1955 BelAir

Hey C6 Owners... Let's hear it! The DUMBEST thing you've ever done driving a Corvette!

Me???

Late 1988.... I've had my brand new 1989 Bright Red ZF 6-speed FX3-Z51 for all of one week.

We are all leaving ... Yea, you guessed it, a bar... when I decide to show off to my buddies.

I pull out of the dusty parking lot turning right and stand on it!!!

Now even though (compared to the C6) the C4 was "Weaker than Circus Lemonade" ....the car does a 180 .. leaving me on the wrong side of the road .. staring at the oncoming traffic of U.S 301 ... all while sliding within an inch of some cars parked alongside the highway!. Thank God (for me) there was no close oncoming traffic .. and I did not hit one of the parked cars!

What a dumb *** move!!!!

nikovette

Day 3 of owning my C5. Backed out of the garage, so concerned about missing my wife's Expedition parked on my left . . . . took the passenger side mirror clean off . . .

Datawiz

Back in 1992, right after I bought my C4, my wife (girlfriend then), and I were doing about 140 on Interstate 75. We blew by my exit, which is one of those with a nice "Horn" shaped sweeper to the right. We proceeded to the next exit south. I (24 at the time) forgot that the next exit was one of those 360 degree circle turns. I exited the highway at over 120. The traction control kicked in and saved our butts. The embankment is huge. In hindsight, we both should have been dead.

I took that vette up to 159. I've had my C6 for 6 weeks and have barely touched 115. I guess getting old has its benefits. Or maybe the thought of my 6 year old daughter growing up without a father keeps me on the straight and narrow now.

ss409cid

All of the above, Yep that was me....

Vette_DD

Haven't YET done any of those dumb things while driving a vette. Scratched the bumper on my wife's used Buick the first week she had it while backing out of the carport.

Alex Levy

The dumbest thing i did was TEST DRIVE ONE..

VettesintheRockies

Left my C5 a little close to the handle of the garage door, went down and took a dot of paint off. I have never forgiven myself for that. Not to bad, but that's it!!!

2005ArcticWhite

Park to close to the comman mass!

Tommy D

Earlier this week

The weather up here has really been something else. I had not had my "Corvette Fix" in a couple of days so I decided to take a quick spin around the neighborhood. Forgetting that there was still sand, salt and snow on the streets. I road around enjoying myself until I put the car back into the garage and got out. My nice clean Lemans Blue Corvette had become WHITE....... white wheel wells, white sides, white fenders, white front facia...... white everything.

I could not leave the car full of salt! (it is written in the ten corvette comandments somewhere on this forum) So it is about 18 degrees outside, almost 12 midmight and this nut case decides he is going to wash the car. I proceed to take my garden hose and hook it up to the water heater so that I can clean the car in the garage........ Great Idea the car is clean the salt is gone and my car is once more Lemans Blue....

The only small problem is the water which has now exited the garage and frozen on the drive way... needless to say I did not have to start my daily driver to get out of the drive way the next morning.

Jinx

Well, this one didn't seem particularly dumb at the time...



Lifted from 130.

.Jinx

sfore93392

With my 76 I slammed on the brakes to miss a cat and lost control. Almost went through a fence. The cat lived and I needed an undewear change. Next time dead kitty.

05C6400

I did about $3k of damage within the first two weeks of owing my Corvette, but its back to normal now !

shopdog

The C6 may have less overhang than the C5, but it is still way longer than it looks from the driver's seat, and it is very low. At first I heard that "funny noise" when parking. Tough on the air dam, tough on the brake ducts, tough on the bumper braces. After 5,000 miles, I've learned to allow more room, but I still think about it every time I pull into a parking space.

That's perhaps the dumbest thing I've done in the Corvette, but certainly not the dumbest thing I've done in a car. That would have to be running off the end of an unfinished interstate at a high rate of speed in my 71 Hemi Challenger. Up over the berm, airborne a *long* ways, slam down on a two lane, and floor it because I see the headlights of the guy who'd been following me coming through the air. A quarter mile or so down the road, I pull into someone's driveway and get out. The guy who was following me stops in the street all excited. I shrug and tell him I come home that way every night, and walk toward the house. Truth was my heart was racing so hard I could barely walk.

Or perhaps it was the time I decided to take a shortcut through the river bottoms in my 67 Chevy and drove over the levee at a good rate of speed, forgetting the river was out of its banks. I wound up sitting on top of the car waiting for someone to get a boat to get me out of the water.

Or perhaps it was the time I popped over a hill in my daddy's Olds and found a Tee intersection. The Olds did a good imitation of a corn picker as it jumped the crossroad and went out across some poor farmer's field.

Or perhaps ...

Mocoso

and now Im 60K the poorer! but in all seriousness I havent had it long enough to do something dumb

Eddy C

Not exactly while driving, but definitely dumb. Had a Motorola phone hooked up in my Benz, voice activated. Tried to work out a phone setup in the Vette. Got a car charger for my phone, an ear piece, and tested it out having my wife call me. How long it took for me to answer, insert the ear piece, everything. Called Onstar to get set up and she mentioned 30 free phone minutes. Phone, I said??? She said, yes, there's a phone button on your rear view mirror. Ay yi yi.

Eddy C

Red Foxx had a great line. You white people would wipe out a station wagon full of kids to avoid a 98 cent cat. I'd run that cat right over.

coolcat

Driving to fast on a snow covered interstate. AH saved my azz.

capevettes

When I was 18 we used to go on double dates in my 65. One Saturday night I was redlined in 3rd gear and tried to shift into fourth. I hit my date's knee and the car went into second gear instead of fourth. It was like hitting the brakes. I still have the 65 but no longer try to cram 4 people into it.

greengo

Had my ex girlfriend ( a former topless dancer) throw her top out when we were driving down the interstate. Wow...the truckers loved us and I wish I could have heard their CB radios! The dumbest thing...I took my shirt off and gave it to her to cover herself....at least till we got to my house!! Man I miss those.....I mean her!!

HOFFIE