Very well put Ken.

I figured you guys would come up with some pretty good stuff .  I agree with all of the above.  I got my baby just a few months ago.  It was a lifelong dream to have one of these classics.  I enjoy every aspect of owning mine.  I can even just sit in my lawnchair and gaze at it still barely believing she is mine.  Love my car!!! 

My Vette was my Dads.... and now he is gone.. and i have the Vette.. and I remember when I was 10.. yes it was 1980... he said "SON ..I will own a vette before I retire.. and indeed he did. now that c3 is all I will ever need.. as far as I am concerned there is no other vette other then a c3... The sound, the smell, and the raw power.. we will never see a car like this ever again...

My love of these cars goes back to my childhood. My dad was a dirt oval track driver. He built race cars from the chassis up and was quite an engine builder. The C2 Vette guys would have my dad do upgrades to the factory engines. I don't recall when there wasn't a C2 in our side lot adjacent to the race shop. I remember sitting in those cars and dreaming of the day that I would drive one. I raced go karts back then and the Vette just seemed like a larger, enclosed version of what I was racing.

Fast forward to 2008. Now, I climb into my C3 and immediately travel back to that time when I was a very young, skinny kid climbing into one of those C2's at the race shop. I am still amazed at the simplicity. It reminds me of my kart racing days. I love the noise, the smell of the exhaust, the fact that you have to "drive" the car. I love the view from the driver's seat... the fender humps in full view, knowing that I am sitting a few inches off the ground, the seemingly endless hood.

Most of all, I love the feedback through the steering wheel and the seat. You feel the car move under you much like a circle track car. I love the fact that it remains a "drivers" car. I enjoy every time that I climb behind the wheel. It never fails to take me back to my childhood, and that makes me smile. That's powerful stuff!

Scott

To make it simple and easy to understand it is very much the feeling of a SMILE to drive my C3 and this is something you feel from the inside out. Only the C3 owner knows what I mean.