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Old May 10, 2024 | 10:25 AM
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Old May 10, 2024 | 01:00 PM
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Is that black car in the background an S2000?
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Old May 10, 2024 | 01:44 PM
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I call mine Corvette C7 Z06 w/Z07
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Old May 10, 2024 | 02:49 PM
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Old May 10, 2024 | 03:41 PM
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When asked I call it WHAT IT IS, a vette. Naming a car sounds really corny and childish and not something I would admit to doing, unless of course I was a child.
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Old May 10, 2024 | 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Let It Ride
When asked I call it WHAT IT IS, a vette. Naming a car sounds really corny and childish and not something I would admit to doing, unless of course I was a child.
Have you ever been on CorvetteForum?
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Old May 10, 2024 | 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by CPB
Have you ever been on CorvetteForum?
Is this a trick question? I actually don't understand what your asking.
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Old May 10, 2024 | 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Let It Ride
Is this a trick question? I actually don't understand what your asking.
I think he is asking if you have seen some of the posts here of people antromophorsizing their car as though it were a living creature.
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Old May 10, 2024 | 11:12 PM
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Originally Posted by aklim
I think he is asking if you have seen some of the posts here of people antromophorsizing their car as though it were a living creature.
Oh ok I get it now.
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Old May 10, 2024 | 11:40 PM
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Mine gets a lot of names if something isn't going well when I'm working on it
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Just call mine "the Vette" but a buddy called his "Mistress". Thought that was pretty cool.
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Originally Posted by vcam
Just call mine "the Vette" but a buddy called his "Mistress". Thought that was pretty cool.
At the intake is the vacuum and at the exhaust it is warm and sometimes wet so,,,,,,,
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