I have been around longer than most of y'all and have been a car nut for most of that time. I still cannot wrap the idea of an SUV badged as a sports car SUV. Porsche, Lamborghini, Aston-Martin, et al started the mess and now Corvette had climbed on board as well. I have driven a Porsche Cayenne as a loaner once and although the brakes are notably better than say an Explorer, the overall handling is not that noticible.?ÿ
What do you think?
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43554873/2025-chevrolet-corvette-suv-682-hp-future-cars/
Not my taste. But then again I'm a pickup truck kinda guy.
Being a car nut from the Daytona area, do you know where Smoky Unick's garage was? He was a kind of hero to me. Always pushing the edge in the NASCAR rule book.
Andy
I guess this changes future mid-life crisis purchases. Now one can take the entire family along for the insanity instead of going it alone...
How is it off-road?
682 HP Does it come with a bolt-on Gooseneck-type hitch to pull a 48-foot by 7-foot stock trailer full of fat steers?
Being a car nut from the Daytona area, do you know where Smoky Unick's garage was?
Yup it was on the Halifax River near Seabreee Blvd. in Holly Hill. My friend’s (we were both 10 or 11) Father owned a pottery making factory, used International Harvester box trucks in his business and Smokey Yunick sold IH trucks in addition to building race cars. I met him and concluded he don’t like kids. When he built a car to enter in the Indy 500 my friend and I were there when he static tested the engine. That was the first time I became acutely aware of how sensitive you ears are. He was always building race cars and/or engines. All his car creations were painted black and gold. He built cars for Glenn (Fireball) Roberts who was from Apopka FL, about 10 miles NW of Orlando. Before I met SWMBO her mother was good friends with a woman named Judy Judge. She was Fireball’s mistress. He was married to a lady named Doris at the time. Anyway SWMBO once met Fireball and didn’t have a clue who he was. The race car drivers et al used to hang out in a bar at the Princess Issena Hotel in Daytona called the Silver Bucket. Bunches of happy and miserable times! There was a bunch of Daytona people that invested in Roberts, notably Stephens Pontiac, William Judge ( a real judicial judge called Judge Judge, no kidding, and was Judy’s father) and the local millionaire Chapman Root (he owned the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Daytona Beach)
Smokey wrote a book Best Damn Garage in Town (a thousand pages or so) he loves to talk about himself and brag about his accomplishments of which there were many. Ok read, I guess. Also another book you might like is about Glenn Roberts titled Fireball: Legends Don’t Fall from the Sky.
Half corvette,!half SUV, nothing I’m interested in. It will find a following in the current market.
The first time I saw a Porsche (Pour-shuh) SUV it was driven by an idiot land developer, the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. Most corvettes I see are driven by old codgers way below the speed limit. Don’t know why they don’t buy a comfortable car.
They don’t buy a “comfortable car” because they want a corvette and can afford one. Seems simple enough to me.
Knew a fellow who married the most beautiful gal he could find, because he wanted to make other men jealous that he could have her and they couldn't. Turned out they COULD have her. Marriage didn't last all that long.
They don’t buy a “comfortable car” because they want a corvette and can afford one. Seems simple enough to me.
On my way home from the Dollar Store this morning (I like the Dollar Store because you don't have to get dressed up fancy, like when you go to Wal-Mart) I saw a brand new "guards red", "tomato red" or just red Corvette. It pulled out in front of me and, at first I thought it was a Ferrari because of the tailights, but when when I got closer at a stop sign the "vette" badging was obvious. I'm a Porsche fan but I will admit the Corvette I saw today was stunning. If they weren't so hard to get in and out of I'd like to have one but I'm too old. Hell it took a year to learn how get in and out of SWMBO's (and my) EV. The computer control system in that thing is like learning Civil 3d.
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Have you considered physical therapy to improve mobility. There are two kind’s of pain. Pain that decreases the quality of life and pain that improves the quality of life.
Between swimming and hiding from SWMBO I get plenty of exercise. To get in and out of them things requires discipline in yoga and trapeeze artistry.
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