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CORVETTE TODAY #163 - Corvette News & Headlines, Late May 2023
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May 8, 2025
CORVETTE TODAY #163 - Corvette News & Headlines, Late May 2023 As we enter the Memorial Day week, there is a lot of news coming out in the world of Corvette! Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger is back on the show with your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, to detail all the important things happening with America's Sports Car. Here are a few of the topics covered by Steve and Keith on next week's show: 1. Engineers are spotted in what we think is the C8 ZR1 prototype 2. We have two new E-Ray videos available 3. New Z06 allocations went out in the middle of this month (May 2023) 4. The National Corvette Museum names a new Marketing Director 5. Australia recalls the 2022 C8 Corvette for being too loud 6. Did GM's Instagram page give us a C9 Corvette preview? Just because it's a holiday week doesn't mean that Corvette news slows down! These stories and many more are part of the Memorial Day week 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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date on what's happening with America's Sports Car Keith happy Memorial Day week it's The Unofficial start of summer it
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sure seems like summer is here though I mean our weather has been warm but yeah Memorial Day weekends behind us now it's
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time to get all those plans ready for summertime where are you going to go where you're going to be the different shows that are out there it's just a
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great time of the year and of course families home from schools and stuff like that we're looking forward to it me too I want to get this done so I can go
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to the pool buddy well let's start off as we always do with Corvette news and get a production
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update from the Bowling Green assembly plant yeah so we've got some big numbers we're gonna be talking about today you know it looks like last week the
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Corvette Stingray production surpassed 37 000 cars for the model year wow it's probably actually just a little bit more
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because our numbers are based on last week's totals that we get we are showing the last time we had those figures 33
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475 regular Corvette Stingrays have been completed and then you jump another 3
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500 35 50 70th Anniversary stingrays on top of that huge numbers being put out
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by the plant with the stingray you just can't ask for anything really better than that as far as Corvette Z06
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production goes it's also moving along basically the same clip that we saw following the bash we've got about 2500
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Regular z06s that are produced we are very close to having that 570th
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anniversary model done these numbers are from last week but we should have surpassed 3 000 z06s now for the 2023
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model year again like I said we're put up to big numbers here you put the stingray numbers together with the Z06
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numbers and we are at 40 000 cars completed for the 2023 model year we haven't seen that kind of production
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output since 2016 and the amazing thing is we still have a few more months to go production your production is going to
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go all the way through September 1st so that number could actually grow are we looking at 42 43 44 a very good year of
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production for America's favorite sports car man that's fantastic numbers buddy and also for may we did get allocation
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back on May 18th for the z06. yeah things are just real weird with the ZO6 you know back in April they said that
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they were only going to do the dealer stock orders but they're still putting out allocations they put on allocation after that in April they just did
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another round in May a little bit different again and how they're doing this generally they get their numbers on a Thursday they have to have them all
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submitted by that Monday night it really did do some scrambling because again dealers did not know about some of those
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colors that were going to go on constraint of course we're talking about Elkhart Lake blue and the caffeine color if you think about these people that
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have been on these lists forever waiting for their car they love that all currently blue and finally their name
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comes up and they can't get it but they were only told about it that day so a little bit of a Scramble for dealers but you know they make the big bucks and
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doing what they do one of the things that we're looking at is that the 70th Anniversary models have been put on a
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partial constraint so they're still making them but when they gave out those numbers allocations the dealers you know they might have gave them two zo6s but
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none of our seventh anniversaries or they got 20 Stingrays and only two could be 70th Anniversary it seems like the
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70th Anniversary models are being constrained across both the stingray and the Z06 not quite sure why that is yet
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kind of a shame because this is an anniversary year and we actually want as many as produced as possible because he
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basically got one shot for it and then you're done yeah it's gonna be interesting to see where those numbers end up you take the 3 550 70th
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Anniversary Stingrays and then we have 500 or so anniversary cars for the Z06 that's 4 000 models out there
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representing the 70th anniversary of the car still a very substantial number and again just great production figures
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coming from Bowling Green assembly and I'm proud to have one of those as well Keith yes you are what's your number
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again mine is 1455. wow so yeah you've had yours for a little bit yeah since November 10th of
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last year also we've got Corvette dropping two new videos for the e-rate which I was glad to see yeah a couple of
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new teasers for May you know we hadn't had too much on the e-ray we had some stuff coming out at the bash but these
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are actually for the Academy series these videos that Chevy does and puts them up on YouTube the first video is
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called conquer the conditions and it featured development Engineers Stefan Frick and Cody Buckley and they were
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talking about like the various road conditions that the e-ray was tested on and one of the really cool stories they were looking for like the worst roads
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and it just handled everything that tells you what to expect with the e-rag the second video was called Corvette
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electrified and it kind of goes into detail what makes the e-ray the e-ray how the electrical battery is all
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charged up and how everything works there that video was done featured Corvette team members Stefan Frick again
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and then Mike Kutcher the lead development engineer good stuff coming it's a snack it's not a full meal we want more we're looking for more e-ray
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info probably is going to come in July with the order guide specific pricing and then and possibly ordering we're
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still kind of waiting to find out if order is going to happen immediately with all the other cars for that September 5th starter production or if
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it's going to be a slightly staggered delay we've heard both things going on so we're just going to kind of take it and see what happens I like that analogy
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Keith that was great buddy also Corvette and General Motors were
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awarded for their Automotive loyalty last year yeah we got a few Awards coming up this was called the overall
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loyalty to manufacturer for General Motors and it was offered by the s p Global Mobility Automotive loyalty
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Awards they took the top spot in five different segments of course Corvette won the luxury sports car and in fact
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the Corvette this is the second year in a row that they did win that award also receiving model loyalty Awards where the
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Equinox for the small utility the Tahoe for the full-size utility the Silverado
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HD 2500 and HD 3500 for the heavy duty pickups and then of course the bolt for
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the small cars good to see loyalty Awards these are people that are buying the cars and expressed interest that they would buy it again so good stuff
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for General Motors and Chevrolet and the next award we got was Corvette got the Canadian black book residual value award
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and that was for the second year in a row and this would be the kind of awards that Corvette people really like because it's residual value meaning but
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basically that you're getting an award because your car is going to be worth more than other cars 36 months 48 months
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60 months down the road right so this Canadian black book award was exactly that it was the best residual value
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awards that measure the future and then recognizes those vehicles that hold the largest percentages this is the second
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time in a row that Corvette won that sports car luxury category and to do so it beat out the Audi R8 and the Lexus LC
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500 nice in that competition so again yeah if you could buy a car and it's going to be worth more than other cars
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in a segment four years five years down the road you picked the winner yeah that's awesome also General Motors this
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is really cool they donated two Z06 lt6 engines to Wayne's Community College for
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their automotive services education program and who said summer school is not fun Steve right right so this is
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Wayne Community College in Goldsboro North Carolina they actually have a General Motors Automotive Service
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education program and so thanks to these donations of these two infants you know these students are going to be working
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on the technological the spears our friend Doug fehan would say getting real world experience on the latest
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technology just means that they're even more prepared when they go out and find a job at a General Motors dealership somewhere so kudos for GM for seeding
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these parts and the cars out to these different organizations and letting students work on them because they'll only be worth more coming out with that
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knowledge so congratulations to them very cool well buddy let's take our first break when we come back Corvette
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833-639-4231 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me every other week is Keith Cornett from corvettebblogger.com we
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always keep you current and up to date on what's happening with America's sports car in segment number two we
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always cover Corvette racing and Corvette rumors first Keith Corvette racing how did we do it Laguna Seca well
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we are doing good until we weren't doing good it was just one of those races again and in fact the PRP State the team
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put out had another What Might Have Been moment and it seems like we've had quite a few of those recently is boy we were
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really doing well and if only this would have happened you know we could add a chance to win it Laguna Seca what a great place to see a race one of my
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favorite places to watch on TV with all the elevation changes and everything both Jordan Taylor and Antonio Garcia
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were leading in the class with less than an hour to go I believe we were running second we were ready to pounce too on
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that Aston Martin that was in front of us and then what happened was we got in trouble during a late yellow and it
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really cost us any chance for the wins what had actually happened was it was a yellow flag and then the GTD amateur
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cars actually got the wave around the problem is that you all of a sudden have all these GTD cars going around and it's
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like oh do I go to do I go to and that's what happened the Aston Martin was the lead GTD Pro car they went first and
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then Garcia found him around and then realized oh I've just passed the pace car and that's what happened so both the
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Aston Martin and the c8r got like a two minute and 50 second penalty for that inadvertent wave around they just put us
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back we were down two laps after that and very unfortunate I'm sure Garcia is just raring to get on the track to make
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amends for that because he's going to want that moment back for sure yeah and the number 33 Corvette c8r over in the
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World Endurance Championship they're gonna be racing again at Le Mans and that's just I think uh two weeks three weeks away maybe three weeks away now
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obviously a huge event there and we're winning in that class over there too with two wins so far this season so
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really exciting stuff there we're not going to see the number three Corvette c8r and MSA until the six hours of the
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Glenn June 22nd through the 25th at Watkins Glen International we've got a little bit of a break in action the
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other thing that's coming up too although we're not going to be participating in it is the Grand Prix that's going to be happening up in Detroit they always ran on Belle Isle
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before but this year they're actually running downtown it's gonna be a fun race to watch even though we won't have the Corvettes there we'll be anxious to
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see the new track and how they do that one of the cool things I saw is that they've actually got you know how the pits are always like pit roads on one
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side and then they all line up on the other side here they're going to do a split pit Lane so some cars are going to
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be on the left some cars gonna be on the right and then Pit Road is right down the middle of those so that should be an interesting setup and we're kind of
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anxious to see how that all shakes out me too that sounds like fun also the Z06 takes on a Porsche 911 GT3 RS and a BMW
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M4 at Willow Springs yeah this was another Haggerty video and these have been really good the last few videos
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from Hagerty they're at Willow Springs and they brought in Randy hopes to be the driver he drove all three of them
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and then they put it all together but the video is hosted by Jason camiza he features this turn-by-turn analysis with
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some very cool effects we've got like some augmented reality going on where you know it looks like the cars are on
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the track and Jason's just walking around talking about how each car does through each of these individual turns
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and corners and such on that day it was actually kind of chilly it looked chilly anyways for this Floridian so I don't
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know if the Corvette really got the best Shake as it could have it had really warm tires and could have been really
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lit off the chain there but it was definitely a fun video to watch and it's just a cool way to drill down into the
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strengths and weaknesses of these three different cars and see how they did very cool now the in the rumors section key
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this is a big one we've spotted Engineers driving a C8 ZR1 prototype or
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at least we think that's what it is right we're pretty sure that's what it is obviously this is a different car we can tell that because they've got the
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wheel covers on they've only done that when they're hiding wheels that have never been shown publicly before there's
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some few other things too but yeah we think that they're just following their development schedule and it's zero one time now that they've got the e-ray
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mostly put to rest and of course the Z06 came out last year in this group we actually counted four different
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prototypes and there was a mix of both Coupes and convertibles the cars had that heavy black cloud and camouflage on
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it we're able to zoom in we get big photos from the Spy photographers and it really looks like that front end might
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have been reworked a little bit of course it has this really huge splitter that kind of sticks out it appears to be
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something that's right on the corner of the nose that sort of connects everything together there again it's an interesting car to take a look at what
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also is interesting is that where they worked on the front it looks like the rear of the car not so much much so it
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looks like it's the same big Wing from the Z06 everything else seems to look the same on the back one other
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interesting thing too is that the zr1s are being benchmarked against the Porsche 911 GT2 RS which is the
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rear-wheel drive Twin Turbo version of the Porsche 911 and again just a monster in the car I think that car did like 644
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or 645 over on the Nurburgring not only did it less than seven minutes but like 15 seconds less than seven minutes I
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mean it was a huge number yeah so that car was spotted in the group and there was also a Cadillac cts-5 that was in
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the group and then they had two Z06 was what looked like to be a z07 and then a base car they were driving around
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Detroit and then they were captured going into a General Motors vehicle operations center somewhere up in Warren
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Michigan probably near the tech center there so again it bodes well we had a comment from Mark Royce I think it was
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talked about the e-ray but he did mention two great Corvettes coming out and it sounds like he was talking about
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the ZR1 in addition to the e-ray so good stuff there and anytime we can see future product out on the road is a good
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day for for us absolutely right and I know you said that the wheels were covered on the ZR1 but we have a wheel
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design that we think is pretty close don't we yeah you know this is kind of one of those things where ah it sounds
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like it could be it looks like it could be it was put out by a YouTuber named Supercar Ranch she's actually had some
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factual stuff put out before that came true he says he found the new ZR1 wheel
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online although he doesn't really share where he gets it he kind of says it's similar to how carbon Revolution the
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carbon fiber Wheels showed up on eBay back in 2019 you know that was three years before the Z06 came out so it
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sounds like it might have been something like a test wheel or something like that it's a very busy wheel it's a 20 spoke
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wheel but when you line up the very center of that wheel and you look at the sky photos it's a dead-on match it's a
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busy wheel I think the jury's still kind of out on these but it might be something that grows on people and again the other interesting thing too is you
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know like the stingray when it came out with the new Wheels last year that anniversary wheel that's on the 70th Anniversary car that's a 20 spoke as
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well it kind of looks like they took one design and laid it over on another design and that's how these ZR1 Wheels
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look like you can kind of see a little bit of that 2019 cr1 that star pattern
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but then there's something else underneath it it is a little bit of a busy wheel and of course we saw it in Black which just kind of is like yeah
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you know we like the right wheel if we can get it that's what we'd like to see and we'll have a picture of that wheel
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on the YouTube video of the show so you can check it out yeah check it out and leave a comment let us know if you like
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it or not everybody I've talked to is kind of been like well yeah I guess it could be but I don't see it grabbing any
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hearts right away it is definitely different that's for sure also Keith we have a big rumor now General Motors is
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investigating this but we have a quote unquote ticking in the lt6 engine of the Z06 don't we yeah back in the day when
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we were getting those Z06 teasers you know one of the videos they put out that said basically the streets will never
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sound the same I don't think that this is what they had in mind from the high revving 5.5 liter flat plane crane lt6
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what they did was they issued a preliminary information bulletin which
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essentially says we're aware of this issue we're looking into it they basically say that there's nothing that
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appears to affect drivability of the car so we're just looking to see if it becomes a bigger issue before we do
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anything further we've got two videos of people that had what they call this ticking sound let's play it for you real
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quick and see what you guys hear here's the first one
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so you can hear that ticking sound and then this next one this was from a video on Facebook and that ticking sounds a
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little bit more intermittent it doesn't seem like there's much of a pattern it seems like it kind of comes and goes so let me play this one for you
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[Applause]
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I paid a lot of money for a Z06 that would definitely be one of the things I'd be concerned about but again it's a
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new technology it's a new engine so we'll just have to see what General Motors finds out with their investigation it'll be real interesting
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to see what comes of this if anything also Keith our final rumor did we see a
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hint of the new C9 Corvette on General Motors Instagram page yeah you know
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they've got this great account on Instagram they call it the General Motors design account and they're always pushing out different sketches and
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things they've done in the past of course with all the history they've got there's some really cool historical stuff that comes out but then they also
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put out new stuff like designs that didn't quite work out or people doing design exercises just recently we've
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gotten two that have come out and again it kind of looks like maybe C9 stuff
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that's why of course what we're all thinking because we're heavily deep into C8 right now and there's nothing that looks like this from the C8 right but
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then you get into the question of well isn't C9 supposed to be fully electric and if so why does this sketch have
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exhaust pipes on the end of it it could just again be design exercise but you could really see how somebody would say
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wow take that work it in and get your performance out of it it would be a really cool looking car again these
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sketches they're always over the top you know the oversized feels completely filling in the wheel arches and stuff like that I think people like this kind
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of things and so if they can see it check it out and let us know what you think I liked it I thought it was pretty cool looking but I'm still knee-deep in
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the C8 so I haven't even thought about a C9 yet exactly well buddy let's take our final break when we come back to the
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thanks once again for listening and watching Corvette today the show that talks about everything Corvette brought
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833-639-4231 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me is Keith Cornett from corvettebblogger.com don't forget if you
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segment we always cover the lighter side of Corvette Keith I was glad to see that after a long time the National Corvette
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Museum has a new marketing director yeah his name is Ryan Eichler and he joined the NCM I think his first day was last
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week the guy comes with a ton of experience in marketing and he's worked at PR firms such as Weber shanwick which
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has done a lot of work for General Motors years he was a senior VP for Fleischmann Hillard so he worked on the
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U.S Army Recruiting account he also has this huge Motorsports portfolio where he worked with NASCAR and IndyCar and even
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F1 he definitely brings some experience to the position we like to say to audio hires at the NCM Welcome to The Lunatic
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Fringe that's awesome you know that of course a reference to all Corvettes I read the
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book yes back in the 90s that's what the Corvette team called enthusiasts and owners The Lunatic Fringe how about that
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wow also remember Keith the Z06 owner that got the stingray badge on the back of a Z06 but he kept it there well now
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that Z06 is for sale yeah this was an interesting one I felt kind of bad because when we did our first story on
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this I'm like man I hope I wasn't too harsh because here he is he's all excited he's getting this new Z06 he's
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taken off the covers here's the stingray badge he doesn't even see it and then it stays overnight with the dealer they do
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the full PDI on it they don't even see it they give it to the car and we're like did anybody see this thing Ray
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badge on the back of the Z06 obviously you made it through quality control you know two different times a little bit
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worried I came off he referenced Us in this video saying Corvette blogger's been waiting for this video just wanted
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to find out you know you can take it off and revert it back to normal or are you going to keep that factory mistake on the back he says he's keeping the
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mistake however he says that he came into the this as the original buyer of this car actually backed out but it was
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already in the system and so he basically just picked up the car as is he could order it himself and so he's
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thinking about selling the car and then buying a new one of course we're like good luck with that right yeah so
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obviously you want to keep that car until your new one comes in because we just have no idea how long it could be
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he does call it the most famous Z06 Factory mistake that's currently out there and again I think if that happened
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to me I'd probably do the same I think like Factory mistake you've got it document it'd kind of be a fun story
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starter at Carson coffee or something absolutely you got to keep that Stingray on there that's a great conversation
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piece but we had another Corvette that was delivered with wrong equipment yeah but this is kind of a different story
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and this is nothing to do with the quality control I think coming out of Bowling Green so this story is about a
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Z06 that arrived with blue seat belts when it should have had red seat belts and of course the car's Hypersonic gray
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that's got a red interior and so with the blue seat belts it's like well boy that's a contrasting color there that's
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strong but it was actually ordered with the red seat belts but during the process the build sheet shows blue seat
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belts of course quality control is going to say hey blue seat belts there they are you know we're not sure what's going to happen there they actually reached
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out to their dealer they got a set of red seat belts to replace it with and they're kind of thinking well should we
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do it should we not do it it's kind of a cool story again that one I'm not so sure about I think I probably would
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change that to the correct one and just save the blue seat belts for the next owner yeah there's a little bit of a Twist to the story because the person
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that we're talking about that owns this car is Gary Bennett he was that ponytail guy that was on Barrett-Jackson for
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years I remember one year there was like some special car was coming up and if it did so much money he was going to cut
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his ponytail and sure enough he did oh he's back he's got his own premium car dealership and Pierce me doing well so
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got a new Z06 and pretty happy about that just one of these stories that comes out and I don't put the fault on
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the Bowling Green assembly plant I just think something happened in the process between ordering the car and then getting built yeah definitely and we
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have have a speed Phenom update two things first of all this is kind of weird General Motors denied him his
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points because he's had a Z06 for six months of ownership but then he also had to turn to a Ferrari dealership in hopes
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that they would help him get his wheels and tires mounted with the new carbon fiber Z06 Wheels did that even work out
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well let's start with the first story because I think this one's probably the one that impacts people the most of
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course we're talking about General Motors they had this process in place they're trying to stop flipping of the car so we'll reward those owners that
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keep their car for six months by giving them 500 000 my Chevy rewards points which is valued at five thousand dollars
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and they can use that for all kinds of stuff you know buy parts get service whatever right so he's actually had his
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car now for over six months he hadn't seen the point show up so he reaches out to Chevy finds out that he wasn't even
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enrolled in the program and that he was told he did not qualify we reached out to Chevrolet I actually found out some
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of the more details of it there is actually some hoops that you do need to jump through when you get the car and
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you want to have it in your account and registered within that first 30 days of ownership what happens is at the end of
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the six months there's actually a verification process that Chevrolet is doing with each of the state so that could actually take an extra 45 days
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just to hear back from the states to verify if that then is so registered to that owner and yeah they held for six
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months so they get the reward points I have a feeling that he's probably going to be okay on this the guy's got a
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massive audience and he's well known and he's going to continue probably to make videos until you write that ship right I
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have a feeling he's gonna be okay I'm just hoping that they somehow are able to take care of everybody and again we're not really talking about that many
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cars we mentioned you know about 3 000 have been built so far it could be something that could be salvaged right
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away and fixed right away and make sure that these new owners that are getting their cars have it registered in their accounts correctly and are all set up
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for that that's the first side of it the second side of it is this is very frustrating because you see these
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dealers out there they're charging twenty five thousand fifty thousand seventy five thousand dollars over they'll gladly take your money on
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selling you the car but they have not put the money into having the correct equipment to service the cars when you
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come in with the problem and that's what of course has been happening with Phenom he doesn't have a problem he's out there tracking his cars in these cup two r's
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they're not good for a lot of miles you know you run these cars hard a few track days and they're shot you got to go out
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and get some new Rubber and so I believe after his cross-country trip from Bowling Green they did a couple track days gets new wheels back in November
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then he does it again it gets another set of Michelin cup two hours earlier this spring in the process of having
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these tires swapped out on his visible carbon fiber Wheels you know they've been scratches and nicks in the carbon
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fiber and so when he brought that to the attention of the dealer they actually did a warranty swap with him gave him
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new Wheels but told him we're not going to put the Michelin tires on there because we don't want to damage him
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again he went through about every different Chevy dealership he could find over on the west coast I think and had
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no luck whatsoever no one wanted to work on him so he turned to Ferrari they actually have wheels from carbon
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Revolution the carbon fiber Wheels they got the right equipment so when he took his wheels this Ferrari dealership the
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issue then was these Michelin cooked two hours you know they're run fast so they've got a real short sidewall but
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it's very very stiff unless you know how to do these wheels correctly they're
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very hard to get on these rims and get the air to seal up and beat he was there at Ferrari two different times actually
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had the tire sitting out in the sun trying to loosen that sidewall a little bit just could not get them to beat up and seal correctly he actually just put
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out a video last Thursday that said hey I found a Chevy dealership I think we've got a solution so he goes there they've
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got all the right tools the right cone thing to put in the center of the fit when you bounce the wheels they've got
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this correct thing that holds them and everything was done in a way to not scratch or damage the carbon fiber
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finish of these wheels he does have the wheels back on the car so he all Rejoice we can have some more track days with
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speed Phenom it's just such an embarrassing situation again for Chevrolet it makes them wonder you know
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are you ready for the prime time of being an exotic car dealer or not it's just one of these things again the most
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frustrating thing for me is these people that spend tons of money over MSRP to buy this car and then the dealer doesn't
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even support them by taking that money and putting it into the tools they need to service them that's just wrong yeah that's crazy stuff well I'm glad he at
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least finally found a dealership to get the wheels and tires mounted and balanced and he's back on the track that's good yep exactly also in
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Australia they recalled the Corvette for being too loud you know this is the land of down under but this is also the land
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of Mad Max and Thunderdome and of course Tina Turner God bless her soul but I mean really things are too loud in the
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land down under according to Australian government yeah the 2022 Corvette they
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call it a issue in manufacturing that makes the drive-by exhaust noise exceed the limits as they were designed there
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are actually 106 Corvettes affected by this recall and they're gonna have to go to their gmsb dealer and have the engine
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control module software updated so it won't be so loud you know I guess they'll just say well here's the
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American Standard at 11 and we'll just back it down to eight now I guess which is where Australia is it's just kind of
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a shame what's happened over there I always thought they were a little bit more fun loving than that that's a crazy story that's foreign it really really is
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our final story Keith at the Indy 500 last weekend the pace car driver was
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Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Halliburton that had to be a thrill for him oh for
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sure you know and of course being in Indiana and you're an Indiana Pacer and all you hear about is Indianapolis 500.
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congratulations for him getting named I guess he's had some killer stats over the last few years and has really done well there I looked him up he's six foot
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five and 185 pounds and so and I'm thinking well maybe that's why they put them in a hard top convertible in case
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he was a little too short for the roof there you know he could sit normally with the roof off yeah yeah of course
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you know we're recording this just prior to the race being run so we're hoping everything went okay there but I gotta
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tell you that pace car this year is stunning with the redness and the stripes how they put them on there and of course the tech bronze Wheels it's a
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beautiful car and I wish we'd get to the point sometime when they could start making these replicas for sale again because people would love that car that
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would be fantastic well buddy thanks for being back on Corvette today I appreciate you and all the information
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we will see you back here in two weeks yeah my pleasure everybody get out there it's summertime get out there drive your
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