As car guys......share my pain.

LOL, general discussion forum is one of my favorites on here. It's almost like having real conversations. The topic can change over and over in the same thread.
 
Catfish said:
You have had one or two was it? Honestly, did you enjoy the car/cars? Would you have enjoyed them more or less without all the other BS that comes along with owning a Vette? That's part of why I like my Shelby so much. To 90% of the general public it's just another mustang, which is perfect for me, I don't want attention. But the other 10% know what it is and those are the kinds of guys that I enjoy talking to while fueling up or outside a Dairy Queen. The Vette is in a different class, it's an attention ***** like a Viper.

The body shop owner was a perfect example, he's a Vette owner. He asked more questions about my car than I asked him about the repair. He was unaware that the displacement was higher in the 13-14's. And he had know idea it came stock with 200 more HP than his Vette. He's what I would call a Vette OWNER, not a Vette GUY. LOL
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In the spring of '04, I was tasting retirement, and good money with overtime (senority). I saw previews of the '05 C6.
I got it in my head I was going to fulfill my Need for Speed once and for all when I read it was faster out the door than the '67 L-88. Pay the price once, turn the key, keep it forever. I signed up on the waiting list and paid cash for one of the first ones. Within 10 months the whole Corvette atmosphere wanted to make me puke so I bailed got made money on the car.
In 2007 I did it again for one of the first 08's, the first really improved C6's.
I sold it four months later for what I paid for it.
Got banned from both big Corvette Forums for calling them out on their being such assholes for even needing advice on what color designer floor mats they HAD to buy.

They bought water filtration systems to wash their car.
Water filtration systems.........

That's why I'm a tad amused about your scratch. Been there. I look back and say WTF happened to me.
 
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commando1 said:
In the spring of '04, I was tasting retirement, and good money with overtime (senority). I saw previews of the '05 C6.
I got it in my head I was going to fulfill my Need for Speed once and for all when I read it was faster out the door than the '67 L-88. Pay the price once, turn the key, keep it forever. I signed up on the waiting list and paid cash for one of the first ones. Within 10 months the whole Corvette atmosphere wanted to make me puke so I bailed got made money on the car.
In 2007 I did it again for one of the first 08's, the first really improved C6's.
I sold it four months later for what I paid for it.
Got banned from both big Corvette Forums for calling them out on their being such assholes for even needing advice on what color designer floor mats they HAD to buy.

They bought water filtration systems to wash their car.
Water filtration systems.........

That's why I'm a tad amused about your scratch. Been there. I look back and say WTF happened to me.
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Would you feel differently had I just scratched my freshly painted 65 Dodge? Although I am far from a Vette owner, filtered car wash, designer floor mat kind of guy I do take pride in my possessions. Not to show off or say "look at me", but more because I bust my *** working out of town 75% of my life. I grew up not having much, so I have a lot of appreciation for what I own I suppose. I am not gonna lie, that scratch hurt. Not because it was on my Shelby, but because it was on one of my things. I would have felt the same about it if it was on my dually Ram. And dare I say even on the front of the refrigerator in our kitchen. I am not anal, my vehicles get dirty and driven, but I like to know that they clean up nice.
 
Catfish. I'm on your side on this. Honest. There's no right or wrong.
Your situation is making me reflect on myself. That's a good thing.

Yeah WTF happened
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I'll get to you later.
 
Admittedly, I did feel like you were busting my balls a little......but I wasn't losing any sleep over it. I am pretty much over the scratch now. We all know how it feels to put the first one on a car. Well, maybe not everyone knows that feeling as there are many that refuse to buy brand new in this world.

Now to just get ahold of the guy that tore up the siding on my garage while he was removing snow......:rant:
 
I had a '91 that I bought after dumping my first wife. I suddenly had some $$ now that I wasn't supporting her family... I had wanted a C4 for a while and I found a really nice one for the right price.

I liked the car... It did a lot of things right. It handled great, got decent mileage and was pretty reliable. I really enjoyed driving the car.

What I soon found out was the Corvette guys were nothing like the Mopar guys I hang around with. Nobody knew one end of a wrench from the other. I went to a couple shows and did a few trips with the local Vette club, but it was pretty clear I didn't fit in.

The last Corvette function I went to was an autocross event the local club put on. My oldest son and I had been autocrossing an ACR Neon for a while and he was really, really good at it. We took turns driving and he managed to piss off all the club guys by waxing their butts. Something about a 20 year old kid in Dad's bone stock C4 running faster than everyone else seemed to annoy them. Of course... Then I said out loud that we should have brought the Neon and ran the course fast..... That went over like a fart in church too. If it hadn't been so late in the afternoon, I would have gone home after it. LOL!

So... the Corvette and I didn't fit in with the other Corvette guys. I still enjoyed the car though. It was a fun car to drive and I still did the Corvette wave. I drove it for several more years, but never went to another Corvette gathering.

Mrs. Big John loved the car, but it became hard for her to get in and out of the car. The last time she and I went anywhere in it, we stopped at a store and some assclown made a comment about me hanging her handicap tag on the mirror. I decided then and there it had just stopped being fun on many levels.

I sold the car a few weeks later.
 
I absolutely refused to do the Corvette Wave. Silliest thing I ever heard of for a thousand reasons.

Then there were the posts in the forums.
"I gave the wave to an Arctic White C6 and he didn't wave back!!!"

WTF?
 
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Can you tell me what all those thingies are on my car?
 
I never understood why people would get upset and post about someone not waving. Then again... I never understood most of those posts.

There was one thread where a guy got ticketed for 80MPH in a 30MPH residential zone. Everyone was saying how bad it was and that cops needed to lighten up. One guy even said that Corvettes should be able to go faster because they are Corvettes. The Lemmings piled on from there.

I was the only one that said he was a dumb *** and going 80 around where there are things like kids riding their bikes deserves more than a ticket and should lose their license for a while. I got called "Grandpa" on that one.

The wave.... I don't know... I thought it was fun. No big deal if they didn't wave back. I used to get the Jeep wave too back when I had a big Grand Wagoneer.

Guys with old cars wave at each other around here anyway... So I still get to wave in the Chrysler.
 
Whats so special about that. If I see an old car I like on the road I always give a thumbs up. (Maybe not the queens wave LOL.)
 
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