CORVETTE TODAY #123 - Corvette News & Headlines, Late August 2022

Name: CORVETTE TODAY #123 - Corvette News & Headlines, Late August 2022
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to get the latest corvette news and headlines with my pal keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com keith is here twice
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keith welcome back to the show buddy just when you thought it was safe to go back on the streets and start talking
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about the z06 we've got more insider information don't we you know there has
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just been a slew of news coming out a lot of this is coming from dealers and people related to the buying and selling
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process because we did get z06 allocations and ordering started so yeah there's a lot coming out it wasn't the
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smoothest rollout either so let's get to it we'll walk you through and let you know what's happening that sounds good
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for those of you that are getting stingrays we have the latest corvette production update from the bowling green assembly plan yeah so so far we've got
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really just good news coming out of the corvette assembly plant you know we've had some down days where production may have only reached around 119 120 cars
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and our current average for the 2023 model year is right around 153 cars per
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day our count has always been 184 that's what the plant can do full production in both shifts the first shift in the
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second shift so we're 150 on an average day there's definitely room to grow
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which is good because obviously we've got the z06 starting up soon it's still moving we haven't had any cancellations
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of work since the vacation time in july i would say that things are still going strong last week we did cross over the 9
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000 milestone for the 2023 model year stingrays if production is steady this
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week we could actually see 10 000 corvettes built by friday still good news coming out it's not as a robust
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production schedule as we'd like to see but they're definitely working hard each and every day to get us our stingrays
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and soon it'll be the z06 they're coming absolutely right and that's great news about the number count as well all right
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let's get into it keith let's talk about z06 allocations and orders all right so
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here we go chevrolet gave dealers their first allocations last thursday and as we know it wasn't the smoothest rollout
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ever there was actually some sort of data mix-up that we learned dealers originally stated that they had zero
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allocations these were really big dealers and for them to have zero allocations it really just totally
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freaked everybody out the good news is that we learned that there was an issue and that by late thursday afternoon
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these big volume dealers could log into their systems and that see that they did have quantities they did have z06
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allocation the other thing that was weird too is that dealers were showing different screen shots that suggested
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different totals it turns out there's actually three allocation tiers for dealers so think large medium and small
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the way that chevrolet does this is that smaller dealers are protected from competing with the larger stores for these allocations again this is all new
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stuff that we're learning steve so i had no idea that there was these three tiers that were out there wow some were saying the actual number of z06s available
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nationwide is 196. well that was for just the largest tier of dealers the
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actual count is 281 with 85 aero cars so we did see more cars but there's these
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three tiers understand that we are seeing a ramp up of z06 numbers as we move towards the start of regular
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production we don't know how much more it's going to be and there's all kinds of conflicting information out there so
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not the smoothest rollout for allocations there is an order cycle that is currently going on let me say this
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steve members of the corvette team really had nothing to do with last week's allocation fiasco it's this team
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that handles the dealers and the information they put out there's been a lack of communication there's been wrong
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information dealers can't update their customers if they don't have the information these guys were just getting
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slammed left and right by people who are upset they're not hearing from their dealers dealers have no information to share because chevrolet's been so
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tight-lipped it's really been just a very difficult environment for the dealers in terms of communication with
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their customers just because they don't know crazy stuff going on but it looks like it's gonna smooth out hopefully z06
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orders are in the process it's off and running not the smoothest start but it's off and running it is off and running a
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couple questions for you keith now 281 represents the monthly total nationwide
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for all chevrolet dealers isn't that correct that is correct yes okay and then what is an aero car so the aero car
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is anything with the big wing on the back there's two versions of the aero car and you have to have the aero
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package to order z07 so it's the tog or toj options they're all carbon fiber
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arrow but just one is finished in carbon flash and the other is visible carbon fiber metallic gotcha that's what's
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being called the aero cars and of course that stuff's not cheap anyways i think those packages can run upwards of i
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think eleven or twelve thousand dollars combined when you add that to a car that's a commitment you're making and with that not really being available
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nationwide that's gonna hurt a little bit absolutely now we do have some select z06 buyers that are at status
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3000 and we're looking at production maybe starting the week of september 12th isn't that correct yeah so this is
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the week before the ordering opened up we saw all of a sudden a bunch of customers seem to move up to status 3000
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already even a couple of them had production target weeks showing in september this is the customers that
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took advantage of the five thousand dollar pin option pin pin which is the rpo code for a customer selectable vin
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we saw this with stingray there's a couple guys that have 1953 corvettes and what they did was they were able to pay
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the 5 000 and match the vin of their 2020 corvette stingray to their 1953
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corvette i think one of the guys that did that he had number 285 on his 53 so he was able to get 285 on his 2020. so
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my understanding is there's a process you have to go through the chevy just doesn't grant these nilly willy they kind of want to know why you want it
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there's a little bit of an understanding there and then dealers start working with their pin customers months in advance because they have to do all this
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clearance and stuff we're learning that there's probably around 38 to 40 pin orders that were placed and these were
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pulled first and we saw their statuses moved to 3000 immediately one thing that freaked people out seoka their public
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list showed i think 32 pin cars move so the big question was where are these cars going are they being produced now
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they've been produced later and kind of really don't know that information pin orders do count against the dealer's
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allocation but it could also be spread out of course over several months again just not really sure how they're
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handling that while some of these low pin numbers will go first others will wait to be sequenced i joke with my 66
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corvette if i wanted to match the vin of that thing i'm waiting around to the 22 891 car i don't know if that's quite the
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value out of spending 5 000 on it right the most famous pin order is rick kendrick's bin01 he won the rights to
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purchase that at barrett-jackson we also know that gm pulled some vip orders as well you can imagine some of the people
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on that list but they are going to be among the first to get their car there was some movement there this happens every order cycle although most of the
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time the pins aren't in this kind of quantity they might be three four five in a regular model year we did see a
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similar number i think over 30 pins were used in 2020 for the stingray it is a way to move up the list it's a way to
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secure an allocation earlier you do have to spend the 5 000 and hopefully if you're at an msrp dealer you can do that
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that's kind of like your own adm but again i think that most people would say that it's totally worth it first of all
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my order wasn't pulled and i was hoping to be on that vip list and i wasn't damn it
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and then you know it's a note to self everybody if you want to get the first allocation of any model corvette whether
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it's z06 e-ray zora or zr1 maybe putting the 5 000 into a specific vent would
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help get you to the top of that list so that's something to think about as we move forward and get more iterations of corvettes coming out yeah there's
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definitely opportunities for people to be creative and come up with something fun there there's different ways you can
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do it you can do a theme car you can do it based around a year or a birthday kind of cool stuff there that's cool
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that's very cool all right and i was glad to see this being the carbon fiber freak that i am chevrolet has changed
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the way you can order the carbon fiber wheels yeah so the carbon fiber wheels were always tied to z07 and in fact it's
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not just you get the carbon fiber wheels but there are some specific calibrations to the steering because the wheels are
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lighter they offer the 40 pounds of unspun weight savings i think this is probably related to the aero constraints
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on the cars you know with only 30 available carbon revolution's been doing a great job of getting chevrolet wheels
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and we know that from your conversation with them that they've been stockpiling these wheels over here already right so
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my thinking is that they're just going to allow this free flow option as a way for some people if they can't get the
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aero package which is the main constraint now on z07 they can order the carbon fiber wheels and at least feel
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like they've got something special gm is now allowing non-z07 cars to have the carbon fiber wheels and then you do
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require to get the j57 carbon ceramic brakes got it you do need that stopping
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power and also i think the carbon ceramic brakes keep the inside of the barrels cooler than the iron brakes
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which is why those are required the other thing that was in this update is that gm wants you to know that you cannot mix and match your wheels in the
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arrow if you order visible carbon fiber wheels on a z07 you have to go with the
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visible carbon fiber aero package and the same with the carbon flash you get the carbon flash arrow package you got
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to get the carbon flash wheels they don't want you to mix and match on that good news i think for some people and
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others will say you know what i'm going to go ahead and take the opportunity now i'll get the carbon fiber wheels the j57
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brakes and then i'll turn to the aftermarket to find the carbon fiber wing that i want that's what i'd probably foresee happening the fact is
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that most of the people that probably order this car are never going to take it to the track anyways the z07 in terms
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of the performance capabilities that this offers most people just won't be able to fully use that on the street
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this was good news for corvette people hopefully we'll see people take advantage of it absolutely also we have
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an idea about the gas guzzler tax charge as well don't we yeah this was a little scout we knew it was coming it was a
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little bit more than we thought all buyers purchasing a 2023 corvette z06 will be subjected to a gas guzzler tax
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of 2600 and that's for the base model when you add the carbon fiber arrow package again
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the aero cars with the z07 the gas goes or tax jumps up to three thousand dollars this kind of news was expected
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again a little bit higher but again we're dealing with a naturally aspirated 670 horsepower engine in this car and so
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yeah there's going to be some additional costs unfortunately we still do not have the actual official city and highway or
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combined mpg ratings yet from chevrolet so we're still waiting on that okay that sounds good this last one in the news
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section keith almost could be in our rumors section general motors is testing the ferrari sf90 stradale over the
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milford proving grounds and they've kind of got eyes on the e-ray and the zora for a benchmark don't they yeah so spy
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photographers that caught this car and i'm glad you could pronounce it because i just want to call it the ferrari sf90
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straydale this makes is that how you say it's fidelity it's
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all right i like that yeah so our spy photographer up in detroit caught him testing on the fame north south
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straightaway at the milford proving ground and what makes this car unique is this is ferrari's take on their 4.0
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liter twin turbo v8 which makes 769 horsepower and then they
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have three electric motors those add an additional 217 horsepower so this car
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has 986 horsepower and 590 foot-pounds of torque that's good enough to launch
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it zero to 60 in the low two second range a car like that sounds almost identical in terms of the horsepower
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performance ratings to what we're thinking that the zr1 and zoro will do the zora is the twin turbo version of
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the 5.5 liter engine with the electric motors on it the e-ray we're only going to probably see the two motors on the
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front axles but some of these bigger performance cars are actually putting a third motor in the back and that offers
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a lot of the drive around i've seen videos of this car being driven 10 15 miles down the road and it's all done on
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electric power so with that third motor i think you can do that with the two motors that the e-rays are getting i'm not sure that we'll have that kind of
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extended drive period on electric only but it looks like chevrolet is turning towards italy they're taking apart this
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car and testing it and seeing what it can do and it's all going to lead to these electrified corvettes and how they
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perform is all going to be benchmarked based on these cars and things so again good news they're working on the future
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still we have a photographic proof of it over on corvetteblogger.com very nice stradale
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talk about corvette racing and corvette rumors first of all keith on the racing section we got a number three podium at
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road america with the corvette racing team yeah that was good race it was a tough one though road america is always
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a fast track the competition's tough this year we don't quite always have the speed that we want we didn't have the
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overall top speed here which would have been handy because it's just such a fast track but the number three car did lead
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the race at one point but we did see weather was a factor they're switching between slicks and their wet tires that
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was kind of a factor but we did end up third on the podium at the end we're racing with a waiver on a non-spec gt3
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car in a gt3 category so we'll take what we can get we actually have a race coming up our next event is the michelin
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gt talons at vir virginia international raceway and that's happening this weekend the number 64 corvette in the wc
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the world endurance challenge is going to japan and fuji speedway on september 11th so they're coming up a few weeks as
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well very cool also in corvette racing we had antonio garcia and jordan taylor driving a c806 at road america too
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didn't we yeah there's some good stuff there so we caught some behind the scenes stuff as they were given these cars antonio garcia and jordan taylor
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were giving these two z06s to drive during this day so we saw them driving i actually saw a photo of jordan on the
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highway actually with the car antonia had the 70th anniversary in carbon flash black and jordan was
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driving a rapid blue with the carbon fiber wheels and both of the cars were full z07 narrow cars we did see them
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they did a lap or two around the track i got to tell you it's really strange to see these two cars together on the track
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and racing each other a little bit although they were very careful with them just because we haven't seen that before but we're going to see that soon
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with owners getting out there and going tense with it so they did a lap too and then they paused underneath the corvette
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bridge there was the c8r was there and richard prince the official photographer for corvette racing was able to get some
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great photos of the car when jordan was talking about the car he says wow i wish my race car had that much horsepower
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which is true because the race cars are constrained they're down tuned a bit the z06 is you know 670 horsepower versus i
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think around five or 550 horsepower for the race car you can see how these guys would really like it and of course
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antonio being the crazy guy that he is throws up a couple thumbs up and that's about all we know hope to see some more
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racers getting the opportunity to drive the z06 and getting their impressions see so when you get your z06 everybody
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you can say your car has more horsepower than the corvette racing team's car that's right
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that'll be pretty cool also we saw indycar's felix rosenquist he drove at corvette pace car and the nashville
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street course that was pretty cool too that's good i'm always disappointed when i see these other series do these street
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courses and then we can't be there because i just think they're so much fun anyways and it's fun for the residents of the town to see these race cars on
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their own streets and nashville they actually go across the bridge over a river and back and there's quite a bit
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of scenery there to see so this was felix rosenquist he took a spear to drive with carter holton of the vanderbilt baseball team just went up
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and down you know it gives them a chance to talk to a non-racer about the capabilities of what their indy cars are
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doing at that moment the indy cars are always twice as fast as what these stingrays are doing these street courses
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where you have these walls and the different corners you have to take it's just more exciting so i always wish that
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when any car puts together a street course like nashville that insta could be there for that weekend as well but
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good stuff again i think we've got a couple more indycar races coming up and i hope they continue to do these series another thing i saw too we haven't
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written them on this yet is that team chevy had all the nascar drivers out to charlotte motor speedway and they were
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driving corvettes out on the track they had some chevy trucks set up with a dirt obstacle course to drive around so when
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these drivers are out there representing chevrolet they have now these experiences of driving the corvettes on
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the track and driving the trucks off the track looks like they all had a good time there and i was kind of following some of the twitter feeds of these
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drivers as they were sharing their experiences that's cool all right let's get into rumors keith we've got a couple big ones about the z06 now obviously we
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don't have z06 complete allocation yet but we do know constraints and how the allocations will be handed out yeah
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there's always been the conversation of how many z06s will be produced in a year what's the percentage of z06s for
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stingrays we've heard rumors of 25 to 30 percent i wish it was that good there was a screenshot that came out friday
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morning that appears to show a screenshot from a general motors computer that tells us how many of each
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corvette model that chevrolet will produce for the 2023 model year now it's not a number it's not a count it's
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mostly just percentages the way they do this is the models are actually broken out there's the z51 with mag ride the
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z51 stingray without mag ride a base c8 stingray the base z06 and then the z06
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with z07 or z06 with arrow is what they call it as we go down this list we know
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and again there's not a percentage i'm not going to give you a percentage of stingrays versus this this is just what it says 60 of stingrays will be z 51 and
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so 40 of the stingrays are non-z51 obviously sixty percent of stingrays with z51 will have mag right that's a
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percentage of a percentage when we get into the z06 we're learning that perhaps only 10
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of models in the 2023 model year will be z06 wow they have a plant restriction
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next to it so it shows there's a common area like when it talks about the 60 of stingrays z51 with mag ride it says that
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there's a microchip supplier restriction for just the regular z51 corvette stingray with the 60 it just says
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supplier restriction non z51 stingray supplier restriction but when we get to the z06 model it shows 10
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and then it says plant restriction so what's a planet restriction that's a great question we're not really sure we
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assume that it's just what it says it's just that production is being restricted by the plant but the next one of the z06
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is to have the arrow package we're only looking at about three percent of those wow very scary stuff there in terms of
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exactly how much that now is that three percent totals stingray or does that mean thirty percent of all zero sixes
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like we saw with this allocation that just came out in the constraints on the aero package i'm thinking again that
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we're probably looking at if we build 30 000 cars this year that's 3 000 z06s and
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30 of those will have the z07 package so not really good news for if you're on a list and you're down that list and you
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want a z06 really bad i don't know how much they're going to make of these cars but it doesn't look like it's going to
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be a lot we were talking about this before we started recording they got 281 allocations for the month of august if
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you take that out for the next 10 months through june or july of next year when the model year will switch over you end
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up at about 3 000 cars total so yeah not the greatest news and again we just learned about this right before we got
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together to do this so hopefully some more info come out on it but yeah it looks like the z06 is going to be an exclusive model wow hopefully we'll get
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some better news coming out here even after this recording of this show it's just been part for the course of what we saw last week absolutely right there's
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only so many cars they can build the z06 is a very special car it would have been nice if we would have known production
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going into this you know earlier on but i'm sure they didn't know either we do have supplier restrictions on top of
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what else they're doing in terms of limited at the plant it's just kind of a mess we're just gonna have to work our way through it steve that sounds good
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well buddy let's take our final break when we come back we'll talk about the lighter side of corvette here on corvette today
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with me every other week is keith cornett from corvette blogger we keep you current and up to date on what's happening with america's sports car in
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this third and final section we'll talk about the lighter side of corvette keith i was really envious i saw amelia
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hartford getting the first z06 press car and she had a great video about it yeah
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it was a fun video it was a 70th anniversary convertible that she was driving and we always said that when we
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see the chevy people driving it they might give us a little blip of the exhaust or maybe a little of it extended
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of a takeoff but when it comes to these private people driving the car obviously they're going to have a lot more fun
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with it maybe then i'd say the chevy people are allowed to have she certainly did that this is the first press car i
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guess that's being out there she says she's the first one to drive and i've actually had some conversations with some other people that been in the car
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that couldn't talk about it yet but the good news is that these cars are out there she was actually not allowed to
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talk about her driving impressions these were embargoed by general motors what they generally will do is they probably
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already have cars out to like car and driver and motor trend and some of these magazines because it takes them six
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weeks eight weeks to put together an issue they probably tested these cars early on and then right as the launch
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comes whenever chevrolet says go and we have to think that it's probably around production or when the first cars
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actually start being delivered is when we'll see all these reviews start to hit the magazine stands and the youtubers
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start getting the cars and then hopefully we'll get the call to come out and do a ride and drive so that's
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exactly what we've got looking forward to but here's amelia's driving this car having a great time taking around showing it to other people and letting
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them here at rev and watching the convertible top go up and down and just having a fun time with it good to see
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just makes us know that we're close to these cars being in the hands of customers that's true very true i also
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love this story a 1971 corvette that was driven by an apollo 15 astronaut is
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getting a full reefer that was awesome yeah this is pretty cool so this is the car that was driven on the apollo 15
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mission by astronaut al warden great idea by a dealer down in the cape
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canaveral area raithman chevrolet i think it was the idea was to lease new corvettes to astronauts for a dollar a
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year and of course these astronauts were the heroes back in the 60s they were on life magazine in fact this car is
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pictured on life magazine along with the two other astronauts who all had matching 1971 corvettes done there was a
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red one a white one and a black one i believe i don't think it was blue i think it was black and then each of the cars has a racing stripe with the other
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two car colors on it so pretty cool for life magazine you have the three cars you have the astronauts standing up in
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the car through the t-tops and then in front of it you've got the actual gm produced moon buggy that the astronauts
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used to drive around on the moon after this guy got done with his car he turned it back in for whatever reason it just
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ended up out in the back of a field somewhere still with its white color with its twin stripes on it just as it
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was on the life magazine it had been found i think a few years back and now it's actually going to be restored and
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one of the people that's actually leading the restoration of the car is the grandson of the astronaut kind of
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keeping it the family there big shout out to collector danny reed who has a thing for astronaut corvettes he helped
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discover this car we're going to see this car again hopefully once it's completed we'll get it out on the show circuit a little bit and be able to
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check it out for ourselves really cool car great piece of history i love that thing i hope it gets refurbed soon i'd
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love to see it back in its original glory that's for sure this next story keith all you can do is shake your head
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it's kind of a face palm the chevy dealer's memo erroneously said that over 55 000 c8 orders were in the system it
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was a fraction of that wasn't it yeah i tell myself i'm the king of typos this thing happened
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this happened on a big scale when chevrolet sent out the dealer deck the consensus deck two dealers this is the
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week before ordering actually opened for the z06 it showed that there was 55 573
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corvette orders in system the second i saw that i'm like wow that's a lot obviously that's like two years and then
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gm authority had actually written a story that said and those 55 000 orders are all between
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2500 and 37.99 status which was just impossible there's no way that there's
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50 000 orders that are accepted for production and waiting to be produced we went back to our friends at chevrolet pr
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they got to work on it and said no it's actually only 5 573. oops we went from two years to seven weeks people that see
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that stuff we're just so conditioned to take everything at face value and then it's course it's negative news and so it
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just reinforces our opinion about what's going on with ordering and buying and all that other stuff so yeah unfortunate
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but again when you see this kind of typo you see the fiasco with the allocations last week uh about curse there and
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somebody's got to get their stuff together get their stuff together when it comes to communicating with the
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dealers yeah that's a big typo but luckily the good news is that it was just a typo we're still going to see
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these cars moving you know we also talked to some dealers too the average production time right now for dealers
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that have a list or smaller list they'll say eight months to a year but we still have come across some dealers that'll
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say yeah we can do it in a few months might be five or six months the nice thing is that for these dealers that are smaller that have these stingray lists a
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lot of these lists have come down in size now so the weight isn't nearly as long as it once was right of course
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we're adding z06s on that but not in the percentage that we wanted to see just leaves more stingrays out there for
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people to get yep that's true and if you're bored and you're just waiting and waiting and waiting for your corvette
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you can always play the free c8 wheels game on twitter can't you yeah this is something that we brought over it was a
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little bit of a time waster but pretty cool somebody had constructed a gif of a c8 corvette with all kinds of different
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wheels on it the game is the user says you get a free corvette but you have to keep the wheels you landed on when you
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start it it's just flashing different wheels at you then you pause it you see what you landed on and there's just all kinds of different selections there my
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favorites are the vintage corvette wheels we see a picture of the c8 wearing the 1978 wheels off of an indy
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500 pace car wow you know it had the red line around them the aluminum wheels yeah yeah there was a couple different
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c4 wheels on there and i tell you what i'm a big fan of c4 wheels on this car i think they look pretty good i know
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people are going to be out there shaking their head but you got to trust me on this and i got some pictures up on the website okay just something fun to do
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and again sometimes you people are just looking for something fun trivia burned out by all the bad news or what news
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might be impacting them so go have some fun and this is what we got for you there you go
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also the national corvette museum is adding a long-term exhibit called driven to design this sounds really good yeah
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this is going to be a 6 500 square foot exhibit focused on the corvette's design processes and then i think they're going
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to tell the different stories of some of the individuals behind the designs that have done stuff of course we've had tom
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peters who's been working with the museum he's a former chevrolet design chief and worked on the performance cars
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at chevrolet and so he's been helping design all this and put it together and curating some of the info so this should
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be good the exhibit will actually open september 21st so unfortunately we're not going to see it yet if you go to the
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anniversary show september 1st and the 3rd but it'll be there and i think they'll keep it for about six weeks or
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so there's going to be some good cars there i think we're going to see the 57 corvette ss the 1961 mako shark will be
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there nice so there's going to be some good stuff of course we'll see some models some designs some clay models and
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more so if you're interested in the design aspects especially the historical design of the corvette this is going to
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be a fun exhibit to watch very nice also we found out and this is great for 2022
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stingray owners gm is working on a fix that underestimates the state of the battery charge which i thought was
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really a good idea yes and the good news is that this doesn't require a trip to the dealership to fix that hopefully
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it'll just be handled over the air with an update that you just download and do it yourself the word is that there's a
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percentage of owners that were showing that the battery was not actually full and what would happen is the alternator
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wouldn't kick on and it affects fuel economy and some other things there as well it looks like the issue's gonna be fixed through an over-the-air update and
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then hopefully that's just another thing that they're able to knock out that's great well buddy we were full of extra
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content today thank you so much for being on the show we will see you in two weeks absolutely or we're actually going
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to see you at corvettes of carlisle because i'm excited to see your seminar on the podcast and we'll be there for
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that anything that we see online you know we're going to cover it we're going to cover all the things going on at corvettes of carlisle very excited about
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that hope to see you there and make sure you keep that arm up and waving because there's going to be a whole lot of waving at carlisle for sure thanks for
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