Sounds like a personal property tax situation. Youse Virginians pay a P/P tax, don't you?

 

Brothers and I circa 1964. Today we can't watch Mecum without shedding a tear and big $$$ regret... but back then we were just trading up.

The Grandsport has always been the Corvette's best effort for that model series; and they are excellent drivers cars. Any enthusiast has to love the newer ones. Those who don't appreciate the value proposition are just fooling themselves. Enjoy.

 

Great pic! My dad had a '64. We all wish he kept it too!

 

Great picture.

When I was a teenager I managed to convince my brothers and my mom to all buy Porsche 944's.

It was a lot of fun.

I think if I tried hard I could get mom to go 'Vette shopping, she was already asking to borrow it before I even bought it. I just don't see it as something they would use right now with what is going on for them, so I won't make that push.(But kinda want to).

 

I've gone through my vette phase with my 63 convert and my 71 t-top. Fun when I had them but they became to popular. Today's late model versions are a dime a dozen and limited to the mid life guys. Now I'm just another old guy with a Jag which around here are far and few between.
Now my BIL is still a vette guy at age 67 and has a 63 340HP , a 67 convert 427/425 and a 67 convert 327/300 automatic.

 

If I'm mid life, I won't ever make it to collecting social security.

 

Today the weather here in Northern Bavaria was dry and 10 degrees Celsius.

I drove 1,5 hours with my 1957 C1 - I was missing this feeling since Novemer last year.

 

Oh , sorry mid life guys usually buy convertibles.

 

I must still be in my Mid Life Crisis which started when I was 28 and I bought my first Raggy. I've owned at least one convertible every day of my life since that moment, more than 25 years ago. It's so NICE having the sun on my face and the wind through my scalp.

 

+1, except I still have hair for the wind to blow through!

I have always owned a ragtop - as follows:

1955 MG TF1500 from 1957-1960


1960 Corvette from 1960-2002


1993 600SL from 1998-Present (gave it to my son in Dallas in 2010, he still owns it) Only 2,066 built.


2009 XKR from 2010-Present


All great cars, but the XKR IS THE BEST!

 

I started out in convertibles. First a 64 Plymouth Fury, then a 64 Olds Cutlass. My sister has a 64 1/2 Mustang convertible. Then I went to hard tops in the 80's

About 10 years ago, I decided to get another convertible since I remembered how much fun they were. I love the openness, wind in your hair, sun on your face, plus the rattles, shakes, wind noise, water drips also give the car a personality not found in hard tops. Of course, some of those things are the reason people don't like convertibles, but to me they are endearing qualities.

So I got a '98 BMW 328i convertible, and decided I would never be without a convertible again. The BMW is a challenge - always needed something. Just when I would get everything working properly, a smile would creep across my face, then something else breaks and I get frustrated. I still have it but rarely drive it. But it is a fun car to drive when it is working.

My XK, though, is far above any other convertibles I have ever had. It doesn't flex, leak, or rattle, which makes it a little less personable, but it also doesn't break which is awesome. Furthermore it is a tremendous joy to drive, especially in top-down mode. You hard-top guys are really missing out!

 

Not me. I never liked convertibles. Any of them. Obviously just a personal taste thing. To me, no roof just kills the lines of the car. Especially the XK.

As for wind in the face, I totally understand that part of the love for a vert as 80% of my transportation has been on a motorcycle since 1990.

 

I do think the XK coupe roof line looks better and had me looking closely at a few, but in the end, I had to stay with a convertible. Even with crappy convertible weather half the year here, after 10 years I'm hooked on top down driving in the warm months, and can see myself always owning one.

 

The rental C7 'Vette that sparked my C5 Z07 purchase was a convertible. I like top down in the early morning and evening, but in the summer Carolina sun on an unclouded day I'd rather have the roof up over my head.

I like the drop top on the X100. For the X150, I'd have to still have the coupe, and get a drop top in addition to it. I just love the coupe's lines.

 

I'm with you and always got a headache driving in a vert. Wind in your hair is overrated (FOR ME). Kind of like golfing with 17mph wind. Sure you can do it, but why?

Oddly enough, I never got a headache riding my motorcycles. Go figure.

 

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Exactly WHICH lines are ruined???? It looks pretty sweet to me......

 

the lines at the top that are missing

"Yes it does look sweet. But TO ME the coupe looks better. And I quote myself:
"Obviously just a personal taste thing. To me, no roof just kills the lines of the car."

 

Ditto.

I had a '69 Torino GT vert for a couple years. Really fun 351w 4 speed setup that spent most of it's time with the top down. Snow flurries at night with the top down and the heater blasting were memorable as was getting pinched by the door seam going over a big bump. Too many refrigerators in the floor to keep. However my fastback '68 Fairlane has been in the shed since '91.

 

I have had a convertible for more than half of the time I have been driving. The only time I convertibless for a long stretch of time is when I lived in downtown Chicago and had only one car. Each of those cars in that 24 year stretch was an XJ sedan. Living in Southern California allows me to have the top down more often than not. Driving in with top down is pure joy to me.

 

I work from home, despite swapping between three different sports cars, I've still put 650 miles on the Corvette in three weeks.

A C1 must be fantastic, the older a car gets, the more I enjoy it.

I enjoy my 2009 XK far more now in 2018, then when I bought it in 2015. It just wasn't old enough when I got it. I won't repeat that again for a sports car.

The ease and lack of drama of driving the XK is nice, but the 'Vette is truly visceral. It both invigorates the mind and tires the body.