Dr Bee

I have a jeep wrangler and there is an entire subculture for wrangler drivers that includes a jeep wave with a pretty specific set of guidelines:

http://jeeptalk.org/jeep_wave.php

I've had my C6 for about 5 weeks now and this is my first dip into the corvette waters. I'm hearing a thing or two about a corvette wave. Is that a thing? If yes, what's the protocol?

Just curious, I think the jeep wave is pretty funny and I've learned to participate. Also caught myself doing the jeep wave while in my vette. That's my bad, I prefer other wrangler drivers to look focused, not confused.

jrose7004

Yes it's a thing. Just simply wave at your Corvette brothers. Here's one from OKC!

Dr Bee

Just curious, what's the success rate on the return wave?

Anecdotal data on the jeep wave:

Male driver 85%

Female driver 20%

2-door wrangler 90%

4-door wrangler 45%

Adult owned and driven 80%

Present for a non-deserving 16 yr old 15%

Repeat offender fleeing from crime scene 98%

Confused guy test driving 0%

John A. Marker

Yes, you wave at fellow Corvette owners. Been doing it for years. In most cases I get the wave in return but not 100%. Passed a new C7 with paper plates in heave traffic the other day. As I pull along side the woman in the passenger seat looks over and sees me and give me a very animated wave and the male driver leans forward and joins in with the wave. BIG smiles on their faces.

Dr Bee

This is my first vette. Not sure when the smile wears off but sometimes my face hurts

Travlee

i catch myself still waving even when driving the girlfriends mercedes.... yeah, the vette drivers look confused

Welker1

Yes it is ... have driven Vettes for years and always wave. In my experience, about 90% or more return the wave regardless of gender, age or year Vette. I've also found that most of the 10% that don't wave are new owners. When I had my C3's & C4's and the C5 first came out, a lot of the C5 owners didn't wave, I know the same seemed to be true when the C6 first came out and now I've seen it with the C7 owners, however, like all before them, they are coming around ... there is a learning curve lol

Elizabeth City Vette

That's also a Corvette "thing". 😂 Enjoy your Vette and welcome.

Bruze

None of this is new; it's been going on for decades, for as long as I can remember (pushing 67 here).

- My brother-in-law had a couple of MGTDs in the '60s, they waved to each other, as did all British sports cars as I recall.

- Motorcyclists always waved. But Harleys would never wave at J.a.p. bikes -- although that may have eased up now.

- Corvettes have done it for as long as I can remember

- I suppose any subculture of cars does it today. Your regular family sedan, trucks, basic transportation vehicles don't bother.

LoganExplosion

So many C7 and C4 drivers not waving in my area. I stopped waving first. haha. If I happen to notice them waving, I'll definitely wave back though.

Travlee

i get more c5& c6 waves than c7

Bruze

Maybe it's your face.

One might think: "He looks batshit crazy. If I wave at him, he may pull out a gun and waste me."

drew_c6

Dr. Bee, we need to share a wave and a beer, my friend.

itsaaron

It's a thing in my town and I'm personally not a fan. I think my dislike for it is because I feel like I look like a Harley rider giving the sideways piece sign down by my leg...aka, I look like an idiot.

MH663

I wave in the Vette and on the bike. BTW...It's not a "peace" side down by my leg. It's actually wishing the other other rider a safe ride. The two fingers are understood to mean "keep both wheels on the ground" or down if you like. Hard to do that with your hand held at shoulder level...you might look like you are throwing up gang signs or something.

JEH03Vette

From the August/September
1969 issue of Corvette News

Ever since Corvette No. 00001 first met Corvette No. 00002 on the road, their drivers saluted each other with waves.
Today, unfortunately, this grand and glorious tradition is wavering. WAVE WHEN YOU PASS ANOTHER CORVETTE!

There's one item of standard equipment that comes as a pleasant surprise to every new Corvette owner. It's an instant wave of recognition he or she receives when he meets one of their ilks on the road. The first time it happens, they will be taken by surprise. He immediately thinks: 1. He has been mistaken for Sterling Moss.
2. His lights are on. 3. He has just been given the bird.

Soon, however, the new Vette owner anticipates, indeed even relishes, encountering other Vettes as he drives. During this period, he experiments with his waves, running the gamut from the gaping "yoo hoo" to the ultra cool "two finger flip." He perfects his timing, making sure he affects neither a too-early wave, nor the jaded "oh brother" too-late variety. Determined not to be one upped, he even develops a defense mechanism for non wavers, usually settling on the "Wave"? My hand was just on the way to scratch my head" approach.
(This is especially useful when you're not driving your Vette, but you forget, and like a dummy, you wave anyway.)

Indeed, one of the most perplexing problems facing a would-be waver is what to do when driving next to a fellow Vette owner. Passing him going in opposite directions is one thing. Greetings are exchanged, and that's that. But what happens when you pull up next to a guy at a light, wave, nod, smile and then pull up to him at the next light, a block later? Wave again? Nod bashfully? Grin self-consciously? Ignore him? Or take the chicken's way out and turn down the next side street? If you're expecting an answer, you won't find it here. Sad to
say, some questions don't have any. SAVE THE WAVE!

Girl-type Corvette drivers also have a unique problem: to wave or not to wave. This miss or misses who borrows her man's Corvette for the first time is immediately faced with this quandary. Should she wave first and look overly friendly, or ignore the wave and look like a snob? Most ladies who drive their own Vettes prefer to suffer the latter rather than take a chance of being misread. For this reason, all girls are excused for occasionally failing to return a well-meaning wave. So are new owners who are still learning the ropes.

There is no excuse, however, for a guy who refuses to return the wave, not out of ignorance, but of arrogance or apathy. While this type of behavior is the exception to the rule, it seems a few owners of newer models refuse to recognize anything older than theirs, while some others simply won't wave, period. Boo on them. These ding-a-lings don't seem to realize that they are helping to squash a tradition that had its beginnings back when most of us were still driving tootsietoys.

pjazz

Rky Mtn C6

Sherry Foster

Same problem!!

cb1980

definitely a thing and my gf got her first corvette and she goes all these people in corvettes are waving and I couldn't figure out why, so had to explain to her its just like the Jeep wave