Two weekends ago i took a ride down to sandy hook nj with my
girlfriend and my "step dog" in her vw convertible. Nice day, sun
was shining, few clouds in the sky, and a nice sandy beach.
one thing was missing- MY 79!

All i could think of was getting my vette back on the road. Being
in storage since october, it needed an oil change, inspection,
alignment and a host of little odds and ends, with little time to
do them. So to say the least im getting antsy to get it out and
want nothing more than to hit the road! To really make me go
nuts, during that single day all i saw was corvette after corvette!
Youd have to go to a car show to see more! the count was
something like this:

1-'67, 2-'68/'69's, 3-'75's, 1-'79, 2-80's, 3 or 4 c4's, 5 c5's, 1-c6!

this was all in the time span of about 3 hours! amazing!

So last weekend, with vette fever at full pitch, i managed to get
my baby inspected, aligned and oil changed, and out on the
road at last!
I think i must have spent the whole weekend in that car! (kinda
like that old mercedes commercial where the guy is coaching
his kid at a soccer game from the driver seat of his car driving
up and down the sidelines!)

nothing but blue skies, warm weather! we drove on down to
new
hope, PA and sure enough, i was greeted by quite a few fellow
vette owners down there. i got a lot of waves from all the c5
guys. (nothing cooler than a getting the thumbs up from a
person in a 04 c5!) It was a good day.

The bottom line is that it feels great to get that vette out there
and
enjoy the weekend with a trip to nowhere! id have to say i think
thats whats its all about! stevep31638461.5611921296

I'm FEELING your pain...!!!        Hoping the garage addition project will be done next week so "The Toy" (my '70 droptop) and "BIGBRRD" (my bride's '78 Trans Am) can come home to STAY - FOREVER...!!!  No more carting them off to a winter storage facility.           

thank you for this post cuz today I had to go to a meeting that was two hours way, one way, and I was watching to weather because all we've had is wet, wet, wet, and more wet.  So today I took the vette to the meeting.  Top up going to, top down, sun out, on the way home.

I had to sit on interstate 5 once in a while and got a few waves from a couple of C4, maybe cuz' I waved, and the best thing was the half dozen thumbs up from the pick up crowd.

I really enjoy owning, driving, and being a corvette dude.  Nothing like a red vette with the top down and the chambered exhuast drowning out the harleys...  god I'm sick!!!!!!!!!!

Next month I have to go over to the eastern side of the state, 6 or 7 hours one way.  Wife can't go....  I am hoping for sunny days so I can drive the vette for the first time over the mountains. 

Thanks for letting me share, as if you had a choice. P.S. won me a new set of work knives in a brief case style carrier, they're cool, really to go kill something now...

BIG WAVE TO ALL

lARRY

Steve, When you have been to New Hope, did you go to ringing rocks? Can't remember exactally where it is from New Hope, but been there years ago with an old girlfriend when I had my 69 and lived in NJ. Quite a unique place, if you hit the rocks with a hammer, they ring, different rocks have different tones. They tried to take some of them out of there to an event somewhere, I don't remember where, but they would not ring. I was amazed at how they sounded.

 

We went out last weekend with our club and did our first cruise of the year. There were 25 vettes and 1 57 Chevy with us. We were doing the spring Dogwood tour around Oak Ridge Tn. People were coming out of their houses and stopping the yard work and just watching us cruise down their street. We were there to admire their yards and they would come to the street and wave. Great day to be out. Lots of fun. 

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Actually, thats the first ive heard of that- funny too, since ive gone there many times and hiked around the river once or twice.

hey, how cool is it to picture a parade of vettes driving through a tennesee neighborhood, with everone coming out to watch? sounds like pure fun!

Larry (1BadLT1), the sun is shining and the birds are singing and the weather is warmer each and every day!!  If you make it near the Tri-Cities give me a yell!    

Carl