up in conversation...

 

Lol, I always thought a "choad" was a EXTREMELY small winky. I forget what I hear that patch of skin was called...

 

LOL! Well I asked the source and thats what they said.
Now I'm sure it will be the "buzz word" at the office for weeks.

LOL TIMSPEED, thats why that guy BOB on your avatar needed enzyte!
"Dave whistles the lil' tune we're all sick of"

 

Looking good!

 

No need not to make a buck off this. How about printing up some "Show Me Your Choad" T-shirts? That'll break the ice...

PS: Who needs Off-Topic when you've got C4 General?

 

So I can yell 'choad', 'choad','choad' when I hit my finger with a hammer or when my wrench slips off and I bust my knuckles.
Kewl... Let me practice a little .....
'choad','choad','choad','choad','choad', 'choad','choad','choad','choad',

There, I feel better now.