Where does your interest lie
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Where does your interest lie
Do you dragrace, roadrace, landspeed race, autocross, rallye, show, attend cruises, travel or rub and polish on your dream car until the paint is worn off? Hope you don't just let it sit in your garage saving it for your wifes next husband!
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I enjoy modifying my C5 to my taste, attending/participating in car shows and "spirited" driving that takes advantage of the car's design.
Most of my driving is on the weekend and although she is not a "garage queen", she certainly owns the garage!
Most of my driving is on the weekend and although she is not a "garage queen", she certainly owns the garage!
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My vettes, all of them have the same purpose....to straighten horizonal curves, flatten the vertical curves, pass with authority, and look and sound cool on a slow roll through town.
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Well said!
I have been down the drag strip a few times and around Texas Motor Speedway as well. A few road courses are ahead of my future in my Vette.
Modded my car for my thrill, no one elses. Entered some charity car shows, not to win but to be there!
Bought my Vette to drive it!
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I know I have not been driving mine enough and hope to change that this year. I like to take cruises, go to shows, and would like to take it down the 1/4 mile track some day.
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Cruises with the local club (Tulsa Vette Set) and around town with She Who Must Be Obeyed when temperatures are above 60 (about 6 weeks from now). Road trips a couple of times a year and some tinkering and polishing rounds out the activities. My '02 is setting on 34K miles and I plan to trade in '22 for a C8 regardless of the mileage.
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Daily driver (supercharged ), go on cruises, have yet to 'show' it as I'm not quite done with all my mods.
I'd love to track it, maybe landspeed it.. but since it's a 'vert a lot of those places would likely require a rollbar, which I don't feel like messing with.
If someone could make a (potentially removable) rollbar setup for the vert that doesn't require modification to panels or the seat being forward (6'4", so that's not an option) for a good price, I'd go for it.
), go on cruises, have yet to 'show' it as I'm not quite done with all my mods. I'd love to track it, maybe landspeed it.. but since it's a 'vert a lot of those places would likely require a rollbar, which I don't feel like messing with.
If someone could make a (potentially removable) rollbar setup for the vert that doesn't require modification to panels or the seat being forward (6'4", so that's not an option) for a good price, I'd go for it.
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Where does your interest lie
I have spent all of my car time and car budget on getting my 03 SS Silverado truck ready to go to Wilmington, Ohio on April 26 to run the Ohio Mile landspeed rac event. My goal is to set three landspeed records if the weather cooperates.
I already have a Volant cold air kit in my shop and am researching exhaust right now. Then my 20,000 mile 98 c5 will go to Hunters Performance Solutions for an hp tuneup, headers,valve train work and throttle body porting. Then when the weather cools maybe late Sept. to Paradise dragstrip for some 1/8 mile dragracing. I bought my first Vette in 1971 at 19 yrs. old and was dragracing it with end three weeks. I want to find out when a track event will be held at the Talledega motor speedway,A corvette on the 2.66 mile track should be very exciting not to mention fast.The work I have planned should add 50+ hp and not take away from regular daily use.
I have been an owner of c1,c2,c3 and c5's for fourty years and they are additive aren't they? I am surprized there has not been anyone that autocrosses, lots of clubs hold events in large parking lots .
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I already have a Volant cold air kit in my shop and am researching exhaust right now. Then my 20,000 mile 98 c5 will go to Hunters Performance Solutions for an hp tuneup, headers,valve train work and throttle body porting. Then when the weather cools maybe late Sept. to Paradise dragstrip for some 1/8 mile dragracing. I bought my first Vette in 1971 at 19 yrs. old and was dragracing it with end three weeks. I want to find out when a track event will be held at the Talledega motor speedway,A corvette on the 2.66 mile track should be very exciting not to mention fast.The work I have planned should add 50+ hp and not take away from regular daily use.
I have been an owner of c1,c2,c3 and c5's for fourty years and they are additive aren't they? I am surprized there has not been anyone that autocrosses, lots of clubs hold events in large parking lots .
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Enjoy customizing. Everything. 
Work way to much but when I have the time off fixing up, tinkering with toys is what I enjoy. Kinda my "out" in a way.
Vette is for shows, cruises like the Blue Ridge Parkway vette run, Outer Banks fine dinning nights out, love having the power if some youngster pulls up (WHILE ROLLING) and wants to play. (ONLY WHILE IN MEXICO..lol). If I had to pick one, it would be shows. Walking around seeing all the different idea's everyone else has, and the workmanship that went into your toys. You learn right quick at shows, your not the only one that likes to color outside the lines.....
Work way to much but when I have the time off fixing up, tinkering with toys is what I enjoy. Kinda my "out" in a way.
Vette is for shows, cruises like the Blue Ridge Parkway vette run, Outer Banks fine dinning nights out, love having the power if some youngster pulls up (WHILE ROLLING) and wants to play. (ONLY WHILE IN MEXICO..lol). If I had to pick one, it would be shows. Walking around seeing all the different idea's everyone else has, and the workmanship that went into your toys. You learn right quick at shows, your not the only one that likes to color outside the lines.
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If you go to several shows per season you can develope some good friendships with other car people that attend all the local and reginal shows and sometimes you can get ideas and tips that might transfer to you car.
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A little of all. Do enough waxing to jus keep her looking nice,,but mostly just drive,,a lot!! Go to an occasional club display,,been to test and tune night at the strip about a half dozen times, love to stuff her hard into exit ramps when it's clear,,and would LOVE to find a way to get her on a road course(just for fun) or do an autoX sometime!! Taken her on a few trips from here(St.Louis area) to wires sister in Atlanta,,and its a GREAT road car !! Mine will be pretty used up before or IF I ever give it up. No waxed up garage queen here!!
!! Taken her on a few trips from here(St.Louis area) to wires sister in Atlanta,,and its a GREAT road car !! Mine will be pretty used up before or IF I ever give it up. No waxed up garage queen here!!
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I have enjoyed doing everyone of the mods I did. Basically the only thing that is still stock is the transmission. I throughly enjoyed watching the slow transformation from a smooth sounding, beautiful and fully competent production sports car into a loud, lopey, fire spitting (OK, that was a stretch 
) DD/track car that feels like it runs on rails.
Finally, last year I started doing HPDE/road course events and I'm getting totally hooked.
I throughly enjoyed watching the slow transformation from a smooth sounding, beautiful and fully competent production sports car into a loud, lopey, fire spitting (OK, that was a stretch ) DD/track car that feels like it runs on rails.Finally, last year I started doing HPDE/road course events and I'm getting totally hooked.
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