Keep your c5 or sell up?????
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From: Sarasota FL
St. Jude Donor '25-'26
I have typically bought 3 year old garage queens with 12,000 miles and drive them to 40,000 miles and look for another.
I would buy a C6 in a heartbeat and planned to do so this spring until the LS3 came out for 2008. Its the depreciation on the new car that is holding me back. Yet I do not want to wait 2 years to find that garage queen again. Still trying to decide what to do.
I am currently starting the fourth summer with my 2002 vert (32,500 miles).
I would buy a C6 in a heartbeat and planned to do so this spring until the LS3 came out for 2008. Its the depreciation on the new car that is holding me back. Yet I do not want to wait 2 years to find that garage queen again. Still trying to decide what to do.
I am currently starting the fourth summer with my 2002 vert (32,500 miles).
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From: Canon City Co
St. Jude Donor '11,'13
"I voluntarily took 60 days off from OT"
Kept my black/black 99 Coupe.....Sold my silver/black/black 02 Convertible...(both were paid for)....then bought a triple black 99 Convertible for $7K less than I sold the 02 for....Put the $7K towards my new black/black C6 Z-06!!!..Kinda gives new meaning to the term "TRIPLE BLACK" doesnt it??
...Besides, I cant live without a car payment...I need an incentive to go to work everyday....for five more years that is!!
Dan Samento
Canon City, Co
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The "N-CROWD"
...Besides, I cant live without a car payment...I need an incentive to go to work everyday....for five more years that is!!Dan Samento
Canon City, Co
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The "N-CROWD"
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From: Ideals are peaceful...History is violent...St.Charles, MO.
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'12 thru'22
This is my 3rd 'Vette and it's a keeper.I would really like a C6Z even more so after I drove one but,I won't give up the C5 for it.I'll just save
up again and continue to wait until their more within my budget.
up again and continue to wait until their more within my budget.
Melting Slicks
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From: Elizabethtown
I would only add a C6z. I would really like to keep my C5 for as long as God lets it, As soon as I get a C6z I will tear down the C5 and replace old parts and hopefully change the Engine and Add some go fast goodies.
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From: Fletcher North Carolina
I have, knowingly or not, wanted a Corvette for the last 40 years. I only last June was able to fulfill that dream, and I'm so very pleased with it; wish I'd done it sooner. I look at the C6s, but they just don't appeal to me; I'm keeping my AE coupe forever, it'll be my one and only Corvette.
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From: Canon City Co
St. Jude Donor '11,'13
"I voluntarily took 60 days off from OT"
Fortunately for me that's EXACTLY what the guy that owned my new (to me) C6 Z-06 did.....The Z only had 148 miles on it when he "pulled the trigger" on a new Ferrari!!!....He definitely had more money than brains!!!!....He bought the Z brand new on 070707...Traded it in a mere 6 months later after it had sat in his garage for most of that time...again, it only had 148 miles on it...He had NEVER put gas in it...It still had half the original tank of gas when I bought it on 020408!!!!....I figure it cost him about $15K to put those 148 miles on the car!!!!
Dan Samento
Canon City, Co
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From: Hays Ks
That trade was a no-brainer huh? lol. I used to have a mustang too. No comparison.
Yeah, I just dont like the body style of the C6. I was lucky enough to be in the position to either by a new 08 C6 coupe (the convertible was just too much) or get a C5 vert. I bough an 00 vert 6spd with 80k miles. No one can deny the C6 is an awesome car. Hell, any vette is an awesome car. It just comes down to what you like.
You know something. It just puts a smile on my face when I see a young kid driving any American Muscle Car instead of some ****box fwd. LOL!
Yeah, I just dont like the body style of the C6. I was lucky enough to be in the position to either by a new 08 C6 coupe (the convertible was just too much) or get a C5 vert. I bough an 00 vert 6spd with 80k miles. No one can deny the C6 is an awesome car. Hell, any vette is an awesome car. It just comes down to what you like.
You know something. It just puts a smile on my face when I see a young kid driving any American Muscle Car instead of some ****box fwd. LOL!
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From: Palmdale, Ca----- 2009 Cyber Gray 4LT A6 F55 452 RWHP 422 RWTQ- RIP 1998 C5 734 RWHP & 585 RWTQ-----
Keep it and slap on a SuperCharger and discover better performance in a timeless lined Vette!
They will never go out of date, especially with those lines!
Do a small P1SC and you will be living in a whole new Vette
Thanks,Matt
They will never go out of date, especially with those lines!
Do a small P1SC and you will be living in a whole new Vette
Thanks,Matt
Burning Brakes
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From: Indianapolis Indiana
since I have 3 C5s guess I'll keep 'em
did play with a dealer in March since they were running o% for 5 years
with GM suppliers discount and 0% it'd ne $1022 per month and if I traded in a C5 it'd been about $650 a month
kept my C5 and bought 4.10 gears :<)
did play with a dealer in March since they were running o% for 5 years
with GM suppliers discount and 0% it'd ne $1022 per month and if I traded in a C5 it'd been about $650 a month
kept my C5 and bought 4.10 gears :<)
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From: P-town Baby! Virginia
I really like the C5 styling...so I will stick with the C5 platform...regardless of what else I add to the stable. The C6 really doesn't do it for me.....maybe a Z...but that's a lot of jingle....then I think about what I can do with one of my C5's for alot less...that keeps me faithful! 
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From: Bel Air (by way of Fort Worth, TX) Maryland
St. Jude Donor '12 thru '21
Might be the solution to my problem! There you go giving me good ideals again
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From: Liberty Hill Texas
I plan on keeping my C5 for VERY LONG time. I don't have the "need latest and greatest" issue for me. Personally, I really like the looks of the C6 too. I like the harder lines that it has, etc.. A lot of the things folks complain about with the looks I think are fine.
I just want to keep my C5 till it has more HP then Peter Pans "stock" C5 has
I just want to keep my C5 till it has more HP then Peter Pans "stock" C5 has
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From: Illinois/Ca
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Burning Brakes
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From: Ohio
Don't take this the wrong way but when I can find the right C6Z06 at the right price, "Old Slik" is history. I will strip him down, have one hell of a parts sale and move on!!
I do love the C5, but at some point regardless of what anyone says most of us will move on!
Just my .02
Slik
I do love the C5, but at some point regardless of what anyone says most of us will move on!
Just my .02
Slik
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From: Schaumburg IL
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St. Jude Donor '06-'10, '13
I was leaning toward getting a C6, but I just cant get past the fact that I dont like the way it looks..I still just love the lines of the C5 so much better. Plus I've got a good deal of $$$ in my car anyway that still keeps in new for me
Plus I've got a good deal of $$$ in my car anyway that still keeps in new for me