It cracks me up when you take people for a spin that have never been in a muscle car. When I was in High School everyone had a hot car it seemed like. It wasn't out of the ordinary for you to see a Camaro, Firebird, Cuda or similar car pull the front wheels right on the street where everyone was crusing. The late 70s, 80s and early 90's there just wasn't much out there with any power at all that a normal High School kid could afford. I took a younger guy for a ride right after I put my CAI, Headers and Manifold on. Nothing really special. I got on it from a rolling start and could hear him going Woooo. He says your making me grin. He had the biggest smile on his face I had ever seen. I took another guy for a ride who is used to Hot Rod bikes. He rides a Turbo Hyabusa. I did the same thing with him from a rolling start. He told me he had never been in a car that would do anything like that. He stated that thing really gives a guy the giggle factor. Can't wait to take those guys for a ride when I get done with my mods and put some slicks on.

 

I bought my Corvette a couple Novembers ago and did a Corvette "Toy Run" the next month. We were in a line of about 150 Corvettes driving in a tight formation. When driving in formation, you tend to follow pretty close to the car in front of you. Every time the car in front of me touched his brakes, my wife would gasp loudly, grab the handle on the dash and slam on the imaginary brake pedal on her side of the car.

After about the 10th time she did this, I told her she's nutting me up and WOULD cause me to crash. "CUT IT OUT!"

She's been a better passenger ever since.

 

Last summer,,on a beautiful Sunday morning the wife and I decided to go back to the small rural town that the farm I grew up on was near. After breakfast,,we went sight seeing on the back roads that I used to roam around on. Back then,,one of the big pass times was seeing who could leave the longest "patch" on the worn smooth oil/rock roads. Kinda went for bragging rights!! Seems it still is ,,just a little less so than back then. Now all you see are single track marks,,,so I thought,,just for old times sake,,let'em see what a REAL set looks like!!Gave a few revs(didn't need much with that road surface),let the clutch out quick and gassed it!! Instantly went through first,hit second,,and had to feather the throttle to keep from a wild fish taill!! Left quite a set of tracks!!! The wife just calmly said(with a wry little grin) "Happy now",,,,and with a BIG ole grin,,,said yeah!! Who says you can't go back!! Must add this was out in the middle of NOWHERE,,not a hazard to anything or anyone!!! Only risk was if I got carried away and put it in the ditch! Not gonna do that!! Felt 16 all over again!!:cheers :

 

We just moved into the neighborhood (yr ago) and I am always tinkering around the garage...let the car sit and idle while it warms up....swapping wheels.....hoods......yattayattayatta...

My wife is talking with my neighbors wife and she says that her husband always loved vettes and it was his dream car...hmmm....what better thing to do than to take him for a spin? Anyhow, I start up the car and he is already grinning. We ride down the road and I am taking it real easy....shes up to 150 degree now. He says man, i love the mods you've done (cam, boltons, wheels, hood). I said thanks. I stop in a parking lot and ask him....ok are you ready to have some fun? He said what? I open up the cutouts and now it sounds like freakin nascar. He lay on it, layiing some rubber and he is screaming like a little school girl.....followed by OMG, OMG, OMG...the whole time I am laughing. He wanted to do it more, I told him sure...you will have to pick up a set of tires for me

Last story...2 yrs ago....wife and I are going to the beach and we pulled up to a red light. I hear something like a pissed off bee. Well light goes green, we have the windows down, cruising and all of a sudden some white trash pulls up in a BMW with a hole in their muffler. They rev and laugh. My wife looks over her shoulder laughs (not with them, at them), rolls up her window and says punch it. Needless to say...bye bye

Ok, one more....my passenger, but both of us are out the car.

I pull up at a dealeership and the car is loud and has a nasty idle (a good way). I turn it off and three ladys say OMG, his car runs so horrible. Sounds like its about to die. Before I say anything, my wife says "nothings wrong with it. He has a big cam." lol. One of the proudest vette moments if not, the best.

 

I got my Vette very late in the fall a few years ago. The only drive I had the first year was the drive home. Snow came the next day and it sat in the garage all Winter. When Spring came I was very excited for my first drive. My son and I went out on the maiden voyage. When I was younger I had several muscle cars so I was well aware of what they could do, or at least I thought I was. Came to a intersection that turned on to a main road and thought I'd turn the tires over a little and impress my son. Turned off the traction control, reved it up, started the corner, dumped the clutch and the car was side ways so fast that it scared the heck out of me. Course I never let on and a long line of why you should never do that preaching to my son followed.

Think he listened ????

 

Great stories!

 

While on a quick 20 minute break at work, a fellow co-worker who owns a new Mustang GT Asked to take a quick trip in my 98 to "see if the pick up is as good as his mustangs" needless to say as soon as we got on the highway and had enough room to open it up? I punched it from 60 to 120 and it was all i could do to keep him from climbing out of the passenger seat he was so scared! He never questioned "if my corvette was as fast as his mustang " ever again....