Just curios, was the "wave" alive in the 50's, 60's, 70's and so on?

 

Great Question....................

 

All I know is that I didn't know about it untill after I bought the corvette.

 

Oh and

 

Bought my first Corvette, a 1967 in 1971 and have been looking, waving and smiling for years. We all waved back then. Today lots of folks don't know about the wave.

 

The "Wave" goes back to, at least, 1958 when we got our first vette. Been doing it ever since. I must say there are fewer people returning your sign driving C-4's and C-5's than the older models.

 

Hell ,I waved before I had a Vette

 

to the first car.

why do people think it is a "Corvette" only thing?

 

Back in the 1960's (1967 to be exact), sport car drivers waved at each other. I had an MG, waved at all two seaters.

Had a Corvette from 1968 to 1972, didn't wave at other cars at all.

 

I do the wave sometime when im driving my jeep,pickup or econo ponti sunfire

i guess not so much an accident, but not to get the wave back makes you wonder

also flashing the high beams too!

 

"The Corvette Wave"
Have you ever wondered where the slogan, "Save The Wave" came from and what it means? Below is an article that first appeared in the August/September 1969 issue of Corvette News. The article was entitled "Save The Wave". Remember, this article was written and published in 1969!


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SAVE THE WAVE
Ever since Corvette No. 00001 first met Corvette No. 00002 on the road, their drivers saluted each other with waves. Today, unfortunately, this grand and glorious tradition is wavering.

There's one item of standard equipment that comes as a pleasant surprise to every new Corvette owner. It's an instant wave of recognition he or she recieves when he meets one of their ilks on the road. The first time it happens, they will be taken by surprise. He immediately thinks:

He has been mistaken for Stirling Moss.
His lights are on.
He has just been given the bird.
Soon, however, the new Vette owner anticipates, indeed even relishes, encountering other Vettes as he drives. During this period, he experiments with his waves, running the gamut from the gaping "yoo hoo" to the ultra cool "two finger flip." He perfects his timing, making sure he affects neither a too-early wave, nor the jaded "oh brother" too-late variety. Determined not to be one upped, he even developes a defense mechanism for non wavers, usually settling on the "Wave"? My hand was just on the way to scratch my head" approach. (This is especially useful when you're not driving your Vette, but you forget, and like a dummy, you wave anyway.)

Indeed, one of the most perplexing problems facing a would-be waver is what to do when driving next to a fellow Vette owner. Passing him going in opposite directions is one thing. Greetings are exchanged, and that's that. But what happens when you pull up next to a guy at a light, wave, nod, smile and then pull up to him at the next light, a block later? Wave again? Nod bashfully? Grin self-consciously? Ignore him? Or take the chicken's way out and turn down the next side street? If you're expecting an answer, you won't find it here. Sad to say, some questions don't have any.


Girl-type Corvette drivers also have a unique problem: to wave or not to wave. This miss or misses who borrows her man's Corvette for the first time is immediately faced with this quandary. Should she wave first and look overly friendly, or ignore the wave and look like a snob? Most ladies who drive their own Vettes prefer to suffer the latter rather than take a chance of being misread. For this reason, all girls are excused for occassionally failing to return a well-meaning wave. So are new owners who are still learning the ropes.

There is no excuse, however, for a guy who refuses to return the wave, not out of ignorance, but of arrogance or apathy. While this type of behavior is the exception to the rule, it seems a few owners of newer models refuse to recognize anything older than theirs, while some others simply won't wave, period. Boo on them. These ding-a-lings don't seem to realize that they are helping to squash a tradition that had its beginnings back when most of us were still driving tootsietoys.

 

Here's one from OKC!

 

Hi to all, i'm a new-b 03 z06 . i had no idea about the wave the first day
but caught on shortly there after. i was trying to explain the wave to my wife (she thought it was kind of odd) then we went away for the weekend. She was introduced to the wave by so many and now thinks it's great, a nice way to engage your fellow neighbor, it's nice to have something so simple (the wave) be so positive .

Thanks for all the waves.....

 

When I had my '04 GTO I waved to fellow GTO owners, but it wasn't the same as when I got my first vette wave last month when i was driving it home for the first time!

 

SWEET!!!

 

.Here is a big wave to you all.
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: Here is a big wave to you all.:
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Well, I bought my first Corvette back around 1982 and the wave was alive and well then.

 

I think that is due to the mass availability of those generations, people simply dont know about it.

 

I remember back in 63 when I was a young pup and Pop's had a TR3 and everybody use to wave back then.