My first introduction to Corvettes, like many others, was the Route 66 TV show as a kid. I really liked the 62 year. Then my cousin bought a C2 Corvette, I think it was a 64 or 65. Again, I loved the car. A few years later my best friend bought a 68. We had a lot of fun in that car. The problem was I was never able to purchase one for my self. Let’s spring forward to the year I was age 61 (2013-2014). I had previously owned a couple of motorcycles and decided to purchase a Harley. I found one at the local dealership and put a deposit on it while I decided whether to go through with the purchase or not. The problem was I had let my motorcycle endorsement on my license lapse several years prior. I was going to have to take the motorcycle driver school, which I really didn’t want to do. On one Sunday evening I was checking updates on the cave in at the Corvette Museum, always being a fan I kept up on Corvette news. While reading the update I told my wife, for what I was paying for the Harley, I could probably get a decent used Corvette. The next morning I cancelled the Harley and called the auto dealership salesman I usually do business with and told him to find me a Corvette. I gave him a price range. They found a 98 C5 convertible and sold it to me for their price to get the car. We loved that car. We took many trips in it. We decided in 2023 to upgrade to a C7. The dealership looked for what we wanted and so did we. We finally found a 2017 C7 Grand Sport convertible with the Heritage and Z07 package. We fell in love with this car as well. Unfortunately, I didn’t have space to keep the 98 so I traded it. Now my garage has a 2017 Camaro RS and Corvette Grand Sport. It took a lot of years getting them, but in our senior years we are “Living the Dream.”