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

[Big_John]

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.)

It is a tradition that goes back to the fifties. It's been "tongue in cheek" for some to say that it's part of necessary Corvette etiquette and that new owners need to be trained. Like a lot of things, some guys take it way too serious and get their pussy hurt if you don't wave.

Myself, I always thought it was fun and again... Tongue in cheek... I would tell anyone that was riding in my Corvette that it was "the law" and you were required to wave and wear the proper sunglasses.

I never took Corvette ownership very serious.... I owned a couple Corvette tee shirts but never bought Corvette socks..

 

[Fratzog]

Hear what you are saying and you are probably the exception. Most Corvette guys take themselves too seriously ...

 

[commando1]

 

[Big_John]

I'll admit to liking some of the Adams products. If nothing else, I walked through their tent at Carlisle on a really hot day and Adam Pitale handed me a bottle of water because I looked like I needed it. He gained a customer just from that.

I also really like the Collinite Metal wax for chrome and the Meguires clay bars.

It wouldn't surprise me if Collinite made and packaged Adams products.

 

[Big_John]

BTW, Sal Zaino used to write articles for some of the early Mopar magazines before he got in the wax biz.

 

[Catfish]

95 percent of the cars I pass in my area wave no matter what you drive....good ol rural Montana.

I think some mustangs do piss off some Vette owners though.

 

[polara71]

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.)

The biker wave is ef-in annoying .......

 

[cm23uoc]

The biker wave is ef-in annoying .......

This seems to be a global tradition.
Often get waves from Volvo 240 drivers when driving ours. I wouldn't start it, but no problem to wave back either.

 

[polara71]

Yeah I know but just wave, whys it gotta be some low below the seat wave?

 

[cm23uoc]

I don't know. As a biker it would be to annoying to me, in the summer time on these winding roads where I live you will have to wave permanently, many bikers traveling in this area.

 

[polara71]

So they cant just presume they already waved to the same j.o on the ride out? AND not wave at all.......... or a little wave in the air? I despise motorcycles

 

[commando1]

Rick Erhenberg's Problem Solver.

 

[polara71]

I'll bite, why two colors?

 

[commando1]

For driving through Chinatown?

 

[polara71]

is the population higher in Chinatown?

 

[tbm3fan]

And Camaro guys and Mustang guys....

Pay the $40k - $50k tab and get a wave. Frig you.

I don't know about now since I am not in one of them. In 1973, my father had a 911E Targa, and when the two went to Europe on vacation I came up in that VW to sneak a couple of weeks in the car. There were a few interesting episodes starting with it being the first stick I ever drove for more than 5 minutes. Definitely not a favorite car of mine.

Anyway, back then, Porsche driver's would flash their headlights at you in another Porsche. Probably made the first guy wonder why I didn't but I caught on quickly.

 

[commando1]

This really nauseates me. There are RULES, too.
Rules for doing something stupid. Oh yah...

http://www.lostcorvettes.org/public/lccc_corvette_wave_rules.htm

I already broke RULE #1. Saved me from having to remember the rest of them.

 

[Big_John]

There's two RULE #1s there. Which one did you break?

 

[Fratzog]

Since any kind of wave is OK I can think of one...

 

[monaco75]

This really nauseates me. There are RULES, too.
Rules for doing something stupid. Oh yah...

http://www.lostcorvettes.org/public/lccc_corvette_wave_rules.htm

I already broke RULE #1. Saved me from having to remember the rest of them.

Are you fng kidding me? Wtf