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This C2 Corvette Stingray Is A Sacred Monster
Dear Maxwell. Before my C2 1966 I owned a Ferrari F355 GTS which is known as one of Ferrari postmodern technically versed sportscar. In my opinion the C2 as an older car of course doesn’t have all the technical gimmicks and performance. But one thing I will never miss again: and that’s what this video also expresses: it’s the emotion driving such sixties classics. The look and feel, the smell of carburetor and the (of course a matter of individual taste) the noises
The comment has been made above but I felt compelled to repeat it. 🙂 This car is on Belgian plates so the wonderful comments about France above were actually about our little wonderfull hell hole Belgium 🙂 We love our old cars here, come and find out! Great video indeed, elle nous fait rêver et fait ensorte que la passion continuera malgré l’eco politique qui vise à tort les classics. Belle réussite!
I don’t usually care for American muscle cars and often skip videos about them but… I just watched this one and this is the best story I have seen so far on Petrolicious. The emotions of the man, the descriptions of time and place, everything. Beautiful.
If I should need to explain to someone what cars like this mean to me, I wouldn’t say anything, I’ll just send them this video, it says it all.
If I had to write a comment, it would be such as yours, and thanks for the opinion. I would like to add that NSU had such an impressive engineers, which have helped Felix Wankel to develop his rotary engine, and otherwise the car offered some extra technical details; the conclusion is that the Manufacturer have probably been too much in front of it’s time, but was not so skillful to optimize them for such a market.
To Ferrmaniac,
Sorry but i also drive my SL without Seatbelt , and …it´s really cool, i liberty wind , sorry guys but we speak about Cars , not cigarettes or security , it´s my life , it´s Mathieu´s life let us drive without belts ….seriously .
@Matthieu, ils sont tous un peu ouf ces ricains , pas le droit de conduire sans ceinture , de fumer ….c´est ca le american way of life de nos jours ?? heureusement qu´ils ne sont pas tous comme cela , je me demande d´ailleurs ce que certains recherche sur ce site Avec un état d´Esprit aussi ….bridé…
Bonne route Avec ta C2 , au plaisir de te croiser un jour
Petrolicious, you nailed it again. Once again, I applaud your film making, editing, and storytelling choices. Someday, maybe even annually, could you have a “best of” list of your articles and videos? Maybe reader voting? This Vette enthusiast has the fever, the dream, and thank goodness was able to purchase that perfect car for him! Bravo for sharing his story with us! It’s too easy to get caught up int he rat race and daily grind and forget the passion that we felt the first time we were able to buy our dream machine
Who cares if he smokes or not – to me (and I’ve never smoked in my entire life), it’s got to be the coolest intro ever!
Great and beautiful car!
BTW, Petrolicious, why does the translation says “1979” – we all know the C2 never got produced past 67/68 – please correct! Thanks!
Still, what a great video!
smoke’n cars,smoke’n cig’s ~ for this type of Brando effect,I’d done it different . Car breaks to a halt,driver swagger’s over to the grass line hand working the zipper…. and he leaks the fence pole .. then blasts off. And the throwing of his cog-butt hard towards the grass is even more yuk !
A love story to the most American of cars, on our day of independence, spoken in the language of love, the language of one of our staunchest, albeit often condescending, allies. And I say that with love and understanding of the true nature of our relationship as a people.
And what are the comments about? Smoking? Not being able to hit the subtitle widget on YouTube?
WTF happened to car culture? To car guys? Sure, make fun of the snail-eaters if you must. Lord knows they will win the food fight every time. We win the car battle.
But smoking? Are you really all that anal and pathetic that you have to point out a cigarette? I bet all the hipsters destroying car culture would have loved it if he was “vaping”.
Man the “f” up.
And whether France or Belgium, the countryside is beautiful and so are the people. When I jumped into St Mere Eglise in 2004, I don’t think I paid for a drink my whole visit.
Great video, as usual. Why the fuss on language, car culture is universal, there are no barriers not even language, CC is just one click. By the way video is about car not smoking and who says Americans don’t smoke, here in South, they rob the gas stations every day to steal cigarette. 🙂
