Boy time flies. 30 years ago, my 81 Vette was built. A time of recession, a 55 mph speed limit (the "double nickle")as impossed by the Regan administration, and the beginning of electronic ignition. And it wasn't safe to be an air traffic controller in the U.S. apparently.
I was lucky tho! At 23, I rolled this Vette brand new out of the show room at Edmonton Motors and onto Jasper Avenue. It was actually January 1983 when I bought it for $18,500, and they had two of them they just couldn't sell from 1981. It sported glass tee-tops, power mirrors, auto trans, an electronically controlled carb, two bolt main 350 SBC with very limited horsepower. I used to look at the 85 kph speedo in wonder? In fact, the only thing weaker was my 1980 Firebird T/A with a natually asperated 301......but that's another thread.
I did enjoy driving the car, which was a summer only cruiser. In fact I can remember getting caught in the rain only a few times in this car. I worried about it more than I drove it. But it was still a Vette, and when I weakened in 1986 and I let it go, it had just over 20,000 kicks on the odo.
The first two pictures were taken at a cabin in Radium BC, about '85 or so, the last shot shows "Mopar300" and his 76 Vette and my over exposed legs.
Like Clint and his X11 thread, I was trying to look sporty by those day's standards, but would get punched out just standing in line at the bank-by today's standards.