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Old Jun 19, 2007 | 10:37 PM
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Is their something harmful in the rain? Your car will be fine.
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Old Jun 19, 2007 | 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by DefenderC5
Does anyone else think it is rediculous that a thread about whether or not to drive your corvette in the rain has over 6 pages of traffic (100+ posts)?

Maybe just me ...
Welcome to C5Gen... some things never change.

As far as the rain, if you want a museum piece, buy a Duesenberg.... there and way to many C5s floating around to make ANY difference in value if a cars been out in the rain or not.


Get out there and enjoy it... rain or shine.
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Old Jun 19, 2007 | 10:38 PM
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you have got to be kidding me? what a bunch of garage queen princesses. God forbid you drive the car in the rain and it gets dirty. Hell it got rained on waiting to be shipped more likely. I swear some of you people should just park the damn thing in the living room and drain the gas out of it. You could put a big projection TV in front of it and pretend you are at a Drive In Movie. Let me guess you all wear your corvette hat, watch, shirt, boxer shorts and socks when you drive it too huh?
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Old Jun 19, 2007 | 10:46 PM
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These rain threads sure get emotional,
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Old Jun 19, 2007 | 10:49 PM
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Do you guys know what rain is made out of? It's di-hydrogen monoxide (DHMO). If you inhale too much of the stuff, you'll die! Best to avoid it at all cost. You definitely want to keep it away from your car. Just google DHMO to read all about the hazards of it
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Old Jun 19, 2007 | 10:52 PM
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Do you guys know what rain is made out of? It's di-hydrogen monoxide (DHMO). If you inhale too much of the stuff, you'll die! Best to avoid it at all cost. You definitely want to keep it away from your car. Just google DHMO to read all about the hazards of it
that stuff is nasty, I hear fish actually **** in it.
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Old Jun 19, 2007 | 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by C5naples
These rain threads sure get emotional,
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Old Jun 19, 2007 | 11:13 PM
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I drive mine in the rain. I have a truck for the snow.
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 12:10 AM
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put a gazillion layer of zaino, adams, rejex or whatever you like.. and just hose it off when it get's dirty.
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 03:43 AM
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rain , snow , camping , gravel roads , I like the fact that I'm not afraid of my car being dirty .
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 11:07 AM
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well since I started this wet messs, I figured I'd add that the vette has seen rain 2x since!!!!!!!!!So im concluding that I wont go out of my way to drive it IN the rain, but if it gets wet , Im gonna just not worry so much about it
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 11:21 AM
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1. Pull car in Garage out of the rain.
2. Cover with a coating of Car Wash Soap.
3. Drive like BOH in the rain. (make sure it's a hard rain)
4. Pull back in garage.
5. Wipe dry.
6. Wax
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 12:09 PM
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If someone comes up to me and wants to inspect the underneath side of my car (I can't imagine why someone would want to), but IF they did, I would simply tell them.................NO! I don't drive it from underneath, I don't see underneath it, so why should I worry if it's clean or not?
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 12:18 PM
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It is an auto engineered to be driven in almost all weather types.
Deep snow is not recomended.

Drive it in the rain...it will not melt.
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 12:24 PM
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whats rain gonna hurt? it cant rust!
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 05:58 PM
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mines not a DD, but during trips it does see rain, thus it is a "rain car"
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