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Old 09-06-2005, 03:49 PM
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I'm looking for a 97+ C5 for around blue book since Blue book is around 15k!? Is that number a mistake?

I turned 18 a couple weeks ago and if I find a decent job I'd really like to get one. I know some 18-20 year olds with cobras, etc and of course my fox body with a stripped interior and obnoxious exhaust is getting old pretty quickly
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I bought my Z06 when I was 33.If I had a car like that when I was 18 I would have wrecked it.
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I don't have one but my buddy's little bro got his ('99 C5) at 17. But he has been through Bondurant driving school and is a better driver than I am.
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Originally Posted by KCFormula
I don't have one but my buddy's little bro got his ('99 C5) at 17. But he has been through Bondurant driving school and is a better driver than I am.
lucky bastage..
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I had my SS at 17.
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i had my z28 at 17
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I Bought My 5.0 When I Was 18. My 96 Z28 When I Was 20. My Cts-v When I Was 27
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Bought my '66 big block in 1971 when I was 19 for 3300.00.
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When I was 22 I bought my 72 Stingray Red/black interior. I miss that car.

I got the ZO6 2 months ago. I'm now 34.
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Trans am 16
Camaro ss conv. 19
and now my vette at age 20
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Bought my 01 when I was 40.
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02 z28 at 42
04 C5 at 43
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Trans Am when I was 30. Vette at 35.

I was lucky to be able to drive Vettes when I was 21. And, yep, I totalled one of them. Your insurance will probably cost you more than the car. I would recommend getting an insurance quote before you go looking.
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Cycles for me:

69 Camaro at 15
69 Camaro at 30
69 Camaro at 32

98 Formula at 26
98 Formula at 32

First Corvette at 32, I'm sure I will buy more later.
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This one at 64, paid cash, at my age I won't buy green bananas. good luck finding a 97 for 15k.I just had my 98 appraised, and because of the low mileage, private party value was 23k, oh , and its not for sale at that price or any other for that matter, I plan to be buried in that car...Actually my grandson wants it, but he will have to kill his father to get it.
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vette at 17(graduation present), currently 19
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Bought my 71 at 20, which is now gone thanks to Katrina. My Z06 I got this year at 25.
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Dreamed since I was 16, and bought my z06 last year when I was 27
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16- '90 Trans-am
17- '93 Z28
18- 1999 WS6
19- 2001 WS6 (my first new car)
22- 2002 Z06
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Bought my C6 at age 70. If I would have had this car when I was a teenager, I would have killed myself.


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