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CORVETTE TODAY #173 - Corvette News & Headlines, Early August 2023
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May 12, 2025
CORVETTE TODAY #173 - Corvette News & Headlines, Early August 2023 Well, here we are - the beginning of August. We are still in the dog-days of Summer. Kids will be going back to school soon. Corvettes at Carlisle is at the end of this month. And yes, it may still be hot outside, but "hot" also describes the Corvette news we have for you next week. Just like clockwork, Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger joins your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett to bring you the hottest news in the world of Corvette! Here are some of the headlines that Steve and Keith cover: 1. GM will still have a no-flip policy for the Z06 in 2024, but no 500,000 GM Loyalty Points 2. 2024 Corvette orders began on July 27th 3. The 1954 "Styling" Corvette goes to auction 4. See all 70 years of Corvette at the Woodward Dream Show 5. A 1954 Corvette once owned by Jerry Lee Lewis is for sale on Facebook These and other HOT Corvette stories coming your way next week on CORVETTE TODAY! Listen to the podcast, watch the YouTube video, join the Facebook group, sign up for email notifications and shop in the Merchandise Store at: www.CorvetteToday.com
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other week we keep you current and up to date on what's happening with America's Sports Car Keith welcome back to the
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show how's everything on your end of the world everything's great Steve you know if we're in the August we're kind of
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getting ready for a bunch of stuff coming up I'm going to be headed up to Corvettes of Carlisle as well as you will be immediately afterwards we'll be
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at the NCM anniversary show and the Hall of Fame celebration lots of stuff on the calendar these next few weeks yep it's
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going to get busy buddy that's for sure well let's start off the show like we always do Keith with a production update
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at the Bowling Green assembly plant absolutely so production currently stands at approximately 47 thousand
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seven hundred seventy nine for the 2023 model year those numbers are coming from late last week so obviously a little bit
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of change there but that's 42 894 Stingrays and then
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4885 zo6s wow so we're really closing in on that 5000 Z06 Milestone which I don't
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think many people thought we did I certainly didn't think it'd be that high based on the very slow ramp up we saw at the beginning of the model year so all
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the good news here close to your heart as far as the 70th Anniversary models we can break these down we have 4017 70th
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Anniversary Stingrays and 721 70th Anniversary z06s so 47 38 is our account
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for the anniversary models we're wondering if we're going to hit 5 000 I think it's going to kind of be touch and go I'm not exactly sure we will but that
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would be a great milestone to hit that number our current total of 47 779 model
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year 2023 Corvettes has us now at fourth in production of all time and only the
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84 79 and the 77 model years are still ahead of us we should actually surpassed the 1977 model year production count
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that number was 49 000 something between now and the next time we do our news and headline shows then it's actually just
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going to be erased to see how many more we can get completed before the end of the model year comes to close on September 12th of course you know the
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top production record 1979 53 807 and
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then that's filed in second place by the 1984 Corvettes 51 547 of course 84s they
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started early and ran a longer time so that's how they got that number so high there I think we might end up being
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second I'm not sure if we can actually hit that top number but we don't know what kind of game Chevy's playing we had
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a couple production days over the last few weeks where we actually surpassed 200 Cars over two shifts sounds like
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they're trying to make up some cars it could be from another event that we saw the first production ship had to close
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early but there really looks like they're trying to make up cars we know that they initially were going to end production on the first now it's
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extended through the 12th looks like they're going for the record it also looks like there might be some additional part they're just trying to
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put on cars before the model year ends it's really an interesting story and it's a horse race that we're going to be watching closely over the next few weeks
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it's going to be a photo finish like we talked about on our last news and headline show Keith and I saw that the
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2024 ordering began on Thursday July 27th too yep it was the order books
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opening officially for the 2024 Corvette Stingray and zd06 models this is the first batch of 2024 models to hit the
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ordering process there's a number of constraints that came out for both models the biggest constraints were
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those new exterior colors of course we have the cacti Seawolf and Riptide Blues
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but it looks like production just hasn't gotten there yet there was Zero cacti greens available for this first order
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cycle for either the stingray of the Z06 and then combine 12 Sea Wolf Grays and
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it combined 47 Riptide Blues so they're really just starting to ramp up hopefully you had a rapid blue or a
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torch red car ride order as opposed to one of these new colors but they'll catch up pretty quickly I'm sure as we get into the actual model year itself
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some of the other constraint news shows plenty of z07 Arrow components were available good decent quantities there
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Chevy also had the j57 carbon ceramic brakes with a national number of 220
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available again probably enough to fulfill the Z06 owners out there that wanted them we're kind of wondering why
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that was on constraint we'd never seen them on constraints recently wondering if that's kind of in preparation for the e-ray which has the j-57 ccbs the
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standard equipment kind of watching what was going to happen there those heat Rays actually the first order cycle for them begins on August 17th that'll take
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care of that first batch of all three models for 2024 and then the model year
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starts on the 12th probably right around then there'll be another order cycle for we assume Stingray and Z06 again let's
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just start filling in that second batch after production starts there lots of moving Parts here though really
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interesting stuff we see a staggered start for e-ray but there's nothing that's really indicating that production
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quantities are going to be low when it actually does start we're just gonna have to kind of wait and see we'll talk to our dealer in mid-august to find out
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what kind of quantities they got for erase and then that'll give us a really good indication of where we're starting production with that car when it does
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start down the line yep that's right and speaking of 2024's Keith Jim still has that six month no flip policy however
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there's one key difference yeah Z06 and Enthusiast knows GM tried to limit the
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immediate flipping of their cars with this carrot stick approach you know the buyers who kept their cars for longer than six months they got 500 000 my
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Chevy rewards points valued at five thousand dollars but if the car was flipped within that time period that owner didn't get the points and then the
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z06's warranty was no longer transferable to the new owner so once ordering was getting ready to start we
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reached out to Chevrolet to find out you know are they going to continue that policy for the 2024 model year because
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the short answer is yes however again key differences they are adding e-ray as well so e-ray is also now subject to a
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six-month no flip policy however if they got rid of the carrots they said no more points it hits the seller it hits the
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next Buy fire for the car we've said this before that it looks like this policy now will only rewards dealers for
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charging higher Market adjustments because that's the only place that you can get a car with a warranty if individuals start flipping their cars
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within those six months it's disappointing to see Chevrolet do this there's again nothing reeling in these dealers I expect these markups just to
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continue for the Z06 and the e-ray we don't know how much is going to be on eBay but you know there's a lot of
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buyers that had Z06 as they were looking at three and four year weights so they jumped over to an e-ray list again it's
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just kind of everything up in the air but yep Chevy is getting rid of the 500 000 My Rewards points so you do not pass
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go you do not collect your five thousand dollars in points that's exactly what I was gonna say
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buddy that was perfect great minds think alike also the Z06 configurator is now
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up and it's showing full pricing we don't have that c dealer for pricing anymore in there yeah that's what we saw
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with everything first went live and it's like everybody like wait pricing just came out how can we see really surprising we had an inkling I think we
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mentioned this on the last show after one of our Chevy dealer friends said that the only pricing they didn't have
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in the GM orb system was the gas guzzler tax it was like it was still pending so
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we actually reached out to Chevrolet they did say yeah they were waiting for confirmation on the gas killer attacks however the day that we talked to them
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they told us that it has been confirmed there was no change from last year's figures good so that means that a
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non-z07 buyer their taxes twenty six hundred dollars while the Z06 owner
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buying a z07 performance package has to pay the three thousand dollars for it when you go to the building price
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configurator for the Z06 prices are showing up across the board for that you know we've had some interesting comments
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too about some people wondering if the e-ray would also have a gas Clover tax so we just have to remind people no
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that's using the lt2 the stingray engine that does not have a gas dose or tax and in fact gas mileage might be slightly
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enhanced with the front wheel drive aspects of the car so there is no gas those are tax-free e-rays if people were
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wondering that absolutely right also in Australia Keith GM specialty Vehicles announced co6 pricing and it's up in the
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Ferrari range isn't it it's stunning is actually what it is so GM specialty Vehicles handles the sales of Corvettes
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in the land down under they announced that 2024 Z06 will cost 336 thousand
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dollars that's Australian dollars that's before some of the on-road costs are tacked on they call those on-road costs
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as additional taxes but we actually had a few Aussie readers chime in on our comment section and they said that
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they're seeing the pricing there a 3lz Z06 at 265 000. oh and then there's
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nearly a hundred thousand dollars in taxes on it oh there's a luxury car tax there's a 10 general sales tax and then
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there's a stamp Duty tax of around 20 000 Australian dollars as well the website which car.com dot a u predicts
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the final drive out price is going to be in that 350 to 400 000 range again just
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stunning figures coming out from Australia again stunning prices down there like you said Ferrari range the
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whole importing of the car the differences between the United States dollars the Australian dollars and then of course all the taxes and regulations
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that Australia has thrown on its uh process to bring in cars from outside the country as well so yeah not good
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news but hopefully there'll be some people down there that will be able to secure one and enjoy it we don't expect quantities to be that high we are
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talking about Japan's exports being about 16 for that first order cycle over there these guys I think got 30 or so
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stingrays okay I think quantities are going to be very limited at least in the initial rollout we'll see what happens
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it's for the Australian Elite that's for sure our final story Keith in the news section Bowling Green assembly plant had
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an underground water pipe break didn't they yeah so this news came out on Friday July 26th so it's Friday
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afternoon and a friend of mine says Hey I was on Facebook and did I see that there was a sinkhole at the Corvette
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assembly plant oh those are the words that people don't want to hear especially after the 2014 sinkhole at the Corvette museum that swallowed eight
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cars in the Sky Dome we actually got in touch with the communications director up there what they told us was there was
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an underground water pipe it burst and it actually impacted the surrounding concrete we still don't know where this
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location was I don't know if it was inside or outside but they did tell us that at the time that it happened it
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affected the plant's fire suppression system so the first shift actually ended early but then they had the fire
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department out there they had some geological experts out there they said nope everything is good we can go with second shift so second shift opened up
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that day and we haven't really heard much about this since we're gonna check it out when we get up there again for the NCM anniversary celebration and find
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out from some of our friends exactly what happened up there but yeah it looks like we dodged a bullet for sure sounds good well buddy it's time for our first
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833-639-4231 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me is Keith Cornett from corvettebblogger.com where we keep you
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current and up to date every other week on what's happening in the world of Corvette in segment number two we always
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talk about Corvette racing and Corvette rumors we have a couple previews for Corvette racing Keith Lime Rock and also
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Road America yeah so Lime Rock happened at the end of July it was kind of a bad news good news situation for Corvette
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racing you know bad news was that Garcia and Taylor finished fourth in the number three c8r so not a great finish over
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overall but the good news is that the points that we got and the other teams in the mix allowed us to move actually
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into second place and securely into second place and the driver's team and Manufacturing standings we're chasing
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that number 14 Lexus and boy you know we really need to get some wins that's really what it comes down to is we get
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the wins we get the big points we're over 100 points down from them but within Striking Distance still so it's
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not a runaway yet and then of course like you said it all comes together this weekend or actually last weekend we're
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recording this prior to Sunday's race at Road America but traditionally Corvettes have always done well at that high-speed
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track the other thing too about Road America is that they were recently repaved and have a new Surface there so
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the team is hoping that'll help with some Tire degradation that's always been the price paid for those high-speed curves around that Four Mile track we'll
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have the results for you in the next news and headlines podcast but we are closing in on towards the end of the season I think about three races left
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after Road America that sounds good I like Road America it's a fast track for sure also I was really glad to see this
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Keith AWA Ray racing is going to feature a pair of Z06 gt3rs and ms's GTD class
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yeah this is the second announcement we've been waiting for with Pratt Miller Motorsports Canada's AWA racing they
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announced last Thursday on Twitter that they'll be Fielding the Dual Z06 GT3 razors in the GTD class in imsa for both
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the 2024 and 2025 Seasons so for Corvette racing fans we'll now have four
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ZO6 gt3r Racers to root for which is great we'll have the two in the GTD Pro class fielded by Pratt Miller
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Motorsports and then the two from AWA racing that team is currently racing in the lmp3 class at imsa they actually won
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their class at the Rolex 24 at Daytona this year we always like to welcome these new companies and organizations to
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the Corvette Nation you know we always like to say welcome to The Lunatic Fringe because you know your autograph
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Lines Just doubled in size the amount of merchandise and apparel that you sold is probably going to Skyrocket so I would
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definitely embrace the Corvette lifestyle and get on some of that stuff right away but again great news for Corvette fans you you know the other
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thing too is I didn't really delve into this and any substance yet but there's a lot of talk about how Corvette racing
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might be using its driver pool and we might see these different Racers here and there you know like Jordan and Antonio split up and maybe going on but
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maybe not because Pratt Miller's got two cars maybe we'll see them together as a team there's still a whole lot of up in
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the air about that but that stuff usually starts to flush it out before the end of the season at petite Le Mans
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I'd be looking for the next month or so month and a half to see any kind of announcements that do come out of Pratt Miller Motorsports over their driver's
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lineup because we should be getting some announcements shortly I would think I would think so too and I'm real excited about the gt3rs I think this is going to
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be great I'm sad to see Corvette racing going away in its current form but man those gt3rs are just awesome looking
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cars they are and you know we say Corvette racing going away but are they really I don't see what I was expecting
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leading up to those announcements and then seeing where we have the two cars by Pratt Miller Motorsports it doesn't
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feel like Corvette Racing's really going away it really feels like a name change and so up to the fans to embrace that
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name change they're going to keep calling it Corvette racing no matter what so we'll just have to see how fans Embrace these new cars these new teams I
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think it's going to be pretty big though I think so too Corvette racing is not going away it's evolving and morphing
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that's what I think there you go also in the rumors category we hear that Bowling Green assembly plant and the UAW are
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starting to do their local negotiations yeah so you know this is a contract here so the National Labor talk started on
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July 18th between the big three automakers and the United Auto Workers Union in Kentucky members of the UAW
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Local 2164 on Bowling Green they're going to have a q a session on August 12th as their local bargaining
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positioning begins over there the local president Brian farrett was on WKU public radio and was talking about some
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of the goals they had for their new agreement they wanted to see an elimination of the current tiered wage system they wanted to win back some cost
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of living adjustments and some better working conditions from the local side you know the working conditions and
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things like that the things that directly affect those workers at that plant is where they have their most control the current tiered wage system
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winning back cost of living adjustments that's probably mostly dealt with the national negotiations we're really
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hoping negotiations go a lot smoother than they did in 2019 we had the UAW doing Nationwide strike against GM right
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that lasted I think around five weeks or so we do know that it delayed the start of the 2020 Corvette Stingray from
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December of 2019 into February of 2020 so we're really hoping that things are
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smoother there's been some talk that Mary Barra and her team are showing some interest in offering some of those
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concessions but it's the opposite from Ford we're hearing there's a little bit more trouble there and increasing wages
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so it's going to be interesting to see how each of these three automakers works with the UAW one other point there was a
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study that showed the economic impact of General Motors in Kentucky at 1.7 billion dollars in GDP contributions wow
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326 million in tax receipts and there's 13 000 jobs through Bowling Green plant
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and all all its suppliers to support the Corvette and other programs in Kentucky it's a huge thing we just hope things go
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really smooth we don't want to see anything disrupt the launch of the 2024 Corvettes I think the contracts are over
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I think the national contract ends on September 15th okay of course our cars are starting on the 12th so you can see
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it's all going to kind of come to head there in that mid-september time period yep that's for sure and we also heard
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that the 2024 e-ray is going to be competing for the North American Car of the Year that's outstanding yeah the
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North American Car of the Year it's a collaboration they call it the North American car truck of the year organization so there's three Awards
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they do the car of the year the truck of the year and now the utility vehicle there used to be the sport utility vehicle here but now they just called
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the utility vehicle of the Year this is all done in conjunction with the Detroit Auto Dealers Association what happens is
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there's 50 Automotive journalists that make up the jury and they'll have the next few weeks to review and test all
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the cars available in the competition the cars the trucks and the utility vehicles and then they'll file the
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reports back to the organization and then look at what's called the semi-finalist they call this list the
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best of 2024. that'll be announced during the Detroit Auto Show September 13th okay we're just actually a little
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over a month away from the semi-finals being named and then the final list for the award will be named November 16th at
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the LA Auto Show and I think they pick three per category there the winners of each of those categories the car truck
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and utility vehicles they'll be announced on January 4th as the overall that'll be the 30th Anniversary for
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these honors and of course we all know the 2020 Corvette Stingray won this award in 2020. we're really hoping that
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the e-ray can come up with the same kind of magic to get that win again because of the e-ray and the Performance Hybrid
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and it touches on some of the things that a lot of the regular Automotive journalists might like you know the hybrid platforms and such we might see
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it make it to those later rounds of voting so that's what we're hoping for we'll keep our fingers crossed buddy that's for sure all right let's take our
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with me is my buddy Keith Cornett from corvettebblogger.com if you want a deeper dive into any of the stories that
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Keith and I cover on this show you can always go to corvettebblogger.com in this final segment we always talk about
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the lighter side of Corvette Keith this was interesting I haven't heard this name forever Joey Chitwood had a C1 a 58
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fuely and it sold on bring a trailer yeah but it's the backstory that's really incredible so if you're not
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familiar with the Joey Chitwood thrill show this was one of these attractions
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that travel from city state I think they started right after the war like 46 or 47 and they would do stunts for crowds
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so they would jump from one ramp to another they'd jump over things they would force the car up on two wheels and
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ride around on two wheels just all kinds of stuff and it was really cool back in the day a lot of people remember these
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shows in fact there's video where they came out to General Motors and the whole crowds filled with people with white
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shirts you know all the engineers and stuff all the engineering white shirts out there yeah watching these cars do
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these death defying stunts the drivers were called The Hell Riders The Story Goes that Evil Knievel was greatly
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impacted by what he saw Joey Chitwood doing and then took his stuff to a whole new level one of the cars that they had
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was given to them correctly by Chevrolet it was a 1958 fuley they only used it for a year there's a famous picture of
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the car jumping off a ramp with a crowd in the background they used the car for a year and then it was retired and sold
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the second owner actually kept it for about 50 years or so wow it was eventually found Lord we've seen the car
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come up and go we saw in person at Mika maybe five or seven years ago in Kissimmee and actually there I met Joey
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Chitwood Junior and then Joey Chitwood III is also involved in automotive stuff I think at one point he was like the
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director of the Raceway in Daytona but this whole family's just grown up with these car stuff so here's this 58 fuley
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that's been jumping around and stuff like that it's totally restored it's got the great Chitwood throw Show graphics
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on it when it went to bring a trailer it actually sold for 180 000 wow new owner
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said that he's got a real big personal connection to the car so I was like maybe family or friends were involved
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with it back in the day so he's all excited to get hold of this car it's a really cool thing if you don't know Joey
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Chitwood Joey j-o-i-e Chitwood go to YouTube and do some videos because there's some really cool stuff out there
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there really is and also there was a 1954 styling Corvette that I saw at
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Amelia Island in person and that's also heading to auction that one's going to the Pebble Beach show yeah this car has
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got a really interesting history and we've delved into it a couple times the first time we saw it at a Bloomington
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gold show and it was actually sold it was being built as a 1953 car it's actually a 54. The Story Goes that it
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was pulled off the line and it was painted and used in the GM Motorama shows and then it was given a shop order
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shop order 2151 and then it was turned into this styling car and it was really
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unique because what Chevy would do is they would style the car on one side one way flip around the car and do it
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something different and then they'd go outside to be on a turntable and all the execs would be out there looking at it saying what do we want to do for any
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changes or is this anything that makes sense to do so here's this car with these two different designs I mean not
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majorly radical designs but they were definitely different the other thing too is it was painted like a Bermuda green
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right it just had this green interior as well so a very beautiful car well the car disappears as they usually do it
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popped up with 63 and supposedly in 74 it was just a basket case and a guy named George Campbell he bought it he
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owned for about 40 years or so he was researching the history he was trying to gather some partial restoration unfortunately he passed away before he
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could do anything with it but it was this new owner that really then took it and did 1800 hours of restoration on the
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car and like you said it's only been shown once publicly at the 2023 Amelia Island Concourse it's going to be out at
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the Pebble Beach auction Gooding and Company is going to be doing the sale on it you better bring a banker Steve because the pre-sale estimates have it
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selling for about 1.5 million to 2 million dollars wow I saw the car I touched the car it was really really
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cool and I talked to the owner he talked with me for a long time he said oh I love Corvette today I'm so glad you came
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by to see the car but it was really really cool I'm surprised that it's going up for bid at auction this is
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going to be cool yeah there's a guy named Jerry Easley did a video on it I talked extensively about the restoration
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how they had to fabricate all these parts by hand trying to find all these pictures that match everything up with I
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mean just an amazing job I mean your part doing automotive restoration but you're also doing archeology at the same
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point you know trying to figure out exactly how the car looked and was presented and then trying to match that
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fantastic job there we're anxious to see what this car is going to do there I know speaking of Pebble Beach auction
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mecum's going to be out there for three days and they've got some amazing cars as well so there's going to be some news breaking there about some of the cars
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coming through that auction so I think it's going to be a great weekend for car people out of Monterey yeah Pebble Beach
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is going to be the place to be that's for sure also another place to be is the Woodward Dream show because they're
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going to have 70 Corvettes there representing every single year of Corvette from 1953 to 2023. yeah so if
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there's not enough to do around Metro Detroit in the month of August there's always the Woodward Dream Cruise that comes up I had the fortunate to be up
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there for 2012 as it gets to Chevrolet although I think they punished me Steve because they gave me a manual car to
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drive a Dream Cruise which is stop go stop go stop goes right talk about not skipping leg day it was a fantastic
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experience to be up there for that the M1 Concourse is this track that's up there in metro Detroit and they're doing
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this exclusive Gathering of 70 years of Corvette so it's invite only for the cars they'll have one from each model
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year and then they went out and they also have the 1983 Corvette coming up from the National Corvette Museum oh
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we're actually told that this is the first time that the 83 Corvette has been let go has been pried loose from the NCM
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wow we go to the museum every year we see it as kind of become old hat to us but for all these people that have never
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made it to the museum it's a one in the lifetime opportunity to see the 1983 Car Plus the 70 other cars that are going to
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be representing each and every year one of those cars actually is from our Detroit Bureau Steve Burns nice he was
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invited to show off his green 1994 ZR1 if you do go to the show make sure you say hello to everyone up there there's
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going to be other events they got like hot laps going there's seminars there's going to be food and beverage trucks out
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there and then there's a after show concert from like 5 30 to 7 30. that's on the Friday before the Woodward Dream
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Cruise and then on Saturday the Woodward Dream Cruise they're doing parking flight 20 a vehicle and then all kinds
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of stuff going on there too that's always one of the things up there is parking is a premium because most people don't drive the whole time they'll dry
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for a while and then they'll Park and watch all the cars it's a big part of the event M1 Concourse is the name of it
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and you can get your tickets up there that sounds like fun also going back to 1954 Keith there was a 54 Corvette owned
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by Jerry Lewis and it's up for sale it's on Facebook yeah the Facebook Marketplace which you know sometimes
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you're surprised of what you get it's a unrestored car it has 21 000 miles on the odometer it was actually owned by
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Jerry Lee Lewis the famous rocker one of the reasons why we know this the documentation is there's an IRS letter
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which states that the car was seized in 1980 along with two other vehicles over back taxes owned by daily Lewis so
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that's unfortunate but again the car appears to be unrestored but it's a video of the car running it looks like a
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great candidate for restoration especially with its celebrity ownership maybe there's some additional documentation out there with Jerry Lee
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Lewis's name on it and boy if you could find a photo of him in the car that would be gold yeah absolutely right and
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our final story Keith this is really cool as well we've got some great lifestyle Stories the Peterson Automotive Museum is going to have a
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Corvettes and competition racing America's sports car coming up real soon yeah this is actually a fantastic
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collection of competition Corvettes that they put together the exhibit actually opened on Saturday it features just
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significant race cars from early to the latest ones that you're thinking of cars featured include like the 1960
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Cunningham Le Mans Racer the number one car wow 1963 Grand Sport the 76 Spirit
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of Le Mans a 1989 Corvette challenge racer uh 1995 Callaway Le Mans race car
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and then several examples of Corvette racing c5r that was raced at Daytona with Dale Earnhardt and Dale Jr we have
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c6r or c7r there's some other cars out there some very Classics like The Real McCoy from 56 so yeah it looks like a
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great collection you can actually check that out at the Peterson Automotive Museum and if you go to their website they actually have pictures of the cars
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up so you can see the different ones that are going to be on display definitely one that I would love to see too bad it's out in Los Angeles we might
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have to do another Bonsai run like we did back in the day yeah great collection of competition Corvettes at
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the Peterson let's see I got to go to LA to the Peterson I've got to go up to Detroit for the Woodward then we've got
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to go to Corvettes at Carlisle then we've got the anniversary celebration at the Museum we're going to be busy our
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dance card is full my friend yep absolutely right well buddy thanks for being on Corvette today have a good two
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