XPLOSYV

"bring your Corvette to work day" today @ the PD HQ...this picture was followed by a long discussion between my co-worker and I about the looks folks were giving us in the parking lot...one lady even had the nerve to say "they must really be paying y'all too much"...?????...well for his c6Z, maybe...lol

Alludc

HEY!! Shhhh...cant tell everyone our lil secret. Only the cute waitresses. let everyone else think you're ballin. haha


fyi there is a yellow c6z06 with around 45k miles and some nice bolt ons locally to me for only $36k. Its REALLY hard not to blow my load on this car. I figure my wife will notice it in the garage tho. cant miss the yellow

jdub2k5

I also expected insurance to be insane I pay 70 a month on an 05 mini cooper s convertible 6 speed... I went to look at vettes found one and called my insurance company said I found a 02 targa 28k miles and she told me its gonna be 66 a month for insurance..

I said 66 more?
no 66 total a month for full coverage

orangeclaw

I just put on SrA and have a Z06 i just bought waiting for me at my parents house for when i leave japan! (march 6th) cant wait to drive my new car and get crazy looks haha!

MY03C5Z

I bought my 03z in october with NO intentions of driving it to work for all the reasons you all have listed. I already work with plenty of jealous, bitter people. Thats all I need is to roll up in a bright yellow c5z....lol. Id never hear the end of it. I didnt buy it as a dd anyway, I have two kids that I take to and from school everyday, thats what my 08 trailblazer is for. I hear people I work with bitch about this billl and that bill all the time and how they cant make ends meet. I dont need them thinking I'm selling drugs on the side or something. Besides, I bought it because it was something I've dreamed of owning for years and it makes me happy, I certainly didnt buy it to impress anyone at work.

jpandes

My gas mileage is low compared to some of you guys at 18-20 combined city/hiway. I'm sure that my 3.90's aren't helping my mpgs and my tune needs tweeking

jdub2k5

I dont drive mine to work because I am a trucker that parks in abandoned parking lot with about 100 other truckers.

with no security and me being gone 2 weeks at a time, I believe my car will be keyed or stolen in a heartbeat

countylawdog

I also have a '04 MSG convertible, 1 fellow told me that I had a customized paint job and should be in the "modified" class. Said he was a Corvette owner also.

Kman1971

MSG has that effect on people. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

mjwitte

I avoided driving my convertible to work for a while after we brought it home just because of opinions like this. I got a lot of the same comments I have heard here until I started asking people how much they spent for their motorcycles. Several of my co-workers spent more money for motorcycles than I spent on my 2003 convertible last spring.

dmaleck

Congrats on the buy! You will get **** atleast 3 times a week coming threw the gate...and then countless times during the day....and then going home...and then your neighbors....then repeat like groundhogs day lol.
Where are you getting stationed after japan?

chasboy

My dream car was always an XK-E. Probably still is, but the reality of owning one, or a 911, which I quickly learned was out of my reach helped me realize I still wanted to drive a big American V-8. For me, nothing automotive sounds as good. After loving all types of cars for over 55 years, I realized my dream with my Z. The secondary effect of this is that I now understand I was trying to 'fill a hole' by having a really cool car, but never did because of the need to be practical for a variety of reasons. Trouble is, I kept trying to make most of my cars something they weren't...which was special. Enhancements, minor mods, yet rarely did I hear things like "cool car". These wonderful fiberglass beauties SCREAM special, and when a 10 year old kid walks by with his Mom and she tells me "he loves Corvettes" and I tell him all about it, that it's 10 years old, and let him sit in it, the look on his face tells it all. I'm so glad I 'backed into' Corvette ownership....just keeps me smilin'.

KALAWAY

I went to my first Corvette Club meeting last week. One member has a new ZR1. "I wish I could afford a car like that!"

DBLTRGR

Most folks think I'm wealthy because I'm a pilot (bus drivers make more) and the beautiful C5 I own doesn't help! If I were younger, and single, I'd take full advantage of the situation... When I'm away from home on a trip I constantly think of the beauty at home... in the garage! Ha ha! You guys tell me wife I said that and I'm dead meat.

orangeclaw

I was 10 when i first told me mom i loved corvettes! lol i would pretend i was sick so she would take me to the dealership with her and i could sit in the vette all day!

orangeclaw

haha ok ill be ready for it, i would get the same **** for owning a 98 c230 mercedes just cuz it "looked brand new".. im going to dyess AFB in texas. where are you stationed?