The Corvette

[TonyG]

Today in 1953 the Chevy Corvette was introduced. I have always liked this car but never owned one. Does/did anyone here own a Vette? Also, don't you think the Vette was much better than the Mustang.

My favorite Vette growing up was this one.
http://208.56.49.17/images/69orange.JPG

 

[Countess DeWinter]

Never owned a 'vette, Tony. Never would. Too durn cramped looking. I liked Mustangs better. More room to maneuver.

 

[Juspar Emvan]

20th aniversary

Thats a '69.

The 1973 is my alltime fav car. I hope to ship one from California latter this year, if I can track down exactly the right one - at the right price.

http://yrfconsulting.tripod.com/images/73_02.jpg


The pic keeps going out on me, try the link: http://yrfconsulting.tripod.com/images/73_02.jpg

[Edited by Juspar Emvan on 01-17-2001 at 04:16 PM]

 

[SweetCherry]

Never had a Vette, but always wanted one. That one is a good looking car, but it's the wrong color for me. I was always partial to a veete in british racing green.

 

[TonyG]

Countess: I have noticed that mostly women wanted Mustangs. Look at the driver the next time you see one, 75% of the time it will be a female.


Juspar: Try this web site: http://www.cccvette.com/73vette.htm

Also, here's one you might like.
http://www.cccvette.com/vette/txx543d.jpg

 

[Juspar Emvan]

Thanks

Cheers Tony, that's great.

It's interesting to note that site does surveys and 33% of voters prefer the Generation 3 Vettes. 1968-1982, The Shark Years. Obviously we two fit this catagory too.

Try this link:
http://www.yl-gazette.com/cgi-bin/s...rward&scale=0&cycle=off&slide=9&style=default

[Edited by Juspar Emvan on 01-16-2001 at 03:22 PM]

 

[Chuckus]

Once upon a life ago I had the chance to buy a 69 Vette Convertible with factory sidepipes and a big block. Should have bought it. Electric blue with blue interior, man on the test drive that car would fly.

I like Corvettes and I also like Mustangs, give me a Shelby GT500 anytime......

 

[GuyJD]

I'LL NEVER FORGET.....

I didn't but my brother did. He swapped his 1973 Dodge Ram 150 Conversion van for a 1972 Chevy Corvette (the last Vette to sport front and rear chrome bumpers). It was a fairly plain white car but he had our cousin put a $1500 pearl black paint job on it. It was da bomb.
Then one evening, he allowed a fine, beautiful, sexy but unlicensed 19 year old girl drive his Vette. She turned a corner and kept the wheel turned. She drove up someone steps and knocked on his door with the front chrome bumper. There was a large break in the passenger fender that ended up flying off on the highway. That was the greatest looking Vette that I ever saw. Somehow, my brother managed to swap that car for a seriously awesome looking 68' Pontiac Firebird with a 350 c.i.d engine (canary yellow with chromed vents and gas cover).

 

[Juspar Emvan]

That sucks

GuyJD, that is a terrible tale. I understand there is serious damage to a vette done in the movie Gone in 60 Seconds. I hesitate to watch it despite the rave reviews from friends, I'd look real dumb crying in the middle of a car chase.

 

[TonyG]

You don't want to watch the movie. It is a sad scene but I also did not think that much of the movie. Except for seeing a few hot cars the rest of the movie, especially the acting, pretty much sucked.

 

[GuyJD]

THE ALL AMERICAN CHEVROLET CORVETTE

I can't speak for you all but I really miss the Corvette Stingray that were produced from 1968 to 1980 with the chrome sqeeze type door handle. But whatever the case may be, I once told my 21 year old girlfriend that the Chevy Corvette will be my "mid-life crisis" car (At 38, I got a little time to wait and save up). She took one look at a 1978 Corvette Stingray and told me, "I hope you go through your mid-life crisis soon."

 

[Comshaw]

"Also, don't you think the Vette was much better than the Mustang."

All Corvettes are good looking cars, while only some years of Mustangs had that kill for style. The only year of 'stang I can think of that had both looks and power was the 1969 Cobra Jet 429 fastback. It could keep up with eveything on the road at that time, while passing most. But the 'stang wasn't produced to go head to head with the 'vette. The only 2 American cars that ever were, the 1955-1957 Thunderbird and the Viper. The 1957 Thunderbird sported a 325 horsepower duel 4 barrel carb 312 engine. For some reason Ford decided the next year to make it fat and slow and turn it into a luxury car. I often wonder if it had survived as a sportscar what it would have evolved into. The Viper came directly from the 60's and 70's Crysler legacy of muscle cars, when engineers were running the company. Durring the late 70's 80's bean counnters got control and started to produce, "sensable" cars. That's when they damned near went belly up.
Anyway the 500cid aluminum block v-10 engine in the Viper was a god sent. A newly minted, honest to god real muscle car!
Me? What would I want? Hell there's so damn many fine cars out there I'd have a hard time choosing. A 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk, or a 1969 426 hemi 'Cuda, or the above mentioned '69 Cobra Jet, or a '69-71 series 427 'Vet, or being a motorcyclist, a Vincent Black Knight. That was the Racing version of the famous Black Shadow. Or the new Suzuki Hyabusa 1300cc. This one does a top speed of 188 mph, traverses the quarter in 9.89 seconds and is street legal. There's nothing like lighting off one of those big block muscle cars with an excess of 500 HP. The ground shakes and you can feel the power pulse through the whole car.
Damn, so many cars (and bikes), so little time!
Comshaw

 

[Latina]

At the risk of pissing-off people here...

Yes, Corvettes look great and have power. They are true American classics and great collector/museum cars. But don't forget, they have FIBERGLASS bodies. And all that power makes it tempting to drive them WAY too fast. That's a deadly combination! I have a friend who is a police photographer, I once was riding with him when he got a call to photo an accident scene, a Corvette had skidded out of control at 100 MPH on a rural road and hit a tree. The Vette's body had smashed into tiny shards of fiberglass littered all over the road and adjoining field. The impact had knocked loose a large tree limb, and with no car body left to protect him, drove the limb through the driver's head. That sight is a memory I wish I didn't have! Worse, my friend actually KNEW this driver personally!

I'll take big, heavy, luxury-car barges of thick steel any day! I'd rather be SAFE! I once hit a Hyundai in my antique car (which is built like a tank). 1/4th of the Hyundai caved-in, my old barge of a car got a 1/4-inch dent in its grille.

-- Frank (yes, Latina's Frank)

 

[angie girl]

cherry

I know this is not a fem thread or that anyone cares, but...

I lost my virginity in the front seat of a '65 aqua marine Mustang with rally pack, white vinyl top, white interior, spinner hubs and a 289V8. It was in cherry condition, and, until I got into it, so was I...smile...

 

[TonyG]

angie girl

Sure we care, but the 'front' seat?

 

[Latina]

Way cool, angie girl. But like tony_gam, I also wonder, FRONT seat? In a MUSTANG? How do you have any room?

Losing my cherry was not as daring as what you describe, conventional bed in conventional positions with my first boyfriend, nothing to brag about. My first car sex (with a DIFFERENT boyfriend) was in one of those old 1950s Ramblers where the back-seat folded open into a bed, it was intended for camping but teenagers liked it for, um, other reasons (OK, I was a bit past teenage, I was 24, and the car was about 12 years old at the time). Actually, we did START OUT in the front seat, he unbuttoned my blouse and felt around, he leaned over me and kissed his way downward as I reclined in the front seat, that got uncomfortable so we eventually wound up in that back seat, fully-opened-out into a bed. Too bad they don't make such cars anymore!

Frank and I are thinking about buying an RV, park it behind the house, so when we get too randy, we wouldn't have to stifle our moans for fear of the kids (13 and 18) hearing us, we could just sneak out to the RV and lock its door. A bit embarassing the other night, I was riding Frank quite vigorously and we got the head-board shaking, the reading lamp (faux Tiffany design) atop the headboard rattling, and awoke our 13-year-old son with all that racket! (But we didn't let that stop us).

My husband and I now have a big, spacious Lincoln, plenty of back-seat room, and yes we did break it in soon after we bought it new last year (this is our second Lincoln, and we "broke in" both of them--but using the BACK seat). All in all, though, being 50, I prefer something more comfortable than a car seat nowadays, when getting "romantic".

One more strike against the Corvette (and other small sporty cars): they might LOOK cool, but no room for hanky-panky!

-- Latina


[Edited by Latina on 01-17-2001 at 01:19 PM]

 

[Silverlily]

I'll forgive you for comparing Vettes to mustangs this time.

Excellent choice, Mr. Gam, my favorite as well, but in Nassau Blue with a black interior. Oh, and I'll take the ZL-1 engine package as well.

 

[Lil-Brandi]

No...

I have never owned a Corvette...If I keep watering my 300ZX it might grow up to be one!! LOL

 

[Chuckus]

You don't want to watch the movie. It is a sad scene but I also did not think that much of the movie. Except for seeing a few hot cars the rest of the movie, especially the acting, pretty much sucked.

That Shelby GT500 was too sweet in that movie though.........I was drooling, but you know it was a "fixer" upper they crashed and not the real deal.....wow what a car that GT500.......

 

[angie girl]

limber

Way cool, angie girl. But like tony_gam, I also wonder, FRONT seat? In a MUSTANG? How do you have any room?

Yes. The FRONT seat. I know because I was there. Why not the back seat? well, as I recall that was taken. It was a double date. Romantic huh? How? I could go into the horrible details of which leg went where, but let's juss say, I was young and limber and willing. And he was...well he was a teenage boy. Enuff said?