"Breaking From the Mold"
There’s definitely a distinct curtain over Corvette owners that designates unwritten guidelines to what one should and shouldn’t do with their Corvette. You won’t find it in any owner’s manual or in a detailed Haynes repair text. Even still, driving in the rain, giving your dog a ride, installing a non-numbers matching engine, adding body modifications and exercising the odometer are a glimpse into a few standard “no-no’s” throughout the community.
But…why?
Shouldn’t enjoying your Corvette be the best part to owning it? A Corvette, or any car for that matter, can only look so good in the artificial light of a garage or museum. Corvettes take on a different personality when they’re out on the road, where they were designed to be. Just getting out more often than every third summer-Saturday for a car show, raises the chance to drive upon a new excitement. Heck, you just might meet a fellow Vetter at the gas station, take a few sunset pictures, or catch some admiring thumbs at a stoplight.
There’s just got to be more to it, otherwise they wouldn’t have given us eight overachieving cylinders wrapped in a sleek, light-weight body. You don’t have to know every technical or historical tidbit to have fun with a Corvette. Keeping your ‘Vette shined to perfection isn’t a daily requirement either. Just follow your own road, do what thrills you, and share in the fun with others.
Vette Dogs is about doing what you want with your Corvette.
Enjoy it!
Post a comment, tell others how you have been enjoying your Corvette.
The only fault I see in Vette Dogs is the episodes are way to short...
You mean I shouldn't be putting miles on my car and doing burnouts? I shouldn't be doing custom stuff? Am I going to get my car revoked?
SCREW THE PURISTS!
I have several vettes, my baby is a 71 LS5 4spd, (LS5 is the 365 HP 454) and that motor is sitting on an engine stand waiting for the day it may be returned. I currently have a 502 500 hp engine in place and I'm here to tell ya, all I have to do is take a purist for a lap around the block and it pretty much shuts them up for good!