1970 Corvette
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1970 Corvette
Here I am - a new member. Feels awkward as I have owned my 1970 for 21 years - a monumental task for those who know me. I have owned numerous performance and sports cars over the years, but this is the one who has owned me for all these years.
It began about 25 years ago when I had a 1976 Corvette, and one night on the "boulevard" I had a hell of a time keeping up with a 80's vintage Mustang GT. The following Monday - I immediately went to my local Corvette dealer who had a 1970 350/350 for sale - threw the receipt at my soon to be wife who thought I was nuts - and said "just wait until next Saturday". A buddy of mine who had a similar Mustang taunted me for weeks from my 76 ventures, and now wanted to challenge the 70. One night I obliged, and my bride taunted saying "I'm riding in the Mustang". We met on the highway, where we had a close encounter with my 76 barely keeping up with his 83 Mustang GT. We counted down and launched - I saw my bride in the passenger seat of the Mustang pointing as they initially pulled away as my rear end flung wildly between the three lanes. When it hooked up, it was priceless as the look of laughter changed to jaw dropping stupidity as I passed them as if they were standing still. After I proved that point the Mustang went home - tail between its legs never to return, and now my better half wanting to ride with me on those ventures.
Twenty plus years have gone by and I've done little driving since. Maybe a couple of hundred miles a year. Many times thinking of selling my investment until the first Spring day when the QJet comes alive and that first run on the highway blasts that thought away.
I spoke with a friend of mine recently who has an old Camaro and has owned it since we left high school. He put it in perfect perspective - at this point both of these cars are part of us. We could make a lot of money if we sold it but we'd be selling our souls and that is why we've never parted with them. How true that is. How lucky I am to have had the foresight to purchase my 1970 in a time when they were still in the "reasonable" price range.
It began about 25 years ago when I had a 1976 Corvette, and one night on the "boulevard" I had a hell of a time keeping up with a 80's vintage Mustang GT. The following Monday - I immediately went to my local Corvette dealer who had a 1970 350/350 for sale - threw the receipt at my soon to be wife who thought I was nuts - and said "just wait until next Saturday". A buddy of mine who had a similar Mustang taunted me for weeks from my 76 ventures, and now wanted to challenge the 70. One night I obliged, and my bride taunted saying "I'm riding in the Mustang". We met on the highway, where we had a close encounter with my 76 barely keeping up with his 83 Mustang GT. We counted down and launched - I saw my bride in the passenger seat of the Mustang pointing as they initially pulled away as my rear end flung wildly between the three lanes. When it hooked up, it was priceless as the look of laughter changed to jaw dropping stupidity as I passed them as if they were standing still. After I proved that point the Mustang went home - tail between its legs never to return, and now my better half wanting to ride with me on those ventures.
Twenty plus years have gone by and I've done little driving since. Maybe a couple of hundred miles a year. Many times thinking of selling my investment until the first Spring day when the QJet comes alive and that first run on the highway blasts that thought away.
I spoke with a friend of mine recently who has an old Camaro and has owned it since we left high school. He put it in perfect perspective - at this point both of these cars are part of us. We could make a lot of money if we sold it but we'd be selling our souls and that is why we've never parted with them. How true that is. How lucky I am to have had the foresight to purchase my 1970 in a time when they were still in the "reasonable" price range.
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