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Old Feb 22, 2019 | 05:40 PM
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Mixed rain and snow here all day. Nobody can accuse me of having a garage queen.



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Y'all be careful getting your Vette wet or it may shrink.



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Drove to Cincinnati 2 weeks ago and drove home Wednesday in pouring both ways. Only felt uncomfortable once in the high water in Louiseville should have bailed at Gene Synder.
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Old Feb 22, 2019 | 05:54 PM
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Yeah, first and foremost a car. Good for YOU!
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Looks like the rain is melting it...
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Rain??? Got that beat!

We had snow here in Vegas in the past 48 hours... had to actually brush the snow off my windshield before driving her yesterday!
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^^^ Oh geez … I bet the whole city shut down.

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Nothing wrong with driving the car in the rain, but I choose to keep the car in the garage when the streets are still covered with salt.
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Originally Posted by Vetteman Jack
Nothing wrong with driving the car in the rain, but I choose to keep the car in the garage when the streets are still covered with salt.
Agreed.

One of the advantages of Las Vegas — it snows so rarely that they don’t ever salt the roads — they don’t even have the equipment to do it.
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Y'all be careful getting your Vette wet or it may shrink.



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Originally Posted by RMS73
Y'all be careful getting your Vette wet or it may shrink.


Now that’s funny

A humorous take on how the car should be used as obsessed with many on here...
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A year ago while on my cross country trip, I left relatives in Dallas with temps in the low 40's and rain, headed for Amarillo. On the way, temps dropped and I could see ice forming on wire fences and road signs but the roads were okay. The car never shrunk though.
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Mine was my daily to and from school ('bout nine miles each way, flat drive) but on those snowy icy days here in western WA State
my lovely bride would drive me in the Prius....just the lack of traction as the primary concern....
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Originally Posted by 65fastback
OK brother, I'm checking the rule book on this. That has got to be a violation for sure.

OP, I cleaned our GS up, and was all prepared to drive it to Myrtle Beach, SC for three weeks. Checked out the weather for that area, and just backed it back into the garage. In the last two weeks the sun has only been out two days. I don't mine it getting rained on, but I would like it to be clean a few days in a row.
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No, however you can be accused of having a filthy C7, glad that pleases you so. As Corvette ownership is much about pleasure regardless of how that pleasure is achieved, by driving in bad weather or just being admired sitting in a garage.

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