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Originally Posted by HAWAIIZR-1
So well said Bob! So happy to see you’re here for life despite selling your C4 Zs. I loved my 90, but so happy to have a 95 now. There are some lifetime friendships made here for sure.
I’ve been meaning to ask your experience about the C7 community and if you’ve found similar love, passion, and friendships like this community? I only know the ZR-1 Net and Registry since Mom (Dave Bright) welcomed me with open arms in 2003 and I’ve been glued and obsessed since. I feel like the C4 ZR-1 has a special following and family, but I could be wrong. By the way, I’m still hoping you buy another ZR-1. [emoji1317]🤙🏼
Craig
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Thanks Craig--
The C4 ZR-1 group is special in ways that the other forums I haunt are not (several Corvette and BMW forums). I think this is related to several factors. First, The group is relatively small, as befitting the relatively small production run of C4 ZR-1. Second, there is a passion related to the engineering of the LT5 engine that not everyone has for other cars. Third, we have been around ZR-1s for along time--many of us joined Larry Merow's ZR-1 Registry in the early '90s, and certainly the ZR1 Net Registry in the early 2000s, and many of us have been going to annual "Gatherings", first at Bloomington then the NCM, since the early '90s. Fourth I think it is special that the group includes so many specialists and experts in all or some things ZR-1. Graham Behan still participates, March Haibeck too, Brett Henderson, Hib Halverson, the FBI and Wazoo groups, and many others. Corey Henderson, Bill Boudreau, Dave McLellan and Dave Bright also, not so much on the forum, but in the community and often at Gatherings or other events. I am proud to be part of this group and glad you haven't kicked me out for getting one of them new-fangled supercharged Corvettes...
As to the other Corvette groups or forums, I do enjoy participating in the forums, but there isn't really a club like ours, other than on a more local level. BMW does have a large and active national group, although I don't participate in it like I do here. While I have good on line relationships with a number of Z06 folks, I have not yet gone to one of their national annual gatherings. I would hope to next year perhaps; they hold it in April. It would be nice to meet with some of them face to face. I did get to do that once with a few at a smaller get together we did at the Air Force museum in Dayton Ohio a couple years ago.
As for buying another ZR-1, well I am afraid I would have to buy a new wife first. I regularly threaten to take her down to CarMax for an appraisal and possible trade in but she isn't too keen on that idea. As she points out, at this stage she is probably fully depreciated--as am I, of course.... --Bob