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Old Sep 3, 2013 | 05:22 PM
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Default C5's dropping like flies
Browsing around for parts and found four fewer C5's in the world.







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Old Sep 3, 2013 | 05:33 PM
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Old Sep 3, 2013 | 05:38 PM
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Darn, hate seeing that.
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Old Sep 3, 2013 | 05:46 PM
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This will be the reason C5's become collectors items. Simple supply and demand. I really hate to see the salvage cars that are ripped up on both ends and down the sides too.
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Old Sep 3, 2013 | 05:55 PM
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This is what happens when a $40K+ car gets older and sold for $18K. Not all circumstances of course but, you get people that buy these cars that have no business being in one and the 4 listed above are probably prime examples of the end result of the car being pushed past it's capabilities. You can't fix stupid.
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I'd better run out and buy as many C5 as I can before it's too late.

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on the bright side. more obsolete parts will be on the market for when we need them
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Hate to see that.
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This is what happens when a $40K+ car gets older and sold for $18K. Not all circumstances of course but, you get people that buy these cars that have no business being in one and the 4 listed above are probably prime examples of the end result of the car being pushed past it's capabilities. You can't fix stupid.
Not completely true, that silver vert crashed because the owner refused to remove the BSMs.
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Originally Posted by C5R USA
This is what happens when a $40K+ car gets older and sold for $18K. Not all circumstances of course but, you get people that buy these cars that have no business being in one and the 4 listed above are probably prime examples of the end result of the car being pushed past it's drivers capabilities. You can't fix stupid.
Modified your statement, hope you don't mind.
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There are so many C5's they will never be collectable (in my life time) so folks drive them like you stole them!
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The only collectible c5s IMO will be the sw and z16 z06 cars.


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Originally Posted by C5R USA
This is what happens when a $40K+ car gets older and sold for $18K. Not all circumstances of course but, you get people that buy these cars that have no business being in one and the 4 listed above are probably prime examples of the end result of the car being pushed past it's capabilities. You can't fix stupid.
You can run out of talent real quick in one of these cars.
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I'm going to write a cheesy country song "C5's are dropping like flies".
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Just watch someone without experience drive one of these with AH turned off! They get real twitchy with it off!
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Just watch someone without experience drive one of these with AH turned off! They get real twitchy with it off!
well. the tires that many of you choose don't really help matters
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Oh, I don't know. A little Bondo here, some duct tape there, add some air in the tires and off to the used car lot we go.
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Sad but isn't this true of all cars? For that matter all things in life
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