CORVETTE TODAY #161 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid-May 2023

Name: CORVETTE TODAY #161 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid-May 2023
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Keith Cornett from corvettebblogger.com Keith is here every other week to keep you current and up to date on what's
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happening with America's Sports Car Keith it's good to have you back on the show it's going to be a tough follow-up
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from last week's show buddy yeah you know those are some big footsteps to fill of course when you're talking about uh last lease podcast you had tads Josh
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and Harlan all on the show all at once that was a lot of fun actually I was in the room as it was going on did a little
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bit of the filming there just so much great information to come out of there and again whenever you can get that information coming directly from the
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Corvette team that's the show you want to tune in absolutely and I gotta thank you and also Jeremy Wellborn for
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videotaping that for us we had that video on YouTube yeah that's one of the where I went straight to the YouTube
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video first as opposed to just the audio podcast because obviously the three guys are there talking of course we get to
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see you in action which is somewhat of a treat never seen that before so yeah that was a really good video Steve I've
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always been told Keith I have a great face for radio so I keep it that way right on Keith again thank you so much
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for videotaping it along with Jeremy Welborn and thanks to Jeremy for putting the YouTube video together for us well
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buddy let's start out our show as we always do with an update on production at the Bowling Green assembly plant so
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we're watching the 2023 Corvette Stingrays which again the quantities coming out of the plan are just it seems
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like you know oh we've been supply chain issues and you know they're not building as many cars but you know we're really closing in on some significant numbers
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it looks like we're about 32 500 regular stingrays produced so far and another 3
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400 70th Anniversary Corvette Stingrays we're closing it on 36 000 Stingrays for
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the model year again just tremendous numbers and then we have the 2023 Corvette ZO6 we have a big push right
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around the NCM bash I think Kai spandy during his seminar pointed out that they had built 250 in a week which is
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obviously a great number we've seen it quieted down a little bit since then they did a production number of 208
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after that and then 147. our last update shows 2125 z06s and those are the
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regular ones and then another 470th anniversary models that's good for over 2500 z06s produced for the year and it
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looks like we've still got some time to go I would say we're probably going to close in on 3 000 hopefully it would be
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a great number for that first inaugural year and again the ramp up has been so slow but they keep talking about just
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wanting to get it right and moving forward that way so hopefully we are going to see a little bit more of a production push there we did get some
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other news regarding ordering GM did do a round of stingray allocations in May in fact they're just wrapping up that
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order cycle this week usually Tuesdays when everything is all finalized with the constraints we did learn that the
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70th Anniversary package was on partial constraint which means that it wasn't free flow anybody that wanted one could get one they only had certain quantities
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available somewhat surprising coming this late in the model run but these things do happen the one last thing we
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heard about this is again that we're looking at May ordering and then June will most likely be the final month of
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order the 2023 Stingray and the Z06 so we're kind of paying attention to that of course Chevrolet is running the 2023
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model year through September 1st and then they take off the long weekend for Labor Day and come back on Tuesday and
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start building the 2024s that probably means that ordering will start sometime in July I know we're going to get the
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visualizer and the order guides are all coming in July so usually pricing comes right after that and then ordering so
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lots of stuff happening this summer and again it's always interesting when stuff comes towards the end of the finish line
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for a model year absolutely right and also we're losing two colors aren't we it's not losing we lost two colors Steve
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it was interesting because normally these colors we knew they were coming to an end they're Replacements were named
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earlier this year we have of course Riptide Blues replacing Elkhart Lake blue which has been running since 2019
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it's a long run for that color and then of course cacti is replacing the boutique color that caffeine for 2024 of
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course caffeine was just a one year only color as well normally GM will give dealers a heads up when they announce the final build out dates they'll be
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like yeah you need to place your orders here because the last time we're building these colors is there but that didn't happen here we found out about it
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on Wednesday last week and then dealers found out about it Thursday as they were trying to submit an order they were just
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getting error message saying the color was already built out these dealers had all these orders lined up to put in they
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had their numbers but they didn't know that Elkhart Lake blue was going away so when they tried to do that oops your
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color's going away and then you go back to an owner who's been set on that certain color and then to tell him you need to pick another one that's tough
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it's tough for everybody around but again these are colors that we knew that were ending we got some production
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totals from the NCM bash you know there's 14 exterior colors on the 2023 Corvettes Elkhart Lake blue is at five
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percent of the stingray production and that was ranked 9th out of 14 and then caffeine came in ranked last with just
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one percent so if you extrapolate those numbers we're only looking at about 380 or so caffeine stingrays running around
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in the wild for the Z06 Elkhart Lake blue was at four percent but it was ranked 13th the 14th exterior so it was
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second to last there and of course dead last again was caffeine which accounts for just one percent of zero six
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production so again you extrapolate that number out there's maybe 20 21 22 caffeine Z06 is out in the wild and
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we've seen a couple of them I think one of the very first ones that Mike Furman delivered was a caffeine car and they do look pretty in the Sun so it's always
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sad when the color goes away but then it's always kind of exciting when new colors come on so we'll be watching to see what happens with Riptide the cacti
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and of course the sea wolf gray color coming out as well I did like that Sea Wolf Gray that was really cool when you
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pair that up with some of that carbon fiber trim and the carbon fiber roof and stuff yeah it does pop it's a battleship
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color but some people really like it we haven't really had that combination for a while so it's gonna be interesting to
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see how well it does I think it's actually going to do pretty good especially on the Z06 I bet it does higher numbers on the Z06 than it does
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on the stingray we'll be watching and that's for sure also buddy I was glad to see this GM has tweaked their order
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guide to allow the museum rhc delivery and custom Z06 Interiors to dealer sold
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orders because now that's all we've got is dealer sold orders right exactly so that was a deadline of April 5th that GM
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said the dealers all customer sold orders have to be in we think that's just they don't want to get caught out
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with all these orders that may not get produced and then they have to do price protection and get those people rolled
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over into the next model year this way with the dealer stock orders there's no price protection or anything like that
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the good dealers are then entering these cars based on the specs of their customers but as a dealer stock order
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they could not do the museum delivery which is a huge draw for people there's been a lot of z06s going through the rhc
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program so we are glad to see that happen and then some of the customization that happens on the
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interior they have a little bit more freedom to do that with the r6x RPO there they're trying to serve their
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customers we think that's good still not sure why they went to the dealer stock orders only in April when we have May
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and June allocations that are most likely going to go out I think they're just trying to be better safe than sorry on any orders that don't get billed and
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then they have to make up yeah that was a head scratcher but at least we've got orders flowing in through July and
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August yeah with the last order cycle we saw there was a good number of z07s as well so there's been some stories about
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is the z07 Aero package is it free-flowing again is it better it seems to be improved I don't know if it's
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fixed so it's no longer an issue but it does seem to be readily improved it does seem to be better for sure I love the
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NCM bash Keith as you know you and I go every single year we got some sad news as of August 1st we have a new Bowling
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Green assembly plant director don't we yeah Kai spandy has been with the Corvette assembly plan I believe for
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about eight years when the GM buyout opportunity came up he jumped on it I think his wife also took the buyout as
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well right she also works for General Motors so they're going to be retiring they've got a new guy coming his name is
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Raymond Thoreau I believe this is my last name and I think he goes by Ray as well it's not been a public announcement
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yet at least anything that we've seen but it was shared internally there's a section on GM's website internally where
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announcements happen with people coming and going and so it was announced that he would be the plant director for a
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Bowling Green assembly and he's going to be replacing Kai spandy effective June 1st the good news is Kai's last day is
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July 31st so he'll be there for two months with Kai going through everything that he needs to do to get brought up to
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speed in his positions we did get a bio of him so I'm going to read it here he's
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a currently he's a senior manager EV supplier integration and then of course he's being promoted he's held various
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roles he's been at GM plants internationally in China he's also served as a quality manager a quality
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operations director and he was the assistant plant manager at the Spring Hill engine plant which is a very big
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facility we like his chops of the quality and the assistant plan director so he should honestly just fit right in
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and of course with the EV Supply integration job it's just another indicator that GM is headed towards
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electrification and this guy's obviously done it for the last few years we are looking forward to welcoming him and
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hopefully we'll be able to meet him I guess would be the anniversary show in September that's right also Edmonds
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named their top five convertibles and I gotta thank our Z06 and Stingray were in there weren't they yeah this is just one
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of these fun articles I don't want to call it filler because it's always fun to see who you kind of picked up against
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and uh if you think about these cars for the summer obviously you're wanting to put the top down the wind in your hair
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one of the reasons why Edmonds likes the Stingray convertible because it's significantly less expensive than the
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Porsche 911 which was also named to their list of course they like the quote flashy exterior looks like it belongs to
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an exotic car costing two or three times the price of all these other ones they also did mention the Bonkers fast
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Corvette Z06 and calling it the convertible is the best way to listen to that model's thrilling V8 soundtrack
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just a nice little fun ride up the other five cars are the other four cars I guess in the this were the Mazda MX-5
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Miata a Ford Mustang convertible the Ford Bronco Believe It or Not which also
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comes with a soft top you can order that and go convertible in your Bronco and then of course the Porsche 911 Cabriolet
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those are your top five convertibles for your summer soundtrack so get out there and put that top down and have some fun
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that sounds good to me and finally Keith in segment number one the National Corvette Museum officially opened the
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McMichael family education Gallery I really like this idea so the idea is to
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create a space where they can bring in students and group tours and field trips and people interested in stem there's
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all kinds of stuff in there about Hands-On activities with engineering and some other things so when I was a kid
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some of the best museums we went to I grew up in Indiana so we went to the Indy 500 Museum which again was just a
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great experience for I think I was in fifth grade when we did that and just always stuck with me seeing all those old cars in there in that Museum and
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then we went to the Chicago Museum of Industry and science or science and industries it is just again another
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fantastic Hands-On Museum where people can do things and be interact with these exhibits so the idea is that the museum
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either actually have a fundraiser right now where you can sponsor like a class field trip I think it's like 500 to
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bring a class in you think that you know maybe of those students that come through there's going to be one of those
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kids that just sees that Corvette for the first time it says I gotta have one when I grow up and it's just another way
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to get students these younger kids hands on the Corvette and make an impression while they're younger so that when they
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do turn driving age and older they'll always remember that experience with the Corvette so kudos to the McMichael's
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family and to the NCM for putting this together that's great Keith let's take our first break when we come back it's Corvette racing and Corvette rumors
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rumors Keith Corvette racing has been busy at spa and then Monterey is coming up this weekend aren't they yeah it's by
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splitting the schedule we get twice as much racing and it's even better when one of these teams is just doing fantastic of course we're talking about
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the number 33 Corvette c8r that's running in the world endurance Championship they had two straight wins
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coming into Spa the six hours of spa and despite the fact that they were handed 45 kilograms of they call it Victory
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ballast so if you win a race you get to be heavier for the next race so that's their bop penalty they still managed to
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come into second place and again it was Nikki casberg holding off another competitor in those final laps to get
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the second place win all three drivers Nikki katzberg Ben Keating and Nico Veron they are really firing on all
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cylinders right now working well together and they're really set themselves up for a great 24 Hours of Le
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Mans coming up in June the Corvette is leading the class and the GT amateurs over there with that second place finish
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we actually extended our lead so we've had three podiums in a row and things are really really looking good for the
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number 33 car of course this weekend we've got the number three Corvette c8r in Monterey Laguna Seca of course we're
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recording this before the race results so we'll actually be talking about it during our next headlines Edition but
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this was a special race for Antonio Garcia as he is making his 100 100th start in imsa since the merger between
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the alms and the Grand Am kind of a fun little piece of news there you know and he talks about racing in America is fun
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because of the tracks but it's hard because his family's back in Spain yet Corvette racing is sort of his second family it's a good race for him
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hopefully I'm looking forward to seeing many more with him absolutely congratulations to Antonio for sure and
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speaking of Corvette drivers Jordan Taylor is still looking for oval races isn't he yeah you know he just got
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picked up to run his first oval so there's a NASCAR weekend coming up well he's racing Wednesday May 17th that are
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going to be at North Wilkesboro Speedway he's making his first pro Late Model start with e33 Motorsports they are like
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the development company or a development team that brings on promising Young Drivers and gets them rides we did see
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Jordan was doing some testing maybe a couple weeks back in a plain white NASCAR racer he's running the oval so
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it's going to be pretty fun now actually what's really kind of fun about this story of course everything's always fun with Jordan when he's doing stuff on so
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social media but this kind of being built as Rodney Sandstorm getting his ride I mean it is Rodney's name on the
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car and the car's actually got a throwback paint job to make it look like the old Jeff Gordon rainbow Livery of
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course Rodney's always wearing that Jeff Gordon coat everywhere so it's gonna be fun again this is a support race
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happening for the NASCAR weekend and we're gonna have NASCAR racers Dale Earnhardt Jr and Kevin Harvick will also
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be driving in that same race with Jordan so it's gonna be fun to watch I'm wondering if it will be on television or
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if it'll be screened somewhere but we'll get to look into that because it's his first album I guess you're used to turning left hand right but if you only
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turn left I was gonna say Jordan's gonna have to perfect his left hand turn that's for sure yeah it's gonna be fun
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to watch I think absolutely this was something I was really excited and proud of the C8 Z06 hardtop convertible is
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going to be the pace car for the 107th Indianapolis 500. that's right just another reason to tune into the
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Indianapolis 500 on Sunday May 28th this is the 20th time Corvette has led the field of course it's a record it's a
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agreement that's going back for some time with Chevrolet providing the official Pace cards and of course it just makes sense to have the Corvette up
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there this one's real pretty I think a redness metallic with two-tone jet black and Sky cool gray interior yeah of
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course it's got its own custom graphics package with the Indy 500 graphics on the doors this one's also got Tech
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bronze the forged aluminum wheels the accessory wheel and of course it's got the carbon flash black missiles and roof
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and really cool and the way they do that with the emergency track lights is you have some strobe lights that are put
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into the front grilles and then on the rear looks like they're attached or integrated into the rear and the cells
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we're not really quite sure if this is a z07 or not they didn't really say in the announcement but the car is wearing that
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full Arrow kit with the high Wing the front die planes and the splitter rockers my guess it might be but if it's
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got all that Arrow it just looks so pretty we're still gonna wait and see who the official driver is going to be usually that announcement will come but
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a week or two although they've recently been doing them right before like you know the week of or right before the
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race so it's gonna be anxious to see who they're gonna find a drive that for the opening is who's going to lead the pack
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for the Indianapolis 500. I know who the driver is you do who's that me
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people that have actually petition and wanted to be there but you gotta be pretty special you got to get up there like Chuck Yeager drove the Corvettes
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you know who drove one I think one of the pace car drivers or at least he rode along and it was Will Cooksey yes back
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in the day yeah yep well just let them know that I'm available okay okay yep there you go okay also we had a fun race
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with the Z06 against a 488 Pista Ferrari yeah so this is I think the drag Times
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YouTube channel this same Z06 had already taken down a Ferrari a12 super fast and I think that one was just under
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800 horsepower in this race it went up against not just a Ferrari 488p stuff but a modded one as well what was good
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about this video is that the Z06 just launches out of the gate Superior every time but the Ferrari with the more power
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just reels it in before the Finish Line it's a lot of fun to watch and of course both cars are fun to listen to there's
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always multiple camera angles on these drag Time videos so definitely check it out it's a fun video I will for sure
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also in the rumors section Keith did some of the Corvettes go out of the Bowling Green assembly plant with the
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wrong system benching calibrations yeah you know back in the day there's always the jokes about boy I hope your car didn't get built on a Friday because the
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workers are looking forward to the weekend and may let something go there but it also could just be someone doing an incorrect job or maybe there's a
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programming issue within the plant that caused this to happen but this news comes from GM Authority we actually do
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not have any official word from General Motors like in their GM Tech links or anything like that that they put out
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there but supposedly what's happened is some Corvettes have left the assembly plant with incorrect suspension calibrations that were programmed into
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the electronic suspension control modules we don't know if they're stingrays or z06s or both cars we also
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don't know if TM is going to be reaching out to individual owners saying hey your car was one of these that was identified you know bring it into service it's one
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of these things right now where your service advisor can do a check and see if you've got the right calibrations probably this is a low number I doubt
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this is a huge number of cars that are affected right but if you do have a 2023 and you're feeling like just something's
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not quite right with the ride take it into the dealership and have them double check that because it could be your car and if it's so it just takes about 30
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minutes or so to reflash and you'll be on your way more notifications going out so that individual owners do know that
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their car was one of those that are identified yeah that sounds good all right buddy time for our last break when we come back the lighter side of
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deeper dive into any of these stories Keith and I cover you can always go to corvettebblogger.com in this third and
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final segment we always go with the lighter side of Corvette we're going to lead with our feel good story of the week Keith I was just flabbergasted a
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stingray owner received a replacement car he had kind of a lemon C8 they gave
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him a Z06 oh my God yeah you know this is a story that comes from one of the Facebook groups and the stingray owner
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had just these issues with his hard time convertible that just went on and on and on and he was without the car more than
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he was with the car so what he did was he filed a complaint with GM saying his car was a lemon and GM investigated the
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issues and then they finally agreed yes it is 11 we'll do the buyback on it normally you'd think that this would be
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an Apples to Apples trade right Stingray for a stingray but apparently some State lemon laws allow that the car can be
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replaced with any car from the manufacturer supposedly the stingray owner pressed the company on it maybe
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they didn't want to do it but the lemon laws being what they are they had to so the guy only had to pay the difference
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between the two vehicles he didn't even have to do the tax title and tag fees and stuff like that it is a good story
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it is something that if you are having consistent issues with your car a lot of the states we take it to the dealer
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three times they can't solve the problem that qualifies it as a lemon it just might make sense to look into those
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lemon laws in your state to see what the remedy is because like this guy he fully took advantage of it was able to get a
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z06. kudos to him and again thanks to GM for at least giving him something and then making this a feel good story that
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was pretty cool they worked with him and he cashed in that's for sure yes he did also the first C8 Z06 in Australia went
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back and visited carbon Revolution where its Wheels were made that was a cool story too yeah you know the moral of
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this story is that you can in fact go home again at least the carbon fiber Wheels can go home so if Z06 is visible
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carbon fiber wheels are made in Australia by carbon Revolution and last month the first right hand driving ZO6
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in Australia stopped by the facility you took some pictures with the employees according to the CEO of carbon
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Revolution they began working with GM on these wheels back in 2016. wow so that was a long time finally to see them on
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the car you know 2023 so again fun story there you can go home kudos to a carbon
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Revolution for putting out some great Wheels that's great also this was a cool story as well I love this a CH Stingray
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was really stretching out its legs on the German Autobahn you know if only we had roads like this in the United States
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it was a six minute video posted on top speed by this guy I guess he's a professional driver he does kind of a
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once around to walk around a rapid blue stingray that's in a little rest area off the highway so he gets to the car
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and he's actually launch control to merge into traffic and then he goes right over to that left lane and he's
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going as fast as 266 kilometers an hour which is 165 miles from with me it was
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actually some traffic on there so he went down the road did like a little turn around and then came back again
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really good to hear the car stretching his legs out getting those RPMs up and doing what was made to do and yet it was
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in a fairly safe environment again there was a little bit more traffic that I was may have been comfortable going that fast with but still German drivers they
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don't just hang out in the left lanes they know what they're doing over there and I'm trying to think of where can you go that fast here well I know some
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western states have some higher speed limits of 1880s in some of the places maybe one of the events where they
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actually closed down the roads and then allowed people to go wide open for like the Sun State I think was one of them in
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Idaho they do one of these boy we could use some highways like that though absolutely I'd love to have something
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like that available here in the United States that'd be a lot of fun just got to go to the track I guess gotta go to Spring Mountain exactly right also the
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Sky Dome at the National Corvette Museum is getting a little bit of a seal and an update aren't they yeah so it was funny
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because on their Facebook and Twitter pages the sky zone is usually gold and here it was painted Gray okay so it was
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a very surprising look to it they are resealing it and then it's going to be returned back to its original gold color
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but I was thinking about this you know the sky dome is 30 years old next year wow they're actually doing a number of
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things else so one of the things that they announced at the MCM bash is they're going to have these giant I think eight foot tall LED video screens
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that'll completely Circle the inside of the Skydome so they can show videos in there and one of the examples was like racing where the cars are going round
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and around the Sky Dome that should be a really cool display there a Fresh coat of paint and doing a little work in
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advance of any kind of problems happening is always a good thing absolutely a coat of paint never hurts anything that's for sure also the
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National Corvette Museum has all the videos now up from The Bash don't they yeah so you know they do these
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professional recordings they allow us to record although they've asked that they want to be the ones that post the video
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so we've always kind of acquiesced to them now they're all up so you've got all the major videos from The Bash including the Corvette teams annual
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seminar with all the options and the new 2024 e-ray we've got the final assembly
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Plan update from Kai spandy the NCM Corvette Hall of Fame announcement and our favorite video from the seminars was
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Corvette engineer Cody Buckley on performing the Cyclone spin at the Rockefeller Center in the 2024 Corvette
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e-ray if you haven't seen that video go pull that one up now on Corvette blogger the Corvette Museum's YouTube channel
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because that one was a lot of fun it really was and Cody did a phenomenal job with his seminar go watch that that
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Cyclone move is really outstanding really cool yeah he told his talks about too it's like where he sees a parking
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lot he's like hmm he would say oh they got to keep Cody on
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the Chain you know hello the folks seminar I hope people do watch that one definitely well Keith
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thanks for being back on Corvette today have a good two weeks we'll see you in a couple buddy sounds great Steve we see
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