So, how do YOU park?
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From: Bay Area Ca.
Usually do not park the Vette, I am driving it!
If I must park it will be in a safe spot for short time. Otherwise I'll take the SUV.
Now on trips I am forced to play the game another way, usually requires a longer walk, or an end spot if wide enough with no vegetation needing watering!!
Most people just have no respect for others property when no one is looking. Especially since most are overweight and trying to squeeze out of the car. Plus as we all know the C6 needs to have the door open wide to get out easily.
If I must park it will be in a safe spot for short time. Otherwise I'll take the SUV.
Now on trips I am forced to play the game another way, usually requires a longer walk, or an end spot if wide enough with no vegetation needing watering!!
Most people just have no respect for others property when no one is looking. Especially since most are overweight and trying to squeeze out of the car. Plus as we all know the C6 needs to have the door open wide to get out easily.
Instructor
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From: Chester County
Doesn't matter what I'm driving, people are idiots. Can't count the number of times that I've seen people "kick" open their car door w/o looking as they are grabbing something off the passenger seat.
Just a good practice to stay away; your odds of damage are greatly reduced that way.
As for the person who would intentionally do something stupid just becuase you are protecting your investment. I also park in a spot where I can see my car most of the time and if I should see some abnormal behavior I give them an opportunity to meet the owner.
Just a good practice to stay away; your odds of damage are greatly reduced that way.
As for the person who would intentionally do something stupid just becuase you are protecting your investment. I also park in a spot where I can see my car most of the time and if I should see some abnormal behavior I give them an opportunity to meet the owner.
Racer
Joined: Apr 2004
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From: Hamilton MT
Living in Montana where big hulking narly trucks dominate, if I park as far away and as isolated an area as I can, when I return, there it is...a nice big dooly rig parked right next to me. Arrrgggghhh.
Then you got kids who fling open a car door as hard as they can and, you guessed it. Whomp, right into your car.
Then you got kids who fling open a car door as hard as they can and, you guessed it. Whomp, right into your car.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Tree City
I parked in a Home Depot last summer- next to the handicapped spot thinking no one would park there before I came out. The moron who pulled in there shoved a cart into my car putting and dent in it. Luckily it was in my 93 T-Bird. I should have known better than to park that close to the door.
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From: Eastern
I try to talk a space near an island as well, on the "one side to hit" theory. That said, I try to park a good handful of spaces away from the other cars, but not all the way in no-mans land. This way, no one is likely to park next to me, as I'm there are plenty of closer spaces, but I'm not so far out in the middle of no-where that it sticks out like a soar thumb waiting for mischief.
Racer
Joined: Dec 2010
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From: Vegas
I park in Handicapped spaces. Normally wide enough to prevent a door ding. Yes, I own a placard. If no spaces available, I park way out in less populated spot and hobble my way into where ever Im going. (Disabled Vet).
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From: Frederick, MD
I'll park towards the back around 5-8 slots from the last car. Uphill also from any possible shopping cart.
Vette owners like the red one above practically deserve to be picked on. Bad enough he is taking up two spaces since the nose is in the next space but then he places a cone there to get even more attention. I saw someone do that had a couple shopping carts parked next to his car/cone. Just begging to be screwed with.
People are idiots though. I was parked in my Impala waiting for my son at Sunday school. A big Dodge Ram parks next to me and slams his door into my car. I get out and ask what the heck. He said he was trying to get his son out of the truck (he had at least 2 1/2-3 feet). Lucky for him he didn't dent the door. People just don't give a crap about other people's property but what comes around goes around in the end.
Vette owners like the red one above practically deserve to be picked on. Bad enough he is taking up two spaces since the nose is in the next space but then he places a cone there to get even more attention. I saw someone do that had a couple shopping carts parked next to his car/cone. Just begging to be screwed with.
People are idiots though. I was parked in my Impala waiting for my son at Sunday school. A big Dodge Ram parks next to me and slams his door into my car. I get out and ask what the heck. He said he was trying to get his son out of the truck (he had at least 2 1/2-3 feet). Lucky for him he didn't dent the door. People just don't give a crap about other people's property but what comes around goes around in the end.
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From: Central MO
Pretty much like a lot of the responses already. In the way-out, next to a curb so only one side is exposed. Or next to a handicapped spot that has the wide cross-hatched area marked off, right against the line on that side.
And I do this with all of my vehicles, not just the Vette.
And I do this with all of my vehicles, not just the Vette.
Last edited by BadAV; Aug 29, 2019 at 06:28 PM.
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From: Chirper Island
In the hinterlands. Always respectfully inside the marked space itself. Never showroom parked.
I can always use the walk, but it somehow never completely stops them from parking right next to me.
The gregarious instinct at work I guess, and why my plate says it all. VRTXMKR
I can always use the walk, but it somehow never completely stops them from parking right next to me.
The gregarious instinct at work I guess, and why my plate says it all. VRTXMKR
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When I drive my DD (affectionately called the "POS") I will usually park next to a 'vette even if its parked somewhat far out and protect one at least one side of the car. So don't get upset if you see an old black POS parked next to you. 
