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I was a die hard Mustang guy, still am a little until a friend of mine who knows everything about older Corvettes (he used to own Western Corvette here in Calgary) asked me to help him pick up a 2000 triple black C5 automatic in Edmonton, I was to drive it down to Calgary back in 2003. After driving that car I was hooked, I loved that C5 and promptly sought one out and after a few years I managed to get a 2000 BGM 6 spd 'vert, then a year later a 2003 6 spd Speedway white with white top 'vert which I kept for 7 years. 2013 I ordered an Arctic White C7 Z51 MN7 which I had up until Feb 2020, sadly got rid of it to happily get my current Torch Red C8 Z51 which I picked up in October of 2020. So about 20 years and 4 Corvettes later I still love them and will keep upgrading.
A fan since late 60's. Owned '78 coupe (traded for a baby - adoptions were costly back then), '94 coupe, '98 convertible, '05 coupe, '15 coupe, '17 coupe, '21 coupe (being built tomorrow - 3/19). I ditched both the '15 and '17 cars due to the same auto transmission (torque converter) issue in both cars.
I was never really a car guy until the past 20 years. Been to busy with school and training. Loved the look of the new Challengers so I bought a 2008 Srt 8 B5 Blue Challenger (1 of 150 made) and sent it to Florida and chopped the top off to make a convertible.......Loved the look but ruined the car. Sold it and got a 2011 Inaugural edition 392 Hemi Challenger. Loved that car but never drive it. Sold it and got a 1966 Mustang GT convertible. Still have that one. never been a Corvette guy, until I saw the C8 and it was all over. Had to have one. So now I sit on Macmulkins list, #349 after today's allocations.
I have been a amazed since high school when I go my first ride in a '62. I remember going 100 mph... WOW
Since then I have become addicted:
'63 SWC
'65 Conv
'66 Conv
'81 coupe
'89 Conv
'00coupe
'01 coupe
'02 coupe
'08 coupe
'13 Conv
'16 coupe
'21 on order coupe (hopefully my last one)
I became a fan when I was around 10 to 12 and my uncle, a design engineer for Chevrolet, brought the “Mako shark” home and gave me a ride. I was hooked from then on. I’ve owned a 2003 and 2014. Waiting on my C8 to be built in April.
1974 at age 23 bought a 70 big block, 4 spd. 1978 saw a new L82, 4 spd. Replace the 70. Sold in 1981 when son was 2. Since then a “95” in 1998, an “06” in 2008, a “96” Grand Sport in 2015 (still have it), and a”16” Z51 in 2019 (still have it also).
I have been a fan of Corvettes since about 1968 when I saw a white C2 convertible with red interior going down a busy road near my house. I have been hook every since. I bought my first Vette at 36. And of course it was white with red interior.
See my signature for the Vettes I have owned. My wife has owned two Vettes.
Last edited by bigblock427; 03-18-2021 at 09:06 PM.
In the 70’s, I was always the kid pointing and yelling “Vette! Vette!” when a lucky owner would roar by. I have been a fan all my life but could not afford one until 2000.
2000 C5 Torch Red Convertible
2003 C5 50th Anniversary Edition Black Z06
2005 C6 Black Coupe Z51
2006 C6 Velocity Yellow Z06 2020 C8 Torch Red Coupe 3LT Z51 Mag
My neighbor had a brand new 68 coupe with a 427. I managed to get a ride around the block in it and was impressed but wasn’t hooked. A few years later, at the impressionable age of 15, my manager at a restaurant I was working at as a dishwasher gave me ride home in his 68 327 convertible. I will never forget that ride home! He opened it up and I was hooked! It wasn’t until much later until I could afford to own a Corvette and ordered a white 85 coupe that was capable of 150 mph. It had port fuel injection. Got married then divorced, bought an 87 coupe. Then sold it to buy s boat. I always wanted a 68 to relive that first experience so I bought a 68 convertible 427. I still own that car some 20 years later. I bought a torch red 02 coupe with 500 miles on it. I loved that car but it didn’t love me and was unreliable. Then I found a 2010 ZR1 and bought it used. I thought I would never sell that car, but when I ran across a 2019 ZR1 coupe with low miles I made trade. I still have the 1968 British Green 427 convertible and 2019 black ZTK 3LT ZR1. I have a 2021 ELB Z51 coupe on order that has a 3/22 build date. I plan to keep all three Corvettes. I need more garage space so a lift is in my future. There is nothing like a Corvette. I’m hooked for life!
Last edited by greenshark68; 03-18-2021 at 10:30 PM.
I have owned 32 corvettes first in 1970 a 67 big block.
Been a fan since 1957 when I saw 2 new 57s at a gas station. Info I’m 77 current ride 16 Z06 18000 miles
I've been a fan since I was a kid watching Route 66 TV show. Then my Uncle got a '63 Vette and I was crazy about it and stated that one day, I'll own one !!!
In the mid 60's we moved into a very affluent neighborhood, and my folks made it clear to me that although there were numerous Corvettes in the neighborhood ( Northern VA..... Lake Barcroft ) that I would be driving something much more in line with my saving my lawn mowing , and shoveling snow money....
At age 24 I bought my first Vette, a '65 Roadster ...... it was 1975 at the time.
Others owned were all new.....
1994, C4
1997, C5
2000, C5
2004, C5
2005, C6
2010 C6 GS
2013 C6 GS
2013 C6 427 Vert 60th Anniv
2016 C7
2017 C7 GS
2020 C8 Current car
Been a Fan since I first saw a C3 in the mid 70s
Bought my 1st, a 2002 in 2002. I had that until 2018 when I finally sold it for Garage Room
Number of years back I added a Copper 68 Coupe that I later sold and bought a 68 International Blue Convertible.
A couple years added a Triple Black 64 Convertible
Then I bought the 2014 Velocity Yellow Stingray Coupe. This was sold 2 Years ago to make room for my Blade Silver 2020 C8 which I got in September.
Fan since 1984 when I first saw a picture of a C4 at the mall at one of those t shirt screen printing kiosks. I was 9 years old. I didn't know what it was but thought it was the coolest car I've ever seen. Fast forward to July 2000 when I placed my C5 millennium yellow order , 15 months later on Oct 15th,2001 I was a proud and Lucky owner of a C5 coupe. Still own it and will never sell it. Looking to add hopefully add a C8 HTC in 2023.
When I took my first “career” job in 1976, my boss had a new C3 and my best friend had a 280Z. No contest — I did not particularly like my boss, and his expensive C3 was nowhere near as nice a ride as my buddy’s Z. The “phallic substitute” stereotype really fit (in my small sample size) so far as I was concerned.
And so, perhaps unfairly, a disdain for Vettes and a love of foreign sports/sporty cars was born. That is, until nearly 30 years later I test-drove a ‘93 M6 in 2004. It was competing for my affection with similarly priced used foreign sports cars, notably the Porsche 944S2/968 (I had owned, and loved, a used 944 about a decade previously.) I was completely shocked at how much I enjoyed everything about that Vette — I bought it and have been in nothing but Vettes since. In order, ‘93, ‘99, ‘01 Z06, ‘05, ‘08, and my current ‘15.
Not only are they great sports cars that work wonderfully as daily drivers, but the whole Vette experience — club activities, Carlisle, National Corvette Caravan and Museum, Corvette Racing and the Corrals, track days, shows, cruise-ins, C&Cs and charity events — has truly added so much richness to my life!
Now, I’m hanging around here as I am strongly considering buying my first ever NEW Vette — an HTC. Totally against my philosophy of buying used, but I feel like I owe myself — and my wife has become an enthusiastic co-conspirator.
It’s been a fun ride...
Last edited by Rapid Fred; 03-18-2021 at 11:50 PM.
Fan pretty much my whole life! Bought my first in 2005 when I was 25 and was hooked on the car and the Corvette community as a member of Longhorn Corvette Club in Austin, TX. I've had the following cars since then, in this order.
'73 - L82 Coupe
'04 - Z06
'09 - Z06 (still own)
'64 - 327/365 Coupe (still own)
'21 Coupe (scheduled for NCM pick-up on 4/19)
Been a fan since the sixties. Got my first one in 1972 after returning from war games in SE Asia. Have owned a total of nine Corvettes. 1965,2004,2007.2011GS,2014,2015Z06,2016Z 06,2018Z06,2020.
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