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CORVETTE TODAY #143 - Corvette News & Headlines...A Look Back At 2022's Top Corvette Stories Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger welcome in the new year with a look at the top stories of 2022. Steve and Keith review the topics that garnered the most interest last year in the world of Corvette. These are the stories you read the most in 2022. It's a great review of last year, plus, a look into Corvette's future! Listen to the podcast, watch the YouTube video, join the Facebook Group, sign up for CORVETTE TODAY email notifications and shop in the Merchandise Store at: www.CorvetteToday.com
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Corvette from around the world Happy New Year everybody it's time to bring you the latest Corvette news and headlines
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with my pal Keith Cornett from corvettebblogger.com Keith is here twice per month every other week to keep you
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current and up to date on what's happening with America's sports car happy New Year buddy good to have you
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back how was your holiday Steve it was great we went out to El Paso as we mentioned last time to spend it with
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family out there I had a very nice New Year's a little bit laid back but that happens I think when you get a little bit older very much fun just raring to
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start the new year here that sounds great well buddy as we usually do at the beginning of each New Year we cover the
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biggest stories of the previous year and Keith and I have put together a list of all the things that you looked at and
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read most in 2022. first in Corvette news GM North America President Steve
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Carlisle had warned dealers about Z06 Market adjustments and that was a big deal Keith yeah this was really the
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first time that they were really taking what we thought was a stab at what was going to be the high Market adjustments
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charged by dealers we're hearing 25 five thousand fifty thousand a hundred thousand there's definitely concerns
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there and so obviously when Steve Carlisle DM North America president comes out and says to dealers hey these
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are certain things that you shouldn't be doing we thought great right unfortunately it didn't really have the
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effect that we were hoping for the letter was sort of a two-tier prong attack it basically warned dealers about
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Shady practices like charging more than what GM allows for down payments maybe
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taking several down payments for a car and these aren't just for Corvettes as well these are like the Hummers these
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are the Silverado EVS any of these high-end new GM cars that were coming out that people had a lot of interest in
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they were really looking at that so the second prong of that letter dealt with exporting exporting a new car is a big
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No-No for GM if I was to go down buy a car and then export it they get a list of every Vin that goes overseas and
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right away you're on a blacklist you'll never be able to buy another new car again from a dealership that's how
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stringent they are about that there's a lot of these Clips unfortunately some people don't know they're being flipped that I've just come to you I'm going to
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buy your car great right and then I end up being a broker and I send it overseas well guess what you're still on the hook
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for that so there was a lot of back and forth on this letter it did nearly a quarter million Pages viewed it's just
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an amazing thing that we constantly referred back to but six months later it was clear with the way that dealers were
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acting towards the Z06 the letter did not have the intended effect that we were hoping for yeah that's very true I
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was really sad to see the dealerships kind of reading that in a different way and taking it differently than what
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Steve had originally meant it for also another big story Keith the FBI rated A chinese-owned supplier that makes
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aluminum wheels for GM vehicles that was kind of an interesting story too I kind of like true crime stories and
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especially when they cross over into our Corvette world that's why a lot of times they'll see some of the police chases
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and things like that because people are always interested in that they always tend to do well these real life crime stories I guess you could say was there
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a crime committed at diecastle up in Michigan we don't know that yeah FBI basically shut them down for the day
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they were seen taking out boxes and laptops and the big box computers this is a company that serves as the U.S
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headquarters I believe for die Castle die Castle is a chinese-owned company and they make aluminum wheels for
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everybody four GM Honda Toyota Nissan you name it they're making wheels for it wow the FBI only confirmed that they
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executed a search warrant but there is no other real news from that and then we thought this was funny is GM did put out
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a notice saying well yeah you know they did get raided but our wheels are made in China so don't worry about it that's
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not really the message that we were hoping for our wheels made better because they're in China or in the US I
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think a lot of us would like to think that the answer is the U.S but it was just an interesting story it had a lot
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of questions that didn't really have any answers which is unfortunately a lot like we're hearing about the FBI these
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days but it was a huge story and it really was one of those stories that went viral for us across different
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platforms not just within the automotive or just Corvette websites gotcha another other story that I thought was really
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really big was the e-rate was leaked on the GM visualizer for just a little bit of time and you were right in the middle
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of it weren't you you know we live for this stuff Steve and thankfully we have enough contacts out there and people
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look at us so probably within the first 30 minutes of the e-ray being out there publicly we were on the site downloading
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taking as many screenshots as we could I Lament The fact I wasn't able to take more screenshots and it's funny because
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we learned that the longer that leak was up a few more things tickled out like
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some people got pictures that other people didn't get I know on Conti screenshot one of the things that he
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showed was he was able to capture brake calipers and we had other people say I didn't get a screenshot of it but I saw
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a z07 arrow on the visualizer for the e-ray right again it's just one of these
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stories that happened I don't know how this stuff can go live without pushing the right button so to speak but I've
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been around in it long enough that this stuff does happen this came out just in December we ended up talking to Chevy PR
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on it they recognize that we kind of live for this stuff by then the cat was out of the bag there's no way they could
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say to us you know if you take that down we'd appreciate it it was already out there it was on Facebook right the couple videos that already popped up on
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YouTube with it I mean it was that fast it just kind of swept over to Corvette Nation like a huge tidal wave and from
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it we just got so much information not only did we get e-rate confirmations wide body lt2 but we've got all new
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colors for 2024 you know the cacti green and the new blue color so it ended up
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being a very big leak for us something that's a little bit closer to my heart I've been on an era list for two and a
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half years now so to finally see specific information about that car it was a lot of fun to do and they had
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several leaks this year that we'll also talk about yeah not just e-ray so when you have this huge Behemoth a company
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like General Motors is and they always are hiring different people and third parties and vendors not everything is as
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locked down as they like it to be and we're okay with that hey their leak is our game that's the way I look at it
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yeah absolutely and it's the game for enthusiasts too they like to be surprised you know a lot of times when we see the rollout of official
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information it's not exciting but when the information comes to us like the visualizer putting out extra colors at
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an auto show why are there 14 colors when Corvette only has 12 well that's 70th Anniversary so there's a lot of
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funds that comes along with it and again it's just things that we live for that's true also another big story Rick
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Hendrick bought the first retail Z06 for 3.6 million dollars the surprise was
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that Rick Hendrick buying the first car it was how much he'd be spending for it exactly definitely 3.6 million I think
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is the right number for the very first ZO6 then he came back several months later and paid a million dollars for the
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first convertible his collection is just amazing we saw that when the cars were produced and delivered he ended up
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getting a first delivery batch of around six cars I think five of them were black and then one of them was the white pearl
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cars he does like his black cars and he definitely has some new ones there at his dealership he's showing them at City
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Chevrolet and then guess some of them are also now in his collection outside of Charlotte right also the Z06 ordering
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information leaked on the GM workbench ordering system that was kind of interesting too again this came from our
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friends over at Corvette Action Center who are affiliated with mcmulkin and they were able to get in there and look
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at the workbench info before the order guide came out before we had pricing we
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had this document that basically showed all the screenshots of what was available at the moment for the Z06 so
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it really gave us our first opportunity to look at specific equipment that was going to be on the car and then not only
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did it have the Z06 information but it also had 2023 Stingray info as well so we could kind of go back and forth and
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see certain things that were on both cars maybe they use the same RPO for something these leaks just allow us to
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educate ourselves as well as everybody else zero six buyers we're heavily heavily invested in the Z06 for years
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before the reveal before we saw the prototypes there's people been on Z06 list since they bought their c706 yes so
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when you get these inklings of information of course people are going to jump all over and again it was a very
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informational leak because it had all the rpos all the lpo codes associated with the car at that moment that's off
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Corvette action center for sharing that because it really just gave us our first well-rounded look at what the Z06 would
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be made of exactly right and our final big story in the new section Keith Chevrolet announced the 70th Anniversary
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Special Edition C8 for 2023 and I got one you did get one and you got a good
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one too as I see the pictures I hear it's changing daily we'll have to talk about the number of mods you have on
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that car already I've been told it's over 50. I don't know if that's true or not it is true
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we need an intervention people we do the 70th Anniversary you know there was two leaks involved with this car before they
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officially announced it and the announcement was specifically because it was leaked LA Auto Show as we mentioned
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they have this display there was these mock-ups with 12 exterior colors of the Corvette except they put out 14 of them
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that included a carbon flash metallic in a white pearl metallic right away people are speculating 70th Anniversary right
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there of course they took them away real quick which kind of really confirmed stuff but then the night before Sebring
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it leaked on the visualizer again unfortunately I did miss that one because it happened so late and I was
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going to Sebring the next morning but the visualizer League people had screenshots we knew the two colors good
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morning I'm out in the Corvette tent with Carl and Charles and I say you know the visualizer leaked last night with
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the 70th anniversary and he just kind of threw his hands up because again as we talked about there are so many moving Parts with this they already had the one
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Leak with the LA Auto Show and then a follow-up of the visualizer so then it was that Monday that Chevrolet came out
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with their official statement and showing the new cars it was just another exciting moment but again the 70th
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Anniversary people love anniversary cars it's sort of like a snapshot in time as it goes by but at the moment when you're
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riding around in the 70th Anniversary it's pretty special then of course these cars are special the two colors you got
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the 7 70th Anniversary badges you got some interior leather options for the seats stuff you can't get anywhere else
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the sales are going well on these cars I think they've already surpassed 2 000 of the Stingrays I think we've got like 40
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or so z06s that have been built so these are gonna be fun cars in the future but all started there with the leak that
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came out January 24th yep very true buddy mine is number 1245 and I just
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looked at my list 54 mods and Counting so far wow 54. you know I I don't know
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where you would get 54 mods most of them are carbon fiber so that's another story for another podcast that's for sure yeah
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I think we need to do a section on interventions a carbon fiber intervention right you know back in the
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day there was a club that we were a part of it's called Corvettes Anonymous yeah I think that would have been perfect for you I think you're right well buddy
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with me every other week is Keith Cornett from corvettebblogger.com this show is dedicated to the best stories of
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2022. in the second segment Corvette racing and Corvette rumors is what we cover first of all Keith Chevrolet
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shared the first look at the C8 gt3r that's an awesome looking car yeah
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people are really excited about this and they should be you know we've been talking about GT Racing for a long time GT3 specifically is the moniker that
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everybody's operating under now it's a set standard of cars when you have so much similar equipment it makes that a
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whole lot easier last year we were debating about whether or not we're going to see Corvette racing as a GT3
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car or would it be going the hyper car route Cadillac racing obviously did that I think that's probably the right
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decision Corvette is steeped in GT racing history for those people that take it to the next level in racing it's
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nice to see that there's going to be this Factory program that's on there's all kinds of moving parts that goes with this obviously they didn't anticipate
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the c8r having to do a major change so quickly in its life cycle there was a
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little bit of a hesitation there obviously it's going to take two years to get the program onto the ground we just had last year's the whole
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development and then we finally saw the unveiling of the car late in the year we actually saw it on the track up at
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Sebring we don't really have a lot of details about the car we think they're going to make about 10 of them Chevy's
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got this whole customer program that they've got to come up with that shares parts and know-how and how they do that
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and is it going to be just on the one continent is it going to be supported here in the U.S and in Europe or also in
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Asia these are still some of the questions that we don't know about but they've got the car on the road and I think that's probably the biggest thing
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that we've been waiting for so far is to see it the corporate racing drivers you know they've all driven it they've said it's really come a long way to where
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they thought it would be now it's really just a case of getting it dialed in we know that Tommy Milner has been assigned
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as sort of the lead test driver for the GT3 program moving forward this year so he'll be doing that in addition to the
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endurance Racing for the imsa team here in the United States it's a neat program it's fun to watch we can't wait to learn
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more about it me too I can't wait to learn more about it I want to see those cars on the track also another big story
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in Corvette racing is Corbett racing won the 12 hours of Sebring in 2022. you
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know it's been a few years since we had one at Sebring not so much questions but the balance performance obviously we're
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racing with a waiver with our gtlm spec car that's been kind of dumbed down to GT3 standards early on in the season
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they do a balanced performance specifically for the Rolex 24 and then they do another one starting at Sebring
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sets the Baseline for the rest of the year although they do make tweaks so we ended up at Sebring just with a really
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fast car that's really what helped us it was the first time I think we'd won in three or four years at Sebring our cars
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and the GTD amateur cars they're fairly similar sebring's a hard track to pass
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unless you get into certain areas so with a little bit of a faster car thankfully we were able to take that win
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that was probably the Highlight win of the season for the emsa team would be the the 12 hours of Sebring that was
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really cool I was glad to see that also the Corvette racing team went to Spring Mountain and tested the C8 in May of
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2022. so they raced at Long Beach The Long Beach Grand Prix and then Chevy had cars there for them and then they drove
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their cars through the desert out to Pahrump Nevada where they did some track testing With The Stingrays at Spring
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Mountain and the runfellows performance driving school there's a cool video about this it's just nice to see them
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driving our cars for a change we think about what it'd be like to drive their car but here they're driving our cars we
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get their perspectives of what it's like to drive a book on the street and on the track they have great things to say for the standard car the base car what a
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huge package of performance you do get for that these guys show us how it's done that was really cool also in the
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rumors section we are looking at possibly some interior design changes coming up for the C8 is that still on
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the table when they talk about interior design changes they're talking about the Great Wall of buttons those that don't
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drive the car still have some questions about how could you ever know what button to push right right whereas those
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that have been driving the cars it's very intuitive here's your driver's side here here's your passengers and then here's the standard stuff it's all got
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tactile feel you know if you put your thumb on it one button will feel different than the next button and it's just a process of learning this is a
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rumor about interior changes that have gone back I think it was either Car and Driver Motor Trend started that saying
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it was going to happen in 2023 and now it's 2024 and of course we still hear these rumors of this day I don't put
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much stock in it I think that would be very expensive to redesign the whole interior of the Corvette us and
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obviously they're shared so it's not just the sting rates the Z06 it would be the e-ray that I have it it is what it
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is at this point I think it's sort of baked into the equation that you're going to get the Great Wall of buttons when you buy a Corvette it's something
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to embrace I think exactly yeah that's the problem I had when I took delivery of my 70th Anniversary car I drove home
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in the dead of night in the pouring rain and then the windows started fogging up and it's like okay which button do I
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push to defrost the windows if that's overwhelming there is a touch screen right there that has all those same controls that you can handle right for
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people that would prefer the touch screen it's right there for you but if you're driving your eyes are on the road you just reach up eventually you'll
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learn which button is which absolutely right also another rumor was a closer look at the new colors coming out for
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2024 and maybe the e-ray as well like the cacti color right yeah we had an
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earlier story about Chevrolet wanting to do an nft which is like these digital
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artworks that people buy they had the one car that was going to be painted in minted green it was a Zeus six and then
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on top of it you get the nft the digital graphic but then you also get the real car well obviously that was a promotion
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that kind of fell flat because of the crash of the nft markets and some other things that had gone on so there's this
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green car out there that people are thinking wow hopefully that'll be it it's loud it seems like it's an exotic car color so when we got the visualizer
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leak sure enough there's a green on there but it wasn't the green we were expecting it's called cacti green it's a
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shade that's darker and a little bit flatter than this bright minted green that we saw in the Z06 a lot of people
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want to take a look at it and the interesting thing is it's a color that's shared on the 2024 Chevrolet Trax SUV so
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we do have some real world renderings of the car and what it looks like that color so you know for the people that kind of like the army green or the black
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wheels it's a good look there's an interior color that appears to go along with that when we always see an exterior
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and an interior color paired up we always wonder is there a special edition I mean that's what happened when we saw the strike yellow and Sky cool gray come
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out with the new Hypersonic gray we're thinking right away that's a Corvette racing car yeah maybe something's going
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on with this but when you put out new information the visualizer leaks you get the cacti you get the new blue people
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want to check it out they want to dream and see if that's something that they might be interested in and right away I know that some people will love this
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color and that'll be the car that they have to have if we can show that off and give some examples of it it's fun to do
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the interesting thing is you know if you look at this color we went back and kind of looked at some greens in our post there's a Cascade Green from 58 or 59.
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it's kind of similar you know you think of those pastels from the 50s and 60s that did so well on cars and some people
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always wish that they'd come back well this might be one of these opportunities because it does barely look like Cascade
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green yeah it does and reminded me of a military color so it should be interesting to see that color on a
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Corvette it will be and the nice thing too is these colors are replacing colors we've had a couple Browns over the last
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few years the Zeus and the caffeine neither really lit the world on fire and truthfully cacti is not going to light
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the world on fire we don't anticipate it to be within the top half of the color spectrum for Corvettes right we like the
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fact that Chevy's mixing things up and bringing in some new colors of course we'd love to see The Return of some purples and some other colors that did
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really well back in the day there's so many colors you could talk about out there medium purple metallic from the
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c5s I can come up with a hundred of them yeah everybody's got their favorite color and unfortunately they can only
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put 12 or 13 or 14 on the car in one year so cacti is coming in 2024 and that
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was one of our first real looks at it yep that was true I'd love to see a black rose metallic C8 that would be
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cool well buddy let's take our final break when we come back we'll talk about the biggest stories on the lighter side
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stories of 2022. in this third and final segment we talk about the lighter side of Corvette and the biggest stories from
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last year first of all Keith I think I would have done the same thing this guy did a man cried when his 63 split window
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sold at Barrett Jackson yeah I'm crying right now thinking about it as I'm recapping the story this was I think our
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second most popular story for the year over 200 000 Pages viewed wow and it happened within a couple days you know
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you get that kind of traffic so much fun we have a car that is in my garage that my dad bought new they're more than just
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vehicles to us they become part of the family this owner I don't know anything about his name is Fred he bought it new
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using sort of the family car and then he joined the army the car got sold in 1983 he went and found the car back in
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Cincinnati and bought it back since then he's restored it he did some tasteful modifications on it and the Restorations
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and actually got certified Bloomington gold so you think he bought the car in 63 he sold it at some point in the 60s
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but then bought it back in 83 and then it was with him all the way up through last year I want to redo this section
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here this is from the description of bear Jackson that says sometimes it's easy to forget the vehicles on the block
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are more than just fiberglass and Sheet Metal they represent the memories and stories we cherish and that's part of
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the passion that moves this hobby forward when this car comes up his name's Fred and the bidding starts he's
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standing on that back wall and he breaks down he's crying like a little kid I was right along with him the first time I
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saw the video his wife's holding his hands he's shaking one of the bear Jackson Representatives probably the guy
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that helped consign the car comes over and is trying to console him as well and meanwhile the car just keeps going up
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and up and up and then it sells for 300 000 I think wow and you know you think oh well you know he's crying because
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he's taking that money to the bank or not no he's given up his pride and joy and in the end we're just caretakers
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here we watch these cars and then eventually they'll move on the 66 Corvette that's been in my garage that
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my dad purchased new will eventually move on I'm getting a little choked up just talking about this story because it
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demonstrates the bond that we have with these cars and they are just more than just cars yeah it really is they're like
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extensions of our family and I know that I feel that way I felt that way about my torch red C7 and I feel that way about
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my new 70th Anniversary C8 you modify them you put your heart and soul into these cars they become part of the
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family absolutely another story Keith GM had halted Z06 orders through the end of
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2022 but then they reissued new numbers to dealers this is the zero six story of
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the ordering and the allocations and then the pausing of orders and then the
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fact that we can't get that Arrow package the z07 arrow for it that's probably the overriding biggest story of
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2022 but it was just these little missteps along the way that we saw you know why would you open up orders take
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them and then say no more orders after that there just should have been a little bit more prep work done for the customers so that not everything was a
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surprise this news broke at the NCM anniversary show we had Harlan there that we could ask the next day questions
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about unfortunately it's just these things that are going on with the supply chain they want to make sure they get
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everything right on the car you know so they're going to build fewer units they're going to do a slower than normal ramp up since then we're looking back
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they've done that they've built 450 cars so far I think they're probably pretty close to being done with that first
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allocation cycle and getting all those cars ordered we thought there would be about 500 there there was another allocation cycle a month and a half ago
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go end of November some of those cars are starting to be built I believe this week or next week so they're moving
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right along they're starting this ramp up they're building 18 a day now or so still less about 10 percent of overall
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production but it's still 10 at least so it's not less than that this was a tough year for that car the people that have
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it they love it this was a hard story to do throughout the year there never seemed to be any good news to go along
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with it agreed for sure and this story next is kind of close to my heart because living in Kansas City Kansas
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City is divided right between Kansas and Missouri and I live on the Kansas side of the Metroplex and this is a Kansas
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man he had a 59 C1 That was supposed to go to the crusher but Kansas lawmakers
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passed a law and he got his car back and saved it from being crushed yeah this is a gentleman named Rick Martinez he
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bought a 1959 Corvette in Indiana paid 50 000 for it Carla great was restored I
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guess Kansas law says that when you bring in a car you have to have the bins checked and some other the things done at the highway patrol office so he takes
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the car to the highway patrol they look at it and they said that well you had a VIN tag here that was removed and then
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reattached that's against the law in Kansas that means this car is contraband and it's going to be seized and then
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destroyed because it's Contraband this poor guy you know I think he dealt with this for nearly five years trying to
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work his way through the secrets of politics and the law and you've got the Troopers whose only job is to enforce it
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you know they don't write the laws they can't help the guy out so he had to go to the source and he ended up working with a couple representatives in Kansas
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to get that law changed at the end of the year he finally got his car back the car pulled up on a flatbed Trooper was
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there handing them over the keys and unfortunately during the time that they held his car it was damaged he said
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close to thirty thousand dollars in damage the paint thankfully Kansas gave him a check as well to cover some of
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those damages so hopefully all is well and Rich Martinez's life it was good to see his car back what a crazy story I
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think he's gonna look at that car a little differently for the rest of his life every Corvette owner has a story and boy Rich sure has the story on that
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one that's for sure yep our final story Keith and this was probably not necessarily the lightest side of
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Corvette but you know what it was still really really important I'm sure it got a lot of clicks on it the Z06 side
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mounted exhaust are the export cars not the ones that stay in the United States yeah this is a story that we broke
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exclusively a Corvette blogger we were watching these cars a lot of the speculation was oh they must be the
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e-ray right it's a Zeos it's a wide body with the lt2 exhaust setup the tips are
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a little bit different this sounds a little bit different if you're near one of these cars because it's got the lt6 in it but it was after some
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conversations that we had with Josh holder the Corvette chief engineer for the vehicle we just learned that there's
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nothing real special about them other than the fact is they're an export exhaust because many of the markets especially Europe and Australia require
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the use of particulate filters so these are installed on the exhaust systems themselves and so you have to have a
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certain amount of packaging available room in there to put them on and with the quad Center exhaust you know that
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was a late design change anyway right the exhaust was always supposed to go out the corners originally for the Z06
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and then with covid and some of the additional downtime they had they continued to work on and refine it until
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they were able to get those quads together and make that beautiful sound that the lt6 is capable of but it won't
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fit the particulate filter so they use their original designs to continue to do those for the export cars so tug and
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cheek sorry World those Squad mounted exhausts are for us and then you guys will get these export versions it's a
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world car we're glad to see that the Z06 is going to these other markets and only cements the fact that Chevrolet makes a
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fantastic sports car gives these other people a chance to live the American dream so to speak we love these cars and
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think that they're going to make a difference in how people think about the Corvette when they can actually see them on the roads in their own markets
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absolutely right well buddy that was the biggest and best stories of 2022 Happy New Year here it's great to have you
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back I'm looking forward to bigger and better things this year in 2023 with Corvette today and the news and
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headlines show with you and Corvette blogger well thanks Steve it's just a pleasure being on with you every couple weeks we have a good time off the air I
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think a lot of that shows that when we do talk here there's so much great news coming out the Corvette team knows what
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we want there's going to be choices with some additional cars coming out we're hoping the e-ray is revealed earlier
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this year and then comes out when manufacturing starts sometime in the summertime a lot of stuff to look for after that we'll have ZR1 there's
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already been spy photos of zr1s on the road and we're getting some additional information from like Manny over at
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muscle cars and trucks on that a lot of good stuff happening you're going to find out about it on Corvette blogger
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