Dan's Vette Page
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1996 Corvette LT4
330 Horse Power
(GM's Under-rating!)
6 Speed
3.45 Rear Axle
Competition Yellow
( LT4 Registry )
Bronze Targa Top
Delco/Bose Gold Stereo
(cassette/CD)
(only 485 CompetitionYellow Corvettes were made in 1996, of these 103 were equipped with a black interior and the optional LT4 engine.)
our new addition to the family! July 2003
1984 L83 Corvette
( Linda's Hot Rod )
205 HP
700R4 Automatic
Light Blue Metalic
Painted Targa Top
Delco Bose Stereo
700R4 Automatic
Light Blue Metalic
Painted Targa Top
Delco Bose Stereo
(cassette & added 6 disc CD changer)
The Story
this site is just getting started. much more to come!
Below:
Dave McLellan's autograph on our LT4.
Dave McLellan's autograph on our LT4.
(Corvette Chief Engineer
1975-1992)
The Surprise of a Lifetime
My Corvette (the yellow one) came to me as a surprise. Over the years my wife has pulled off some good ones on my birthday and at Christmas, but this was a doozy!
On our wedding anniversary number 22 in July, 2001, we did the usual. We went out to dinner, and stopped at a neighborhood pub for a few libations afterward.
On our arrival home, I saw that our 3 kids (youngest one 18 at that time) were standing in the driveway. Also present was my son-in-law and a nephew.
Now this was pretty unusual, but I figured it was a little get together for our anniversary, no big deal, right?
Well, I pull in the driveway in my trusty old Caprice, hit the garage door opener.... and stop dead!
There in my side of the garage is parked a CORVETTE !! Not just a Corvette, but as I was to learn, an LT4! And Competition Yellow! It had about 20 yellow and white balloons tied to it. It was quite festive.
Needless to say, I was floored. I was speechless. I was dumbfounded. I look from the garage to my wife, back to the garage, back to wife, several times. Linda leans over, gives me a peck on the cheek and says "Happy Anniversary Honey!".
I was so shocked I didn’t, no couldn’t, get out of the car for about 5 or 10 minutes.
While we were out on the town, my son-in-law had driven the Vette over from where my wife had hidden it for 2 MONTHS! Yes she had seen it on a car lot and stopped to check it out because of the color, and bought it on the spot 2 months previous. She hid the Vette at her sisters house all that time.
Well, when I finally get out and walk up to it, I just couldn’t believe it. I kept asking Linda if this was real. Was it a joke? This isn’t really ours, right? It was real all right! BUT, and this is a big one! I had about 3 or 4 beers in me. I COULDN"T DRIVE IT! I had to wait a few hours! Can you imagine what that was like?!
Now for a little preface to this story (at the end?). Linda and I had been talking for a year or more about getting a Corvette after our youngest was out of high school. It was just that, talk. There wasn’t any firm plan, or even a discussion of what generation, year, auto, stick, or any details. Then as if she had read my mind she comes up with a Yellow LT4.
What a woman, I thank God every day for bringing us together.
On our wedding anniversary number 22 in July, 2001, we did the usual. We went out to dinner, and stopped at a neighborhood pub for a few libations afterward.
On our arrival home, I saw that our 3 kids (youngest one 18 at that time) were standing in the driveway. Also present was my son-in-law and a nephew.
Now this was pretty unusual, but I figured it was a little get together for our anniversary, no big deal, right?
Well, I pull in the driveway in my trusty old Caprice, hit the garage door opener.... and stop dead!
There in my side of the garage is parked a CORVETTE !! Not just a Corvette, but as I was to learn, an LT4! And Competition Yellow! It had about 20 yellow and white balloons tied to it. It was quite festive.
Needless to say, I was floored. I was speechless. I was dumbfounded. I look from the garage to my wife, back to the garage, back to wife, several times. Linda leans over, gives me a peck on the cheek and says "Happy Anniversary Honey!".
I was so shocked I didn’t, no couldn’t, get out of the car for about 5 or 10 minutes.
While we were out on the town, my son-in-law had driven the Vette over from where my wife had hidden it for 2 MONTHS! Yes she had seen it on a car lot and stopped to check it out because of the color, and bought it on the spot 2 months previous. She hid the Vette at her sisters house all that time.
Well, when I finally get out and walk up to it, I just couldn’t believe it. I kept asking Linda if this was real. Was it a joke? This isn’t really ours, right? It was real all right! BUT, and this is a big one! I had about 3 or 4 beers in me. I COULDN"T DRIVE IT! I had to wait a few hours! Can you imagine what that was like?!
Now for a little preface to this story (at the end?). Linda and I had been talking for a year or more about getting a Corvette after our youngest was out of high school. It was just that, talk. There wasn’t any firm plan, or even a discussion of what generation, year, auto, stick, or any details. Then as if she had read my mind she comes up with a Yellow LT4.
What a woman, I thank God every day for bringing us together.
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Another Vette Tale!
surprise part II
July 2003 - Well another surprise Corvette. Only this time I was the surpriser, instead of the surprisee (is that a word?).
July 29 is my wife, Linda's birthday, and July 31 is our wedding anniversary. On the 30th Linda came home from work to find a Corvette in her side of the garage! We had looked at it the day before, and i bought it while she was at work. She was as shocked as I was two years ago.
This is what she found upon opening the garage.
July 29 is my wife, Linda's birthday, and July 31 is our wedding anniversary. On the 30th Linda came home from work to find a Corvette in her side of the garage! We had looked at it the day before, and i bought it while she was at work. She was as shocked as I was two years ago.
This is what she found upon opening the garage.
how Linda found the '84
(above and below)
