Congratulations, Mr. WarShrike, on COTD! I would like to gift you with a Mercedes which this lovely lady will deliver soon. Fa la la la la. La la la laaa.

The only reference I found (before I made my first post, BTW) to fiscal benevolence from relatives was him borrowing $500 when he got back from the Navy to start his first business. Admittedly, I don’t know if he ever paid it back.

COMMIT ALL THE CRIMES

fucking police state bullshit - trying to steal someone’s money and/or freedom when they are down and out. nobody was hurt and no property was damaged (aside from the car, obviously)

She would have worn you out, wrung you out and traded you in for a younger model, leaving you with a lifelong (after rehab and rest) obsession with retirement villages!

That is the happiest story I have ever read! This is how people should relate to their cars.

You know, this deserves its very own Jalopnik article. But we’ll probably get something about the new Honda or why Crossovers aren’t neat.

As a courilary: my dad owns a 1966 C2, which he bought second hand from an F-4 phantom pilot in 1969 (it still has a set of Navy pilot wings on the dash, and an F-4 patch decal on one of the windows).

Counterpoint: I’m racing mine this weekend.

Reminds me of another random encounter, around the same time. On my way to work (at that same job) I saw an old lady in about her 70's. She was driving an ‘00, 01' ish Trans-Am WS6. T-top, 6 speed, blasting metal (I forget what song now). She looked like she was having the time of her life. I wanted to turn around and…

Way back when, I worked at a grocery store. We had a greeter who was your typical 80-something year old retiree. He drove a Z06 convertible every day. Even the dead of winter. One day when we got over a foot of snow, I saw him drive that damn Z06 like it was the middle of summer. Still makes me smile to this day.

It’s the last of the big-cube V8s, so it’ll always be special for that.

If not for the new Grand Sport, this would be the best Corvette ever.

I wouldn’t discredit yourself just for your relative height or size. I’m a good 5'7" dry and I fit in my C5 in not the most hilariously old-man way. Granted my driver’s seat is moved up PRETTY far but I still manage to not look completely ridiculous in it. I’m also right before mid-life crisis so I don’t necessarily…

And on top of everything else, Vettes may be expensive, but they’re not oh-my-god-you’ve-got-to-be-effing-kidding-me! expensive. Seriously, you stack up the Vettes’ performance numbers versus supercars and hypercars from Europe and Japan, the Corvettes are serious bang for the buck. And like you point out, for a…

Don’t forget about the Grand Sport!

If you’re worrying about hitting the apexes and are flummoxed by shifting, you’re doing it wrong. Corners aren’t where you should be doing your shifting... get that done before or after, and the before part is where heel-toe downshifting and having a motor that will live at high RPMs comes into play.

A pro driver could hit brake points and apexes better than you. You should probably just hire someone and sit in back.

But if you’re worrying about hitting the apexes, a self-driving car could do that better than you could! Seems like that may be the option.

Maybe you weren’t shifting right, every think of that?