>>>>>>>>>I think the Japanese do them all better - but the U.S. car industry doesn't have anything to compete with the smaller cars so they don't lose sales there......
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>>>>>>>>We still make the Corvette. The Japanese sure don't do that better. (And neither does anyone else in remotely the same price class).
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>>>>>>>Sorry, but in my opinion the Corvette ain't that much to brag about. Lots of cars can go fast in a straight line.
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>>>>>>Heretic! ;-)
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>>>>>>I had two of them in my younger days and don't seem to remember always driving them in a straight line. Would love to have another one but it would be a cliche at my age now, unfortunately.
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>>>>>>Ain't that much to brag about.... (shaking head)
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>>>>>Hey, I cut my driving teeth on Detroit Big Iron, learned to drive in a 1970 Pontiac Bonneville affectionately known as 'Ralph the Baby Killer' for all the 16-and-a-day little boys that would come up on me at a red light (in their shiny Camaros, Mustangs and 'Vettes) and thought it would be funny to offer to race off the line. I kept wanting to point to the red '455' on the fender and tell them that wasn't a model number (it was the engine size - high compression to boot), but I didn't. I'd just wait for the light to turn green and leave them like they were sitting still.
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>>>>>Did I mention that at that time, I was cutting reaction times of about .01 - .03 seconds?
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>>>>>So no, Corvettes ain't that much to brag about when you can get better performance for 1/3 of the price and better looks 20 years ago.
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>>>>Interesting. The car I had before the first Vette was an '83 Trans Am. Cherry red with a big black firebird on the hood. It was a great car. No Corvette IMO, performance-wise or any other way, but it was a great car. A very nice imitation Corvette ;-)
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>>>>Differences of opinion make the world go 'round....
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>>>Yeah, but by '83 the heart had been cut out of the Firebird/Trans Am. My Trans Am was a '77 - with a 400 Cu In engine in it. Unfortunately, it had a casting void in the 2nd counterweight of the crankshaft. When that let go, we just happened to have a 455 out of a 68 Pontiac wagon sitting in the garage. Once we put that in, I had a car that would run 13 second 1/4 miles (@ 22 mpg, btw) and took me to school every day.
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>>You are a redneck trapped in a woman's body! "Casting void in the 2nd counterweight of the crankshaft" -- well, yes, exactly, LOL. My level of engine expertise is more on the order of "It won't start" or "The engine light is on."
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>>It's funny because half my family back in Maine either know their way around cars, race them, or are mechanics for a living. Obviously the gene skips a beat every so often, well, other than the gene that wants to drive fast.
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>My nephew will be attending this school soon:
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>http://www.uti.edu/Home/NascarTech/School/Charlotte/tabid/1027/Default.aspx

Love how the graphics look like a video game

And good luck to your nephew