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CORVETTE TODAY#83 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid-November 2021
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May 12, 2025
As we enter the holiday season, we are not at a loss for news in the world of Corvette! Join your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger.com as they cover everything happening in the world of Corvette. Here are a few of the topics covered in this podcast: 1. The 2nd shift at the Bowling Green Assembly Factory is back to work after a 2-week layoff 2. Chevrolet announces 2023 order and start-up production dates 3. GM shows a 10.6 second quarter mile time on the new C8 Z06 4. Corvette Racing’s 250th event is at Petit Le Mans 5. Corvette Racing going global next year and introduces the GT3.R for 2024 6. Own Don Yenko’s 1968 L88 Corvette that raced at Daytona and Sebring 7. The 1957 Corvette Super Sport will be up for auction at Mecum Kissimmee in January 2022 8. Details on the Lingenfelter C8 Supercharger System and Procharger Supercharger 9. Borla cat-back exhaust kit becomes an official C8 accessory 10. Jay Leno drives the new C8 Z07 All this and more on the latest News & Headlines podcast for CORVETTE TODAY!
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news and headlines with my buddy keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com as you know keith is a regular guest on
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corvette today he's here twice per month every other week to keep you up to date on what's happening with america's
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sports car keith welcome back to the show as we enter the holiday season we got lots to talk about buddy hey steve
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glad to be here and yes we do it's always great when corvette news comes to us it's fun that we get to talk about it
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here with you and your listeners so let's get going sounds good buddy as we always do to start off corvette news and
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headlines we get an update on corvette production in bowling green and the second shift is back work so give us the
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details on everything yeah so we had a slowdown where we had to have the second shift basically stay home for two weeks
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we got the confirmation last week on monday that nope they were going back and we've been following the production
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counts and they've been very strong 185 184 each day of the week so it looks like it's going well again what happens
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when you're able to slow down production in this case you cut it in half you still have all these still coming into
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the factory so they're just being banked right now for any future stuff you know so hopefully they'll have some additional quantities there so if
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something goes low again they'll have the stock there to definitely get right on it we're gonna see this week the vin
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count will cross over 7 000 for the 2022's from here we'll have thanksgiving off but then production should run all
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the way through christmas time so big opportunity there to produce a lot of cars excellent that sounds good and we
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also got more good news chevrolet announces the 2023 order and startup production dates that's great to hear
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yeah this is kind of a surprise normally they've been holding this information close to the chest and the rumor is that
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chevrolet had released it without the corvette team being able to say don't release it so we don't know if that's
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true or not but that just seems to be the case because what we're seeing is the 2022 is much earlier than initially
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thought usually we hear july or august that's always kind of been the traditional turnover for the model year
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but now we're looking at 2022 production ending on march 6th wow which means that
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the final last order of 22s will be put in on march 17th think about first
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quarter now as we're leading into the 2022s the end of the 2020 season 2023s
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we're probably going to be getting notices january february of cars of colors that might be going away
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obviously we'll have information on the 2023s like pricing should be out there so it's going to be a shorter year for
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the 2022s but it looks like it's because they really want to get those 2023 corvette z06s out on the road we're
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actually looking at the initial production start for the 2023s to be may 9th which is pretty early like i said
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first allocation in the order entry periods will happen march 31st and then the only thing we don't know is
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the pre-order date think about the end of february beginning of march where dealers are actually able to go in and
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start adding orders to the system they're accepted but they're not accepted for production you get like the 11 status so the orders are in there but
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they're basically just banked until then they start doing the allocation processes and matching up those orders to the allocation slot pretty exciting
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though it just is going to make next year a whole lot of fun with the the z06s we're going to see them all summer long they should be at all the major
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shows over the summer so it's going to be fun i can't wait buddy this sounds good also gm notified the national
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highway safety commission about a dual clutch transmission investigation that was interesting what's going on with
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that yeah we've had reports of people having trouble with their transmissions specifically what they're looking at
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here is debris that causes the park sensor magnet to not see that it's in
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park and so what happens is people are unable to turn off their cars so that's one of the things and then the other
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thing they're looking at too is the filters as a new c8 owner you get 7 500 miles and then they'll filter on that so
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within a year of you owning the car generally you'll have the oil change and then you can change the transmission filter so they're taking a closer look
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at those as well they're actually bagging them and actually sending them up to detroit for reviews they're going
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to get to the bottom of this it seems like the transmission problems are starting to slow down in terms of what
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we've been hearing a lot of i think that's good news for corvette owners moving forward definitely is also gm
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showed a 10.6 second quarter mile with the new z06 man that's awesome again
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this is another leak we don't want to say a leak because it wasn't intentional but it just seems like sometimes the
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left hand doesn't know that the right hand is doing something we are out at sema the cars were there they were on
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display of course we went through the whole rig and rolled the reveal and the peterson and everybody seen the cars there's people seeing the cars in
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detroit but they've held back the performance numbers now the car was on display in phoenix for the final nascar
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race of the season and there was this promotional board next to it that showed 670 horsepower 0 to 60 in 2.6 seconds
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and then the third picture was quarter mile time of 10.6 seconds it's an official number it comes from their
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promotional billboard next to the car what we don't know yet is trap speed of that quarter mile some have been trying
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to go backwards with it and they put the time somewhere around 130 131 132 miles
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an hour we'll just have to wait for that but we're getting all this information like i said gm has this information in
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place and we're just basically finding it here finding it there and in certain
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cases we're able to pry it out of them it's been a fun few weeks since the z06 has come out and there are just so many
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people excited about this car absolutely right well buddy let's take our first break and in segment number two we're
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you're listening to the corvette today podcast with steve garrett hey thanks for listening to corvette
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today the podcast that talks about everything corvette i'm your host steve garrett with me every other week is
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keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com by the way all these stories we talk about you can find the full information
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at corvetteblogger.com in the second segment we're going to talk about corvette racing and corvette
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rumors first in the racing segment keith corvette racing's 250th event was last weekend at petite le mans now we record
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this show the friday before that weekend so we'll have all the details but that's a big deal going to petite la ma fatigue
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lamont if you've never been to a race there it's just a fun track you'll walk your butt off because of the elevation
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you go up these hills around your home by the end of the day you're deadbeat but it's a great track plenty of places
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to watch the viewing and of course it's always the end of the season so we get to see what's going to happen with the
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championship this year we already know the number three corvette only has to start the race and then they've won the
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championship so it's an exciting time but yet this year they kind of wrapped everything up early so not exactly the
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cliffhanger moment that we sometimes like to wait for at the end of the race but we'll take it obviously it's another championship for chevrolet this is also
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and this kind of blew my mind it's the 250th racing event for the team since their very first outing at the rolex 24
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in 1999. think about that i know nascar will race almost every weekend and they just rack it up but for us sports car
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racing you know when you have like eight nine ten events a year maybe eleven with uh le mans you know it obviously takes
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time to rack up 250 racing events so it's a huge milestone for the team i just remember back in the day they were
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just a scrappy racing team they had the take no prisoners rallying cry and a skull logo and look how far they've come
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today so it's just been an amazing run and hopefully we're going to see many more absolutely that is so darn cool i
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love it also corvette racing is going to go global next year keith they introduced the gt3r for 2024. there's a
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lot of racing coming up next year and the years to come yeah i think this is what we wanted obviously there's still
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some things that are up in the air once you hit the 2024 season as we've talked about previously le mans they're
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actually talking about getting away from the pro cars in gt3 at le mans so we'll have to figure out what they're going to
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do about that but we're still holding two years off from that what we're going to see next year is our two-car team is
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going to be split the number three car is going to stay here and it's going to have jordan taylor and antonio garcia
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and they're going to defend their championship here in imsa and then you're going to have the number four car which is going to actually be the number
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64 car travel and they're going to do the fia world endurance championship we
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love this idea this will have tommy milner and nick tandy in the car they're gonna do that fbawc schedule which again
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travels to most of the different continents on the world and now we're selling cars so if we're selling cars in
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japan and we race in japan that's even better for the team better for marketing it makes a whole lot more sense for us
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to be there so we're going to see next year's season with the cars split between the two different series and
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then they'll come together hopefully at le mans where we'll have a two-car effort there we've also been hearing
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some rumors we're trying to figure out what's going to happen but we might also see a couple more pairing up in imsa for
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maybe some of the endurance races they might feel the second car over here i don't know if we'll ever feel two cars
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over in europe that's not lemon but i could definitely see us running a second car over here with some former drivers
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or you know some new upcomers so it could be a really interesting time for corvette racing the other component to
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this is that with next year we're speccing out our car from gtlm now to the gt3 spec but the really exciting
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news that also accompanied this press release was in 2024 there's actually
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going to be a customer gt3 car program set up by chevrolet where they're going
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to be selling these race cars to the public wow that's very exciting so teams then could grab a car and they could
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race in like the gt the amateur series in them so while we're racing in the gt
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pro series so more corvettes on the track is always something that i think has been much needed again this car just
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looks like a beast we don't really have a lot of details of it other than it's spec to the gt3 specs but that's the way
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that the global sports car racing series is are headed glad that we're going to be right there in the mix i like the car
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it looked good with the american flag on the side of it and speaking of gt3 racing racer magazine thinks that
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corvette and mustang will compete starting in 2024 in the gt3 series yeah
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you know this was one of the rumors so i guess this was a rumor that kind of came out before because we had actually posted that story literally two hours
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before the press release broke on all the actual confirmations that we just got ford says that they are definitely
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looking at imsa and running a ford mustang program in gtd as well whether
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they go gtd pro or gtd amateur with customer cars remains to be seen but we
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never really feel like we compete against mustang as a brand but if you think about it the ford mustang and the
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chevrolet corvette are just two of the most iconic american cars over the last 60 years it'd be fun to do that we do
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see camaro and mustang race in nascar but it's not the same as these customer
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cars factory race cars going and doing battle each weekend there's all kinds of potential scenarios like this that are
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showing up again it's kind of exciting now that we're starting to get these pieces falling in place for the racing
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and see what's going to happen over the next few years absolutely right buddy and also another big juicy rumor gm may
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offer the c806 the lt6 engine as a crate engine is that coming true well it would
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make sense this is generally what they do is you know their engine production once they meet the demands for producing
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in cars there might be some engines that are set aside this engine is such a bespoke engine that's what they call it
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bespoke because it's only for the corvette it's going nowhere else and so they're going to guard it for a while
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and then also you know each of these engines is handmade we've been trying to figure out exactly you can do the lt4 i
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think they could do like one and a half or maybe one and a quarter in a typical eight hour day we're hearing that this
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engine might take a little bit more than a day to put together so you could have some factors like that it just means
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that the supply is just not going to be there because as you've seen everybody's trying to order z06 the engines there
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are building are going to definitely go into those production cars as a priority so it could happen if it does we can
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imagine a huge price tag on it upwards of 25 000 or more like the recently retired lt5 engine that was in the 2019
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zr1 very cool and speaking of that lt6 engine that lt6 engine is shown when you
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start up your c806 in the startup screen this is pretty cool our friend rick conti was able to snag a video showing
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but you get in the car and there's the little startup animation screen on the dash and so this starts with those dual
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intake manifolds and then it just kind of morphs into the rear of the car and then it turns around and shows us inside
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of the car and it's a z07 with the rear wing on it you can see the dive planes on the front again just something neat
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start-up animation when you get in the car and i know people like that kind of stuff we had a user that said you know what would be really cool is if general
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motors could customize the startup screen so that it would be your car that you see so if you had like an elkhart
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lake blue convertible that's what you would see in the startup screen i think that would be a pretty cool idea that'd
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be awesome that's for sure well buddy let's take our final break and in segment number three we'll talk about the lighter side of corvette here on
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and now back to corvette today with your host and my husband steve garrett
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hey thank you very much for listening to corvette today the podcast that talks about everything corvette i'm your host
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steve garrett with me every other week is keith cornett we keep you up to date on what's happening with america's
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favorite sports car in this third and final segment we talk about the lighter side of corvette some of the etc stuff
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and this is really cool keith don yanko's 1968 l88 corvette that raced at
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daytona and sebring is now for sale it's very rare that these kinds of really prominent race cars come up for sale
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this one has a really neat back story they call this the showroom racer the story goes sun ray dx was a petroleum
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products company out in oklahoma they wanted to go racing and showcase their products they formed the sunray dx
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racing team which is only around for years they hired don yanko as their
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racer and the fabricator and he was going to run the team that he had ordered a 1968 l88 from the factory but
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the problem was that they weren't going to have it in time to go racing at daytona with it he also had a chevrolet
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showroom in pennsylvania so he went out to his dealership on the showroom floor was a 1968 l71 which is the 427 435
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horse top of the line street car he took that out and took it back to the shop and dropped a factory l88 engine into it
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and made a bunch of other modifications and they took that car to daytona where it would finish second in its class so
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it earned the nickname the showroom racer because it came right off the showroom floor and went racing so then
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they went to sebring with the car the really cool thing about the sebring race was that janko would team up with the
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famous ferrari driver pedro rodriguez this was the only time that pedro ever drove a corvette he became very well
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known as a ferrari driver and in that race the showroom l88 would set a new gt class record but then they had to end up
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retiring in lap 43 over some issues so that was basically the big races they were going to take it to le mans but
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there was some turmoil over there there were student protests and all kinds of factory shutdowns and eventually like
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gas supplies became real low and transportation was halted yanko basically kept the car the sunray dx
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team got bought by sunoco and of course sunoco already had roger
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penske running their team so they didn't need two teams so don yanko kept the car and he would just race it around in scca
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and actually won one of the midwest championships i believe in that car so this car's been around for a while the
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next people that owned it had all raced it too the latest owner that got it had it refurbished back to the sebring
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livery with the number two on it it's a red white blue card it's just a really neat story and if you like corvette
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racing history this one should definitely be one that you look up on this car is for sale by a company out of
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connecticut called gt motor cars it's just a fabulous car that would be obviously the center point of any
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collection and also speaking of significant corvettes for sale there's a 1957 corvette super sport that's going
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for auction coming up at mecum kissimmee this is another car that really a lot of people don't know about so in 1957 this
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car made the rounds of the gm motorama shows think about 1957 what was significant there well obviously the
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biggest change for corvette was fuel injection in the four-speed transmission and this car had both of them this car
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might even be one of the very first cars shown to the public with the fuel injection and of course it's a speedster
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so it's got the cut down windshields on it the car was on the parade the gm motorama parade around the country and
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then when it was over it was basically sold and the story goes that some guy out in i believe albuquerque had the car
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for a few years and then it got damaged direct and it was just put away there was a guy named
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john baldwin who got the car in 97 ended up restoring it and then it showed it for really the first time so the first
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time it was really seen in 60 years was at the 2017 amelia island concourse there not a lot of people have ever seen
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this car we're excited to see what it's going to go for in kissimmee we know this car has been previously listed for
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sale on some different car sites including our own vet finders website for a couple million dollars but the auction price is the true price and
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that's when you get two people who determine what that car price is going to be so we'll see we can kiss me
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exactly what this really neat car goes for i'm looking forward to seeing that that should be big money that's for sure
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also we have details two companies have put out new superchargers for the c8 corvette lingenfelter and prochargers
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give us the details on both of those yeah so we'll start with lincoln folder first they showed their car out at sema
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and what they've done is they've teamed up with magnuson superchargers and they're using magnuson's tvs 2650 to
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sort of serve as the heart of the beast here lincoln felder is estimating that the power increase goes from 495 stock
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to 705 horsepower we know that they've been testing the system for almost a year now they've really done a nice job
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it looks nice there's a lot to it this is what they're calling their current stage one that operates on six psi boost
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and then they're working on actually a stage two with higher boost pressures and then obviously more horsepower we
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don't really have a price yet on this but again on our website and if you go to lincoln felter as well you can find
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out more details on how they've actually put this together on the other side we just had an announcement last week that
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procharger who has also been working on their supercharger kit for a little over a year now is now shipping their c8
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supercharger kit estimates 675 horsepower although sometimes i've seen them say 675 plus
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and again they're doing it at six and a half psi boost on 93 octane their performance figures show that the zero
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to 60 mile an hour times will be reduced by three tenths of a second you're looking at an eight additional mile per
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hour and a quarter mile and a reduction of lap times of course on a road course again these are bolt-on systems that
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require no permanent modifications to your car so you can go back there's a little bit more to the procharger system
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as well i would definitely go and take a look if you're interested in supercharging your c8 stingray to go
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check out these two different systems we have videos on our site of course you can go to lincoln felder and procharger
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to see theirs as well and speaking of aftermarket manufacturers it was interesting that i saw that borla's
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cat-back exhaust system now becomes an official c8 accessory tell us the back story on that as well yeah this is
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pretty cool we don't actually have a lot of information on it at sema there was a couple corvettes shown in the chevrolet
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there was actually a c8 stingray you would like this steve it was basically a carbon fiber edition stingray that gm
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was using to show off all their accessories on there awesome but on the placard as you're reading down this car
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didn't have it but it showed also available and it showed the borla cat-back exhaust system borla's been
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working on their system for a year it is out now i think it is actually one of the better sounding exhaust systems that
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corvette owners could add to their cars just by the videos that i see i haven't heard one in person i know that they did
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a really outstanding job of engineering the system and i think that might be one of the real reasons why chevy was
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interested in adding them as an official accessory because of the work that they did there this system we found it for
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sale somewhere around it's going to retail about 47.50 but we found some gm resellers although it's not ready to go
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yet it's slated for fourth quarter 2021 so any time now but we found a couple resellers that had a price of 4100 on it
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and the nice thing is that you decide to do this talk to your chevy dealer you might be able to have this added during
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the pdi of your car as a genuine corvette accessory that kind of takes some of the guesswork of okay if i buy
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this who's gonna install it for me that kind of worry that i know some of us have sometimes about who's working on our cars absolutely and we have another
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feel-good story keith another senior citizen was moved to the front of the line to get his 2022 c8 corvette
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stingray yeah this is a great story lieutenant colonel tony bevacqua who started flying out of high school he's
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like i need a job and turn to the air force they were hiring pilots with only high school degrees he ended up flying
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in korea and then he got asked if he wanted to do something a little more interesting that he couldn't be told
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about and of course he said yes and then he ended up being one of the first pilots of the u2 spy planes wow and then
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he moved into the sr-71 blackbirds really cool story there he talks in this
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video that he did with the local television station he talks about some of his history what had happened was a dealer there locally had seen a couple
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other veterans move to the front of the list he had known tony personally i guess tony had owned several corvettes
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and just decided that was a good thing to do so an 89 year old tony bevacqua got his new c8 corvette stingray and the
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89 year old is driving around and couldn't be happier so we're very excited for him and again congratulations i know some people might
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complain well that was my spot on the list i guess this guy had a spot on the list they just moved him to the front
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because some things just can't wait and that dealer by the way was wheeler chevrolet in yuba city california that
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made that happen so congratulations to them very nice that's a great story also another great story it was interesting i
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guess i'm gonna have to be the second person to drive the new z0607 but jay leno got the first drive outside of gm
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yeah he's been able to do this twice he's such a great spokesperson for the car any car really but he loves
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chevrolet products he loves his corvettes as he's talking about the new 2023 corvette z06 he keeps referring
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back to his c5 car which he says is just one of his favorite cars in his entire collection if you've seen one of these
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videos they run about 30 minutes and so he does like this in studio portion he's joined by aaron link who is the lead
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development engineer on the z06 after they do this walk around they go for a drive and that's really where the fun is
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and all of a sudden you just hear that car just wind all the way up to the red line and the amazing thing again when he
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does that on the streets you know you think you're punching it you know you're accelerating hard and that car is just
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very stable he's not going ooh it's like the back end's like twitchy or anything like that it just lays down the power
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and off they go this was the top video on youtube for corvettes last week it was one of our biggest posts on the z06
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so far if you haven't seen this video i would definitely make some time get your favorite beverage out sit down and enjoy
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it because it's a lot of fun it was a lot of fun for sure it was a great video and finally keith we have another
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youtube video on the top 10 differences between the c806 and the stingray that
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was also an interesting watch as well yeah this was from edmonds they owned their own c8 stingray somehow in their
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location out in california they were able to get the z06 in their studio for the day and so they did this really fun
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top 10 differences between the d06 and the stingray which they had side by side you know you think oh well that's pretty
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easy to run through but the list is actually pretty good they talk noise and the power and the torque and the
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crankshaft and the performance and brakes and tires the interior and the price they kind of go through there but
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again when you hear this exhaust note in the post of this video was edmond's alistar weaver was standing behind the
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car bent down near the exhaust pipes when they did the cold start and then when it rev the motor pops the exhaust
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pop like it's been doing and it nearly made him run away it had to have been so loud it's a fun video the other thing
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they do too is in these categories they'll say the winner of this one was the z06 or the winner of this one was
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the stingray so it's interesting to see how they were able to apply those winners to the different categories
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again just another fun video a little bit different and for those of you that owned the c8 stingray already or
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thinking about z06 or want the z06 it'd be a fun video to watch definitely keith thanks so much for being on corvette
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today love having you here we'll talk to you in two weeks just in time for thanksgiving well thanks so much steve
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