Vert question...
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Racer
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Vert question...
Okay, I feel a bit stupid asking this...
Do all C5 Verts have a manual top or are some powered?
A friend is seriously thinking of picking one up and mentioned something about the top being a manual affair. I've always thought it was a simple button press or FOB function (window valet). Figure this is the place to find the facts
Hopefully he'll end up with his dream Vette. Actually, I may have recruited 2 additional friends into the Corvette ranks as well. So far only one of them has driven a Vette, I'm planning giving the other two a go behind the wheel of my Z soon... Though I’m sure how one will cope with the shifter. Well if she can muscle an airplane around, a car should present little problem…Of course there’s a lot less to hit up there
TIA & Mahalo
Mark
Do all C5 Verts have a manual top or are some powered?
A friend is seriously thinking of picking one up and mentioned something about the top being a manual affair. I've always thought it was a simple button press or FOB function (window valet). Figure this is the place to find the facts
Hopefully he'll end up with his dream Vette. Actually, I may have recruited 2 additional friends into the Corvette ranks as well. So far only one of them has driven a Vette, I'm planning giving the other two a go behind the wheel of my Z soon... Though I’m sure how one will cope with the shifter. Well if she can muscle an airplane around, a car should present little problem…Of course there’s a lot less to hit up there
TIA & Mahalo
Mark
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Manual my friend. C6's have power.
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From: Frederick, MD/ Washington DC
Originally Posted by Frozenfire
I learned how fast I can put the top up when I got caught in my first rain shower!
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Originally Posted by steve8
You can do the manual top faster than a power top.
Consumer Reports complains you can't put the top up without getting out of the car!! As Jay Leno says, "How fat and lazy have we become as a nation?"
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Originally Posted by VETTE26yearsVETTE
Consumer Reports complains you can't put the top up without getting out of the car!! As Jay Leno says, "How fat and lazy have we become as a nation?" Come on now, after all it aint all that bad 
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Originally Posted by Sully C5
Manual top = less weight
and less problems.The Monk!
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Originally Posted by NOS500
I thought i was cool when it only took me 15 seconds....
