C2 gets Mustang wave but no C6...

[Eagle Flight]

C2 gets Mustang wave but no C6 love...

What's up with the world when I drive the '67 out and around and an old mustang gives me a wave and a thumbs up (cool, I also wave ) but a few minutes later a new C6 comes by, I deploy the wave, and get nothing :duh. It's not like I was driving along in my C5 Z06 or anything (still some sibling rivalry there I detect from the forums... fine). Snubbing a C2? Geez.

Maybe they did not even realize it was a corvette...

 

[IH2LOSE]

Funny but When I go to car cruises with the C5 the C1/C2 folks wont give me the time of day and actually snub me and wont take the time to get off there chairs to say hello and speak about there cars to me.

When I show up in the C2 The C4/C5 crowd then snubs me, I am the same fellow.

Last year I pulled along side of a C5 in my town at a light and was door to door with the guy (he was around 50 to 60) and I waved and he flipped me the bird,He took off when the light turned green as if I was going to race him,I just let him go,Less then 4 days later I was driving the C5 and the same guy followed me into a deli parking lot in the same town to stop me and ask what type of an exchaust was on the car.After a lenghthy talk about what else I had done to the car I explained I was the fellow in the C2 waving at him at the light why did he flip me off, He said he thought I was trying to race him??? He applogised,I explained the wave thing to him and he said it was silly but would wave back so not to offend people.

 

[Vettefan87]

Yeah I know what you mean. I had one guy come in to where I work with a nice blue 66 roadster this past summer. So we got to talking, and after a while I told him I had an 87 roadster, and it was weird how his mood changed, kind of like my car wasn't good enough for him....

 

[black_81_vette]

Sad aint it? Ive seen some corvette owners act like real snobs,but for the most part the ones Ive had any real contact with are pretty cool.

 

[atmmac]

My Cousins friends letting me drive his 87 Roadster this summer. I cant wait ive never driven any other corvette except my 97 and a 77.

 

[Vettefan87]

My Cousins friends letting me drive his 87 Roadster this summer. I cant wait ive never driven any other corvette except my 97 and a 77.

You will love it, they are truely completely different cars. I find the ride, and feel of mine to be more enjoyable then a C5, not that I wouldn't take one sitting next to my 87.

 

[Evolution1980]

Sad aint it? Ive seen some corvette owners act like real snobs,but for the most part the ones Ive had any real contact with are pretty cool.

You've just illustrated the main difference between most other Corvette sites on the net and the Corvette Action Center...

 

[Eagle Flight]

Evolution1980,


You have a real sweet C3!

We just have to keep taking the high road and break out the wave and the traditions whenever the chance avails itself!

 

[MsSchroder]

I've got to admit, there are so few C2's (not to mention C1's) on the road around here that once, when I looked up to find one (a c2) approaching me quickly, I was so astonished and breath-taken that I didn't have enough available brain cells to wave.

I'm probably one of those C5 Z06 drivers who gives the mistaken impression of haughtiness. In fact, it is just called shock and awe.

Tammy

 

[67HEAVEN]

In fact, it is just called shock and awe.

Tammy

Tammy,

You'll have at least one C2 to wave at in Bowling Green.

 

[safety_match]

I can't explain why all Corvette owners don't wave to each other, but I know that there is a separate and parallel universe out there in which one classic car afficionado will acknowledge another classic car afficionado.

There is nothing quite like an older car in nice condition that will turn my eye every time. Regardless of Ford, Chev, Chrysler, or even Studebaker and Hudson!

Safety

 

[Evolution1980]

I can't explain why all Corvette owners don't wave to each other

Very easy answer. They don't know about it. That fact has been talked about many many many times over many many many years... At any time past, present, or future, the newest generation of new vette owners typically don't know about the wave.

 

[Tripleblack51]

Very easy answer. They don't know about it. That fact has been talked about many many many times over many many many years... At any time past, present, or future, the newest generation of new vette owners typically don't know about the wave.

I agree with Evolution.
Stop and think about it...the early C1 and C2 vettes were not built as cruisers, they were not comfortable cars to drive.
The newer C5 is a comfortable car and lots of people have them (many are leased)
We as enthusiasts, make up a very small portion of all the C5s built in their eight year run.
When you run into someone in a newer vette that won't wave, that is just a person driving a vette....not a vette person.

I stopped initiating waves quite a while back. Here in south Florida, C5s are all over the place and the majority won't wave back.
If I'm in my vette and next to another vette, I'll look over.
If they look, smile and wave I'll wave back. If not, I'll just be on my way.

I will initiate this wave though.

Enjoy your cars.


Pedro

 

[MsSchroder]

Tammy,

You'll have at least one C2 to wave at in Bowling Green.

And I can't wait to see the beast. And HEAR it!! :J
Cool photo. You're world famous.

 

[61 Silver]

The Wave

What's up with the world when I drive the '67 out and around and an old mustang gives me a wave and a thumbs up (cool, I also wave ) but a few minutes later a new C6 comes by, I deploy the wave, and get nothing :duh. It's not like I was driving along in my C5 Z06 or anything (still some sibling rivalry there I detect from the forums... fine). Snubbing a C2? Geez.

Maybe they did not even realize it was a corvette...

When in high school I owned a 1958 MG, when other sports cars would pass and wave, I would wave back. In 1968 I purchased my first Corvette, a 1962. As I was a young 18 years old and did not realize that the Corvette ownership was like a large fraternity and the wave was a form of acknowledgement of Corvette ownership. Corvettes would pass and the drivers would wave so I would wave back. An early MG passed and I waved, thinking that sports cars drivers waved to each and acknowledge the sport car; I received no return wave and quickly learned that birds of a feather stick together.





Save the wave!

Ray

 

[brumbach]

I thinks it's a matter of respecting your elders. The younger generation (the C5) should pay honors to their distinguished fore fathers (C1 & C2). Maybe they weren’t brought up right!

 

[Tomrw]

My blood pressure rises when another corvette owner does return the wave. I do understand that sometimes the ladies think I'm trying to pick them up. We all should wave and be friendly no matter what model we drive. WHY? Because we all are members of the best car fraternity. "CORVETTE"

 

[larry5868]

When I had my 76 I got waves from just about every other vette on the road. Later I owned a Jeep wrangler and always got waves from other wranglers in passing. I don't know what's wrong with most of the c5 owners around here, they just won't wave. When I see amber lights in the distance close to the ground and near the corners I always get ready to wave to the other driver, because I know another vette is coming.
(not that I just wave to c5's)
People I work with that know very little about corvettes still know about the wave.

At least everyone that hangs out in the cac knows about it.

 

[paul67]

Shock and Awe? Well with whitewall tires I might tone that down a bit. But my 1967 does attract attention. And yes I do wave...and am not disappointed if it is not returned. C'est la vie.

 

[Johnnykretentiv]

I got my first wave just few weeks ago from a guy in a C2 at about 7;30 AM on a clear and cool Sat. morning.

I'm a C5 owner that waves at every Vette I see. I have been waiting 25 years to do it and I'm gonna do it everytime I get a chace to.