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Old May 7, 2016 | 10:27 PM
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Just bought a c5 for the wife. Happy Mothers Day!! Very nice 19K miles
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Old May 7, 2016 | 10:29 PM
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Nice Guy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Welcome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:cheers :
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Old May 7, 2016 | 11:52 PM
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She looks quite happy! Congrats....Happy wife-Happy life!
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97 or 98? Looks nice
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Old May 8, 2016 | 12:13 AM
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Cool now you can get her wheels for her birthday... and a stereo for christmas... exhaust and headers ... for your anniversary...
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97 or 98? Looks nice
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Old May 8, 2016 | 01:23 AM
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A beautiful lady, and Corvette! Congrats to you and your wife.
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Old May 8, 2016 | 02:29 AM
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Heck of a Mother's Day gift. Congrats to your wife and hope she really enjoys the car.
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Very Nice :-)
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Very sharp! Congrats!
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Great looking car. The one in the garage isn't to shabby either.
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What a wonderful gift to your beautiful wife on mothers day! Congratulations and very best wishes to both of you!
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Lucky lady, congrats to her on the new car!

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looks great! Nice and clean!!

Beautiful car and wife
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Nice, I like the C3 too....
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Wow! What a great Mother's Day Gift! YOU are the MAN!!! Hope she enjoys it!! You two gonna go out and do a little drag racing? I know we'd be doing that if we both had one!!
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Originally Posted by CindysC5
Wow! What a great Mother's Day Gift! YOU are the MAN!!! Hope she enjoys it!! You two gonna go out and do a little drag racing? I know we'd be doing that if we both had one!!
she wants to race me, something tells me I may end up in 2nd lol
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Very nice. Congratulations! I definitely can't show this post to my wife.
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What a guy!!! Congrats!!

I'll be in the same boat this fall after our move to KY, Momma wants a vert!
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