John, My son has '75 and '98 corvettes. I bought a used '03. And 8 friends meet at a local corvette shop every Monday. I see the old 'vetts, but really enjoy the new ones. Nostalgia is a wonderful thing, but the older cars lack a lot of function and manners. Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 1:53 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Larry Colen >> >> On Apr 2, 2010, at 5:25 PM, John Sessoms wrote: >> >>> > From: Larry Colen >>>> >>>> >> For cars, I use "Vettemarks", which is in what year the top of the >>>> >> >> line Corvette had that level of performance. Note that a lot of >> >>>> >> econoboxes these days probably have vettemark performance in the >> >>>> >> 1980s. >>> >>> > >>> > Corvette hasn't had "vettemark" performance in the 1980s since the > >>> > 1970s. Not a Corvette made since 1967 that's worth pissin' on. >> >> I think that you'll find that todays Vette's handily out accelerate the >> ones of yore. >> >> How much time have you spent on the track in Corvettes of various >> vintages? I got to drive a student's C5 at Sears Point a while back, and >> they are frighteningly competent cars. I've also ridden around the track >> in several vettes that were driven by students, which can be an entirely >> different flavor of exciting. >> > > From 68 on the 'vette has been a bloated POS that might as well have been > engineered by MicroSoft. I liked the Corvette when it was a relatively > small, nimble, and yes insanely over-powered sports car, but have no use for > what it's become. > > I don't know what it is now, but it ain't a sports car. > > I don't care how much horsepower they cram under the hood or what exotic > material they make the brakes out of ... it's still trying to cram 10 > gallons of manure into a 5 gallon bucket. > > Or, perhaps more accurately, it's got all the class of 5 gallons of manure > in a 55 gallon drum. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
