Happy Birthday to Chevrolet

Arthur McDonald · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 1:54 am **Posts:** 2052

Bet you never thought I'd be the first one to say that, did you Steve? Well, your favorite French car make will be 100 on Nov 3!

Let's take a moment to celebrate the greatest moment in Chevrolet's motorsports history!

Todd Breakey · **Posted:** Thu Oct 06, 2011 10:43 pm

My parents had only one Chevy in their life. A Vega.

Stupid car grenaded itself in the parking lot of the St. Peters Public Library.

They never bought another Chevy. That speaks volumes!

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:51 am

OK, I had a '72 Vega myself and personally I think, for its time, was one the best design styles I had seen in a while. I drove the piss out of my car, blew it up, changed the block, and drove the piss out of it again until it developed over heating issues and I was tired of the car after owning it 5 years. I'm sure it's been recycled many times over by now and is a fender on a honda somewhere.

Kudos to this guy autox'g one. I always wanted the twin cam cosworth myself.

Richard Casto · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:02 am

My Dad never bought new cars. But eventually he did and the first was a Vega. It took him roughly another 30+ years before he bought another new car.

Richard

DickRasmussen · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:16 pm

The shortest time I've owned a car was the 74 Vega that I bought new to replace my 69 Mustang (gas crisis panic :oops:

) and then traded about six months later for my 260Z.

However, I've really liked Corvettes starting with the C4 . . . they just haven't fit my "needs" unfortunately.

RobLupella · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 4:21 pm

I celebrated by buying one :thumbsup:

http://smu.gs/of8P2d

MarcusMcRae · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 7:50 pm

RobLupella wrote:

I celebrated by buying one :thumbsup:

http://smu.gs/of8P2d

Nice color.

Jason Tower · **Joined:** Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:31 pm **Posts:** 1173

RobLupella wrote:

I celebrated by buying one :thumbsup:

http://smu.gs/of8P2d

are you effing kidding me? another thscc c5z driver? man i SO gotta get me one of these.

Michael Westerfield · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:34 am

RobLupella wrote:

I celebrated by buying one :thumbsup:

http://smu.gs/of8P2d

Very nice Rob!

Pete Guthrie · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:50 pm

the corvette is bello. we had a chevy van.. pretty good ..and the vette. crazy fast.although i say that a STI is just as quick as that thing.i drove that vette one time.. i always have liked corvettes and camaros.alot. never was much of a mustang fan after the gt350 was done out for the later boss.

Pete Guthrie · **Posted:** Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:43 pm

also.. .fyi louis chevrolet was swiss.

Arthur McDonald · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 1:54 am **Posts:** 2052

Pete Guthrie wrote:

also.. .fyi louis chevrolet was swiss.

Details, Details! The name Chevrolet is as French as Citroën or Peugeot or Renault or Bugatti or De Dion-Bouton or Delahaye or Talbot-Lago or Delage or Facel Vega or Lorraine-Dietrich or Panhard or Simca or Avions Voisin! Except that Ettore Bugatti was born in Milan. This proves my point conclusively!

Matt McGrain · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:01 pm

Cheers to Chevy. My first car was a Chevy Sprint although it had a massive 3 cylinder, 1 liter Suzuki engine which cranked out 48 horses when new. It wasn't exactly what you'd consider a safe car for a first time driver.

Congrats on the Z06 Rob, can't wait to see it at an autocross soon!

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