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I live in Knoxville Tennessee. We have the largest NCCC Corvette club in the country (over 400 members), needless t say, we have a lot of almost every generation of Vetes. There's even a 54 (for sale) along side a C-7 ZR-1. on the showroom floor of our sponsoring dealership.
I live in SW Florida and in Lee Country. Now just south of us in Collier County where there's more Ferrari's registered than any other county in America. But, that not withstanding and even though there's plenty of Porsche's and other Euro exotics as well there's plenty of Corvettes all over like popcorn at the movies. Just saying, it's a nice place to own a Vette and drive it all year with no problem with 'summer" tires! I belong to the Corvette Club of Naples and it's the largest in Florida. Just saying, "endless summer"!
Not very many C7's in the Northern Kentucky area. I was in Florida over the Winter and saw more in one day then I have seen since the 2014's came out. I see a lot more C5 and C6 models out and about locally.
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We live in a resort area. Though the actual full time resident population is small in numbers, due to the influx of weekend affluent home owners we ave a high number of cars. Corvettes are very popular, but it is not uncommon to see muscle cars and exotics.
An a side note, our Corvette club here is 190+ Members, (Lake Ozark Corvette Club) many who own multiple cars. Most of the members are not full time residents, but own homes here at the lake and are considered "weekenders". All is good!
I just picked up my new Grand Sport on Saturday. I live in Arlington Virginia. 2 years ago I saw a guy pull up to my building in a brand new Grand Sport and I was smitten that Vette. I think that might have been the first Corvette I had seen in Arlington in more than 2 years. We are down to 3 car dealerships in Arlington. A brand new Audi dealership, Mercedes Benz, and Maserati. Historic Bob Peck Chevrolet was leveled a few years ago and is now a gleaming glass high rise office tower. They actually incorporated the old Blue Chevy Bow Tie logos onto the new tower. But I bet I am one of the few people here that actually know it is the Chevy bow tie!
Used to live at River House in Pentagon City as that was a really convenient commute to my tour at NAVAIR in Crystal City. I remember Bob Peck Chevrolet. A data point you may be interested - Do your remember Rosner Chevrolet? The owner Ron Rosner now lives in Vero Beach and he is a real car guy. He recently sold his last Chevy dealership in Melbourne Florida and now appears to be focused on his pure enthusiast oriented Rosner Motorsport in Vero Beach https://www.rosnermotorsports.com/
Rosner Motorsport is like a museum, except everything is for sale. He has some really amazing vehicles that I sometimes drop by to dream about
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There are a few around town and I run across one every now and then. I would think that as the weather gets warmer the Corvette owners around here will get the cars out and about more. The town has about 40K population and the local dealer has 4 new and 3 used C7s on the lot. No idea where they all go though when they sell.
Not as many C7s as C6s, and they are not a common occurrence, but no longer uncommon. Folks still stare at it when I take it out and every Mustang and BMW owner tries to showoff if they see the C7. As a bench mark, one of the top 10 Corvette sales dealerships is less than 10 miles from my house so that might give you an idea.
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Once May comes around, they start to come out of hiding and usually aren't seen after November. Still, there are very few around and one has to spend a lot of time on the roads around here to see more than one or two a week. Most people don't want to buy a car to not drive for 6 months. I have 2.
Okay, so I don't see a lot myself - but every time I mention this, fellow Michiganders from the east side keeps saying otherwise. It's not like I'm driving in a bubble. For instance, this past Saturday I drove across town, had to take a detour to Livonia because I-94 was closed at I-75. Then I drove from Livonia to I-96 to I-275 to I-696 to I-94 back home which is basically almost all of Southeastern Michigan. That whole trip, I ran into maybe 15 - 25 Challengers. How many Corvettes did I see besides my own in any generation? One. Admiral Blue.
It's not like the weather was bad that day, so I don't know what's going on. Maybe the garage queens were polishing their crowns ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Reason: Changed 'yesterday' to Saturday. Thought today was Sunday. A day late and a dollar short.
Okay, so I don't see a lot myself - but every time I mention this, fellow Michiganders from the east side keeps saying otherwise. It's not like I'm driving in a bubble. For instance, yesterday I drove across town, had to take a detour to Livonia because I-94 was closed at I-75. Then I drove from Livonia to I-96 to I-275 to I-696 to I-94 back home which is basically almost all of Southeastern Michigan. That whole trip, I ran into maybe 15 - 25 Challengers. How many Corvettes did I see besides my own in any generation? One. Admiral Blue.
It's not like the weather was bad that day, so I don't know what's going on. Maybe the garage queens were polishing their crowns ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It rained yesterday, no wonder you didn't see many.
Metro NY my daily commute I see none Thats thousands of cars I see daily. About 3-4 weeks ago I did see a c7 on my homeward commute thats it,. Weekends a bit different saw three yesterday out by the beach. Did see 2 new carrera cabs this am - seems my car is more rare in the DD group
Higly populated higher end area for many years to a smaller rural area I can count on one hand total no matter what year
Think most just dont drive them which is nuts.
Very few here, I know of two, and see a BS Vert from time tot time. We have a large Club in Charlotte (one city over), and one would think I would see more. But, that's not the case. Must be a lot of garage queen's in that club.
They are relatively a lot of Corvettes and C7s particularly here in Lake Havasu. When I lived in Portland Oregon you could drive for days all over the city not see a C7. Here in Havasu if you drive 10 miles or so you have a good chance of seeing one or two every couple of days. They are very common here as opposed to Portland considering the population here is about 60,000 tops and Portland has about 2 million.
I know c7's might be dime a dozen in some areas therefore no one really pays attention to it. I know up here in Canada, even in a big city like Vancouver, I still don't see too many even though it is already in its 6th model year. I guess that's why is still garners a lot of attention here as if I am driving some type of exotic.
04-15-2019, 08:27 AM
Just saying, it's a nice place to own a Vette and drive it all year with no problem with 'summer" tires! 
I belong to the Corvette Club of Naples and it's the largest in Florida. Just saying, "endless summer"! 
