Should C5 owners have to hang there heads
05-18-2012, 08:59 AM
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05-18-2012, 09:01 AM
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I pretty much love my C5, it's appearance, and power is sufficient for me. On the other hand, you'll almost always find someone, somewhere, who can whup your azz with more power, so it's no big deal unless macho is your middle name. 
05-18-2012, 09:07 AM
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Hey some of you didn't read my thread starter good, I am one of you, P love my black 98 C5 more after I wasn't able to even get in it much less drive for 2 1/2 yrs. due to a heart attack followed within a month by three strokes. I didn't know who my Wife or two grown Daughters and five Grandchildren were and didn;t know what a Corvette was and that beautiful black, shiny machine sitting in the building up and behind the house along with three other vehicles was. When I started noticing things around me and picked up some car magazines from the stacks that had accumilated and started to read I knew that I had to go to work and start freeing frozen joints and stretching tight muscles so I could get in the Corvette as well as get out. My point was for the last forty plus years there were four to five different hps available and no one back then ever put down or looked down on a 300 hp 350 engine. There are some that I know that own ZO6'S and have turbos on them that have an attitude that anything less just doesn't count. Most of them would pee in their pants if they really opened up their cars and would back off immediately.
I am starting right now on a two phase performance and handleing modification program on my 98 because I raised the car so to speek and I know how it has been treated. I could probably trade to a 03 04 ZO6 for what I will spend but you don't know where thats been as my recently passed away Mother might have said.
Garrell
I am starting right now on a two phase performance and handleing modification program on my 98 because I raised the car so to speek and I know how it has been treated. I could probably trade to a 03 04 ZO6 for what I will spend but you don't know where thats been as my recently passed away Mother might have said.
Garrell
05-18-2012, 09:10 AM
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My head is held high as I cruise by the poor saps who DON'T have one.
05-18-2012, 09:17 AM
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By the way the reason I am modifying my Vette and upping the hp is not to keep up with the C5,C6/ZO6 crowd ego wise but I have drag raced off and on since I was 19 yrs. old, in a Corvette when I first started, and I have started back in my SS Silverado truck which I mainly landspeed race. I was so blessed to have set a landspeed record in it last Oct. on the Maxton Mile and I set two LSR records three weeks ago at the Ohio Mile.
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05-18-2012, 09:18 AM
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A Corvete is a Corvette no matter what model or year it is. If anyone is looking down on a C5 it's because they're not a true car guy!
05-18-2012, 09:34 AM
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05-18-2012, 09:41 AM
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Again,simple answer,,NO!! To any "enthusiast"the C5 is well liked (as are all the generations),,to the non-enthusiast,it's a Corvette,,and often mistaken for a "new one".
Now as an enthusiast I to have a preference"pecking order" of which the C4 is my "least favorite",,but it is STILL a Corvette and I wouldn't knock it!
I think the only person that would knock a C5 would be a C6 "Noob" that is in it only for the status,,where the newest is the best,,and you don't measure up in his eyes. The majority are car guys and look at Corvette ownership as a brotherhood! OK OK,,I'm putting the soap box away
,,nuff said!!
Now as an enthusiast I to have a preference"pecking order" of which the C4 is my "least favorite",,but it is STILL a Corvette and I wouldn't knock it!
I think the only person that would knock a C5 would be a C6 "Noob" that is in it only for the status,,where the newest is the best,,and you don't measure up in his eyes. The majority are car guys and look at Corvette ownership as a brotherhood! OK OK,,I'm putting the soap box away
,,nuff said!!
05-18-2012, 10:10 AM
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Burning Brakes
Kinda like the comment "everyone has one." I always reply with "oh yeah, where is yours and everyone else's?"
Why would you hang your head. If people love Vette's then they love nearly all of them. If they don't like them then they probably have no idea the difference between the different models that are made.
If someone doesn't like the Corvette brand then they truly do no like performance driving...They are more suited for a Chrysler 300 or a Honda Accord (both of which are nice, but are cruisers...not street beasts)
Why hang your head over the C5? It's like hanging your head over being well endowed...
Why would you hang your head. If people love Vette's then they love nearly all of them. If they don't like them then they probably have no idea the difference between the different models that are made.
If someone doesn't like the Corvette brand then they truly do no like performance driving...They are more suited for a Chrysler 300 or a Honda Accord (both of which are nice, but are cruisers...not street beasts)
Why hang your head over the C5? It's like hanging your head over being well endowed...
05-18-2012, 10:48 AM
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Burning Brakes
It's still an oustanding car. 15 years after it came out, it would still lick a new Camaro SS on the track (200+Hp/ton vs the Camaro's 170ish HP/ton). That's what I think of when I think about my car. Yeah, it's not a C6 Z06, but when I pull up to an Audi TT or a WRX STi or an Evo that's a year or two old, and I think, "Yeah, I could totally keep up," when those cars just set their owners back $35,000+ dollars, I know I bought a winner. Couple that with the maybe $650/yr I pay in maintenance to DD my car 450 miles a week, and you've got a real winner on your hands.
05-18-2012, 10:51 AM
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Le Mans Master
Should all of us C5 owners have to hang our heads in shame because our Vettes are not ZO6'S, C6'S, ZR1'S Grandsports or ZL1'S. After a couple of years the hp was raised and soon base cars had LS2 engines and then 3's plus all the other cars with the specialty engines. When you pick up a magazine and an article is on a Corvette it is not a C5 and I have heard oh it's just a C5.
I bought my first Corvette over forty years ago, a red 63 convertible and it was special, it was a Corvette. It was a 327 ci.300 hp, my next one was a 63 split window coupe with fuel injection. You could get Corvettes after 1962 in five or six different hp ratings but no one looked down on a lower hp car ever. Then came big blocks with two different hp ratings plus all of the different ratings.
By now you get the jest of what I am saying so if you have a great C5 lets hear about what makes it great because times are no different than thirty years ago when I had a mint 67 big block convertible that I gave $1,400.00 for and thought I had too much in it because no one wanted one of those big engines.
Garrell
I bought my first Corvette over forty years ago, a red 63 convertible and it was special, it was a Corvette. It was a 327 ci.300 hp, my next one was a 63 split window coupe with fuel injection. You could get Corvettes after 1962 in five or six different hp ratings but no one looked down on a lower hp car ever. Then came big blocks with two different hp ratings plus all of the different ratings.
By now you get the jest of what I am saying so if you have a great C5 lets hear about what makes it great because times are no different than thirty years ago when I had a mint 67 big block convertible that I gave $1,400.00 for and thought I had too much in it because no one wanted one of those big engines.
Garrell
**** Why would you hang your head ****
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05-18-2012, 10:58 AM
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Melting Slicks
Hang my head? I love my C5.
Fact of the matter is, most if not all members in this forum mod thier cars, the regular joe down the street with a C5 doesn't. So yes, the younger gen tends to look down on C5' because in the end, it's just a C5, unless you start modding, IMO that's the only way to give it a "cool factor" just my .02....
Fact of the matter is, most if not all members in this forum mod thier cars, the regular joe down the street with a C5 doesn't. So yes, the younger gen tends to look down on C5' because in the end, it's just a C5, unless you start modding, IMO that's the only way to give it a "cool factor" just my .02....
