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CORVETTE TODAY #147 - Corvette News & Headlines, Early February 2023
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May 8, 2025
We are finally into February...is it Springtime yet? Even though we are still in Winter, there is an abundance of Corvette news to be had! Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger returns with your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, to deliver all the headlines making news in the world of Corvette. Here are a few of the topics Steve and Keith will be covering this week.... 1. GM is gearing up to make 6th generation small-block V8 engines for trucks and SUV's 2. The Bowling Green Assembly Plant set a new record for Z06 production in one day. 3.. Corvette Racing results at the first race of the year in Daytona 4. Chevrolet formally introduces the Corvette GT3.R 5. The 1969 Corvette ZL1 sells at Sotheby's for $3.14 million 6. The Corvette C8 Z06 will be for sale in Canada and Mexico These stories and many more in this week's CORVETTE TODAY News & Headlines show! Listen to the podcast, watch the YouTube video, join the Facebook group, sign up for email notifications and shop in the Merchandise Store at: www.CorvetteToday.com
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other week we keep you current and up-to-date on what's happening with America's Sports Car Keith welcome back
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to the show is it Springtime yet well Florida in February it feels like spring
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here we've had cheaper Commerce weather it looks like another great day today this is why we live in Florida is what I
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always say that's exactly right well we're getting there in Kansas City it's been a mild winter but I can't wait for
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Springtime well I just heard about a recent ice storm so I know you're probably waiting to get that new 70th Anniversary Corvette out absolutely
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right I've been chomping at the bit buddy I don't even have a thousand miles on it yet but at least I've gotten past the 500 Mile break-in period so that's a
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good thing that's a good thing all right let's start off as we always do with the latest Corvette production update from
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the Bowling Green assembly plant yeah Corvette Stingray accounts just continue to be strong we could actually surpass
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25 000 on the VIN count at the end of this week that's just for the regular Stingray so I mean they're really
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banging them out we also should surpass 2500 70th Anniversary Corvette Stingrays
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so that's 27 500 Stingrays for 2023 and they're not done yet so yeah these
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Stingray production numbers are really climbing very excited to see that we've talked about Z06 production still
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ramping up the good news is that over the last two weeks we've seen more than 125 zo6s produced per week our chart
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runs a few days behind but we're starting this week I think we'll have an estimated 850 regular Z06 is completed
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and about 125 or so 70th Anniversary Corvette Z06 is completed right there
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we're just under a thousand z06s total for 2023. that's actually not even counting the number of CTF cars that are
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out there either that might end up going to dealers as well it's interesting for 2023 Z06 production could really
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surprise us I think right now we're looking at they're building about 500 per month which means over the remaining
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production for the model year we could see 3 000 maybe over three thousand 3500
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z06s wow we're not out of the woods but it certainly feels like we're picking up steam things are moving well we've gone
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a few weeks without any kind of production snaf moves or anything like that supply chain seems to be holding so
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let's keep our fingers crossed and keep building Corvettes and Bowling Green has set a new record for Z06 production back
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on Tuesday the 24th of January too yeah that's right January 24th we saw 32 z06s
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built during the two shifts so they did 24 regular z06s and eight 70th anniversaries during that work day it
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looks like they worked a little bit longer we hear the counts are somewhere around 194 to 200 is what they do during
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the shifts they did 196 that day and the Z06 production accounted for just over
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16 percent of those cars that's really good news I'm cautiously optimistic Steve that's great that's good news I'm
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glad to hear it and this is something Keith that affected me personally General Motors is going to reimburse
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70th Anniversary owners if they were double charged for bright red brake calipers instead having the edge red
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brake calipers I called my dealership they said yep you're on the list and I got my check well that's great yeah so I
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guess what had happened was people noticed the double charge and if you recall you know last summer there was a
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fire at the vendor plant that makes Edge red paint and so General Motors had to
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swap out the edge red brake calipers for the bright red on their 70th Anniversary packages that's what I heard about the
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story was like huh I wonder if this is related to the 70th anniversaries because they had to switch to the bright red and GM with their building and all
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that stuff that just slipped through and it got an extra charge on there nice to know someone that actually had that done I'm glad you got your check already yeah
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I always say check the receipts and make sure that you're only paying for what you got check your sticker see if that's
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charged is on there contact your dealership I got a check from the dealership itself there was a question
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of well should we just put it back into the loan they said no we're going to give you a check and I got a check for
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595 dollars so I'm a happy camper that's for sure also Chevrolet Canada is going to get
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the e-ray and their starting price is 128 800 yeah that's pretty strong price
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that's for the 1lz erase they did not release anything on the 2lz or the 3lz or anything else just the starting base
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price Canada they also have a destination fee that's higher than ours ours is 13.95 they pay 22.95 as a
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destination freight charge and then they also have taxes they get like a hundred dollars for an air conditioning tax 700
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in dealership fees wow that sounds expensive and you know we're all going on top of that 128 798 but Canada's got
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this new luxury tax on cars over a hundred thousand dollars so you add 10 of the cost of the car on top of that
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the erase going on sale in Canada it's going to be a little bit pricey and Mexico is getting lucky they're getting
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z06s as well not only are they getting the zo60 their model there that they're going to sell is the coupe with the z07
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performance package as standard wow they're gonna get the big wing and all the fun stuff there and then there's
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also an option 70th Anniversary Special Edition that they can get as well the standard Z06 model with the z07 is going
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to sell for 3.7 million pesos which is 194 600 USD at our current exchange
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rates and then the 70th Anniversary Special Edition will be even higher that's 3.79 million pesos or just over
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200 000 American also the first Market outside the United States and Canada to
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get the new Supercar we assume from there it's going to end up over in the Middle East and then Europe and down in
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the Southern Pacific with New Zealand and Australia I call it the world domination tour because everywhere we go
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in these markets is new for the car there's just so much excitement over it and you know we got racing going on in
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these different markets as well it's really a good thing to see these cars sell I know a lot of people say oh they should take care of the United States
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Market first and yeah there's a little bit of that I mean the numbers that we're exporting aren't huge numbers anyway so it's just a way to get these
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cars in the different markets and support the enthusiasts that are there that's right also I love this Keith
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there's a new carbon flash stripe option that's coming for next year's Corvette it looks awesome it does we actually
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found this one playing on the e-ray visualizer I've built like 100 cars on the visualizer and I joked that I must
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have unlocked an achievement level or something because all of a sudden I'm seeing new Stripes so the e-rays got
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this special stripe called electric blue and it's different than the current Racing Stripes because it comes down there's a little bit of a point to it
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it's got the blue in the middle and it's got an accent color on the outside these new ones are all carbon flash metallic
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as the base color and then on the edges of the stripes there's five different accent colors you can get they look
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really really nice the five colors are blue yellow orange red and silver is
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also different on the back the current stripe as it goes on the back it goes over the spoiler and then down all the
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way to the black facial where the exhaust is now this one just stops right there at the third brake light it's a
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good looking stripe we did a number of different colors to try to match it to like interiors and seat belts you can
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really have a lot of fun with it it looks good buddy they're nice Stripes yeah I like them absolutely well let's
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Keith we had our first race at Daytona for the 24 hours how did Corvette racing fare in that race wow that was an
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exciting race we came in second in our GTD Pro class if you stayed up and watched it there's some drama especially
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overnight if you would have stayed up we went down two laps in the middle of the night we had a flat tire they also
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decided to do a brake change but yeah when I got up in the morning we we're running first or second it seemed like the final battle came down to the number
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three Corvette the number 14 Lexus and the number 79 Mercedes and it was the Mercedes that would grab the win it was
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a fun race to watch the Corvette really had the speed on the banks and on the ovals but not so much in the interior of
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the road course and that's where the other cars always kind of pull away just a little bit or not allow us to close it we'd close on them on the banks and then
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they'd get away from us on the infield again great race though it hats off to the team second place is a great way to
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start the season a lot of racing to go here yep I'd say we're on our way I think so too second place is not bad to
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start the season I'll take it also I was real excited about this I love this car from the get-go the Z06 gt3r officially
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debuted on Friday January 27th and it ain't cheap either no it's not so Laura
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clauser and other GM bigwigs we had Chevrolet Global design manager Phil Zach GM president Mark Royce was there
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they're all at the Daytona International Speedway the day before the Rolex 24 and they did the big reveal pulled the cover
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cover off and there's the car this is a car that utilizes the Z06 production frame and other components straight out
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of Bowling Green and it's all built to these Global GT3 specifications so wherever GT3 cars are allowed this
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Corvette car should be ready to race there teams had to fill out a questionnaire and Chevy says they're
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still going through and they're looking for Racers and teams who will compete professionally in the car and they haven't announced teams yet but we do
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know the cost of the car is going to be 735 thousand dollars big chunk of change there but you know what they say about
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racing if you want to make a little money in racing you start with a lot Chevrolet revealed its plans also for
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2024. Corvette racing will be competing in both imsa and the World Endurance Championship with the Z06 gt3r the plan
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is that they think that imsa will have up to four ct3r entries running in both the pro class and the amateur class and
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then another two more will be competing in the fiawc and they want two cars there because that's how you get your
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double entry into the 24 Hours of Le Mans that's the thing you there again they're still lining up some teams
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there's been some talk about who might be some teams they'll probably have that sorted here in the next few months and
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oh by the way following the Rolex 24 Corvette racing was back on the track with the z060 t3r they were testing it
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there on the high Banks of Daytona also being tested there was that NASCAR 56 car again which is going to be racing at
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Le Mans this year's like an exhibition car Corvette Racing's doing some stuff there in fact I thought this was funny Jordan Taylor is doing some Consulting
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with the drivers there on that car he showed up wearing a shirt that said coach on it so I thought that was pretty
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fun you know the drivers are Jimmy Johnson and the Mike Rockefeller I believe there's another guy I'm not
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thinking of but these are all professional drivers they don't really need coaching so to speak but Jordan Taylor being the funny guy that's great
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in the rumors category Keith GM is going to be gearing up for a new sixth generation small block V8 engine and
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this is really specifically more for SUVs and trucks isn't it it is but anytime you hear an announcement of a
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new generation of engines I still think that's just good news for the market in the industry and they're going to invest
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like a billion dollars for facilities are going to get this money this is the sixth generation of small blocks like
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you said they're aimed for the GM trucks and SUV lineups but we have no details yet on exactly which cars or trucks
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they're going to go into as we said this is obviously good news the real question is will there be any plans to extend the Gen six small blocks to Corvettes the
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lt2 is a fifth generation small block they're always coming up with new ways to save fuel and more power make the
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engines more Compact and more efficient you never know what they can come up with and it might just be something there for Corvette down the road we
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don't know that for sure but you just can't put it past the guys Jordan Lee and Dustin and the other guys up there
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at the small block building these engines anytime we hear ice engines being scheduled for production that's a
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good thing that's a good thing for sure also we heard about a rumor of the e-race top speed being 180 miles per
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hour yeah we got this at the end of last week a YouTuber iJustine is a technology
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YouTuber she's got like 7 million subscribers and she's had over a billion views on her Channel my daughter used to
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watch her back in the day that's how I knew about her and then all of a sudden I saw her standing in front of the e-ran thought oh this would be interesting so
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she saw it out at the Peterson and she's the interviews Aaron link and Kirk bennion who were out there as she's
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standing next to Kirk she says oh and the Corvette erase top speed is 180 miles per hour Kirk was right there he
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didn't dispute it we're assuming that that's what he told her the non-z-51 stingray is capable of 194 and the z51 I
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believe is at 186 so we're at 180 you know obviously we've got a different car
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with a wide body and of course we've got the extra weight of the batteries you know an extra 300 pounds there 180 seems
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doable might be a little bit lower than what we were hoping for but when's the last time you were 180 Steve exactly
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we're not going to use that speed anyway it's like zero to 60. it's bragging rights we're not going to worry about that you know right so it's top speed
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also I was glad to see this GM expects to return to full production this year buying 400 Automotive transport reports
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as well it looks like the guys that they contract with is going to be going away then aren't they actually no you know
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Jack Cooper does the shipping for Corvettes this is in addition to so what they found was that they had all these
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cars that they were making but they were missing parts so they had almost 500 000 cars that were missing parts and a lot
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of those cars had to be stored so they got the parts they got them in the cars but then there was no available transport to ship them so they bought
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400 transports and so that way they're not a slave to the shipping industry and
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then they have their own Fleet where if they've got to move some vehicles from one place to another they've got the means to do it themselves it was Scott
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Bell who's a Chevrolet's vice president believes that a lot of the constraints that we've been seeing are actually going to be going away during 2023
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they've really been working on opening up the supply chain we're seeing some results here which we're going to talk
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about in just a couple minutes with a Z06 but they think that stuff's really going to start to happen well in 2023
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and they're all gearing up for it we call it a rumor because you never know what's going to happen to the supply chain but again again just another great
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indication that this is shaping up to be a great year absolutely Keith let's take our final break when we come back it's
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the lighter side of Corvette Keith I thought this is awesome finally the Z06
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High Wing availability is coming back around and it's going to be available for most people but there is a catch
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isn't there there's always a catch Steve we got to know that by now but speaking to the positivity The Good Vibes we're
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getting from so this news we had a surprise Z06 water cycle the last week of January it wasn't planned back at the
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end of 2022 they said the next Z06 order cycle would be in February so we got a
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surprise one in January since the first allocations came out last August we've always seen the z06s highway Wing at 100
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constraint zero availability Nationwide so when we get the constraint reports I'm actually calling up different
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dealers and trying to figure out what we got because the dealers are getting different reports from each other they
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don't just get one report and it's a standard one so from four different constraint reports we saw there were
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actually 75 tof the carbon flash High wings and 54 togs which are the visible
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carbon fiber the catch is though to make the z07 you also have to have the ground effects these are the Splitters and the
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Rockers that's the CFC and the CMV ground effects gotcha that's actually what was stopping dealers from
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submitting z07 orders last week we only showed 20 cfz carbon flash ground
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effects and zero availability on the visible carbon fiber ground effect so if you have zero availability you're
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not being able to place that order but the fact that we're starting to see numbers show up here tells us that
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there's a number of orders back again in December of z07 people that were pushed back into February and so we think that
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they have quantities of these now and they're going to those people that ordered that first order cycle maybe the
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second motorcycle really good news there to see the product that's actually available that might not be able to
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available yet but boy we are so close I think and I'm really hoping next month's motorcycle will really see some movement
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with the z07 again me too that would be great also this is so cool Keith a 1969
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Corvette ZL1 sold at Sotheby's auction for 3.14 million dollars yeah this was
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the orange 1969 ZL1 convertible only two were made only one was a convertible
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there's some questions about this car it does have a ton of paperwork with it it's been around for a while people do
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know it but there's this outstanding questions on I don't want to say the legitimacy of the car but whether or not
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it was actually one of the two production zl1s these organizations like Bloomington gold and ncrs Bloomington
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gold has judged the car they gave it Bloomington gold status the ncrs has not judged the car I don't know why that
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hasn't happened a car this important it would seem to me you want to bring in all the experts as you can and really
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try to nail down the authenticity of it right in the meantime the buyer thought it was real because he paid 2.85 million
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for it and then with the commission the total sales price was 3.14 million this is actually the third highest selling
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Corvette at auction and it's the highest selling C3 that we've seen so far a strong price for a very rare car we
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could just get some of those pesky questions answered you know it'd be really worth celebrating I think definitely also this is amazing Keith
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you correct me if I'm wrong but mcmulkin was now taking e-ray deposits as of
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February 1st weren't there people waiting overnight to get their deposits in yeah so here's how they did this we
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look back at what cioca did did last year when they opened up their list for the Z06 and I don't use the Fiasco term
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lightly but it was a fiasco you had people that were at the dealership and then you also had people that were
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sending wire transfers so everything was done based on when that deposit was made and the people that were able to make
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the wire transfers just jumped ahead of all these people that were waiting in line and waited overnight what mcmulkin
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did was a little bit different they said no wires we're going to have in-person deposits you can also send by mail but
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we're not going to tell you what the deposit amount is until the day before so on January 31st they came out and
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said deposit amounts could be four thousand dollars here's the process for mailing it if you want to mail it if you
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want to be there in person we're opening the doors at this time but then the weather was really horrible up there it
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was kind of cold so what they did was basically like a early check-in so on the 31st the day before they actually
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opened the dealership from seven to nine took people's names and numbers and that kind of thing so that way they wouldn't
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have to stand out in the cold all night we saw some pictures there were some good crowds there they're probably well over 100 are people Tuesday night at the
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dealership waiting for the Wednesday morning to open so what they did was they opened the doors people filed through they made their deposits I
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talked to one guy who took some pictures he's number 81 on the list there and then the mail came in too the problem
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was that for people that were sending mail especially like overnight stuff a lot of the FedEx packages people said
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FedEx they send UPS the UPS people got there like at 7 39 in the morning so they're all happy but the FedEx people a
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lot of their tracking showed that their checks were stuck in Kansas City because of some ice storm the fact they took the
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in-person deposits I think says a lot because dealerships serve their local communities first the people that are
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coming in obviously mcmulkin wants the opportunity to service those cars maybe sell accessories and upgrades for those
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cars working with that local community is obviously very important for them they had people show up from all over to
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California Florida flew in to be there as part of that wow and again that just makes it fun and for them too they're
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now the world's largest Corvette dealership so this is new for them as well as what people are expecting from them what they need to do to make sure
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that they live up to their commitments to the customer I don't know how many they took deposit wise but they sell a
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lot of Corvettes hopefully people won't be on that list for years and years like we saw with Z06 exactly boy you think
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that we're lining up for a Taylor Swift concert or something our final story Keith this was a great
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behind the scenes video of the Corvette assembly plant done by a group called Savage geese on YouTube yeah Savage
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geese is basically an auto reviewer Channel but they just go so in depth and their Z06 auto review is one of the best
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that came out one of the main hosts his name's Jack he actually bought a Zeo sick his car was one of the first I
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think 30 or 40 cars to be built and GM allowed him to be in the plant as the
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car was going down the assembly line he was able to film he was able to talk to people they put together this
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documentary that is very well done the highest production standards that anybody I've seen out of the plant
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coming there it's like the television show I would definitely recommend if you got YouTube on your TV watch it on your
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TV so you can see everything nice and big because it's a great documentary on the making of the Corvette at the Corvette assembly plant go watch it
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right now it's that good it is that good it really is buddy thanks for being on Corvette today as always take care of
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yourself we'll see you in two weeks well thank you Steve we're looking forward to all kinds of good stuff coming up here February shaping up to be a busy month
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