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Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show we're getting into the holiday season buddy yeah glad to be back yeah
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weather is getting just a little bit cooler and I know that people are starting to look towards the holidays and all the things that come with that
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we wish that we knew a little bit more about what was going on but I think we've got some good news to present this week we always have a plethora of good
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stuff every two weeks and I want to start off the show Keith by congratulating the winners of our book
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giveaway as you know Richard Prince just put out a brand new book called Corvette 70 years the one and only and we gave
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away two books in the show two weeks ago congratulations to MD skeet and also
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Clark Collins they were our winners of the book so guys I think they've already got their books already and enjoy those
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books courtesy of Corvette today yeah just real quick we did a review on that book as well it's a fantastic book
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definitely recommend it for anyone that's really interested in Corvette and likes their Corvette books you know likes to add to their Library Richard
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again fantastic job my favorite of course are the photographs he just did a great job he went back and got some from
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the GM archives and then of course all the photos that he's taking over the years as well we actually have the address if you want to get one signed
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from him he told us that basically all the print editions have been sold so whatever's out there is out there
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hopefully they'll do another printing on that but he is selling autographed versions so if you find the review on Corvette blogger.com you'll have his
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address down there where you can request one I'd get one for Christmas and I would not wait I would get one right now so you make sure you have it makes a
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perfect holiday gift and if you want to listen to the show from Corvette today it's show number 130 just a few back so
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go ahead and check that out and make sure you get one of those books it's perfect for the holidays that's for sure Keith let's get into Corvette production
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at the Bowling Green assembly plant how are things going out there in Kentucky you know it's always interesting of
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course we had a off week and then we come back and it looks like production is just rolling then I guess that off
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week allows them to bank any parts and the supply chain is whatever they're dealing with is working apparently
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because one day last week they did 196 stingrays I believe that was on Wednesday that's generally more than
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what they usually do which is always a good sign that they're cranking along we did look back and we see somebody do 130
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or 140 here and there but of course we're just counting the retail stingrays that count does not include the
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anniversary cars it also doesn't include the z06s so we do have some numbers We Believe on Monday we'll see somewhere
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around 15 600 regular stingrays produce that is the 970th anniversaries and then
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again we're about 12 50 or so on the 70th Anniversary car so that's around a
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total of 16 850 2023 Corvette Stingrays built so far for the model year that's a
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very solid number it seems to me like I said things are moving along at a little bit better of a clip right now we've had
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some owners that have chimed in saying they've gotten their cars pretty quickly once it goes from 38 to the 4200 which
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is shifted in 5000 which has arrived at the dealership there's obviously different things along the ways that could delay getting a car to a dealer
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obviously everything from how many cars are going that way to fit on the trailer to you know are you having Stripes is
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there something that you're still waiting on I know we are waiting on some black wheels at one point but it looks like things are rolling right now so
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stingrays I would say pretty good we do have some Z06 production news thanks to Rick conti and Matt Beaver they've
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counted 216 CTF Corvette Z06 has built we've been focusing recently on the
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retail but it seems like they're still making some CTF cars and the thing with those CTF cards is that most of them
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will eventually work their way into dealer inventory sometimes they'll put a lot of miles on some of these cars and
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sometimes it's very little and then some of them are show cars as well we've seen Chevrolet actually take some of their
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CTF show cars and unload those at like a bear Jackson they'll offer money to charity that way but 216 CTF cars as of
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yesterday 17 retail z06s these are the regular cars and then 22 anniversary
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z06s so I believe what's that 39 total z06s and then we have a total altogether
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of 255 if you include the CTF cars they're making them they're doing what they call they metered rollout we call
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this a ramp up where they start very slow and then eventually move forward with it it's still slow right now we're
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watching we have no cars so far have been released to their owners in fact they're all at 3 800 so they're all
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still in that quality control that quality assurance period so we're still waiting on that and then finally the
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last bit of news we got on production is Coca Corvettes of Atlantic City they did an update on their public list on
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October 26th we're able to dump that into Excel and do some sorting and stuff so on that list they have 42 z06s these
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are all at status 3000 or higher 13 are coops and 29 are convertibles and that's
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really what we've been seeing is the convertibles seem to be edging out the Coupes right now in these early builds
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so that's pretty exciting we I don't think a lot of us expected that especially with people wanting to show off the lt6 under glass they've got the
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13 Coupes 29 convertibles and they have actually seven cars so far at 3 800
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status so seven cars have been built for them it gives us a snapshot obviously we want to see that move faster we'd like
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to see owners eventually get their cars and be able to get them out there and show them off it's moving it's a little
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bit slower on the Z06 side but it is definitely moving and we'll keep you up to date on it that sounds good also we
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had 840 70th Anniversary c8s built so far as well yeah exactly like I said
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that number's a little bit older actually we got around 12.50 right now it really seems like they are cranking
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those numbers out a lot of people are choosing them that's great because it is a really cool car it's a Once in a
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generation kind of thing generally when I say generation I think the Corvette generation that you get an anniversary model like this so of course you got the
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two colors to choose from you get the custom interior so it's a really cool car and I know people are going to enjoy
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them absolutely also I was so excited to see this on October 20th the build and
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price configurator is now up online for the c806 yeah we've been operating off
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of the visualizer which has been good you know allows you people to put together their cars but it's nothing
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like the build and price configurator where in real time your pricing's updated and you're dealing with really
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the latest information available on the build we've been doing these blogger builds where we've all been showing our
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favorite builds and what we do if we were actually ordering a car I know you contributed to that you gave us a
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ceramic Matrix gray Coop that's right I did a black Z06 convertible with the two-tone blue interior but I think I've
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already changed that in my mind I'm like well I really like the Red Mist you know or the Hypersonic gray with the blue
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also looks good in my opinion but that's what the configurator does it allows people to really see and visualize and
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imagine what their cars look like the renderings are spot on they're great we did find one little bug in it and I'll
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tell you what it is because I've seen a couple threads of our mid-engine Corvette forum some people will build a z07 version and it doesn't show the rear
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wing and it looks like that there's a glitch with the carbon flash mirrors when you're going through it it's an
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option so if you've got your z07 package and you say oh I want the carbon flash mirrors the build assistant will come up
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and say do you want the carbon flash mirrors and spoiler or do you want the carbon fiber mirror caps well you
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actually have to choose the carbon fiber mirror caps because there is no carbon flash on a car if you're going visible
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carbon fiber they're not mixing and matching that a little bit of a glitch there it looks like if you did have that it doesn't show the big Wing but you
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take that out or you change your your selection too the carbon fiber mirror caps then all of a sudden the rear wing
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show so if you're having a little trouble with that that's what it is there but this is really great news it's really the final component for the ZO6
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build and pricing process that we do with the building price there's this send version or this save version where
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if you just grab the link it has all your RPO codes and all your customizations and you can send that to
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people you can send that to your dealer your dealer can load that right up in their system and then see all your
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options and that's your car so it's a great way to confirm exactly what you want and what you're ordering with your
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dealer but also for us not being able to build one we continue to have fun with it I would definitely check it out if
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you haven't been on the build and price configure internet yet it's a lot of fun and it's a great way to kill about five or six hours in one day that's all
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that's all you can kill oh my gosh I could go a lot longer buddy but you know the combinations are amazing and it's a
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lot of fun speaking of z06's Keith the Australian version is not going to have the quad
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Center exhaust what's going on with that yeah this came out from a report from the Australians Drive website they're
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saying that the Z06 models that will be imported to the country will have the export exhaust which is the corner
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mounted outboard exhaust and not the quad Center tips in the middle there it has to do with a couple things normally
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it's the gas particulate filters are required to cut emissions but Australia also has probably some of the most
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strict noise regulations of the different countries that get our Imports so that might be also it might be a
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combination of fuel economy and the emissions and then also the noise regulation we don't know exactly when
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the car will be offered there if they'll actually get any in late 2023 model year or if we'll get them in 2023 as a 2024
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model so we're still kind of waiting on that but yeah a little bit of sad news for our friends Down Under that they are getting the outboard exhaust and not the
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quad Center tips yeah for sure also it was good to see that our friends at the National Corvette Museum am have got the
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exhibit up for 35 years of Callaway Corvettes celebrating that I'd love to see that oh it's great I've been a
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Callaway Fanboy forever I remember 1988 I was in college you know in your college in the 80s there's no social
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media back then and stuff I just remember seeing this probably it was a magazine Sledgehammer you know 254 miles
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per hour that was just an unbelievable record to have Cowboys been at it 35
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years they started with the 1987 Corvettes and the B2K auction the B2K option was a twin turbo version and it's
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interesting because if you look back Dave McGowan the chief engineer had already signed off on the ZR1 project
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which was coming in 1990 that was the dual overhead cam lt5s but also two kind
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Callaway and they started twin turboing the C4 Corvettes over 500 Callaway twin
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went to what they call their Supernatural versions where they used increased displacement naturally aspirated engines to create more power
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then they eventually turned back to supercharging with the C6 now with the C8 here we actually have a 35th
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Anniversary B2K Edition which is more of a design model we have a performance version that's going to be coming in
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early 2023 and that'll be a supercharged version as well pretty exciting stuff coming from Callaway but if you want to
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see the history of it there's this great exhibit going on at the National Corvette Museum and it runs I believe
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until February so unfortunately if you're waiting for the bash to see it it will no longer be there so you've got to
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get it there now to see it otherwise it'll be gone our final story Keith unfortunately we had our first C8 Z06
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crash where was it what happened yeah it looks like this happened in Bloomfield Michigan there was a picture taken of a
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crash Corvette sitting in the intersection we had a fire truck from Bloomfield Michigan in the shot there it
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turns out the Corvette was hit Side by a driver of a Volkswagen Jetta who is turning left from the opposite lane so
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it wasn't the Corvette's fault the driver of the Corvette is actually a GM employee and this was a CTF car so I
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guess if you say well there was 216 ctfs maybe there's only 250 but the accident
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actually didn't look that bad and I believe this car would be repairable so glad everybody appeared to be A-Okay
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it's just another one of those milestones in the life of the z06. it's got to happen sometime I guess right
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buddy that's right absolutely well Keith let's take our first break when we come back it's Corvette racing and Corvette
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and Corvette rumors Keith it was good to see the Corvette racing is going back to imsa and the wec next year yeah you know
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I think this schedule actually works out pretty well it works out in our favor because with fans we get double the
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racing almost so that's exciting and the fact is that we're still running these Factory teams which I think is also very
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important so many changes coming in sports car racing that it's really hard to follow but we're going to be racing
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with a waiver in the imsa campaign and then also we have changes in Europe so here's what we've got so far is the Fia
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The World Endurance Championship is moving strictly to a GTE amateur so that
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any pro cars are now gone starting in Europe we'll have Nikki katzberg will be our Pro driver and then he's being
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joined by Ben Keating who will be our amateur driver there Nikki has raced over there before he's had great success
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he's really fast in the Corvette so definitely glad to have him full time and imsa will have the duo back of
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Antonio Garcia and Jordan Taylor they are the full-time GTD pro drivers and then they will be joined by Tommy Milner
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who is returning Stateside is also going to be handled the endurance racing on the big races like the Rolex 24 in
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Sebring and then Tommy will also serve as the primary testing and development driver for the Z06 gt3r program that's
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expected to get cars to customers in early 2024 as well a pretty solid lineup for imsa for us I can imagine that
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balance of performance isn't going to be all that favorable in our Direction but we're racing we're there we've got the
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car there and everything is gearing up for the Z06 gt3r which is expected in 2024. this is the 100th anniversary of
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Le Mans still waiting to see how that's going to look for us but again it was rumored that we might only have the one
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and whoever else we race over there be interesting to see how that all shakes out but we're back for another year and
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that's what's really important absolutely right and speaking of Jordan Taylor we had another behind the scenes video from Road Atlanta for petite Le
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Mans yeah another great installment from Jordan he just gives us some insight on what the team is facing a lot of times
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want to check that out these are fun behind the scene videos with Jordan hopefully he'll continue to bring us these in 2023 as well they are a lot of
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fun to watch that's for sure and this is kind of a racing thing Keith and it's kind of funny but President Joe Biden
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had a rematch he raised his 67 Corvette against Colin Powell's son who has a
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2015 C E7 Stingray that was kind of a fun video to watch yeah so the story is
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back in 2016 and Vice President Joe Biden was on Jay Leno's garage with Jay
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where he had his car on this giant skid pad where they do training and testing and all kinds of stuff out there during
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that episode in 2016 you know they're driving around and talking and then all of a sudden Colin Powell shows up the
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retired four-star general and he's a Corvette guy you know he was a pace car driver at Indy 500 and one of the
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Corvette pace cars he was in his new 2015 Corvette Stingray that actually his
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kids gave him as a present they race then and then unfortunately Colin Powell passed away last year so when they put
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this together again with President Joe Biden his 67 Corvette they invited Michael Powell the son of Colin Powell
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to bring the car back and do a little rematch it was a little bit of fun there I think there's a little bit of some Hollywood CGI happening the way the C2
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was Keeping Up with the C7 there as C2 owner with a small block I'm questioning from questioning the ability of that
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card they said it hit 118 versus the C7 hit 121 and they were neck and neck and
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I'm not leaving that at all the C7 had an automatic and 455 horsepower Biden's
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67 is a 350 horsepower with a four speed so those cars once you hit that 60 or 70
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miles an hour they start winding up pretty hard and I've been three digits in my car and it took a while you know
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it took a while that's funny but it's fun regardless of your politics we have a president that is a Corvette guy and
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that's always fun that's always fun for sure Keith our final story is in the rumors category and this is according to
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the automotive forecasting Solutions report there's going to be a Corvette EV and a Corvette SUV coming by 2026. why
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don't you break down all this rumor here because this is a pretty big rumor yeah this comes from a company called Auto
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forecast Solutions and they kind of watch what the automakers are doing and they develop these forecasts and you
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know a lot of times they're pretty spot on in terms of what they're forecasting I think they also work with vendors and
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branded SUV electric vehicle will start production May of 2026 that's how
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specific they are May of 2026 a Corvette branded SUV EV will start production
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this production is said to take place at GM's Grand River plant in Lansing Michigan instead of the current home in
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Bowling Green and that's great for us because it keeps the line clear in Bowling Green to continue to make the CH
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Stingrays and z06s the Grand River plant is obviously set up for EVS they're
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going to build those there anyway so looks pretty good there's the whole controversy of is it really a Corvette
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or is it just the logo on the side of the car designed to help sell it sure we'll have to see I think there is
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definitely a market for performance SUVs especially from Chevrolet we don't really have anything like that we have
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the Escalade that has got the lt4 in it but nothing really from Chevy that screams high performance from a SUV or a
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crossover even that'll be interesting you know there's also been some rumors of a Corvette EV sedan that was also
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maybe under development that might compete with Porsche's high can so hard to say whether this is the same car the
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rumor was something out there with an EV and the Corvette name and it ends up being the SUV over the sedan we just
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don't know that yet obviously GM's putting a lot of focus on EVs and pushing hard to ramp up production on
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840-5334 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me is Keith Cornett from corvettblogger.com if you want a deeper
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full story in this final segment we talk about the lighter side of Corvette Keith over at the National Corvette Museum's
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Motorsports Park unfortunately they're delaying their Z06 Driving Experience until February of next year yeah they
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made some news last month they did a little bit of a teaser campaign and offered up the ability for people to sign up and actually schedule a Z06
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drive on the track they were looking at November to kick that off but like everything with the Z06 so you know
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things are moving just a little bit slower than initially planned and so it sounds like they're pushing that back off to February we've had one member of
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the midage equipment Forum tell us that he was actually able to reschedule for February 10th but we've had others that say no they're holding off on that
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they're just waiting to get these cars in and then they'll have two cars that's expected to have at the track and then you go in you can register and then I
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believe the cost is around a thousand dollars or so to drive these cars on the track they're not really speed laps
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there's more like a parade lap you'll probably hit Triple digits on that track it's pretty easy there and especially
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with the Z06 it should be easy but it would still be a fun experience and especially for those whose builds have
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been delayed but you still want to experience the Z06 you know that's a great way to do it we're still waiting to see what's going to happen there but
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it looks like February is the go date for this and as soon as they announce new dates we'll have that and we'll be
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ready to go also we saw a C7 ZR1 and I love the C7 zr1s ran 180 miles per hour
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plus in a track event give us the back story on that one yeah this was like a roll racing drags that Pocono Raceway in
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Pennsylvania you have two cars side by side on the track you get up to about 30 or 40 miles an hour and then you punch
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it all the way to the end we had Mike the street speed was racing as 1 000 horsepower C7 ZR1 he faced off against
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another car first got up to like 174 175. his goal was to hit 180 and he
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actually did that on one of the I believe his second or third pass what was interesting is he's got a high wing
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on that car which obviously generates a ton of downforce so for this event he removed the wing totally wow it allowed
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him to get that 180 Point whatever to get his goal there so pretty interesting stuff if you like the zr1s and you want
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to see a little bit of racing action that's a good video to watch I still kick myself for not getting one of those C7 zr1s those are awesome cars they
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really are boy have they got up in value oh my gosh that's just crazy you watch them I watch it on AutoTrader and
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cars.com the values are way up they've got mileage on the clock and they're
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hovering around the 200 000 Mark I missed the boat that's for darn sure we all did Steve we all did
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also speaking of c7s we saw a 2017 C7 Z06 on Craigslist but the interesting
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thing was this was VIN number one yeah this is a guy that contacted me says
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he's got a car for sale and wanted to see if we were interested I'm going to call VIN number one I'm like heck yeah
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of course these are always special Cars collectors love been number one cars of course this is the 2017 the Z06 was
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first released in 2015 and those VIN number ones are all up in the Hendrix collection as we know it's an
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opportunity for someone to come along and really want to start their own the number one collection the car's not
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cheap I think he's selling it for around 145 or so and it's got some miles on it but not too many and it looks like he's
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been babying the car so for someone out there that wants something really collectible and special the number one 2017 Z06 is available and I believe he's
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in the North Carolina area very cool also this is our feel good story of the show Keith we had a 100 year old veteran
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celebrating his birthday with a ride and a Corvette converter yeah this is pretty cool this is a World War II nurse named
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Marion she's in the assisted living home and she would comment that she would see her nurse Drive In in a C7 Corvette
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Grand Sport convertible red one would park it out in the lot she would comment on every day to him and say one day you
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know maybe give me a ride in your Corvette as she hit 100 they had this big birthday party for her shows her wearing a tiara and her hair and she's
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got a birthday banner across her chest and she's just all smiles and she celebrated the big day but she's getting
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in the car and she goes for a little ride with her nurse and gets to experience a Corvette convertible on her
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100th birthday so good feel good story and again just appreciate her for her service I was just up in Washington DC
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earlier this month and saw a number of the World War II veterans that are flown up there the freedom flights yes great
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to see these people they get to see The Monuments dedicated for their service and their dedication their losses so
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very neat to see this story We Love Our World War II veterans unfortunately they're just not so many of them left anymore anytime you can celebrate them
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definitely do it definitely also this is how kind of an interesting story Matchbox cars did you collect Matchbox
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cars when you were a little growing up I wouldn't call collecting I played hard with them you know they never stayed in
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the case or anything like that but yeah we definitely had Matchbox and Hot Wheels well I still have my Matchbox box
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of collected cars in my closet here but I was so interested to see they had a 1
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64th scale Gulf oil razor a Corvette that sold out in less than a week oh my
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gosh yeah so Mattel's tapping into the collector market so they have their kids cars but then they have an upscale line
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for adults and they call it their Red Line Club it's actually subscriber base I think you have to pay like ten dollars
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to join it and then once you're part of the Red Line Club they come up with these Special cars that only these club
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members can buy so this is a blue and orange golf racer it's got number 50 on it's got the gulf oil logos on it looks
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really cool of course the Corvette purists have already reminded us that the blue and orange Gulf racing Livery
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was for the Fords and you know the Corvettes when they wore the gulf oil Liberty of course there's golf 1 in 1963
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they raced the Z06 that was the traditional white with the blue Racing Stripes that the Chevy's always raced in
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but it's a really cool car it's sold out we caught it a week later a guy commented to me he said it actually sold
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out in one day and it was only priced at 25 and again this is sort of a basic car the Design's cool but nothing opens on
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it I don't even know if the wheels turn on them but for someone that wants to put it on a shelf it's a cool little Matchbox car absolutely right well
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that's really cool I haven't added to my Matchbox collection in eons it's neat to see the car and it would be fun to have
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it but we missed the boat again right and our final story on this show Keith we have a birth announcement to announce
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we do I hear that and I'm excited to learn more yes last week on Thursday
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October 27th at 10 56 a.m I had a brand
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new baby boy or baby girl I'm not exactly sure but it's a C8 70th
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Anniversary white pearl metallic tri-coat Corvette Born To Me I went
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ahead and got the coop because like we talked about earlier in the show today I want to see that engine through the
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glass but I'm really looking forward to it it's loaded out it's got z51 It's got Magnetic Ride front end lift but I've
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already got a lot of carbon fiber sitting here in the office waiting for that car to arrive I could just imagine
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that stockpile is growing daily I know having talked to you about going
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through this process I know that you had to let your C7 carbon fiber Edition go but look what you're getting in return
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here so very exciting times for you and I can't wait to see it thank you buddy it's VIN number 1245 so that's pretty
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cool and a gentleman in Anderson South Carolina bought my C7 carbon fiber
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Edition Stingray so congratulations to him and I'm looking forward to getting this car hopefully this week they can
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get it on a transport and ship it to Kansas City and they can get it to my Hendrick Chevrolet dealership and I can go pick it up and drive it home before
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the weather gets too darn cold nice well that's great news against love birth announcements you're getting these
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updates now directly from Chevrolet I'm assuming you know they send out the updates to let you know where your build is along the process sounds like that's
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all working great so again congratulations on your new Corvette thank you buddy hey thanks again for being on Corvette today Keith all this
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information is fantastic and again if you want to deeper dive into any of these stories you can always go to
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corvettebblogger.com Buddy take care of yourself and we'll see you in two weeks well thank you so much Steve everybody
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