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CORVETTE TODAY #164 - My Trip To The Amelia Island Concours With The 3 Cunningham Corvettes!
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May 8, 2025
In March of this year, your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, attended the unveiling of the three 1960 Cunningham Corvettes from Le Mans at the Amelia Island Concours. Steve recaps his weekend at Amelia Island and all the events that took place during the show! The Cunningham Corvettes were the hit of the entire weekend and you'll hear about the whole story on this episode of CORVETTE TODAY.
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foreign
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today the podcast that talks about
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everything Corvette with your host Steve
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Garrett MC and DJ at one of the largest
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Corvette weekends in the country
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Corvette Fun Fest president of the
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Corvette club of Kansas City Missouri
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and radio disc jockey at the number one
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radio station in Kansas City for over 40
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years
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here's Steve Garrett
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thanks for listening and watching
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Corvette today the show that talks about
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you a wrap up of the Amelia Island car
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Concours and the unveiling of the three
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Cunningham cars from Le Mans 1960. this
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is a really interesting trip and a fun
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show it was really epic as far as
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Corvettes are concerned first of all
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let's give the back story about the cars
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at Le Mans in 1960 Briggs Cunningham
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took three cars to race at Le Mans the
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number one car crashed the number two
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car had developed engine failure the
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number three car did finish the only one
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it finished first in its class which was
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the GT class and it finished eighth
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overall now that number three car was
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owned by chip Miller when chip passed
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away his son Lance Miller was the
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steward of the car Lance has since sold
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that car to a private owner who is there
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at the show the number two car was owned
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by Bruce Meyer from the Peterson
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Automotive Museum Bruce worked with
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Kevin McKay from Corvette repair in
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Valley Stream New York on Long Island to
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arrange bringing his number two car to
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Amelia Island for this unveiling so back
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in the 60s after all these cars raced
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they were just sent back to the United
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States and put back to Street spec and
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sold off but then no one realized how
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historic these three Cunningham cars
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would be if you listen to Corvette today
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number 146 at the end of January Kevin
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McKay tells the entire story of these
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Cunningham cars from Le Mans in 1960 and
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puts them back together so the number
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one car was never found until a few
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years ago by Kevin McKay there's lots of
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legal issues that happen with that car
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and the number one car was taken to
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court so finally a judge said sell the
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card auction well it was purchased in
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2021 by bricks Cunningham's grandson and
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given to Kevin McKay at Corvette repair
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on Long Island to refurbish so this
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would be the first time that all three
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cars have been back together since 1960
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and they debuted there at the Amelia
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Island Concourse Kevin said Steve you've
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got to be at this event this is going to
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be Corvette history so I went so Amelia
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Island is a premier Concourse it's
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similar to Pebble Beach this is just
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obviously on the east coast in Florida
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three days lots of beautiful cars lots
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of multi-million dollar cars they had
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lots of booths there a lot of Brands
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were there on display as well this was
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held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel so as you
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can imagine everything was pretty darn
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expensive including parking every day
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was forty dollars per car to park so I
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flew in Friday morning and then Friday
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afternoon Kevin McKay was on a panel
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there at the Ritz Carlton about Corvette
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racing he was on the panel with Dan
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Binks the retired crew chief for
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Corvette racing Ray evernham also
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English Corvette racer Justin Bell and
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then Tom Cotter Tom is the famous Barn
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fine Hunter on display for that panel
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discussion was the number three car from
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1960 along with Lance's c5r Corvette
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that car was driven by Dale Earnhardt
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and Dale earn Heart Jr and it's one of
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Lance's all-time favorite Corvettes also
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the John Greenwood Spirit of Le Mans
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from 1976 after the panel I helped Kevin
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and his team from Corvette repair bring
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all three 1960 cars back into the
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ballroom where they were going to be
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revealed that night we set up all three
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of the Cunningham cars in front of the
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stage just the way they were set up at
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Le Mans before they raced in 1960 and
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naturally we covered up the number one
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car for the reveal so that night Friday
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night 300 to 400 people were attending
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the reveal the event was hosted by
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Michael Brown from Corvette Nation Fame
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and first off the documentary about the
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number three Cunningham car called The
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Quest that Michael Brown did was shown
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to that packed House people
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after that the crew from Corvette repair
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came up they pulled away the cover on
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the number one car and all three
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Cunningham cars were there together
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again for the first time in 63 years it
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was a really moving moment as a matter
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of fact it was pretty cool because Kevin
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McKay even dressed up as Briggs
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Cunningham himself he had a 1960 race
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suit on and a full mask that looked
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eerily like Briggs Cunningham himself it
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was pretty cool he welcomed the crowd to
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the unveiling and invited everyone to
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come up and see all three cars together
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again at long last as a matter of fact
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Briggs Cunningham's daughter was there
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and Bricks Cunningham's grandson who now
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owns that number one car there were a
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lot of other dignitaries there it was a
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terrific evening and a true milestone in
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Corvette history having all three
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Cunningham cars back together again for
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the first time since 1960. let's take
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Island Concours and the unveiling of the
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three 1960 cars that raced at Le Mans
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here on Corvette today now Saturday at
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Amelia Island is called cars and
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Community you'll see multi-million
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dollar cars sitting next to maybe a C7
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or C6 Corvette which is also sitting
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next to a Shelby Mustang sitting next to
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cars you've never seen or heard before
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as well it's not not the big Concours
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day it's more of where you and I would
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show our Corvettes at a show on a
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this is really fun it's called the
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car Concours every year and he always
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buys a lemon car to display at the
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Concours de Le Mans it was fun walking
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through that section and seeing that as
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a matter of fact when I parked my rental
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car that was the first thing I Came Upon
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was the Concours the lemons or Le Mans
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horses were all over the place very very
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strong I can't tell you how many
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Porsches I saw driving up and down the
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streets on the lawn it was amazing I
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mentioned that to someone I was walking
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with and they said yeah Porsches are
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always out in full force at Amelia
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Island so I'm walking up and down the
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aisles of cars and they're all on the
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golf course there at the Ritz Carlton so
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at the end of the row I come up on a guy
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who owns one of the C8 Cunningham 60th
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anniversary Le Mans series Corvettes
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have you heard of these These are really
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pretty cool cars I see them advertised
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in various magazines Cunningham
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Automotive was started by bricks
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Cunningham and it still exists today so
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in honor of this from Le Mans they're
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taking CA Corvettes and making honorary
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cars in honor of these three Cunningham
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Corvettes and they're available for
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purchase they're only 60 of them made
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and each car is 160 thousand dollars
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they're very cool cars lots of carbon
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fiber they're white cars with the Dual
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blue Racing Stripes just like the 1960
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cars that raced at Le Mans linenfelter
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the trunk and the front liners also
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exposed carbon fiber on the trunk and
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the front Lids special door Sills
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b-pillar badging and lots more so the
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owner of this car was talking to people
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when I walked up and I didn't want to
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bother him but when he was done with
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those other people they walked away and
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he saw me still looking at his car and
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he comes over I was checking out his
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baby which by the way was the number
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seven car out of 60 cars he introduced
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himself his name was Wayne we were
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talking about his Corvette and he said
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hey aren't you Steve Garrett and I said
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sign my CA Cunningham Corvette I was
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want to ruin or devalue your car but
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thank you I couldn't do that though he
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contrary I feel like your signature
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would add value to my C8 Cunningham car
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well after about five minutes of going
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convinced me to sign the frunks around
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of his 160 thousand dollar CA Cunningham
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tribute Corvette now you know how
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Corvette today episode I took two
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his number seven C.A Cunningham Corvette
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and you can see him right there let's
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take our final break and coming up I'll
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talk about what happened on Sunday at
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833-840-5334 I'm your host Steve Garrett
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we are talking about the Amelia Island
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Concours where all three Cunningham
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Corvettes that raced in 1960 at Le Mans
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were back together for the first time in
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63 years the final day was Sunday Sunday
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is the big Concours day I got smart I
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leads up to the Ritz Carlton instead of
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parking for forty dollars a day so that
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worked out pretty well I started walking
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in and there was a McLaren P1 when they
19:44
let everybody into the car Concourse at
19:46
10 o'clock it had a root beer type of
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on the C8 Corvette it was probably a 15
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million dollar car and there it was on
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the green it was roped off you couldn't
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touch it but man that was so cool to see
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lots of Ferraris Lamborghinis Aston
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Martins and Bentleys the highlights
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we're seeing some of my favorite
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Lamborghinis that were there that I
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loved growing up there was a purple 50th
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over that some countaches and some
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murals as well Ferraris lots of Ferraris
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many vintage ones there were several
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millions of dollars also Ferrari had a
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Monza SP2 on display which is really
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really cool to see the new one also Ford
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had quite a few GTS and they were open
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for display you could almost get in them
20:35
many of these cars are not roped off so
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you can really get up close and personal
20:39
all just looking at the cars I was
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really excited to see a Bugatti there
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they had an eb-110 on display that was
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so cool to see also lots of McLarens
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were on display as you walked up to the
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Ritz Carlton they had a display right
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there in the Circle Drive in front of
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the hotel itself that was really really
20:56
sharp Maserati had some mc20s there on
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display that is their new hypercar
21:02
offering it was also great to see
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glicken house glicken house had two cars
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there they are an American Racer so many
21:09
of these cars I've seen in pictures and
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videos but never in person you could get
21:13
up close and personal with them they
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were not roped off one of the highlights
21:17
I thought was pretty cool they had four
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Ferrari Enzos there together on display
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there are two red ones a yellow one and
21:25
then a navy blue Enzo I had never seen a
21:28
navy blue Enzo before either in person
21:30
or in pictures so they were all for
21:32
there together that was really cool to
21:35
see also they had an Aston Martin
21:37
Valkyrie this is their new hyper car are
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it was just sitting there it was wide
21:42
open you could almost sit down and start
21:44
the car you could walk right up to it
21:46
look inside it was really really cool a
21:49
lot of car brands were there too on
21:50
display with big booths on Sunday
21:52
General Motors had a large Booth it was
21:54
really cool to see that and they had the
21:57
new Hummer EV a Buick Wildcat EV concept
22:00
cars and they had two C8 Corvette e-rays
22:05
they had the launch edition spec which
22:07
is the silver with the new racing stripe
22:09
and then they had a red Miss metallic
22:11
one there and I never seen a Red Mist or
22:14
a red e-ray in person at all or even in
22:17
pictures so that was really cool to see
22:19
that sitting next to the launch edition
22:21
spec pole star also had their brand new
22:24
car there that was really cool to see
22:26
and again if you watch the video to this
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episode you can see all these pictures
22:30
on the video from YouTube it was also
22:33
great to see a mix of classic cars that
22:35
you could just walk up to and also
22:37
concept cars that were not roped on off
22:39
there was a C8 Z06 on the lawn which I
22:42
was glad to see well represented along
22:44
with some c7s and some c6s it was also
22:47
interesting to see there was a Corvette
22:49
there I want to tell you about this it
22:51
was from 1955. it was GM's 1955 proposal
22:57
car so this car was supposed to show a
22:59
GM what they could do with body style
23:01
changes that they could make to the 1953
23:04
Corvette this was Harley Earl's styling
23:07
Department that did this car so this was
23:10
so 2151 it was completed in March of
23:14
1955. so from 1954 to 74 the car was
23:18
virtually hidden in California in 75 a
23:22
man named George Campbell who lives in
23:24
Oregon saw it advertised in Hemmings for
23:27
thirty five hundred dollars it was sold
23:29
with a California pink slip and George
23:31
owned the car for 40 years and never had
23:34
it titled well the man who owns the car
23:36
now had a title completely restored it
23:39
and I talked to him gave him one of my
23:41
cards from Corvette today it was really
23:43
really cool to see lots of old vintage
23:45
Racers were there a Mercedes 300 SL Gull
23:48
Wing was there that's a cool car there
23:51
was also from Ford a Air Force
23:53
Thunderbirds tribute car and a Ford
23:55
Mustang that was really neat to see I'm
23:57
not a blue oval guy I'm a GM and
23:59
Chevrolet guy but it was still neat to
24:01
see and finally the three 1960
24:04
Cunningham Corvettes were on the lawn as
24:06
well as a matter of fact they were
24:08
sitting right in front of the GM stand
24:10
the number one Cunningham Corvette was
24:12
judged with Kevin McKay holding court
24:15
with all the judges showing them the
24:17
finer points of the number one car the
24:19
number three car was judged Best in
24:21
Class out of the 10 cars in its class
24:23
and got that top award it was so fun
24:26
this is my first time at a major
24:28
Concours car show and I hope it won't be
24:31
my last congratulations to Kevin McKay
24:33
and all of his crew at Corvette repair
24:35
in Valley Stream New York on Long Island
24:38
that car the number 1 car looked
24:40
fantastic it was so cool to see all
24:43
three Cunningham cars that raced in Le
24:46
Mans in 1960 together again for the
24:49
first time in 63 years thanks for
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