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<blockquote data-quote="Rruuff Day" data-source="post: 176788" data-attributes="member: 2217"><p><span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">EDIT: I was 56 for my first Vette..</span>.......Great stories guys.... About time I posted too.... A Corvette was something you NEVER saw in small town Nova Scotia in the 60's.... Actually not in big town either... Pictures in magazines were as close as I got for a lot of years and given finances in the east, a Corvette was a dream car that I never dreamed would ever materialize... Worked construction during summer breaks and at age 17 bought a new VW beetle right off the lot for $1500.00 and change... Then in 74, bought a used 69 SS 396 Chevelle. Onward to a 72 340 4spd Duster, and then to a F250 Ford. Then met a girl and moved to Alberta where I purchased a 76 280Z Datsun which was the best handling car I had ever driven. That was also the first time I ever drove a Corvette. Some guy pulled up beside me in a 78 C3 gave me the wanna run look, and after I let him catch back up to the 280Z, we became friends. To be honest, I loved the look of the C3 but that was about the only level of my admiration at that time and with that car. Onward and upward, work and buying a house came into the picture, which turned into buying a farm, so it was the new and improved C5 years before I seriously considered a Corvette... Time flew by and thought about it was as far as I got until a good friend 4 years younger than me got the big C and left us way too soon. Made my mind up then that life was too damn short sometimes and watched until I found my C6 and was hooked. Drove it and loved it and fell in love again the first time I saw a C7 drive by in 2014. The next season I bought the car I have now and still love it like it was the first day...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rruuff Day, post: 176788, member: 2217"] [COLOR=rgb(250, 197, 28)]EDIT: I was 56 for my first Vette..[/COLOR].......Great stories guys.... About time I posted too.... A Corvette was something you NEVER saw in small town Nova Scotia in the 60's.... Actually not in big town either... Pictures in magazines were as close as I got for a lot of years and given finances in the east, a Corvette was a dream car that I never dreamed would ever materialize... Worked construction during summer breaks and at age 17 bought a new VW beetle right off the lot for $1500.00 and change... Then in 74, bought a used 69 SS 396 Chevelle. Onward to a 72 340 4spd Duster, and then to a F250 Ford. Then met a girl and moved to Alberta where I purchased a 76 280Z Datsun which was the best handling car I had ever driven. That was also the first time I ever drove a Corvette. Some guy pulled up beside me in a 78 C3 gave me the wanna run look, and after I let him catch back up to the 280Z, we became friends. To be honest, I loved the look of the C3 but that was about the only level of my admiration at that time and with that car. Onward and upward, work and buying a house came into the picture, which turned into buying a farm, so it was the new and improved C5 years before I seriously considered a Corvette... Time flew by and thought about it was as far as I got until a good friend 4 years younger than me got the big C and left us way too soon. Made my mind up then that life was too damn short sometimes and watched until I found my C6 and was hooked. Drove it and loved it and fell in love again the first time I saw a C7 drive by in 2014. The next season I bought the car I have now and still love it like it was the first day... [/QUOTE]
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