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CORVETTE TODAY #135-Corvette News & Headlines, Mid November 2022
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May 8, 2025
Here we go with another fantastic CORVETTE TODAY News & Headlines show! Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, teams up with Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger.com to bring you the later in the world of Corvette. Here are a few of the topics Steve and Keith will discuss this week: 1. Book your BGA Plant Tours now through the National Corvette Museum 2. The first C8 Z06 arrives at the National Corvette Museum for delivery 3. Corvette Racing at Bahrain-the last race of the season 4. Another C8 Z06 allocation now scheduled for later this month 5. Speed Phenom takes delivery of his C8 Z06 at the National Corvette Museum on Tuesday, November 8th 6. Corvettes at Carlisle is planning a 100th Anniversary celebration salute to Le Mans 7. A Kansas man finally receives his C1 Corvette 6 years after it was seized The C8 Z06 is starting to be delivered to customers, and CORVETTE TODAY is on top of it all! Don't miss a single episode of CORVETTE TODAY on all podcast platforms or watch each episode on YouTube.
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and headlines with my pal Keith Cornett from corvettebblogger.com Keith is here every other week twice per month we keep
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you up to date and current on America's Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show did you survive the hurricane down
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there in Tampa okay yeah Nicole didn't really bother us all too much we had a little bit of rain a little bit of water
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a little bit of wind but for the most part because it was on the other side of the state and coming across we were really unaffected I did my Corvette move
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I went ahead just threw it in a parking garage I keep thinking about those people down in Naples who are looking at that storm track of Ian coming to Tampa
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or just north of Tampa you know they're saying well everything's fine you know I don't have anything to worry about it's not going to hit us and then the last
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second it moves you know yeah I wasn't really worried about flooding because it was coming in from the Atlantic side of
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Florida but we have these big oak trees over the house they're talking 50 or 60 mile an hour winds you know there's
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always a chance a branch can come through and stuff so I said you know what I'm gonna take a little Caution here drove the car down to a parking
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garage let it down there and stayed down there overnight everything ended up being really cool so no problems there in fact I got something cool maybe we
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can talk about this I have an Apple iPhone and this time when I dropped off my car I stuck an Apple Air tag in the
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car itself yeah you can't really track them in real time but anytime somebody with an Apple device goes by it it pings
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it gives you your location so as I was sitting here in my house waiting for the storm to pass I was able to log in to
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find my app and it would show my car it was seen you know 20 minutes ago and it's all right where I left it that's a
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little bit of cool Peace of Mind those things only cost like 25 so it's a nice way to keep an eye on something that you
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very much love and do it in a way that doesn't break the bank that's a great idea but I didn't even think of that but
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good for you I'm glad everything worked out good everything's fine so uh ready to get to it and I know you're ready to
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get to it too because of your recent acquisition yes my baby came home yesterday so we can talk about that in
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the lighter side as well okay you got it why don't we start out buddy like we always do with production at the Bowling
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Green assembly plant all right well there working away we had actually it was interesting last week they had a day
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off it was for UAW voting they said they have the entire day off to do some voting on contracts or whatever you
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don't really know all the details there but looks like production just moving right along on the Stingray front we
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should cross over 17 000 on the VIN sequence maybe today will happen it might have happened late Friday we're
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recording this Friday morning so not quite sure where they're going to end up for the week but they're cranking these things out so that's all good news of
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course the 70th Anniversary cars you were number 1245 you just took delivery we heard from our friend Mike Furman he
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just had 1374 I think built this week he tells me that pearl white is out selling
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the carbon Flash versions nearly four to one wow you've got a pearl white which I know you do yes you're in the right Club
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it sounds like people really like that first year color of the white pearl tri-coat and the Z06 production don't
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really have a Full Count this week we usually get these after the weekend and they're still kind of waiting to hear
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leading up to some of the news we're going to talk about it with the cars being released they were doing two per
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day so about 10 per week we know that they had done about 49 or so I think in our last update that we talked we've got
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some people that are taking the tours and they're actually seeing four different cars on the line at one time so it looks like they've upped it
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they've doubled it which is good yeah so we're doing about four a day right now for this week and we're hearing that if
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everything continues to go well that it could definitely move up there ramp up we'd really like to see 10 to 12 per day
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I think that would be a great count I think overall if they want to be in a great position they want to be doing
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probably around 15 per day at least so it's on its way it sounds like we've got a lot of cars that went to 3 400 last
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week that we're kind of watching so things are moving along I couldn't be happier about that absolutely and Rick
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Hendrick's number one car his Z06 car came off the line last week as well didn't it yeah actually this car was
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built on September 21st as we've talked about a little bit Chevy's held the photo of the black 70th Anniversary
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Corvette it was the first one off the line it was the one that he paid 3.6 million for for charity at Bear Jackson
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Scottsdale earlier this year when they opened up the quality control hold they released a bunch of cars to the dealers
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they celebrated with publishing this photo showing the black car off the line there's another photo that's out there
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too that shows the crew around the car which is always one of my favorite pictures these people work hard on it I
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remember that very first picture of the Albany camo that they showed us last year you know the fact that they got a
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customer car coming off the line now that's pretty cool too so with the quality control hold released Chevy said
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come get them Kendrick was up there they brought up their own carrier they took six zero sixes back to City Chevrolet in
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Charlotte on Friday morning they had the cars arrayed outside in the parking lot in different configurations and then
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they lined them up in front of the building and then they moved them into the building Mr Hendrick came down checked out I understand that he took
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one of the cars there's six cars five of them are black and one of them is a white pearl 70th anniversary and that's
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the car he drove around the facility I guess so he's enjoying those and then syoka Corvette of Atlantic City world's
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largest Corvette dealership they got their first arrival on Saturday they had five cars come up there a couple
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anniversary cars there was a Elkhart Lake blue Z06 with the z07 package and that was just a beautiful car so they
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did the same thing had them arrayed out front couple YouTubers our friend Jeff Zippity who died was in town came down
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and filmed those as they were moving them around very cool great to have these cars out there now getting into
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customers hands this is what we've been waiting for absolutely and this is really cool because the National
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Corvette Museum did its first Z06 delivery and it was for Speed Phenom that we've had on the show before
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exactly it's funny when they released the cars we had a car show up on a jack Cooper transport vehicle it's all
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wrapped it's just driving across the street they unload it there and in fact they actually had a few do sixes come in
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so speed Phenom did the first r8c delivery the museum delivery on Tuesday morning he had a torch red ZO6 Coupe
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zero seven performance package had the visible carbon fiber wheels and then he spent nearly an hour doing a video and
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he uploaded that so if you really want to see an in-depth Z06 delivery as an rhc his video clocks in I think around
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58 or 59 minutes so really good stuff there he worked with a specialist at the NCM named Stacy who just had a wealth of
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knowledge and was all up on the differences with the Z06 versus the stingray it really looks like a fun time I always wanted to do an rhc delivery
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just for that experience that Hands-On attention to detail they give we understand this week was busy for the
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rhc program looks like they did five this week we had three torch Reds on the floor a Hypersonic gray and then a
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silver flare I think the silver flare is going on Friday these are real customers picking up their cars it's exciting to
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watch them they're excited to get them you see the pictures outside against the mural and then with the facility in the background the car just Sparkles it's a
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neat feeling I'm just excited to have these cars out yep I didn't do that with my C7 and I did not do that with my 70th
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Anniversary C8 at some point in time I'd really have to do an rhc delivery I'm like you Keith I'd like to do it just to
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have that experience it'd be a lot of fun yeah and now we got tours opened up some people are seeing their cars there's a YouTuber Savage geese we
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posted a couple pictures of his car on the line and in fact Chevy allowed him to do some filming on the assembly line
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so we're gonna have some great coverage of seeing these cars actually being assembled good stuff coming just stay
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tuned for all that stuff we'll have it up when the suit comes out yep it'll be very cool that's for sure also Keith I
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saw that we did get some November constraints for Stingray announced what are those yeah so we just went through a
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stingray order cycle so what they do is they always put out the constraints so the Chevy reps can pair up their orders
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correctly we have the same thing z51 non-z51 with the Magnetic Ride Control
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and this is probably kind of a chips constraint that we've had we've had this for the last four months or so we're
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seeing roughly a 65-35 split between the z51s with mag ride and then the nine
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z51s so the dealer might get nine or ten cars as an allocation let's say and they're splits 65.35 so they could
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probably I do six z-51s for their customers and then they would have three to four non-z50 ones that they could
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fill sometimes even though there's a split they might just be told hey you got five z-51s this month there's still
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some interesting poops they're jumping through with the chip shortage but we're pretty solid in terms of what we've seen
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for the last few months the only thing that makes us just a little bit nervous obviously is the 5zz high wing spoilers
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these are the ones in carbon flash metallic people love those right now there's uh zero availability Nationwide
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on the carbon flash High wings and also on constraint with zero availability are
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the q9i 20 spoke gloss black forged aluminum wheels those are showing zero
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as well we've seen those come and go off and on constraints same thing we had with the previous wheel the black
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Trident wheels just for some reason these are very popular wheels they just have a little trouble keeping them in
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stock those are the only constraints right now this week we've got Z06 allocations coming up we'll find out
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then if there's any additional constraints specific before Z06 sounds good also speaking of Z06 coming back
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into the fold we had the edge red engine manifold covers now available again yeah
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so we announced those probably in our last conversation the dealers just got the word that okay we're back with those
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but they weren't showing up on the build and price and so people were concerned they didn't see them they were wondering
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so yeah they are back up on the build and price configurators now looks like we're all set with that I don't really
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foresee any further constraints related to either the edge red brake calipers or the engine covers for the lt2 good that
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sounds great I'm glad to hear those are back online again buddy let's take our first break when we come back it's time
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this second section we always talk about Corvette racing and Corvette rumors Keith the last race of the year in wec
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is in Bahrain isn't it yeah it was an eight-hour race the eight hours of Bahrain actually it was the first time
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that Corvette racing has ever competed in the Middle East which makes sense that we'd want to be there because that market is really taken off for exports
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you know it's a market that's very similar to ours so we don't have to like make a lot of modifications of the cars
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and of course we saw you know Chevy they unveiled the ZR1 back in 2018 there I think so it's an important Market though
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it's great to be racing there obviously we are recording this prior to the race happening we'd have to get up Saturday
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morning to watch it I'm planning on doing that actually this is the last race for GTE Pro class in the World
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Endurance Championship after that next year they're going to a GTE amateur and
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the number 64 Corvette will return to the GTE amateur class with Mickey katzberg and amateur Ben Keating as our
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drivers we're going to do a two-series split next year which I actually like for us it's twice as much racing right
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right and we get to see the cars on some of these historic European tracks not sure what's going to happen with Le Mans
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next year if we're just gonna have the one car at Le Mans that's been kind of the rumor but we'll just have to play it out obviously Tommy who was racing in
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the WC he's coming back stateside he's going to be the endurance driver with the insta team with Jordan and Antonio
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and then he's also serving as the main test driver for the new GT3 R program
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that's coming out that we should see some track stuff next year as well we're racing on a waiver so don't expect much
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but the fact is we're racing and that's all we could be happy for yeah absolutely right and it scored the end of the season so looking forward to next
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season and what that'll bring for Corvette racing yep absolutely in the rumors section Keith we touched on this
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briefly in section number one but the new allocation for November is planned and coming out for the z06. give us more
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details that you've got on that yeah so Chevy had sent out a memo to dealers they did this on the same day I think it
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was around November 3rd that they released the quality control hold for the z06s and sent the cars out to
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dealers they did announce it was a surprise announcement that there's going to be additional allocations and dealers
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should see their new numbers on the 16th Wednesday which is kind of different usually they do this stuff Thursday but
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they did say Wednesday the 16th so we're going to be watching there and if you remember Chevy had said no more
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allocations for the end of the year they put out their first order cycle I think it started back in Late July and then in
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August and then they took cars they took an estimated 500 cars or so and then if you remember September 2nd I believe
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they came back and said okay we're gonna stop right there we're going to make sure that all these get built correctly we want to do it a little bit slower
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they called it a metered ramp up they said there's going to be no more allocations until the end of the year they must be feeling confident for them
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to come out in November now and say no we're going to roll out another round of allocations it solves the problem if
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they didn't take orders until January these cars would probably be late February March before they would start building so if they can fill the order
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pipeline now and production still rolls and they're getting to the numbers and they're getting up there where they want
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to be perhaps these are going to be then scheduled for that bridge perhaps end of the year early next year early 2023 that
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the cars will be scheduled the other thing too that this might solve is if you remember in the allocation role that
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first time other than the pin orders the customized bins that we saw many of the top 10 dealers at first they didn't
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receive any allocations and the Chevy came and put some back but there was no z07 packages with that it were all the
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low-wing cars so we're thinking that this might be an opportunity for Chevy to kind of make that difference up a
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little bit give their top dealers a little bit of quantity with both z07s and let them enjoy those and get those
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out to their customers as well this is a good news it was a surprise and so now we're just going to wait and see how
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many actual cars they give out to dealers and then hopefully from there we can watch production counts and see how
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they're doing if they can get close to these 495 cars or so being done that all bodes well and the motorcycles will
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hopefully come back a little bit more regularly we'd like to see them again once a month in conjunction with the stingray orders that would be awesome
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that's for sure and Keith we have the biggest rumor I think of this show have we seen evidence of an lt7 engine for
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the C8 ZR1 you know back early on in ca talk we're going back 2017 2018 I think
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right you know there were some CAD render that were released that showed a twin turbo version of what was a
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mid-engine V8 for this car widely believed to be the lt6 there's been
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little hints here and there but to actually see what we saw so we're at the museum for the NCM anniversary show in
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September one of the seminars they did was back in the garage area and they had this lt6 sitting on this constructed
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pallet when they built the lt6s over in the performance build Center then they put them on these shipping pallets that
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crank them down so they're safe and then they ship them out to a third-party Dyno Center that's 20 minutes away or so they
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Dyno the cars for 20 minutes and then they ship them back to the PBC where then they're eventually put into az06.
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what we saw was here's this lt6 it was definitely an lt6 engine said lt6 it had
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no turbos on it when I saw it on the crate there was actually this Black Label that was just a dark black label
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on the bottom you know we didn't know what it was but somebody had been there from the Corvette forum earlier in July
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before that was covered covered up and sure enough it says lt6 gamma which is
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the production engine from the lt6 and then it showed lt7 beta and these were stenciled into this shipping palette so
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the idea is that wow they're confirming that maybe in zr1's lt7 beta engine has
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been built they've used in the shipping powers to test it they have these pallets there so they know okay this one
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is for the lt7 it's labeled so I think that you know like you said this is a great hit that they are working on the
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future and the future is the lt7 very cool buddy I'd love to see that also
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Corvette got the visible carbon fiber door intake trim accessory which we know
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is the boomerang but for the Z06 it's not a boomerang it's more like what a pitchfork
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now I've got to tell you something I haven't seen the carbon fiber spear or the wishbone for the Z06 yet Wishbone
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was better yeah the boomerang for the stingray that is a genuine corvette accessory and you can buy that it's for
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sale if you go to chevrolet.com and then go to the accessories tab for the Corvette they have all kinds of carbon
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fiber there Steve which I'm sure you've already drooled over with your new car but it's got visible carbon fiber High Wing they've got the visible carbon
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fiber Boomerang they've got the visible carbon fiber radiator inserts for the front there it's all beautiful gorgeous
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some of that stuff we always thought would be kind of rolled out as a when you're ordering your car you might select that but we've only seen it for
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accessories okay what we saw for Z06 was this really beautiful visible carbon
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fiber accessory rear spoiler if you have the low wing on the Z06 you're going to
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get essentially two pieces then you have these accessory pieces that you can use to raise or lower the Wicker on the end
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of at the edge this visible carbon fiber accessory spoiler is one piece that goes across and it's just beautiful actually
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the thing costs like Fifty seven hundred dollars so the nice thing is that if you get a car and you hold it for six months
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Chevy's going to give you these Reward Points valued at five thousand dollars so you have five thousand dollars to
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spend you might want to consider taking a look at that it's absolutely gorgeous it was termed late availability so it
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never ended up in the build and price configurator and I think it only showed up in the visualizer at the very end
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before the building price configurator was launched so definitely check that out we're probably gonna see some new
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stuff coming as well as they start cranking out production the cars go one of the things that we saw on an rhc car
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that came through were those Jake stickers that are on the back of the car on the rear quarters yeah there was a
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silver flare car that was in rhc delivery it had them and it was just beautiful there's some really cool stuff
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that's coming out for Z06 so check it out go to the accessories page on chevrolet.com and you can see them there
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very cool well buddy let's take our final break when we come back it's the lighter sided Corvette up next on
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keep you current and up-to-date on what's happening with America's sports car in this third and final segment we
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always talk about the lighter side of Corvette Keith I was really excited to see plant tours can now be booked and
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you do it through the National Corvette Museum yeah we've been waiting a long time for this you know the last time tours were offered was July of 2017.
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after that they closed the plant to the public they were working on the new paint shop and then of course the ZR1
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came out and they were keeping the plant closed through all their C8 development and then cobit hit so it was an extended
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break it was much longer than what they anticipated but they are finally back I think the first tour started November
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2nd so what you do is you schedule these through the National Corvette Museum's website Corvette museum.org it's
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actually a combo ticket so for fifty dollars you get both a plant tour and
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admission to the Corvette Museum oh and then for Corvette Museum members the price is discounted to 35. it's a little
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bit more than what's previous but our understanding is that the tours are a little bit longer now they're one and a half hours through the assembly plant
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the groups are limited to 15 people or less so we've actually talked to a couple people that went through one of
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our friends went through and he said there's maybe eight people there the tour was done by a retired Corvette
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assembly plant worker that used to be there nice he says they're still kind of getting their feet underneath them but really good info you walk up to the
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paint shop and there's Windows there and so you can see the skins moving the parts back and forth so there is
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definitely a lot to see there what else can I tell you about this when you book it through the NCM there's a calendar
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there so they've got the dates right now I think open through January 31st they're going to constantly keep
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extending that and there's also blackout dates the plant can say hey we're going to be working on some stuff here that we
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don't want people to see so you might see a blackout date of a week or two weeks in there but again very cool these
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tours I think they leave every half hour or so I think they start at eight o'clock and then go to like 2 50 or 2 30
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or somewhere one of the pro tips I heard is if you take the very last one it might just be a little bit longer just
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because it's a little bit more relaxed because there's not a group right after them so a little Pro tip there of course we're gonna go and probably do our first
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plant tour when we visit the Corvette museum back for the bash really excited people want to see their cars being
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built they want to see other cars being built it's a nice way to tell the people that are working on the cars you know
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hey thanks for doing a great job it just brings us closer to better connection to our car not many facilities open up for
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the public it's just a great way to see America's favorite sports car getting built absolutely right I was thinking the same thing I would go on a tour when
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the birthday bash was coming up we'll have to do that together that'll be fun exactly also Corvettes at Carlisle is
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planning something really cool they're going to do a 100 anniversary salute to Le Mans I can't wait for that yeah I
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believe this is going to be the Chip's choice for next year they're already planning it's the 100th anniversary again of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and of
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course we haven't been there for a hundred years but we've been there for 60 years I think right right since 1960s
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what they're doing is they're going to assemble a bunch of Corvettes that all race there and not only like the factory Racers and yellow that we're used to but
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hopefully some of the cars that were there in the 70s you know the Greenwood cars Spirit of Le Mans maybe some of the
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l88s from c267 race there so they're gonna have this nice collection definitely something to see anytime you
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can see some of these vintage race cars all in one place it's a great place to do it so yeah check out equivalent to Carlisle next year absolutely right also
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this was cool and we covered this in one of our previous news and headline shows a man here in Kansas finally received
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his 1959 C1 Corvette six years after it was seized that's a great story yeah so
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Richard Martinez bought a 1959 Corvette six years ago in Indiana the car had been restored looked great red with
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white coves he picks it up brings it back to Kansas and has to have it inspected at a state police Outpost
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because the car was restored what they did was they took the VIN tag off restored the frame and then the VIN tag
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was put back on but it had new ribbons because of the way that Kansas law was written basically the car was seized as
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Contraband and it was slated to be destroyed because the VIN tag had been tampered with it took him six years he
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said he spent all kinds of money on legal fees and finally got the attention of some lawmakers who realized wow this
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is really bad for our citizens let's change this law so they changed the law announced they were going to get the car
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back while car was stored it was just sitting in these various storage facilities that kind of got beat up a
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little bit I think even at one point it was sitting outside for a minute not only did he have to spend all this money
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just to get the car back but now the car is going to be pain it's gonna need this and that luckily Kansas also gave him a
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check for twenty thousand dollars and sort of a Mia culpa on that so good on them but he finally got it delivered a
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state police officer he was there to present the car back to him turn the keys back over to him eventually I think
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it was a happy ending he's a little put out about the whole situation but he's got his car back it's home and I think
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that's all you could ask for better late than never buddy better late than never and our final story is our feel-good
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story of the week we had a veteran that was surprised with a new C8 Corvette yeah this was kind of a fun story and in
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fact we know this guy because I think three years ago his wife surprised him with a new C7 Stingray for like his
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birthday or their anniversary he runs a YouTube channel called protective dad pranks when he got got that C7 he just
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fell in love with the Corvette lifestyle and has been making more Corvette videos I think than family prank videos but I'm
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not a real big view of his channel so what happened was he was going to trade into C7 for a C8 he was working with a
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dealership in Texas his friend Justin from horsepower obsessed and another guy
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named Jason from front seat driver they all got together with the dealership and
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conspired it's the best way to say it conspired to give him bad information on
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when his car was coming so he thought his car was actually going to come in December they worked it out so that the
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car was at the dealership and then they said hey we're gonna just go and film an oil change on your car for their
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channels something to talk about a little technical thing no problem so when he walks in there they come oh wait
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there's a problem with your C7 and he walks in there and there's a red C8 he bought the car he just was surprised
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with the date and the delivery but very cool stuff you're helping a guy that served this country and had a little fun
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with it kudos for all the people that helped out there great story well buddy thanks for being back on Corva today
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have a good two weeks and we will see you right around Thanksgiving that was great Steve got all kinds of stuff happening this is the month to be
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thankful we are thankful for Corvettes and all the people that make them we're going to be watching all the channels of people showing off their new z06s so
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