Red08

Have you been to the assembly plant at Bowling Green? We went, and watched as each car went through the high pressure water leak test. EVERY Corvette, once "rained" on during the test, turned into a puddle of goo. It was so sad to see. Corvettes are not meant to be rained on.

tmanker

Corvettes must only be driven on bright, sunny days.

Bruze

For some reason, having their undercarriage encrusted with salt for 6 months out of 12 does not corrode Corvettes.

Only everything else.

Fast Cars & Horses

Just bought this yesterday and got caught in a rainstorm today, so took advantage of the puddles to take a picture. Lo and behold, it didn't melt!

Welker1

Even though my Vette isn't my DD, I don't get the whole not driving in the rain/bad weather thing. My daily driver is a black Camaro and I'm a little OCD about keeping all my vehicles clean. If my wife is out and about in our CUV and I need to go some place when it's raining I'll take the Vette because (IMO) it's easier to wipe down/clean then the Camaro. We've also taken many long road trips where we've run into everything from rain to sever snow storms in the Vette. Although we've had a few nerve racking moments (in a couple of the show storms), we've had nothing but great and memorable trips...and the car has handled fine (and it hasn't melted). They were designed & built to be driven ... drive it, enjoy it

Dano523

For some of use, its the mod's and what tires we have on the car.

Hence it's a viscous circle with HP mods on the car, being that we are running Super cups/XS/R compounds on the car to get the tires to stick when they are hot, and such tires in the even light wet surfaces end up with wicked hydroplaning (even at lower speeds), much less keeping the tire from spinning pulling away from a stop light.

So dry, the car is glued to the ground, but the slightest amount of water on the road, and it like trying to drive the car on a ice skating rink instead.

If you don't have mods, and running more of a A/S tire, then driving vet in the rain, or even light snow is not that bad isntead.

z06clif

I got caught in a downpour yesterday and while it didn't melt it did get squirrelly had to hold it a 45mph otherwise the rear was swinging about. Tires are good but 12 inches wide and this promotes hydroplaning.

Clif

owc6

Snowing and towing!

dr_gallup

Coming home the Tuesday after Memorial Day, going down the 7 mile grade on I77 from VA into NC it just poured buckets. Traffic slowed to about 50 mph. Could not see the big rig 50 ft in front of me. I thought about the 325 section tires but everything stayed connected to the ground and pointed in the right direction. At least it washed about 5 pounds of bugs off.

Beauty and the Beast

This is exactly why I do not like to drive mine in the rain!! Thankfully we have 2 trucks so I don’t have to.

Hubby advised me it's super sketchy to drive a Vette in the rain.. I just thought he was being silly- I didn’t really believe him until I got caught it a down pour nobody could've predicted as we live in CA. It was dumping water, I was too nervous to take the side roads because of flooding so I took the freeway. I was driving like 10 mph, trying not to hydroplane under a semi truck! Although I was crapping bricks, I was able to get home safe. From this experience I advised myself to listen to the Hubby more often.

OP to answer your question, you CAN drive in the rain however listen when people tell you, Corvettes are not made for the rain.

Beauty and the Beast

Cool picture!!