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May 8, 2025
CORVETTE TODAY #177 - Corvette News & Headlines, Early September 2023 Corvettes at Carlisle is now done, the Anniversary celebration at the National Corvette Museum is complete. It's the week of Labor Day, and your CORVETTE TODAY host Steve Garrett teams up with Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger to bring you the latest news & headlines in the world of America's Sports Car. Here are a few of the topics Steve and Keith cover next week: 1. 2023 Corvette production officially surpasses 50,000 units 2. 2024 E-Ray ordering is delayed 3. Corvette is one of the Top 20 fastest selling used cars on the market 4. Did we see a C8 ZR1 prototype testing in Southern Ohio? 5. Jordan Taylor discusses his difficult decision to leave Corvette Racing Enjoy your Labor Day week and be sure to make CORVETTE TODAY part of your holiday plans! 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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Keith is with me every other week we keep you current and up-to-date on what's happening with America's sports
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car well Keith it's been a busy week last week Corvettes at Carlisle and the anniversary celebration and you survived
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a hurricane didn't you yeah you know we're up at Carlisle also we started getting these weather reports of
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Something Brewing in the gulf and sure enough ended up being a cat 3 hurricane skirting by Tampa Bay we were actually
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really lucky here in Tampa there was some flooding you might have seen some stuff on the news but with the storm being 120 miles out or so offshore we
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just really came out on the positive side of that also appreciate the people that reached out to us we're hoping that we are well thank you so much for that
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as well that's awesome it's nice to hear that people are checking up on you to make sure you're okay exactly we are
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kind of bummed because we did have to cancel our trip up to the NCM this week we just didn't know what was going to be like frankly anytime an eye storm comes
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along we've had Irma we've had Ian we both ended up without power for several days so we just thought you know what
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let's just air on the side of caution make sure the family's okay first we'll just have to hit the next trip when it
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comes up which I think will probably end up being the NCM bash in April yep we'll be the next time we're up there again and that'll be another exciting year and
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a great way to start off the Corvette season but hey we've got some stuff to talk about now with Corvette news we do buddy let's start off like we usually do
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with news and headlines and Corvette production updates from the Bowling Green assembly plant sure was production
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goes we are definitely coming down to the wire the model year ends on Monday September 11th we are currently tracking
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about 51 421 Corvettes built so far for the model year again our numbers lag a
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couple days but our breakdown currently is 41 429 regular stingrays plus an
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additional 4 280 170th anniversary Stingray so our total Stingray count is
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45 700 and then for the Z06 we're tracking 4805 regular zo6s plus an
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additional 906 70th Anniversary car so our total for the Z06 is fifty Seven
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Eleven five thousand seven hundred eleven you know what's interesting is while we're up at Carlisle I did Crest
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some of the guys up there to find out what we were doing we talked to Harlan Charles who I asked him why he was given a seminar we know that they know the
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number I mean they've all been scheduled for production but they would not say and during the walk around tadj actually said final production was over 53 000
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but again they didn't give us the total so my guess is that the 2023 model year will probably come in second to the 1979
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record production of 53 807. the one thing about our counts is that we're not
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counting any capture tested cars which are salable units that would count towards that total not that I think that
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there's going to be a whole lot of those usually they do like 100 or 150 we'll just have to wait and see I mean this was the rollout of the Z06 so there were
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some additional CTF cars out there we'll just have to wait the final Stats come out we know they got them we're just
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waiting for that big number to come out and I was so excited to see that we officially surpassed 50 000 Corvettes
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made in 2023. right after our last recording I knew we were close so I kept checking each day and kept tabulating
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until we surpassed that 50 000 Milestone you know Chevrolet has only done this three times now in Corvette's 70-year
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history so it's definitely a very big deal you know the two numbers of course were 1979 was first and then the 1984
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model which was an extended model year so it's definitely a big deal especially when every single one of these cars
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built our customer sold orders and I just built to sit on car lots and waiting for a buyer to come dealers
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would love to be in that situation have stock cars for sale but unfortunately we're just not there yet almost every car other than some z06s and some of the
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games that some of the dealers have been playing with the Z06 nearly every single Corvette has been ordered specifically
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for a customer and that just goes to show you the longevity of this car and what it's capable of so a lot of people
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are saying when's this model you're going to end and there's been some rumors about this and that but they're making forty and fifty thousand cars and
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selling every single one of them there's a no rush to change model years the demand is here and it's right now so
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fill that demand and let's get these cars out to the people so yeah 50 000 cars in one year very big deal
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absolutely and the one thing I was disappointed to see is that 2024 e-rate ordering has been delayed yeah we think
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we got the idea why so Chevrolet had sent out a dealer memo back in July stating that Corbett era orders would
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start on August 17th however when that date came dealers only got allocations for the stingray and Z06 so we have a
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hotline we start calling around start texting and sure enough no erase the Stingray zero six technically dealers
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can submit a d-ray order but it's an unmatched order to allocations and it'll just sit there at status 1100. so as we
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said when you set a date and then you miss it we call that a delay but we think we know why it's delayed and it's
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due to the current state of negotiations between the big three automakers and the United Auto Workers Chevrolet has
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already pushed back the start of production for the e-rate on Monday October 23rd that dates like 6 six weeks
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Beyond when the UAW contract ends on September 14th one of the ways that the manufacturers deal with the Auto Workers
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is maybe to take some things off the bargaining table like the urgency surrounding like a new Corvette launch during that time we were affected last
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time 2019 with that strike and it's just one of these things where you know they knew everybody was counting on the new
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Corvette and so it was a little bit more of a leverage for them unfortunately these negotiations don't seem to be
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going all that well definitely a lot of posturing on both sides of the table while we were up in Carlisle we know that the Nationwide local uaws voted to
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authorize a strike in case it comes to that point we've got about two more weeks before the current contract
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expires so we know that by the next time our news and headlines podcast comes around we'll probably have a whole lot
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more information on this front it's never good to see strikes we are always hoping that these two sides can work it
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out but like I said a lot of posturing on both sides and sometimes you know someone's just itching for a strike just
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to prove a point we'll just have to see what happens stay tuned to that yeah Keith and I will keep you current and up to date on what's going on with strike
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and the interesting thing is they're gonna strike all the big three at the same time it sounds like it yeah
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although I was kind of hoping you know last time they targeted GM first and then moved to the other two here it does
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seem like they're targeting all three at the same time but for whatever reason Sean Fain the guy leading the UAW seems
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to really have it in for stalantis keep your focus over there for a little bit longer and let us build our cars yeah
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let's get the e-ray out the door that's for sure and our final story in the news section Keith I was really glad to see
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that Corvette is one of the top 20 fastest selling used cars on the market you know when the C8 first came out but
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especially when it became then one year two years old that's when we saw a lot of that sales action there's a company
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called icy cars and they're the ones that produced this report but they would produce these ports when it was the fastest selling new car and it was
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selling like eight days and 11 days and it was just the Turning of the car you know to get it to the dealership and
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then right into the hands of that customer again every car is sold as a customer sold order before it reached
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the dealership anyway so it was kind kind of a natural thing that that happened but now it's actually for the last couple years it's fallen off that
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list it's taking us a little bit longer it could be some changes to the shipping and how it gets to the dealership but now that we've got four model years
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under its belt and we've seen prices beginning to stabilize especially at pre-owned prices now we're seeing it
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again on this fastest selling used cars I see cars they analyze over 220 000 new
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and used car pricing and they look at like one to five year old cars for the used Side the latest report shows that
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the Corvette is ranked 16th on the top 20 with an average selling time of 39.9
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days and prices averaging about 82 500 wow obviously we're talking Stingrays
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and used prices for the Stingrays but we have definitely seen that time to sell extend out some have actually seen it go
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out further and it seems to have snapped back just a little bit and then of course the prices they're actually coming down you can actually go out on
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AutoTrader and find some cars selling for very close to their MSRP if not at MSRP as a pre-owned car we're definitely
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seeing some movement there one of the best ways to combat people selling cars for over MSRP is just to sell a whole
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lot of them and that's what we're hoping that we can finally get up to the Z06 where it doesn't make sense for a dealer to sell it for 50 000 if it's selling
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for you know five thousand over MSRP need a lot more cars obviously to get there but this is a good sign of things
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rumors first off let's talk about how Corvette racing did at the Virginia International Raceway well see we had a
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fantastic result at Virginia International Raceway the number three Corvette c8r with Antonio Garcia and Jordan Taylor finished first overall to
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take the win this is actually the third win in four years at VIR and it was a critical one for us to bring home the
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championship for the GTD Pro class and it looks like we're going to go all the way to the final race of petite Le Mans to find out how that situation ends up
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Corvette racing they employed a two-stop strategy at VIR which got the c8r to the end it started with Antonio first in the
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car followed by Jordan Taylor there was a little bit of a mistake by the Lexus we were able to get out there in front
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of them to take that lead and then George has brought it home with a little bit of a fuel saving strategy employed
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looked like all was good the vir was actually the second one for Corvette racing this season and it's the 126th
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worldwide victory since the team's Inception 25 years ago the number three c8r looks like we've got two races left
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they're going to be at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway September 15th to the 17th for battle of the bricks and that's
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going to be on the IMs road course looking overseas the number 33 Corvette c8r racing in the World Endurance
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Championship they're going to be in action again on September 10th for the six hours of Fuji in Japan so we'll be able to talk about that result I think
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next time we get to get other here the number 33 car they've already clinched the championship with two races to go
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and they've already pretty much got things wrapped up over there so just a few more races to go in the season and then next year we begin that GT3 ERA
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with the new Corvette yeah that sounds great I can't wait for that new gt3r that's a great looking car also you
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mentioned Jordan Taylor he actually did discuss his decision to leave Corvette racing didn't he yeah you know he did a
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interview with Auto Sport right after that news came out you know one of the things he said was he really never thought he'd be leading General Motors
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after signing with them he said the decision just came down to imsa rule changes and replacing that GT Le Mans
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class with GT3 based cars and according to him it says it kind of took away some of the passion enjoyment for driving the
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cars and the style of driving that he likes he wanted to return back to prototype racing and really the main reason there was not only to fight for
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overall wins but it's a class where he could do an overall win at Le Mans still they're racing the lmdh cars there
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that's definitely something that he'd love to do he's never been able to do that yet he's actually returning back to
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his father's team Wayne Taylor racing which is teamed up with Android Motorsports and they've got a two-car effort next year he'll be joining Team 8
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Lewis delatras in a second Acura lmdh racer for the MS Sports Car Championship
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in 204. we're going to miss Jordan of course he'll live on through his social media posts he did a fantastic job for
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Corvette racing just wish him the best of luck absolutely right in the rumors category Keith this was interesting we
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think we saw a chzr1 prototype testing in Southern Ohio didn't we yeah you know
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there's a small town in Ohio named Marietta that GM Engineers they really seem to enjoy and we got a couple of
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Corvette enthusiasts based out of there and they've actually captured Corvette prototypes multiple times for us actually going back to the 2019 Corvette
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ZR1 convertible was first spied in Marietta we had the first spy photos of the ZR1 convertible from these guys they
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call me up they're all excited they said the boys were back in town the week of August 21st and their spy picks show
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three different Corvette prototypes wearing that black heavy camouflage but they they did have big ZO6 wings and we
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were able to see the center quad exhaust Port so that's why we think that they are zr1s they're also joined by a
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Hypersonic gray 2023 Corvette Z06 with z07 performance package as well so it makes sense that they're benchmarking
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that car against the zr1s as well surrounding Marietta there's just some great roads one of them is called State
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Road 555 which the locals call the Triple Nickel and you'd have to think GM's always data logging and capturing
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data as they were on these test drives so by returning to these same roads over and over they could probably compare the
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data from the different models over the years and see how they did from the newest one to the previous ones we love
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seeing those prototypes testing out there and if you guys ever see a prototype or something you think might be special take some pictures grab some
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video and send it our way we occasionally will throw out some money for that stuff it's important we paid these guys because they just got in the
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spot for us all the time if you see prototypes let us know it sounds like we need a road trip to the Triple Nickel
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Keith you know we've had some friends up there I know Conti did a video where he drove that test track and it's really why 90 and there's elevation changes I
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mean it looks just like a really fun road to ride on of course Southern Ohio you're in the foothills of the Appalachians there too I think so lots
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of fun I would believe our final story Keith in the rumors category a GM test driver was seriously injured in a Z06 at
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the Mill for Proving Grounds yeah this news came from the Detroit Free Press and I kind of came unexpectedly this
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accident happened back in June and then because it was investigated by the Michigan State Police when the Detroit
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Free Press heard about it and did some rumor checking on it they actually submitted a foia request for records
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from the Michigan State Police to get the details of the crash The Story Goes that a GM test driver named Sean Getty
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was at a Corvette Z06 when it left the track and slid into the woods the car was actually cut in half and then caught
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on fire that crash happened in June at around 10 42 in the morning one minute after the crash OnStar was notified and
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then by 10 44 a.m two minutes after the crash GM was notified and sent out their Emergency Response Team to find them
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maintenance and ground Crews actually saw smoke from the fire and they located the driver who they think crawled for
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the records back out to the edge of the track he had suffered critical injuries including Burns that had to be airlifted
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to a Michigan hospital wow we have a quote from Danielle Getty who is Sean's sister said they started a GoFundMe page
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just has a long road of recovery ahead of him he's looking at another three to four months and I see you actually
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before going to a live-in Care Facility for a rehab so he's got a long road ahead of him they raise about twenty one
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thousand dollars on the GoFundMe page we do have that link in the story as well and then found this interesting the bill
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for Proving Grounds you know they've been in operations for nearly 100 years I believe like 98 years now and over that time period there have been eight
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people killed at the facilities we think about wow how cool would be to be a GM test driver you know there are
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definitely some inherent risks that come with pushing a car to its limits and trying to make it the best for us we
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definitely appreciate a service and wish him well on his road to recovery yeah I hope he recovers really really fast all
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the best prayers and thoughts going his way buddy let's take our final break and when we come back it's the lighter side
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final segment Keith we always cover the lighter side of Corvette this is really interesting a 71 Corvette it's a ZR2
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sold at the Mecum Auction in Monterey for 785 thousand dollars wow Steve if we
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only had a time machine right oh my gosh if I knew then I know now we'd have a garage full of L88 zr2s and even the ZL1
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probably would have sold more than two back in the day if only we had a time machine with this car you know Chevy
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that's really cool this next story Keith it just amazes me that this kind of thing still happens a
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dealership in North Carolina had one of their service technicians take a joyride in a customer C7 Z06 don't they know we
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cover this stuff we make it public and in fact though it wasn't one technician
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it was two technicians that went for Joyride oh my gosh The Story Goes that the owner of the c706 he's got a YouTube
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channel that's kind of how we found out about it because he did post that video up on his channel he was having a
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misfire issue with this car he took it to Modern Chevrolet in Burlington North Carolina for service the dealer never
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worked on it so I picked it up that week and then he dropped it off again once again it never got into the service department so after complaining to GM
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customer service the dealership took it in for a third and final time kept it for two weeks before finding out that
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misfire issue was a faulty fuel injector so he gets his car back he's looking around saying he can't find his
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sunglasses and like a lot of people you know they know where they keep stuff in their cars he says let me pull up my
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dash cam and just see if I can find where I put them or where they might be so instead of finding his sunglasses he found that two different service
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technicians had taken out his cars for some hard pulls and actually one of them picked up a female passenger just to
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show her how fast the car was oh my gosh it gets even crazier so a couple of those pulls what the first guy with the
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female passenger we're close to 100 miles an hour and the dash cam shows like the car almost swerving into the
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opposite lane they passed the speed limit sign that showed 45 miles an hour think about that 100 miles an hour in a
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45 Zone the woman realized the dash Cam's recording it says that a driver who then miraculously follows all laws
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related traffic on the way back to the dealership and then a second technician is also recorded taking the car out he's
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seen jumping on the gas and saying oh my God this thing's so fast he does say at the end there you got to make sure it's
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good for the customer I think that's a little cya action knowing that it was probably recording him as well and you
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are fixing a fuel injector you got to make sure that that fuel injector is performing right but I don't know about how fast he was going in terms of 100
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miles an hour in a 45 hour Zone the owner of the car when he found those he complained to the dealership they
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actually refunded back his service money basically lost all kinds of trust in them maybe the moral of the story when
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dropping off your Corvette to a dealership for service work is you put the PDR in valet mode if you got it if
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you don't have a PDR you know a dash cam is your next best friend something to definitely think about man that's
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incredible and I think those two technicians are probably looking for new jobs as well I hope that they were
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heavily reprimanded and they actually had to pay the cost of the service fee who knows what a dealer would do there
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but it's pretty egregious especially picking up the passenger who's not part of the dealership right you would think
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that that would be an instant firing right there not very smart Keith you know the C8 Corvette is really really
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popular even UFC stars like the Corvette well we love these stories because it's part of the American dream you might not
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come from money you might not have skills for high-paying jobs but you've got athletic abilities that you use to
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your fullest and then finally you're rewarded for that success and this is just one of these stories that has come out this Rising Star's name is Sugar
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Shawn O'Malley he just won the bantamweight title in a fight at the end of August he's skinny he's got bright
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pink hair but he's got a wicked right hand that he uses to smash his opponent al-jamaine Sterling to claim the title
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we actually put that clip of The Knockout in the story I watched it several times and yeah the guy made one
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mistake and paid for it with our right hand to the jaw there to celebrate his win over Sterling O'Malley paid a visit
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to Luxury Auto collection in Scottsdale Arizona picked up an orange C8 Stingray natural interior bronze Wheels to
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celebrate the American dream he's the bantamweight title Champion he's got a new Corvette he's looking for his next
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opponent I'd say life is pretty good for sugar Shawn O'Malley very nice and our final story Keith we both were at
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Corvettes in Carlisle that was a record year for Corvettes and Carlisle this year yeah they set the record on Friday
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and then any car that came in after Friday afternoon I think was bonus so we know that it was over 3 000 cars total
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and of course so much great stuff there the engineers brought in 10 or 12 e-rays which they drove we kind of crawled
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around those in the back there of course they had the new erase the show cars up front and the tent with the new colors
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got to see the sea wolf gray the riptide blue and of course the new color that cacti some people seem to be coming
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around to it they had it out in the sun on the final day it's a little bit muted but yet I could see how people want to
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accessorize and kind of make it their own we witnessed the discussions it talked about 53 000 cars produced talked
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a lot about the e-ray I thought one of the interesting stories that we haven't really covered was Ted Stucker said that
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he actually purchased his own Stingray for personal use I thought that was kind of cool I think he said it was a blue
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car so most likely Elkhart Lake blue of course we've got some of the seminars that came out from the Corvette tent
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that we've been posting and again it was just great to see all the people around we attended your seminar and Steve I
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actually filmed that so you might be looking at our YouTube channel in a future date to see if Steve's presentation at Carlisle man I thought
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it was a great show what were your thoughts I liked it it was a great show and I actually heard someone reported we
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had 5 000 Corvettes at the show yeah I thought the record was over three and then that's pretty much what I heard
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from I think Lance talking about it there's so many cars there they were up on the hill we got to watch the making
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of the American flag again which was pretty cool yes I think they last did that in like 2018. so I I had mentioned
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that we're hoping that they really make that something annually because that's a fun thing both for the people that put it together with the Drone footage and
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to show it off but also the owners to say hey there's my car right there you know right pretty cool show and of
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course one of the things that was really neat this year was the rolling exhaust competition so it was over on one of the
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sides there and all of a sudden you just heard these cars there's a lot of revving going on but there's a difference between a revving standing
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still and then a revving under wide open throttle so some of these cars were going for the best exhaust we crawled
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around the for sale tents for a while there was a 66 in there looks like in barn fine condition the guy wanted 99
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for it I mean the paint was all splattered but it was a matching numbers car and it ran so someone who buys that
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car has got a long road there you go it was a great show I did two seminars on Corvette today on Friday and one on
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Saturday and then I also helped June Bartlett June wrote a book called ladies and vets and I helped her with her
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seminar we did a little overview of Corvette today and for all the ladies we got an opportunity to show them the
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difference between a C1 a C2 a C3 and C4 all the way up through we showed the
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body styles we showed the cross Flags so people can go out and logically say oh that's a C1 while they're walking the
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show field there at Corvettes of Carlisle exactly and in fact there's a lot of Lady owners that were there showing their own cars so yeah I thought
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to them as well and I also wanted to do a shout out to our friend John Price John is the leader of the eastern
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Ontario Corvette club in the great white North John is the man that puts on the Kingston Invasion up there in Canada and
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John was down with everybody from the eastern Ontario Corvette club and he incurred a pulse situation I just wanted
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to make sure that John is doing all right and give a shout out to John and a speedy recovery coming his way
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absolutely really best wishes to all those people out there it was hot that day yeah Friday and Saturday especially
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Friday it got me I was a little off guard to that heat up there especially because Florida everybody's got AC
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you're inside you go out for a little bit you come back inside there we were on the ground just great eight hours all day long boy it does take a toll on you
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so yeah best wishes to John hope he recovers absolutely well buddy thanks for being back on Corvette today we will
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talk again in two weeks my pleasure Steve if you're out there keep waving we've got the fall coming up hopefully
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