View Poll Results: what do you think?
really clean, nice looking Vette....
174
31.46%
a very different Vette but we'll sure as hell take it.
165
29.84%
i'll be ordering one soon.......
98
17.72%
No thank you
116
20.98%
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Thoughts on the new corvette?
#196
There are only 2 dealers in the Atlanta area and it was almost as if I was talking to the same guy. I get it that repeat customers will get priority and this would be my first Porsche which puts me at the bottom of the list. Regarding ADM, I know its business but I take it personally and wouldn't buy a car that required such an absurdity. Once dealers get their allocations and it becomes obvious that either they will have plenty of inventory or the car will be scarce I'll be able to make a better decision; hopefully I can buy locally but I'd travel/ship if I had to. (Un)fortunately? I've also got my eyes on fire-sale '19 ZO6's or even ZR1s. I know its not cool to admit it here, but I like GM products and with only 1 exception in 25 years of continuous ownership they've caused me very little trouble. It is my belief that in the month following the C8 release there will be a sweet spot where there's still enough existing inventory to get something close to what I want and the price will be low enough to the bottom that it will make sense to stop waiting and buy. At that point my choice will be made for me if I haven't already ordered a Spyder.
#197
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Getting "off topic"? It's about a Corvette on a Porsche forum. That's like a 180 deal, the motorcycles and A Basin are actually bringing it back....
#198
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Snowboarding on loose granular popcorn is a colorful topic all by itself.
pizza burns/serious skin off from ice crystals is a real thing when it's 70F outside.... then there's UVB/cosmic, alpha/gamma rays, mesons, high energy barions and serious skin cancer risk taking root from one end of your body to the other but i digress-----
pizza burns/serious skin off from ice crystals is a real thing when it's 70F outside.... then there's UVB/cosmic, alpha/gamma rays, mesons, high energy barions and serious skin cancer risk taking root from one end of your body to the other but i digress-----
#199
There are only 2 dealers in the Atlanta area and it was almost as if I was talking to the same guy. I get it that repeat customers will get priority and this would be my first Porsche which puts me at the bottom of the list. Regarding ADM, I know its business but I take it personally and wouldn't buy a car that required such an absurdity. Once dealers get their allocations and it becomes obvious that either they will have plenty of inventory or the car will be scarce I'll be able to make a better decision; hopefully I can buy locally but I'd travel/ship if I had to. (Un)fortunately? I've also got my eyes on fire-sale '19 ZO6's or even ZR1s. I know its not cool to admit it here, but I like GM products and with only 1 exception in 25 years of continuous ownership they've caused me very little trouble. It is my belief that in the month following the C8 release there will be a sweet spot where there's still enough existing inventory to get something close to what I want and the price will be low enough to the bottom that it will make sense to stop waiting and buy. At that point my choice will be made for me if I haven't already ordered a Spyder.
#200
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I somewhat envy you guys who have a hankering for a new hot rod........ I just do not feel it any more....... reached a point where a NICE car is simply a comfortable appliance to me.........
Mebbe I will go blow a wad on a new pickem up truck with all the toys......... but that is about it.
my Carerra 4 is 20 years old and truth is I like looking at it more than I actually like driving it. Haven't been on the Harley in 4 years and don't have a hankering to, any more.
When I was a young punk I had vets, a '72 soft top and '60 I never got put back together......... I was a rabid fan at that time, then cam the rug rats.....
Mebbe I will go blow a wad on a new pickem up truck with all the toys......... but that is about it.
my Carerra 4 is 20 years old and truth is I like looking at it more than I actually like driving it. Haven't been on the Harley in 4 years and don't have a hankering to, any more.
When I was a young punk I had vets, a '72 soft top and '60 I never got put back together......... I was a rabid fan at that time, then cam the rug rats.....
We're gettin' old, Gretch! Maybe it's not even a matter of "gettin'" anymore!
#202
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Have we the 2020 Corvette C8??....... still not sure......
1). https://www.motor1.com/news/359262/c...ours-americas/
2). https://www.motor1.com/news/359158/c...oor-rendering/
1). https://www.motor1.com/news/359262/c...ours-americas/
2). https://www.motor1.com/news/359158/c...oor-rendering/
#203
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I remember reading/seeing in Car and Driver a few years back about how many competitions they did about the Vette vs 911. It came out fifty/fifty for the most part.
And yes, I just read this week GM is 'X'ing the Camaro.
Have a buddy I track with, drives a Camaro ZL1-1LE, super reliable, drives to track, drives home. I just have a 7.2 C2S and he kicks my butt. However, my first day on the track
in 2014 with my pro-touring Camaro, I had an instructor named Bill Gleason. He took me out in his Cayman S (may of been an R) and rode the a$$ of a C-7r for about 10
laps until we spun off course. He had me in the passenger seat while the Vette driver had "no bags of sand" in his passenger seat.
Two each there own, driver, driver, driver....I'm looking forward to seeing it and hopefully driving one, but I think you'd have to pry my 911 from my cold dead hands for any
other sports car.
And yes, I just read this week GM is 'X'ing the Camaro.
Have a buddy I track with, drives a Camaro ZL1-1LE, super reliable, drives to track, drives home. I just have a 7.2 C2S and he kicks my butt. However, my first day on the track
in 2014 with my pro-touring Camaro, I had an instructor named Bill Gleason. He took me out in his Cayman S (may of been an R) and rode the a$$ of a C-7r for about 10
laps until we spun off course. He had me in the passenger seat while the Vette driver had "no bags of sand" in his passenger seat.
Two each there own, driver, driver, driver....I'm looking forward to seeing it and hopefully driving one, but I think you'd have to pry my 911 from my cold dead hands for any
other sports car.
#204
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IF I had a Corvette it would be a 65-67 coupe with a new 6 speed and LS. Lots of other underneath upgrades = resto rod. We have like a neighbor hood car show out my back door a couple of miles every October in Westlake. Guy had a '60 Vette in yellow with a black interior with yellow stitching. Then I started looking more. Big red "Corvette" brakes, LS under the hood. Guy was watching me as I got down and half way crawled under it. He was smiling at me when I came up. So, custom frame, rack and pinion coil overs, late model Vette IRS. So I asked what did this little project cost? " don't want to say. I loved the old Corvettes but wanted a new one underneath".
As for lust, I'm happy right were I am Gretch. I only take it out on nice days when the mood hits me. 90% of my driving is my new F150 crew cab. Got it optioned just the way I wanted it. It fits us old guys real well. I give Kirk a hard time but he got a new pick'em up last year too. Down our way nice trucks just do the job.
As for lust, I'm happy right were I am Gretch. I only take it out on nice days when the mood hits me. 90% of my driving is my new F150 crew cab. Got it optioned just the way I wanted it. It fits us old guys real well. I give Kirk a hard time but he got a new pick'em up last year too. Down our way nice trucks just do the job.
Last time I was working in the patch in Midland, I could have sold my El Camino, on the spot every time I stopped for gas, or to grab a bite. Never saw another one in the 3 months I was there. Lot of older men would have traded me their crew cabs too for it. I'll keep it till I croak, it's paid for it self many times over and I still drive it almost every day. Best $6200.00 I ever spent, and for it's day it was loaded.
#205
Vegas, Baby!
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It's furnace hot here in Vegas, like 108. FWIW, it's always a dry heat! I like the picture of the new Vette, I'm not a fan of blue, but I think it'd look awesome in badass black. IMHO, all sport cars look better in black, but that's just me.
#206
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Don't know about your ElCamino, but I had a red '79 back when. The new Vette will be Intresting.
by the way, do you still on some property around Fredricksburg?
by the way, do you still on some property around Fredricksburg?
#207
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Looking forward to the launch. If GM pulls it off it will be a disposable track car. Buy first year, drive snot out of it. Trade in for year 2. Rinse and repeat. Bring to Porsche dealer. Do donuts in parking lot.
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#210
Did one of these run at this years Le Mans 24hr race back in June