Why doesn't anyone wave?

[okieracing]

My wife and I were sure disappointed yesterday. We went to run some errands. Since it was a nice sunny day we took our vette. We had the top down as we were driving. As the day passed by we saw 5 other vettes and we waved to them all and not a one waved back. We had our top down so we know that they could see us wave. Not to hard to see someone waving out of a convertible.

I know being here in California that a lot of the people are just plain rude and a lot of the others are stuck up. We know there is no law that says they have to wave. But we figured that two people with such a unique car would have some type of bond. We found that most older men won't wave. No woman has ever waved back and younger kids are to busy trying to show off to care.

I don't know maybe my wife and I are expecting too much. We love being in the community of corvette owners. I don't think anyone has worked harder, or could be more proud, that they own a vette as much as my wife and I do.

Are we wrong for feeling this way? Does this make us too shallow? We love to wave at other corvette owners and we just figured they would love to wave back. After this message, I hope people will take the time to stop and smell the roses and wave back.

okieracing

[97moneypit]

It's about a 50/50 thing. I believe those who do wave have had some experience with corvette web sites or have done a lot of study on the history of corvettes. Then there are those who buy a vette for whatever reason and do not use the internet much or have not been interested in reading about them. They don't even know there is such a thing as "save the wave".

I still wave at every vette I pass. Today I waved twice, one guy responded one did not.

Someday we will overcome......


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[UB2 SLOW]

I see the same thing around here. I dont want to stereo type, but it seems to be allot of the younger guys with C5's and C4's.

[GreyGhost]

I'm an old guy in a C5 convertible....passed five other vettes...no waves!? Maybe I'm not pretty enough.

[yellow_2002_germany]

I wave if I am able to and it is safe. I have received my share of "What the heck are you waving at me for" looks too.

[DRTH VTR]

Perhaps there is a regional component, too. I live in Boise, Idaho and almost everyone waves or waves back.

[C V Man]

I wave!!!
And I even had a C5 guy wave back the other day!

WoW! Around here, the C5s are 1 in 10 will wave...
(It might be the same guy)
The C4s are 1 out of 3...
And all the C3s wave!

C V Man

[bbw]

As with motorcycling, waving to comrades is fun. However, with some Corvettes, it is difficult to do so. Without the express-down power window feature, and with popup headlamps, to get a hand out the window or the headlights to blink in the amount of time two oncoming vettes can still see each other is not easy! Any suggestions?

[Hexmate]

I live in Michigan and the wave is alive and well. However my wife and I speculate that people who have owned a Vette before or for a long time know about the wave and do it. Those who are new owners may not be aware of the wave yet although after it happens to them a few times they get it. Those who have borrowed a Vette are certainly clueless and sometimes people get busy doing something else and just don't see the other Vette. Keep waving or show the "V" for Vette, victory, and peace.:s

[Oldgeezer]

Don't be discouraged. I wave at other corvette drivers here in Juneau. There are a lot of Corvettes here for a small town. Some wave back, some don't. I believe some people are just ignorant of the Wave. Keep the faith and save the wave.:pat :w

[Vanity Plate Bob]

Peoplles the one millionith Vette was built in 93-94 + 10 more years of them. This is a lot of Vettes. Law of average says many drivers are unaware of the wave. Some could care less. I'm sure some of the ladies wont wave because of the fact of being chased to their destination. Just because ''we'' are nice doesn't mean all Vette drivers are.
Just blabbing. Wave.

[GS Diva]

I used to hear that it was mostly C5 owners/drivers who don't wave but now that we have one, I can assure you that this ol' C4 and C3 babe will continue to wave to any and all Corvettes!! If I can't get my hand out the window, you can be sure the oncoming Vette will see my hand lift off the top of the steering wheel to acknowledge him/her!!!

Elaine

[Chas]

i wave at all of them....it seems most wave back....it also seems to me that the older guys (like myself) that are c-5 seem to have a greater appreaciation for the older c-2's and c-3's ..... my wife gets a kick out of it when i get to chat with another driver .....it reminds her of when two brothers who havent seen each other in a while.....from the eyes to the admiration for each others vette's....dont stop waving.....the ones who dont , dont under stand.

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[Lucy64]

I ALWAYS wave. I do agree that the younger C4 and C5 drivers rarely wave. I figure in my case most of the younger drivers don't seem to even know that my 64 is a Vette. I agree with the C V Man on the numbers of C4 and C5 drivers that do wave. The C1-C3 drivers ALWAYS wave. I guess we just have to educate the younger guys.

[Chas]

Originally posted by yellow_2002_germany
I wave if I am able to and it is safe. I have received my share of "What the heck are you waving at me for" looks too.

heres one for you randy :w ....

Thanks for keeping this the greatest country on the face of the earth!

"Freedom has a taste the protected shall never know":pat

[78SilvAnniv]

If the driver waves back, it is a bonus!
Anyway, I'm still acknowledging the vette, even if the vette driver doesn't know what I'm doing.
Heidi

[Roadster Fan]

in and around the Motor City. Hexmate notices it too. I bet between 2/3 and 3/4 wave back or wave first at me.
Reminds me of a :w story from last summer. Tammy and I were out for a cruise on some back roads. A gentleman was walking back from his mailbox and waved as we went by. I naturally waved back and Tammy asked who he was. I no sooner got the words "beats me" out when I see a C4 nose poking out beside a truck in his garage. They even wave around here when they're not even in their vette. :L We both got a kick out of that one.

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Brett

[TODD L GRIFFITH]

Everyone that owns a Vette has experienced this. I don't feel upset if someone doesn't wave back anymore. I figure that if they don't wave back, they just don't get it. I always wave, no matter what year, or condition their car is in, it is still a Corvette. For wavers like us, the Corvette means alot more than just going fast, or looking cool. (although, we can except that fact!) It is something that started with us, well before we even owned one. I was eight years old, and a 70' yellow stingray caught my eye. Everyday I would walk by this car, and drool. It was the most beautiful car I had ever seen. The guy who owned it was probably getting sick of wiping my nose prints off his window.

[C V Man]

Ok guys,

Just think about how rediculous this is!

I ride a motorcycle (biker's wave at each other)
I have 2 VW Beetles (Bug people wave at each other)
And of course, I have a Vette.

It's confusing sometimes who I'm supposed to wave at and when!
I'll see a VW and think to wave, only to realize I'm in the Vette!


C V Man

[warren s]

Sometimes I forget I am in my Bonneville, and i wave at other drivers in Vettes, more times than not they wave back.

[Patti]

I always wave. Maybe the people you waved at okieracing, were so busy admiring your vette, they didn't notice your wave.
Some vette owners may not understand the wave, and maybe don't wave back also, because they think you have them confused with someone else.

:w <-------------Here's another wave to you and your wife
Patti

[FourAndAHalf]

I know being here in California that a lot of the people are just plain rude and a lot of the others are stuck up. We know there is no law that says they have to wave. But we figured that two people with such a unique car would have some type of bond. We found that most older men won't wave. No woman has ever waved back and younger kids are to busy trying to show off to care.


I'm a kid and i wave

[maxm]

...In sweden we have aprox. 3000 vettes. In my hometown we are 2. To meet a vette on some higway is a rare thing.
Max

[Villain]

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[C V Man]

Now we have to wave back or WE'LL be the ones that don't wave!

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C V Man

[Mr.Cool]

I have Save The Wave printed across my windshield and I still get less than a 50% responce. I'm wondering if most people just don't see you. The first day I had the Save The wave on my windshield we went for a drive. At the first red light we came to I directed my attention to the radio. A C4 drove past my wife said both driver and passenger waved but of course I missed it.

[tankman]

Hexmate, I agree.
Around the Detroit area, a place known for its rude drivers, I get waves all the time. It's really a cool thing. I even wave to the vette drivers when I'm in my pickup.
Heidi. . .I'd wave to you no matter what you're driving :-)

[97moneypit]

It's quite different riding in a car and waving versus riding my Harley. Even though the Corvette is distinctive in shape, it's harder to pick out a corvette mixed in with a group of other cars than it is to spot another motorcycle coming towards me.

And unlike a motorcycle, there are other things in a car that can take your attention just at the time someone in another car is passing. I have missed plenty opportunities to wave only because I had my focus on other traffic in front or behind me, the radio, or another person riding with me.
I won't mention my cell phone....

Maybe another 'vette option should be an early warning "Corvette Detection Radar" that will alert you to another oncoming 'vette before it passes you.
Then maybe we will never miss an opportunity to save the wave.

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[kingman]

Back in the sixties every vette owner would wave to each other, but in the early days there weren't many vettes.
We did this also to acknowledge that everything was ok.

l remember once l had to pull over for a quck pit stop off a hwy and before l knew it, there were three vettes parked behind mine to see if everything was ok.

Now that was quite a shock when l came out of the bushes.

[Tomrw]

I agree it's a 50/50 thing. Keep waving, it will catch on.
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[Smokehouse69]

I got a BIG WAVE TODAY!! It was a beautiful day in South Texas today, and I was out cruisin' in my 69 roadster, when I looked to the left and saw another old white haired phart in Red C-2 roadster waving and grinning! I waved back with as much enthusiasm as my arthritic shoulder would allow.
Five minutes later I got another wave from a C-5! It was a good day!

[Tifton81]

Wow!!! I owned my first vette four years ago, a 1977 T-top. Although it wasn't a looker, I enjoyed driving it and sharing the wave. I can't count the times I have waved only to be passed by other corvette owners looking the other way. I had the vette out just last Saturday (nice day about 73 temp) with the tops off, pulled into the local Sonic Drive In to grab a shake, pulled in next to another corvette (1994) and shut the engine down. I looked over and waved at the couple and they just ignored me. It was if I had some terrible C-3 disease......Hey guys and gals, if you own a vette, you are in the vette family. If you can afford to own a new C-5 or classic 59 worth over $100,000.00 great but some of us can't and we buy what we can. Personally even if I had the money, I would own a C-3. Just my opinion. Wave.......:w

[barjo]

My wife and I always wave,and most people in Mass/NH wave.Right now the car is in storage,and it would be hard to wave over the snowbanks anyway.
P.s The Wife says people in cars from 99 up,don't seem to wave and need to be educated about the wave. Golfy

[bowtie911]

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[sigshooter]

i have the same problem as cv man. my other car's a jeep and jeep people wave too. it can get pretty confusing sometimes...but i always wave...just gotta hope i'm in the right vehicle.:duh :duh :duh

[vetahlk]

Maybe Chevrolet should have a manditory corvette school where they teach the wave before you can own a vette.:cool :cool :cool
John:w

[Tifton81]

I believe John is on to something....corvette school "101".:w

[MsSchroder]

Nobody told me about the wave, although on my drive home from the dealer I got a big wave from a guy in a C3 with the top down (and yeah, I was driving slow and I had the wits to wave back!). If there was any doubt before, it was removed at that moment. That was when I knew for sure this corvette thing was very, very cool indeed :cool
If I hadn't found the CAC I still probably would not have figured out the wave.
My unscientific survey: C4s are the least likely to wave.
I wave at all vettes if I'm able :w

[dens56]

I have found that C-5 people are less apt to wave. C-1-2-3 always wave and the C-4 seem to wave most of the time. But C-5:( . My theory (as unofficial as it is) a lot of C-5 owners may be first time Corvette owners and aren't familiar with the wave, where as those of us that have been around Corvettes most of our lives know that there has been a "rule" in effect for years that Corvette owners wave at each other. When I drive the 64 Corvette, I get waves from other Corvettes, when I drive the 98 Corvette I get looks;shrug when I wave but rarely do I get return waves. I agree that Chevrolet should require Corvette owners to attend a briefing that would explain to first time owners when another Corvette owner waves, they really should do the same.
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[Tripleblack51]

We need to understand that a lot of people that have C5s are not enthusiasts...many have leased the car just because they like it. To them, it's just a sports car and status symbol like any other high-line car.
They don't know or don't care to know about the car's heritage or understand our love for it. :v
It doesn't make them bad people..just not enthusiasts....or friendly.

I don't believe that you can nail it down to one specific generation's owners as being non-wavers.

C5's may be more prominent in some people's eye's because depending on where you live they are what you see most.

I've had all generations wave at me and snub me.

Adding to this, let's face it, some people are just not friendly either. They wouldn't wave if their life depended on it.
Too bad, their loss.

Hey, no matter what you're driving, what does it hurt to wave back at someone? Are we just too damn busy to be friendly?


Ok...I'm out of material..

Keep wavin! :w

[bbw]

I mentioned earlier in this thread that sometimes it is difficult to wave, even if the intent in there. There were many times that I just could not get my hand out in time (I hope it was none of you waving! ;)). I'd hate to think that they thought I snubbed them, because that just wasn't the case!

[Gaming Glen]

Like bbw, sometimes I miss a wave (we went by too fast, I had my attention elsewhere before realizing a 'vette went by) and feel guilty. But I get over it. oh yeah, before I forget...


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I didn't know about the wave for 6 months after getting my GS. I got waves on my road trip which confused me, but I was starting to get an inkling. I talked to another 'vette owner at a stop to ask about preferred waxes and he told me about the wave. I've been waving ever since, and don't fret it much if they don't wave back.

Waving Glen

[Radar]

I always wave!

Radar :w :beer

[Denney]

Hmmm, I always wave regardless of which vette I am in. Probably get a return wave from about 80+% from others. Unfortunately the newer the vette, the less likely they will wave back (usually because they are 1st time owners and don't know the heritage). Keep waving anyway!:w

[justafamilyman]

Hi Members, Lurkers, and Others who stumble accross this site,
One of the funnier things that happened when I picked up by Vette was one sales rep asked if I would wave. I said I had to since there was a federal law that all Vette drivers had to wave when another Vette was encountered. A second sales rep looked suprised asking if there was a real law. This was too good, but I had to fess up. The look on the second rep's face was too good.
I try to wave when seeing another vette. I am, however, still a "neophyte" in driving a Vette. I am too worried in driving and not paying attention to types of other cars around me. With more practice, the better I'll be to wave. So, if you are in the central New York area, don't forget to wave. I will do my best to reciprocate. I am also very happy to talk Vettes if we meet in a parking lot.
Oh, By the way, this is not a flame, but a Vette is a Vette is a Vette. Each one is a very special car. If one is to own a Vette, one should be required to learn about the history of the Vette, the mannerisms (ie the wave), and demener of Vette ownership. Before I purchased my C5, I went to web sites like this to read up on the Corvette and owners. Although I do not know any one personally, I feel I am part of a club, a club which has a very high initiation fee. My education started in 2000 when I decided to buy a 2003. I will be glad to offer myself as a visiting professor to teach "Vette 101".

[Vanity Plate Bob]

A very sincere man said, just yesterday, "if I am driving and a naked blond was off to the side I would not see her". Well not in those exact words but he was trying to make a point. I keep my eyes focused front, on driving.
Maybe if a naked Vette were there he would notice. he he
He drives a Bu or Olds.
I feel sure there are people who do not take their hands of the steering wheel once the car is in motion. There is a local lady whom I feel safe in writing that if the sun is shining today and is supposed to snow a week from now she wont take her car out. And it is not even a Vette. Some little new pregnant roller skate type.

[Daryllawman]

Here in Tennessee, they usually Wave........I went up to Bowling Green a few weeks ago....It is not very far from here. Everywhere you went there , the wave was there.....alot of Vetts...... :w

[hotshotzny]

ya know, there are 5 brand new C6's in my town right now all owned by old farts (my father being one of them) and none of the wave... i passed the newest edition on the road the other day about 6 times and hasnt lifted a finger... yet i get passed by any other classic cars and they wave and give the thumbs up.... whats with these old guys.... i remember when i was a kid people would flash thier lights when you came upon a car like yours heading in the opposite direction

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[Bobsvette]

With the way thing's are in the world today In my opinion Respect in our society is in the toilet and It's slowly spreading. Remember how it was for a couple of week's after 9/11 ? Look at it now. Think about it! ;squint:

[leftyvette]

I flash my lights when I approach another Vette. Rarely do they flash back and/or wave! I rode motorcycles for a few decades and the vast majority of motorcyclist wave. It is a shame that the Vette world has lost this tradition. Save the Wave!!! :w

[DRKNT57]

I am a fairly new C5 owner(purchased in April 08), I am 50, and I learned about the wave by experiencing it. I had always seen how the motorcycle riders, especially the HD crowd waved as they passed each other. I thought it was great to see the bond between people who otherwise might not ever speak.

Once I noticed the Vette crowd did the same I felt an immediate sense of belonging to a huge family :beer. We have enough junk in this great country of ours that divide us from each other :pat.

SAVE THE WAVE :w

[hotshotzny]

With the way thing's are in the world today In my opinion Respect in our society is in the toilet and It's slowly spreading. Remember how it was for a couple of week's after 9/11 ? Look at it now. Think about it! ;squint:


its true, you couldnt find a nicer place to live than a post 9/11 usa, everyone was polite and kind to one another, every house had a flag flying, the gas station attendants & cab rivers werent rude to every one... within weeks everyone was back to being an @*%hole

GOD BLESS AMERICA

[eylesda]

I am a fairly new C5 owner(purchased in April 08), I am 50, and I learned about the wave by experiencing it. I had always seen how the motorcycle riders, especially the HD crowd waved as they passed each other. I thought it was great to see the bond between people who otherwise might not ever speak.

Once I noticed the Vette crowd did the same I felt an immediate sense of belonging to a huge family :beer. We have enough junk in this great country of ours that divide us from each other :pat.

SAVE THE WAVE :w

Hey, I'm the same age and I wave at anyone with a cool car, Vette, Porsche, Ferrari, Lambo, juiced Merc or Beemer, Beetle whatever.. and guess what? Without exception they wave back! I've spent many an hour in supermarket parking lots talking cars, I've also had my share of defrosted meat and spoilt milk as a result!
It's just the mutual respect for fine cars whatever the age of the driver.

[ScottNoxid]

I'm an old guy in a C5 convertible....passed five other vettes...no waves!? Maybe I'm not pretty enough.
Jay, you have to be passing them from front to rear, not from rear to front!!!!!

[RVN]

I am a fairly new C5 owner(purchased in April 08), I am 50, and I learned about the wave by experiencing it. I had always seen how the motorcycle riders, especially the HD crowd waved as they passed each other. I thought it was great to see the bond between people who otherwise might not ever speak.

Once I noticed the Vette crowd did the same I felt an immediate sense of belonging to a huge family :beer. We have enough junk in this great country of ours that divide us from each other :pat.

SAVE THE WAVE :w

Hey! I'm 50 in a month and bought my first vette June 2007. Initially, I found alot of wave. I waved at a particular C3 and a C4 awhile back and they looked surprised to have been waved at and they happily reciprocated. After a year, overall my observance is that it's a 50/50 proposition here in my part of Houston, TX.

With the way thing's are in the world today In my opinion Respect in our society is in the toilet and It's slowly spreading. Remember how it was for a couple of week's after 9/11 ? Look at it now. Think about it! ;squint:
its true, you couldnt find a nicer place to live than a post 9/11 usa, everyone was polite and kind to one another, every house had a flag flying, the gas station attendants & cab rivers werent rude to every one... within weeks everyone was back to being an @*%hole

GOD BLESS AMERICA

I liked the peace and quiet of zero commercial air traffic for two days!

Hey, I'm the same age and I wave at anyone with a cool car, Vette, Porsche, Ferrari, Lambo, juiced Merc or Beemer, Beetle whatever.. and guess what? Without exception they wave back! I've spent many an hour in supermarket parking lots talking cars, I've also had my share of defrosted meat and spoilt milk as a result!
It's just the mutual respect for fine cars whatever the age of the driver.

Sounds pretty relaxed in Bahrain. Here in the metro areas people are sons of *expletive deletives*, everyone is so *expletive deletive* important that they feel they can scratch, bite and spit to be the first to get to wherever they're going ...let alone wave.

I'm an old guy in a C5 convertible....passed five other vettes...no waves!? Maybe I'm not pretty enough.

Jay, you have to be passing them from front to rear, not from rear to front!!!!!

But, sometimes we are going to fast!


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[Dream Ride]

Just my two cents and I hate to say it, but I'm not up on the 4 & 5 Vettes. What I'm even less up on is how to recognize them coming towards me. By the time I figure out if it's a Vette, Camaro or whatever it's too late. I have started paying more attention so I can recognize them but until then I just drive down the road waving to every body. Hell I'm in a Vette, I'm a naturally happy guy. Of course everyone else sees me as that crazy old dude in the Corvette, too much sun. LOL (oh yeah, just kidding about the waving thing)

[danc5]

lesson on waving learned the hard way back in the stone ages of my inexperienced adolesence... Never open your window and stick your arm out to wave at 120mph unless you want a very painful lesson on Newton's laws of motion. LOL.

I wave or give a thumbs up to any really cool car or bike and it is around a 50/50 proposition on reciprocation. With vettes I find more older vettes wave than the new ( C6 ) ones. I've ridden motorcycles for 35 years and bikers acknowledge each other almost always.

The difference I think is that those of us who truly love our vehicles and are genuinely happy and friendly people will wave. Unfortunately the world seems to be overpopulated with egotistical a-holes who dont think anyone but themselves are worth even the time of day. Unfortunately that trend is growing.

[Danger731]

Just my two cents and I hate to say it, but I'm not up on the 4 & 5 Vettes. What I'm even less up on is how to recognize them coming towards me. By the time I figure out if it's a Vette, Camaro or whatever it's too late. I have started paying more attention so I can recognize them but until then I just drive down the road waving to every body. Hell I'm in a Vette, I'm a naturally happy guy. Of course everyone else sees me as that crazy old dude in the Corvette, too much sun. LOL (oh yeah, just kidding about the waving thing)

Man I can spot a C1,2,3,4,5,6 vette from a distance along with F bodies, since I've owned 3 since 1995.

Funny thing, My wife was driving my car today and she said " some guy in another vette waved at me !" I said "did you wave back" she said yes lol
I said "it's a vette thing".

[zagger]

I've been reading this thread for a while now and started to pay more attention as to who waves and who don't. I found that about 90% of C1 to 4 owners will wave, only about 50% of the C5 answer the wave and less than 20% of the C6 category ever respond to the wave. It seams that owners of older cars are there for the love of the car appreciating the heritage of a Corvette and the brand new (C6) owners are only there for the status and are to good for the guy with an older car. As for me I'll keep on waving and when chance arises I school the newbies on the wave.:w

[hotshotzny]

like it was said before, i wave to every cool car that passes me on the road.... if they wave back cool... if they dont :finger ill wave again next time we pass...eventually they will get the point and wave back!

i passed a slk amg a lotus and a aston martin db9 on the road the other day and even those rich bastids waved when i met up with them later on at a weekly car show they were checkin out MY car ...can you imagine.... the guy witht he db9 is cool as hell, has that, a m5, a carrera gt and a h3 (lives about 3 miles from me and i never even realized he had such a fleet) also has a 10 year old f150..guess what he drives the most....

[Patrick]

I've been reading this thread for a while now and started to pay more attention as to who waves and who don't. I found that about 90% of C1 to 4 owners will wave, only about 50% of the C5 answer the wave and less than 20% of the C6 category ever respond to the wave. It seams that owners of older cars are there for the love of the car appreciating the heritage of a Corvette and the brand new (C6) owners are only there for the status and are to good for the guy with an older car. As for me I'll keep on waving and when chance arises I school the newbies on the wave.:w

I have a C6, and wave at every Corvette I encounter on the road. A couple of weeks ago, a fellow C6 owner, who spotted me before I spotted him, not only waved but flashed his headlights. And it was a twin: black C6 Convertible. I, of course, enthusiastically responded in kind.
:)

The truism I've observed is that the newer the Corvette, the more it is a trophy of "I've made it" status, not a passion for the car cultivated since one was old enough to appreciate cars and fall in love with America's Sports Car.

A sad truism, I grant you. But a truism nonetheless.

-Patrick

[Danger731]

maybe right, I'll have to verify with my own study

[Dad]

IThe truism I've observed is that the newer the Corvette, the more it is a trophy of "I've made it" status, not a passion for the car cultivated since one was old enough to appreciate cars and fall in love with America's Sports Car.

A sad truism, I grant you. But a truism nonetheless.

-Patrick

Same truism I've heard on all six generations I've owned and driven. :boogie

[chevy6673]

well my 2 cents people with newer vettes dont wave much ..could it be people that work on there old vettes wave ..people that buy them just 2 say they have one dont ..

[ScottNoxid]

well my 2 cents people with newer vettes dont wave much ..could it be people that work on there old vettes wave ..people that buy them just 2 say they have one dont ..

I guess that must be the difference between Northern IL, and Southern IL. These folks down here wave at you no matter what you are http://www.corvetteactioncenter.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=14859&d=1194497416driving!:upthumbs:w:thumb:w:w:w:w:w:w

[Red Vette]

I sometimes wonder if we "miss the wave". With the window down or the top down (convertible) or off (coupe), it is easy to wave and see a wave. But in the enclosed cabin with the tinted windows, you may miss the return wave or the other driver may miss your wave. I began waving at other vettes in 1960 and have continued to do so, but I may miss a corvette or two if I am keeping my eyes glued to the road, or am distracted and miss the corvette altogether. I am not upset when I don't get a returned salute when the other corvette is closed up (top up and windows closed) and I hope the other corvette drivers don't feel slighted if I don't return a wave or they can't see the return wave. I do feel somewhat slighted when a driver in an open corvette does not wave.
Save the wave.
Barrett

[leftyvette]

Excellent, point well taken!! :thumb

[ROCKETBLOCK]

I always WAVE or FLASH my Piaa Driving Lights!

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Here's a few extras for any that you didn't get!

Some sports cars may get a wave with fewer fingers! :boogie

[BigMike5]

I wave when I see another Vette if the safety of doing so will allow. I wave thru the windshield area. I agree that most of the time this is with the windows up and I never take out the roof piece of my coupe so I may not be seen since I have heavy tinting everywhere it is legal and then some. Never have blinked headlights since I have the fold down kind and I'd be gone before they could react as I do mostly cruising at 65+ in the Vette on I-65.

[oceangal]

Luckily little kids always wave so it helps soften the blow when a vette doesn't. :-)

Maybe GM could put something in their brochure about the wave to help carry on the tradition. :w

It does make you feel like a member of a really cool family when you get a wave back.

[joelgjoel]

I'm installing a wolf whistle so my Vette can show her appreciation to other cool cars, mostly Vettes.

[hotshotzny]

:DI'm installing a wolf whistle so my Vette can show her appreciation to other cool cars, mostly Vettes.

i was tossed between tha and an ooga horn:D

[randomize27]

This may sound lame; but I get their attention and point to the Corvette emblem on my hat, then wave. If it's a C4, C5 or C6, I change to the hat with the appropriate emblem. (I keep the ones I'm not wearing in my truck with my work hats.)

[Dream Ride]

This may sound lame; but I get their attention and point to the Corvette emblem on my hat, then wave. If it's a C4, C5 or C6, I change to the hat with the appropriate emblem. (I keep the ones I'm not wearing in my truck with my work hats.)
Dude, you're like the Flash to be able to do all that driving down the road. Especially with the spare hats in the trunk.

[randomize27]

What? Not that hard.

1-spot Corvette in rear view mirror.
2-Observe generation.
3-Glance at hats - C6 = blue, C5=black/no net, C4=red.
4-Switch hat if needed.
5-Let Corvette pass.
6-Driver or lucky passenger looking?
7-Point to hat, wave.
8-Admire Corvette now in front of me & try to keep up.

Only a problem if several generations are in convoy. Then I just go for my Corvette Racing hat.

[Dream Ride]

^^^^^^^:upthumbs