She just doesn't get it

[vee93]

Baby! Take your wife out on some backroad-preferably with curves and a few long straight aways and LET HER DRIVE IT!!!!!!
I'm a woman, okay. I made the decision to move back home with my mom. A leadfoot in her day, she's now looking at 72. She made a plethora of comments on my '93 taking up space in the garage. (Personally, I think she was just ticked it showed up her Monte Carlo!)

Then, during one of those "take me for a ride" days out in the country, some guys in a blown Crown Vic started hanging out on my left wheel well. My then 71 year old mother said, "don't let them pass." Catching myself before I fainted at the wheel, I floored it. They did not pass. As a matter of fact, we never saw them again. After I let off the gas a few minutes later, and upon inspection I discover she looked like a dog who'd had it's head hanging out the space shuttle window during reorbit, even Mom "GETS IT" now!!!!!!

 

[JonM]

Wife???..oooh yea...I remember having one of those...I wonder where I misplaced her?

 

[Guy]

I need to express some frustration to my group therapy. After all the effort and money to acquire and upgrade my Corvette, the wife just doesn't get it. This thing gives me chills just to look at much less driving the hell out of it. The heritage! The performance! The styling! Means nothing. Could have bought a dining room suit. My God woman.

I love her. She loves me. I don't give a damn about Pottery Barn. We soldier on...

tlong

You married my wife's sister . And even thinking about "getting her involved" or "letter her drive it" is like backing a dangerous animal into a corner. I'm happy she will ride in a Vette once in a while. So as you say, "We soldier on.."


Guy

 

[tlong]

Still doesn't get it

Latest installment: I was flirting with buying a skunk. Yes the awesome GS. The trade was financially feasible. The drooling stopped long enough to discuss the idea. "I don't like the color. Why does it have a stripe? That looks bad."

I am now totally convinced that she will NEVER get it. Just not a car person I guess. Born, not made.

 

[Idaho Slim]

She just doesnt get it..................

well, maybe you dont get it , do what I did, I bought HER a 96 Corvette for Christmas, oh, and Boy oh Boy, she Gets it now!! Everyday she comes home from work she has a HUGE smile on her face. And when she "lets" me drive it, its too fun!, like last night, i blipped it up to 142, she just had this deer in the headlight look on her face since she doesnt drive it that fast. Yes, I is a happy man .

 

[01TriBlack]

My husband couldn't care less about the 'vette and thinks I should get my head examined because of my love affair with 'vettes. Sheesh....I even have to sneak around to have mods (minor) performed - he hasn't noticed yet it's been lowered, or that I changed out the tires (soon to change out the rears AGAIN), or that I upgraded the stereo system that was only 2 weeks old, or that I just had a Blackwing installed. He did notice the new rims, though. ;-)

 

[bossvette]

Great license plate 01triblack :cool

 

[01TriBlack]

Great license plate 01triblack :cool

Thank you, Bossvette! Too bad B"C"NU was taken.

Mary

 

[Moonunit 451]

My vette is my wife, and she's veryexpensive, but she don't talk back, never requires more attention than I am willingto give, and when she leaves I won't be missing half my worth, again

 

[RedRagTop]

My vette is my wife, and she's veryexpensive, but she don't talk back, never requires more attention than I am willingto give, and when she leaves I won't be missing half my worth, again

I hear ya!

 

[GS Diva]

Latest installment: I was flirting with buying a skunk. Yes the awesome GS. The trade was financially feasible. The drooling stopped long enough to discuss the idea. "I don't like the color. Why does it have a stripe? That looks bad."

I am now totally convinced that she will NEVER get it. Just not a car person I guess. Born, not made.

Re-think your purchase of a Grand Sport!!! If you get the "I don't like the color" comments, tell her the GS is one of the few C4's that will hold its value long after the others fade away!! Maybe $$ will work??!

But, then again, maybe I'm just a little biased!

Elaine

 

[01TriBlack]

Re-think your purchase of a Grand Sport!!! If you get the "I don't like the color" comments, tell her the GS is one of the few C4's that will hold its value long after the others fade away!! Maybe $$ will work??!

But, then again, maybe I'm just a little biased!

Elaine

I love the GS, Elaine. In fact, I was considering one instead of the '01. I met with the same resistance (and ignorance) from my husband: He thought it was gawdy as heck - not appreciating what exactly it is. Great, great 'vette - it's got my vote. I envy that you've got one.


Mary

 

[94C4]

Most people just don't get it when it comes to Vettes. The best one I have heard was at the car show. My son and I were looking at a beautiful 50th anniversary C5 convertible, when someone who had just sat in the car made the comment "This thing is so impractical. If I had it, I would sell it and buy a Subaru". I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder but a Subaru. Pleeeease.

 

[JJS]

I guess I'm on the lucky side myself. I've wanted a vette since I was a kid, and my wife actually pushed me to buy my '17 LT1. She told me that if anything ever happened to me and I never got my vette, that would always be on her conscience.
Now she goes around talking to people as if it were hers. When someone mentions they have a vette, she ask them what they have, and then tell them the WE have a 1971 LT1, as if she's bragging about it. She doesn't drive a standard, but she loves to ride with me in the LT1!

 

[tlong]

Say What?

My honey doesn't get the '96 as stated earlier. However after the discussion regarding a possible swap for the mighty Grand Sport she was kind enough to capitulate on a 2006 convertible. Actually e-mailed a picture taken at the Geneva Car Show.

"I wouldn't mind one of these if you want a Corvette." I can't decide if this is progress or not. I really need to just forget it and go run the hell out of my princess for moral support.

 

[Skant]

If you just can't get her to appreciate the vette thing, then maybe the vette should just be entirely your thing, and don't include her in it. Personally, I'd go for the skunk.

The way I figure it... she's got her pottery barn, and you've got your vette. Either you're both fine to let the other have their own vices and leave it at that. Or you try to engage in eachother's interests and mix it up.

If you think about it... right now, you're not willing to entertain the things that she really likes but maybe you don't. But you're expecting her to entertain the thing you like when she has no interest.

Or maybe all you want is for her to leave it alone. }:> In which case, you might point out that you don't decide what she gets at the pottery barn...

I think you're better off getting what you want, and just getting her to deal with it... rather than carrying a resentment over 'the car you could have had'... you've gotta both allow eachother to live, ya know?

PS: Myself... I can't understand people who view a car as nothing more than 'Point A to Point B'. The people that can't understand how it would ever be more than that. For them, it will always be the cheapest suckiest car that will make the most sense and be 'practical'. For these people, there is Honda (or Subaru, in the case above).

- Skant

 

[rrubel]

HEY!!! Watch your tone, young man! I've got TWO Subarus, and had to sell a third when I got the Vette. And the right one (Forester XT or '05 Legacy GT) is both practical AND a match for most C4's...
[RICHR]

 

[Ken]

Subaru...

Fellow Southwest Corvette club member Carmine Pilichi, has a '54 Vette, but it's still in pieces. I have never seen him in anything but a Subaru. :L

 

[94C4]

OK Subaru owners, I apologize. Subarus are practical cars. I would still rather drive my C4 than a Forester though.

 

[RedRagTop]

A match for most C4's?