Three C7 Corvettes on the Street in Arizona

[scannon]

[MHKflyer52]

Strange pulsating brake lights at red light.

Wounder if that will be a standard on them or if it is just something to generate attention....I like it....

[scannon]

That's a function of differing refresh rates between the LED tail lights and the video raster rate.

[Kitcat]

As I have posted here before, back in the really old days, in Sept, in my small town, they' d have a new car parade. So, in the early 60's we'd line the streets to see the parade of first time models orchestrated by the local dealers. And, when the '63 Vette turned the corner and eased down the street, amidst various luxo-barges and not so luxo barges, the '63 vette Sting Ray was like a feking spaceship, too wild, too different, too cool to comprehend. So, I gotta report, I am a bit underwhelmed by the '14 Vette. Tho, I hasten to add, I am sure it's a pretty nice car.

[scannon]

I agree on the '63, I had owned a '57 and a '59 Vette but the Stingray knocked my socks off. It was 1968 before I could afford one and bought a split window coupe. Loved that car.

 

Fast forward to 1985. I had imported a gray market 911. I drove it for a year and put it up for sale. First call I get is from a doc with a '63 split window with 53k miles. He wonders if I would be interested in taking it in on trade on the 911. Hell yes I said as many happy memories flooded into my brain.

 

We met, he drove my car then I drove the Vette. It was not perfect but still very good but after owning many Porsches, BMWs and Audis in the interim the Vette drove like a tank. Pretty much like I remembered from the past, its just that it was so obsolete in handling, braking (drum brakes all around) and steering that I just couldn't bring myself to do the deal.

 

I do like the new one and have been scheming about how I could afford one.

Edited January 26, 2013 by scannon

[Kitcat]

Thx Skip! Your post confirms what I suspected: compared to cars of its era, the 'Vette was awesome. Compared to, say, a new 6 cyl Honda Accord, it wld be no contest-even at the track I wld expect the Accord to dominate. Of course, if it was just a beauty contest, the 'Vette wins.

[S1Steve]

Mike,

You think a 6 cyl. Honda Accord would dominate the new Vette at the track ???

 

Really.......

[Kitcat]

The Honda does 0-60 in 5.6 secs, the Vette in 5.8. Then add similar weight, the Vette's semi functonal drum brakes that wld fade almost 100% after 2 hard breaking areas, the 'Vettes skinier tires, much cruder suspensension, slower/slopier steering, the Honda's traction control, vastly superior suspension, ABS, stability management, etc., etc.

 

I dont doubt that an old 'vette w/many, many track oriented and updated mods cld hang with the Honda, I am talking bone stock.

[MoPho]

.... Pretty much like I remembered from the past, its just that it was so obsolete in handling, braking (drum brakes all around) and steering that I just couldn't bring myself to do the deal.

 

 

 

It was obsolete in those departments when it was new in 63

 

 

 

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[S1Steve]

The Honda does 0-60 in 5.6 secs, the Vette in 5.8. Then add similar weight, the Vette's semi functonal drum brakes that wld fade almost 100% after 2 hard breaking areas, the 'Vettes skinier tires, much cruder suspensension, slower/slopier steering, the Honda's traction control, vastly superior suspension, ABS, stability management, etc., etc.

 

I dont doubt that an old 'vette w/many, many track oriented and updated mods cld hang with the Honda, I am talking bone stock.

 

Ok, I got you now.... You are talking about the old Vette......

[rnr]

Thx Skip! Your post confirms what I suspected: compared to cars of its era, the 'Vette was awesome. Compared to, say, a new 6 cyl Honda Accord, it wld be no contest-even at the track I wld expect the Accord to dominate. Of course, if it was just a beauty contest, the 'Vette wins.

 

That is true of all all old cars. GRM put a Jag XKE and a Porsche 356 up against a Honda Odyssey minivan a few years ago and it trounced them both.

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