I have been dreaming about owning a Corvette as long as I can remember. Now I am 34 and on the verge of beginning my career as a chiropractor. I plan on buying a low mileage C5 within the next year.

Amazingly I have never even sat in a Corvette before, moving or not! GM shattered my dreams last weekend when their Autoshow in motion got cancelled here in Vegas due to inclement weather.

As amazing as they look which of course is why I am so enthralled with them, I can only imagine what the experience of owning and even better driving one must be like.

Can you put it in words? Please try.

Thank you.

 

Get ready to fall in love. As soon as you sit in and/or drive it, you might as well break out the checkbook.

Let us know when you get ready to buy one so we can help you out with any questions you might have. Everybody here is more helpful than you can imagine.

 

I got my first vette in 2001 when I was 36 and don't have any regrets at all. It has been a blast for the past 3 years, getting thumbs up from the little kids to the who knows how old. I had one little kid wait for his mom on the sidewalk in front of my car as his mom forgot something in the car. As the mom arrived next to him, the little boy starts pointing to the corvette emblem on the hood and said "look mommy it's a race car". My girlfriend's kids always fight over who turn it is to ride in the car.

There are so many great story that people have told on this forum and you will meet many great people on this forum.

But one thing that you have to do no matter what and that is to wave to other vettes on the road.

Plus if ever meet another forum members with more than 8000 posts you have to buy them a beer

 

After owning BMWs, Porsches, Zs and a couple others I forgot ...

There simply is nothing like owning, driving, experiencing and being in a Corvette.

 

What is it exactly that will have me falling in love and breaking out my checkbook? I know everyone says it is a one of a kind experience, I am trying to understand why.

I can totally understand things like kids going nuts for it and that sort of thing being part of the experience, but what is it about driving/owning the car that elicits such profound emotion?

 

The time my friend is now to buy a Corvette, right now ,this week GM is having it's special sale to more out the last of the 04's. You will never get a deal on a new Corvette like now. Enjoy life now, don't know what tomorrow will bring.>George

 

I too had been dreaming of one day owning a corvette and when it happened (April 2004 and I am 31), it was very close to my first time with a lady. Trust me, it was surreal and was nothing like any driving experineced I had had.

Remember the guys in the first AMERICAN PIE, when they were sitting around and one ask the others what it was like to be with a girl? The explaination was hard for them to give and they threw out the warm apple pie thing? It is something you are just going to have to do. Go down to a dealer and ask to test drive one. Trust us, you will want to buy it. Look it over in an up close and personal way and admire the lines and the beauty and comfort of the seats and the way your hand molds around the steering wheel and then you see the two guys on your shoulder, the devil angel and the heavenly one and they are both telling you to buy it, you will never regret it. Sure the little guys are telling you this for two different reasons, the devil guy wanting you to haul azz in it and the angel guy knows that it is a heavenly piece of AMERCIAN MADE MACHINERY. You will love everything about it, you are going to want to drive it more and more and before you know it, you will be like all of us...CORVETTE LOVERS true and true.

Ok, maybe everything I said was overkill, but this was my personal experience.

BUY ONE, YOU WILL LOVE IT!

Micah

 

The C5 Vette is the perfect mix of pure power and refinement. The power of a muscle car and the refinement of a luxury car. It is arguably the best Vette ever made. If you want luxury, the Vette has it. If you want pure power, the Vette has it. If you want a world class, world renown sports car, the Vette is it.

C5 offers it all in a package which will go down in history as one of the all time great auto designs.

The lineage and legacy of the icon, the handling, ride, brakeing, comfort, and overall performance and ride quality, be it from a 30 mph roll to 65-75mp highway speeds to 180+ top speed is solid as a rock. The C5 is so powerful, responsive, so comfortable to maneuver, you don't drive it...... you "wear" it.

The Vette is more than just a car, its an institution and one of the longest running models in auto history. It even has its own museum. It's bloodlines can be traced back to years of racing, research and development. Everyone knows what a Corvette is. And with good reason. The very name is synonomous with excellence in automotive circles.

 

It suxors totally! Your *** is riding a couple inches over the ground. You have to stay in a groggy 3rd on 45mph streets.
You have to keep a roll of quarters with you in the car so you can stop at the various coin washes to rinse all the bitches off!

 

It is just something you have to experience. Hard to put it in words. Go to a dealership and take a test drive. At the end of the drive, hopefully you will know what it is all about.

 

I never sat in one either until buying new last month, never even really thought that much about em. This has, well, changed a bit. Something about it I can't quite identify but there is something. Maybe it'll wear off, probably not. It's just fun, I guess. I had forgotten how much pure, impractical fun a car can be.

 

Go get it! You have waited long enough! You don't drive a vette you live it........ welcome to the family!

 

I'll be down in Las Vegas in Jan, If you havent gone for a ride or sat in one yet i'll take you 4 a spin!

 

Miles of Smiles!!! They never leave!!

 

Better not sit in one until you are ready to buy because that will do it for ya...a drive will "seal the deal" for sure.

 

As many have already said, it is a feeling, an experience, that is just so hard to put into words. I had wanted one since I was a child (as a lot of young boys did & do) and to me, when I finally got it 30 years later, it was more than I ever imagined. The performance is pretty amazing right off the show room floor. I mean c'mon, 0-60 in under 5 seconds. 60-0 in 120 feet. And the handling, just wow! I have never driven anything that compares. This car just "sticks" to the road. To me, it is as close to flying a jet as I'll ever get. I thought this statement summed it up, "you don't drive it...... you "wear" it."

 

I sat in the first corvette to hit the showroom floor at lustine chevrolet in Hyattsville Md in 1953.The saleman finally chased me out.Hitting the showrooms was a big event for my buddies & I back then.There were 6 different car dealers within bike riding distance from my house.We would sit in all the new cars.They use to deliver them in with tarps over them on the trucks until the grand opening each year.We would sneek into the lot & climb under the tarps just to see the new cars ahead of time.It was great.I have lusted for a Vette ever since.But other priorities got in the way (family,etc ).Now I'm near retirement & by God I'm going to get one if it kills me.

 

You are WAY over due to own that Vette! I too remember seeing the fist vetts way back in 1953, I was 7 years old. Wow! was all I could think. Took me another 50 years till I finally got mine but now I have it! I took my dying mother's advice. She said "the only regrets I have at the end of my life are the things I Didn't Do and not the things I did". That's good advice and good luck!

 

no one can "explain" the feeling. you have to experience it yourself. the first time you get into a C5 and turn the key you get sensory overload. you see the dash light up and hear the exhaust note. the rest is a blur. a warning...do not test drive until you are seriously ready to buy. i went to the dealership to "look", and i couldn't leave without my car. good luck

 

There is nothing like driving it home know it is yours that first time, discovering all the things about it. You will find yourself looking for places to drive just to be in it because of the feeling it gives you behind the wheel. I used to think my '94 DD Thunderbird with a V8 was sporty enough...Now it feels like I am driving a bread truck!

I waited until I was 40 to get mine, Do it as soon as you can afford it, you won't be disappointed.

Wish I could remember the Ferris Bueller line when he is talking about the Ferrari CS...