Friday night we had our monthly meeting of the Corvette club. Everything went well. The wife and I had to leave a little early because I had to be at work at 9pm. As I was leaving a friend of mine, he has a 91 ZR-1 and I have asked him countless questions, asked me if I wanted to take his 63 convertible for a drive. My response, I tried not to scream with excitement, was "Absolutely!" It is red with a white top. As he explained it to me. He bought the car in 76 as a parts car for his brother's 63, then he decided to bring it back to life. He told me it was five years before it was back together enough to drive it.
So we get into it and my hands are shaking with excitement. It reminded me of the first time I drove mine. I had the biggest smile! (Only bigger!!) I got buckled in, lap belt only, put the car in neutral (when I was able to find it), pushed in the clutch and turned the key. Hello happy!! The sweet sound of the V8!! Then I discovered no power steering! I got it out of the parking lot without any problems and said to him, "I'll bet you don't parallel park this much do you?" I drove around for about 15 minutes! I only got to about 60mph and I noticed that once you get it going it is pretty easy to drive. I got back to the restaurant and thanked him again. It was totally worth being 15 minutes late to work.
Sorry about the long post! It's still hard to contain my excitement even after two days!!
Jim
So we get into it and my hands are shaking with excitement. It reminded me of the first time I drove mine. I had the biggest smile! (Only bigger!!) I got buckled in, lap belt only, put the car in neutral (when I was able to find it), pushed in the clutch and turned the key. Hello happy!! The sweet sound of the V8!! Then I discovered no power steering! I got it out of the parking lot without any problems and said to him, "I'll bet you don't parallel park this much do you?" I drove around for about 15 minutes! I only got to about 60mph and I noticed that once you get it going it is pretty easy to drive. I got back to the restaurant and thanked him again. It was totally worth being 15 minutes late to work.
Sorry about the long post! It's still hard to contain my excitement even after two days!!
Jim