The WAVE
Safety Car
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From: Land of 10,000 taxes
not easy to notice other vettes on freeway paying attention to traffic on your side
Safety Car
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From: North Strand, NMB, SC; Retired x 2 (US Army: 70-90 AD) (US Army: 91-16 DAC); yea, I'm old.
Continued failure to
will result in increasingly stronger punishments, i.e., crank bolt failure, rear differential failure, etc.But wait...that won't work because these things are happening anyway so I guess the floggings will continue until everyone
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jun 2005
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From: Plant City Florida
See it all the time. Sometimes not, but mostly because people just don't see you. I know I've seen another Corvette go by in the opposite direction and missed giving the wave sometimes.
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St. Jude Donor '05-'06-'07-'10
I'm a relatively new Vette owner. I would like to keep the wave alive. So...I see this really nice yellow coupe stopped ahead in the lane next to mine. Oh, boy...a wave op, finally! I pull up even to this other Vette, look over, and wave. The driver, who was a forty-something woman, would not even look my way! Here I am, top down, ostentatiously present, right at her driver's side window, and she won't even look. Then just for kicks I tried to get her attention with multiple arm waves...nothing! Made me look like a real idiot to all the other cars around. She had to have seen me - impossible not to; she just would'nt look for whatever reason.
I felt like giving her the middle finger wave , but she probably would have ignored that as well. What's up with some people? Oh, well...I'll keep trying.
I felt like giving her the middle finger wave , but she probably would have ignored that as well. What's up with some people? Oh, well...I'll keep trying.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Apr 2005
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From: NOwhere Township
St. Jude Donor '06
Problems with return waves from female drivers have come up before. Some are due to discomfort or fear of giving the wrong impression, some are simply due to the car perhaps not being her own and not even knowing about the wave. It happens. Just keep trying. Most owners will wave back, not all drivers will.
Last edited by MichaelB; Mar 21, 2007 at 08:16 AM.
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Joined: Dec 2005
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From: Tulsa OK
Here is a reprint of an article, titled "SAVE THE WAVE" that appeared in the August / September 1969 issue of the Corvette News
Save the Wave
Save the Wave
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Drifting
Joined: Jan 2007
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From: By The Hook NJ
On my Harley there's a wave, below the bars, THere was a wave in my Jeep Wrangler. Didn't know about the Vette wave until I got my first one on the way home the first day. It just came natural to me after that. Girlfriend's response, "You guys wave to each other in these too!"
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Joined: Jan 2007
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From: Zen
Yeah man, do not fear! The wave is alive.
I just got my first Vette Feb 9th and had my eyes peeled for the first Vette I'd encounter. Well about 250 miles later there it was and there was my wave. Felt great. It's been another 1000 miles since then and I've only seen two other Vettes but they two both waved.
Keep it going! Save the Wave
Just kidding, the Other wave.
I just got my first Vette Feb 9th and had my eyes peeled for the first Vette I'd encounter. Well about 250 miles later there it was and there was my wave. Felt great. It's been another 1000 miles since then and I've only seen two other Vettes but they two both waved.
Keep it going! Save the Wave
Just kidding, the Other wave.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Apr 2005
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From: West Burbs of Chicago IL
I'm still in look and gawk mode at any passing vette.
Instructor
Joined: Sep 2005
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From: VA
I wave, even when I am not driving the Orange Beast......I get puzzled looks from fellow Vette owners, but they get the hint and wave back....so here is one from VA for ya
Former Vendor
Joined: Oct 2004
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From: Atlantic City NJ
Here's how you start it,
Here's how you use the Nav,
Here's what you do when the battery dies...
Oh and here's how you wave!!!
Safety Car
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From: Objects in your mirror are losing , Long Island, NY
St. Jude Donor '08
C6 ,, here's the wave...If I c u on the road you will always get the wave from me..
Last edited by welcome2try; Mar 21, 2007 at 09:46 PM.
