When did YOU know someday you would own a CORVETTE ?

[LancePearson]

that's a nice story...what does your Z look like and did you get married?

Lance P. by the way, welcome to North America.

[DaveK]

Sorry Hog, no sisters I'm afraid. Hey Lance, thanks for all the email advice by the way. Yes we got married a couple of years after we bought the ZR-1.


My Beast


Wedding day


With friends from the local Corvette Club

[LancePearson]

Not only the car that is attractive..nice wedding photos.

Not sure quite what you mean about email advice. Ann landers I am not!

[DaveK]

Sorry lance. I was talking about the mails we've exchanged on writing/editing.

[LancePearson]

Gotcha! Write about her!

I am still getting names and cars straight here.

[rkreigh]

when I was 8 I got a 69 "drive by wire" toy corvette and would run around the house behind it. then I got in to slot cars and later RC

I always made sure the corvette was the fastest and best looking car even if it took a few mods.

in 87 I bought a Turbo Buick because it was fast, cheap, and easy to modify and at the time faster than the corvette even though I really wanted a corvette.

later on I finally got a 69 Vette, later a 68 Convertable, and a 71 coupe which had a nasty 427 home brew L88 (my buddy still owns it)

after getting tired of working on vettes more than driving them, I got a DRM 450 for 23k which at the time was a steal. people thought I was crazy buying a used, modified vette with OMG 63k miles on it but I knew how durable the LT5 was and the DRM with the headers, ported top plenum and 4.10 gears, black with red interior, and roll bar, chrome a molds, was a fantastic deal and really got me hooked on the ZR-1

4 ZR-1s since then, I settled on the LSV 390 which is a keeper and will likely last longer than I will, 80k miles, still pulls over 500 rwhp and is my favorite of all of them with the rowdy yet streetable cams, and more grunt than I need which just about right

now I'm playing with the TT Z06 more, but still end up driving the ZR-1 because it's better looking, and has a look, feel, and sound that is the most satisfying and it's almost as quick to 100. beyond that the Z06 will bury it as it has 800 rwhp.

my next vette will likely be a c8. hoping they bring back an LT5 and twin turbo the c8. a 750 factory vette that is around 3k lbs and has a killer look would be what it takes. I like the c7 very much but not enough to part with the corvettes I have.

the one corvette I will likely sell soon is my old c3 1980 drag car. it runs 9.20s at 142 but I just don't get out to the track enough anymore and would rather bolt on the drag radials, drive there and drive back rather than hassle with trailering and climbing in and out of a caged car.

if anyone is interested let me know, and I'll send pics and write up on the car

[Don in VT]

I was 19 years old ( The year was 1954 )and I was driving a 1951 MGTD. I passed a Chevrolet dealer in Lake Oswego, Oregon and I saw my first Corvette in the show room window. Soon after that day I bought the car. It was white with red interior. I think the Vette was a very late 53 or early 54. At the time all I cared about was that it had a inline 6 and was going to be faster then my MG 4 banger and it had a heater.

I am now driving my 26th Corvette, a 1990 ZR1.

Cheers,

Don in VT

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Originally Posted by Don in VT

I was 19 years old ( The year was 1954 )and I was driving a 1951 MGTD. I passed a Chevrolet dealer in Lake Oswego, Oregon and I saw my first Corvette in the show room window. Soon after that day I bought the car. It was white with red interior. I think the Vette was a very late 53 or early 54. At the time all I cared about was that it had a inline 6 and was going to be faster then my MG 4 banger and it had a heater.

I am now driving my 26th Corvette, a 1990 ZR1.

Cheers,

Don in VT

Now that's a great Corvette story! According to my math you are 78 now and still enjoying life with a Corvette. There's hope for us all!

Cheers, my friend and thanks for the story.

[Bob Eyres]

When did I know?
When I was eight years old and my Dad took me in the back door of our local Chevy dealership to see the new fiberglass sports car that just arrived. The 1953 Corvette.

When did I make the commitment?
When I was twenty years old, in the fall of 1965, relaxing in my college apartment when an old friend drove into town to visit his girlfriend. That night he said, "hey guys, if you let me spend the evening here with my girl, I'll provide the transportation to get your butts out of here", and tossed me the keys to his "new Chevy".
That "new Chevy" was a brand new 1966 Nassau blue Corvette roadster, with a domed hood, and badges that said "Turbo-Jet 427". A 450 hp. rocket ship that none of us will ever forget. We had never seen one, and we were told, "Get outa' here, and don't come back 'till way after midnight".
Let me just say, HELL WAS RAISED . That machine took us on a wild ride, and eventually all the way to Sebring and back, on spring break.

[BigJohn]

Come on, some of these time lines just don't add up!!!