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  • Klas A.
    Infrequent User
    • March 1, 1991
    • 2

    #76
    Re: How long have you owned your corvette

    I bought my first corvette, a 1968 in 1979. I had to sell it due to financial pressures. Several years later I bought it back, restored to a Chapter Top Flight and still own it today.
    Approximately 30 years.

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    • Neal K.
      Very Frequent User
      • October 31, 2007
      • 303

      #77
      Re: How long have you owned your corvette

      Purchased my 67 L79 vin #179 Marlboro Maroon convertible in September of 1967. Sold it in 1982 to get enough money for down payment on new house. I missed the car and bought it back a year later. Just now completing body off restoration.
      Neal

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      • Robert K.
        Very Frequent User
        • July 31, 1984
        • 213

        #78
        Re: How long have you owned your corvette

        In 1962 I was at a BBQ with my parents and a guy showed up with a brand new Red 62. He gave my father and me a ride. I sat on the rear deck as we torn down this gravel road. I was hooked. My first 62 in 1969, it was red/black FI that came off the track. It had a 65 870 shortblock in it with a clean pad (although it may have been decked, who new about broach marks back then). I sold it in 1975 to go back to college. I bought fawn/fawn #1 in 1979 just after graduation from college. Then I bought fawn/fawn #2 in 1984. I haven't driven #2 in over 25 years. It still has the original soft top.

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        • Robert B.
          Very Frequent User
          • March 1, 1992
          • 263

          #79
          Re: How long have you owned your corvette

          Bought my 61 back when I was 17 yrs. young. My father wouldn't sign for me to buy it so being the wild one that I was I signed his name for him !!. I didn't have the $1,200 at the time so my girl friend asked her father if he would loan me the money, paid him back in a few month's.I guess he thought that was admirable,I still have the car and his daughter.Two of the better decisions I have made along the way. 283 270HP Car turned a 12.8 at Ct. dragway stock class. Car has a LOT of sentimental value. It still drives like the day I bought it. When I was a teenager it cost me more for insurance per year than I paid for the car ?? I guess after 45 years of owning the car I should consider restoring it. Someday soon I hope.

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          • Walter F.
            Expired
            • October 22, 2006
            • 373

            #80
            Re: How long have you owned your corvette

            This is no big deal but since I was 9 and had my first ride in a 57 I fell in love with the C1 Corvette. My dad was service manager at Benson Chevrolet in Brooklyn new York. On rare occasions he would bring home a Corvette. I never forget the ride in a 61 Fuelie. I dreamed about owning a Corvette for over 40 years. But Marriage came along, kids, college, and in my 50s I really thought the dream was dead. Then came a cousin who lived in Florida who said to my surprise she had two Corvettes and was looking to unload one. It was a 84. She made it very affordable and its been in my garage 7 years now. Its not like the C1s I fell in love with but evertime I drive it i have a big smile on my face. I joined NCRS and love hearing the stories about the early Corvettes. I love them all but you guys with the C1s and C2s are really blessed. They have to be the ulitmate dream to own.

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            • James W.
              Expired
              • January 11, 2014
              • 8

              #81
              Re: How long have you owned your corvette

              what a great story!

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              • James W.
                Expired
                • January 11, 2014
                • 8

                #82
                Re: How long have you owned your corvette

                It seems that a lot of us fell in love with corvettes at an early age. A close friend bought a 1960 corvette in 1965,our sr. year of high school for $1200.00. Needless to say we raised cain in that car. We wore out the front shocks & would bounce the front tires off the ground. He would over tach the motor & the studs would pull up on the rocker arms & we would pull off the valve cover & beat them back with a hammer. Bought a 1969 in 1971, sold it to buy a house.In 1973 I bought my 1959 that I still have. In 1983 I got a 1967,still have. I could never sell any of my Corvett's !

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                • Wayne G.
                  Very Frequent User
                  • April 30, 1984
                  • 143

                  #83
                  Re: How long have you owned your corvette

                  I bought my '66 in '76. Borrowed part of the money from a car buddy. $3,000, 427, knock offs. It now spends most of it's time indoors! Wayne

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                  • Jack M.
                    Infrequent User
                    • March 1, 1999
                    • 10

                    #84
                    Re: How long have you owned your corvette

                    Originally posted by Kenneth Barry (7808)
                    I was reading on the CF that a guy bought a 1962 & has had it 51 years. I was wondering how lone people here have had a Corvette they bought new or used. I have had my 70 LT-1 since 1979
                    I bought my 69 convertible new on 10/15/69 and still have it. It's been a frame up restoration project for years but I'm going to try to finish it in 2014!

                    Jack Mannix
                    Weston, FL
                    jmannix@jackemannix.com

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                    • Stephen B.
                      Very Frequent User
                      • April 1, 1988
                      • 876

                      #85
                      Re: How long have you owned your corvette

                      my red 70 convertible, 27 years

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                      • David P.
                        Expired
                        • August 12, 2007
                        • 146

                        #86
                        Re: How long have you owned your corvette

                        Had a guy join our chapter last week that bought his '67 427/435 Convertible new in '66 and has had it ever since. That's cool.

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                        • Ronald W.
                          Expired
                          • July 31, 1993
                          • 23

                          #87
                          Re: How long have you owned your corvette

                          Dan Murphy of North Andover mass bought his 54 Corvette new. He used the money he earned during the Korean war plus $500 from his parents on the condition he wouldn't buy a motorcycle. Until recently , he drove the unrestored and original 54 to many of the local cruise nights.

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                          • Richard E.
                            Very Frequent User
                            • April 30, 1992
                            • 190

                            #88
                            Re: How long have you owned your corvette

                            Bought my keeper 67 427/435 coupe in 1988...Many others have come and gone since my first in 1964...

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                            • Mark H.
                              Expired
                              • September 18, 2013
                              • 241

                              #89
                              Re: How long have you owned your corvette

                              Originally posted by Robert Boutot (20759)
                              Bought my 61 back when I was 17 yrs. young. My father wouldn't sign for me to buy it so being the wild one that I was I signed his name for him !!.
                              Robert, I did the same thing!! After getting out of the Navy, went back to school, finished school, had been working for about a year and a half when I saw the Corvette I wanted. They took my Camaro in trade but I still had to come up with some cash for the difference. Had no credit, they said I'd need a co-signer for the loan. I told them I'd get my Dad to co-sign. I knew there was no way he would co-sign for one of those "plastic death traps" and I'm pretty sure the salesman knew what I was up to as well. But he just wanted to make the sale, I could have come back with Charlie Manson's name on the contract and it would have been okay with him.

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                              • Glenn D.
                                Very Frequent User
                                • May 31, 2002
                                • 137

                                #90
                                Re: How long have you owned your corvette

                                I ordered my 1974 2 top convertible in June of 1973 and took delivery of it in September of 1973.

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