Ya better have a good sealed garage. I used two car covers and kept out side. After about six years the convertible top started to show its age like an old pair of jeans in the frame fold up pressure points and the closed frame rail stretch points. Like little pinch holes. But that is not your main worry for parking it out side. Its the mice that will get in there an piss all over your rear deck and make a nest. Same in the engine compartment and what ever you do don't take a garden hose and try and wash out the engine compartment like I did. Water gets into places its not supposed to be and shorts out your ignition and its a no start and its getting truck lifted to the dealer. Yea you can't tow a vett.

Mine was a 94 and the engines are really reliable and ZF manual trans are very reliable.

I was just reminissing about that old beauty the other day wishing I could go home and take it for a ride. I do miss it. I haven't kept up with any of the later corvettes but they all had much more basic powerful engines than mine did. Actually mine was greatly under powered 300 hp. I would not get one of the higher output engines models unless that is exactly what you are after because the basic engine can already drink some gas if you drive it like it was meant to be driven. But the basic small block ( later C 5 year corvettes ) with the 6 sp driven soft pedal and on highway can get you mid 20 MPG in 6the gear going 75 mph on flat roads. Traffic lights aren't your gas friend.

Did the Blade Show twice in mine. The last time leaving Blade I was stuck in a major 10 mile traffic jamb leaving Atlanta , it would roll a car length and stop and park and repeat. The hot sun and humidity was a bitch and my vett started to overheat running the AC. Had to drop the top and run the heater on full but it was not enough and had to sit and let it cool down. They don't like to sit and idle in traffic in the summer or they can overheat which is a major problem.

Sure there is a lot of upside. I had a few honeys whistle at me in the vett and that never happened in my Pathfinder or Chevy Truck.

All that BS aside the car fits you like a glove in a two seat capsule rocket ship and the designation is not important, its the trip.

Aaron