At what age did you buy your first Corvette (MERGED)
they have been my dream cars forever
07-02-2012, 11:56 AM
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I haven't found myself sleep walking yet, but I do find myself peeking in the garage before bed every night.
07-02-2012, 04:13 PM
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The car iirc listed new at $5700 I paid $4100 it had appox. 4k miles. It was bought new in late '68 by a young guy who traded it in six months later on a new Chevy station wagon because his wife got pregnant. I bought it from the dealership it was purchased new from. I sold it 3 years later for $3200. You have to remember back then I was making $4.50 an hour not the $35.00+ I was making when I retired.
Things don't cost more now we just have more needless things available now than we had back then.
07-02-2012, 06:36 PM
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This thread ran for several months under C4 general heading but I got to thinking a lot of you haven't seen it, so tell us at what age you acquirred your first, what model it was and if you don't mind how much it cost and how you paid for it. There was over five thousand people viewed it and several hundred posted with most emailing their post through me which I try to respond to each one.
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07-02-2012, 07:00 PM
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At what age
Well put Bosco08, kinda anyway. I don't know if it was better to make less and things like classic Corvetes were real cheap along with health care insurance, power bills etc. or make big money and Corvettes are extremly high and healthcare insurance will continue to rise in cost as well as power bills each year and we will never be able to pay them off nor own either one. When we did get to making big mony we either invested in 401k's then lost a large portion of the investment and if you were lucky you got some of the losses back and wisely invested in long term cd's that were guaranteed by the FDIC BUT now with insurance, power bills, groceries all other utilities going up our safe investments are earning .70 percent, maybe.
07-02-2012, 10:39 PM
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'67 Green Vert w White Top w Saddle Interior--New at 20 yrs old (USAFA Senior)
'69 427 Silver Coupe w Blue Interior--New at 22 yrs old (USAF Pilot Training)
'71 454 Green Coupe w Saddle Interior--New at 23 yrs old (returned from Viet Nam)
'74 350 L72 Yellow Vert w Black Interior--Bought Used in '77 at 29 years old (Celebrated promotion to Major)
'02 Yellow Coupe w Black Interior--New at xx yrs old (Wife said I needed to start acting young again)
'08 Atomic Orange Coupe w 4LT Sienna Interior--New at ?? [Starting to forget my age] (Kids said "Dad keep going w that young theme")
'69 427 Silver Coupe w Blue Interior--New at 22 yrs old (USAF Pilot Training)
'71 454 Green Coupe w Saddle Interior--New at 23 yrs old (returned from Viet Nam)
'74 350 L72 Yellow Vert w Black Interior--Bought Used in '77 at 29 years old (Celebrated promotion to Major)
'02 Yellow Coupe w Black Interior--New at xx yrs old (Wife said I needed to start acting young again)
'08 Atomic Orange Coupe w 4LT Sienna Interior--New at ?? [Starting to forget my age] (Kids said "Dad keep going w that young theme")
