[Jeff Higgins]

I do really like older 'Vettes. One of the chief advantages behind them, if they are still in any kind of usable condition at all, is that they are often far better cars than they were when new. Any kind of restoration, or even any level of maintanence that has allowed one to get this far, has been done by hand by some one far more caring and careful than the original monkies that assembled it at GM. Once you find one that is old enough to pique my interest, all of its inherent issues with quality of assembly have been addressed.

On the other hand, if you buy a new one or one new enough to still be on its first "cycle", you are still getting just another POS Chevy. Built by UAW hacks that could care less from the cheapest materials the beancounters can find in China. It will very soon start to fade, rattle, and self-destruct. There is just no getting around that. I do really like the Z06, and it is fast as hell, but the "quality" of GM products leaves me cold. They will never be a "contender" until they can address that, no matter how fast their cars are.