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CORVETTE TODAY #276 - Corvette News & Headlines, Late May 2025
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May 26, 2025
CORVETTE TODAY #267 - Corvette News & Headlines, Late May 2025 It's the week of Memorial Day and it's time, once again, for our Corvette News & Headlines show! Keith Cornett from Corvette Blogger is back with your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, to cover these headlines and more! 1. The EPA officially rates the C8 ZR1 for fuel economy 2. The National Corvette Museum offers free admission for veterans and active-duty military 3. The National Corvette Museum ranks 2nd in USA Today's Best Car Attraction poll 4. Andy Pilgram joins the NCM Board of Directors 5. Rare Duntov Corvette sold at Mecum Indy It might be a holiday week in the USA, but CORVETTE TODAY still keeps you current and up-to-date on everything 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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from corvette blogger.com keith is with me every other week and together we keep you current and uptodate on what's
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happening with America Sports Car buddy it is Memorial Day week i'm fresh back from the Great Falls Montana Corvette
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Clubs show this weekend i've never been up to Montana but boy what beautiful country it is they had a great show and
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some good-looking Corvettes oh I can imagine you know there's another show up there i think the Black Hills Classic
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but it's always been one of those that's been on my bucket list i think someday we'll just have to pack up our cars and head up that way steve that's right that
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sounds good as a matter of fact buddy next week our show is about the Black Hills Corvette Classic barry Conan is
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going to be on the show and he will talk about that show that's one of my bucket list items as well oh fantastic well I
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had actually no idea he was coming up but I'm glad I was able to mention that for you thank you that was a great preview for next week's show let's start
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off like we always do Keith with a production update from the Bowling Green assembly plant so we know that the
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Corvette assembly plant was closed last week this was that final closure that was planned around these changes to the
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assembly line remember they called these project improvements there was a closure one week in February they were off two
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weeks in March and now this final week in May is closed so no Corvettes really produced last week although we did see a
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couple come off the line on Monday looks like they were just finishing up on those but we do have the latest VIN counts for you the Stingray right now
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11,82 examples have been made z06 is at 6535 for the -ay we have
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2363 and yes for the ZR1 we have 13 all right 13 cars have been completed so our
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total VIN count for 2025 is 20,713 okay going into ZR1 production a little
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bit you know they did start on April 28th and before that weekly closure that week before they built about one per day
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they didn't build any on the Monday but Tuesday Wednesday Thursday they built them we have heard that the plant is actually manually sequencing production
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of the ZR1s so these TPWs especially the early ones they've been changing around just a little bit as they're working in
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these cars into the production schedule so we've kind of been watching that of course it is a ramp up we're going to be
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going slow here probably for the next month or so and then hopefully we'll start to pick up a little bit and uh they can get through all these orders
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which I know that they've got planned to do we do actually have about 8 weeks to go I think for 2025 production 2025s run
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through August 1st then the 2026s will start that Monday August 4th so about 8 weeks of full production there'll
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probably be a week off for Fourth of July vacation as well and then of course this closure that just happened some
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interesting stuff happening at the Corvette assembly plant that's great and speaking of the ZR1 the EPA finally gave
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us their official fuel economy rating for the ZR1 yeah now we know that you're not buying the ZR1 for it fuel economy
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we always have to say that because people just for whatever reason they have to chime in saying exactly why
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they're not buying it that it's not for the fuel economy but you know what the government rates them all the same and so we actually go to the government
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website fuel economy.gov and we've been checking on this actually for the last few weeks or so and they did actually
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just show up the rating for America's newest supercar is 12 MPG city and 18
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MPG highway for a combined 14 mile per gallon to compare that to the Z06
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remember they had the Z06 with the carbon fiber aero package that was nearly the same the only difference was
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they got 19 MPG on the highway as opposed to 18 MPG on the highway and that's why the ZR1 and the Z06 both
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share that $3,000 gas guzzler tax you do have to pay to play but actually it wasn't as bad as we thought it would be
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and that's I guess why we did see that that $3,000 gas guzzler tax was similar for that i guess we'll take that as a
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win yeah I think so it's really not bad like you I was expecting a little bit lower rating but 12 city and 18 highway
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that's not too bad i'll take it yeah also on Chevrolet.com the Corvette page
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the configurator now has a mini configurator what does the mini configurator do so if you go to
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chevrolet.com and then you click on the vehicles and then there's the performance tab there that's where you get the Corvette page and you'll
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actually see that there's a new section there called explore new 2026 Corvette updates so this is the page that has
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some great videos showcasing those new interiors we've got the videos of the three screen layouts the center console
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changes of course they relocated the HVAC buttons to underneath the center console screen there but in addition to
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2026 interior changes they also there's a little mini configurator on this updates page allows you to see the 10
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exterior colors and you can put that new Roswell green on a car or the blade silver on a car but then there's also an
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interior tab and then you can also look at the new interiors and you can spin them around a little bit so it might
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give you a little bit better understanding of how the new interiors look of course there's some really cool ones there we got that asymmetric one
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with the red and the black and of course you can go with the competition seats versus the regular GT2 seats there i do
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like that dark atmosphere which is that really rich chocolate color and of course the Seawolf with the habanero
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stitching I think is pretty cool as well so you can see all that's on this page we are still waiting for some key info
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for 2026's of course we'll have the order guide pricing and then the full build and price configurator update now
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I'm actually thinking that the order guide might come as soon as this week pre-orders actually for the 2026es start
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May 29th these are when dealers can just go ahead and add their pre-orders in they all go in at 1100 it's just
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basically a chance to load up so dealers that know that they are doing some orders you know they can get an early start on that pricing in the
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configurator mostly drop in mid June or so is what we believe okay that sounds good it looks like I'm going to be
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playing on the configurator again this afternoon thanks for that buddy it's a mini configurator though so you won't
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waste as much time yeah you don't know me that well then do you
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also we've got some great stories about the National Corvette Museum first the museum is offering free admission for
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active duty military and veterans which I thought was awesome yeah the National Corvette Museum is one of the Blue Star
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Museums again for 2025 this offers free admittance to active duty military personnel and up to five members of
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their family as well so really cool there and then they're also offering a general admission ticket to all US
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military veterans from all branches as well these programs are actually running now and they'll run through September
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1st so bring those military IDs and you get into these museums for free and then also if you do a Google search for the
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2025 Blue Star Museum list you can see all the museums in the USA that are participating in this great program
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great for veterans get out there it's a chance to see some really cool museums if you're active duty again you can take
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your family along with you on that so make the best of those times when you have those family moments when you're off leave there fantastic also the
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museum placed second in USA Today's best car attraction poll i was hoping we get first again but we got second which is
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great too we did actually this is the second year in a row that we got second from this poll and it's these cats down
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in Georgia the Seavoy Automotive Museum they've taken first place for the second year in a row as well so looks like
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we've got a little competition that we need to make up for next year but this is an annual contest it's a reader
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choice poll readers are asked to rank their 10 best car attractions and they look at different things like the cars
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actually the shopping whether there's destinations and lodging and things like that so they look at all kinds of stuff to develop this list other museums that
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were included include the Revs Institute down in Naples the AACA Museum in
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Hershey Pennsylvania the Simeone Foundation in Philadelphia and the Peterson Museum in Los Angeles yeah I
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thought the Peterson would come up first but hey that other museum is looks like it's doing good they've got a nice
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streak there they're two years in a row number one absolutely and I've looked at their website before they do have a nice collection so if you're in the
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Carterville Georgia area it'd be a good couple hours to stop in and check it out that's nice all right buddy time for our
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was interesting corvette Racing and TF Sport we had difficult weekend at the six hours of Spa both the TF Sport cars
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finished outside the top 10 which means no points unfortunately the class leading number 33 Z06 finished 13th
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still has the drivers and teams points lead into Lemons and then when they go to Lemons it's a double points race so
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anything can really happen there lemons actually takes place June 14th and 15th and it's next up on the World Endurance
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Championship schedule as far as our Corvette racing team in IMSA they were recently at Laguna Secika for the
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Monterey Sports Car Championship and the number three Chevrolet Corvette Z06 with Antonio Garcia and Alexander Sims
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finished third on the podium while Tommy Milner and Nikki Caspber in the number four Corvette actually finished sixth in
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class as far as the other two cars the DXDT entry with Robert Wickens finished
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10th in class while the number 13 AWA racer finished in 13th position as for
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and 31st this is the 100minute sprint car race around the Detroit Street
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a lot of fun there we'll be watching our two yellow Corvettes and seeing how they do in Chevrolet's home race i guess it's
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on the home track that's cool i love those street races even in Detroit that's really cool going around the city
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is really pretty fun hey speaking of Lama I know AWA Racing just announced a
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new livery for the race coming up in mid June it looked really really good it does it's a bright red livery for the
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Z06 and then they've got very large Canadian Maple Leaf logos on the car as well of course the team is from Canada
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and they wanted to highlight their Canadian heritage there it's also got some neat other graphics on the regular car i think it's black with the yellow
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lines that follow along all the lines of the car they do white lines on this one but it looks really good you'll have no
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problem finding that car on the circuit we think June 14th and 15th is when it all happens of course we got the whole
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week leading up to it and I believe we have three Corvettes in the race in the summer classic this year we've got the
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two from TF Sport and then this entry from AWA and IMSA can't wait for the L mile race that's always fun it's great
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to watch also buddy speaking of Corvette racing Andy Pilgrim who used to race for Corvette Racing is now on the board of
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directors from the National Corvette Museum first we got Ken Lingfelter now we got Andy Pilgrim now the board's
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starting to really look good yeah you know and of course Andy brings with him all kinds of experience he was a former
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Corvette and Cadillac racer he was also a instructor there at the Corvette
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Museum's Motorsports Park there for a while but his other passion is really for traffic safety and educating teen
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drivers so he's really gained some notoriety for that as well obviously as a former driving instructor at the NCM
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Motorsports Park he brings a certain insight that'll help govern those properties over there we really hope that he is able to make an impact on the
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board of course we've been a little nervous about some of the things that have been going on up there but we had some great conversations with board
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members with some of these new members feel like they're really getting into bringing in some quality people that can
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help manage these great facilities and operations we have up there welcome Andy to the board yeah that's awesome yeah I
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think the board is finding the groove that's for sure well buddy let's take our final break when we come back it's
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Corvette keith this is really pretty cool carbon Revolution who makes the carbon fiber wheels for the Z06
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announced they had record revenue results last year that's pretty cool you know Steve Corvette Today even offers
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damn we're good buddy yeah Carbon Revolution of course they're an Australian company but I believe they're on NASDAQ anyways they reported annual
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revenue for 2024 at a record $47 million US that's up 87% from the previous year
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unfortunately now they did report a loss of $146 million this is because they're
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investing money into their production capacity and they're really moving towards profitability the CEO talked
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about how increased orders from Z06 and E-rays have been helping and of course they've got the new car the ZR1's coming
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online and they've got a set of wheels for Lamborghini as well that is coming online for 2025 so they've got some
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really cool things happening at Carbon Revolution we're going to keep our eye on them they're a great company we had them on Corvette Today it was a great
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show if you just search Corvette Today Carbon Revolution you'll hear that show we had a guy from Australia and their
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American rep from Detroit on the show at the same time it was really cool to hear about their process this was really cool
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too keith at Make them Indie a rare Dunto Corvette was sold how did that come out if you don't know the story
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about these Dunto turbos you know about 5 years after his retirement from Chevrolet Zora Arcus Dunto started
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collaborating with American Custom Industries there's a Ohio company to create a customized turbo C3 Corvette
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the goal was to build around 200 of them but only about 30 of them actually were built and one of those cars was just
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sold at Mikum's annual Spring Classic in Indianapolis it was the only known Dunto turbo to be finished in red it had just
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15,000 miles on the odometer but the car only sold for 29,700 which is slightly
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less than the estimates of up to $40,000 for the car again a really cool story and if you've been to the NCM and you've
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seen Zora's blue 74 Corvette there some of that car actually came from American
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Custom Industries it was the founder of American Custom Industries that actually gave Zora that custom blue paint job on
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the 74 car it was the only Corvette that Zora ever personally owned himself we were just at the NCM they're doing some
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preservation work on it but pretty cool to see that but yeah this is American Custom Industries and these turbo C3s a
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really neat project i actually wrote about this car in my book Corvette Special Editions and I know that one of the big troubles they had with it was
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the turbo units generated a lot of heat and so the hoods on these C3s actually required some additional venting that
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was one of their solutions there but cool story and a cool car and man got 1030 Duntoff turbos out there and
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they're relatively inexpensive that's really cool speaking of unique Corvettes everybody knows we didn't have a 1983
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Corvette in 1984 Corvette number one VIN number 001 finally was found and it got
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its first wash in years and years yeah so I had no idea that VIN one from the
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1984 Corvette was actually a prize it was given away in a contest the guy that
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won it actually put it right up for sale i think it only had a little bit over 200 miles when he put it up for sale and
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so a man in California is reading this for sale at like 6:00 in the morning i guess the newspaper just came out and he
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bought the car sight unseen and actually the story goes on and known to his wife he actually mortgaged their house to be
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away with only 277 original miles on it that second buyer the owner had passed
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away and now his wife is the caretaker and somehow she hooked up with the guys from WD Detailing who are YouTubers that
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do these first wash videos we've seen a bunch of them they're really entertaining these guys do a really good job detailing i've I've tried to pick up
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some tips by watching their stuff this car's got special lettering on it it was a prize so they wanted to show like VIN
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001 and some other stuff they've got the full VIN up on the windshield banner just a really cool car hopefully we'll
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be able to see this car come out again someday it's too cool of a car to be just locked away in a shed somewhere
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hopefully we'll be able to see this car again that would be great to see that car and speaking of rare Corvettes one
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of three missing manta rays from the C3 era is missing for 50 years it was found in a Florida trailer park oh my gosh
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yeah this is actually another car that was in our book on Corvette Special Editions because we talk about Joel Rosen and Baldwin Motion Performance up
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in New York so they would build these cars but he also had some customizations that he did and he loved the Manta Ray
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that Chevrolet concept car that was done and he created his own Manta Ray body
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kits and from that they know that three cars were built one of these cars was actually featured in Cars magazine in
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1976 it was called Electric Orange the car was painted orange and after that issue came out the car just kind of
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disappeared and now 50 years later it showed up in a shed down at a Florida trailer park south of Tampa here oh my
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gosh some of the people that are knowledgeable about the motion performance cars i believe he bought the
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car it's now in project condition but it has all the really cool stuff of the Manor Roray were known for like the
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louvered windows on the back the Opal style front headlights and then the interior with that push button kind of
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fluffy from the 70s is what it it screams there really cool video jerry Heasley found this and did the video on
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YouTube so if you go to Corvette Blogger search for Jerry Heasley on YouTube you'll be able to find it but man it'd be great to have this car back in show
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car condition again because they are these throwbacks from the 70s that are just so cool to see and again the
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history of motion performance and Joel Rosen behind it it'd be a cool car to see again for sure those manor rays are
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awesome looking i can't wait to see that car once it's done that'll be cool and buddy our final story this is pretty
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cool last week Vehicle Virgins came out with a first look at the new 2026 interior for the C8 Corvette yeah so
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we've got a couple of stories that came out from this so first of all Vehicle Virgins is a YouTube channel they were
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at Kota for the very first ride and drive of the Corvette ZR1 that Chevrolet is hosting there that video is under
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embargo but he had an opportunity to check out the new 2026 Corvette updates with the interior and the three screen
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layouts and all that stuff he did that video again just nice he went through the screens went through the different
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looks at the interiors and what's new there but then the second half of this video he did a lead follow exercise he
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was in a 2026 Stingray and he was following the new 2025 Corvette ZR1 on
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the track at Kota and the idea was that he was going to learn the lines from the professional driver in front of him and
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then the next day would be his opportunity to drive the ZR1 obviously he's already driven that now all these
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reviews are going to come out this Friday at 10:00 a.m eastern Standard Time so Friday May 30th 10:00 a.m
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eastern Standard Time you'll be able to catch all the driver reviews from Automotive Magazines so some good stuff
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happening there do not make any plans for this Friday because you are going to be busy i guarantee that yeah I got that
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time blocked out coming up this Friday that's for sure i'm glad you and I aren't doing any recording then you know
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because I plan on being very busy that Friday you and me both pal you and me both well buddy thanks for being back on
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Corvette today i hope you have a great holiday week this week and I'll see you in two weeks my pleasure again we think
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