I can understand how you could love that vette. And of course your wife was right! We are always right! LOL. That gas mileage is great for a car that takes 93 octane. I drive a Rav4 and it gets about 30mpg in the city on regular. And you are correct, you can always replace the car, you can never replace a life. It was good choice hitting the tree and not the woman. I'm sure you didn't like the looks of the car when you saw it, but it was the right thing to do. My plate on my bike was Mosey 1 cause that was what I did. I would mosey. I was never in a hurry to get any where. We always took the back roads in Wisconsin and they have twisty turny roads that we would ride on. I thought about transferring my bike plate to my car but my husband thought it would be a hassle and in my car I do not mosey. So I let the plate go when I let the bike bike go. Now I just have a regular old plate on the car.
SS On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 7:13 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I was 14 years old when I received my first ride in a Corvette, it was a > 1953. Love at first site. I knew at one point I would have to have one. > In fact my Indiana plate for many years was (1st LUV). When we moved to > Springfield, MO. someone had that plate so for the 4 years that we lived > their I had 1st LOVE. After moving back to Indiana in 2009 I just got a > plain Indiana plate. I was getting to many comments about the plate that I > loved my vette more then my wife. Grace really didn't care what plate I > had. She said, it's your money spend it anyway you want. She was right > (again). So from 1961 to present I had 10 Corvette's, I have met guys and > women that have had as many as 30 Corvettes. To rich for my blood. But > they have been a good car for me. My 1973 saved my life when someone pulled > out in front of me when I was driving about 40 mph in the rain and at > night. I didn't want to hit her so I pulled on the wheel to the left and > ran right into a tree. As for the Corvette, it was a total loss, but she > was O.K. that's all that I cared about. You can always buy another car. > But this one get's great gas mileage, at 70 mph I get around 33 to 34 mpg > and around town I get between 23 to 25. Bad thing is it runs on 93 > octane. Well, that's it my hole life story. Fast bikes, Fast cars and > Fast Women. (smile) > > dg > > > > In a message dated 4/29/2011 4:50:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > My brother always had Vette's. He would buy a new one seems like every > year. Then he moved up to Mercedes Bends. I miss miss my brother. He passed > away this past June. He was only 66. He was always buying a new car. I had > a Vulcan 750. That was my first bike. Best bike I ever rode. It was my > learning bike. My husband used to take to the college parking lot for me so > I could ride around and learn what I was doing before I took the MSF > course.My husband basically taught me how to ride. At one time, we had 7 > motorcycles in the garage. My husband use to say I never sat on a bike I > didn't like. LOL Sounds like you love your Vette as much as I love > motorcycle. > > SS > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:39 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well let's see, two Honda 1100 cc V65's, 1200 cc VMax, last was a >> Vulcan 750. All were nice but the Vmax was a little to much power on 2 >> wheels. Almost like driving the vette. When I found out that I had cancer >> and at that time their was no Gleevec and they would not do a BM on me >> because of my age. I figured what the hell time to buy another vette. I >> picked it up on Dec. 9th 1999 at Bowling Green, KY. It's a 2000, 6 speed >> conv. with over 400 h.p. and it's Loud. I was 23 years old when I >> purchased my first one back in 1961, and of course their were others. Wish >> I still had some of the older's one's. I would be a rich man now. >> >> dg >> >> -- >> [CMLHope] >> A support group of http://cmlhope.com >> ------------------------------------------------- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CMLHope" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope >> > > -- > [CMLHope] > A support group of http://cmlhope.com > ------------------------------------------------- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope > > -- > [CMLHope] > A support group of http://cmlhope.com > ------------------------------------------------- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope > -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope
