I have seen this on a lot of regional forums before. Pretty simple if you see a Corvette out on the road or wherever just post and see if they are on here. Or post if you see someone you know out on the street, kind of a high tech wave.

First up:

Two-tone silver and blue (maybe it was kind of dark), with chrome wheels (not sure what kind, it was still dark when I looked at the wheels) early c4 on 512 just before the Parkland/Pacific ave exit. Thursday night I passed you in a Black c4 with ZR-1 wheels.

White C5 with body kit and stock wheels, in your driveway, almost everyday. I live down the street.

 

Maybe this would get more traction in the spring ...... just sayin'

 

Spotted a few up here in the north end while we had the nice weather last week...

Victory Red C6 Z06 appeared to be stock with factory chrome wheels (172nd st and 67th)

Black C6 Z06 also appeared to be stock with factory chrome wheels heading west on 172nd st. Female middle aged driver.

Millennium Yellow C5 convertible with chrome Y2k wheels headed west on 4th st in Marysville.

 

You can spot my TR C5 on the roads around Hillsboro/Portland almost any day, rain or shine

 

Saw a blue c-6 convertible in south Marysville WA on the on Thurs the 10th. I was in my yellow C-6 coupe and followed you west bound on Marine View Drive, from I-5 till you turrned off about 2 miles west of the freeway. Nice pipes, by the way!

 

If it does it does, if not, whatever. Just throwing stuff at a wall and seeing what sticks. I saw a lot of Vettes running around last week and made me think of this.

 

Your post sat for a while with no repsonse so I figured no one had seen any due to weather. Leave it to Matt to throw me under the bus

 

Ya it happens, I don't know what it is but I see at least one or two a day. Maybe I just need to pay more attention to the road while I am driving instead of looking around.

Spotted 3 day, Silver C5 coupe with black wheels at the McChord PX parking lot, Early C4 grayish silver, also at the McChord PX. Also played with a black C6 on Bridgeport Way in Lakewood.

 

OK here's one .... twice last week spotted a silver C5 headed south on I-5 just south of 164th st in Mill Creek. This was about 6:00 AM - 6:15 AM. I think that you moved onto the express lanes and I moved over to the right to exit at 50th st.

Car has a modified exhaust and sounds

 

Saw a 50th anny vert on the Bothell Everett Hwy last week, pulled into the Burgermaster, I was in the LeMans Blue CE coupe about a block behind you, Texas plates.

 

Ha ha, I was actually surprised to see so many out this time of year myself. Can't wait for summer.


I'm the same way while driving around...

 

This can be fun. We did it on the Desmo NW website under "sightings". That said, There are far fewer Ducatis, I'm sure, than Corvettes and while a great many Ducati riders subscribe to the Desmo Northwest website, I doubt if as large a % of Corvette owners belong to this forum.

Still, let's try it and see what sort of response we get. Is there some way it can be done so it doesn't keep sinking to the bottom of the thread list?

 

Hmmm, Mill Creek, mod exhaust. Sounds (pardon the pun) like Joe. Or maybe a Joe Wannabe.

 

Here is a spotted just for you Phil, we saw a pink unlimited hydroplane model at the swap meet Saturday. The wife flipped out and wouldn't stop looking at it. I don't remember the name of it though.

 

What swap meet? This one?

http://thunderboats.ning.com/photo/v...t?context=user

To my knowledge there was only one "pink" unlimited hydroplane; the "Hawaii Kai III" a local favorite back in the late 50's. She no longer exists except in replica form by way of what used to be "Barney Armstrong's Machine" The original was given a "Viking Funeral" many years ago.

http://lesliefield.com/default_frame.htm

 

Just looked out side even though its dark I see a Electron blue 02 & a Steal blue 90 lol

saw a lot of them at the swap meet on saturday both in side the gates & out side

 

It was a the Corvette HP swap meet, one of the vendors just had it sitting with other stuff he had for sale. For what I can remember it was purple and pink and it may have been named either "The Purple Princess," or the "The Pink Princess." It could have just been a model or something not based on a real boat.

 

Forgive me. I should have known the Puyallup meet was last weekend. How personally embarrassing. I fear I'm forever destined to be little more than a "casual performance" guy when it comes to my C6. I guess 400 HP is more than enough for me. No need for me to drive all the way to Puyallup to look at stuff I couldn't possibly use. Or might hurt myelf badly if I did. Fred's Riverside Ale House in Snohomish is perhaps a more appropriate venue to get Poodle Girl and, sometimes, Fred to attend. I promise to go out the garage tomorrow morning and rip my "Jake" stickers off the top of the windshield (where they were interfering with my rain sensors anyway)

But to your original point. Many of the old Hydroplanes acquired nicknames along the way. The Hawaii Kai III was often known as "The Pink Lady" and the lilac and lavender Miss Spokane, the "The Lilac Lady", partly relating to Spokane' s annual lilac festival.

Trying to keep these old boats running these days more often result in nicknames like, "Oh, S**t, Not again" or "Dammit!" or even, "Mother f...", but any of those terms can apply to any number of the boats when we try to run them, like, say at Lake Chelan when we take them out for play every year. The nicknames rarely stick and often disappear once we get them running. It's sometimes hard for me to understand how those Warhawks and Mustangs won the air war if they only ran as "often" as our boats sometimes do. Must have been the sheer number of them at the time.

Of course, being near the same age as most of the engines we use, I can at least sympathize with their propensity to not want to get going.

Where were we going with all this?

I need to get a job...

 

My experience tells me that this not only happens often, but is actually a prerequisite to purchacing and owning any boat. I have owned boats for most of my life and these nautical terms always accompanied each boat I have ever owned. However, this is only a sampling of the glossary of terms required for vessel ownership......there are many, many more.

 

Spotted a Velocity yellow C6 Z with factory chrome wheels last night on Hwy 2, it was near the 88th st exit for Snohomish.