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CORVETTE TODAY #172 - The R8C Museum Delivery Experience
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May 8, 2025
Having your Corvette delivered to you at the National Corvette Museum is a big deal. But what is involved in the whole R8C experience. On this episode of CORVETTE TODAY, you'll hear about the entire Museum Delivery experience from a man who has a lot of experience with this. Al Fuller has owned 14 new Corvettes and done 3 Museum Deliveries. Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, talks with Al about how the R8C experience is done, what you should expect and how much fun it really is. Get the full story of the Museum Deliver experience from a Corvette owners perspective on this episode of CORVETTE TODAY.
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what happens and what do you do once you click on that rhc option when purchasing
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your new Corvette well on Corvette today we're going to be talking to a man that has done three Museum deliveries at the
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National Corvette Museum my buddy Al Fuller has owned Corvettes since 1987.
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he's on 14 as a matter of fact all of them knew all purchased one at a time he's a lifetime member of the National
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Corvette Museum an NCM Ambassador and a board member for the chip Miller amyloidosis Foundation as well Al
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welcome to Corvette today Steve thank you so much I'm honored and privileged to be here buddy I'm glad to have you on
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Al let's talk about that museum delivery experience it it all starts at the dealership overview the rhc process for
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us starting when you order the car so the rhc is the code nomenclature just
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like any other GM option and the cost is now 1495 dollars
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looking to order your car it has to be a specifically built order for you you can specify rhc which indicates Museum
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delivery and the charge is 995 dollars but understand that helps the museum is
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there a non-profit that includes a number of things one of which is a personalized plaque that goes on the
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waterfall in the car again it has to be a customer order and then after you've
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decided you want to do that and agreed to do it as part of your order one of the next things that has to happen is
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the dealer fills out a very brief two-page form that they submit to the
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NCM that sort of starts the process down in Bowling Green at the Museum that's cool now once the car is built how does
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the car get over to the National Corvette Museum so once the car is built it's treated like any other car except
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instead of being delivered to your selling dealership it's delivered to the museum it's brought over on a carrier
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just like any other Corvette it's wrapped in the cover and it's dropped off across the street at the Museum one
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of the common questions that's asked about Museum delivery is do I have to still pay the delivery charge and the
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answer unfortunately is yes there's legal reasons behind that that's not something that GM or the museum or your
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dealer can control but again still worth it and the car is brought across the street to the museum and dropped off
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it's interesting it's not driven across it is put on a transport and tracked across the street isn't it yes literally
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about a mile I believe it's kind of crazy so once the car is over there how is the museum delivery
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coordinated so you can't say enough Shane Webb is the gentleman Museum
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employee who coordinates the program if you do a museum delivery you will engage
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with Shane he and his team are phenomenal the first thing that will happen is upon receipt of either the
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paperwork from the dealer that I just mentioned or a notification from GM depending on the build timing of your
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car Shane will reach out to you typically via email possibly by a phone call and ask what you want on your
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personalized plaque that goes in between the seats on the waterfall you discuss that with him you submit your thoughts
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on what you'd like on that plaque and then after that process you get updates
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along the way Shane will keep you updated and you're always welcome to call him he is incredibly responsive I
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know most every Corvette owner is very very interested in the production of their car what's steps it goes through
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when it happens Shane typically will respond within the same day to emails and he will keep you updated he will
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eventually provide you once it hits a certain stage in the pre-production process with estimated timing of
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delivery and the one thing I would stress to all your listeners out there is that the Corvette museum will provide
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you once you get close to delivery a lot of information on the process and the
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periphery of the process follow it it's done from experience one of the strong
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points they make is do not commit to flights and hotels until you are pretty
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much locked and loaded because situations do change we're all aware of that yeah yeah definitely also as of
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recent I know that you can order extra items to be installed on your car during the PDI process and the PDI process is
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done at the Museum talk a little bit about that and what you can and cannot order there for delivery at the NCM in
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terms of rhc Museum delivery you think of the museum as a dealership anything
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that's an lpo option that you can specify that means it would be dealer
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installed as part of PDI the museum can handle that and they will work with you on that and they will take care of all
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of that Additionally the museum will go and help you with a number of reasonable
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aftermarket things that you might like to do perhaps splash guards things like
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that they will help you with that you need to coordinate with Shane you need to make sure that anything that's third
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party that they have in their hands in advance of your delivery there will be an installation charge they will discuss
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that with you in advance the other thing is you need to think of this as you're dealing with a high volume Corvette
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dealer one of the things that we've always been concerned about is sometimes dealers that don't push a lot of
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Corvettes over the curb are not as familiar with the Pei so one of the benefits of RIT see is you've got people
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who've done this many many times before no not just the PDI but how to install these accessories for you so it's a
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great program and you can do these extra options just make sure you coordinate with both the NCM and any of these
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third-party vendors that you might be looking to procure things from that's really cool because you couldn't do that
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until as of recent so I'm glad to see that Shane has expanded that program and
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you can get a front splitter or a side skirt or like you said splash guards ready to go on your car for Museum
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delivery yes and one of the additional things is there is an Affiliated company it's called Auto Armor and it's based
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over at the track which if you're familiar with the NCM Motorsports Park is a very short drive from the museum
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I'd say maybe a mile a little bit more and Auto Armor does ppf Auto Armor does
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ceramic coating and Auto Armor also does grill guard installs and specifically
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with the Z06 with these scrape armor Grille Guards which require the front clip to be removed properly install The
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Grille Guards they can do that one of the other benefits is if you would like to have ppf and any of those other
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things on your car before you drive it home after rhc delivery you can work
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with Auto Armor coordinate with Shane and basically pick up your car all buttoned up and ready to go in that
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regard that's really cool because adding paint protection film and maybe ceramic coating will sometimes alleviate you
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having to put painters tape on your car for a long drive home you can do that you could even buy a Nova stretch travel
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mask at the Museum and put that on for your drive home as well couldn't you yes and the museum as part of that PDI
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process will in fact do the quote install of the snap head screws that are
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required to so you can easily attach remove the Nova stretch mask all right buddy so once this is all done now
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you've got to schedule a trip to Bowling Green you've got to get a hotel talk about that that and when do you come in
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do you come in a week before a day before something like that as I said earlier one of the key things to
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understand is that it's a variable process you're one person of a number of people that are getting Museum
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deliveries at or about the same time things are subject to change we've all seen the plant unfortunately due to
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supply chain issues having to stop production for a week here and there so the one thing you don't want to do is
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commit to non-refundable tickets or hotel reservations before you're pretty
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locked and loaded in locked and loaded typically occurs once Shane in the museum has the car once that happens
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make hotel reservations and as you so wisely stated Steve when that day comes
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it is so exciting and I speak from experience you tend to forget things you
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have a whole list in your head I want to do this I want to do that and you forget so I encourage people to come at least a
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day early and if you can get there in time usually your car is on display in corn vet Boulevard there are eight
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specific stations for lack of a better term each with its own webcam trained on it on Corvette Boulevard your car will
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be on display there so if you get there a day early you can see your car there you can take pictures of your car browse
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the Corvette Store buy some merchandise because again the next day when you're doing the delivery you're going to want
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to do it but you're going to be being tugged from every different angle and it's entirely possible to forget and
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then you're so excited to remember it halfway home so I strongly suggest
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people get there at least a day earlier enjoy the presence of the car get a feel
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for the museum and spend some time shopping in the store very cool well buddy let's take our first break when we
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with me is Al Fuller we're talking about an r8c Museum delivery from the perspective of the customer Alan the
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second segment we've got the Corvette built it's over at the National Corvette Museum now let's talk about getting your
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Corvette you've got your flight booked as well what else comes with the rhc delivery above and beyond picking up
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your Corvette so Steve it's a laundry list of items and when you look at it in total it just makes the price seem
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incredibly good such a deal in no particular order one of the things that you get is a factory tour and by factory
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tour I mean you go across the street to the bowling green plant where they build the Corvettes and yourself and up to
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three friends can get a full tour of the facility watching the cars being built with a specialized tour guide and it's
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you you're not with a group of other people you also get a similar tour of the NCM and the museum is a wonderful
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place most people go in and walk through it and it's thoroughly enjoyable but I guarantee to have somebody give you a
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tour and go through it the knowledge they have of the things behind the exhibits and the items and the cars that
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you're looking at is just incredible you also get a wooden personalized plaque
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that can go on your desk on a trophy case to commemorate your RAC delivery
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you get a sticker indicating the car is an rhc car that goes on your door jamb
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or you can take that and apply it to the vehicle later we did mention the waterfall plaque that's part of it where
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you've custom specified engraving and that is on the car as you pick it up it's already there you get a one-year
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NCM membership many rhc people are already Museum members so they allow you
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to transfer this membership to someone you designate perhaps give it to a Corvette club as a raffle prize or
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something you get professional photography they do pictures of you with your car both in and outside of the
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museum you are allowed to pick one of those proofs for keeping and then the ability to purchase additional ones is
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also presented to you later you get a coupon for track lapse at a discount across the street at the Motorsports
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Park you get an option to buy exclusive rhc apparel where you can have what is
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in essence your car's profile embroidered onto various articles of clothing very high quality clothing well
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worth it there are monitors throughout the plant and they scroll through all
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the into the individuals that are taking RIT that day so your name is displayed on the monitors then perhaps the most
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important feature of rhc is they give you a detailed introduction to your car
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the person that you work with your concierge I like to call them spend as much time as you need to understand your
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car all the knobs buttons all the functionality all the settings and they work with you at your pace that in and
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of itself is something that unfortunately many dealers do not give you that extra effort despite the amount
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of money you're spending to purchase Corvette in their justification everyone's busy but doing it at the
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Museum and having as much time as you need to understand the workings of the car is just incredible it makes that 995
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dollars well worth the value doesn't it absolutely all right now you've gotten there you're there a day or two prior to
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picking up your car with the rhc delivery let's talk about the legal things that need to be taken care of
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before you drive drive your Corvette off the museum floor so in addition to a
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valid driver's license you're going to need a bill of sale which indicates you've paid for and owned the car the
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other thing you will need is an insurance card and because you own the car I am often asked about when the
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insurance should be effective because you've more often than not paid for the car some number of days in advance of
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picking it up I am told the museum does have a policy that covers the car while
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it's in their care regardless of who owns it so you do not need to have your policy effective until the day of pickup
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but me being a very conservative individual for the few extra dollars the peace of mind it brings I usually have
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my insurance effective with the date of the bill of sale the last thing that you
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need to have obviously is a temp tag a temporary license plate whatever applies to your State's own individual laws and
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makes that stereo system sing and the last thing is if you have PDR option in
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the car don't forget to bring a memory card you pop that in and that you can actually record as we will talk about
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later the drive down Corvette Museum or Corvette Boulevard and out of the museum yeah all right so delivery day is here
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what happens when you walk in the door to the National Corvette Museum knowing you're going to pick up your car first
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thing that happens is it happened probably from the instant you woke up as you have near to your smile my buddy
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Mike Furman likes to call it a perma-grin you show up at the Museum and you have a gentleman will typically meet
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you as you walk in and he will introduce you to your concierge the museum employee that's your guide for the day
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for the tours for the intro to the car all of those things then they will do
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all the steps of the process but one of the beauties of this overall is their
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flexibility they will tailor the process as long as they tick off all the important and mandatory boxes they will
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do the process within reason any way you want it so you can make it a full day process you can shorten it if you don't
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want to do the Bowling Green Assembly Plant tour you can postpone that and your tickets will be valid for a year
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they will walk you through all the things that you need to do they will make sure that the paperworks in order
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there's anything you need to sign if you should happen to have an invoice that you need to pay for any of the extra
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items that you may have had installed on the car IE a Nova stretch bra they will take care of that they walk you through
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it one of the Beauties is you don't need to remember all these steps your concierge will do it for you and two of
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the cool things about the museum delivery are the stand-up plan tracker that sits right next to your car and you
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test on this earlier the addition of the r8c sticker on the door jamb yes just
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wonderful memories you have those every time you see them open the door there's the sticker great memory comes flooding
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back walk into your office or your trophy room or wherever else you might display that plaque perhaps on the wall
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in your garage again great memories the plaque is personalized It's a Wonderful
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way to memorialize the event that's really cool now you've gone through the
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process you paid for the car you signed all the papers you've gotten with your concierge how does the Corvette come off
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the floor on Corvette Avenue so what happens there is when everything is done
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the last thing before that step is the photographer will arrive and take some
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pictures of you with a car as is displayed in the museum because regardless of which of the eight slots
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you're parked in the backdrop is uniquely Corvette Museum and there's nothing else like it in the world so you
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capture that that image for safe keeping and then your concierge will allow you
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the opportunity to ride in the car and another thing that's asked occasionally is can I drive the car out and the
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answer is due to insurance regulations I do not believe the museum is allowed to do that but you can ride as a passenger
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if you have a hard top convertible as an example your concierge will put the top down you will sit or someone you
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designate my wife Andrea did it when we did our most recent Museum delivery they all sit in the front seat they will
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slowly drive you down the boulevard you'll make what is typically a right turned on a side hallway out a door to
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the outside of the museum and during that drive they notify everyone in the
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museum that one of the rhc cars is leaving and people come out and applaud
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and clap and it's almost I hesitate to use this terminology but it's almost like The Parting of the Red Sea you just
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your concierge drive that Corvette off of the Boulevard and out the door it's
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so cool absolutely well buddy let's take our final break when we come back we'll talk about what happens after your
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with me is Al Fuller we're talking about the rhc museum delivery at the National Corvette Museum Al before we get into
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our questions for Segment number three I almost forgot you got to talk about the key presentation for the keys to your
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car and taking pictures on that big mural right on the side of the museum so
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Steve absolutely when you get outside we kind of stopped as you're driving out of the museum when you get outside you
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immediately stop outside of that mural that everyone's familiar with everybody's seen dozens of pictures of
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people and their Corvettes in front of this mural shows the spire and the yellow upper part of the museum that
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picture is the one that everyone thinks of so once you pull out you stop right in front of that mural and the
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professional photographer takes an additional few pictures there and at that point generally the process is over
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with one of the things that I'm a personal Champion for and I'm trying to get hopefully at least thought about and
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considered as part of RIT is I would personally love to see what I call a key
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ceremony or a key transfer where the keys to the car are formally handed to
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you at that point another photo op I just think and it also captures your Concierge in a picture typically he or
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she is not in any of the photographs I've talked to Shane about it hopefully it can happen but I'm going to use your
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Forum here as a plug to hopefully we can at some point include a key exchange ceremony as part of the process at the
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very end I think that's a great idea buddy good idea for sure all right talk about how long the whole entire rhc
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delivery process takes and when do you sign the legal documents do you do it the day before or the day of or after
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you take delivery of the car give us the details on that so the documents themselves typically are done with the
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dealer and if your dealer is local you can go in and sign at the dealership if
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it's a remote dealer this most recent one I've gotten I've purchased from Ciocca you do it via FedEx the paperwork
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goes back and forth via FedEx when you're at the Museum again taking delivery of the car you already legally
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own the car there are a few other documents to sign and that usually happens very early in the process and
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again as I stated earlier concierge will guide you through all of that it's not as though you need to remember I need to
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do this and have this signed they take care of it they have a checklist in terms of the amount of time to allocate
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or how long this takes it typically is a very full day maybe three quarters of a
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day you start at 8 30 or 9 A.M you break for lunch and then probably mid
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afternoon you're finishing up but that includes both the museum and the
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assembly plant tours and as I alluded to earlier one of the beauties of the process is your concierge is there for
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you the process is tailored for you so if you have time constraints of any way
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shape or form they will accommodate those my most recent rhc due to personal
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constraints we had to do it in a very short period of time and the concierge
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was just wonderful so if it's your first time allow that entire three quarters of
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a day full day for it because you want to soak it all in but should you not have that time available they will work
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with you that sounds good once you are ready to drive the car away you've pulled it out of the museum him you're
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taking your pictures in front of the big mural the car is yours you can drive it away you can drive it home but a lot of
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people do have the car transported home talk about how that is all arranged yeah so if you for whatever reason you don't
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have ppf on the car and you really don't want to drive it it's long distance home you don't want to drive it and risk Rock
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chips or damage to your paint or anything else you can have the car transported you do need to arrange this
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on your own most Corvette people can help you have experience with enclosed
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and open carriers and all the options there but you do need to set it up however I will state that the museum is
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very very helpful and will work with you on that if you perhaps need to leave the
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car there or pick up site on the Museum parking lot they will work with you you
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can't say enough good about the folks Shane and his team at the Museum whatever you need to have happen they
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will work with you to see that it does happen the other thing is if you choose to drive it home and you don't have ppf
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on the car you've got a friend who does it at home or you've got somebody that you're loyal to is you alluded to
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earlier you can put painters tape on the car Holly suggest that or track tape you want to follow the break-in process and
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the specifics on the way home one of the things that's always talked about with the new Corvette is the break-in process
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the engine break in the brakes you want to make sure you observe that as an
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engineer myself one of the challenges for me is it's very nebulous the descriptions you see and how to properly
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do it I'm not saying this is the absolute gospel I would suggest somebody on the Corvette team but I asked give me
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specifics and I was told that if it were me I would not keep the engine at a
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constant RPM for more than five minutes right so that literally helps maybe you
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want to take back roads home that sort of thing and the other thing that I would mention is if you are looking to
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take the car when you come out of the museum and you're in front of that mural you're actually on for lack of a better
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term patio it's paved but it's not a surface that people typically would
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drive on so make sure you do yourself the favor and figure out the best way off of that there are a couple ways that
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are very easy to get the car off there are a couple others that are maybe not so easy so you want to know where you're going don't just hop in your car and try
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and dry you off and end up going over a little bit of a leper curb or something right that's a good idea now your wife
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was with you Al just took delivery of a 2023 70th Anniversary
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c806 your wife Andrea was with you for this Museum delivery talk about what
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that experience is like for your spouse or a significant other Andrea was in seventh heaven I'm blessed to have her
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in my life and she is a massive Corvette fan as I am and we decided that she
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would take the ride down Corvette Boulevard out of the museum I actually used my phone to film that she had a
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smile that just would not leave she had her arms in the air our cars in HTC so the top was down and she just thoroughly
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enjoyed it and as a spouse if you are there for the process you are
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accommodated you are as important as the primary owner family members same thing
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particularly when they're doing the orientation with a car your concierge would be very attentive to any questions
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anyone in your group has so if your spouse is okay seat set for Alan how do
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I set the seat for me what happens to get the seat to that position when I go to drive the car any of those questions
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you may have they just treat you like a king or a queen that's fantastic well buddy thank you so much for giving us
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your experience of the museum delivery here on Corvette today this has really been a lot of fun can I add a couple
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extra thoughts absolutely a couple things that in preparing for this that I was thinking about that don't get
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brought up a lot but just a heads up to anybody that's going through the experience the museum will give you the
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option of laminating for a small fee your build sheet your window sticker and
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the little piece of paper that's displayed with your car as you're doing Museum delivery has the date your car
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type and your names on it they will laminate those I highly suggest you do that it's very very affordable the
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photographer we talked about a photographer taking pictures you should expect an email in a day or two with
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information proofs of the pictures and how should you choose to purchase additional prints or the files how to do
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that I talked about the rhc apparel I can't say enough about it it's high
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quality merchandise it's well worth it but also be aware you don't need to make
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that commitment that same day you can reach back out to the Corvette store after delivery some period 30 60 90 days
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whatever you choose in order it then and then probably most important to me after
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you've gone through this experience and you've got that smile you look back and you say wow that was incredibly smooth
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that was polished everything happened it was coordinated it was choreographed
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what an incredible team and that's true but what really amazes me is they do
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that for every delivery multiple per day multiple days per week hundreds of times
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Shane and his team just do a phenomenal phenomenal job so I would quietly say
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please consider doing a little something nice for them if you so feel if you feel so inclined that's a great idea a little
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something for them for all their time and effort and all the coordination they put in is well well worth it buddy
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thanks again for being on Corvette today this has been a lot of fun Steve I cannot thank you enough thank you for
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