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What Your Vette Means...

Posted: 2/27/07 5:12pm Message 21 of 22
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I don't remember when I first when corvette crazy, but I do always remember wanting one. A friend of my brother had a 78 pace car, and watching that car on the road, I knew one day I would have one.

In 85, at the age of 21, I bought a 79, white with a green interior. I was a Lance Corporal in the USMCR. In 87, when I went on active duty, I traded the 79 in on a 62. It had chrome mags, a 327, and a killer candy brandywine paint job. I sported that car until 89, when I traded it in on a 81. (Wish I still had the 62!!!) The 81 was charcoal with a charcoal int. A buddy of mine had a fender-bender while I was overseas, and when I got back, I had the car fixed and changed it to light blue metallic. In 93 I traded that in on 91 convertible, red on red. I had that during my last assignment, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. That car was made for the islands!! I got out of the USMC in 96, after a 12 year run, and got rid of my last vette then. I had a 10 year dry spell, and then bought the 72 in March of 06.

It feels great to be behind the wheel of a vette. There's nothing like it. It doesn't matter where I went in any of them, people have always wanted to talk about the cars. The people in the clubs have been great, and I've just had a blast with my cars.

That's my vette story.

Bryan


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What Your Vette Means...

Posted: 2/27/07 7:39pm Message 22 of 22
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Vette(s): 1975 C3 Red, T-Tops, Black Interior. All I need is time and money! Getting there!
My uncle bought a brand new 65, when I was 10.  Once I got to ride in that machine I love it.  I liked it before, but then loved it.   In 68 a friend of my Dads bought a 68 yellow vert.  I thought it looked odd.  By the third time I saw it, it had really started to grow on me.  Then I got to sit in it.  I was in love.  A short time later I got to ride in a blue 69 coupe.  Up until that point it was the high spot of my life bar none.  I could not stop smiling.  Going down the road with those fender bulging really tripped my trigger.  The sound, the feel, the experience.  What machine could possibly be better?
 
From then I was commited, and always said someday I would own one of those.  Life happened and it didn't happen.  When I went to work for a Chevrolet dealer I found most of the guys did not like working on them.  They though they were difficult to repair compared to the other Chevys.  They were right but I loved them so much I didn't care, and did most of the repairs on the Vettes.  This also allowed me to drive them on a regular basis.  Granted it was just a test drive, but that didn't matter.
 
One time I got to take one to Toledo (silver auto) and bring a different one back (red 4 spd) for a dealer trade.   That was a really great day!
 
Then I finally found a total basket case that I could afford.  I said if it took my 10 years to get it done, I didn't care.  It was my first E-bay purchase. It came home in boxes and on a car dolly.  Nothing worked.  Nothing.  It's now been over three, but progress is being made.  All I need is time and money, both of which are in short supply.
 
My oldest daughter, Beth, is 28  married and a english teacher.  She has no interest in the vette.  Meg is 17 and loves the darn thing.  When I can no longer drive, it becomes hers.
 
The only way I wll ever sell it is if I absolutely need to do so.  I hope that never happens.  If it does it will kill a part of me.  I will live, but a part will die.  In my life anything is possible, who know what the future will bring.  In the meantime I will keep plugging away.  It will slowly get better.
 
I have gas in my blood.  Cars are part of what and who I am.  Period.  And my favorite car of all times is a C3.  Period.  I truly LOVE these cars.  It is part of me.  Nothing dramatic here.
 
Makes me a bit pathetic.  But hey, it's part of me.



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