CORVETTE TODAY #55 - News & Headlines, Early May 2021

Name: CORVETTE TODAY #55 - News & Headlines, Early May 2021
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good to have you back i am fresh back from the national corvette museum michelin bash
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that's the official name everybody calls it the birthday bash but it was really good to see everybody and to see some of
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these people get inducted into the hall of fame well not only that but we got some great news coming out
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from the event from the various corvette team personnel that was there and unfortunately we weren't there
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this year but we are looking forward to making our return next year it's always one of our favorite events you tend to learn so
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much about what's going on for the next year so it's always a great event and glad you made it i'm glad i made it too it's always fun
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for me from kansas city to bowling green it's about an eight-hour drive each way and it wasn't bad at all
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i enjoyed just taking the car home and getting some pictures in front of the big water tower there because it still has the c7 cross flags
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on there so it worked out really really good yeah well you got to get pictures of the carbon edition wherever you are right
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absolutely she deserves it for sure let's get into it keith let's start with news let's get an update on corvette production from the
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plant at bowling green all right well they are just continuing to roll we've seen the last couple weeks since
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our last update only one day that there was a dip but for the most part they're cranking out anywhere from
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170 to 180 and they've been averaging you know we said like one 182 is what we've seen previously so this
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week on friday they'll wrap up somewhere around 12 800 cars for 2021 model year
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next week we should break the 13 000 mark so they're continuing to crank right along and one of the interesting things is in
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kai spandy's seminar he's the corvette plant manager when he gave his speech he said we're in the fourth day of the
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seventh week without interruption so technically that was a week ago so we're in the fourth day of the eighth week
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without any interruptions and obviously the semiconductor chips are something that they are really concerned about but as we've seen
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gm has prioritized their highest profit margin vehicles which are trucks and corvettes
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to get those so they've idled other plants elsewhere i think they just recently did another four plants went
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down for a week but bowling green continues to make corvettes so that's all good news and during kai's remarks he also talked
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about the right-hand dry production these are cars with the steering wheel on the right hand drive and they're going to those markets
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the first ones that they're doing right now are going to japan and he said they're actually batching them so
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they're doing multiple cars at a time they batch them they produce and they ship them all at the same time
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there are 526 individual unique parts to do the right hand drive so it's not
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just simply you're flipping things from left to right there's a whole lot more involved in that and then also you have country specific
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so what you might do for a car that's going to japan is not necessarily the same you'll do for a car that's going to
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europe or down to australia i found that interesting as well the last thing he talked about we've
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really been wanting to hear this he's talking about wanting to get the tours restarted they've been working on
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the tour room and enhancing that they did a whole refurbishment of it it used to be like a checkered board with a lot of red and
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black now it's a very corporate white very clean looking they got new photos up on the walls
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so we're actually looking forward to saying that kai said that in his remarks that he wants tours to resume but
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keeping employees safe is the number one concern and they're still under dictates from the corporate office about having
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visitors in the plant sounds like they really want to do it hopefully as we get through this vaccination the pandemic that we'll be
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able to get in there and actually watch our cars being built again that's absolutely good news and at the michelin bash
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corvette announced three new colors and showed the panels i sat right in front of them it was great to see the panels up close
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and personal yes they had actual painted rear fender panels that they brought over from the plant
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they were able to show off the hypersonic gray the caffeine and the amplified orange it was chuck
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valentini who's the body and plant manager over there he said that the caffeine had just been finished up about two days prior to that
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right they were able to show them all off and then later in the week i guess it was uh on the following week monday
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we actually got some really good comparison photos corvette team took out the panels into the sunshine
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held them up against various cars not only the colors they're replacing like the hypersonic gray is replacing shadow
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gray but they also then showed it against the silver flare the new color they showed it up against ceramic matrix
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gray it really gave us a nice idea of how these different colors are fitting in you know you look at the picture of the hypersonic gray inside
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it's very light you take it outside it shows some of that gunmetal appearance i think that a lot of people are kind of
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clamoring for i think it went really well with those colors we did a poll on the colors
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on that friday and believe it or not the number one new color that was chosen was the caffeine which i was just a little
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bit surprised about just because you really got to see that outside when it's outside it looks almost like a
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really dark dark maroon with a lot of sparkle in it chuck said that the caffeine has more metallic content than
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any other car that they've ever painted at bowling green so it's pretty exciting again we got to see the whole car out in the sun to really
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make our determination they like doing a couple of these niche colors every year that's gonna be a one percenter a two percenter probably
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but it does mix things up and kind of expands the color palette for the year we're looking forward to seeing them in
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person i liked them really well and i thought the caffeine was really good i loved the zeus bronze but the caffeine
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is very nice it reminds me back in the late 70s early 80s kind of like that chocolate color i used
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to have a datsun 280z in that color and it looked spectacular
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and all the metal flake and metallic in it really really looked nice so i think that it's going to be a popular color and it
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looked really really good on that one panel i'm anxious to see the entire car done in that color
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exactly you know it's almost like a root beer is that how i just immediately jumped to my mind those sunshine photos where you see the
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gold flake and the silver flake and a little bit of a red flake in it it really pops as they say so we're looking
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forward to that it does remind me of root beer that's a perfect analogy for sure also
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it was great when taj and harlan did their presentation unfortunately it was virtually but they did announce a new
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low rear spoiler coming for 2022 yes it's a low profile spoiler sits on the
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very back deck of the stingray and it's available with or without z51 and if you don't have z51 i think if you
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order it you also get that three-piece front splitter as well because aerodynamics has to be balanced
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front and back very low just a little bit of a lip to it we don't really have any information on
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exactly if there's any kind of downforce properties what this will bring to the car but it does just add a little bit more
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to it but not the big high wing kind of thing or even the the regular z51 spoiler so for
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those that want just a little bit more out of it this should be something interesting for you i'm betting that the price isn't
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going to be too high on this they didn't announce it but i don't think it's going to be anywhere near a thousand dollars i bet it would be
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priced somewhere around five or six i think so too and it looked really good it made the car look nice because if it
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doesn't have a rear wing on it it just kind of looks naked and this was a subtle addition
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but wasn't too overbearing so i think everybody will really like it we see the slide they showed was a torch
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red with a red low profile spoiler so be interesting to find out if we can also get that in carbon flash absolutely
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right they also announced that the hardtop convertible is a record 41 of sales for the c8 that was
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amazing yeah it's really jumped traditionally the convertibles have always done around 15 to 17
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especially during the c7 days and there was a lot of choices during the c7 days too every model had a coupe and a
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convertible version of it we actually pulled out our corvette black book ran the numbers and we haven't found convertible sales
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this high since 1969 when they were 43 wow in the late 60s and early 70s that's
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when convertible ordering plunged chevy had the new c3s with the t-top so you could easily take those tops out
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which kind of made it a convertible right so those become very popular in fact in 75 they took away the
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convertible it wasn't until 1986 that it came back but we looked at production numbers from 86
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from 98 when they came out with the c5 convertible we have not seen convertible production
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this high since 1969. that's amazing that's a great number too also keith
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corvette europe is going to hold their launch event for the c8 may 7th through 9th which is very very
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exciting yeah so chevrolet europe has been sending out invitations to people over there that have signed up
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for more information about the corvette launch in europe luckily we've got some readers over there who send us copies of theirs
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what we understand is there's actually going to be five different seminars over the course of that three day weekend
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i think that there's three german versions and two english versions one of the people that's involved over
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there is patrick herman who with chevrolet europe we've seen him before especially when they're doing any kind of nurburgring
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testing he's like one of their technical guys over there and i've listened to him before on camera very knowledgeable fun to listen to he's
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going to be leading those discussions who knows we might actually see some other people involved with that so
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it's going to be interesting we don't know exactly when the cars are going to be over there we're being told probably third quarter
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we're also being told that they're going to be 2022's that go to europe oh we're still just waiting for more
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official information on that that sounds good and finally the national corvette museum announced a big expansion a 12 million
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dollar expansion yeah they want to add a two-story 30 000 square foot addition
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it would be off the front over to where the rv parking is the trailer parking is off to the side
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of the main circle in the front but they're talking about adding like a lifetime members lounge more theater space they're going to
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expand the kids zone education center they're going to be a rooftop member's lounge which i think is pretty cool and
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again i go back to our conversation two weeks ago with bloomington gold and say uh where's the beer garden at because
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that would be a perfect place to host something like that and then finally there's a sensory calming room for guests with unique
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needs so kids with autism or other things that can kind of go in there and just chill for a little bit so sounds like a
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pretty interesting expansion they've already raised over a million dollars of the 12 million from
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enthusiasts and members they said that they're not going to actually break ground until they have the money in-house and ready to go so
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we'll be following that one that one should be interesting very interesting for sure well keith let's take our first break
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keith is with me twice per month every other week to keep you up to date on the latest in the world of corvette in the second segment we're
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going to talk about racing and rumors and keith at the museum's michelin bash it was great to see and meet doug feehan
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in person because he finally got inducted into the corvette hall of fame yeah that was great news you know they
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usually do the hall of fame inductions in the fall at the anniversary show but the anniversary show was postponed last
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year because of the pandemic so they pushed it off to here so they always do a nice dinner they do a great video that we featured the video
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that was shown at the induction ceremony on the website just the who's who of people that talk
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about doug's career you can see some early photos of him how he got into racing he's such a great guy anyways to really
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get some more background information on some of the stuff that we don't know about him is always fun and interesting to learn
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the whole thing with him stepping back from corvette racing and coming back as the corvette racing ambassador
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during the seminar with taj they certainly touched on that and i thought it was telling one of the
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things that taj said was certainly none of us were consulted when they made that move meaning that when doug was
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replaced by laura clauser so i think that just having him back and being part of the museum he's now a
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hall of famer he deserves it we're going to be seeing doug moore he's obviously a c8 corvette owner so he's
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one of us it's not just a job for him it's a way of life as well so not only did doug get inducted but they also inducted henry
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haga from gm wendell strode who was the long time chairman of the ncm
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and then under the enthusiast it was a doctor mike mccaw who was conducted as well so very cool and congratulations to all of
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them it was great to attend that i've never attended one of them and i was so excited to see it because of wendell and because of doug feehan he is
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really the face of corvette racing also in corvette racing i was disappointed and sad to see that
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oliver gavin is going to be retiring from driving on corvette racing right after the spa wec race yeah he's
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calling it quits actually he's got some plans you know he's 48. it's got to be hard after a while he you know he's with corvette
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racing for nearly 20 years to be flying back and forth across the atlantic for different races and then with the pandemic you've got to be quarantined
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and all that stuff that came with it he's got kids and there's obviously his wife helen just a storied career with corvette
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racing he's going to wrap up his career at spa this weekend and then he's got some
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exciting news where he is going to be starting the oliver gavin driving academy
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which will be teaching everyday people how to drive the mid-engine corvette stingray on the track and he's going to
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be doing that somewhere in germany we're going to expect some more details shortly on how that all is going to work out but just great news that he's going
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to be able to share some of his wealth of knowledge that he has to the everyday person and help them become better drivers as well so
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congratulations to oliver gavin we are certainly big fans of his over the years and we're looking forward to his
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continued participation not only doing that but he's going to be tied with chevrolet he's a chevrolet ambassador in europe so
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he's there at shows does the geneva show and any other events that they need him to be at so he's going to be tied to corvette for
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quite a while that's great at least he's not leaving completely and it'll be great to see him around the circuit
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exactly also in the rumors section we've got some big juicy rumors keith the c8 z06 mules have been spotted
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testing in ohio and there was like four or five of them wasn't there yeah we believe that
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actually there were four zr1s and the fifth one being the z06 over the last few months we've tried to
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differentiate the two we think that they are two different models these photos came from david wessel who
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actually captured the very first photos of the convertible c7 zr1 and it turns out that the
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corvette team loves the roads around marietta ohio just because of the rolling hills the turns
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i guess it's just an easy trip down from milford for them as well but when we talked about these cars we
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see that these cars have the center mounted exhaust those are the four zr1s that we think have the center mounted exhaust okay
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the z06 we think has the quarter mount exhaust why do we think that well it based on mostly from previous
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testing sessions that they've done in public where they've been working with a porsche gt2 rs
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as we learned from a couple months ago named corvette ron himself who got those pictures of the 345s on the rear of
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these wide-body c8s right it's important to look at the car that they're benchmarking and then from that you can draw your
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conclusions so if you look at the gt2 rs that's a twin-turbo 700 horsepower
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porsche right right so it wouldn't make sense to benchmark that car and that performance
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against a 600 horsepower naturally aspirated flat plane crank v8 that revs
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up to 9000 rpms or just two different cars but we've seen these cars with the center mount exhaust be with that
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porsche over the course of several months and actually they've been testing since last year with that same porsche when they do the z06
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testing we've seen the ferrari 458 italia that's a 576 horsepower naturally
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aspirated high revving car as well so that's how we kind of figure out which car the teams are testing at the moment
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well it's really exciting i can't wait to see what comes out i was an early adopter on the c7 and
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everybody asks me when i'm going to get my c8 and i said you know what i'm going to sit back and wait because this is a
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revolutionary car and to miss a z06 or a zr1 or azure edition that's not going to be
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in my game this year yeah well the other thing too is i do see a lot of comments i always try to do just a little bit of
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clean up if i can we know that the corvette c-a-r has
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a flat-plane crank naturally aspirated engine right they can't run that engine unless
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chevy has plans to homologate that right meaning that they have to offer that engine as a production model
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so people saying oh no no the z06 is going to be a twin turbo i don't see how it can be because that's
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already set in stone in fact we know that they're doing that corvette racing for the engine development
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well it's going to be interesting to see i can't wait and also we heard that chevrolet is preparing to start
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pre-production on the wide-body c8 which would fall right in line with all the engine specs
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well we got news of this about a week ago that the plant was actually going to be
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keeping out everybody that is not actually part of the plant and that included the photographers for
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the national corvette museum that do these photo books so for 700 you order a photo book and they follow your
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car down the line and they take photos of it right so now after an email went out to a couple of those people saying hey
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sorry we're no longer able to do that we're not able to get in the plant so gm is now locked out all these prying
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eyes our sources tell us that yes they have indeed gone down these are beta versions so there's an
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alpha version of the car first that's a hand assembled version of the car that's done up in detroit okay then they do the beta version these
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are the first cars that will actually go down the assembly line from that they can see what kind of processes they
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have to do what they can fix make it better make it easier so these are those first versions that are going down the beta versions
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we are told that they are on the assembly line this week wow i can't wait to see that i'm really
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excited about that yeah that's been pretty exciting one guy just used the word is one word to describe it was
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spectacular also there's an australian publication called wheels magazine that kind of gave us a
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glimpse of the upcoming c8 corvettes talk about that because that was a huge article it was you think it's australia
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but the main guy that wrote it is angus mckenzie who is the international content director for motor trend right
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these guys know their stuff a lot of this article was stuff that we already knew they went through the different models that are coming the e-ray
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the z06 the zr1 and then the zora model at the very end and from that we gathered the e-ray will be about 600
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horsepower with the motor in the front for the e-all-wheel drive the z06 they actually pegged the horsepower
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at 617 and says that at that rating it would be the most powerful flat plane
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crank engine ever produced wow that should be interesting to see if that actually comes true we got 800 horsepower going into the zr1
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that takes the dual overhead cam flat plane crank engine from the z06 and that's two turbos to it nice and then the top of the line is the
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zora and that takes that zr1 engine and then as the e all wheel drive in the front to bring up the horsepower rating to
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right around a thousand so again these are really future products they're off in the distance but we said
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if they're working on the zr1s now and they have to they have to do all that engine development make sure the car stay cool make sure it performs the way
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they want it even though it's years off they're cranking that stuff right now and remember these are rumors that we're
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trying to keep in touch with so we'll keep you in touch as we hear more what we do is we just
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follow the dots they're doing public testing so we can get looks at what they're doing but from that we just draw conclusions
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we hear what sources say we hear what other site sources say and eventually it all sort of just
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mesh and gel into a car that we have very high confidence in so all the stuff's coming it's real
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exciting for corvette in the future it's very exciting buddy and finally the european c8 is
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supposedly going to lose about 30 horsepower due to european union emissions laws which is kind of sad it's
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a little disappointing yes back in 2019 we learned that chevy was no longer going to sell the camaro or the c7
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corvette over there of course the c7 corvette was nearly done anyway they would have to recertify all their
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engine testing over there because these new regulations and essentially what it is it's a gasoline particle filter
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that is going to lower the horsepower probably about 30. bring it down to around 468 is what one of our sources
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told us okay again i'm hoping that all this is going to be confirmed during the rollout meeting over there
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may 7th through the 9th we'll just have to wait and see okay well that sounds good keith let's take our final break and we'll talk
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and now back to corvette today with your host and my husband steve garrett hey thanks
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for listening to corvette today the podcast that talks about everything corvette i'm your host steve garrett with me
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today is keith cornett from corvette blogger keith is here twice a month to keep you up to date on what's going on in the
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world of corvette in this final segment we'll talk about the lighter side of corvette keith fuel tech has set a world
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horsepower record for a c8 and this is pretty interesting because we have a lot of youtubers doing a lot
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of engine mods so tell us about what fuel tech did to set this world record the problem with modding a modern-day
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corvette especially c8s are the computer units are encrypted right chevy does that to keep out quote the
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bad actors because they do over-the-air updates and they don't want anybody to have unauthorized access
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to being able to make changes to that but that has locked out the tuners so one of the ways around that is to set
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up a secondary fueling system so fuel tech what they did was they added port injection to the
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car so it runs off the regular ecu for all the normal driving but when it senses you know spirited driving or more power
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what they do is then it feeds in more fuel from the port ejection they've got two turbos mounted up on the rear of the
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car they ran their dinos last year we saw that they were dynoing right around 750
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horsepower so they came back and they dynoed at 1075 wheel horsepower
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wow that was the highest to date so they broke the mark set by amelia hartford's car i think hers was
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around 1020 i think so they did that and then they took the car to the track they wanted to do some real world track
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testing with the car they actually had a couple mechanical issues but they were still able to run i think
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their fastest time was 9.7 seconds with a trap speed of 145 miles an hour
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wow not quite as fast as amelia but nine sevens are smoking yeah so we expect that they're
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going to continue to work on this car and refine it maybe we'll see some packages offered that's simply amazing that's a lot of
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horsepower and a lot of speed for a c8 yes it is also doug rippy's lamar zr1 is for sale
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but it's not here in the united states is it no it's over in switzerland when the car went over there to do some
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racing i don't know if it just stayed over there what the case was but it's offered for sale it was actually
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the only zr1 ever to race at le mans unfortunately had some issues and retired early but the car
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is all set up for racing they want 380 000 for it oh wow that doesn't include
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shipping so yeah you want to bring it back here to the states and participate in some of the historic racing events
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yeah you better call a banker yeah don't forget the shipping part either right it's gonna cost you at least a
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thousand dollars to bring that car back to america and then we got also another race cars for sale this is one of the
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chevy daytona prototypes oh so back in the grand am racing days this one was raced by whelan
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it's offered on facebook marketplace for only a quarter of a million dollars it's on facebook marketplace facebook
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marketplace is you know i'll tell you steve facebook marketplace is the new craigslist
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wow and in some ways it's better because you have to be a member of facebook you're verified with email addresses and
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stuff but you have to be a member so when somebody posts it you know who's selling it whereas craigslist is all anonymous of course
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for me the one of the selling points on craigslist is that you remain anonymous and you only have to choose who you want to pick to talk to it
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but yeah facebook marketplace you go on there and search for corvettes there's no telling what you'll find amazing and just write a check it's
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quarter of a million dollars keith corvette bloggers doing so well that's pocket change right well i'm gonna be putting together a
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historic racing team at some point whether it's with these full-size cars or whether it's just going to be a slot car team
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we'll have to see how everything transpires for me it'd be a slot car buddy
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also there's a guy on youtube called drive615 and he showed off a bunch of easter eggs
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for the 2021 c8 z51 coupe ironically a lot of those were from the
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c7 era that carried over as well yeah byron glover jr is the guy that runs drive 615.
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i met him august of 2019 it was at the anniversary show and this is when the corvette team was
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driving the ca corvette so we were out there in the field together as these cars were coming in and we've remained good friends ever since
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so he got a loner and one of his ideas was just to show off all the different points of where the hidden flags are
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some of the easter eggs and stuff and he actually found one that i didn't know about which was there's a very tall very small cross flags logo on the rear
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lens of the tail lights i hadn't seen that one before but for the most part he goes through the car shows you all the unique
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features on it it's a red mist car and it's in the sun and he shoots in 4k so if you've got a
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nice monitor that thing's really going to pop for you can really see that redness and the sun there drive615 on youtube we highly recommend
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any of his videos he's a good guy he's not one of these crazy youtubers he's just does straight up reviews of cars
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very enjoyable stuff so yeah follow drive 615. also chevy land usa unfortunately is going to
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close and it looks like everything is going to be sold at auction give us the insights on that yeah this
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is a guy that started the collection years ago to the point where he had so many cars that he said well let's put up a museum
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this was in i believe elm lake nebraska and the cars everything from chevy's going back to
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the 1910s 1915s wow all the way up through the 80s i believe he passed away
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a few years back and his family's now selling as an estate auction but everything must go they've got like
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five or six different corvettes mostly c3s but there's also parts there's wheels and some hubcaps and some other things
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so whenever you hear about these museums closing people perk up because they think wow you know i might be able to
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get something good or find something interesting here we've definitely seen that so on our post we do have links to what
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they are offering for the corvettes it's nothing like the muscle car city auction that we saw earlier this year down in south florida
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but again just unique info and good stuff they have and finally keith michigan's gilmore car
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museum is showing the greatest generation corvette exhibit i'd like to see that yeah this is pretty interesting this one
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was curated by warner meyer who is a former gm guy now he runs a
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restoration shop outside detroit somewhere called masterworks he's actually a corvette hall of famer herself
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so he curated a group of cars going in some of them are concepts some of them are just regular production cars
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as museums rotate in and out of exhibits they call this the greatest generation corvettes
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should be something to see so if you're up in that area definitely take a look at it i'd love to see it well keith thanks for
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being here on corvette today we'll see you in two weeks and we'll get more news and headlines for everybody
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and keep everybody up on the world core event well we're looking forward to it steve as always as we discuss all the stories are on
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