CORVETTE TODAY #127-It's The 2 Year Anniversary Of The News & Headlines Shows!

Name: CORVETTE TODAY #127-It's The 2 Year Anniversary Of The News & Headlines Shows!
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it's time to get the latest Corvette news and headlines with my pal Keith Cornett from corvettebblogger.com Keith
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is here twice per month every other week to keep you up to date on what's happening with America's Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show this show
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marks our second year anniversary we are going to be starting year number three of the news and headlines podcasts here
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on Corvette today well that's amazing Steve the time just flies it certainly doesn't seem like that but at the same
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point it's just like we were just joking what the heck did I get myself into doing these things yeah you know and I
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always tell the story when I do seminars like at Corvettes at Carlisle in September of 2020 and about the middle
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of the month I I call Keith and said hey Keith what if we did a news and headline show it is called Corvette today and I
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said if this goes well maybe we'll do it every month well that first one in September of 2020 was so well received I
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called Keith back and said dude once a month ain't gonna hack it we're going to have to do this every other week and
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that's what we've been doing for the last two years Keith thank you so much for being a part of this I can't tell you how much I appreciate you and all
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the information you bring to the show well I'm definitely glad to be here and again when we're out at shows you get
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that feedback from people who come up and say hey we listen to you every Monday keep up the great work it's fun we would have stayed to the format of
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once a month these shows might have been like two or three hours long sometimes with all the news that's coming out of Bowling Green in Detroit I think every
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two weeks pretty much gives us a chance to catch up on that stuff and then look forward to what's happening these are
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exciting times although we get that they are also some frustrating times for some people but it's just the nature of the
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Beast and our job here is just to try to bring you the facts as we know them and connect the dots as best as we can
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absolutely right let's start off as we always do in segment number one by getting an update on Corvette production
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at the Bowling Green assembly plant well since the last closure the plan a couple weeks ago it's just been humming along
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we don't see any apparent slowdowns that we can see if the production numbers that are shared we are showing nearly 11
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500 2023 stingrays have been built so far and those are just the regular cars there's also an additional 650 or so
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70th Anniversary stingrays that have been completed the plant's just moving right along there we did get some
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constraints we have an order cycle coming up on Thursday the big constraints for Corvette Stingray buyers
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are the fe2 and the fe4 mag rides the fe2 is for mag ride without z51 and the
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fe4 is for mag ride with z51 and we're seeing about a 40 to 60 percent split on
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that so not every dealer is going to be able to fulfill those allocations but it's been like this for the last few months by now hopefully you're dealing
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with it or you're making some plans to get around that we do have the big constraint numbers obviously nothing
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with Z06 we're not expecting any orders for the rest of the year on that we still have the all-weather trunk and
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floor liners on 100 constraint meaning nothing is available we have the high Wing spoiler and carbon flash is not
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available we also had the high Wing spoiler and the painted versions that weren't available previously that are
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now showing available so if you wanted to go blue red or white with your high Wing spoiler it looks like those are
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available as just the one in carbon flash is not available the last two are interesting the engine covers for the
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lt2 in Edge red you cannot order those unless you have a 70th Anniversary car
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what Chevrolet has done is they've basically said anything that is a red engine cover has to go on a 70th
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Anniversary Edition the other thing that we're seeing is that anybody not ordering a 70th Anniversary package will
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not be able to get the edge red Brakes in fact the edge red brake calipers are not available anywhere we'll have some news coming up on that here shortly some
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pretty interesting stuff happening there we'll just wait to see what's going on with this Z06 yep as a matter of fact
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speaking of Z06 we did have our first status 3400 didn't we yeah we've got an number of cars that have actually hit
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3400 status which means that they are ready for broadcast that means all the labels and the printouts that the plan
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are printed out and scheduled essentially within a matter of days that the car starts production we actually
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they've been on pins and needles because we know the dealer that has three orders at 3 400 status one of those cars is the
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VIN 001 70th Anniversary zero six that'll be the first retail car produced we all know that's going to Rick
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Hendrick who paid 3.6 million dollars to buy that first retail car at Barry Jackson of course that money went to
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charity so all is good there we've been checking in with the sales rep for him he says it's like having a baby waiting
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every day hopefully on Monday we'll have some news on whether these cars have been produced yet like I said pins and
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needles the Z06 is ready for production at any moment now we're pretty excited to share that news because a lot of
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people think that with the suspension of orders means that there's something wrong with the car that's not what we're hearing we're hearing it's just again
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supply issues the Chevy wants to make this car absolutely perfect when it goes out to people that means getting them
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all all the equipment that they want on that car exciting times right now waiting for this first e06 to come down
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and be confirmed that it was completed so and that basically starts the process then that's right Keith let's get back
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to that edge red constraint and talk about the 70th Anniversary packages again yeah so Edge red paint has been a
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constraint due to the vendor having we talked about this an explosion and fire at their Illinois plant back in July
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Edge red is a proprietary color it's trademarked it's used for high heat
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applications which is why we find it on the brake calipers the engine cover and now well it's the manifold covers the
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valve covers as well what we're hearing is that is the brake calipers and the engine covers that were on constraint as
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I mentioned there are no Edge red brake calipers anywhere so Chevy's going to be swapping out the bright red calipers on
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the 70th Anniversary package we just got that news from our Frederick Conte who was able to go into the system and
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actually see that they have made that change within the system itself now Chevy hasn't really broadcast this
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information yet so if you're going through in your being told yeah your 70th anniversary is going through just know if it's a new order that you are
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going to be having uh bright red calipers on the car as opposed to the edge red we also had a couple people ask
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about the edge red stripe on the wheels whether that's going to be constrained or not these wheels were already constrained just a month ago or so right
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and so perhaps they've already been able to generate a supply of those the only constraints we are showing are the edge
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red brake calipers and then for the nun 70th Anniversary package buyers The Edge red covers still waiting to see what
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goes on there but when explosion then the fire happens at a plant it's usually pretty serious it's not like we can recover very quickly from that although
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you know our plant did when we had the tornado it was down for 11 or 12 days you have to throw a whole lot of money
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and stuff like that to get it back up and running it was a priority for General Motors for our plant it might
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not be a priority for this plant to get their Edge red paint back up and running right yes also Kai spandy was talking
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about the engine building experience and also some of the restrictions that we had during the anniversary celebration
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that was a good price presentation yeah this was a really good presentation anytime High Speedy talks he's like the
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EF Hut of Corvettes if you want to pay attention to hear what he's saying one of the interesting things that he talked
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about was he shared this chart showing that a number of build restrictions that need to be taken into consideration when
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producing the Corvette and the Z06 assembly Lines Moving at 11.6 cars per
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hour meaning that every hour 11.6 cars are rolled off and finished if any of these options or models are out of sync
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it could actually cause the line to shut down for periods at a time and you don't want that it's pretty crazy but I'll
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just run through some of these examples on the assembly line they cannot build more than two convertibles in a row the
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assemblies take longer and so that would slow things down z06s they can't do those back to back and the z07 package
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they can't do those any more than two per hour so think about that on an hour you have 11.6 cars in those 11.6 you
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can't have no more than 207s we also have the export gpf that is the export
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exhaust us that is going on the cars no back to back on those those are the export for the Stingrays and the Z06 as
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those exhausts right hand drives they actually build those in batches so they'll do 20 here 20 there 20 here they
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actually don't mix those in and that makes sense too because you're reversing a lot of the processes there you want to
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get into that process of doing those right the first time Japan no back-to-back California missions this
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drives me nuts Steve California emissions you can't do back to back on that and why is that it's because of a
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sticker you got to put a sticker on the car in just the right spot in just the right place because that takes extra
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time no back to back on the California missions wow 70th anniversary editions no back-to-back dual tops which I think
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is interesting no back to back on those wow front lift no more than three in a row and then finally the last one no
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more than 25 percent of the same color per day wow when you think about all of
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those different build restrictions and then you're trying to schedule what do we say we have like a hundred and 180
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cars per day between the two shifts right you can imagine all the juggling that has to go along and figure it out
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where each sequence is going to be so as you keep that line moving at its maximum rate that was a really interesting
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conversation from kaino I'm glad he was able to share that with us boy that's a lot of information yeah now the other
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good news from Kai that we got was The Return of the engine build program this is really exciting people will be able
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to go in and build their lt6 engines under the wash full eyes of their Master agent Builders at the performance build
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Center which is inside the Bowling Green assembly plant we're expecting the engine build experience to start up
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around the second quarter of next year no pricing yet last year or the last generation's price was around five
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thousand dollars and we're hearing there might be a slight increase of 10 15 so it could be 55 it could be 6 000 which
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is probably where it should be the last thing Kai said is this is a little bit different before you would just move
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from Station to Station and build your engine like the other engine builders what they're doing for these special
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people that are coming in and building their their own engines is they're set up at one spot and then all the parts and everything will come to them so
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might make it a little bit more easier and then also it doesn't hold up any of the engine builders for the production cars as well that's real good news I
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know some people are real excited about that they're going to take advantage of that come second quarter and the other thing too is with the delays that we've
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had with orders I know that some people are saying well gee you know I was going to just get my car you know this fall but if it's going to take next year
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maybe I'll do that engine build experience it might have opened up some doors for some people that might not
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have been had the opportunity to do that pretty interesting and we're glad that it's back yeah I am too I really like
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that I don't know about five or six thousand dollars but I really would love to build my own engine that would be
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pretty cool especially in a Z06 yeah absolutely also Keith a corporate member named Tim Campbell discussed the JD
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Power Awards which is really significant and important for the Corvette it is we don't really hear a lot from this side
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of the team the quality side only when things are going wrong it seems like this is what we hear from them right but the big news this year was that the
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Corvette won the JD Power Platinum award for having the best overall quality of
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any vehicle tested this is not the best Corvette it's not the best sports car it's out of like 200 and some cars that
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were tested the Corvette came out as having the best overall quality score pretty big news there Tim Campbell was
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at Corvettes of Carlisle he was one of the guys that talked to the engineering tent he actually had the hardware there
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showing the award he talks about all the different ways that they get into the mindset of a buyer of a car they do a
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survey they read these surveys not only that but they read other surveys they can read all the Porsche buyer surveys
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finding out what are making those customers happy what they don't like when you put all that information together you tie it back into the people
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working at the plant where you can make those changes that people say that they want to see it's a really good indication that the plant and the people
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list the customers and they make these changes accordingly and look what happens you get the best overall quality
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score of any vehicle in the United States that's really cool also Keith I have a lot of people asking me exactly
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what's going going on with orders for the Z06 let's do a quick clarification on where we are and what it means when
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they say we're not accepting any orders until next year sure so what they did was we had this order cycle that went in
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a couple weeks back we estimate that there are somewhere around 500 or so regular customer orders there are some
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VIP orders we don't really have a handle on exactly how many those are but the VIP order is a little bit different a
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VIP order doesn't cost a dealership an allocation this is Chevrolet's car they
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are building it they are the ones that designed it and if they actually say we like for this person to get a car and
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this person to get a car because we think it's good for us then it makes sense and they have the allocation to be
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able to say okay you dealer you're going to run this VIP person through and we're going to give you a car for that person
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so it doesn't cost the dealer or anything what we've seen is 500 regular customer orders perhaps 50 75 100 VIP
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orders we just don't know we don't have the quantity on that they've got these orders in the system them we've already talked about all the different build
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restrictions they have we have supply chain issues so they're going to work out this really long ramp up with these
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cars over the course the next three months or so keep in mind that we also have Thanksgiving coming up we've got
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the Christmas holidays coming up there are going to be a couple days in there where production's not running they're just going to take their time and do
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these cars right they're not going to be distracted with having more orders in there and then freaking out you know can we build all these we saw that with the
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2020 stingrays they were doing the allocations every three months and now they've since changed they just do them
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once in order cycle now that way it gives them way more control over how many cars they're building it's a ramp up we're going to see cars coming off
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we're going to see some YouTubers get some cars we know that for a fact there's going to be some regular we talked to a guy at the Corvette museum
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who's going to be one of the first allocations just a regular guy that's excited to get the car that's really
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about it it's just getting it done right in the current supply chain issues that we're having that sounds good well buddy
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happening with Corvette in segment number two we're going to talk about Corvette racing and Corvette rumors Keith we just had a race at Mount Fuji
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in Japan how did Corvette racing do there yeah well this is the number 64 car racing in the World Endurance
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Championship we're just coming off our win at Monza where we were able to Outlast the field with our fuel savings
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capabilities and we won that class there that ways things were a little harder at Fuji to say the least we qualified fifth
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in class basically last it was a tough rate case the number 64 we had a drive-through penalty at one point for
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exceeding the track limits just within the beginning of the race so that put us at the back and then at one point we ran
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out of gas on pit Lane so the team had to run down there and push us back to the pit Lane so we could fill up and get
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gas so yeah that was a tough race for us there's actually one last race remaining in the World Endurance Championship for
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2022 and that's the eight hours of Bahrain on November 12th that'll wrap up the schedule for Corvette Racing's World
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Endurance Championship and then whatever happens after that happens after that we're really not sure where the program is going to go we'll just have to see
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what happens yeah that's going to be a weird deal I hope everything comes out good with Corvette racing well you said
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it there yeah also there's a French oil company called kennel and they raced the
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C7 gt3r from Callaway at hockingheim ring talk about that because that's
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pretty cool the C7 gt3r is a cool car you know it really is we covered this car extensively when Callaway was
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manufacturing the car of course they brought it over here for a year where race in the United States it's a really
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good looking car and it's because we've covered it previously when I saw the new livery design from Ken Oil kennel yeah
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whoever they are this French manufacturer I thought wow it's like an old friend is returning it's black with
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yellow it's got the Big Jake on the hood so this is actually just the fourth chassis that's being constructed we
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guess wow from the post that we saw it's currently the only one racing in Europe so the other ones have all moved out of
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course Callaway competition has taken a break from racing because they're working on their CA programs right now
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so we know that there's no active racing from Callaway competition pretty cool to see this new Callaway GT3 racer back out
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there they're going to be racing this weekend at Hockenheim which is a track in Germany and then there's two races
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left in the series we're not sure if the car is going to be part of that but both those races are in France so we figured
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that probably well since they are a French oil manufacturer pretty cool to see a Callaway GT3 running around out there absolutely right also we had a
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cool behind the scenes thing from Jordan Taylor at Virginia International Raceway didn't we we missed this race we were at
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Carlisle that weekend but it was fun watching Jordan catch up on of course the car finished second and we know from
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some of his previous videos is that the better the team does the more likely we're able to get a behind the scenes
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video from Jordan out of it so with the second place finish we had a video out that next weekend he just shows
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everything from behind the scenes they're obviously doing qualifying but there's also a lot of sitting around and
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waiting we get Jordan kind of being Jordan as he's sitting around he's asking a bunch of what-if questions to
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people so what would you rather have your fingers made of hot dogs or if you
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sneeze you pee a little bit like I said this is Jordan Lee and Jordan and that goes on actually for a
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little while but the other flip side of his videos is that he's working with somebody that's really got some skills I mean there's a lot of track action slow
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motion stuff you know the driver change is happening so a really good behind the scenes look fun stuff of course Jordan
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being Jordan you can't discount that so go see that one that sounds good also speaking of fun stuff we had a Guinness
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World Record set with the C7 but it's not exactly what you think this is pretty funny stuff yeah so I caught this
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post over on I guess it was Facebook and it was from the NCM Motorsports Park and it showed a picture of a guy named Scott
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burner and a arctic white C7 Corvette he had set a Guinness Book of World Records
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for the fastest mile in Reverse in Reverse I thought well that's pretty cool now the rumor or I heard something
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one of these facts you hear that the C7 Corvette had a surprisingly fast reverse
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speed so when I went looking into it I found out this guy Scott burner he actually runs a YouTube channel called
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Always In Reverse during covid he just started documenting the top reverse speeds of different Vehicles whatever he
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could test he would run in reverse and see how fast he could get it up to so we've seen his various videos you know
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he did a C6 I think he got up to about 41 miles an hour but in the manual C7
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Corvette he was able to actually hit a top reverse speed of 54 miles an hour wow so at the track at the NCM
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Motorsports Park he had a third party timing it he ran a mile in Reverse I believe that time was one minute 15
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seconds and 18 tenths so not quite the speed that you get going forward but
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still pretty incredible now actually this is not the fastest car that he tested he tested a Kia SUV I believe
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that was a rental car that he was able to get it up to 56 miles an hour but it was unstable as hell and it was a little
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scary watching him do that but the Corvette he said he was able to get it up there and maintain that pretty fun
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stuff and again that might be a record that stands for some time the C8 we saw was tested in Reverse by the scrab man
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on the Salt Flat I think his top speed was like 31 miles an hour in Reverse this might be a record that's not going
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away anytime soon boys and girls don't be going out and testing your cars we gotta hear you don't need to be doing
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that okay that's right all right also Keith in the rumor section we had the C8
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Z06 weighing in at over 4 000 pounds yeah now this is a EPA document we
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believe this is an EPA document there's all kinds of different government agency weighing in and they have standards here
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and standards there so this is what we call a loaded weight so it's the weight of the car plus basically an additional
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300 pounds that's designed to simulate the weight of the driver the passenger and any cargo that they have with the
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weight of the car plus the 300 pounds we do see that four thousand twenty one pounds for the coupe version of the car
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with the convertible it actually goes up to 4119 pounds again that weight
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translates to for the convertible 38.46 you know I'm really kind of confused on this I don't mind telling you that
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there's dry weight there's curb weight and then there's this loaded weight and they're all different one of the interesting things that we found was
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that we're only looking about a 74 pound difference between the Z06 and the stingray and that's not including the
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carbon fiber wheels so the weights of the two cars could actually be fairly close when you tie in some of this weight savings from the Z06 model one of
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the reasons why they did this testing they tested the coupe the convertible and then with the Aero packages and that
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goes back to what Josh holder told us the Corvette chief engineer at Carlisle was that they wanted to basically divide
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the car so that the people that just wanted the standard version wouldn't have to pay for the extra gas guzzler
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tax which is the 2600 for the standard 3 000 for the z07 Aero package that's one
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of the reasons why they did that so yeah the car weighs a little bit more than what I think a lot of people might want
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it to be but yet everybody wants all the conveniences they want the seat warmers and coolers and the different versions
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of this or that you're giving people what they want and then when people complain well it's too heavy well you
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know you're getting what you want it's obviously a trade-off and with heavy now building a dedicated GT3 car you can
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send the naysayers over there put a team together and go get yourself a GT3 car and then you can have a really lightweight car that's probably about
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the only alternative to that we're saying 4021 pounds but it's not that much well Creature Comforts cost money
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and it adds weight to the car that's the bottom line yep also Keith internationally GM is a new direct sales
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platform for Corvette and Cadillac in China don't they well this is interesting they're calling this the
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Durant platform obviously it's named after William Durant who is the founder of General Motors back in the day and
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the idea is that there's all this money now floating around in China from the new middle class over in China I don't
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know Steve but the encounters here in the United States figured you know instead of just doing a vehicle launch a
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song over there let's do it more as a niche format we'll have these specialty events we'll have these pop-up
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dealerships that move from location to location from that we can offer Niche vehicle sales that might include the
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Chevrolet Corvette you might see some of the EV models coming out out of General Motors like the lyric or the Hummer any
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of these high demand Vehicles as well might be marketed in this Niche dealer format over in China it's not set in
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stone that the Corvettes are going to be over there obviously we would not see any kind of great production push
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happening with this Durant sales model I don't think it's really to be anything to be considered or to be worried about
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you know you're taking away production from other countries or other markets could particularly the domestic Market when you think about how many export
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Vehicles there are that are out there and then you know it only took maybe a few days to produce all of those cars
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kind of puts it all in perspective absolutely right and finally Keith this is a great story Lingenfelter has a
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Magnuson supercharger that will boost your C8 up to 700 horsepower and 675
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pound-feet of torque wow yeah they've been working on this actually for a little while we know they previewed it
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actually last year at the SEMA show but now they're just getting ready to launch The Coop version actually is going to be
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ready to go October 1st and then they're going to look at a convertible version sometime January 1st is what the press
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release says pretty interesting stuff they're using a Magnuson TVs 2650 that's the same one that we saw in the back of
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the Callaway a few weeks back at Carlisle not sure if they're actually working together on that or not we'd probably think not with the Magnuson and
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lingenfelder partnership they are working closely together they've got this proprietary heat exchanger system
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for maintaining the low air temperatures that the intercooler needs there's some other pretty interesting stuff that
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they're doing they don't have access to the ECM so they're tying in with a piggyback one but the way they do it's
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differently than what we've seen with others like the twin turbo people like Amelia and some of the other people where they're using a secondary fuel
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system as well this one's a little bit different so it's pretty interesting to check out they have a video on it so you can see that we don't have any pricing
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yet but they did tease us saying that about 700 horsepower 675 foot-pounds of
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torque the last thing is that they included a photo of both the coupe and the convertible versions and it looks
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like the convertible version is actually going to have a c through cover on it that will come with that package so
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that's pretty exciting because we know a lot of people are looking at doing the see-through covers anyways why not have a see-through cover that you look down
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and it says Magnuson lincolnfelder on it showing the intercooler there good stuff from lingenfelder they keep coming out
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with new C8 Performance Products this one should be a real hit absolutely right buddy let's take our final break
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blogger.com in this third and final segment we talk about the lighter side of Corvette this is actually not the
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Lighter Side Keith but I was excited to see Tech bronze Wheels available for the C8 stingrays yeah you know this is a new
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wheel for 2023 it's actually part of the 20 spoke design family I guess you could
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call it there's four of those Wheels with three of them being production wheels and the fourth one being accessory wheel so when we make that
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distinction accessory wheel means that if you were to add this wheel to your order you would actually get two sets of
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Wheels you get the set of wheels that are on the production and then you get this as an extra version so if we always tell people if you're ordering accessory
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Wheels know that you're going to get two sets of wheels and some people want that some people will do either like more of a racing Tire on those Wheels if they're
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Trek nuts or they will do all season tires or snow tires even on their cars that they drive you around in inclement
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weather there are some reasons to have two sets of Wheels but just keep that in mind these wheels though are pretty cool Tech bronze is the name of the color we
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see this one has been decorated with a center cap with this Stingray R in fact this whole car is really a rolling
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billboard to Chevrolet accessories because it has all the carbon fiber pieces on and everything from the front
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grille the 5vm it's got actually even the carbon fiber Boomerang and the
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visible carbon fiber High wing on it which is actually quite beautiful we've seen these come up on the Chevrolet
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accessories I think that Boomerang is like nearly four thousand dollars and the high Wing is like six thousand
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dollars these wheels themselves if you order them through Chevrolet accessories they run about thirty one hundred dollars for the set of four it's a good
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looking wheel it goes well with this bronze color bronze is one of these wheels that a lot of aftermarket wheels
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use people like that it's more of a non-traditional color so when you put it on a Certain Shade it might look a lot
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different than what you would expect glad to see that there unfortunately this was a CTF car so it was parked in
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the very back it wasn't part of the show or anything like that probably many people didn't actually get to see it but we saw these wheels right away it was
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like a magnet for us we're like whoa it's something new we gotta check these out that was cool that was really cool also
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carbon Revolution who's making the new carbon fiber wheels for the Z06 had their quarterly income report and it was
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pretty good wasn't it well eighty percent higher than the last quarter so yeah I would say they're killing it you
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know with Chevrolet Ferrari and Ford we know that they're also working with
36:53
another manufacturer that they haven't disclosed yet we think of carbon fiber wheels for performance reasons but they
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would actually also make a whole lot of sense on EVS as you try to shed some weight there's reasons why and it's
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actually the company's taken off there so good for them I know you talked to them a few months back just very
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interesting here you know I was always concerned that we'd see the carbon fiber Wheels on the constraint list week in a
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week out and actually these guys have been shipping them Wheels all summer as far as we know to the point that we even saw Chevrolet remember they said oh well
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now you can get the carbon fiber Wheels on the non-z07 builds as well they've
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actually made it even more accessible to get these wheels I'm glad to see that they're helping to revolutionize the
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American car market with these carbon fiber Wheels definitely also Keith this is a story that I found for us there was
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a guy that drove all generations of Corvette in one day all eight Generations this was a really cool story
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and video yeah the YouTube channel is called drive it out and he assembled eight generations of cars he starts with
37:53
the C1 you can go C2 C3 all the way up to the C8 you know when you do it that way you can really feel the wind in your
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hair and those early cars you feel the bouncing the big steering wheels the brakes that take a lot longer than you
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would think and then you just progressively get better and better and better so that you end up driving all eight cars in just that one day so that
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would be a pretty cool experience I think you could do that as part of maybe a two-day weekend where you can spend an hour in a car and then switch you know
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do that for a couple hours do a tour and then the next day you get the other cars that'd be a lot of fun it was really
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cool and he's from the Kansas City area so that was really cool as well also we had this year's Corvette Hall of Fame
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inductees at the anniversary celebration Labor Day weekend over at the National Corvette Museum yeah this was a really
38:36
great event so glad I went to it the production values of this show now are just off the chain it's one of the best
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events that I've ever been to at the National Corvette Museum if anybody's going to the anniversary show next year
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make sure that you do the Hall of Fame great to see our people honored but yet there's a lot of other people that come
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down for this friends family co-workers this year we had the Corvette racing team with Jim Miller and Gary Pratt and
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so there was a lot of the racing support staff was there the Corvette museum now has the full 1 a half hour video up on
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their YouTube channel we definitely recommend go watch that if you get a chance each of the inductees it was
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Elfie Dunta with the Enthusiast then you had Tim Miller and Gary Pratt as the racing and then for the GM category you
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had Ed welburn the former GM Global chief of design there so just really great people each of them had their own
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video story told you don't want to miss this event if you can be there live but if you didn't get it live make sure you
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go to YouTube and check out the video the video is fantastic definitely go check that out also Carlisle events Bill
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Miller this is Lance Miller's partner but no relation they're both Millers but they're no relation he's auctioning off
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20 of his cars and a lot of his Collectibles later this month Bill Miller I always find him to be an
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interesting guy with chip Miller and Lance Miller the focus has always been really nearly 100 on Corvettes I know
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Lance has uh affinity for some of the Ford GT cars and a couple other things but for the most part it's purely
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Corvette and Bill Miller's Pace obviously are a little bit different and he's running kind of the gamut of all different kinds of vehicles so he's got
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these 20 cars that he's offering but then he's also got this Warehouse that's just filled with stuff that has
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accumulated over the years stuff that he says that if I liked it I collected it he says now that he's got all this stuff
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he's getting up in age you know and what happens to people that end up with these big kinds of collections is they pass
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away and then their families left the distance so he's decided that with the next Carlisle coming up going to host a
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big auction going to sell off a lot of this stuff gonna sell US 20 cars it'll be interesting to see some of that stuff because like I said these pallets some
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of them have been unwrapped in 20 30 years there's no telling what's in him he was showing there's a couple videos that they walk through and they're
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showing some of that stuff so if you're interested in some automobile there's some really good stuff coming from Bill Miller at Carlisle very cool also our
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final story Keith President Biden was at the Detroit Auto Show and he got to start up a C8 Z06 yeah they actually
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captured the video shows General Motors CEO Mary Barra taking him along he sees
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the car he says look out everybody this thing really flies she walks around showing off the carbon fiber Wheels he
41:06
gets in the car he says Mr President you can actually even start it up so he pushes the button starts it up obviously
41:12
he's pretty happy with that sound that he hears the funny thing is we picked up this just reading from some of the other Automotive websites is that we saw him
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look at every electric car the lyric the Hummer I think he actually test drove one of them a little bit in the side
41:25
every comment he made was about the Corvette which is obviously not electric yet just one of these things where yeah
41:31
the future's great it's bright look at all the fun stuff that's going to happen but boy this naturally aspirated 670
41:37
horsepower Corvette Z06 is the one that he wanted to drive home that pretty much tells you about all you need again he is
41:43
a Corvette fan he's had a 67 Corvette for years it was a wedding gift give the man what he wants pretty cool that our
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president is a Corvette guy yep we'll take that absolutely well buddy thanks again for being on Corvette today happy
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second anniversary look forward to many many more of these and many years to come with you doing the news and
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headline shows well thanks Steve just again great opportunity we love to talk about Corvettes and recapping the news
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