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drive vette in rain?
Melting Slicks
Joined: Dec 2004
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From: Somerset Co, NJ
Why not?
People get extremely **** about driving a Corvette in the rain like its going to hurt the car, or like its a one of a kind super rare, multi million dollar collector car. I know its a Corvette, but when you look at it, its a CAR!!! and its a mass- produced Chevy, just drive it whenever you feel like it!
(...and keep the traction control on!)
People get extremely **** about driving a Corvette in the rain like its going to hurt the car, or like its a one of a kind super rare, multi million dollar collector car. I know its a Corvette, but when you look at it, its a CAR!!! and its a mass- produced Chevy, just drive it whenever you feel like it!
(...and keep the traction control on!)
Drifting
Joined: Sep 2006
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From: st.louis mo.
Originally Posted by ebubman
no garage or trailer queen here; we drive our vette year round. have driven it in snow, slush, & slippery stuff. any snow over 2" puts us in our dd 06 honda pilot exl. bub
and i dont understand when people say they got caught in the rain,its a car not a motorcycle 
and they actually handle pretty well in wet weather
Melting Slicks
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From: clackamas oregon
dont know!!! mine is outside my work sitting in a nice down pour. handles very nice with the new firestone wide ovals in the rain also. and they are pretty darn fun in the wet when no one else is around
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Racer
Joined: Nov 2005
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From: san jose california
Originally Posted by 72vette_454
When I was in college I visited a friend in Austin. His parents had just gotten a new Corvette (1981 I think) and drove it up from Corpus Christi to pick up a van for their business. It started raining a lot and my friend's mom was concerned about driving in the rain.
We told her Vettes were notorious for being hard to control on wet roads. She was so scared they asked us to drive the Vette back to Corpus and they would fly us back to Austin.
HMMMMMM...Let me think about it. 2 college guys in a new Vette????
They even gave us some spending money for the trip.
Hell yeah. Only problem was my friend got pulled over in a small town doing 90 in a 45. They wouldn't buy it that Vettes are hard to control in the rain. But we had fun.
And Vettes are not hard to drive in the rain (to answer your question) - as long as you don't put your foot into it or drive harder than your tires can grip. Traction control helps the tire spin nowadays.
We told her Vettes were notorious for being hard to control on wet roads. She was so scared they asked us to drive the Vette back to Corpus and they would fly us back to Austin.
HMMMMMM...Let me think about it. 2 college guys in a new Vette????
They even gave us some spending money for the trip.
Hell yeah. Only problem was my friend got pulled over in a small town doing 90 in a 45. They wouldn't buy it that Vettes are hard to control in the rain. But we had fun.
And Vettes are not hard to drive in the rain (to answer your question) - as long as you don't put your foot into it or drive harder than your tires can grip. Traction control helps the tire spin nowadays.
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Racer
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From: san jose california
Originally Posted by c5chris
Speaking of rain, the last time it rained here, I saw a guy in a Viper R/T 10 that was caught in the rain without his top. He was on the freeway (stop and go rushour traffic) getting drenched. I felt bad for the guy. If I had a removable top, I'm sure that can happen to me. Thank goodness for my FRC, I have no flying roofs or caught-in-the-rain-without-a-roof incidents.
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Race Director
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From: Northern Illinois
Oldtimer
It's amusing that there are those who get upset over the fact that some of us don't drive in the rain. Why don't I drive in the rain? Because I choose not to. I'll take it one step further. I've never washed my car. I've done quite a bit of work to my car and it has custom paint. Am I ****? You bet, but that's my choice. Had one of the folks who thinks I'm silly for not driving in the rain made a few of my car payments, I might consider their input. 
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jan 2003
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From: Arlington TN
Mine is a weekend toy and I put it in a lot of shows, not a daily driver so that is the reason I don't drive it in the rain. I think that is what you will find with most who don't drive them in the rain. They bought the cars for events and weekend fun. I have more fun in the SUN
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Pro
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From: Galveston Indiana
Originally Posted by DevilDog II
I wipe my car down every time I drive it. I've never taken it on a long trip where I might pick something up on the windshield, except the usual bugs. To be honest, I seldom stray more than 30 miles from home with it.
Racer
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From: O'Fallon MO
Mine sits in the garage most of the time but not because I wont drive it in the rain. Its because its usually cleaner than my DD (05' Denali). Hell, my vette is much easier to clean though than the SUV. I have gotten caught in the rain a few times and it sucks when there is standing water due to me having Nitto Drag Radials on it. I need to get another set of Z06 wheels for my wide ovals. I usually take the vette to my weekend home (lake of the Ozarks) a few times a year due to it getting better than twice the miles per gallon (and its way more fun to drive).
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From: Northern Illinois
Oldtimer
Originally Posted by sooz
Yours is the kind of garage queen I will look to buy when I wear mine out from all the fun I'm having in it!!!
