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May 8, 2025
CORVETTE TODAY #169 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid-July 2023 The 4th of July is now behind us, we are full-on into Summer. And CORVETTE TODAY has a plethora of news and headlines to keep you fully immersed in the world of Corvette. Keith Cornett is back on the big show along with your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, to bring you the latest on what's happening with America's Sports Car. Here are a few of the things Steve and Keith discuss this week: 1. Pratt & Miller Motorsports is set to debut in 2024 2. TF Sport will campaign with two GT3.Rs in the WEC next year 3. The National Corvette Museum debuts a new skywall video display at the 70th Anniversary exhibit 4. The world's only 1965 Split Window Corvette sells on Ebay 5. A C7 ZR1 hits 207 miles per hour Stay on top of everything Corvette with this week's CORVETTE TODAY News & Headlines show! Listen to the podcast, watch the YouTube video, join the Facebook group, sign up for email notifications and shop in the Merchandise Store at: www.CorvetteToday.com
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with my buddy Keith Cornett from corvettebblogger.com Keith is here every other week to keep us current and up to
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date on what's happening with America's Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show we're past the American Independence Day time to keep on moving
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forward buddy yeah well you know we were also past the 70th birthday of the Corvette too so let me ask you something
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real quick Steve did you drive your Corvette to work on Friday yes I sure did very good that's good news I know a
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lot of people did I saw some of the pictures out on social media 70th Anniversary birthday what a milestone so congratulations absolutely as a matter
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of fact the world headquarters for Corvette today is here in my home so so what I did was I just pulled it out into
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the driveway so everybody could see it yeah that's what we did about to is pull it back out put it back in there you go
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maybe take it around the block go get some gas or something exactly you know ice cream gasoline whatever it takes
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right whatever it takes that's right well buddy let's start our first segment as we always do with an update on
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production at the Bowling Green assembly plant absolutely well of course the Corbin assembly plant did their annual
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summer shutdown over the Fourth of July week and they are reopening on Monday July 10th they'll be back to work today
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the last production numbers for the Corvette Stingray that we have is 36
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540 regular Stingrays and 3853 70th Anniversary models so that's a
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total of 40 393 stingrays that number by itself would be fantastic but then we
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have the Z06 on top of it we have 3360 regular z06s and then another 640
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70th Anniversary models so for Z06 that's a total of exactly 4 000 co6s
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produced so far yeah those two models up together we're at forty four thousand three hundred ninety three Corvettes
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produced so far for the 20 23 model year you know I was looking at the calendar speed there's approximately eight weeks
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left for the 2023 model year we're ending on September 1st this year as we speculate as we love to speculate
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looking at that calendar started counting up the numbers of the plant can build like around 900 cars per week over
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the next eight weeks that's an additional 7 200 Cars wow and that would put us right around 51
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593. that's not enough to have the highest production year ever that's 1979 Corvette had 53 807 but that number
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would be almost equal to the 51 547 Corvettes produced in 1984 which is the
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second biggest production year ever for Corvette of course the 1984 model they started that early because there was no
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1983 so again we think this year's production is definitely going to be within the top three years of production
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just the question of where exactly it falls but everything's really coming together for the Corvette this model year for sure that's fantastic news
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buddy and we even had good news for quarter number two GM produced over 9
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000 Corvettes in Q2 yeah for second quarter 2023 Chevrolet delivered 9125
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new Corvettes it was an increase of 5.37 over the same time period in 2022 and
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for the calendar year to date we're running a little bit behind from where we were last year we're just 2.4 percent behind we have 17 029 deliveries
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occurring January through June whereas last year we had 17 441 for the same
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time period so we're running about 400 cars behind again these delivery numbers that we get from General Motors are for
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U.S sales only but again it shows that I think we're pacing right where we really need to be to have another very
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successful year that's great that's good news and healthy numbers for Q2 it was also good to see Keith we reported on
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this our last news and headline show two weeks ago but GM has issued a new TSB
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about the engine ticking for the C8 z06's lt6 engine yeah exactly so as we
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talked about Sub-Zero six owners I reported an excessive ticking noise coming from their lt6 V8 engines now
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there's always going to be a little bit of a ticking because the mechanical May nature of the drivetrain but this is
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something that owners have really picked up on because it's kind of an out of sorts ticking that comes and goes GM
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started an investigation on this about two months ago now there is this TSB that fixes that so if you believe your
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car is one of these that has this excessive ticking noise you can take it into the service department and the techs use what's called a picoscope to
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actually capture the noise coming from either the Left Bank or the right Bank of the engine the really cool thing is this picoscope graphs it out and it
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shows exactly where the engine noise is occurring and if it matches the pattern in the TSB then your car has the ticking
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noise what it turns out is it just really needs to be an adjustment of the camshaft caps moving forward if they run
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that picoscope on your car they find that it has the issue it's one of these things where they can adjust if the
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noise though comes from the Left Bank of the engine then they can do it with the engine in the car but if it's the right bank they actually have to drop the
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engine from the car and then gain access to perform the repair that way the good news is that one of the owners with a
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ticking noise is a member over at the miniature Corvette forum and he Lucy stated how his car was going to be one
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of the first to have this fix and now that it's over with he says his car is like 95 percent better much more quieter
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now he's real happy with it so good that's the good news it can take a little bit again if you have a Cooper Convertible and you have to do that
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right hand side when you have to drop the engine but the good news is it's nothing major and this is probably just something that was overlooked during
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assembly hopefully these procedures have already been fixed so that any future ticking noises through this problem with
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the camshaft caps is alleviated yeah definitely and also if you do own a Z06
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or are buying a Z06 make sure you check underneath the car we had a little bit of an underbody problem with PDI didn't
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we Keith yeah check your underbodies this has to do with the flat panels underneath the Z06 and unlike the
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stingray the c806 requires one of the underbody panels to be reinstalled in the dealership during the PDI the
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pre-delivery inspection you want to look and make sure that that's correct so unfortunately these instructions weren't very clear about the panel's
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installation and what happens is that as you drive the car with the panels missile aligned actually air gets in
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between them and you'll see that it gaps down you can get little rocks in there too and stuff so what you actually need
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to do is remove both panels and then put the one ahead of the other and that seals it up the guy that found this shoe
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again on the Mid Engine Corvette form he posted a picture and said is this normal and there's all these other ZO6 owners
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started looking they're like hey I have that tune and we find that a lot of it actually comes from the rhc program a
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lot of the cars that we see our understanding is the instructions on this weren't very clear at all it's about a 30 minute fix if you have access
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to a lift if you have jack stands it could take a little longer but anybody can do the fix themselves or you can take it into a dealership there is a
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question our friend John over at the ninja Corvette forum had his done and the question was who's going to pay for it because this was a mistake done
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during PDI it should be on Chevrolet's tab but we haven't seen any news or reports that they're going to cover this
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just something to keep an eye on but if you look under your car you'll definitely see if you have that issue John had about 3 000 miles on his car
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already it was very noticeable he said wow that's kind of crazy for sure but it's one of these things where again
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a little bit clearer instructions now that this news is out hopefully the word will get out and people will be able to take those under potty panels sealed up
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the correct way there you go it's just kind of growing pains with a new car like this isn't it buddy it always is
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always and the National Corvette Museum has these super cool skywall and it's a
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video display and they basically initiated that during the 70th Anniversary exhibit launch yeah I'm
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really excited to see this NCM President Sharon Bronner had mentioned this during The Bash but for the launch of the 70th
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Anniversary exhibit called an American love affair they had this video skywall made its debut within the NCM Sky Dome
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it's a video screen I think it's about eight feet tall and it runs around the base of the NCM Sky dummy on the cars
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are parked in front of it and it's interactive so it can help tell the stories of the cars it does really cool
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displays where it can go multiple panels you could see some of the previous races I think of Daytona when the two
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Corvettes were racing together they're coming up to the Finish Line they can run that on multiple panels some really neat stuff there this was actually
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debuted during that 70th Anniversary exhibit they showed off Corvettes ranging from the first year 1953 all the
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way up to the 2024 Corvette e-ray and they're about 300 people that attended that launch party on June 29th the day
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before the Corvette's official birthday that should be running when we're up there for the anniversary show so I'm excited to see that in September I can't
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wait that'll be awesome to see well buddy let's take our first break when we come back Corvette racing and Corvette
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two we cover Corvette racing and Corvette rumors Keith we got all sorts of races piling up all of a sudden don't
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we yeah you know we said this was going to be a busy time period for the Corvettes especially the insta team I think they do four races in seven weeks
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wow yeah we've got Corvettes racing on two different continents on Sunday with a race at Monza and Italy in the wec and
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then of course that Canadian Tire Motorsports Park for the yumsa team of course we recorded this prior to the race we don't have those results to
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share but one of the benefits of having Corvettes race in multiple series is twice the amount of racing so that's always great news in my book two weeks
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Podium finish of the year they finished third in class there was a bit of controversy there you know it's been
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interesting because a lot of these races we've seen this for the Corvette racing this year it's not normal for us to be
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penalized like we have been we're finding out it's not our fault there's a bit of controversy again the number 23
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Aston Martin drove through the Corvette's pit box and hit a tire that was clearly within the bounds of the pit
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box imsa said that our tire was outside the pit box when the Aston Martin hit it I think we lost a place in that they put
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some video evidence showing where the tire was exactly but that didn't overturn it there's always something going on kind of at the mercy of the
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judges there prior to weekends race in Canada the number three Corvette was third in Championship Standings team
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standings and manufacturer standings ahead of us are the Lexus which is leading in class followed by the
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Mercedes aoz and then prior to the WC racing Monza the number 33 Corvette was
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leading by 74 points in its class and it could actually wrap up the championship in the race again we'll be watching on
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Sunday find out exactly how well it does that car does have to carry an additional 40 kilograms of success
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ballast for winning at Le Mans so it won't be an easy race but it'll be one that we're watching Sunday morning you
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got Motor Trend you can watch I think the race is from like 6 to 12 or something like that sounds good also we
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found out the Pratt Miller Motorsports are set to debut next year yeah this was um an interesting you know where all the
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stories were Corbett racing is going away Corbett racing is going away so it was confirmed that Pratt and Miller will
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be running two Corvette Z06 gt3r race cars in the imsa's GTD Pro class next
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year despite all that talk about Corvette racing going away it's just a continuation of the name the actual name
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now is called Corvette racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports we follow a lot of racing not just m sub but all the
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different series you know we hear teams like Penske and ganassi and we think one of the reasons why this change was done
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was really shine some light on Pratt Miller Motorsport Sports who has been in this program for over 25 years with
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their partner being General Motors I think they're looking for just a little bit more of the spotlight on them of course Pratt Miller also does some other
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things as well so it would make sense that they'd want to Branch out their name a little bit more we are expecting
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some additional teams to be announced especially for the GTD amateur class and we're expecting two cars to be in the
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DMC class there as well well we also found out that TF sport is going to have two gt3rs in the wec next year yeah
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they're going to drop the Aston Martins they've been racing Aston Martin since 2014 wow but they're going to make the
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switch to two Corvette gt3rs in the lmgt3 class next year one of the things
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we think that might have helped that was Ben Keating was a driver over there before we got him right and of course TF
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scored they won Le Mans in 2020 and then they took the GTE amateur class in 2022
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last year and Ben Keating was their driver so this is really a great get for the Corvette team these guys are professionals and know exactly what
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they're doing they've got a record of winning we're glad to have Corvette associated with them that's really cool and was good to see Doug Feehan talking
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about Corvette racing he really was talking about Le Mans and the never give up attitude they had exactly you know
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anytime you can hear from the doctor is always a good day and I really do miss this guy a lot I mean he was just such
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the backbone of the team and look at some of the team members today we never really quite hear from him the way we heard from Doug Doug actually appeared
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when he made these comments he was on that Pratt Miller Motorsports alternative broadcast during Le Mans we were already two laps down and he was
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talking about how hard it is to make up those laughs because of how long the track is and then how they do the safety cars he told the story about in 2018
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where the leading car a poor showing class got separated from the rest of us when the safety car is deployed and that
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was like in the fourth hour of the race and then that Porsche enjoyed a two to three minute Gap where they LED for the
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rest of the race no one could catch up to him after that they put in some new rules in place for the safety cars with
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like wave arounds and things like that to try to keep the groups together right again a little more controversy because
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Corvette racing should have gotten the first wave around with that new rule but they didn't so clear a little bit more work to do there but see hand will tell
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you racing is 25 having a great Car 25 having a great team and 50 good luck that never give up motto has been with
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the team since day one and they showed it again he says you never give up because you never know what's going to happen sure enough team kept hammering
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down kept getting that time back and pretty soon took the lead and then left everybody in the dust so anything can
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happen and you never give up we like listening to Doug because he just has such a great way of saying it love me
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some Doug Feehan that's for sure Keith in the rumors category we found out or we're hearing that the 2025 ZR1 might
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have active fuel management yeah you know this is a rumor brought To Us by GM Authority a big site I don't know
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exactly how well I think about their track record and opinion on these things but they are saying exclusive 2025
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Corvette ZR1 will have active fuel management we're thinking that the ZR1 will have the same engine as the Z06
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only with the twin turbos right the Z06 doesn't use active fuel management they're talking about the zero one
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having it so that's where there's the controversy there active fuel management also known as cylinder deactivation as
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it shuts down half the engine cylinders during light driving like when you're cruising on the highway you're adding a
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lot more horsepower maybe 850 or so then you can reduce power so what's the point right yeah they say that the Z06 is the
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track weapon you wouldn't want that on your track weapon where the ZR1 might be more of that track weapon for the street
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kind of thing you know so it could happen but we're not putting a lot into it right now it's just one of these wait and see rumors I think yeah it'll be
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interesting to see how the ZR1 pans out that's for sure also I think we saw maybe the first right hand drive Z06 in
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New Zealand Steve you know how I like talking about Corvette's world domination tour oh yeah and we just got the news that the new Z06 has landed in
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exports New Zealand got 30 stingrays they got 28 for customers and they had two show cars for driving and testing
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and for automotive media to drive the number of right hand drive Corvette z06s is expected to be very small interesting
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well at least they're getting the right hand drive z06s that's pretty cool world domination for sure buddy it's
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know the team will put out like 30 photos or so and different couple scenes different couple cars usually the
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Instagram account from GM design shared these behind the scenes photos that what goes on there's actually a couple videos
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as well we had that silver car with the blue stripe that was on the curvy you know two road back road kind of place in
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the forest right and then we had the shot at night where it was in the city on a bridge so really neat stuff you
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know they bring in like the water trucks wet down the roads make them nice and dark they used the smoke machines on the
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Forest Road to add a little bit of ambiance to it you know it's some cool stuff and then of course the drones flying overhead if you follow this kind
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of stuff and you like those pictures and I wonder how they did that you know it's really cool to see and my oldest question is where did they do that
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because they always find these spectacular locations have no idea where the Forest Road was someone told me that that bridge is in Columbus Ohio but I've
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not confirmed that again just neat stuff there when they launched the Z06 obviously they were all over the Pittsburgh area in that kind of
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locations it's neat how you know the different launch teams are picking different areas to film their cars and create that exclusive photography for
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the launch well they can always come to Tampa or Kansas City right Keith I'd be willing to camp out offer a little security maybe absolutely you and me
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both buddy oh hey and everybody loves a 63 split window Corvette well we have the world's
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only 65 split window Corvette and it was sold on eBay yeah you know we ran the
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story and I had some comments people did not like this you know and I'm like wait a second you know this is just like what
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people do it's like putting a 67 Big Block hood on a 63 maybe or 64. in this
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case you know the story goes that a guy didn't want to pay the premium for a 63 split window so he built one out of a 65
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Coupe that car sold for 52.8 on eBay which is a pretty good price the car did need a little bit of work it was in
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driver quality but it ran and drive so for 52 000 for a running mid-year that could run and drive that's pretty good
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now the next owner can decide whether to keep it or take out that split was just a piece of fiberglass they covered the
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middle of that one piece window that was already there so if somebody did want to get rid of it I think it'd be pretty
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easy wow it's a pretty cool looking though I liked it it is it's a conversation starter absolutely right
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also if you're a C7 person a C7 ZR1 ran 207 miles per hour on the shuttle
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Speedway that was awesome you know we talked about the c8s quite often it's the newest car but the 2019 Corvette
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zero one still holds the title as the most powerful Corvette ever 6.2 liter lt5 pushing 755 horsepower the car at
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the space shuttle landing strip was a low Wing car instead of the ztk with the high Wing so we built for that less drag
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and when they let that off the chain at the nearly three mile long space shuttle landing strip at Kennedy Space Center it's also known as the Johnny Bonner
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Proving Grounds and during that run the car achieved a top speed of 207 miles per hour we were told there's a little
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bit of a headwind which kept the car from going even faster but man it's really neat and you watch that car you see the instrumentation from inside it's
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just jumping you know I mean it gets to 160 so fast it's just incredible I would love to be able to drive a fast car like
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that on a three mile Landing Strip just to see what it could do always good to see the Corvette zr1s out there and of
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course they're still near and dear to our hearts absolutely I'm still kicking myself for not getting a C7 ZR1 also
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Lego is celebrating Corvette's 70th Anniversary they made a 61 1 C1 model
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Corvette which is really good looking it is they really did a good job now this isn't for the grandkids probably unless
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they're actively building these kind of things they call this for skilled adult Builders like you and me yeah it does
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have 1200 pieces and once completed the Red Corvette is 12 and a half inches long and five and a half inches wide
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it's a really good looking model it might be something to do for Christmas or the holidays that's for the kid and
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all of us my friend that's right there you go and finally Keith let's do a quick preview and a deadline update on
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Corvettes of Carlisle coming up at the end of August yeah so Corvette to Carlisle runs August 24th 25th and 26th
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if you're listening to this podcast on Monday today is the deadline to get your Carlisle registration in to save 10 on
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the fun Field parking and also to have everything mailed to you so you can just drive right into the fairgrounds when
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you get there as opposed to having to wait in lines to get your sticker and then come in so Monday you're listening to this you know you're wanting to go to
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Carlisle go ahead and jump on that we want to see you there the other thing too is our friends at Carlisle this year is the 50th anniversary of of the 1973
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Corvette and they're actually still looking for a number of 1973s to be part of their anniversary exhibit there so if
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you want to get some free entry into the park and some of the other perks that are available if your car selected we
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have a contact on the website at Corvette blogger.com where you can submit your car and if it's accepted you're going to be a Carlisle free of
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charge so that's pretty cool too free is a great price my friend yeah and Carla of course you're going to see my boy
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Steve you're doing his seminars on the podcast and of course we'll be roaming the grounds looking for all the great cars and stories that come so we
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definitely want to see you there absolutely Keith and I will be there we want to see you too well buddy thanks for being back on Corvette today I will
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