bolivar

Maybe the guy in the van has a nice shiny Corvette at home, but he drives the van to big parking lots. He carefully parked beside you so at least one side of your car was protected...

maxp

and then the owner of the Camaro would be pissed that some old timer had to park his POS vette next to him

dvilin

Plenty of room, I do not see a problem. Do you expect all others to stay away because you have a Vette.

mhollifi

I always try to park so that there is only one space beside me and then park way to safe side.

boraxman

So whats the problem? Looks like the van is between the lines/

N2TU

rofl:

But a GREAT analogy!

Nice Ride

Love the pic! Kinda speaks for itself. I would have still parked to the far right in the picture so the passenger side of your car could have been by the curb/island. Least then the Jeb Clampets from WV could have only parked on one side.

QUAKEJAKE

My exact words before I scrolled down to your answer.

Tom45

If I have to park next to someone, I pick the newest and nicest looking car in the lot. They are concered about their car too.

FrankTank

it's threads like these that give vette owners a bad reputation

StanNH

Does your insurance cover close parking?

RickintheOC

I don't think this gives Vette owners bad reputations. You will find owners of all makes of vehicles who will park their vehicle away from other cars to avoid getting damaged. I see the OP's point. You have the whole parking lot and you park next to me! I drove my wife's 2011 Grand Cherokee to the grocery store. When I parked head in, there were 5 empty stalls to my left and right. After I came out of the store, I noticed a Suburban had backed into the stall next to me on my driver's side. As I got closer, I saw a very large woman trying to squeeze out of her car and I had to hold her door from hitting my car. I said to her "Are you kidding me, why did you have to park right next to me when you have all these open stalls!." She replied "I park where I want." Bottom line, most people don't have common sense.

andy82

I think they park next to us because they know that their door will not be dinged

michaelinmech

Wagon operator thought to himself, hell, his paint doesn't even match, hope he doesn't hit my wagon . . . .

designerRob

It is a bummer though when you come out of the store and you just want to admire your car as you walk up to it. Some pos obstructs your view. How dare they?

AGFNTB

The_Tibulator

Was in my vette a couple of weeks ago and gave my friend a ride to Lowe's to pick up a couple of things. I waited in the car just listening to the radio. There was a brand new black camaro parked a bit out from other cars. Some guy in a station wagon towing a small flatbed trailer decided to cut through the parking lot by going between the camaro and another car and turned too sharp and got the trailer hung up on the camaro and got stuck. I was sitting there watching this whole thing. The guy got out of his car and started unhooking it and trying to get it unstuck...too bad for him the camaro guy came out and caught him. So, just parking further out is not always the best solution.

shaimerej

Clearly, this is what people are referring to when they insist that foreign cars are better quality and have better interiors? The van's owner was probably just trying to make you feel better by parking such a finely-crafted vehicle next to yours.

Gerdia

I don"t think the op started this thread in order to start a pissing contest as to where to park or not. I see his point, I too park far away and not just the vette, my other cars as well. If you park near the doors with the masses then your chances of getting scratched greatly increase. If you park far away they decrease, even with those that tend to find you and park close to you. Can we agree on that? I don't think we, vette owners, park far away to display our prim-dona status, just to take a little extra care of the car most us have saved our entire lives to buy.

RickintheOC