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Old Feb 20, 2010 | 06:42 PM
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Well I fell to the pressure from my Wife and bought a C5. A 2001 Z06. 80k miles on it. Handles and drives great. The paint is awesome.





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Old Feb 20, 2010 | 06:46 PM
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Good Find..... I hope you enjoy the Z06
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Old Feb 20, 2010 | 06:47 PM
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Just the opposite with my wife. I had to pressure her to buy mine.
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Congratulations on your new vette!

Any wife that encourages her husband to buy a vette is a keeper!

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Congrats good lookin vette and a great wife
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Old Feb 20, 2010 | 07:46 PM
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Yeah, I convinced him to buy himself one, since he bought me the Mag Red 'vert back in July He has a Ruby Red C4 that our son is going to be buying from us, so he needed his Corvette fix. LOL

BTW, now that we both have C5's, I'm getting my own user name ... THNXHON.

Mrs. joeb1kinobe (married for 30 years to the most wonderful man in the world!)
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Very nice find - the car looks great. Congrats and enjoy your new ride.
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BTW, that car is *ALMOST* as hot as you are!
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congrats man , I purchased my first c5 recently 02 vert also yellow
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nice car, great wheels ! ENJOY
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nice Z-06... just barely broken in...
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Yep, they're both keepers (wife and Vette). Congratulations.

Welcome to the C5 world.

Also welcome THNXHON to the forum. We look forward to more posts from the 2 of you.
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Congrats and enjoy that new vette

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Congrats and you got a beauty
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Welcome to the club. It only gets better and better with Corvette ownership!
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