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View Poll Results: What's the proper road etiquette when passing another Z06?
Just a simple wave 124 87.32%
Thumbs up 10 7.04%
Point and nod 6 4.23%
Nothing, just keep driving 2 1.41%
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Old 05-15-2008, 11:41 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Re: What's the standard greeting/acknowledgement when seeing another z on the road?

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... if traveling the same way i do the wave then the thumbs up followed by a 2nd or 3rd gear pull depending the circumstance ex. highway or city

i do the same exact thing!, but i drive something else its a bmw.. but a dang cool bmw not like those modern wussie cars they have now.


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Old 05-19-2008, 09:58 AM   #32 (permalink)
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I wave to all vette but if they see me and do not wave back then I give them a different kind of salute...
Yes exactly! Only I use Pitt's technique of driving with my knee so I can flip them off with BOTH hands. I think people who don't wave back, imagine that their Corvette somehow makes them better than every one else. This attitude is more commonly known as "small penis syndrome."
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Old 05-20-2008, 05:08 PM   #33 (permalink)
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...technique of driving with my knee so I can flip them off with BOTH hands.
See? There's your problem right there. I wouldn't bother to even acknowledge a Z owner who's so lax about the care of their car that they don't have it aligned so that it'd pretty much drive itself. What's with the "knee" thing? I mean, doesn't your car track straight enough you could put both feet up on the dashboard, too? Mine sure does.

But of course, letting go of the wheel means I can't swerve in to the lane of the oncoming Corvette. And seeing as how that swerve thing *is* my own personal "signature" greeting, if we ever meet you'll just have to trust me that if I wanted to, instead of swerving in to your lane, I *could* just as easily put both feet up on the dash while simultaneously giving you a two-fisted bird, and the car would drive itself!

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Old 05-20-2008, 09:55 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Amazing Rocketsled, simply amazing....

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Old 05-21-2008, 07:47 AM   #35 (permalink)
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Always start with the wave. That goes for any Vette but if it's a Z06 I'll try to throw a Thumbs Up too.
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Old 05-21-2008, 08:22 AM   #36 (permalink)
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I told my girlfriend she has to flash me every time we pass a Corvette. Does that count?
I will try this
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Old 05-27-2008, 07:29 PM   #37 (permalink)
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I'm bringing back the peace sign for all the vette owner I see. I usually get the thumbs up from others.
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Old 06-08-2008, 11:25 AM   #38 (permalink)
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If its a C6 Zo6 then i give them a very pained expression that might be construed as jealousy followed by a reluctant thumbs up.

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Old 06-13-2008, 10:07 PM   #39 (permalink)
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I always make sure to wave. There are a few corvettes here in town and I am sure to wave at them when I see them. None of them are Z's though. I voted for the simple wave.
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Old 06-23-2008, 04:24 PM   #40 (permalink)
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I'm sticking with the wave and the look like I've never seen a Z06 even though I'm driving one!!
How funny is that?! I slip into a trance every time I see one and probably have the same look on my face, but don't know it.

Every time I see another Z I eyeball the thing like I have never seen one before "even though I'm driving one!!"
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Old 06-23-2008, 04:29 PM   #41 (permalink)
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Almost forgot...

I usually waive, give the thunbs up or both. Sometimes I stop dead in my tracks and light em up like there's no tomorrow.

OK...maybe not that last thing, but I would if asked
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I always wave and give them a blip of my 3'' straight pipes
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Old 07-11-2008, 08:57 PM   #43 (permalink)
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Around here it is a wave.
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I flash my lights to say HI, along with a hand wave.
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Old 07-16-2008, 02:58 PM   #45 (permalink)
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I like that gesture that the Italians use to say that you have been cuckolded.
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