Greetings all,

I need a new set of tires for my 96 LT1.  Currently, it's my 2nd car
and it has under 16k miles on it.  I was going to trade it in on a new
vehicle, but I'm hesitant to do that because of the abysmal amount
they'd give me for it (despite the fact that I bought it new and,
therefore, am the only owner of it).

I got to thinking, and thought I might investigate the possibility of
driving it year round if my current vehicle should crap out on me (I
tend to drive my everyday vehicles into the ground and then sell them
to the bone yard.  My Corvette was a purchase based on emotions in
stark contrast to the, "basic transportation" that I usually go with.)

The only problem is that I can't imagine that any tire manufacturer
makes a set of tires that will perform even reasonably in wet or snowy
conditions.  When I've driven my Corvette on wet streets in the past,
it seems very unsafe due to the huge factory tires and traction
control seemingly always kicking in.  I can only imagine how risky it
would be to drive this car in wintery weather!

I certainly can't blame the design engineers of the car or tires
since a vette is clearly not meant to be driven in such conditions,
but I know people do drive vettes all year long so I wondered what
tires they use and what their experience is like using them.

I'm 41 years old so I can imagine that I'd do a bit of, shall we say,
"spirited" driving during the nice, dry summer months, but I wondered
if there was any hope for driving my beast year round.

MANY thanks for any helpful suggestions!!

Regards,

Rick