by Marvina Randle

Created on: November 23, 2008

Is the Chevy Corvette overrated?

The American made Corvette has been thrilling drivers and any passenger since 1953. Built in Bowling Green, Kentucky, this sleek, low riding sports car is sure to please anyone who sits behind her steering wheel. As a teenager just learning to drive, I would dream of what it would be like to own such a beauty. The first person I knew to own one was a skydiver who drove his early 1970's royal blue Stingray Convertible around town to impress the girls, and I must say, it worked. A few years later I met someone that owned a 1964 Convertible and she referred to it as, "her baby."

As the years passed I would meet a Corvette coming down the highway and think to myself how lucky they were to have such a car, dreaming of what it would be like to own one.

About four years ago we were visiting the wheat country on the other side of our state when we notice a Corvette sitting at the edge of the field with a price painted on the windshield that read, "$5,600.00." I didn't think much about it and we went on into town for breakfast. When we had finished and I asked my husband what we were doing next he said, "Let's go back and see why that Corvette is so cheap. Maybe the side you can't see is missing." We weren't in the market for a new car and didn't have much extra cash at the time, but I went along with the idea. It was something to do.

After inspecting the body and finding it in very good condition my husband called the owner. We were not experts when it came to Corvettes but we thought the price was low and still wondered why. The owner came down, put the key into the ignition and turned it over and she roared to life. We asked why he was selling it and he said, "First I got married, then we had a baby, then I got a Corvette, then a girlfriend, then a divorce, and now I need to sell my Corvette to pay child support." He asked if we had ever owned a Corvette before and when we said no, he just smiled. He then let my husband test drive it, and as the saying goes, "the rest was history."

We were a couple thousand short but luckily we had a friend who had been saving for a new Harley and was willing to loan us the extra money we needed to buy our own piece of the American dream. We told the owner that I would come back in two days with the cash. We were soon to be the proud new owners of a 1986 Corvette, metallic midnight blue with tinted windows.

My husband had to work so I had my sister-in-law drive me back across the state to pick up my Corvette.

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