First Vette, Kansas
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From: Hutchinson KS
First Vette, Kansas
My name is Trevor. My wife and I bought our first corvette in February 2017. It's a 1997, automatic, arctic white, mostly stock, came with straight pipes, and headers. Not sure of the brand. Since we bought it we have gotten it coated with SapphireV1, a nano-ceramic coating. It's halo has been wrapped with a ghosted black american flag, and got the grand sport stripes. When we bought it there were 159k miles on it, and now there's 168k miles. I share our experience of owning a corvette on instagram, and facebook, ArcticVette.
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Welcome to the forum, Trevor, and congratulations to you and your wife on your C5!
Sounds like you and she have already shared several thousand miles of time in your new ride. Continue the drive and save the wave.
Sounds like you and she have already shared several thousand miles of time in your new ride. Continue the drive and save the wave.
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Welcome to the forum!
Congrats. on your C5!
Congrats. on your C5!
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Welcome and congrats on getting your C5. Hope you get many miles of driving pleasure from it and looking forward to seeing you in the C5 sections.
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From: Hamilton Ontario
Welcome to the club
My name is Trevor. My wife and I bought our first corvette in February 2017. It's a 1997, automatic, arctic white, mostly stock, came with straight pipes, and headers. Not sure of the brand. Since we bought it we have gotten it coated with SapphireV1, a nano-ceramic coating. It's halo has been wrapped with a ghosted black american flag, and got the grand sport stripes. When we bought it there were 159k miles on it, and now there's 168k miles. I share our experience of owning a corvette on instagram, and facebook, ArcticVette.
Good Luck and welcome to the forum Mike