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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 07:52 PM
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Saw a guy this afternoon riding around with his Top down and Windows up. What's y'all opinion on this?
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 07:53 PM
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who cares.....I have done it....what's the big deal ?
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who cares.....I have done it....what's the big deal ?
Heh, nice car!
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Originally Posted by UM Rebel
Saw a guy this afternoon riding around with his Top down and Windows up. What's y'all opinion on this?
I love riding with the windows down, my vette isn't a verte, but my last car was. Sometimes it's just too hot with the top down so I'd go windows down, top up.
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My thinking is "it's his business"
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I do it all the time, who cares?
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Echo..who cares.

I've started out with my targa off and it turned cold. Couldn't stop so I put the windows up and heat on.
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Originally Posted by UM Rebel
Saw a guy this afternoon riding around with his Top down and Windows up. What's y'all opinion on this?
I just realized that I misread this the first time, I thought you said top up windows down, not top down windows up. Here in Florida we make fun of people for doing that all the time, usually they are tourists here in the winter riding with the top down when it's not really top down weather, I know a lot of people say "to each his own" but to me, I think it's GAY
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agre with the GAY... the tops down... why are the windows up? if ur that worried about ur hair turn on the dam AC
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Top down windows up is not for me, If others are okay with it then that's their buisness but you will not see my Vert with top down and windows up
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OK probably get a little burned but I do it.
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Did y'all notice, as soon as you press the button to open the top compartment, the windows go down. Guess the Corvette Gods thought they should be down.
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I carry a pellet gun in the car for people like that, It drives me nutz to see people do that, It is usually a stuck up snobby chick driving a beemer that doesn't want to get her hair messed up, and talking on the phone. Also there are woman in my Vette club that make their husbands put the windows up, my wife tried that on me once, I gave her a helmet and a winter coat!
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The ONLY time I have the windows up with the top down is in the rare occasion that:
I'm talking on my cell phone above 50mph
My wife is driving me crazy with her hair
It's windy as hell and my ear drums are about to explode

Other than that, the window is down like it's supposed to be with a vert.
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Top down, windows up, breaks sport car rules! But who really cares?
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Top down.....windows down...period.

Thank goodness the wife agrees with me. She just throws on a cap to control the hair and away we go!!
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Originally Posted by UM Rebel
Heh, nice car!
yes it is....thanks
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Originally Posted by drivestwin
Top down.....windows down...period.

Thank goodness the wife agrees with me. She just throws on a cap to control the hair and away we go!!
Same here, I think it is absolutely absurd to drive a convertible with the top down and the windows up...sorry.
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Originally Posted by UM Rebel
Did y'all notice, as soon as you press the button to open the top compartment, the windows go down. Guess the Corvette Gods thought they should be down.
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