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Okay, let's see what we got for C1 ages... I'll go first.

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Old 08-24-2008, 12:32 AM
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Default Okay, let's see what we got for C1 ages... I'll go first.

Just got mine at age 57, but have wanted one since I was 9 when I got my first ride in a '59.
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Got mine a couple of years ago, but just got it on the road this summer.
I turned 50 about three months ago.



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This may go slow tonight; most of us are already in bed at this age... doctor's orders.
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I have as long as I can remember wanted a '58 like my dad, and have been finally able to acqure my '58 by paying my own way through 4 years of college and then some... regardless, for the purpose of this thead, its making me poor at 28 yrs old.
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Bought my '55 in 1978, I'm now 51.
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63 and act 16 when I'm driving my 61.
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I bought my 57 in the fall of 1996. Started driving it in 98 .

While playing with NHRA Drag Cars in 1982 I bought a magazine that had me hooked, years later I got my Blue 57.

I'm 56 years old now.



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Bought my 60 in 1973....$1050. Hopped in it and almost made it home. I'm 59. Sold my 1970 GTO convert for $1800 to pay for it. Just bought a 750 Kawasakee triple for $1200....I was broke.
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Not too long out of college, I bought my '61 in January of 1971 off the dealer show room floor sitting beside a brand new '71. I still think it looks better than the one I passed on. Now , at age 61, I'm finishing a "mini" restoration and still enjoying and learning about my Corvette.
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37 for me. On my second C-1

Time for coffee and meet the press!
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Bought my 62 when I was 36. Almost 38 now.

Thank God for the old farts mentoring us here!

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Bought my 61 in 92 and am 61 years young when driving my fawn biege with my wife.
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Had my '61 one year and bought it at chronological age of 56.
When behind the wheel my emotional age is about 17.

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I bought my 60 when I was 20 YO. I'm going on 54 now.

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Bought my 62 in 1971. now I'm 56.
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61 years young, bought my red car 42 years ago. The black car is a newbe, only 5 years ago.
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15 years old (at least that is how I behave when I am behind the wheel).

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15 years old (at least that is how I behave when I am behind the wheel).

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i'm older than John...
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Me and my '53 together are 114 years old (bought it when I was 29).
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I see a lot of people here, like me, bought their car a long, long time ago, and still have it.

First saw my car in December 1973 when i was 16, bought it a few months later at age 17.

"Wives come and go, but a Corvette is forever".

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