I think you're bored with your commute.

 

I know what you mean. I used to be married to Pam Anderson and...............

Remo

 

Wow! So what happens when a Viper gets old, are you going to go and get a F430? Hopefully banks will throw money at you easily like they do us lackluster vette owners

PS im only kidding you...i hope you and the other guy find your luster with your car(s) once again. Maybe take it out for a nice country drive or something, whatever makes you re-discover that feeling again.

I could almost sort of relate until something happens and i snap out of it. Maybe its looking around at the boredom other people drive, or at the stoplight looking over at a car next to me and see some kids drooling over my ride, staring at my wheels, giving me the etc..its all good. and Chicks dig it...that helps.

cheers

 

Sometimes I wonder too. I have a 70-80 mile per day commute and my vette is my DD.

All I have to do is go a couple of days and not drive my vette and then I realize that even after having a C4 and now C5 as my DD for going on 5 years now, I love to drive them.

Maybe you should consider wainting until spring when the weather is nice and put the top down and go for a weekend drive.

Then decide.

Good luck.

 

Drive it more, you would by an 04 Vette to drive not as an investment. Any what 04 car has appreciated out there, a prius maybe?

 

yes i am board no not really just don't drive it enough and now my wife's
04 blazer lost a engine she is using it for a dd now i can head when its snows i guess i may consider sell her[ not wife ]

 

I can sympathize with the thread topic (a little)...Got my '03 as a daily driver and then got tired of cleaning it EVERYDAY so I bought a replacement DD and the C5 became a garage queen. Now I only seem to drive her on weekends IF it's not raining (refer to the aforementioned "cleaning"). However...I recently drove over four (4) hours in the C5 just to get my wife some Sweet Tea that she had been craving from a place in my hometown...topless, 1000 watts screaming, heavy on the GO pedal and I had an epiphany. "Right place, Right time & Right Vehicle" I realized I wasn't bored with the C5 at ALL, it serves a purpose for me...it's like comfort food, it doesn't matter how MUCH I drive it, just matters that I enjoy myself WHEN I'm driving it. I especially love all the comments at the gas pump from the guys who wish they had one, always makes you feel good when you have something that makes people envious and I don't care if that makes me sound shallow!!!

If your Corvette serves a purpose for you then that's all that matters, if it doesn't then find something in this world that does! We should ALL find what makes us happy and do it to death!!!

 

I guess that I kind of feel that way. I use my other car as a DD and just don't have the time for this car. I really don't enjoy spending an entire Saturday wash and waxing, shampooing carpets, conditioning leather...all of that. So the car has suffered in that respect. I did a thorough cleaning, including clay bar in the fall, so it's still a very nice car, but I just don't enjoy the car anymore. When I look at it, I just see a lot of work and not the fun. Honestly, I think that I did start to find the car less enjoyable after I had the stingers put on. I didn't like how quiet the stock exhaust was, but the stingers are pretty damn loud and just seem to make the drive even less enjoyable. Between having a convertible, which is louder than a coupe and the stingers it's just tough sometimes to have a normal conversation in the car. It's just really strange, I never thought that I'd feel this way about the car.

 

Just borrow your neighbors POS to drive around in when you'd normally be driving your boring old C5...you'll snap out of it!

I've missed driving mine so much that I've taken it off the jacks twice when the weather has been snow free and a few prior days of rain (to wash the salt off the roads) before the perfect sunny day. Drove it New Year Eve day...ALL DAY...trying out the new MODS I had just put in. Heaven could only be that good!

 

modding is the answer.

 

Which would be great, but I don't have the expendable cash that many on here do. The mods that have been mentioned are way too expensive for my wallet. Although it would be a lot of fun I'm sure!

 

switch the stingers out for a set of Coras Indys and then the drive won't be that anoying for you.

also, with the weather being as mild as it's been, why is the Vette put away for the winter?
drive it to work sometimes!
but get rid of the anoying exhaust first!

 

Wow. You do sound like a Porsche kind of guy. Sorry we kids "killed the prestige" by taking advantage of the flooded market for used C5s and favorable interest rates.

Personally, if I weren't interested in taking it to the strip or track, I'd get bored with my C5 too. It sucks to watch something sit in the garage depreciating, no mattter how shiny it is. I guess I "just wanna go fast."

I think it's spectacular that a world-class performer can be had by a guy of my means who REALLY drives it. Sorry to ruin it for you.

 

It sounds like you've got your mind made up...I'm assuming you were subconciously hoping for someone to speak "Magic Words" to you that might make you change your mind, maybe not? In any case...stop wasting your time and money (both are of course precious) and move on to something else...if not a vehicle then mabey a hobby. Think of it this way...if you had cancer and were given six (6) months to live by multiple Doctors....What would you want to do?

Not meant to offend.... just trying to help.

 

What did Kid Rock say about 24 carat....oh sorry...family forum.

Nevermind

 

If all I did was drive on the street, I think I would get bored too. However, take her to the track & see how driving can quickly become an addiction. Life is what you make of it! IMHO to own a Vette and just cruise around...well you can do that in a lot more comfort than a Vette.

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Great responses! And it seems MOST of us can relate (at one time or another) to the topic of this thread. Lots of good answers here. I wanted to sell mine last year (the Wife wouldn't let me!) and later in the year I was diagnosed with a golf ball sized brain tumor that was the main reason I didn't feel like doing anything, and lost interest in the car. That was August and not long after the surgery I got the passion back and started enjoying the Vette again doing mods, more club activity and just living more of life in general. All of the stated reasons for wanting to sell the car described in the above posts I also felt and used them as good reasons to bail. In hindsight I'm glad I didn't, and once again the Wife was RIGHT! Nothing about the car had changed or the club or anything else but MY attitude toward the car. Once I got to finding things about ownership that I got pleasure from again (light modding) and found the Forum, everything that had drawn me back to Vettes (I didn't own one from 1980 to 2001 when I ordered this '02) came back. So let's just hope you are just having some guilty thoughts about owning a fairly expensive machine that doesn't get used as much as most other cars we have or have had, and will see that this is OK, and realize that just because some of us don't get alot of "driving" time on our cars, the time spent with it doing all the other things this "lifestyle" brings is well worth the price of ownership.

 

Well, is the car paid for or at close to it? You could keep making the payment into a mod fund. A car is just a car for so long. Once you start modding it becomes a hobby, and ceases to be boring.

 

I think that's why so many of us are mod crazy . so the car is always new to us . this is going to sound stupid or strange . in a weird way I like putting the car away for the winter that way it's like a new car in the spring . I get tired of cars real fast after 3 years good bye to it . so I lease my everyday car . I have had the vette for 5 years and I am yet tired of it so driving it part time must work for me !

 

I agree with the guys who mention the HPDEs, although I'll warn you, while that cranks up the fun exponentially on the track, street driving and general ownership will be EVEN MORE BORING!

HPDEs ruined the car for me on the street. It simply isn't fun anymore. It really has little to do with it being a vette. Street driving is just A to B after having been on the track for a few years.

I love the HPDEs, but have trouble doing enough of them ($$) to keep it exciting year round. Alot of the rest of the time the car just sits in the garage. Like the OP, a nice day, roof off, all that jazz is still fun, but general ownership has lost its luster.