C4 Road Trip!
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Joined: Mar 2021
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YES!! I love roadtrip threads.. I've done many in the last 5 years with my 93. Seattle to Vegas and down to Phoenix. Phoenix to San Diego and back up to Seattle. Seattle to Skagway, Alaska. Actually lived in Tijuana with it for 2 years and crossed San Ysidro every day to work in San Diego. Going to Alaska took 4 full days and because it was through Canada and found out I wouldn't have cell service when I departed. It was for a job, quitting wasn't an option. Hundreds of miles without seeing another car or gas station. Pretty awesome stuff. Thats how our parents and grandparents did it. Definitely puts hair on your chest. Have fun, its gonna be a gas.
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Drifting
Joined: Mar 2017
Posts: 1,897
Likes: 165
From: Nashville TN
2017 C4 of Year Finalist
So I wanted to do some more editing before releasing this, but honestly I’m not having the time to do more. So I figure I’ll throw it up here and if you guys like it I might do more in the future. Feedback welcome.
Edit to say that this was entirely edited on my phone with free software. The interior car shots were all done with my phone as well, exterior was with a $50 old GoPro. I have a dash cam as well but the footage has proved annoyingly difficult to work with, so I haven’t yet. I say all this to let you know that it doesn’t take crazy expensive stuff to make good quality videos.
here’s the video from my trip:
Edit to say that this was entirely edited on my phone with free software. The interior car shots were all done with my phone as well, exterior was with a $50 old GoPro. I have a dash cam as well but the footage has proved annoyingly difficult to work with, so I haven’t yet. I say all this to let you know that it doesn’t take crazy expensive stuff to make good quality videos.
here’s the video from my trip:
Last edited by Bfenty; Oct 19, 2021 at 08:25 PM.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Aug 2018
Posts: 891
Likes: 175
From: PA
I drove my 91 Z to Bowling Green and back to southern PA. It's a 13 hour drive . No issues. Over at the ZR1 net registry we have an owner who has driven his ZR1's from Westminister , MD. up to Canada, across Canada, to Alaska , then back through the southwestern U.S. to Maryland . We are talking several 1000 miles. You can see his trips to Alaska on the net registry website. These cars will go lots of miles. I drove all my C4 Corvettes to Bowling Green and back quite a few times . The highest mileage car was a 96 LT1 coupe with over 80 k miles . I raced it at Beach Bend and drove home. No issues. I have never broken down on one of these extended mile trips.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Aug 2017
Posts: 6,942
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From: New Jersey
Looking forward to seeing this. The month dad bought ours he took it out to long Island to visit friends. That is the furthest it's been. I trust it for a haul it's just now getting the time off work is hard. I plan to take it to the NCM maybe next year. About 900 miles and 14 hours from my location.
Even the factory projector HID setups are annoying at times. I find the Acura SUV ones to be particularly aggressive. I'm also so used to the auto tinting mirrors in my daily that the vette, I agree, is almost annoying to drive around here. And don't even get me started about the a$$holes who drive around with 5 foot light bars on all the time pointed straight out. 
Two days ago, I drove my 90 LT5 from Tucson to Dallas in one shot, 999 miles in 14hrs, 10 minutes without opening the hood. I'm leaving tomorrow evening to go back, but will probably break it up and lay over Saturday night and get in Sunday afternoon. Last July, I drove it 5,108 miles on a 10 day trip, but only 6 of those days had any driving.
On both trips, I found that all the F-ing TRUCKS make driving a low sight-of-eye car like the C4 arduous and tiresome because visibility forward is blocked. My driving style is dependent on Situational Awareness, and when pretty much every car on the road limits SA to the rear bumper of the vehicle in front of you, it gets old quick. And everyone's g-damn daytime running lights and stupid-bright illegal LED and HID headlight conversions right at mirror level or lighting up the interior like a sound stage don't help either. I enjoy driving the car, but don't enjoy the driving itself anymore because of the constant annoyances. Too many TRUCKS, too many a$$holes, too many eyeball-burning lights in the mirrors even in daylight.
I hope you enjoy your trip more than I now enjoy mine.
On both trips, I found that all the F-ing TRUCKS make driving a low sight-of-eye car like the C4 arduous and tiresome because visibility forward is blocked. My driving style is dependent on Situational Awareness, and when pretty much every car on the road limits SA to the rear bumper of the vehicle in front of you, it gets old quick. And everyone's g-damn daytime running lights and stupid-bright illegal LED and HID headlight conversions right at mirror level or lighting up the interior like a sound stage don't help either. I enjoy driving the car, but don't enjoy the driving itself anymore because of the constant annoyances. Too many TRUCKS, too many a$$holes, too many eyeball-burning lights in the mirrors even in daylight.
I hope you enjoy your trip more than I now enjoy mine.
