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CORVETTE TODAY #151 - Corvette News & Headlines, Early March 2023
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CORVETTE TODAY #151 - Corvette News & Headlines, Early March 2023 I don't know about you, but I always look forward to Springtime - it's my favorite time of year! It also signals the opportunity to get your Corvette out and drive it more! CORVETTE TODAY has so much to tell you about from the world of America's Sports Car. And Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger is back to team up with your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, to keep you up-to-date and informed. Here are a few of the topics discussed on next week's show... 1. Corvette wins the JD Power 2023 Canad ALG Residual Value Award 2. What happened to C8 Z06 allocations for the end of Feburary??? 3. The C8 Corvette wins the Loyalty Award from S&P Global Mobility 4. Has the 1953 C1 Corvette, VIN #001 really been found? 5. The C8 Z06 goes up against a lot of competition, like the Ferrari 458, the Porsche GT3 and the McLaren 765 LT 6. The three Cunningham Corvettes that raced at Le Mans in 1960 are finally back together for the first time Stay on top of it all in the world of Corvette with CORVETTE TODAY! Listen to the podcast, watch the YouTube video, join the Facebook group, sign up for email notifications and shop in the Merchandise Store at:
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[Music] welcome to Corvette today the podcast
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we keep you current and up to date on what's happening with America's Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show it's
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a big 151st regular episode of Corvette today yeah congratulations Stephen you
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just keep racking them up every time I turn around you know there's a couple more under the belt and you know we're gonna be breaking that 200 Mark here
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real soon I bet I bet we will and yeah you know 150 episodes there's actually four Corvette today extra episodes so
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we've got 155 total episodes out there for everybody to listen to so much good stuff so much good content definitely
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check out the archives that's for sure definitely there's some great interviews there well buddy let's start off like we always do with Corvette news and get
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production update from the Bowling Green assembly plant all right we did lose a week of production with the latest plant
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closure the week of February 20th we went back and looked to see some of the stats there to grab some numbers actually it was interesting during that
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closure we they actually show 15 cars were built on that Tuesday that the plant was closed I don't know if they
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were just being able to wrap a couple ones up or how that happens but they did show 15 done during that plant closure
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but production restarted the week of February 27th we actually that week we just crossed over 26 000 regular
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stingrays produced we're sitting approximately 27.75 70th Anniversary
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Edition so 2775 anniversary editions closing in on that 30 000 number for the
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regular stingrays it's only March they're still months ago for this car to be produced still moving right along
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it's not such good news when it comes to Z06 though I think only 74 or so were
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built in February in fact our last count was 847 regular z06s and 122 70th
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anniversary editions for a total of 969 and we've actually been there for quite a bit a while because all those Z06 was
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built in February actually built in earlier February I haven't seen any production numbers for the Z06 once the
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account we started of course we are recorded this a little bit early we don't really quite know what's going on with this car it looked like things were
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rolling around pretty good in January and then February came along and plant closures and now we've got this thing
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going on so yeah really hard to say what's going on with Z06 right now well we had no February allocations at the
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end of the month did we it keeps getting weird so Chevy told dealers back in November here's your water cycles for
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Corvette for the next three months and they outlayed December January and February of course stingrays would
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happen during all three of those months but the only Z06 allocations were expected February 23rd February 23rd
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comes along dealer memos go out we start calling all the dealers and they all come back with well yeah it shows Nationwide zero no one got any
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allocations so even though they had it planned there were zero allocation we got an inkling that allocations were
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being pushed back a week so we checked again in March early March and again looks like it's going to happen and then
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the numbers come out and it's a zero it's really hard to say what's going on and the other thing too is that with no
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February allocations what's going to happen in the future because we've been hearing that some of the cars that were allocated in November are just now being
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scheduled and built in March and April for Z06 you know we went from looking at wow we could do 2500 we could do 3 000
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we might even do 3 500. I think we're back to the 1500 maybe 2 000 again if
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we're lucky right who knows what's going on you know the dealers don't know obviously customers don't know we're
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just gonna continue to watch the numbers see what happens and hopefully we can get some news we'll keep our fingers crossed though also Chevy my way had a
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brand new video about the rhc museum delivery that was really fun to watch yeah I have not bought a new Corvette
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yet I've got my eye on a certain one that begins with an e and ends with array that's the thing is do you do the
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museum delivery do you just pick it up at your dealership and drive it home from there both offer some interesting
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ways to go with it what this did was they call these the Corvette expert sessions it's only a five or six minute
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video that they did but it's behind the scenes at the National Corvette Museum we watched a father and son actually
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took delivery of their standing anyway so the father got his Stingray the son got his Stingray of course our friend Mike Furman at Criswell set all this up
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to put into motion and he's in the video just sitting there in the background watching but you get all these great perks the museum delivery you do a tour
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you really get a lot of Hands-On time with your person showing you how to work everything how to set everything up
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program everything from radio stations to how the PDR Works to taking the top off and how it stows in the trunk really
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it's a hands-on experience especially for people that might want just a little bit more time in learning to card before
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they're just handing the keys and thrown out the door it's a great experience of course you get also a free one-year membership to the National Corvette
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Museum you can do now at least a public tour over at the Museum why stuff's going on really great stuff you know the
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RAC Museum delivery only adds 995 dollars for the cost of the Corvette but really the experience is unmatched so if
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you haven't seen that video if you've been thinking about well geez should I do an rhc delivery definitely check out that because it'll kind of show you some
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of the fun stuff that happens it definitely will and it's a lot of fun it's worth the 995 dollars also we're
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seeing pricing on C8 Corvettes coming down well you know it only took four years right that's right I mean really
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when you think about it like that we are in our fourth model year for the C8 Stingray so we've been following this
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guy on YouTube he's called four-wheel trainer and he's got a website that's dedicated to understanding market conditions for all kinds of vehicles
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he's been watching that secondary C8 Market since 2020. what are you able to do is he Imports cars from like Auto
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Trader from there he's able to analyze like the model the pricing data how many miles they got from there he can see
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where the market might be headed today he's showing you know these average prices are down as much as 21 500 for
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convertibles and 18 500 for the coups from the July 21st High which is when the market was really hot and again he
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says the days of buying a new C8 Corvette Stingray and driving it for several thousand miles and then selling it for either the same price or maybe
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even more those days are probably over you just got too much inventory out there he's also saying that based on
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what he sees from these Imports you know he brought in like 2500 vehicles from AutoTrader to get this data but at the
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market P of July 2021 it would take just real quick you know 10 days to sell a car at today's market he's showing up to
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55 days so you know you're looking at now two months as opposed to a week and a half he even says those cars then that
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have waited that long generally will see a discount as they're brought down another three to five percent in cost so
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that they then they can move that way it's just the maturity of the market there's a lot of them out there we've got a lot of cars now with miles on them
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I've seen some c8s that have 50 60 70 000 miles on them now of course we are
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going to see some reductions in the overall values of the car going forward yeah I've got 1100 miles on my C8 yeah
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that's good and a whole bunch your carbon fiber then a whole bunch of carbon fiber indeed also buddy we had a
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couple awards for the Corvette for the C8 first of all the Loyalty award from s p Global Mobility was the first on the
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list yeah they've been doing these Automotive loyalty awards for 27 years now the Corvette ranked first in the
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luxury sports car category it is actually the second time it's done that in a row and in fact General Motors
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would be the overall winner of the loyalty to a manufacturer category so people love General Motors which sounds
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kind of strange I know you know we're all Chevy fans or we're this kind of fans but to be fans of General Motors I
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don't know about that much but each of these cars did really well so there was actually four other Chevrolets that ranked first in their divisions we had
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the Equinox the Tahoe the Silverado 2500 3500 and heavy duty pickups and actually
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the Chevy bolt did great in the small car category as well people do love their Chevys and it's definitely showing
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up that's really cool I like that also Corvette won the JD Power 2023 Canadian
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ALG residual value award that sounds pretty prestigious anything from JD
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Power I always think is sort of like the gold standard of surveys and how they do it so they've got this residual value
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division called ALG and they measure 272 different model lines from the 2023
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model year so all these different vehicles and then they also look at stuff like used vehicle Performance Brand Outlook and product
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competitiveness to come up with how their rankings go Corvette does very well there but it's also Chevy Silverado
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ranked a GMC Savannah Buick Envision and the Cadillac ct5 all won their
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categories in the residual value award people get these cars they enjoy them these cars are holding their values it's
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all good news there and again some of this stuff might be a little bit skewed just because we came through that market
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where no one can get new cars and then the used car values look way up high but people wanted the new cars there was a
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lot of moving Parts going on there but JD Power like I said is sort of the gold standard for customer surveys and so
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they're really able to neck down and find out what people are thinking that's really cool well buddy let's take our first break when we come back it's
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in Corvette racing the c8r is going to face some internal competition from GM at Le Mans tell me what's going on with
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that yeah when we say internal competition we're talking about the competition for our attention this
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LeMans is gonna be a little bit different for us what we've seen in the past even with covid we've got just one
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c8r that's probably going to run and that's going to be the car coming over from the World Endurance Championship that will be competing at Le Mans this
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year GM though will have this new car called this garage 56 NASCAR eraser and
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it's going to be racing as an exhibition of course I think we've talked about the garage 56 car before for us you know
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it's another Chevy V8 powered car to root for but as we dig into this car a little bit more it just maybe it's just
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a little bit more fun I'm a casual NASCAR racer I don't watch every single race what we have here is they took this
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car that's I think they're called the Gen 2 racer cars now the next gen racer cars but they really had to Beef It Up
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but yet also slim it down and get it ready for lawns you know where they race at night time and NASCAR racers
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generally don't have headlights so we had to fix that one it got some real working headlines they got some serious
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Arrow like a two inch tunnel rear spoiler it's got front canards they actually increase the fuel cell to 32
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and then under the hood of a 5.8 liter small block V8 and guess what is
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that car because it's an exhibition car they basically get a one at whatever Pace they feel like they can handle the
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car weighs in at under 3 000 pounds it should be a fun car to watch yeah that will be really fun to watch I'm anxious
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to see what's going on with that also Corvette Racing's Jordan Taylor you had mentioned this but he's serving as the
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coach for the guys at garage 56 for Le Mans right yeah exactly so there's three Racers that'll be driving at Le Mans
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it's going to be Jimmy Johnson Mike Rockefeller and F1 Champion Jensen button are the three drivers of the
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garage 56 racer Jordan has kind of made himself available he actually showed up at one of the practices with a shirt and
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said coach on it he's been there nine times so he's got a lot of experience you know what are some of the rule changes that people might not know about
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some of the different ways that things are done differently at Le Mans so he's really there he calls it more of a
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consultant than a coach he's able to bring that perspective of a winning driver at Le Mans to these guys I think
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Mike rockefeller's raced there a few times as well but I think this is Jimmy Johnson first time and maybe he said some buttons first time as well whenever
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you and bomb Jordan Taylor and anything you're going to have a fun experience on social media and there's already a video
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out there with his Ultra ego Rodney Sandstorm talking about building trust with the garage 56 teammates and it kind
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of cuts to a dance sequence from Dirty Dancing where he put the faces of the
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drivers on a couple characters and then they danced together quite funny as Jordan always is he's actually got to
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drive the car he made some observations about like the steering wheel controls and stuff like that when he was at Daytona and he said when he was at their
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second test at Sebring all the stuff that he kind of talked about was already implemented in the car and he says
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development that's a little bit more old school than where we are today just because there's obop developing a car so
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a lot of it's just based on what the driver feedback is and then those changes are made based on driver feedback it's an exciting little project
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going on here Kendrick Motorsports is skilled in the car everybody's getting their taste the LeMans but they're
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bringing these Championship caliber people to do it so that well I think the garage 56 car is going to be quite
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exciting at Le Mans this year and it's always a good time when you got Jordan Taylor involved as well
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in the rumors category Keith GM is patenting a noise canceling sound system this is kind of interesting so what
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they've done is they're using like a combination of sensors to determine how the sound be adjusted for passengers in
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a car so you take the top off or you put the top down obviously the sound characteristics within the car change
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you know it could be like oh you put the top down maybe they automatically bumps up the radio a couple notches if you're
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listening to the radio but also it could be this high-tech system might Monitor and here sounds like approaching fire
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trucks and be able to drop the sound so that people hear those sirens and things like that what it really is is trying to
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take these sound conditions in the cockpit and maximize them for the driver and giving that driver the information
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that they need pretty interesting concept do you take the detox off the old 68 you just turn the stereo up but
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now we expect everything to happen for you I guess that's where we are with technology these days technology is a
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good thing I think right don't be messing with my radio man exactly exactly also so this was really
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really big news have we found VIN number one from the 1953 Corvettes has that
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actually been found you know it's an exciting story it surely seems like there is very much Credence to this
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story as well some of the ncrs people that have been working on this for quite a while everything that we know about
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the first production 1953 Corvette might be wrong the quick history was that the first two cars came off the line been
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low one and then O2 they were destroyed in engineering tests and one was burned and I don't know what happened to the
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other one but supposedly ditto01 was burned to the ground to see how we do in the fire there's supposedly
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documentation that supports that story however there's also now this new documentation that suggests that when
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these first two cars came off the line in 1953 they were giving Chevy engineering numbers and then Chevrolet
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used these engineering cars to make improvements to the 1953 now that they
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had completed cars what they did with that first car is they took it out to one of their engineering centers and had Engineers drive it test it look at it
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and then say what would you do differently what would you change and so from that they came up with these 22 line items to make changes to the story
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really jumps around but it turns out that there's a car that had been parked in Oklahoma at a restoration shop and it
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had been pretty much abandoned by its own or been sitting there for 20 years but this car had some really unique
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characteristics on it it had like a fuel filler door from the 1954 models it had some changes done to where the seats are
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mounted and stuff like that well lo and behold Corey Peterson this guy that now owns this car working with some of his
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ncrs buddies they got these documents from the Heritage Center and it shows this engineering car number 3950 which
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was the VIN 001 car receiving these changes lower the seats do this do that
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put a new fuel filler door on it lo and behold all those changes that were tracked in these documents are found on
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this car that had been parked in Oklahoma there's some more coming out about the story I guess there's another video that had just come out supposedly
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there's going to be a documentary made on the car the experts really have to buy in that wow this could be the then
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001 car we want to see ncrs on Bloomington gold get involved somehow and be able to really take a look at it
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and hopefully be able to apply what they know about it but it's exciting times you know to think that that car had been
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lost forever now that it's there that's real exciting that's big news that's really big news we'll have to keep
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following that story for sure and report back absolutely yeah also is there a new
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video of a supposed 2025 C8 Corvette that we are thinking is
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going to be Zora yes and no yes there's a video but the car doesn't exist in fact this is a guy named Brian Mello
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who's got a YouTube channel and what he did was he used a artificial intelligence image Creator to generate a
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sports car that he thinks the Corvette Zora might look like what he did was he Blended all kinds of the latest C8
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Corvette including e-ray and then also tied in the exotic sports cars Koenigseggs for reference points it's
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real low he tells the AI to increase performance and then you know it comes back it looks much lower it's wider from
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there when he's got that final image he jumped into Photoshop and did even some more cleanup on it the title video is
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called the 2025 Corvette Zora would you buy one the comments on our site were off the charts people love the car
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saying they would no talking price obviously but I think it's safe to say that based on where we are with the Z06
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that the Corvette Zora could be Chevy's first 200 000 sports car probably well
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any of the stories Keith and I talk about you can always go to corvettebblogger.com in this final
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segment we talk about the lighter side of Corvette Keith Edmonds had a unique udrak and that pitted the C8 Z06 against
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the McLaren 765lt how did that turn out well for the McLaren it turned out pretty good
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this is a cool race so Edmonds came up with this way to test instead of just straight line performance speed from a
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dig or from a roll race why not also combine everything including some high speed g-turn what they did was they came
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out with this what they call the u-drag where you start from a standing stop you race down you have to go around the
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pylon and then basically come back from that you get standing quarter mile a rolling quarter a braking test and a
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high G Corner altogether of course the McLaren lighter both cars launched the Corvette Z06 might have even have gotten
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just a little bit out in front and then the McLaren just takes off the Corvette did Shine on that high speed G Corner
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taking it faster than the McLaren did but McLaren was already gone and in fact I think it beat us by like 1.6 seconds
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overall it just really goes to show what weight does to a car had our car been a little bit lighter you know we might
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have been there but that engine just shines in McLaren it just bam it was gone it just effortlessly walked away from the Z06 interesting also we saw the
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first 2023 Z06 on bring a trailer wow yeah this one's generated quite a bit of
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comments from people sellers at Connecticut based Chevy dealer they listed a 70th Anniversary Z06 no zo7 you
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know just the straight ZO6 for auction on the website we're still waiting for the final total but it's already over
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220 000 the selling dealer is Lowman blasius Chevrolet located in Waterbury
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Connecticut because they're selling it they're able to sell it on an MSO which means that the buyer should be able to
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get the warranty for the car of course if you're on a list for a Corvette at Lowman blasia Chevrolet they sold 62
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last year so you know they do have quite a bit of a customer base it's just a really bad look again they go after
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customers for selling their cars they don't do anything about the dealers to rate them in people are sick of it now we're just seeing example after example
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of these dealers with their dealer stock orders right in our faces yep and nothing is being done about it I know
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it's not good it's not good at all and you know what you'll talk to other dealers I talk to my dealer friends and they'll say that auctioning a car is
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against the franchise agreement oh there it goes right wow well we'll see if any repercussions come to to that dealership
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in Connecticut that's interesting right well here's what might happen is the buyer that car takes it overseas and
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then that screws the dealer yes they sold that car to a broker that took it overseas yep that's not a good thing not
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a good thing at all speaking of dealerships we had some thieves steal a C8 Corvette and some other Automobiles
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and this was at a dealership in North Carolina yeah you know it makes me wonder if there's a ring running around
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because we also had a break in a few weeks back at the Rick Hendricks City Chevrolet Charlotte so now we've got
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this this was a Capital Chevrolet Buick GMC in Lexington North Carolina and the security footage shows four guys
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breaking in they're inside they know exactly where to go they actually make two trips they were there at 2 30 in the
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morning they grabbed four cars and then they came back and grabbed three others they got the two Corvettes say 2015 and
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the 2020 2 0 1 Camaros a BMW 3 Series a BMW X5 and a Dodge Charger wow they
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might not work there but they certainly knew their way around the dealership based on what we saw from the security footage and you know a lot of dealers
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you know they have their Lots open I think we're going to see a lot more of them having to add security fences or other gates to keep people from driving
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cars off overnight it seems like to me there might be a ring going on in North Carolina and stealing these new cars
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something's going on and it ain't good also Keith we just talked about Edmonds doing the unique u-drag well Top Gear
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pitted the C8 Z06 against a Ferrari a 458 and the Porsche GT3 how did that one
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turn out it's top European out of the UK they were over in the United States testing these cars so it was a regular
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left-hand Drive Corvette Z06 that he was driving it was interesting because with the Ferrari 458 that's the inspiration
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for the Z06 and then the Porsche GT3 that's the Rival for it it's neat how
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they put that together to hear the 458 and then you hear the Z06 driven and he actually talks about how you know the
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engineers for Chevrolet how they tore down a 458 engine that they bought they made no bone how much they thought how
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good that car was how good that engine was and how much they wanted to emulate that sound very complimentary there
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great scenery it's out in the American West driving around then there's a little bit of some track coverage there
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as well so yeah if you're interested in any of these cars or you just like to see these Supercar comparisons it's a
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good one Top Gear magazine always does a great job so definitely pull that one up also Keith we were going to report more
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on this on our next news and headline show but last weekend on Friday the Cunningham Corvette from Le Mans 1960
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were back together for the first time since 1960. that was a great show and
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we'll have more on it coming up in our next news and headlines it's been such a long journey for those three cars the
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first one number two Bruce Myers collection he's had that the number three car was found by Kevin McKay in
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the early 2000s I think it was that was a part of the chip Miller collection and that car actually got sold to a friend
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of ours and then this car was actually the number one car was the third to be found actually was found across the bay
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here in St Petersburg in an old Warehouse from there it just went through this journey of all these I mean ownership fighting over over it it all
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came to an end when the judge ordered the car sold and the neat thing about it was when they sold the car sold at
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Amelia Island and the buyer was it the grandson I believe Mr Cunningham that took the cars there so really a neat
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story kind of goes full circle and to see these cars back together again and all three of them they're little unique
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changes you know the red white and blue headlight covers and things like that pretty exciting stuff and can't wait to see these cars in person I know this is
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going to be a great time well Keith thanks for being back on Corvette today we'll talk to you in two weeks sounds great congratulations again on number
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