As I will sometime need to look through piles of faded paper pictures to go back much further, I will start with my C6. Brenda named her "Little Red" as my diesel truck was aptly named "Big Red". Little Red was my first Corvette. I had wanted one for many years and same old story....money going to different areas of non-importance such as mortgages, food and clothing....
Until I lost a couple of close friends back to back from ugly surprise diseases. They were both younger than me and the little light bulb in my normally dimly lit head came on, and in 2012 I started looking. In March 2013, I found Little Red in Calgary. The fellow was about my age and this was his first Corvette and he had bought it new right out of Kentucky in 2009. Nothing fancy. A 1LT with some interior CF options and the Competition Grey wheels.
Brenda and I went to Calgary for a look and him and his wife met us at the door. After we chatted for a while about the car and life in general, he let me take it for a drive, with him of course, and then he took Brenda for a drive. I will always remember a story he told me about the traction control. He said that after he had the car for a few weeks and had gotten use to it, he thought that since he now owned a powerful sports car, that he was going to light it up just once so he could experience that feeling. He told me he found a stretch of asphalt with no one around, shut the traction control safeties all off.... pinned it and dumped the clutch....... Once the car stopped, with him in control and facing the right direction again, he told me he scared himself so bad that he never ever shut traction control off again in almost four years... lol....
I bought the car and watched both him and his wife choke up with glassy eyes.... In late 2015 I passed Little Red along to another Calgary fellow... It had 45,000 or so km on it by then and him and I are still in contact and he still loves the car. He is a forum member now albeit a silent one (not like me..)....
Me. I wish I had had room and more reason because I loved Little Red as well and would gladly have owned both her and Ginger (my DSOM C7).... As with my friends....Gone but not forgotten.
Until I lost a couple of close friends back to back from ugly surprise diseases. They were both younger than me and the little light bulb in my normally dimly lit head came on, and in 2012 I started looking. In March 2013, I found Little Red in Calgary. The fellow was about my age and this was his first Corvette and he had bought it new right out of Kentucky in 2009. Nothing fancy. A 1LT with some interior CF options and the Competition Grey wheels.
Brenda and I went to Calgary for a look and him and his wife met us at the door. After we chatted for a while about the car and life in general, he let me take it for a drive, with him of course, and then he took Brenda for a drive. I will always remember a story he told me about the traction control. He said that after he had the car for a few weeks and had gotten use to it, he thought that since he now owned a powerful sports car, that he was going to light it up just once so he could experience that feeling. He told me he found a stretch of asphalt with no one around, shut the traction control safeties all off.... pinned it and dumped the clutch....... Once the car stopped, with him in control and facing the right direction again, he told me he scared himself so bad that he never ever shut traction control off again in almost four years... lol....
I bought the car and watched both him and his wife choke up with glassy eyes.... In late 2015 I passed Little Red along to another Calgary fellow... It had 45,000 or so km on it by then and him and I are still in contact and he still loves the car. He is a forum member now albeit a silent one (not like me..)....
Me. I wish I had had room and more reason because I loved Little Red as well and would gladly have owned both her and Ginger (my DSOM C7).... As with my friends....Gone but not forgotten.