when i first got my z the kids asked if they would be able to drive it (i have 5: 14, 15, 16, 18, 20) and i told my (then) 18 yr old he could take it to the prom. he was the star of the show that year, when the pictures came back all the girls wanted a shot next to the car in their fancy dresses and the boys put on their best James Bond rental tux suave... that was a couple years back and the next one (now 18) just took the z to his senior prom this past weekend - boy was he happy to go pick up his date! each time i see one of my sons drive off it takes me right back to high school and how a cool car was everything. 

5? You've got your own basketball team.

Congratulations. If they take after you they'll have good fulfilling lives. 8^)

Took my date to the prom in one back in 76

You're a lucky man to have a family so appreciative of that great looking car.  Fantastic pic!

Now time for 15 grand kids.

 Great story. How times change. It was just a few years back that your family had much different feelings about your Z. Have the "Who Gets Her" conversations started yet? The first one of the family that volunteered to wash her is the one that has a plan. 

Awesome!  I took mine to prom and to my first honeymoon.

9 hours ago, rossiz said:

when i first got my z the kids asked if they would be able to drive it (i have 5: 14, 15, 16, 18, 20)

I love it!!! I also have 5: my oldest is 20 and the baby will be 12 this year. Unfortunately I haven't had a running Z for them but I have built cars for some of the older ones. Started a 73 fast back mustang with the older one, a BMW Z3 for the oldest girl and a 510 Wagon for the second boy. Enjoy the memories, that is where the real treasure lies...

I have great respect for you guys with kids so close in age, more so for your wives. My sister wanted a girl but wound up with 4 boys then her husband had a clipping done thank god. I can't keep up with their birthdays and Christmas is expensive but I like them all. One is eerily similar to uncle cliff, he doesn't think twice before diving head first.   She was pregnant four times in five years.

I took my dad's '84 Vette to my '87 prom. Stayed long enough for the proof we went pictures then to a hotel room party. I beat that car for all it as worth that night. It was a very fast car back then and I raced everything that pulled alongside me.

As Carol Burnett sang " memories, nothing but memories..."

I have one.  That makes remembering the birthday fairly easy.  He didn't go to the prom in the Z, drove the AUDI instead.  But he did learn to drive a stick shift on the Z.  That was fun, especially when it came time to practice stopping on a hill, going up, and coordinating two feet and the handbrake to keep from rolling backward at the stop sign.  Memories.

Dennis

 

 

I'd trade this four legged blender for one or two right now!