Daily driving my vette....
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Melting Slicks
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From: Stillwater, OK
Daily driving my vette....
I Just hit 95k and every morning I get in this thing, it puts a smile on my face. I couldn't ask for a better DD!
I'm gonna drive this damn thing till the wheels fall off, and then guess what? I'm gonna buy another one!
I'm gonna drive this damn thing till the wheels fall off, and then guess what? I'm gonna buy another one!
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Melting Slicks
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From: Stillwater, OK
Originally Posted by joshscalf
Hell yeah! Me too!!! Except I'm no where near 95k...
Intermediate
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From: VALRICO FLORIDA
Originally Posted by masksqueeze
I Just hit 95k and every morning I get in this thing, it puts a smile on my face. I couldn't ask for a better DD!
I'm gonna drive this damn thing till the wheels fall off, and then guess what? I'm gonna buy another one!
I'm gonna drive this damn thing till the wheels fall off, and then guess what? I'm gonna buy another one!
mine is a 2000 and about to turn 98k and I it drive every day rain or shine.
Le Mans Master
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From: FL
The only things that have gone out on my car are the main crank pulley seperating, a front wheel bearing, oil pressure sending unit, clutch, a/c temps sendor (5 dollars), radiator cracked
The rest of stuff I've done to it is for fun
The rest of stuff I've done to it is for fun
Melting Slicks
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From: Bay Area CA
DD my 01 z and it has 55k on the clock. Just changed the belts and need to do a full system fluid flush in the next week or two. Other than that has been pretty trouble free although I am getting the active handling gremlins I need to track down. These threads remind me of my favorite car quote "Who are you saving it for?"
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Burning Brakes
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From: Notorious Miami sunny south florida
I just hit 60 k and if anybobys *** is going to ware out the leather seats it going to be mine. think about it you baby it for all those years then you sell it and somrone else dogs it and enjoys every thing you didn't do oh hell no Im going to enjoy it
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From: Tonganoxie KS
Hallelujah brother! I haven't had a car yet that didn't see 200k miles with me and I'll be damned if this Vette is gonna see another owner. I can't bear the thought of daily driving anything else!
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The C5 makes an excellent daily driver (unless you get a lot of winter weather - 
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Drive it! I have owned Corvettes since 1974 and have driven almost 500,000 miles in Corvettes.
When you’re dead you’re dead a LONG time. (I still own all of them; with my latest purchase - a 2003 with 5,446 miles – that will change over the next few years!)
Drifting
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From: Texas
Originally Posted by masksqueeze
I Just hit 95k and every morning I get in this thing, it puts a smile on my face. I couldn't ask for a better DD!
I'm gonna drive this damn thing till the wheels fall off, and then guess what? I'm gonna buy another one!
I'm gonna drive this damn thing till the wheels fall off, and then guess what? I'm gonna buy another one!
Melting Slicks
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From: Las Vegas Nevada
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Originally Posted by masksqueeze
I Just hit 95k and every morning I get in this thing, it puts a smile on my face. I couldn't ask for a better DD!
I'm gonna drive this damn thing till the wheels fall off, and then guess what? I'm gonna buy another one!
I'm gonna drive this damn thing till the wheels fall off, and then guess what? I'm gonna buy another one!
Me i am just going to put a new engine in. 2004 F/I with 41,000 miles.
Drifting
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From: Clanton AL
I bought mine in March with 56,103. This morning she read 69,814 miles. 13,711 miles in `6 months. 2285 appox. miles a month. That's 76.17 miles per day. I love to drive her daily, I don't think I could drive anything else.
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From: Durham North Carolina
Dd
I can't agree with you more!! I drive my Z everyday and I swear the smile on my face get's bigger every time. Now that I installed some insanely loud B&B Bullets, I'm hitting the gas every chance I get.
But why does every Stang, F-body, Firehawk, Coffe-can (Integra, civic, neon, 240sx) WRX STI, Evo Evolution 8 want to race me on the interstate???? They know they are going to lose!!
18K on my 04' Z06 and once the wheels fall off, I will buy another one!!
T
But why does every Stang, F-body, Firehawk, Coffe-can (Integra, civic, neon, 240sx) WRX STI, Evo Evolution 8 want to race me on the interstate???? They know they are going to lose!!
18K on my 04' Z06 and once the wheels fall off, I will buy another one!!
T