I know this is not a tech issue but can anyone remember their "defining moment" when you knew you just had to have a vette?

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Yep. I was walking out of the gym heading to my truck as I noticed a car full of girls approaching. There was a vette in front of my truck. I stopped at the vette drivers door and bent down to tie my shoe when the girls passed. They saw me next to vette and all waved. I had one the next day.

 

I was 7 years old and got a ride in a black 1978 4-speed that my neighbhor rebuilt... i told him i woudl have one someday....

now i have 2!! I think a 3rd is in the near future... steel bumper '72

 

1960...can you believe that......
I'm not that old...or am I??????
tony :cheers:

 

When I got a ride in a 78 Vette that does 132 mph in the 1/4. The Vette has a 406ci that puts out 460fwhp NA, 660 fwhp on the bottle. You should have see the look on my face when the driver hit the gas. I had never been in a car that would throw you back like that. I was all smiles for the rest of the day. :)

 

fwhp??? WTH????

 

FYI!
fwhp= Flywheel Horse Power.

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fwhp??? WTH???? My defining moment: seeing my friend back in 10th grade roll up into the school parking lot in his new Polo Green 94, and how every girl in school wanted a ride in it. He made EVERYONE jealous as they all just stared in awe of the awesome machine he was driving. He never let me drive it, so I found my own...... :D :hurray: :D

 

Oh....... I'm stupid. I thought FWHP = Front wheel HP. :lol:

 

I guess I don't really have one. I just wanted an affordable car that'd kick @ss in every way. A friend recommended the "80s Corvette" and I started my research. I had never thought of buying one before that, because I had always assumed they were all 15K+ or something.

I always thought Vettes were for self-centered, insecure ******. Well, now I have one, go figure. :D


[Modified by CentralCoaster, 2:08 AM 6/20/2003]

 

Watching Cannonball Run 2 and the red vette is getting chased by the cops and then the vette slams on its brakes flips around and burns out .The 84-90 vettes are my favorite cars of all time.

 

Riding the school bus, back in the late 70s, the one middle school teacher had a late 70s orange vette that he parked outside infront of the school. I can remember looking at it through the bus windows every day for years.

Ahhh the good old days. If I could only go back to then with what I know now. :banghead: Man that would be awesome. :thumbs:


[Modified by ski_dwn_it, 9:44 AM 6/20/2003]

 

I always appreciated them, but never had the burning sensation to own one. Then two years ago a friend/co-worker bought a pristine '86 vert and threw me the keys so that I could drive it. I pulled out of the parking lot, and at the first opportunity I gave it some right foot ........ In an instant I was absolutely hooked and determined that I had to have one.

 

I was always hot and cold for Vette's.

I grew up in the 70s when they were pretty, but slow....

My first ride was in the late 70s in an early 70s coupe. 350 auto car... got a ride around the local YMCA parking lot!!! I was facinated, but still rather analytical about it...

a couple of years later, my big brother in FL got a 67 BB coupe... L71 tri-power 435hp/427!!!!!!!! What an animal. But I noticed that we got nothing but looks in that ride! I swear... everyone with a "fast" car wanted to run it... but Paul rarely took them on... street racing is not a smart move... but he would, on occasion, run it strongly in 1st into 2nd just to let them hear and feel it. Damn, that car was a ground pounder.

In the summer of 83, right after I graduated from high school, I got to DRIVE a brandy new 84!!! I was in love. That dash was SO cool. It was miles beyond my AMC Pacer that I was driving at the time! So low. So responsive. Damn. I was impressed.

So much so, a couple of years later, I went to my local Chevy dealer and asked them how good a deal we could make... the deal was steep, but doable, the real problem was INSURANCE. So I kept the Toyota I was driving.

Over the next few years, the desire deminished somewhat... went through a series of Honda's before reawakening the desire for something with rear wheel drive and a honk'n V8.

I looked at 300ZX TT's, Supra TT's, RX7 TT's.

I quickly discarded the Firebird/Camaro and Mustangs... I wanted a car with real good handling... and a better starting point - sure, they can be made to handle, but you spend the same $$ on a corvette's suspension, you get world class....

As I looked, the Corvette started to show its face... it compared favourably with the imports, without some of the turbo related issues... and the RX7, no matter how sexy, is a nightmare...

Then came the real surprise - $$$... Vette's were CHEAP. 10k less than the saem import. And being well over 25, the insurance was CHEAP.

So I started to go looking for one.

I found the one I bought about 2 weeks into the search.

And have not regretted one minute since!!!!


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