The vette is an awesome car for sure, and a performance bargain. You pay for that in other ways though. I'd love to drive one someday. I can't imagine a whole lot of drawbacks to owning one in the burbs aside from large turning radius making parking lots a multi-point affair, or scraping the front end occasionally.Detroit wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:19 amThat's the thing about this car...it's just such a beast in high performance environments. Anything you buy will be a downgrade unless you spend more than double what the is worth.D Griff wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 6:48 am Well, I tracked the Saturday and now I'm even more on selling it. The experience was excellent, the car was a beast and held up without any issue. All of the other guys in the novice class running with me were in Eurotrash cars and all of them were taking cool down laps, under the hood during breaks trying to find leaks, worrying about brakes crapping out. It really made me appreciate my car. I am on over one year old brake fluid, mostly just stock everything and the car was great fun and never felt made of glass. The only really shit thing was the damn seat. Wow. One of my sessions it just reclined suddenly and fell back against the wall behind the seats. It feels bad constantly.
I'm thinking that having the freedom of no car payments which could allow me to track whenever I want/have time, is a pretty nice situation.
I need to do some serious thinking in the short term. I'm definitely going to need new tires, I have to decide if I want to try to pursue a square setup or just some stock replacements if I'm going to sell the car.
That said, keep in perspective how much you'll actually do track dayzz and if it's truly worth keeping a car for that purpose. I bought mine thinking I'd be at the track 6 times a year...when I've managed maybe 2 a year since I bought it. Still a fun thing to do when you can...I hope to get out more this year.
Didn't you just buy new tires?
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I'd vote to keep the vette. Even if you buy another car and store it somewhere..... you never buy one as nice again. C5's are geeting to be b8er statusD Griff wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 6:48 am Well, I tracked the Saturday and now I'm even more on selling it. The experience was excellent, the car was a beast and held up without any issue. All of the other guys in the novice class running with me were in Eurotrash cars and all of them were taking cool down laps, under the hood during breaks trying to find leaks, worrying about brakes crapping out. It really made me appreciate my car. I am on over one year old brake fluid, mostly just stock everything and the car was great fun and never felt made of glass. The only really shit thing was the damn seat. Wow. One of my sessions it just reclined suddenly and fell back against the wall behind the seats. It feels bad constantly.
I'm thinking that having the freedom of no car payments which could allow me to track whenever I want/have time, is a pretty nice situation.
I need to do some serious thinking in the short term. I'm definitely going to need new tires, I have to decide if I want to try to pursue a square setup or just some stock replacements if I'm going to sell the car.
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Yeah. Can't touch the price / performance ratio doe. I'd say that makes them master b8er's.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:32 amI'd vote to keep the vette. Even if you buy another car and store it somewhere..... you never buy one as nice again. C5's are geeting to be b8er statusD Griff wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 6:48 am Well, I tracked the Saturday and now I'm even more on selling it. The experience was excellent, the car was a beast and held up without any issue. All of the other guys in the novice class running with me were in Eurotrash cars and all of them were taking cool down laps, under the hood during breaks trying to find leaks, worrying about brakes crapping out. It really made me appreciate my car. I am on over one year old brake fluid, mostly just stock everything and the car was great fun and never felt made of glass. The only really shit thing was the damn seat. Wow. One of my sessions it just reclined suddenly and fell back against the wall behind the seats. It feels bad constantly.
I'm thinking that having the freedom of no car payments which could allow me to track whenever I want/have time, is a pretty nice situation.
I need to do some serious thinking in the short term. I'm definitely going to need new tires, I have to decide if I want to try to pursue a square setup or just some stock replacements if I'm going to sell the car.
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is a b8er?Johnny_P wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:35 amYeah. Can't touch the price / performance ratio doe. I'd say that makes them master b8er's.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:32 am
I'd vote to keep the vette. Even if you buy another car and store it somewhere..... you never buy one as nice again. C5's are geeting to be b8er status
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This is a good point, Kidzz are buying these in droves as cheap performance cars and ruining the hell out of them. It's entirely possible that in 5-10 years, clean examples will be few and far between. Keeping a C5 nice for a while might end up being a good move at some point.
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Fortunately, lot of seniors are way ahead of that.Detroit wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:47 amO i c.
This is a good point, Kidzz are buying these in droves as cheap performance cars and ruining the hell out of them. It's entirely possible that in 5-10 years, clean examples will be few and far between. Keeping a C5 nice for a while might end up being a good move at some point.
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They were turning to shit back when I sold mine and good ones were hard to find even then. That was around 2013. Now the c6 is the new c5 though ...Johnny_P wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:35 amYeah. Can't touch the price / performance ratio doe. I'd say that makes them master b8er's.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:32 am
I'd vote to keep the vette. Even if you buy another car and store it somewhere..... you never buy one as nice again. C5's are geeting to be b8er status
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Flip up lights are cool doe. I prefer the exterior of the C5 to the C6. Interior is Sunfire vs Cobalt so you ain't gonna win any awards there.
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I did. Just thought it was some youths thing I was missing out on.
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Here in the country for old men, cherry C5's are abundant AF.....lots of 50 something women driving them too.Detroit wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:47 amO i c.
This is a good point, Kidzz are buying these in droves as cheap performance cars and ruining the hell out of them. It's entirely possible that in 5-10 years, clean examples will be few and far between. Keeping a C5 nice for a while might end up being a good move at some point.
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?Desertbreh wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:18 pmHere in the country for old men, cherry C5's are abundant AF.....lots of 50 something women driving them too.Detroit wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:47 am
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This is a good point, Kidzz are buying these in droves as cheap performance cars and ruining the hell out of them. It's entirely possible that in 5-10 years, clean examples will be few and far between. Keeping a C5 nice for a while might end up being a good move at some point.
are the most sought after, and also the most likely to be ragged to hell and back. Ain't nobody want a 4-speed auto regardless of how cherry it is.
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There are probably a fair number of autos in the mix for sure.Detroit wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:23 pm?Desertbreh wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:18 pm
Here in the country for old men, cherry C5's are abundant AF.....lots of 50 something women driving them too.
are the most sought after, and also the most likely to be ragged to hell and back. Ain't nobody want a 4-speed auto regardless of how cherry it is.
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I thought the C5 had a higher auto mix? I rarely see really nice :manual: s for sale anymore.
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Right. Which goes back to my original point that there aren't many nice s left anymore.
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