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Corvette News & Headlines For Late April 2024 | Corvette Today #211
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May 9, 2025
Welcome! We're excited to have you here for an insightful discussion on Corvette Today. Also, take advantage of this opportunity to explore the Corvette news and headlines for late april 2024. This video comprehensively overviews the Corvette news and headlines for late april 2024. Some of the topics we will discuss are: - Corvette Racing at Imola and Long Beach - Corvette Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter announces his retirement later this summer - Lingenfelter dyno's the first supercharged E-Ray Our channel is dedicated to providing a wealth of captivating content, emphasizing the importance of Corvette Today. Discover the art of knowing more about the Corvette news and headlines for late april 2024. ******************** The NCM Michelin Bash is now complete! And there was a lot of Corvette news and information gleaned from this event. Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger were both in attendance. So this CORVETTE TODAY News & Headlines show is packed with new, fresh information from the Bash. So it's an expanded episode of CORVETTE TODAY, covering everything learned at the Bash for 2025! Here are other stories you'll get on this new edition of CORVETTE TODAY News & Headlines show this week: 1. Corvette Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter announces his retirement later this summer 2. Corvette Racing at Imola and Long Beach
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blogger.com Keith is here every other week together we keep you current and up toate on what's happening with America
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Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show it's been a busy week last week for you and me man it was great to see you
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all my friends all the new stuff coming out of the NCM bash there's a lot of excitement and good things happening for
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Corvette and also a couple poignant moments you know of course the retirement of Tad Sher and some other things going on but I think I'm feeling
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really good about this I tell you what I think this episode's going to be pretty full yeah as a matter of fact this is
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going to be a four segment episode the fourth segment will be dedicated to everything that Keith and I learned at
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The Bash just in case you didn't get to go first Keith let's start off like we always do how about Corvette production
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updates from the Bowling Green assembly plant absolutely yeah so we got unofficial production estimates ending
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for Friday and it shows that 20826 stingrays have already been produced so far for 2024 now the
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production of the stingray is run at about 650 to 725 units per week but it
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seems like whenever they need to pick up the slack one of the other models slows down the stingray is there and so
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sometimes see that number jump higher if the Z6 Falls a little bit lower but they're just cranking out the cars that
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haven't had any production issues as far as we know so things are good there for the Z6 that number stands at
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5,821 Youth and of course the eay son is ramp up mode 292 produced so total 2024
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production unofficially stands at
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26,990 we have seen the production of 2744 sting rays for April as well as 92
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z6s and 70 e Rays so that was one of the things that Tad said is you know even though is talking about the ramp up for
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the eay we saw a similar ramp up for Z6 and today they're making about 300 a week or so right we can expect the eay
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at some point to get up to there in fact we both heard from the plant director who said it's coming it's deliberate
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there don't seem to be any issues they thank all their suppliers for making sure that they had everything they needed be patient there it's going to be
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interesting to see how that works out through the end of 2024 of course Chevy still hasn't announced the end of 2024
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or when the 2025 should begin and now that we know that at least two colors are going away accelerate yellow and
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amplify orange if you're want those colors you might want to see if you can get those orders in as quickly as
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possible because obviously they're going away so if those colors are your bag baby get those orders in exactly right
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buddy and you alluded to this a minute ago but Corvette's executive chief engineer Taj juer has announced his
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retirement after 47 years with GM yeah not only this is is probably the biggest news of this cycle but it's one of the
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biggest stories for 2024 so far 47 years at General Motors Taj has been on the Corvette program since the C4 and he
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became chief engineer in 2006 of course under his leadership we've seen some great cars produced including the C6 ZR1
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the first Super Charge Corvette he fought for Corvette survival during GM bankruptcy and then of course knocked the ball out of the park with the C7
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Corvettes and finally as the chief engineer he was able to realize zor's dream to make the car miden engine with
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the C8 Corvettes just a fantastic career run everybody loves the guy he's such a humble person really is shy in terms of
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all the accolades he had thrown out every time he got up on the stage at The Bash he got a standing o it's definitely a position that we're going to miss we
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are so lucky again to have Tad for all these years and also the people he surrounded himself with his official
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retirement will happen this summer he'll be missed not only for his engineering skills but again his humor and the way he wowed Corvette audiences around the
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world with his humor and his knowledge and his fun just being tag definitely going to miss him yeah tag is great
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people we will definitely miss him but you know what we have a great support system for him there Josh holder chief
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engineer Corvette Devin blue everybody on the Corvette team will carry that Banner proudly also Keith I don't know
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if this should have been in the rumors or not but we saw ZR1 mules testing in Ohio right before the bash yeah that was
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pretty interesting so they like to work out in Southern Ohio a lot of two-lane roads there very curvy some elevation
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changes obviously we were hoping that maybe we'd see a repeat of the Prototype showing up into doing a little drive around the circle at the Corvette museum
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during the bash of course that didn't happen but we did get some spy shots from those cars in Ohio we're showing
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you know a combination of Cs and convertibles and there were a couple of Cs that had the big Wi on there as well so with that reveal coming up sometime
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this summer it's going to be a really exciting time for Corvette fans yeah definitely also GM has added the sueded
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microfiber trim panel for C8 Stingrays and also the ZO6 frunk and the trunk Now
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isn't this the same thing that I've got in my 70th Anniversary 2023 car you know
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this is interesting because this came out through the distribution updates on the Corvette order guide this was not part of a 2025 model year introduction
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that's kind of why it's showing up in this segment as opposed to that bash segment we're going to do later but a member of The Mid Engine Corvette forum
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caught this update it shows this lpo sxb Suede frunk and trunk liner the catalog
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description for the Corvette accessories says that it is a more Premier looking feel and it replaces the standard carpet in the trunk it's also designed to match
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the interior of your vehicle we believe that'll come in like the same 3lt 3lz interior suede colors like jet black
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adrenaline red and others think about if you had a dip adrenaline red interior and then you opened up your frun or you
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opened up your trunk that might be red sueded microfiber as well that's what we think is going to happen they only showed the jet black one on the catalog
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in fact they didn't even have a picture of it they just had the description of it we're still kind of anxious to see what's going to happen there but the
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price for this accessory is $1,095 and for those that are interested the GM part number is
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85643 so it looks like you can order it in probably retrofit fit it to your existing cars and of course it is only
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for Stingray and ZO6 which has the same dimensions for their frun and trunk the eay frunk is just a little bit different
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and they were not included in this update okay that sounds good also speaking of updates remember that guy
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that bought the ZO6 and he didn't flip it but GM avoided his warranty well now they're going to honor the warranty
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aren't they yeah it's nice to have an happy ending to this story so just as a recap Corvette posi is his name waed
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over two years for his 2023 Corvette z60 built and ship he was there at the dealer when it came off the truck very
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excited he took delivery the very next day even received his 500,000 GM points in January but his troubles began when
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he wanted to take his C8 back to the dealership for an oil change get that free service visit and the service
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manager showed him a print out that showed his warranty was blocked due to violating GM's Z6 retention policy
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unable to get the oil change dealership then reached out to GM and then after some investigation they reversed that
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warranty block apparently the problem came up after he took delivery of the car and then he ordered a vanity plate
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from Arkansas he didn't realize at the time that he got it back that Arkansas DMV had screwed up his first name on the
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registration oh everything else was the same but his first name but when the Chevy service department entered that in
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and it formed a mismatch that's what caused the warranty block to happen so for those of you with the Z06 and the
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eay which also has a retention program pay special attention to anything like registrations anything that happens
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within that first six months that has the potential to raise the red flag in Detroit we' like to say it's important for you to do your due diligence because
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with warranties GM will just block it until you fight it and get it back do that due diligence be very careful during those first six months of
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ownership I'm glad that all had a happy ending that's for sure also we had a service bulon just issued for 2023 and
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2024 Corvettes the transmission might have some improperly torqued Fasteners
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what's going on with that yeah so this is something that they saw servicing cars and enough have come through that
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said hey we need to really look at this this appears to be a stingray only problem and it's manufacturing issue
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from traik not the Corvette assembly plant oh we still don't have an idea on how many units are affected there are
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some Vin break points that are coming and we believe that those who are affected will receive a letter from General Motors really the simple fix is
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to to replace the full transmission otherwise you've got guys pulling out the Transmissions they're working on it they have to do all this other stuff no
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just take it out put a new one in you get a full warranty on it you're starting at zero with that which again
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is a part that gets wear and tear so if you've already got some miles on your car you're starting back at zero and think this is really the best way to go
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the clock resets on that maintenance schedule speaking of which it's very important to follow that correct maintenance schedule as out in your
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owners manual we had a chance to talk to a senior GM technician at The Bash he says it's put in there for a reason and
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you can find that on chevrolet.com you can find it your Chevy app or if you own even a Cadillac you can add your
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Corvette to that and P Daniels as well GM offers a free filter change for the transmission you really want to do it
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within 500 miles or so as you close in on that 7500 mile odometer reading or the mileage reading on your transmission
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and then you need to change it every 22,500 miles after that we've seen some changes but GM has extended that free
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service for the filter change on the transmission up to three years now so we just realized that many Corvette owners
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they drive sparingly they drive maybe just a couple thousand miles a year so they weren't getting close to that so
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within that three-year time period if you get up to that 7,500 miles you definitely want to get it changed yeah for Corvettes that are also getting up
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in Miles this is a one that I wasn't really sure of but again in the owner's manual it's important to change the
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transmission fluid when you hit 45,000 mil follow the service and maintenance procedures in that manual and you really
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should be okay yeah absolutely and I'm raising my hand because after the bash I drove over 1,000 miles it's time to get
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my fluid filter Chang on the transmission so I've got to get that done this week for sure well buddy it's
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up next Keith let's talk first about Corvette racing at Long Beach yeah so this was an interesting race Corvette
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Racing's partner in imsa AWA racing competed at Long Beach G pre only the GTP and GTD cars ran at the street
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circuit for the 100 minute sprint car race they split it because you put all those cars from all the classes on that
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small grid it would just have been chaos it was chaos anyway the number 13 Z06 gt3r actually had its best finish to
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date 17 cars in the class and it finished six anything can happen to these tight courses of course they were running I think 12 or 13th but within
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the last 15 minutes or so there was an accident everything stopped and they were able to squeak through so they
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jumped into the top 10 within 15 minutes to go and then race around again and then came up in sixth position to finish
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the race fantastic there they're going to get some much needed points very excited to see them do well there so AWA
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and Corvette racings to Z6 GT3 RS will next be in action in monor at Laguna sea
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on Sunday May 12th nice also we had Corvette racing at IMA we had points for TF sport didn't we yeah so they were
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racing their two Z6 GT3 RS in the World Endurance Championship at IMA TF sport was one of the two teams in the class to
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have both its cars finished in the top 10 so again much needed points the number 81 Corvette finished seventh and
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the number 82 came in eight great to see that of course for them this is a new car we've had some teeing issues I
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believe this is the first race where both cars finish and of course finishing in the top 10's even better glad to see
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that and hopefully that Trend will continue TF sport will next race the FIA WC at the six hours of the spa on
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Saturday May 11th once again we'll have cars on both continents racing that same weekend lots of Corvette racing going on
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out there how cool is that I love it I love it Keith in the rumors category I
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don't know about this one buddy it says the 2020 Corvette interior is going to get one huge screen and the Great Wall
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of buttons goes away Steve it's the rumor that just keeps on rumoring like I don't know how to say it but we've got
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two different sources on this and they're both pretty decent sources a friend of mine who relay it to me toally
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says trusted first report says that a group of Bowling Green assembly plan employees they're referred to as a
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transition team took over the install station where the current instrument panels installed on the assembly line
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what they were working on was hidden undercover and it was further blocked by about 10 of these people surrounding the area to us it sounds like they're either
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doing a fitment test or it could be testing the process and Equipment required to do a install the dash on the
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assembly line that's the first one we had and then the second rumor was that huge screen this tip comes from another
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Insider says look to the 33in instrument panel on the 2025 ct5v Black Wing this
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was a new addition for the black wings in 2025 and apparently it was a plan for 2024 but it got delayed by a year does
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that sound familiar Steve yeah the fact that our rumor got bumped another year y other interesting detail of this change
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could very well mean that GM super cruise with his handfree driver assistance technology finally coming to Corvette whether you like it or not with
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Corvette now with the 2024 is having emergency braking Lane assist and other driving enhanced Technologies it looks
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like it has everything it needs to be able to handle super Cruise so we'll have to see if that happens of course the super Cruise would have to have some
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lights on that steering wheel and stuff like that the Corvette's a driver's car not really a Rider's car so we'll see
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how that all works out but there's some stuff coming and we think that these rumors are starting to nail stuff down
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knocking on wood though there are just rumors it could be pretty cool buddy it could be pretty cool also speaking of
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cool stuff let's talk about what we do know already about the ZR1 prototypes since we didn't get a drive-thru at The
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Bash absolutely so once the public tour shut down in early February this year we figured that Chevy would do some ZR1
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prototypes and they did internal paperwork shows at least 21 Corvette ZR1 quote ex cars have been completed the ex
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cars are classified as experimental they say EX on the VIN that's why we always say if you see a prototype if you can
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get a picture of that VIN that's always helpful because it tells us what it is so to speak ex cars will all be
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destroyed once GM is done testing and then we get to the CTF cars those are salable so once we start seeing CTF cars
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our cars in the VIN that don't have ex that means we are getting much closer to customer production yeah our friend Rick
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Cony looked up some of these details on the cars they have production codes very similar to the Z6 for example the Z6 has
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four wheel designs and they are s SOA which is black s so satin graphite s so
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machine pH and S soe the titanium satin the ZR1 is also showing four similar
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codes We Believe those are wheels they are SF s SOG s so and S OJ we don't have
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the designs attached to them yet but we've got the code so again sounds very similar and then along with the wheels
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there's a j58 Code which should be for the Brembo carbon ceramic brakes okay that code for the Z6 is j57 and think
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Stingray j56 yeah always something to keep in mind on there and of course the return of one of our favorite options is
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j6b which are the blue calers nice which were always exclusive to the ZR1 in the
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C6 days and the C7 days the internal paperwork showed lt7 for the engine but
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no details and m1k again no details that's the 8-speed DCT transmission we
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see The Return of ztk which was the same performance package code that was on the 2019 zr1's great and finally there was a
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code for t M which we believe is the very big Wing seen on the prototypes and the cars that were at the nurur ren
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Chevy uses t0f and t0g for the z06's high-wing carbon fiber or carbon Flash
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painted carbon fiber so t0m seems to fall within that same RPO structure this
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car expected to be revealed sometimes this summer and production could start later in the 2025 model year but don't
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rule this out of this car being a 2026 yet it could be a late 2025 orbe 2026
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maybe they started early who knows their schedule so weird these we're just along for the ride Steve absolutely right
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first of all this is not the Lighter Side Ken Langan felter congratulations my friend you've dyed the first
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supercharged r-ray yeah this is pretty cool so and we got actually see this car at the NCM bash and talked to steveen
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the owner there he said it was very important for the car to remain drivable you know there's no special fuel systems added on yeah he just wanted to be able
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to get there and drive but he wanted more power than the Z06 and he says it definitely has it so prior to the supercharger Edition we saw the erray
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put down on the dyno and it had 573 wheel horsepower and 630 foot pounds of torque and then with the supercharger
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added the car dyed at 734 wheel horsepower and 792 foot- pounds of
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torque so that's a gain of 161 horsepower and 162 foot pounds of torque he says it's very quick although he says
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prior to the NCM bash he's probably driven at about five miles or so just because it was picked up at the
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dealership by Paragon drove to their shop where they did some work on it then Shi lingan felter in Michigan where they
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did some work to it and then shipped back so he's finally getting a chance to enjoy it a little bit he says actually he going to be headed to the hopefully
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within the next week or two equi with some drag radials this thing should put up some serious times to see what that does yeah that's really cool now that
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was the first supercharged eay we also have the first twin turbo r-ray and it hit the track and did some drags in the
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high NES wow yeah so this one comes from boost district and it's equipped with extreme turbo systems twin turbo kit and
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then they also installed a heavy duty clutch Ling and Felder performance engineering pistons and a direct injection fuel pump and also the stock
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computer was unlocked and calibrated so they were able to tune that the eay still retains it stock cam heads cats
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and the PS4s TIR so again another very drivable car at the drag script the car
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made multiple passes and its fastest time was 9.74 one seconds at 152 miles
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hour amazing Bo District claims it's a th000 horsepower build I don't know if that's the raw number I'm assuming
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that's the raw number not the dyo number but as they put these things together if you want to do one of these their
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packages start at $21,250 that's installed in tuned and out the door there you go I like that
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speaking of e-rays we had a 2024 eay there a little bit of bullying on the track your favorite car Keith the Nissan
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GTR and also one of my favorite cars the Lamborghini Aventador SV did some drag
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racing with the r-ray and lost to the eay yeah so for me this is exactly why the eay is preferred over the Z06 again
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nothing for the Z06 with that magical engine it has and the track performance it's capable of blogging for 18 years
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anytime I saw a Corvette lineup against an whe Drive competitor they usually lost because the all-wheel drive car
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could out launch and then race to the Finish Line just as fast as the Corvette usually the Corvette would even have worse horsepower when I see Jesse Lui
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takes out his stock eay and runs it against a Nissan GCR and kills it I was shouting I was shouting that's exactly
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why when I heard all-wheel drive I was like sign me up and then of course he races against a Lamborghini aventor SV
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that car was tuned cost nearly $600,000 and he beat that at the quarter mile his times for the eay though not spacular in
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terms of he didn't even really quite meet the factory numbers the da is a little bit higher out there as opposed
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to being closer to sea level but he says the eay ran 10.63 five at 126 against
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the GTR and then 1065 against the Lamborghini at 126 miles hour wow if you
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watch any of Jesse's videos his laugh is pretty infectious and there's a lot to be excited about so I think I'd be
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laughing too if I was bullying a GTR in Vador that's bragging rights for sure at its highest that's for sure also Keith
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this is awesome in honor of the upcoming ZR1 motor published a retro review of
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the C6 ZR1 which is nice yeah so John Davis and motor week they've been around for decades so when the announcement
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came a new ZR1 was on the way this summer they dived into their archives and pulled out a track review of the C6
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ZR1 of course with 638 horsepower that ls9 engine showing through that hood
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there as it did why did that make waves back in the day oh yeah making this review even cooler the car they used was
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finished in atomic orange which again is a color that people look back and say they really like we now know that they
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only put that color on 35 zr1's in that first year just a fun review from motor week you can see the car launch and
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drive on the track it looks kind of plain Jane compared to the new Z6 and what we're seeing with the ZR1 coming
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but still a huge competitor in its own right so we've got that video and all these others up on Corvette blogger that you can see so cool so cool also you
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know we see celebrities in Corvettes you know we've seen people like Jimmy Hendricks in front of his Corvette Bruce
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Springstein sitting on the front of his C1 Corvette William Shatner sitting right next to a 63 split window Paul
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McCartney was seen leaving recording studio in a blue C5 Corvette yeah Sir
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Paul has owned that car for almost as long as we've been blogging and I've got several posts going back I think as far
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back as 2009 with him in his car yeah he drives it whenever he's in California I guess he's got a home here in California
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and if you're a billionaire recording Legend like Paul you probably have a house in Los Angeles he was seen
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actually driving the sports car as he was leaving a music studio Studios Not only was he driving the sports car but
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he might be making some new music so that's pretty cool as well this showed up on one of the celebrity Paparazzi caught it posted it to Tik Tok it's
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funny how this went viral I saw this everywhere Road and track and all kinds of places showing Paul and the C5 not as
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flashy it kind of offers a little bit of some Incognito driving for Paul I would think compared to imagine Le in the new
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Z06 how that would look that would definitely attract some eyeballs where the C5 been around for 20 some years you
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know you might discount it yeah not knowing that there's a music legend Beetle behind the wheels it's a great
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car c5s are one of the best performance Bargains on the market right now you can be driving the same same as your
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favorite Beetle absolutely you know Growing Up The Beetles were always my favorite group and Paul McCartney was my
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favorite Beetle this is a great story for us here on Corvette today same here same here you got it buddy all right
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of Corvette today segment four will focus on the NCM Michelin bash first of all Keith what did we learn that was new
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for Corvette in 2025 yeah this is why we love the NCM bash it's where we find out all the latest updates for America's
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favorite sports car and this year was full of new colors and options but also Chevy's keeping us hanging as well so
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there's a little bit of drama still we are getting three new colors for 2025 they include hysteria purple metallic
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competition yellow and then the return of Sebring orange metallic that last one is very interesting to us I don't
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remember a time when Chevy brought back a previous color during the same generation true but they say that word
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got out there and people demanded it I guess wow competition yellow was on C4 Corvettes insiders tell us it's slightly
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different than the color that appeared on the 1990 and later cars and then as for hysteria metallic it does have a
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little bit of blue in it and some would say that it kind of reminds them of the radar blue on that 1998 Indie 500 pace
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car just have to get some yellow wheels I guess to complete that look the purple in the sun looks very good and then in
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the shade it's definitely a great it doesn't fade like the black or anything like that it's definitely grape right
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the other color change is that the Corvette team is making the yellow calipers match the new competition
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yellow as well before they had the edge yellow which was basically the accelerate yellow had a little bit of green in it a little bit of fluorescent
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look to it now you can match your yellow car with yellow calipers and yellow seat bels and you'll be the school bus that's
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good to go there the drama is that Chevy hasn't really said which colors are going away so we assume that we're going
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to get the new yellow and the old yellow go away we're going to the new orange the old orange will go away but they hadn't said what's going to go away for
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hysteria to come in some interesting rumors going away I think the consensus is that it's probably the ceranic Matrix
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gray that color has been around since 2018 it was on the 65 carbon anniversary editions it's done well but it's kind of
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dropped down into the top of the last tier of colors I think that's probably a safe bet there but again anything's
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possible we've got two blacks we've got four grays two Blues Two Reds there's somewhat of some duplication going on
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there so wouldn't be surprised to see some changes to the colors for 2025 cacti might live another model year then
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buddy you never know as for the interior we got a habanero interior which is orange and black we hear it's very spicy
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I think one of the guys said yeah it kind of slaps you in your face you know yeah hence the name and then also you
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can now order jet black with blue stitching which I think is a very nice addition some people with the blue cars
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they felt that the two-tone blue was just a little overwhelming but black with that blue stitching I think will be very nice and of course you got the blue
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seat belts to tie it all in there yeah ZO6 will have a new wheel I don't know if the online reviews have been very
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kind to it yet but seeing it in person I think is really a big difference there's going to be four different finishes for
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this wheel they are Pearl nickel gloss black polished and then the bright polished with the carbon flash Pockets
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which is what we saw on the Z06 at The Bash they're way different than the spider Wheels on the car of course you
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only had the two choices currently we had the spider wheels or the carbon fiber Wheels now you've got the third
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choice it's actually not a badl looking wheel I think once you get up and look at it once I started looking at it it grew on me yeah and that was the case
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for me as well and of course the first picture I had of it it was kind of in the shade we captured it early morning
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if we would have seen it out in the sun where that polish could shine a little bit more and the carbon flash could Sparkle just a little bit with the
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metallic in it might have made a bigger difference as well for the people that saw it online we'll see if Minds change on that finally this Corvette Stingray
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z51 performance package they're getting a new standard spoiler you know before they've got this Wing spoiler opens up
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on the sides there's a little slit right there in the middle we're going to get a new Wing that looks just like the
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high-wing spoiler the four poost high-wing spoiler but it's only roughly half the size maybe just under half the
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size I think it looks really good I kind of like the high wi but I always thought it was a little too much being that high
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and of course it's a little harder to put stuff in the trunk put your top away for your Coupe owners with this thing
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reduced in size but still maintaining those same characteristics I actually like it I think it looks pretty good and
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you can get it in all the body colors or you can get it in carbon flash metallic as well so basically it's the high Wing
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a little bit shorter just to make sure everybody understands exactly we were calling it The midwing those are the changes for the 2025 Corvette of course
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again not knowing what colors are going away one other thing they did announce this is just a one-off but they're going to do a special NCM Edition for the 30th
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Anniversary coming up this summer on August and then that car is going to be raffled as a fundraiser they're going to
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do some special stripes and some packages around that but it's only that one car yeah you have to donate to win
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it yeah it's a one-off car and it looked really really good everybody also Keith let's cover the NCM Hall of Fame
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announcement who won and who's going into the Hall of Fame yeah this is always big news they announce it now and then the Hall of Fame induction ceremony
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is actually held in August at the anniversary celebration the 2024 class
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is going to be made up featuring both Oliver Gavin and Yan Magnuson they're going in the racing category Gavin and
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Magnuson boy they were a lot of fun with all the new drivers we have I'm having actually trouble keeping up with their
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names and who's in what car you knew what car Magnuson was in right yeah that was always the case he was Dynamite and
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of course Gavin together they won eight championships driving for Corvette racing 51 wins for Gavin 34 wins by
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Magnuson we just love those guys both of them so glad to see that they made it in big news there again Tad's Jer will be
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joining Zora Dave mclen Dave Hill Tom Wallace as Chief Engineers to be inducted in the Corvette Hall of Fame he
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spent 47 years at GM been working on Corvette since 1993 probably no one more deserving than Taj for sure finally in
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the Enthusiast class its automotive and racing photographer Richard Prince will become a member of the Hall of Fame he
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was running a Corvette restoration business and writing some articles forvet magazine when he got what we call the break of a lifetime to document the
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beginnings of Corvette racing and he's been their official photographer ever since and he's somewhat used as the official photographer for Corvette
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because he obviously he's well known to the program could be trusted with all the stuff that happens in advance Richard's a friend he wrote a book that
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just came out 70 years of Corvette great person and very happy for him as well yeah definitely also I was really
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honored Keith I got to do a presentation on Corvette today a seminar at The Bash and we had a special tribute to Corvette
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today didn't we this was a surprise for Steve he had no idea this was coming but our friend Jeff at zipp's garage put
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together this special tribute video for Steve what he did was he reached out had about 40 previous guests on the show do
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a video shout out and then he compiled them all into the one video Steve had no idea this was happening I saw some tears
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from Steve when it first fired up I I don't know if he could contain himself but he got it together and there was some really good people that were in
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there the video is online you got to see it we'll have it up on Corvette blogger it's also on YouTube at Zippy's garage
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but congratulations again Steve what a fantastic milestone for you and couldn't be happier to be part of it yeah I was
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completely surprised by this and it was in honor of starting year number five of Corvette today thanks to Jeff Judah at
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zi's garage for putting that together it was absolutely fantastic we will also
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have it on the Corvette today website as well and finally Keith we did this last year we did it again this year we
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recorded with the Holy Trinity of Corvette that would be Taj juor Josh holder chief engineer and brand manager
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Haron Charles Yeah we actually videotaped that whole seminar again you'll actually be able to see Steve
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asking the questions and the three guys answering them very informative the questions were very good this year some
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really technical stuff as well so if you're into that kind of thing stay tuned for that announcement I can't wait to see that video as it's up that should
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hopefully come out next week after this show we're working on that as we speak yeah that's going to be a great one
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Steve to be part of that and see it happening very honored to be part of that and also little announcement we're going to also do that again at the
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anniversary celebration SL Caravan so we'll have a second one coming up later on this year as well which will be
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really cool and maybe we can hear about a new Corvette that will be part of that that will hopefully be revealed by then
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that's the big wondering when it's going to happen but boy that would be fantastic to be able to talk about ZR1 with those guys and actually have them
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answer those questions exactly right that's what I'm hoping for Buddy hopefully all the stars will align buddy
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thanks for being back on Corvette today it was great to see you last week at the bash we'll talk again in two weeks
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