Adios
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Instructor
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 141
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From: Shell Knob, MO
Adios
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I bid you good bye. I have owned 5 Corvettes and sold my last yesterday. I was born on 6/30/53 so it seems right that my last vette be my 2003. Due to the world we live in where no one can have anything nice I had to sell. Men, I am sure some of you can identify with me as divorce victims that apartment life sucks. She got the house and the 92 model 10 years ago so don't even start ladies.
The reason for selling is simple. On Fathers Day after owning the car 4 days some Ahole decided to carve up the side of the car with a Key. $1000 deductible and two weeks out of my life I had the car back. Last Thursday I walked out and found the car sitting on blocks sans wheels and tires. Yep, I live in a upscale complex in an allegedly good area of town. If you know a good attorney I do want to sue the complex.
I have succumbed to buying a BMW 3 series coupe. It is nice, fairly non descript and has good performance. It is NOT a Corvette. (Read more like a Taurus) I will be parking it in a different place in case some of this was personal. I will miss you all.
Thanks,
Frank
I bid you good bye. I have owned 5 Corvettes and sold my last yesterday. I was born on 6/30/53 so it seems right that my last vette be my 2003. Due to the world we live in where no one can have anything nice I had to sell. Men, I am sure some of you can identify with me as divorce victims that apartment life sucks. She got the house and the 92 model 10 years ago so don't even start ladies.
The reason for selling is simple. On Fathers Day after owning the car 4 days some Ahole decided to carve up the side of the car with a Key. $1000 deductible and two weeks out of my life I had the car back. Last Thursday I walked out and found the car sitting on blocks sans wheels and tires. Yep, I live in a upscale complex in an allegedly good area of town. If you know a good attorney I do want to sue the complex.
I have succumbed to buying a BMW 3 series coupe. It is nice, fairly non descript and has good performance. It is NOT a Corvette. (Read more like a Taurus) I will be parking it in a different place in case some of this was personal. I will miss you all.
Thanks,
Frank
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Joined: Nov 2004
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From: Puyallup WA
Good Luck to you. 
(Although it's not the apartment complex's fault, unless they guaranteed that nothing would ever happen to your car, which if they did, is impossible to guarantee and incredibly stupid. I've been in property management/construction management for 7+years. It doesn't matter where you live, "stuff happens."
I had a previous car broken into in a rental neighborhood. I have also heard of cars being broken into and stolen, during the day, in very upscale neighborhoods.
It doesn't matter where you live, what kind of car you drive. If someone wants to damage it/take things out of it/steal it, they are going to, no matter what.)
Not trying to diminish what you feel, I do understand.
(Although it's not the apartment complex's fault, unless they guaranteed that nothing would ever happen to your car, which if they did, is impossible to guarantee and incredibly stupid. I've been in property management/construction management for 7+years. It doesn't matter where you live, "stuff happens."
I had a previous car broken into in a rental neighborhood. I have also heard of cars being broken into and stolen, during the day, in very upscale neighborhoods.
It doesn't matter where you live, what kind of car you drive. If someone wants to damage it/take things out of it/steal it, they are going to, no matter what.)
Not trying to diminish what you feel, I do understand.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 809
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From: FT. MYERS BEACH FLORIDA
Divorce....been there done that
I certainly hope your happier and perhaps someday things will work out so you
purchase another vett.
Best of Luck
and....know you will be welcomed back with open arms
I certainly hope your happier and perhaps someday things will work out so you
purchase another vett.
Best of Luck
and....know you will be welcomed back with open arms
Race Director
Joined: Aug 1999
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From: SE Pennsylvania
St. Jude Donor '03 thru '26
Oldtimer
Living in new world.
I'm 60, born in 1951, and there aint no way I'd give up my corvette. But I live in a house with a detached garage and I always park my DD in the driveway. But even if they go to the vette, they'd be leaving with a couple of 9mm receipts for their efforts. No matter how good they are, someone going to be leaking on the way out. I live on a dead end street so just braking into the garage is going set off the alarms. But I'm sorry, your right though, if you have something nice today, there's always some young thug willing to destroy it. 
