Drken

Took delivery of my new Stingray, 2LT Coupe, Night Race Blue , Kalahari interior , Thursday, 10/24, 28 days after order. My 19 year old son came home from college for the weekend and took the car to a friend's house last night. Good idea or not?

98DC231

you probably know your son better than anyone else here. Did the car come back in one piece? If so then I would say its not a big deal.

JRBurn

I don’t see why not, I let my 17 year old daughter take my SS. It all depends upon the kid; some are more responsible than others.

ta70raiii

Good for you! I'd be a bit nervous...I always think back to how I was at that age. I'm probably lucky the 80s didn't produce many powerful cars!

direct007

Remember the movies Ferris Bueller's Day off and Risky Business? ;o)

fredl11

thought of that.

Thespian

I completely agree. If my son was as responsible as I was at 17, then I would let him. However, I cannot even get him to wash the Honda we have for him on a regular basis... let alone be careful with it. So he won't be driving the C7 when I get it just like he wasn't allowed to drive the C6.

texvette2

I would do like my parents did me. Buy him one so he would not be borrowing mine

LT1xL82

What did the rear tires look like?

Brett Hunter

Only you know your son well enough to know if it is a good idea or not. When my son came home from his Freshman year of college he decided to take summer classes at a nearby college to get ahead. It is roughly a 120 mile round trip and he drove my C6 every day since it gets the best mileage of any car I currently own. He did try to talk me into letting him take it back to Waco with him in the Fall but that was too much.

sandu002

My son is almost 26 and we both do track days in our GTO's, so I am not worried about him driving it on occasion. This summer we will be doing a 3500 mile rally round trip so he will be getting wheel time.

Rad22

My son is also 26 and both of us have had road racing experience and are basic as well as advanced Skip Barber Road Racing graduates. On the way home from Bowling Green, we pretty much "rounded off the corners" of my tires in the hills and curves of KY-TN-NC.

He is very skilled, responsible and level headed. He got a new R32 at age 17, which we quickly modded up to 400 hp with turbocharging and intercoolers. He drove that car for 8 years and 65,000 miles without a single ticket.

So, yeah, I trust him in the Corvette.

adamsocb

My son is now 30 and I will let him drive the Stringray when I get it. He raced karts from a young age, about 12 I think, so he understands vehicle dynamics and what to do when a car gets out of shape.

A couple of stories:
I let him drive my 1999 in the dessert (me in the car with him) when he was 17. It was early in the morning on a weekday and there were no other cars to be seen. One stretch of road was about 12 miles long, straight across a valley, and you can see the oncoming lane the whole way. He asked me if he could go fast and I said OK. I coached him about the front-end getting light and to move to center of the two lane at high speed. I won’t post the top speed he reached, but I suspect less than one-tenth of one percent of the population have gone that fast in an automobile. We made a pact for him not to tell his mom (my wife). However he was always terrible at withholding information from her under interrogation and she got it out of him. I was in the doghouse for about a week after she found out how fast he drove.

In 2011 when I was on a three week vacation in Europe with my wife, he decided to take my 2008 for a drive to San Diego to visit his girlfriend. No big deal except that I forgot to connect the battery tender and the car had just enough juice to open the doors once. He got inside and it would not start and the door would not open. Luckily he found the manual door release before he decided to break a window. He was then smart enough to find the battery charger, get the car started and still take his trip to San Diego.

TX-OU812

My 26 year old son havs never learned to drive a stick and he's a bit wild. So, no he will not be driving my manual C7.

My 24 year old son has a little but of manual experience. So I let him drive it, with me present.

My 22 year old son drives a stick better than I do. So, yes he's driven it with me present.

JoesC5

My son is 43, and no way would I turn over the FOB to him on my Z06. He can destroy an anvil. Plus his license is revoked.

illiceman11

Well my C7 came in just as I was taking a trip to Germany.I paid for it and had my son pick it up for me.All I have seen are some pics.We will be back next week and I will get it then.Well drive it from St.Louis to the Lake of the Ozarks Cheers

LIStingray

I don't have a son, and my eldest daughter is 2 years away from driving, so I can't say yes or no; but neither of my daughters liked riding in my C6, so I don't hold out any hope for the C7.
My dad never let me drive the Corvette he had (which he sold before I was 17 and had my full license), but I got my first used one at 19 - and I got to drive it whenever I wanted.

Eagle Ray 7

My son is 30 and I will let him drive it with me in the car. I won’t go in to details but he lost his borrowing privileges years ago.

Durnberg

My son is 24 and wanted to take my new Corvette to a friend's house to pick him up. Truthfully, he looks out for my car even better than I do, so I let him take it. His friend lives 2.3 miles away and I only sent him 3 text messages asking him how it was going. Before everyone here jumps on me for being stupid, I already know how dumb it was to text him.

Sin City

With you as a passenger? Sure. Alone... sorry, the keys stay in my pocket.