Allan

It's just a car, a very expensive car.
CMH to PHX in October. Drove it all winter.
PHX to CMH in May. Will drive it all summer.
Ran/Handled/Rode great however, I wouldn't want to be co-pilot.
~2K miles each way/~26-28 mpg.
Can't wait until October to do it again.
Living the Dream

dhpeck

I agree. We buy these cars because of the beauty and performance, yet so many "count miles" and worry about driving. It's a depreciating asset. Use it. Enjoy it.

Bruze

Here we go again, ad nauseam: If you don't rack up a zillion miles per year, then you're not "a real Corvette owner."

USA1 427

You do what you want with your car, I'll do what I want with mine. Nobody's right, nobody's wrong.

owc6

Damn straight!





Frankly, I DGAS how someone uses their car. It's theirs. And when the garage queens go on sale, eventually, those owners that are willing to part with them are to be blessed!

HOXXOH

Ya know! You could have taken that pic at 23 MPH.

owc6

Picky, picky, picky.

Post your pic when you get there.

If it was possible, I'd have taken that pic at 230 mph.

User Omega

Some of us have many other hobbies aside of the Corvettes. I think I put around 1k miles on my car last year. It was really fun and I certainly wasn't counting them as I drove on. There just isn't enough time in my year to go stack miles on it. She won't fit over the speed bumps at work. Bastards!

pagosawingnut

I'm damn sure driving mine! Put 16,000+ miles on her in 13 months and it's not a daily driver. I bought it to drive.

4SUMERZ

uhhumm...you forgot to add if it ain't a stick, it's not a real Corvette and you certainly aren't manly enough to drive a Corvette.

Batman75

That's actually what the retired female teacher said when I bought her Corvette Also, her husband said, "if it isn't red, it's not a real Corvette".

flyingbunnys

I'm fine with people who don't drive then. Just means I can buy a cheap low milage corvette later when they sell it.

cessna10

Being in the cab of 10 wheelers for a good part
of my 70 years, the last thing I wanted to see
in my retirement corvettes was a CLUTCH.

69 L46 4 Speed

We have had our 13 GS MN6 convertible for 40 months (purchased new Jan 14). It now has 38,000 miles. Not a daily driver but we bought it to drive.

RobLo

I put about 2-3K a year on but I have the bike I ride plus I use the truck a lot, first one in line in the driveway and more convenient. And the big one, I really don't have that many places to go. Retired now and do travel some and take the Vette whenever possible but just not that many places to go to. Sometimes I take it out just to give it a spin, did that the other day after it sat in the garage for almost a month. And my Daughter won't let me pick up the Grandkids with the Vette (although they would LOVE it)...

Boba Fett

Gold star for you ^^
exactly....not to mention the driving mentioned could be done in my Honda Civic
Nope, the wrong person is the person that believes everyone else should be using their car the same way that person is using theirs...

Bruze

Bruze

A point I've made before on similar threads: I'm self-employed, work at home and drive a total of around 6,000 miles per year. The Vette gets about 2,500 of that total, the truck gets the rest.

Should I drive the Vette even if I don't have anywhere I want to go, just to rack up miles so I can be "a real Corvette owner?"

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Although unspoken, this is like the Harley rider's "Iron Butt Club," where you put a zillion miles on your bike so you can be "a real Harley rider."

How old are we? Fourteen?




FTR: Speaking only for myself, I do like girls.

R&L's C6

ruxvette

With that old (plastic) bucket of bolts 23mph would have been a miracle.