Corvette Myths where do they come from?
07-05-2012, 08:32 PM
#22
Melting Slicks
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I was at the gas station one day a long time ago filling up my 66 roadster. A guy pulled up in his Hugo and came over with his girlfriend and ask what engine I had "under" the hood,I replied 327-350. He turned his nose up a bit and replied he used to have a fuel injected,dual quad,67 split window coupe. I finished filling my tank and ran over him on my way out of the gas station. 
07-05-2012, 08:40 PM
#23
My wife asked me to pickup our youngest son on my way home from work tonight. My little boy is nine and was visiting with one of his playmates from school. No problem it was right around the corner from work. The weather is beautiful today so I was driving my 71 coupe. Upon pulling up into the drive my son's playmate's father greets me and tells what a beautiful 77 Corvette I have. I just said "Thank you" he then started to explain to his son how the cars were made of fiberglass except for the hoods. Those he said were aluminium because if made from fiberglass the engine heat would melt them. He looked up at me and asked if the engine was the eight cylinder or the six? I said this one has the eight. I did not feel right about correcting him in front of his son. So now there is a nine year old boy out there that thinks old Corvettes have aluminium hoods and some of them are six cylinders.
07-05-2012, 08:42 PM
#24
I was at the gas station one day a long time ago filling up my 66 roadster. A guy pulled up in his Hugo and came over with his girlfriend and ask what engine I had "under" the hood,I replied 327-350. He turned his nose up a bit and replied he used to have a fuel injected,dual quad,67 split window coupe. I finished filling my tank and ran over him on my way out of the gas station.
07-05-2012, 08:51 PM
#25
Racer
I think you took the correct approach under the circumstances. 
07-05-2012, 10:20 PM
#26
Melting Slicks
I'm suprised he didn't say something about the older ones being made of steel, before they switched over to fiberglass. Seems to be one of the first things ignorant people say. I've probably heard that one 50 times.
07-05-2012, 11:10 PM
#28
Racer
A younger than me guy approached while I was gassing up my '70 roadster at the local Stop and Stab, told me his dad gave him a brand new '83 Vette when he graduated high school in '83. His wife or girlfriend was with him so I just let it slide. He told me had some neat pictures of the car, I told him I would like to see them.
07-06-2012, 12:24 AM
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I remember almost 20 years ago my new girlfriend (now my wife) sister's boyfriend told me that he had order a brand new corvette without knowing that i had a corvette. So i asked him some trick questions and after the third answers i knew that i had never came close to a new corvette. I never saw his new corvette. He told me a few weeks later that he had cancel his order.
I got my corvette for over 23 years and i've heard so many things in those years that i could write a book.
The one i've heard the most is : Mine was the more expensive Stingray model.
I got my corvette for over 23 years and i've heard so many things in those years that i could write a book.
The one i've heard the most is : Mine was the more expensive Stingray model.
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07-06-2012, 02:56 AM
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Keep the shiny side up!
Scott
07-06-2012, 07:12 AM
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Racer
I always have people tell me I have a nice '79 "Stingray" and that one is really not worth explaining to most people. People assume all C3's are Stingrays.
07-06-2012, 07:15 AM
#32
Melting Slicks
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I remembering someone telling me years ago that when the first Corvettes rolled off the line none of their headlights worked because the engineers grounded them to the fiberglass bodies.
07-06-2012, 07:42 AM
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07-06-2012, 07:56 AM
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I was at a car show, and someone asked me what my favorite car was. I told them I liked a certain blue 68.
A man next to me cut in and stated that he drove a 60's era jag. He said it was the car that gave the vettes fits in all the road races. He also went on for way too long with stories of corvettes constant embarrassment at the hands of jags all over the world.
I tried to smile and nod appropriately. He didn't know I owned a vette.
The odd thing was, that I saw his jag at the show. It had a corvette LS engine in it.
I guess these things depend on what books you read sometimes.
In my corvette racing books, they never lost... ever.
A man next to me cut in and stated that he drove a 60's era jag. He said it was the car that gave the vettes fits in all the road races. He also went on for way too long with stories of corvettes constant embarrassment at the hands of jags all over the world.
I tried to smile and nod appropriately. He didn't know I owned a vette.
The odd thing was, that I saw his jag at the show. It had a corvette LS engine in it.
I guess these things depend on what books you read sometimes.
In my corvette racing books, they never lost... ever.
07-06-2012, 08:48 AM
#38
Melting Slicks
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07-06-2012, 10:01 AM
#39
1969/1971/1976 Coupes
Growing up in a Corvette family, I had my girlfriend (wife now) tell me that her grandfather had about 6 old Corvettes behind his barn and that he was talking about scrapping them. I never wanted to visit a girlfriends relative so bad in my life! When I finally got there to see the "Corvettes," to my surprise was a sea of junked out rusted Corvairs. BUZZKILL!!!
Now I wish I would have salvaged them!
Terry
Now I wish I would have salvaged them!
Terry
07-06-2012, 10:35 AM
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Drifting
