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12-06-2006, 09:12 PM
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When did you buy your first vette ?
So, how and when did you come to own your first corvette?
My husband bought his first one, a '91 coupe as part of his mid life crisis back in the early 90s. We joined the corvette club and took a trip to Key West in a caravan of 23 corvettes. I fell in love with the cars...all of them. I didn't want to be the passenger, I had to have my own. We got back to town on Sunday and Monday after work I was at the dealership and brought home a
'92 black coupe. We've been a 2 corvette family ever since. I kept the '92 as a daily driver until 2004 when I sold it to buy my current vette.
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12-06-2006, 10:08 PM
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1976. I drove a VW bug in college and have always wanted a vette. A salesman friend of mine brought it home and asked if I wanted to take it for a spin. I never rode in a vette and I was hooked and still am. I have owned a vette ever since ,here is a picture of my first with my father who at that time was 46 I am now 7 years older than my father in that pic. Time goes by fast.
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12-06-2006, 10:19 PM
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Monday!! ![Dancer01](images/smilies/dancer01.gif) WOOT!!
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12-06-2006, 10:33 PM
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I ordered my 1975 Corvette convertible in November of 1974. It didn't arrive at the dealer until May 1, 1975. I still own it. It currently has 13,000 miles, and is a certified Bloomington Gold Survivor. It still has its original hoses and tires! Wanna see a picture of it? Well, it's been photographed for 5 books so far. Just check the photograph section in the back of any Corvette Black Book. That's my 1975. I took that picture myself right by the river in Ft. Myers.
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12-07-2006, 06:02 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 75survivor
I ordered my 1975 Corvette convertible in November of 1974. It didn't arrive at the dealer until May 1, 1975. I still own it. It currently has 13,000 miles, and is a certified Bloomington Gold Survivor. It still has its original hoses and tires! Wanna see a picture of it? Well, it's been photographed for 5 books so far. Just check the photograph section in the back of any Corvette Black Book. That's my 1975. I took that picture myself right by the river in Ft. Myers.
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I know who you are!! Glad you stopped in. Why not go on up to the welcome room and introduce yourself to the membership?
Linda
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12-07-2006, 06:03 AM
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Originally Posted by naples
1976. I drove a VW bug in college and have always wanted a vette. A salesman friend of mine brought it home and asked if I wanted to take it for a spin. I never rode in a vette and I was hooked and still am. I have owned a vette ever since ,here is a picture of my first with my father who at that time was 46 I am now 7 years older than my father in that pic. Time goes by fast.
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Great pic and story, Alan
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12-07-2006, 06:05 AM
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Monday!! ![Dancer01](images/smilies/dancer01.gif) WOOT!! ![Big Grin](images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
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Chris, you've got the "fever"
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12-07-2006, 06:09 AM
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Posted this on Rich's "What do you do for a living?" thread.
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I've slowly had to work my way up to a Vette. I've wanted one for a long time and I'm elated that I'm finally in a position to afford one. I kinda backed into it a little though. Totalled my Camaro SS last year. The woman that I hit was at fault and her insurance paid off my car and then a little extra. They even paid the sales tax on the value of the Camaro to go towards whatever I bought. And a partial amount of repairs I had just done. USAA=great insurance. ![thumbsup](images/smilies/2232thumb.gif)
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12-07-2006, 07:01 AM
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![Cool3](images/smilies/cool3.gif) My 1st and only so far is a artic white 98 coupe ![Hurray](images/smilies/hurray.gif) .I have tried back in the day to purchased severals but was always shut down bye the wife. ![Ack2](images/smilies/ack2.gif) She ownly agreed to buy the vette if she could use it as a DD.That lasted about 3weeks we ended up buying her a DD ![Dancer01](images/smilies/dancer01.gif) for her and the Vette became Mine.
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AW 98 Coupe with alot of Show & Go Crap
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12-07-2006, 08:09 AM
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Well, it all started back in 2003 when the 03 Cobra Mustang came out. I bought one. But after about 20 trips to the dealer(clutch problems, trannie problems, and array of other problems), I drove to a Chevy Dealership and traded my modified Cobra(450 rwhp,485rwtg) in on a 2004 lemans blue C-5vette. I was dissapointed with the overall lack of power(even after headers,exhaust,blackwing coldair intake) the car had for the price. Then the C-6 came out and like everyone else, it took a bit to get used to the new body style. I ended up test driving a white C-6 with red interior and Auto trannie. I...I didn`t want to return it. However while I was out Test driving the white demo,I passed a truckload of brand new C-6s headed o the dealership. And would`nt you know it,they had a Lemans Blue 3LT mn6(non Z51) on the truck that was not spoken for. Well, I drove it home that night.
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