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Pastimes : Car Nut Corner: All About Cars
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To: robert b furman who wrote (5594)8/3/2025 10:13:06 PM
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Hi Bob,

Think I mentioned before on this thread I'd be scared to have a car like that now... and definitely when I was younger! One problem is the roads around me suck, even many highways and toll roads! So nowhere to properly exercise its incredible power and unsure I'd want to! :-) It's definitely a track or drag car that happens to be street legal which is a good thing. And if like most modern Corvettes it should have a daily drive reliability which is also a good thing. Perhaps the first true American serial made Supercar.

My dad was a Corvette guy. Think he had a 77 and 82, and you mentioned 80. Not a great era for the model imo. He had an original red ZR1, but forget if it was 1990 or 1991. Drove that a few times and it was interesting. He never drove it much. He had a mid/late 90s Vette, early 2000s Vette, and a mid 2000s Vette before he passed. Pretty sure each was an upgrade from the prior generation. He drove those a lot more regularly and sometimes I would if with him when he got tired if a long trip.

Corvettes have improved with each new generation. At least on paper, having not yet driven any version of the newest generation is along with the amazing performance, these cars corner and handle much better than prior generations which I'm guessing is a combination of the mid-engine placement along with all of the other engineering that went into it. American Supercar.

Respectfully yours,
Mr. nicewatch
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