<VV> Re: Corvette drivers --- No Corvair--well, a little Mosport NECC

[Taruffi57 at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/20/2006 3:56:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
virtualvairs-request at corvair.org writes:

there  sat a gentleman, of an 
> >>> age, replete with a full head of  gray hair. There was no blonde chick 
with him, 
> >>> nor was  there any evidence of there ever having been one. Just a nice 
old 
>  >>> gentleman out for a cruise in his Corvette. When's the last time  you 
saw such a 
> >>> thing? When's the last time you saw an  aged Corvette driver who was 
not having a 
> >>> mid-life  crisis?
> >>>

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I live in a big retirement village town north of Orlando where everyone is  
silver haired and most drive Buicks, Grand Marquee's or Escalades and there  
are plenty of Vette's around here of all vintages.  95% of the time, they  are 
in the way on roads.  Actually, you can say the same thing for out on  I-75 or 
the Florida Turnpike where everyone else is going 85.  Why do they  buy these 
things?  Certainly not to enjoy their "sports car"  attributes.
 
Mosport NECC video:  I just finally played the jerky video my wife  attempted 
at Mosport today.  I had no idea how loud my car is at high  revs.  Sounds 
like an un-muffled Lycoming airboat wailing through the  Everglades.  Not as 
loud as Bruce Carlton's though.
 
Joe Dunlap
Lady Lake, Fl.
'64 Vert. & '69 500 Coupe "street Mod." car  --- buncha other  weird stuff