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Z51JEFF · 01-08-2017

For me the car was simply magic. I say was,I've had mine for 10 years and now it's just my car,it's my ZR-1. Back in mid to the late 80s I was on my second Corvette and read anything with a Corvette on the cover so I started hearing about the car the earliest that the public was hearing it. This car was huge,all the car magazines were printing anything they could get one it. THE CORVETTE FROM HELL-KING OF THE HILL-KING KONG,it was everywhere. It was a good 3 years after all the teasing before the car finally hit the streets. I went to a Corvette show and DAMN,there it was,my first sighting. On the very rare occasions you would actually see one on the street it could have been the most bitchin Ferrari,didn't matter,I got the same goofy feeling,and that unexplainable grin-it's a ZR-1 thing-. Fast forward to 2007 and I was in a position to buy my dream car so I looked at all the things that did it for me and the choice always came back to a ZR-1. And it's the members here that really helped out with the car I have today. From the very day the ZR-1 was produced I've always known there will be a time that this car will be compared to greatness. Even though prices are in the dirt,peope would rather have a GS,never once has anything EVER changed the way I feel about it. Our day will come,I got time😁. I want to thank you for stopping by to have a conversation with us about this craziness we,the diehards are a part of. My most memorable ZR-1 moment wasn't the first time I saw one or the time I reached out and touch the EDS 24 hour car and one of the Corvette shows. The one for me was I was at a local car get together a few years ago and I'm standing with h some friends about 20 from my my car and I see this kid,maybe 12 checkin out the car. He would walk around it then look around like he was looking for somebody then he disappeared. Well about 15 minutes later he's back doing the same thing and I finally realized he was looking for me,the owner. So I walk start talking to the kid. Blew me away. This 12 year old kid knew exactly what the car was,how it came to be,who designed the motor the whole deal. I stood there and talk to that kid for mayb 15 minutes. I think that kid will remember that car for years.

01-08-2017	#9
Z51JEFF Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Fremont, CA Posts: 3,093	Re: Assistance would be appreciated... For me the car was simply magic. I say was,I've had mine for 10 years and now it's just my car,it's my ZR-1. Back in mid to the late 80s I was on my second Corvette and read anything with a Corvette on the cover so I started hearing about the car the earliest that the public was hearing it. This car was huge,all the car magazines were printing anything they could get one it. THE CORVETTE FROM HELL-KING OF THE HILL-KING KONG,it was everywhere. It was a good 3 years after all the teasing before the car finally hit the streets. I went to a Corvette show and DAMN,there it was,my first sighting. On the very rare occasions you would actually see one on the street it could have been the most bitchin Ferrari,didn't matter,I got the same goofy feeling,and that unexplainable grin-it's a ZR-1 thing-. Fast forward to 2007 and I was in a position to buy my dream car so I looked at all the things that did it for me and the choice always came back to a ZR-1. And it's the members here that really helped out with the car I have today. From the very day the ZR-1 was produced I've always known there will be a time that this car will be compared to greatness. Even though prices are in the dirt,peope would rather have a GS,never once has anything EVER changed the way I feel about it. Our day will come,I got time😁. I want to thank you for stopping by to have a conversation with us about this craziness we,the diehards are a part of. My most memorable ZR-1 moment wasn't the first time I saw one or the time I reached out and touch the EDS 24 hour car and one of the Corvette shows. The one for me was I was at a local car get together a few years ago and I'm standing with h some friends about 20 from my my car and I see this kid,maybe 12 checkin out the car. He would walk around it then look around like he was looking for somebody then he disappeared. Well about 15 minutes later he's back doing the same thing and I finally realized he was looking for me,the owner. So I walk start talking to the kid. Blew me away. This 12 year old kid knew exactly what the car was,how it came to be,who designed the motor the whole deal. I stood there and talk to that kid for mayb 15 minutes. I think that kid will remember that car for years.