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Do you drive your Vette or just look at it?

Old 06-23-2018, 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Bruze
I brought mine home on May 21, 2014, parked it in the barn and haven't driven or even started it since then.

It's strictly for looking at.

Old 06-23-2018, 08:32 PM
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2012 with about 4800 miles on it. I don't drive it much. It's not a real practical car for me since I have 3 kids and the wife doesn't like it. And I can't really drive it to work either. But I always wanted a sports car to put in my 3rd garbage so I went out and got it.
Old 06-23-2018, 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Don-Vette

....... when it's raining out I'm sitting in the garage next to it smoking cigars

Exactly what I do most nights before I go to bed.
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Old 06-23-2018, 09:37 PM
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I can't drive mine daily because I have a company vehicle to use for work. I do drive it several times each week and have taken to the track, the grocery store, Home Depot, several long road trips each year and I also sit in the garage and stare at it once in a while.
I have never entered it in a car show. Can't imagine sitting in a lawn chair behind my car for 4 hours.
Old 06-23-2018, 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by HBsurfer

I have never entered it in a car show .... Can't imagine sitting in a lawn chair behind my car for 4 hours.
I feel the same way you do
Old 06-23-2018, 09:54 PM
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I trailer mine to car shows and hang out for four hours. Win and then trailer it home.
Old 06-23-2018, 09:56 PM
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I'm seriously thinking of starting mine up tomorrow and backing it up to the road. Decisions, decisions . . .
Old 06-23-2018, 09:58 PM
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Believe it or not, I look at it, too.

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Old 06-23-2018, 10:00 PM
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And wax the heck out of it .
Old 06-23-2018, 10:38 PM
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Dive mine. It'll be a summer only car being as I'm in MN, but daily drive it along with my year round car. Have had mine for 3 months and have 1400 miles on it so far... considering we had snow through April that is not too bad! Previous owner put on 1800/year...
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Originally Posted by Bruze
I'm seriously thinking of starting mine up tomorrow and backing it up to the road. Decisions, decisions . . .
Old 06-23-2018, 11:01 PM
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I try not to drive it so I can make people who like to brag about how much they drive theirs mad...

But seriously, I drive mine when I feel like it. If I don't feel like driving it, I don't. Not trying to keep miles low (they are), I just don't always want to drive it for whatever reason. On the flip side, I've had this one at sebring, and the GS before it at road Atlanta and CMP. So while I might not commute in it, I do use it for what it's meant for.
Old 06-23-2018, 11:13 PM
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I do not drive mine as much as I would like to, but I make the most of it when I do. It has made multiple 1/4 mi passes at Englishtown, seen redline in 4th, pulled over 1.0g (sustained) and been driven in the rain. I even wash it every so often.
Old 06-23-2018, 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by FAUEE
I try not to drive it so I can make people who like to brag about how much they drive theirs mad...

But seriously, I drive mine when I feel like it. If I don't feel like driving it, I don't. Not trying to keep miles low (they are), I just don't always want to drive it for whatever reason. On the flip side, I've had this one at sebring, and the GS before it at road Atlanta and CMP. So while I might not commute in it, I do use it for what it's meant for.


And so we've made it maybe two months without a thread like this. And here we are. These threads are so reliably predictable, I think I'm going to start using them to check the errors in my atomic clock.

A ponderable: Why do the high-mileage people (HMP) always get upset over people who aren't like them, yet us normal people don't really care either way and don't even think about it?



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Old 06-23-2018, 11:34 PM
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I am the least upset person here. Yet I am slandered. ;=P
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Originally Posted by owc6
Believe it or not, I look at it, too.

I wish I could drive mine half as much as you do.
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Old 06-23-2018, 11:49 PM
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Originally Posted by owc6
I am the least upset person here. Yet I am slandered. ;=P

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Old 06-24-2018, 12:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruze
You cant use the same planter in the woods twice in one week.

Thems the new rules on the new site.
Old 06-24-2018, 12:12 AM
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about 5k mi/yr
Old 06-24-2018, 12:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruze

A ponderable: Why do the high-mileage people (HMP) always get upset over people who aren't like them, yet us normal people don't really care either way and don't even think about it
If you don't do as I do, you are wrong


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