Pulled over in a parking lot!!!
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Pulled over in a parking lot!!!
I was teaching my wife to drive my 6 speed Z06 in an empty parking lot in the evening. Lot was behind a hospital and I saw 3 local patrol cars at the hospital on biz. 3rd unit noticed us and wheeled around in the lot facing/blocking my wife with lights on. Scared the heck out of us!
Turns out they figured that was what we were doing but one had just bought a C5 Black Vertte and he wanted to talk Corvettes. Really nice guys. Puts a different face on law enforcement. Now the wife was a bit rattled when we started again (stalled the car in first) but I couldn't blame her....
Turns out they figured that was what we were doing but one had just bought a C5 Black Vertte and he wanted to talk Corvettes. Really nice guys. Puts a different face on law enforcement. Now the wife was a bit rattled when we started again (stalled the car in first) but I couldn't blame her....
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Originally Posted by rcingram
Bad omen, God is telling you not to let her drive it! But.. if you must, what better way than at a hospital parking lot
Sounds like she is learning to drive a stick on a great car though!
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Originally Posted by leonm47
See not all of us are a-holes. We have six guys on my dept that have Vettes and all of us are Vette conscious. Tell the little lady good luck on her driving lessons.
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Originally Posted by leonm47
See not all of us are a-holes. We have six guys on my dept that have Vettes and all of us are Vette conscious. Tell the little lady good luck on her driving lessons.
Good man! 
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From: Rowlett Texas
Originally Posted by leonm47
See not all of us are a-holes. We have six guys on my dept that have Vettes and all of us are Vette conscious. Tell the little lady good luck on her driving lessons.
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Originally Posted by leonm47
See not all of us are a-holes. We have six guys on my dept that have Vettes and all of us are Vette conscious. Tell the little lady good luck on her driving lessons.
It is a tribute to the car that it is so easy to drive. Took a couple of times to practice in a parking lot and now she is starting to drive on the street. My wife tried at first in our daughter's Miata to no avail. The Miata is a fun car but it has an unforgiving clutch on the 6 sp. Our daughter always gives me a hard time; says such a powerful car like a Vette should be harder to drive...
It was lights only on the patrol car and it met us head on (slowly, of course) to block our way. It was very much appropriate (imho) that they checked us out......
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We'd all be more pissed if they let someone that obviously didn't know how to drive the car well steal it. I'm glad they checked it out. I hope you told them about CF.
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Originally Posted by Hoichi
I was teaching my wife to drive my 6 speed Z06 in an empty parking lot in the evening. Lot was behind a hospital and I saw 3 local patrol cars at the hospital on biz. 3rd unit noticed us and wheeled around in the lot facing/blocking my wife with lights on. Scared the heck out of us!
Turns out they figured that was what we were doing but one had just bought a C5 Black Vertte and he wanted to talk Corvettes. Really nice guys. Puts a different face on law enforcement. Now the wife was a bit rattled when we started again (stalled the car in first) but I couldn't blame her....
Turns out they figured that was what we were doing but one had just bought a C5 Black Vertte and he wanted to talk Corvettes. Really nice guys. Puts a different face on law enforcement. Now the wife was a bit rattled when we started again (stalled the car in first) but I couldn't blame her....
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Good thing she got an early experience on "Doesn't mean you're in trouble just because a cop stops you"... Wish more people would remember that....
Good luck to her... on favor, please let us know when she starts driving on her own...
.... We'll make sure to stay off the sidewalks!
Good luck to her... on favor, please let us know when she starts driving on her own...
.... We'll make sure to stay off the sidewalks!
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Originally Posted by leonm47
See not all of us are a-holes. We have six guys on my dept that have Vettes and all of us are Vette conscious. Tell the little lady good luck on her driving lessons.
hmmmm, six (6) out of ???? many.
JK!!!!!!
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From: Bakersfield CA
Originally Posted by Garrett FRC
You dont live in So Cal I can tell you that right now! Good to know texas has nice cops!
Yeah, they don't mess around here either.
Kind of a, "Shoot first, ask questions later" policy.......
P.S. - The best way to show a person how to drive stick is to go get a manual tranny rent-a-car......then you can Fu$K it up as long as you pay the measly $18 insurance, hahaha
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Originally Posted by Ikester
Now you can tell wifey youll need a rodney built tranny after all the damage she caused while learning. 
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The local police down here are pretty decent. They wave and I have not had one tail me to see if I did anything wrong. When we have an event several stop by to chat and admire. Good guys really. I am sure there are probably a couple of dicks but I haven't seen any yet. Now when I was up in Maryland they were real azzholes.
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Nice that they didn't give you a hassle.
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From: Raymore Mo
Originally Posted by rcingram
Bad omen, God is telling you not to let her drive it! But.. if you must, what better way than at a hospital parking lot