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Author Topic: Any Vette fans? Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-23-2004 12:50 AM                     Just wondering how many Vette fans were out there? I know of a few....here is my latest! Rick  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-23-2004 07:25 AM                     Sure...I own an 1987 Z-51 vette...since it was new...over 170,000 miles on it now. Been looking at the new ones a bit. Steve  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 12-23-2004 07:37 AM                     My Vette.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 12-23-2004 07:50 AM                     Cor-vette or Che-vette, slightly different. It was surprizing that GM used the vette word on the el cheapo Chevette. Had one of the cheapos, it went 267,000 miles before a dump truck backed into it while it was parked.  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-23-2004 09:05 AM                     Steve, I was looking at a new one about 6 months ago. The sticker was in the mid 50's and they only offered me 3,000 for my '82. I kindly told them where to go My favorite that I had was a '67 convertable . It was the fastest car I have driven. I also had a bright red '80 and an '86. I almost bought a '95 instead of my current '82, it was a tough decision, but I like the body style of mine better. Rick  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-23-2004 11:20 AM                    Some sports cars make me think: "Compensating." The Corvette makes me think: "Mid-life crisis." Here's a real Corvette:  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 12-23-2004 12:44 PM                        Or a Torumekian Corvette from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind:  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-24-2004 10:57 AM                     I would perhaps consider buying Corvette if I had a shitload of money. As it stands, I would only spend $50,000 at this point as some kind of investment in equipment to make more money. You're not going to get paid driving around in a sports car. FWIW, (not that very many people would care) all of the Goodyear tires sold standard with new Corvettes are made here in Lawton, OK at the world's largest tire factory. The Goodyear plant on the west side of town just finished another expansion to add on more SUV and pickup tire production lines.  |  IP: Logged Scott Balko Expert Film Handler Posts: 136 From: Redwood Falls, Minnesota, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 12-31-2004 08:22 PM                     I just picked up a gorgeous '92 with only 14,000 miles on it. Still has the original tires and was never driven in any inclement whether. The guy is getting a new one as he is "embarrassed" to be seen in a car that old.  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-01-2005 06:02 AM                     Scott, Congratulations and merry christmas to you!! Any pics? I hope you make it through your mid life crisis! I started mine when I turned 18. 20 years and 4 Vettes later, seems like I must be very overcompensating during my crisis Bobby, have you shopped for new cars lately? 50 grand isn't that high of a figure if you are looking at any decent car. Luxury, sports, or SUV. Also, buying a Corvette is an investment if you treat it right! Same as a 1992 Chevy Camaro RS probably was Rick  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-03-2005 02:21 AM                        Admiral Semmes' Corvette, the CSS Alabama, the most successful commerce raider in history. Built in Liverpool, & comparatively much lighter & more maneuverable than GM's version. One of the few US Civil War-era pictures that's enjoyable because the folks aren't dead, diseased, or clamped in place & grimacing for the exposure, & one of my favorite pictures, Admiral Semmes & his ride. Admiral Semmes never had a prisoner die & lost only one crewman (an officer died in a hunting accident off the boat when his rifle misfired). After the war when amnesty was declared for combatants but hardliners were trying former CSA folks on any charge they could think of, Semmes was hauled up for "maltreatment of prisoners"; one day of testimony of ex-prisoners describing him as some sort of cross between a Saint & Walter Raleigh, & all his other ex-prisoners writing & insisting to appear as witnesses in his defense, the charges were dropped. In a war with quite an array of absolutely monstrous &/or incompetent people on both sides, Semmes is something of an amazing figure in being so admirable in his success & behavior. In modern view, the only thing really not to like is his reason for fighting with the CSA: "That's the way things have always been done, & should be maintained", which is always the worst reason for anything. Admiral Semmes looking hip in his Mardi Gras beads in Mobile, AL, home of lunatic shipbuilding like the first successful submarine warship (a wild Wile E. Coyote idea which met a classic Wile E. Coyote end, even more classically Wile E. Coyote because it included explosives), concrete boats like the WWI-era Selma (scuttled in Galveston Bay), & mind-boggling production of Liberty Ships & more concrete boats in WWII. Chistening of the ship speech at the Hunley: "Y'all, this is CRAZY! Who wants to go?"  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-03-2005 03:02 AM                  I bought my 1988 vette to get even with my exwife for all the child support she tried to screw me out of. The 1992 and the 1998 ones were just for picking up guys at the clubs... Ummm, it worked.  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-03-2005 05:37 AM                     I got my first Vette when I was 18. Me and my friends gave the car a name. "Pussy Magnet" Not that I needed a car to help Rick  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-03-2005 10:55 AM                        Mark DeLettera, who retired from my group at Kodak last year, owned quite a few Vettes over the years. Now living in Florida, he finally can drive them more than a few months a year.  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-03-2005 11:13 AM                        Richard, They do say that 'opposites attract'.. LOL  |  IP: Logged

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