Cigar Smokers
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From: Havin' fun in Frederick, MD!!!
St. Jude Donor '05 '09
Cigar Smokers
OK, I have been VERY reluctant to smoke my ceegars in my Vette, but I know it will be inevitable at some point in its life. Do any of you smoke cigars in your Vette and what if any precautions do you take either from falling ash or lingering stale smells?
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I smoke at least two cigars a day - but never in the Vette. My car is a convertible like yours - and while the thought has crossed my mind (you know....open top, smoke goes out the top, etc. 
) I wondered and worried about flying ash/embers burning a hole.
I do smoke around it when it's parked in the garage, or when I go out to the show and shine on weekends (there's something
about sitting in a folding chair, next to my polished car and smoking a cigar! 
) - so obviously I'm not too concerned about a stray "smell" getting in the car.
But I don't think I'll smoke in it.... besides that isn't the worst smell I could leave in it if you know what I mean!
) I wondered and worried about flying ash/embers burning a hole.I do smoke around it when it's parked in the garage, or when I go out to the show and shine on weekends (there's something
about sitting in a folding chair, next to my polished car and smoking a cigar! ) - so obviously I'm not too concerned about a stray "smell" getting in the car.But I don't think I'll smoke in it.... besides that isn't the worst smell I could leave in it if you know what I mean!
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Originally Posted by blacksedan87
I smoke at least two cigars a day - but never in the Vette. My car is a convertible like yours - and while the thought has crossed my mind (you know....open top, smoke goes out the top, etc. ) I wondered and worried about flying ash/embers burning a hole.
I do smoke around it when it's parked in the garage, or when I go out to the show and shine on weekends (there's something about sitting in a folding chair, next to my polished car and smoking a cigar! ) - so obviously I'm not too concerned about a stray "smell" getting in the car.
But I don't think I'll smoke in it.... besides that isn't the worst smell I could leave in it if you know what I mean!
) I wondered and worried about flying ash/embers burning a hole.I do smoke around it when it's parked in the garage, or when I go out to the show and shine on weekends (there's something
about sitting in a folding chair, next to my polished car and smoking a cigar! ) - so obviously I'm not too concerned about a stray "smell" getting in the car.But I don't think I'll smoke in it.... besides that isn't the worst smell I could leave in it if you know what I mean!
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From: Havin' fun in Frederick, MD!!!
St. Jude Donor '05 '09
Originally Posted by DRKNGHT
Ouch, the flames, the flames!
Bad place to ask that question, it's not PC on the Fourm to mention bringing foreign substances into the cockpit of a vette.
Bad place to ask that question, it's not PC on the Fourm to mention bringing foreign substances into the cockpit of a vette.
However, the majority seem to advise against it, so I will probably continue my reluctance until it becomes unbearable - I certainly would not want to avoid my Vette because of a cigar!
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I used to enjoy cigars, but the smell stays on everything. No matter how good they smell when you're smoking them on a night out, the next day 
Forgetaboutit! 
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From: Havin' fun in Frederick, MD!!!
St. Jude Donor '05 '09
Originally Posted by ROD BROWN
I smoke 2 cigars a day.One going to work,one going home.Don't much care about the "after smell".If they don't like the aroma,walk.I smoke in my car wnenever I damn please. 
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Originally Posted by crvtble
Yea, and you had BBQ ribs for dinner....talk about burning a hole in something.......
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Originally Posted by lemansbleu2004
Do any of you smoke cigars in your Vette and what if any precautions do you take either from falling ash or lingering stale smells?
yeah don't light it
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From: Dunkirk MD
I smoke about 4 sticks a day. I enjoy smoking while I am driving the Vette, outside the Vette, sitting around the Vette etc.... The secret to the ash is to have the window cracked just enough (about a 54 ring size) to get the cigar through the window; anymore and the ash just flys back in. The smell is not really a problem for me but I will tell you the smell does not linger in the Vette nearly as long as it does in the other cars I drive.
BTW If you rent a non-smoking car from Herzt and it smells of Cigars that was probabaly me and one of my Perdomo Cuban Parejos.
BTW If you rent a non-smoking car from Herzt and it smells of Cigars that was probabaly me and one of my Perdomo Cuban Parejos.
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From: Manhattan, KS Missing SoCal since 2005
I love a good cigar, but not in the house, and not in the 'vette; one of the first questions my clients almost always ask about 'vettes we list is "Has it ever been smoked in?" So if you think you might want to sell it yourself someday, keep in mind that 95% of your prospects will move on if you have to answer "Yes" to that question.
