[Z06] Small world
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Le Mans Master
Joined: Sep 2014
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From: Kelowna BC
Small world
I have a small side biz selling audio stands, mostly for Magnepan speakers. A return customer emails me yesterday...
Customer: "I sold my 3.6's (6' tall, 2' wide, around $6K) and had considered going smaller, but ended up wanting to stay with Magnepan, so bought 20.7's (6 1/2' tall, 2 1/2' wide, around $20K). and need a pair of your stands please"
Me: "Funny you say that, the wife and I considered getting into a small practical car a couple years back. It ended up being an older Corvette Z06. Sometimes smaller doesn't work out I guess" (I didn't specify what model/year assuming he could care less)
Customer being politically cautious: "It just so happens I'm a mechanical engineer at GM, having worked on all models Corvette from C4 thru C7. Although all are amazing cars, my favorite is the C5Z" (not having said what I owned, just older Z)
Kinda cool, no?
Customer: "I sold my 3.6's (6' tall, 2' wide, around $6K) and had considered going smaller, but ended up wanting to stay with Magnepan, so bought 20.7's (6 1/2' tall, 2 1/2' wide, around $20K). and need a pair of your stands please"
Me: "Funny you say that, the wife and I considered getting into a small practical car a couple years back. It ended up being an older Corvette Z06. Sometimes smaller doesn't work out I guess" (I didn't specify what model/year assuming he could care less)
Customer being politically cautious: "It just so happens I'm a mechanical engineer at GM, having worked on all models Corvette from C4 thru C7. Although all are amazing cars, my favorite is the C5Z" (not having said what I owned, just older Z)
Kinda cool, no?
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Le Mans Master
Joined: Sep 2014
Posts: 5,278
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From: Kelowna BC
...not to knock the newer versions, which have serious levels of performance... the C5 Z06 was just a great daily driver, and could be driven across the country in great comfort.
Drifting
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From: Missi'ppi... no mo' MO for me!!
Completely off-topic and damn near a hijack except for the 'small world' topic header...
My father-in-law left home for good in 1934. He moved ~400 miles to work in the CC camps (Civilian Conservation Corps) and send money home. WW2 came along he enlisted. Action in the Pacific, returned to Oakland, CA met his future wife and never left CA except for vacation.
He passed away in 1986. Fast Forward to 2003. I attended the his sister's funeral in Mississippi, where they grew up. While there, we decided to look for a retirement home even though I'd never been there before. Just the 3 day visit was enough to convince me. I searched, found a home I really liked, and purchased it through a local real estate agent who hardly knew the area; it's very secluded. My wife never came with me; she was still working in CA. We moved 2400 miles in 2004 to a house in a little town ~25 miles from the deceased aunt's home.
In 2005, on one of her exercise walks, my wife ran into a woman in her 90's who lived on the next block. They introduced themselves. It turns out that the woman was my father-in-law's high school sweetheart. Word spread like wildfire; we learn that about 1/3 of the neighbors or their parents knew my father-in-law, his entire family tree, and 8 siblings. Most of the elders could ask my wife about each of the siblings by name without prompting. They showed us were the original family homestead had existed, about 2/3 of a mile from where I bought, "on the other side of them trees".
Small world, a block away. It's too bad my father-in-law would never know.
My father-in-law left home for good in 1934. He moved ~400 miles to work in the CC camps (Civilian Conservation Corps) and send money home. WW2 came along he enlisted. Action in the Pacific, returned to Oakland, CA met his future wife and never left CA except for vacation.
He passed away in 1986. Fast Forward to 2003. I attended the his sister's funeral in Mississippi, where they grew up. While there, we decided to look for a retirement home even though I'd never been there before. Just the 3 day visit was enough to convince me. I searched, found a home I really liked, and purchased it through a local real estate agent who hardly knew the area; it's very secluded. My wife never came with me; she was still working in CA. We moved 2400 miles in 2004 to a house in a little town ~25 miles from the deceased aunt's home.
In 2005, on one of her exercise walks, my wife ran into a woman in her 90's who lived on the next block. They introduced themselves. It turns out that the woman was my father-in-law's high school sweetheart. Word spread like wildfire; we learn that about 1/3 of the neighbors or their parents knew my father-in-law, his entire family tree, and 8 siblings. Most of the elders could ask my wife about each of the siblings by name without prompting. They showed us were the original family homestead had existed, about 2/3 of a mile from where I bought, "on the other side of them trees".
Small world, a block away. It's too bad my father-in-law would never know.
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