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Originally Posted by HardDrive
Admittedly, when I think corvette, the driver I envision is in his 50s, has a beer belly and a Tommy Bahama shirt. Yes, gold chains might enter the picture.
I think there might be a hint of truth to my stereotype, but is this something the general public notices, or is it strictly a thing auto enthusiasts would think of? Is my stereotype totally wrong?
I've seen plenty of the guys I described in Porsches as well.....
Sometimes I think the general public views all of us sports car guys as pr!cks, and doesn't care about the particulars. |
I know several Corvette owners. None of them fit that description at all. Without a doubt the biggest jerk ever at our autocross was a Corvette driver. We told him in no uncertain terms to leave and never come back. We usually have a couple of newer vettes show up at our autocrosses. They are fast.
We never ever see a Corvette from the 60s, 70s, or 80s. Very few vettes from the 90s. At our last autocross a Honda driver mentioned one of the guys in a 78 911 SC had a nice sounding car but he was not real fast. I pointed out that the driver is 70, and his 911 is 31 years old. I asked him to look around and count the other cars from the 70s. We have one other regular show up in his 1967 911 that he bought new. My 1985 Carrera was older than the Honda driver.