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Re: "My life with a Callaway..." Let's hear your ownership and vehicle experiences...

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:13 pm
by Jeroenvgfn
Master John you are a day one brother too , what's your story on your special collection :beer

Re: "My life with a Callaway..." Let's hear your ownership and vehicle experiences...

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:41 pm
by BIGJOHN
My cars are one of a kind and they took much longer to build than most other Callaway cars!
The Secret is they took years to build, but I’m not gonna say how many.

:beer

Re: "My life with a Callaway..." Let's hear your ownership and vehicle experiences...

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:24 pm
by *89x2*
Who else has Callaway stories? :hi

Re: "My life with a Callaway..." Let's hear your ownership and vehicle experiences...

Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 9:30 am
by Rudevette
I'm in my first year of Callaway ownership with my 2007 Callaway Corvette Convertible. I found it on Corvetteforum while searching around for a C7 Z06 as a new vacation car to replace my C5 coupe. I had no interest in C6's but for a 20,000 mile Callaway I could make an exception. So my wife an I last second flew to Palm Beach, Florida to buy the car and drive it home. In the end I've driven a number of C7's since buying this car and am happy with my C6 now. I am 6'1" 280 pounds of mostly muscle with adequate beer belly :joker (I'm a carpenter of 25 years) and I find that the C7 is a bit cramped for me. The C6 is smaller than my C5 but roomy and comfortable.

Last week we went to Glacier National Park, Yellowstone, Cody, WY, the Big Horn Mountains, then to the Black Hills Corvette Classic. The Callaway has been a wonderful car to travel in. Autocross performance was great in the car, drag racing it runs right with the C7 Z06's that my buddies were running. For an older car the performance is shocking. And the tremendously loud whine of the maggie got LOTS of comments at the drag racing event. :cool At the Vette Street downtown car show event I had the hood open and the polished maggie all shined up and the car had groups of people around it the entire night. I was a bit surprised at the amount of attention that it got. In a field of C8's and all sorts of C7's the C6 Callaway is unique enough that people take notice. We did 3,200 miles round trip in nine days and did all of them but 110 miles with the top down. It was kind of fun.

-Justin

Re: "My life with a Callaway..." Let's hear your ownership and vehicle experiences...

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:13 pm
by kingforward
Good stuff Rudevette.
Nice to read you are putting “quality mileage” on that bad boy!

Re: "My life with a Callaway..." Let's hear your ownership and vehicle experiences...

Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2021 8:11 pm
by Never_Lift
There are some interesting stories on this thread, captivating stuff. :pop

Re: "My life with a Callaway..." Let's hear your ownership and vehicle experiences...

Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2021 2:25 pm
by JABCAT
My love of Corvettes goes way back to when I was a young child. Growing up and then into adulthood, I told myself a Corvette would be my reward for finishing graduate school. The search goes back 10 years to when I saw the Carbon Edition Z06 revealed in Inferno Orange Metallic.

Seeing the Carbon Z06 for the first time & I knew that was the Corvette I really wanted. The right situation didn’t present itself over the years (either couldn’t find any for sale, or they were out of my budget). For my 40th b-day my wife bought me a 2012 Inferno Orange Metallic Grand Sport. It checked most of the boxes, but still wasn’t the IOM Carbon Z06, so I kept searching sporadically.

Then one day in March 2020 while on a family vacation in Hawaii I was scrolling Facebook of all things one morning and a notification popped up saying something to the effect of “here’s a car you might be interested in” and it was an Inferno Orange Carbon Edition Z06. Gotta love how our devices track our every move.

When I looked at the pictures I noticed it had a different hood and some Callaway emblems on the car. I remembered Callaway from the big poster of the Callaway Sledgehammer Corvette I had on my wall as a child. But I had no idea Callaway was still making badass Corvettes. So I immediately contacted the dealership who was advertising the car to find out if it was still available, and then I contacted Callaway to confirm it’s authenticity. Upon confirmation from Callaway I got back in touch with the dealer and negotiated the purchase of the Callaway Carbon along with the trade-in of my Grand Sport from the balcony of our hotel in Hawaii. They emailed me the paperwork, completed the transaction and picked the Callaway up the day we returned from vacation.

I’ve made some additions/modifications to the car so far (upgrading the interior, stereo, front & rear cameras, and some other items), and have my young kids help me with all the work. In the almost two years I’ve had the car I’ve put approx 3k mi on it, but enjoy driving it when I do. I receive offers probably at least once a month from people who want to purchase the vehicle, some at more than double what I paid, but I don’t have any plans to sell. This very special vehicle will be handed down to my children when the time comes.

Re: "My life with a Callaway..." Let's hear your ownership and vehicle experiences...

Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2021 8:58 pm
by CalJim
JABCAT

:beer