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CORVETTE TODAY #269 - Corvette News & Headlines, Early June 2025
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Jun 9, 2025
CORVETTE TODAY #269 - Corvette News & Headlines, Early June 2025 It's the un-official start of summer (summer actually starts on June 20th), and CORVETTE TODAY heats things up with out News & Headlines show! Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger is back with your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, to bring you the latest in the world of America's Sports Car. Steve and Keith cover these stories and more... 1. The 2026 Corvette Order Guide is now live 2. The rear-view camera for the ZR1 has been relocated 3. Jonny Edgar makes his debut for Corvette Racing at Le Mans 4. 12 Indianapolis 500 festival car Stingrays are headed in Indy dealerships for sale We've got it all for you! CORVETTE TODAY remains one of your best resources for all things Corvette! Listen to the podcast, watch the show on YouTube, join the Facebook Group, sign up for email notifications, follow the show on social media and shop in the newly updated CORVETTE TODAY Merchandise Store at: www.CorvetteToday.com
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happening with America's sports car Keith welcome back to the show How you doing buddy happy June Steve Doing great
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Doing great Looking forward to summertime almost being here but after Memorial Day it feels like summer's here
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It's hot here already Just looking for some good Corvette stuff to do and talk about and see So what do you got planned
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we got a lot going on As a matter of fact summer starts officially on June 20th so we've got a couple weeks But
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let's get into it buddy Let's start off like we always do with a Corvette production update from the Bowling Green assembly plant Sounds good Steve So my
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numbers from Roger Keel are running just a little bit behind this week The last report available was showing June 1st
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but that's a nice round date to begin with So let's get into it Chevy is actually now building four models on the
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line not counting the exports and all the right-hand drive models And the one that's being built the most actually
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isn't the Stingray it's the Z06 Last week we saw 267 of those built compared to just 221 Stingrays and 91 E-rays
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Currently ZR1 production was showing 19 completed that was on Rogers chart but by the time you hear this it's probably
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another week has gone by We should probably be in the mid20s or even approaching 30 by the time this podcast
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goes live on that Monday As for the current VIN counts the Stingray is showing 12,023 The Z06 is at
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6,82 The -ay is at 2454 And when you add those 19 ZR1s to the total you have
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21,298 So pretty good model year shaping up We've got about 7 weeks to go We
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believe when you account for that one week off for July 4th potentially You know I'm looking at about 25,000
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Corvettes manufactured for the 2025 model year just kind of based on these current rates The plan is supposed to start those 2026es on Monday August 4th
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So we'll see You starting to hear some things about maybe it might start just a little bit earlier We're not sure
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because we had months and months leading up to this with no Stingray orders being
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submitted just Z06s and some -ay So that's going to be interesting to see if they've got enough of those cars to take
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them all the way through August 1st when the model year is supposed to end And so it's something we're kind of watching
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but about 7 weeks of production to go That sounds good And also the final order cycle for 2025 started on Thursday
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May 29th The last one Yeah the last orders for the 2025s went in at the end of May and only Z06s and E-Rays were
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available The constraints have been the same There are no arrow available for this Z06 either with the ground effects or the carbon fiber wings And with this
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order cycle being over that the 2025s are now done and GM just has to produce what's in the system I know dealers are
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shocked about these Stingray orders and how there have been no allocations since February And one just keeps saying Keith
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it's unprecedented But I mean it's really when you think about it and we're hearing people saying "Yeah my Stingray
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order was put in back in February and it's still just sitting there." I'm telling those people if it's at 3,000 which most of them are saying it is then
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your car is going to be built They've got enough Stingrays I'm sure to take those through So if you've got a Stingray don't worry about it I'm pretty
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certain that your car is going to be built We are also beginning to hear some 2026 orders with those first allocations
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coming out just last Thursday So far initial indications appear as again Z06s
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and possibly E-rays It's pretty wild how many Z06s they are building without having any arrow for them You just have
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to wonder who's ordering these cars or whether dealers are just taking them for dealer stock items Pretty interesting so far with the end of the 2025s and 2026s
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It just shows you when it comes to ordering there's never a dull moment Absolutely right And also speaking of
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never a dull moment there's 310 ZR1s that are already ordered Any details on those yeah we actually got quite a bit
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So first we heard 302 orders were in the system and all we had was the model breakdowns and then the colors That was
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pretty interesting We were able to break down all the different colors and take a look at those But then just last week another dealer came out and said "Now
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we're showing 310." So it's getting pretty interesting there That top ordered color is black A
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total of 98 units and I think it's like 30% of orders are black The rapid blue
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is going to be the rarest color Just six of those built And I think what I'll call the surprise color is competition
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yellow which is actually number three with 39 total orders If you go to Corvette Blogger you'll see the charts
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broken down again by body style And as we predicted the split window coups are in much more demand than the
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convertibles on these first order cycles for the 2025s What we got last week was
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we all got data on ZTK package in the highwing So as a refresher if you order ZTK the carbon fiber arrow package is
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mandatory but you can order the carbon fiber aero package without ZTK Having
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said that we have a total of 150 of the 310 orders with ZTK So that's 150 wings
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because ZTK requires it But then when you add in those orders of the wings without ZTK there's another 63 of those
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So we have a total Steve this is crazy A total of 213 ZR1 orders will have the
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Highwing Wow Which is 68.7% of production based on those 310 cars The ZTK order percentage is 48.3 So GM
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definitely went out and found some high wings And actually they found a lot of them Again it could be that's why we're not seeing any carbon fiber arrow for
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the Z06s because they had to jump in there and grab as much production as they can and shift it to the ZR1s But
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what else could that be i mean that's a ton of high wings going to ZR1 orders Yeah Keith that was my build too It was
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the black with the blue stripes and the blue seat belt and the blue wheels and things like that And I did want the
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Highwing too I didn't want ZTK which is really really nice because I saw that the Aero package included the Highwing
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The ZTK package did not have to have that Highwing It's the ZTK package that really brings in the track spec
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suspensions the tighter springs Without it your ride is going to be much smoother Yeah definitely Also we saw
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that the 2026 order guide for Corvette is now live which is really cool Yeah this is fun See because we recorded that
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morning and I said if you go back and listen to the last news and headline show I made a prediction that wow you know this order guide could be coming at
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any time And we were correct because it came like at 10:00 that Friday night Yeah I was up till like 12 1:00 a.m you
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know talking to friends and trying to go through all this stuff The order guide is such an essential part of the ordering process because it shows you
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all the options the packages it shows you what's available what's restricted and it also tells you what's new and
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what's being deleted And because there's not a 2026 configurator that's why it's really good to look at the order guide
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if you're getting one of those first 2026 orders That's why we love it We learn all kinds of stuff We got some
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stuff here Of course we got two new exteriors five new interiors Of course we got the whole 2026 interior refresh
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which brings in the three new screens and a center console for the car Some of the cool stuff we learned I mean it's
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not cool that we learned this but Roswell Green metallic is actually a premium color so there'll be an extra charge for that Huh We don't know what
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that cost will be yet We're still waiting for pricing and configurator to come out We did learn that there is an
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extra charge for the green Some other cool stuff the 2026s will have a front illuminated cross flags emblem Ooh that
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three stansion spoiler that we saw on the -ay is actually available for both the -ray and the Z06 So this is pretty
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cool And this is a dealer installed wing as well Probably what'll happen is that rear facial will come with those three
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cutouts already made and then the dealers just have to mount it on there That's what I think is going to happen We were talking to a dealer about how
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they were going to handle that One of the things that we haven't seen yet is an asymmetrical stripe package for the
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car assuming that goes to the right or to the left of the center of the car It's going to be interesting to see how
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they do that And then of course the blue brake calipers generally reserved for the ZR1 It's been that way for the last
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two generations for ZR1 These blue ones are now available for -ay and Z06 Wow Good for those guys I guess I always
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like kind of reserving that for the ZR1 And then finally I think the 2026s is kind of under the radar but big news is
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all 2026s are getting 5G connectivity when you hook up your data plan or OnStar or anything like that So should
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increase data rates and make some of those overtheair installs a lot quicker Very nice I saw one thing that I thought
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was really really cool about the ZR1 because it's got that great big massive wing in the back They relocated the rear
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view camera on the ZR1 Yeah When you're standing behind the car you look at it you say "How are drivers going to see
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around that thing?" Now now you've got that mirror camera on the back You know it sits on top of the roof but that wing
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is so massive it even blocks that We were standing at the front of the car looking through and you know it's just like it's a huge wing Yeah So our friend
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Rick Kiy was at the plant a few weeks back and there was a 2026 ZR1 CTF car in
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that plant's administrative parking lot And sure enough he found that there were two cameras now above the license plate
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instead of just the one that's used for the backup camera It looks like Chevy is moving the two cameras down so that
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there is now visibility outside that wing It might make the point of view a little bit lower but there might be some
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ways that it's not as bad as we think it would be But what is kind of goofy is that roof camera that was up there They
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put a cover over it so it blocks it off But the cover on this car that Rick caught was carbon flash and it's over
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the top of a visible carbon fiber roof So it just kind of clashed there So hopefully they've got that upgraded on
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customer cars when those come out in 2026 But yeah a little bit of change there This is for safety Obviously they
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want to make sure that there is plenty of visibility outside the rear behind those wings Yeah And also the hard top convertible people will be happy about
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that relocated camera too Yeah it might work for them Uh-huh Absolutely All right buddy Let's take our first break
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Keith let's start with racing and Corvette racing at Detroit Yeah this was a 100minute street fight on the streets
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got some great points there So we definitely needed that The next race for IMSA in the Corvette Z06 program is the
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Seline 6 Hours of the Glenn on Sunday June 22nd at Watkins Glenn International
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made their debut yesterday at the test We had the first testing sessions on Sunday Qualifying will begin later this
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again That'd be nice I always look forward to Lama I can't ever stay up for full 24 hours of viewing but it's still
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want to see Corvette Racing do great at Lemons and we're here to cheer all on Yes definitely In the rumors category
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Keith did we see a Roswell Green Corvette out in the rain so there's been like three sightings of this Roswell
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Green Corvette The first one was it looked like it was behind the plant I think we might have talked about that the last time we had our conversation It
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was a really kind of a dark photo It was far away It was blurry but it looked like a Roswell Green on an E-ray with
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got like three or four photos of it It's looking better the more I see it but it was in the rain so it's darker And then
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our friend Brad over at the mid-enine Corvette forum he showed a picture that he saw in Facebook It was like four or
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five cars that were parked in the administrative parking lot at the Corvette plant Somebody took it far away but one of those cars was a green car
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Keith it was it was kind of interesting because a grand jury indicted two of the men that stole eight Corvettes from the
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grand jury in Bowling Green just indicted two men for the crime Although it was reported that up to eight or nine were involved in the original theft
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Those cars were all driven out at the same time There's still quite a few people out there that appear to have gotten away with it for now We'll just
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leave it at that The charges include engaging in organized crime theft by unlawful taking of property valued at $1
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million or more Wow Firstdeggree criminal mischief This was Dante Cortez Walker 21 and Armani Nasser Jordan 22 I
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think they're both from the Detroit area Walker was also indicted for tampering with physical evidence thirdderee
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fleeing or invading police and resisting arrest Again hook them Dano Let's send these guys away They don't deserve to be
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part of our society anymore Yeah I just shake my head Put my face in my palm and just shake my head Well you know there
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was just another case in the news Somebody tried to steal a couple Hummers from the plant up in Detroit They
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destroyed the cars trying to get them I don't know if people are arrested or not It's like bank robbers Why you rob the bank well that's where the money is I
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guess they're trying to find these easy marks And of course when they got into the Corvette assembly plants parking lot
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the keys are in the car because they're ready to be shipped right now You can't even see that You know where they had the fences before the museum came in and
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put in semi-trail trucks and containers I think all the way around the fences Wow There ain't no getting in and out of
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that anymore That's for sure Also this is a cool story You know the Indianapolis 500 is done but 12 Indy500
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festival cars and these are Stingrays They're headed to Indianapolis dealerships They're going to be sold there That's cool Yeah these are really
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cool because for collectors you know they come with all the documentation and provenence of being an actually used
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festival car for the Indianapolis 500 You can go back and see some of these cars from previous races They always
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have the livery on them These hardtop convertible Stingrays have the same livery as the ZR1 pace cars Really cool
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stuff there What's going to happen was we heard that the 12 Corvettes were slated to be sold as certified pre-owned used Corvettes by the local Indianapolis
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Chevy dealers The MSRP on these 12 identical bills was $108,000 and have a ton of great equipment on them including
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those $6,000 visible carbon fiber wings So the two Stansion wings these cars are really in demand I haven't seen anybody
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saying I got one or picked one up yet But if you really like them we've got the numbers of the individual Indianapolis Chevy dealers on the
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website So dial for dollars and see if you can get one Yeah go get a festival car That'd be pretty darn cool That'd be
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nice I like them too Yeah they look great Also ZR1 number one from Rick
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Hendrickk is now on display at City Chevrolet It's Rick Hendrick's car and it looks fantastic Well it should be cuz
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I think it was the same ZR1 that you built for our little challenge there The black coupe with the blue stripe the
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blue wheels the blue interior He paid $3.7 million to be able to buy that first car back in January at Barrett
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Jackson Scottsdale auction Like you said now it is on display inside his flagship dealership City Chevrolet in Charlotte
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We also got word just late last week as well that VIN number 15 a yellow split window coupe was just delivered to Les
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Stanford Chevrolet The ZR1's are officially shipping to customers It's a pretty exciting time right now
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Absolutely Also this is really cool The National Corvette Museum is having a membership appreciation day What's
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included in that and what's the date on that yeah this is pretty cool This looks like a new event for them They're telling us that they're going to
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celebrate June 27th as member appreciation day ahead of the National Corvette Day on June 30th which I
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believe is that Monday coming up Activities include like a special cars and coffee hosted by NCM Insurance
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There's complimentary coffee and donuts there and that'd be outside the museum Inside the museum they're going to do a
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pre-ely inspection demo with Adam's polishes showing how to bring out the Corvette Shine and how they do it with
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cars before delivery You've got some artifact pit stops within the museum They're going to be showing off the
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Quinland car that 1953 Corvette that's undergoing some preservation right now And then they've got a collection of
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Narnhard letters they're going to share as well So that's pretty cool Finally there's a scavenger hunt in the afternoon with all the events closing
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down in the afternoon around 3:00 or so So it looks like a very fun event If you're local plan to go If you're flying
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in I don't know if there's quite a bit much to do other than what we've said there But anytime you get a chance to go
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to the National Corvette Museum I say go for it Sounds like a good time to me buddy Our final story We had all the ZR1
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reveal videos come out and some of them were really really interesting Some of them were good I asked Steve I said "Steve so tell me your favorite one I'll
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tell you mine." Okay Well obviously the Savage Geese one is always good but I think of all the others I really like
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the Vehicle Virgins one the best Okay Again the Savage Geese in terms of production and the amount of time they
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put in I think it was an hour and a half Yeah It's hard to sit down for an hour half video of a review But I guess if
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you break it up in chunks or if you're a buyer you know then you of course you're going to do that Yeah definitely watch the Savage Geese if you get a chance I
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think I'm kind of torn I really enjoyed the Cletus McFarland video He comes in very lowkey just looking at all the cars
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you know comparing the 25s and 26s but then he spends like 10 minutes with Dustin Gardner who's the assistant chief
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engineer of Small Blocks They spend a good amount of time going through all the different components of the car and Cle is just amazed with what they've
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done with all the different ways this car is engineered from those 72 millimeter turbos to the port and direct
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injection of the car and when it's used I thought it was a very good ride And then of course the one I thought was really funny again I love these guys the
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two guys from the straight pipes What is happening with this car is it is so fast and so powerful it's making people sick
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And we're saying literally because in the straight pipes Yuri was in the passenger seat and you could see him turning green literally in front of our
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eyes Eventually he's like "I got to get out I got to get out." And then the video ends with Jacob when he was in the
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right seat also complaining about being a little nauseous And it ends with him saying "I just threw up." And actually
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Cletus' photographer was also talking about being nauseous as he was riding in the passenger seat Well now of course
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they're going around curves at 80 miles an hour and sprinting all the way up to 170 on the backstretch though there was
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quite a few GeForces working against that passenger I couldn't imagine launching your cookies during a ride and
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drive of a ZR1 You know the guys at Spring Mountain said "Please pull over immediately because if you do that it
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just never comes out of the car." Yeah that was awful But the other video that was really good too if you get a chance
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and you haven't seen it yet I would say watch the Mark Royce and Jay Leno video Very good driving video And they
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actually at the very end there Mark says you know C9 is coming but before we get
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to C9 you're going to see some more variants of the C8 come out It sounds like there's still some work to do on
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the C8 And who knows maybe with the success the car has been having maybe they're talking about extending it a little bit further or not We're going to
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have to see how that shakes out There's been some predictions I mean the forecasting company said you know 2029
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for a an enhanced C9 or a C8 and a half right mark Royce actually confirmed that they're working on it That's all good
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news for us But I love the CR1 videos I'm still working my way through some of the other guys Hope to watch them all
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here before the weekend ends Yeah they're a lot of fun Well buddy thanks for being back on Corvette today We'll
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see you again in two weeks Well thanks again everybody out there If you are on the road you see a Corvette passing you throw that hand up wave and let's keep
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