Advantage of owning vett in snow areas.....
02-28-2015, 02:32 PM
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02-28-2015, 02:52 PM
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02-28-2015, 06:12 PM
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You guys are funny. TX has been iced in and I haven't driven mine for a week....going nuts.
If I lived in Boston...I'd be calling U-Haul after this winter.
I lived in the snow country for 20 years....then headed south. My car will never see snow except when it looks out from the garage on the 5 snow days a year we have here.
Sure I have to wash my Vette about 25 times a year....price you gotta pay I suppose.
If I lived in Boston...I'd be calling U-Haul after this winter.
I lived in the snow country for 20 years....then headed south. My car will never see snow except when it looks out from the garage on the 5 snow days a year we have here.
Sure I have to wash my Vette about 25 times a year....price you gotta pay I suppose.
02-28-2015, 06:35 PM
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OP got me thinking. I went out and shoveled the sunshine away from the garage door and backed the C6 out. May even drive somewhere if the highway dept. gets the roads cleared!
02-28-2015, 07:43 PM
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03-01-2015, 07:28 AM
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Snow and cold weather just flat out suck, period! There is no advantage at all to a Corvette owner living in areas that snow. I absolutely hate not being able to drive my car, I'd much rather live somewhere that allows me to drive it anytime I want.
My plan when I retire (in roughly 15 years, hopefully way less if my lotto numbers cooperate!) is to spend every winter in Florida, and I will drive whatever Corvette I have at the time (C7? C8? C9?) down there so I can enjoy it to the fullest. I just spent 4 days in Florida a few weeks ago and saw a ton of Corvettes everywhere, and really wished I had mine there with me. I highly doubt a single one of those Corvette owners was wishing they were up north in the cold and snow! They'd have to be completely insane
My plan when I retire (in roughly 15 years, hopefully way less if my lotto numbers cooperate!) is to spend every winter in Florida, and I will drive whatever Corvette I have at the time (C7? C8? C9?) down there so I can enjoy it to the fullest. I just spent 4 days in Florida a few weeks ago and saw a ton of Corvettes everywhere, and really wished I had mine there with me. I highly doubt a single one of those Corvette owners was wishing they were up north in the cold and snow! They'd have to be completely insane
03-01-2015, 09:00 AM
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And to think ... It's going to be in the 80s here today!
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03-01-2015, 12:37 PM
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And you reinforced my thinking in the initial post------now with all that beautiful sunshine and the great temperatures, you also have to spend more money to ensure you have good sun glasses, and even more money has to be spent on sunscreen (and then all that time wasted applying the sunscreen)-----these are a few more things your friends up North just don't have to contend with................we are just so lucky up North.......two more storms predicted for the upcoming week............well, it is nice talking to everyone, but I have to go now.............where did I put those &*%$## shovels?
03-01-2015, 12:44 PM
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Hopefully, they can work from home for awhile! And that is why some homes have 2nd stories.......they should be able to get in and out via a window or two on the 2nd floor............what a picture---never saw one like that before.......I just showed it to my wife and now she doesn't feel so bad about the snow around our house (of course we are going over her 96 year old mother's house again this afternoon to shovel more snow off her roof...........more fun)
03-01-2015, 01:02 PM
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Hopefully, they can work from home for awhile! And that is why some homes have 2nd stories.......they should be able to get in and out via a window or two on the 2nd floor............what a picture---never saw one like that before.......I just showed it to my wife and now she doesn't feel so bad about the snow around our house (of course we are going over her 96 year old mother's house again this afternoon to shovel more snow off her roof...........more fun)
03-02-2015, 02:40 AM
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You guys are funny. TX has been iced in and I haven't driven mine for a week....going nuts.
If I lived in Boston...I'd be calling U-Haul after this winter.
I lived in the snow country for 20 years....then headed south. My car will never see snow except when it looks out from the garage on the 5 snow days a year we have here.
Sure I have to wash my Vette about 25 times a year....price you gotta pay I suppose.
If I lived in Boston...I'd be calling U-Haul after this winter.
I lived in the snow country for 20 years....then headed south. My car will never see snow except when it looks out from the garage on the 5 snow days a year we have here.
Sure I have to wash my Vette about 25 times a year....price you gotta pay I suppose.
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03-02-2015, 02:42 AM
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03-02-2015, 06:19 AM
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I got to thinking about some of yesterday's threads about us folks up North not being able to drive our corvettes for several months each year because of the snow........and then it hit me. We aren't to be pitied----we are the lucky ones. Those poor folks down South have to pay for all that extra gas for all those extra months of driving. Plus they really can't have any garage queens if they can drive year round. And the biggest drawback they have------I can't imagine how many times they have to wash, wax, polish their cars. Up North, we pretty much wash and detail it in April or May; maybe wash it once in the summer (we rinse the pollen and road dust off with a hose in the interim); and then again in October before we put it away. But, in places without snow they must be washing their cars almost
monthly....and who knows how often they have to spend time waxing or polishing---or both...............yea, the more I thought about it, the better off we are up here with our 100 inches of snow........we have better
things to do with our time........
monthly....and who knows how often they have to spend time waxing or polishing---or both...............yea, the more I thought about it, the better off we are up here with our 100 inches of snow........we have better
things to do with our time........
03-04-2015, 04:04 PM
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How about the fact that after not driving your Vette for a few months, every Spring it feels like you're driving it for the very first time. That's how I feel anyway. Its like a getting a new Vette every Spring.
03-04-2015, 04:37 PM
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I almost had to turn on the a/c while driving with the top down today.. sun was coming down pretty hard.
"garage queen" .. pfft.. what good is a convertible stuck inside?! lol
"garage queen" .. pfft.. what good is a convertible stuck inside?! lol