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CORVETTE TODAY #112 - Lance Miller Previews The GM Nationals and Corvettes At Carlisle!
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May 8, 2025
Lance Miller makes a return appearance on the CORVETTE TODAY podcast to talk about the upcoming GM Nationals along with the Corvettes At Carlisle shows. Lance and your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garret, outline everything you need for both shows! Plus, they also to about the Chip Miller Foundation For Amyloidosis. These are two shows you'll want to mark on your calendar. Find out everything you need with this CORVETTE TODAY podcast. www.CorvetteTodayPodcast.com
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it's always great to have my good friend
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lance miller on the show from carlisle
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events we usually do a preview of the
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largest corvette show in the world which
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is corvettes at carlisle today we're
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going to preview corvettes at carlisle
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and the gm nationals lance welcome back
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to corvette today i'm excited to be on
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thanks for having me you got it buddy
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it's always good to have you back first
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of all lance let's talk about the gm
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nationals give us an overview of the gm
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nationals i've heard about it but i've
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never been there before it's a great
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show it's everything and anything gm so
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obviously it's not just corvette as we
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usually talk about it is everything gm
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related overall it's pontiac you've got
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plenty of camaros out there which are
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just flooded in fact we always love
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having more and more out there and as
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we'll get into more we're going to talk
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about the third gen which will be super
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pac this year because we've got some
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amazing cars from that generation coming
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to the show it's a big feature this year
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and also nova as well that sounds like a
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fun event how many registrants are you
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thinking you're going to have this year
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we typically have well over a thousand
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registrants smaller than the corvette
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show but at the same time it's just a
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very fun and i don't want to say quaint
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show because it's much bigger than that
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but a lot of fun the vendor base is
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always very strong at this show again if
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you have any gm product typically you're
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going to find a vendor that has whatever
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you might need what can an attendee
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register to do while they're at the gm
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nationals basically if you're going to
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register your vehicle you're going to go
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sit back have a good time clearly you're
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going to get judged and when i say judge
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it's typically a participant ballot is
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what we're doing people just go out and
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check out the different vehicles that
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are in their perspective fields and
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they'll judge them by how they feel
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however they may feel about particular
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cars for instance if i like a pink car i
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may choose pink it all depends on the
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people that are judging and how they
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feel on that particular day and of
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course if the cars stand out i mean they
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stand out but i think we all sat at any
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show and also you've got autocross an
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exhaust competition and a nitro fuel
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dragster thing as well don't you we do
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the neat part about the autocross is
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just seeing the cars out there and
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hearing them and smelling them and so
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forth i mean that's what we all truly
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love about the car hobby is the car
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itself and obviously driving it and
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having fun and pushing it to the limits
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and that's what the autocross is all
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about the exhaust competition is pretty
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cool too you know it's one of those
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things it's when they're under load so
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it's not just a car sitting in a static
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spot and just revving an engine it's
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actually under load going up a hill and
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what we ask is people don't burn out the
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tires and smoke them up because quite
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frankly you're not going to hear the
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exhaust it's all about the exhaust note
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typically what we'll do is allow the
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audience to judge that as well it's
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always great to hear just a healthy v8
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launch up that hill or who knows maybe
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it's a turbo car that just everybody
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loves that whistle so it's always fun to
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hear and experience as well and the
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nitro fest that's crazy i don't know if
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you've ever done that steve or not have
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you no i haven't literally burns your
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eyes if you're anywhere near it it's
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unbelievable the sound of this car is so
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hard to explain via words because you
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truly need to experience it our buddy
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bruce larson brings his vehicles out and
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i'm telling you your whole body
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literally shakes to the core when he
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revs this thing and it literally will
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burn your eyeballs out it's that bad if
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you're standing close to it so we always
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ask people to stand back unless they
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want a little experience to like move up
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within 20 feet and you're still going to
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get that experience of burning your eyes
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so it's pretty hardcore but it's just
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awesome to hear these things roar we
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love having him there and displaying his
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cars and at the same time revving them
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up and just giving us a taste of what
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it's all about it sounds like so much
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fun i've never done that but man i'd
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love to do it you know you always want
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to do it once but it sounds great it is
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it's wild and bruce i mean he's done
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every drag strip there is the name no
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joke he gives great stories and at the
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same time it's just neat to hear his
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cars that he built literally right there
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at carlisle pretty cool now tell me what
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the emphasis for this year's gm national
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show is
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sure it's the 60th anniversary of nova
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so obviously a big big deal for them and
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we're excited to have many novas coming
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out there's going to be a ton of them
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which will be fun to see third gen
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camaro which we talked about earlier
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i've got to tell you that group is so
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excited about this event quite frankly
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they told us like hey nobody ever
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focuses on us and boy did they ever come
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out of the woodwork we're going to have
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some of the most amazing 3rd gen camaros
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you've ever seen and i'm not kidding you
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these are cars that have been raced for
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many many years they're all over the
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world and they're bringing them to
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carlisle so it's going to be an amazing
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display that's cool and you're
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celebrating 40 years of the third
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generation display section as well right
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oh yeah absolutely that's what this is
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all about the camaro side of it so it's
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going to be a magnificent display like i
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said it'll be a stellar one that quite
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frankly i don't know if you'll ever see
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again that's pretty cool now as in all
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carlisle events you're going to have a
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flea market and people can sell and buy
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gm cars there as well isn't that correct
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absolutely you can buy a car there or of
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course you could build a car if you
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wanted to with all the vendors
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you know a lot of people take that
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lightly but i seriously think you can do
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it it's unbelievable what people bring
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out it really is and lance i know you've
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got a new event that you started last
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year but it's coming up again this year
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for the gm nationals talk a little bit
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about that sure and it's all for a great
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cause it's called corvettes for chip
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ship is my father and we're doing it in
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combination with the gm show because
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what we did was have a standalone event
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before and we decided why not
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incorporate it into this great show at
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gm it really works out well we have many
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corvettes that show up to the gm show
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but now even more so because of the fact
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we have a dedicated area for people to
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hang out and they can put their cars in
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different generations and what have you
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it's just a lot of fun we're going to
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have a memorial parade that goes
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throughout the fairgrounds to under my
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father it's just a nice little show
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field i'm also going to be doing a tour
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of our garage as well for the people
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that come out it's obviously not as
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crowded as corvettes carlisle but at the
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same time it's quaint and a lot of fun
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and it's always fun seeing everybody and
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obviously raising funds for a great
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cause fantastic buddy all right so you
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got me excited about this lance how can
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i get registered for the gm nationals
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well the gm nationals you can typically
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do it online however at this point we're
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closed to that point because the show is
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quickly coming up june 24th to the 25th
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so what we do is you can register
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actually at the show so it's not a
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problem at all you can just bring your
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vehicle register there day of and you're
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good to go sounds good well buddy let's
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take our first break and when we come
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back we'll talk about corvettes at
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i'm your host steve garrett with me
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today is lance miller from carlisle
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events we're talking about the gm
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nationals and now we're going to talk
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about corvettes at carlisle the largest
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corvette show in the world lance let's
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get the dates for corvettes at carlisle
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coming up this year i can do that that's
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easy enough august 25th to the 27th is
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this year so that's thursday through
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saturday and it's the 40th anniversary
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of the show isn't it give us a little
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history about corvettes at carlisle
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absolutely my dad started this event it
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was the first standalone event that
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we've ever hosted at carlisle so what we
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had was spring and fall essentially
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that's everything and anything and then
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they decided you know what let's
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dedicate an event strictly to corvette
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and solely for the reason that my dad's
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passion was there he just loved the
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people loved the car and said you know
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what let's do it so they did it
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fortunately they did it now i'm able to
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ride the coattails and enjoy it because
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i enjoy the people the cars and quite
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frankly the events just stellar i love
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it last year was my first corvettes at
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carlisle it was fantastic it makes you
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think why haven't i done this before and
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one of the cool things about that is is
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you can register your corvette club for
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the fun field can't you absolutely you
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can typically what we do is just have
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you enter the information on our website
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at carlisleevents.com
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and then jody will be getting back to
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you in regards to the needs to get a
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tent what have you we have to have so
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many people registered at times so you
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can do that or you can just do it solely
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you know if you have a corvette you're
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not a part of club we certainly
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encourage you to come out as well now
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nccc will be back again this year for
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getting your corvette judged talk about
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that because that's different than what
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we talked about with gm nationals
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absolutely that's a little more intense
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judging when i say that these are the
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guys that are actually cleaning their
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tires out getting the little stones out
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of the tread and when i say that people
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literally are doing it on our field it's
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all about how clean your particular
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vehicle is or as i say anal as the car
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owner is and i'm pretty anal but i got
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to tell you there's plenty of people out
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there that can beat me because i've seen
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it and i love that part of this event
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just because it's something different
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you know people always want their cars
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perfect and quite frankly these cars are
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so i always encourage people to go out
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check it out and also you know if you
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have your car modified and you want to
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show it off all the different
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personalizations that you've done it's a
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great area to do that just show off your
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vehicle and have others judge it for how
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they feel it stands out and it is a
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seven sanction event so it's a pretty
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big deal for nccc absolutely i know that
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i flew out from kansas city out to
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corvettes at carlisle and driving
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through even the day before i
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immediately missed my car because my car
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is highly modified this year i want to
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drive out that's what my goal is for
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this year that's awesome and that's what
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we encourage you know what whenever i go
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to an event i don't have a car it drives
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me crazy quite frankly that's what it's
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all about absolutely right talk about
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some of the vendors that are going to be
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exhibiting this year buddy oh i can talk
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about lots and lots of vendors and we
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really do have just about everything
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under the sun i always think of kim's
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gold dust for one you know if you want
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jewelry for your wife or yourself it's
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there corvette related car related she's
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got it all she always does a fantastic
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job i think of like roger's clocks again
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these are the clocks in the old school
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corvettes whether it's c1 c2 or c3 for
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that matter he provides oem look and
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works much better obviously the list
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goes on and on you know if you want
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shirts a product if you wanted
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manufacturers midway we have exhausts
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that are being changed out and as we
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talked about earlier you literally can
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build a car at this event if you want a
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frame you'll find one at corvettes in
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carlisle we really do it's just a wide
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array and of course if you want a
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cleaning product there's plenty of
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people there that will be happy to talk
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to you about that i always go with
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mcguire's just because i love their
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product they're a big sponsor of ours
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and quite frankly they've started and
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supported us at carlisle since day one
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that's cool plus you can also buy and
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sell corvettes at the show just like the
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gm nationals can't you absolutely if you
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want to buy a car i definitely hold off
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and it's always fun to negotiate with
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the private owner i enjoy doing it and
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quite frankly you learn a lot about the
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car just from the history of talking to
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an owner and speaking of learning a lot
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you've got seminars coming up again this
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year don't you we do i always enjoy the
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seminar in fact you can tell us about
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the seminars because you're one of them
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i'm going to be doing two seminars
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talking about the corvette today podcast
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we did this last year it turned out
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gonna have a good time i'm looking
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forward to coming back this year buddy
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it's awesome and paul kerner is going to
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be there again this year he's
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unbelievable his technical side with the
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corvette it's just staggering he's truly
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an encyclopedia danny banks is going to
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be coming which i'm super excited about
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because we're featuring the c5 c6 c7r
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corvettes any pratt miller car so i
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guess i should say c8 as well right now
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i've got six of those locked in for
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chip's choice so i'm really excited
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about that and i love dan banks he's
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absolutely incredible mechanic but he's
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such a good person and he gets it all
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he's been there since day one with pratt
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miller we recently retired i was so
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excited to have him out because it's his
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first time coming to corvettes carlisle
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due to the fact he was always too busy
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to come so now that he's retired we just
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laughed this morning in fact for me to
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say this and say oh he's got more time
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sounds like he doesn't have more time
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like everybody else that retires he's
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going to be great as far as seminars and
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what have you well and it's great
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because dan binks was also on the
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corvette today podcast so you can check
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the list of podcasts there's a hundred
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at carlisle perfect yeah and like you
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said i mean you know that for fact that
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he's just a phenomenal guy and gets it
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absolutely right well buddy let's take
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today is lance miller from carlisle
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events we're talking about the gm
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nationals and corvettes at carlisle in
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this third and final segment we're going
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to talk about something that is very
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near and dear to both of our hearts it's
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the big chip miller benefit dinner for
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amloy doses talk about your dad his
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dream his vision and this benefit dinner
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well my dad was my best friend mentor
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and he was just a phenomenal person just
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about everybody that ever met him tells
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me the exact same thing that he was just
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a genuinely great guy i was fortunate to
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have him as a father and mentor like i
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said earlier it's nice to be able to
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give back and for me to do so through
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such a bad thing that happened to myself
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and my family having my dad pass away
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from amyloidosis we thought why not
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celebrate his life and bring everybody
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together and do it for a good cause
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let's spread the word about amyloidosis
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hence the reason we put together dinner
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we do a slide for amyloid we do a surf
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contest we do all sorts of things but
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during corvettes at carlisle the dinner
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is so much fun it's basically a bunch of
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friends coming together if you've never
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been i highly recommend that you come
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out to this dinner because you're going
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to meet a lot of great people and that's
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what it's all about the camaraderie
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spreading the word about this terrible
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disease and also raising money for this
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foundation last year we raised about
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fifteen thousand dollars very excited
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about that it obviously goes to a great
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cause near and dear to my heart some
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items that you're able to purchase
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through auction are things that you're
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never going to be able to obtain
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anywhere else many gm products some of
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the gm team brings special items out
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that are just one off they'll sign them
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literally have the whole team sign them
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and then we'll auction them off plenty
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of race car items that type of stuff so
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it's always fun good times celebrate
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someone's life and like i said just do
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it for a worthy cause and have a great
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dinner along with it i went last year my
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first year corvettes at carlisle it was
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amazing the things that were up for
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auction i was so encouraged to see
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everybody bidding and you're right there
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are a lot of one-off things signed by
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teams whether it be corvette racing or
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the corvette team itself it was
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fantastic it is you know one of my
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favorite things that we auction off and
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i'm sure you've probably done an
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interview with them spring mountain yes
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they're awesome just to go out you're
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gonna basically win a trip out there and
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have a great time blasting around and
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see a corvette what could be better
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absolutely hey when is the dinner this
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year and what's the cost to get into the
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event it's august 26 which is friday
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evening during corvettes at carlisle and
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the cost is 65 per person that's up
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until july 11th i believe it is and then
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it bumps up to 75 per person we
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typically do that until we fill up and
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we typically do fill up so i highly
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recommend that you go on
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carlisleevents.com to register early for
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that dinner and the flea market will be
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out in full force again this year isn't
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that right oh yeah without a doubt isn't
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it always yeah
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that's true it's amazing what you can
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buy if you're looking for a specific
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thing for an early corvette c1 c2 c3 or
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c4 they'll have it it was amazing to
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just kind of mosey through there and see
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the different stuff for sale isn't it
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it's funny because even in the different
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nooks and crannies like you look over
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and you'll see an entire you know it
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might be a 57 corvette that somebody
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really enjoyed but it's all there it's
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unbelievable the little surprises that
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you find throughout the field i always
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enjoy walking around i wish i had more
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time to do it yeah absolutely i mean
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it's one of those kind of things where
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you want to walk around and talk to the
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people and find out more specifically
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what they've got because like you said
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and i know you joke about it but you can
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really almost build your own corvette
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from the flea market at corvettes at
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carlisle one of these days i got to
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stand up and just do that because a lot
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of fun i mean seriously it'd be neat to
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just follow a video of it all and build
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a corvette because i know it can be done
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absolutely what is the theme for this
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year's corvettes at carlisle well we got
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a lot of different themes we obviously
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for the 50th anniversary we had the 72
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corvette so we've got some great cars we
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tried to just get a wide variety of 72
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corvettes and we did just that so
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that'll be on display in the middle of
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the field i had hit earlier in regards
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to the pratt and miller race cars
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they'll be on display as well that'll be
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a chip's choice it's always a lot of fun
26:32
ncrs gallery as well envision the best
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of the best in the world of cars just
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coming together what we try to do is get
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every single generation in there like i
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said the best of the best these cars
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have all been judged up and down they
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really are amazing to walk through and
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see underneath one particular location
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and the thing i like best about this you
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get an app for attendees this app is so
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darn cool oh no doubt about it you know
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what's funny is i cheat all the time i
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use that like i have people come up
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constantly asking because i have our
27:04
shirts saying that i work there so
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they're all over me all the time where's
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this where's that and i used to use the
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old school you know the event magazine
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which we still have but i gotta tell you
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the app is so much easier i just look it
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up and boom here it is and then people
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see you using it and they're like well
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where can i get it so i always tell them
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just download it got it right there
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that's so cool now where can someone
27:23
register for corvettes at carlisle well
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that's easy
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carlisleevents.com
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carlisleevents.com you know the other
27:31
thing i didn't mention was the calwave
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reunion that's always one of my
27:34
favorites as well that's going to be a
27:36
great display of cars too that sounds
27:38
like fun i can't wait for the event this
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year and it's coming up what are the
27:41
dates again the 25th to the 27th of
27:44
august correct sounds good buddy thanks
27:47
so much for being back on corvette today
27:49
it was great getting with you i look
27:50
forward to the show all the best of luck
27:52
at the gm nationals and i'll see you at
27:54
corvettes at carlisle i look forward to
27:56
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