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CORVETTE TODAY #181 - Corvette News & Headlines, Early October 2023
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May 8, 2025
CORVETTE TODAY #181 - Corvette News & Headlines, Early October 2023 Fall is here and in full swing. The automotive industry is going through a tumultuous time right now with the United Auto Workers striking the Big 3 automakers. Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, teams up again with Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger to bring you the most up-to-date information in the world of Corvette. Besides the UAW strike, here are some of the other Corvette topics that Steve and Keith will discuss: 1. 2024 Corvette production started on Monday, September 18th 2. Two ZR1 prototypes are spotted in Colorado with no wheel coverings and no exhaust sounds 3. A C3 Corvette gets a "Mako-over" into a Mako Shark II 4. A C8 Z06 falls off a lift at a dealership 5. A 2023 70th Anniversary Z06 sells at Mecum for $247,500 6. A Chevy Silverado rolls over a C8 Corvette....ON PURPOSE! Every other week, CORVETTE TODAY brings you the latest news in the world of Corvette to keep you informed on what's happening with America's Sports Car! Listen to the podcast, watch the YouTube video, join the Facebook group, sign up for weekly email notifications, follow the show on LinkedIn, Instagram, X (Twitter) and Threads, plus shop in the Merchandise Store at: www.CorvetteToday.com
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America's Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show Autumn is here isn't it buddy man it's great in Florida the
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weather has finally calmed down those hot days are still warm during the day but the mornings and the evenings are
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perfect for those Corvette cruises along Tampa Bay so gonna have to take advantage of those shortly here very nice well let's start as we always do
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with our news and headline show and get an update on Corvette production at the Bowling Green assembly plant absolutely
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so Chevrolet kicked off the 2024 Corvette model year on September 18th and we learned since then that they are
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actually only building stingrays right now over these last two weeks we'll discuss more about that in just a minute but our production numbers they always
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lag a day or two but we're showing around 1 308 Corvette Stingrays built in those first eight days of the model year
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and we'll probably have around 16.50 by the start of the week so they are really cranking them out there you know the
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last time we were on the podcast the UAW strike had just kicked off so there were a couple unknowns happening at the time
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but we did confirm that Friday with a representative of the Bowling Green assembly plant that workers did complete
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the 2023 model year on September 15th and then the 2024 model years kicked off beginning that Monday the 18th that's
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exactly right and let's get the latest update on the UAW strike as well the very first week only three facilities
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were targeted one from each of the automakers but then in the second week it was expanded so the UAW targeted 18
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GM facilities and these are facilities that acts as parts and distribution sites GM has already had to idle their
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Fairfax plant because of some parts were being made at its wencil Bill planned in St Louis that was the very first one
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that was targeted by the UAW so now by them going after these Warehouse sites we risk getting parts impacted to these
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assembly plants and then there's also replacement parts for dealership service departments so far the assembly plan is
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still operating and the quantities as discussed have all been good but the longer this goes the more likely we're going to see an impact in Bowling Green
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as we recorded this on Friday we're actually expecting that the UAW will widen the scope of the walk out even further so as always stay tuned for
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details yeah and it's interesting because there's a lot of Corvettes parked in the yard waiting for parts aren't there yeah you know it's a really
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tough situation to be in both for people Bowling Green the workers there as well as you know the owners that are just
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wanting their cars it's one of the stories we've been working on for a little over a week now hundreds of Corvettes are parked behind the factory
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waiting on parts to complete one a friend of ours had flown a drone over the plan on August 28th and so if you
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see those drone photos they were taken a month ago we're hoping that the situation has to eat a little bit what
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we were hearing was that you have these hundreds of Corvettes sitting in these Lots in fact these were lots that I
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didn't even really know about I went back and had to compare them to some other flyovers that we had photos of earlier like back in 2020 and 2021 when
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the C8 was brand new they're utilizing these lots of these cars are just parked in there they're not covered they're
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fully painted cars obviously but we've been hearing them also from owners and buyers saying my car was built on August
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9th and it's still there and I talked to that guy earlier this week his car is still there another guy had his car
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built later in August still waiting so the forums are filled with people you know talking about this as well we've
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heard secondhand that there are some supply chain issues affecting the finishing of these cars and it does appear that it's carbon fiber again we
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all obviously know the supply of the z07 carbon fiber Arrow has always been tight but the shortages may have extended the
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dye Flames the engine appearance package and even the level one interior carbon fiber packages we're hearing are being
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affected one of these guys that had a Z06 who just had his car released and he believes his issue was the engine
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appearance package he says finally they did the wiring install for the engine bay light and then he ended up getting
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an 800 195 dollar credit for the option on a car that's a really good scenario if that's the case because that's the
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hardest thing is getting that light in there you can always go out and pick up those carbon fiber closeout panels aftermarket or through another dealer
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somewhere we could always have those later so that actually worked out pretty good for him other than the weight it's just something we're watching closely we
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think that when the 2024 Corvettes began production they only Started With The Stingrays and that was hopefully to give that supply chain a moment to catch up
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and then use those parts to complete these awaiting 2023 Corvettes like I said it's a bad situation for all around
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in fact one of the last points we make we talked to a small dealership about this he's got a car that's been there
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since August he's not going to get it this month and so he doesn't get paid on that Chevy Reps don't get paid until the
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cars are delivered and they can't deliver a car until it's sent to the dealership this affects everybody all the way around one last point is we
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think they'll need to clear this backlog first before releasing all the 2023 production statistics because these cars
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aren't invoiced yet so they're not considered complete which is why we may not have that full number from Chevrolet
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on what exactly they finished the 2023 production number at gotcha oh that's interesting I didn't think of that
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there's so many different aspects of the story but obviously the worst one is that customers are sitting there you
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know customers that had plans to go to the museum to do their rhc delivery those are being canceled left and right
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it's a big mess yeah it really is well we did have some good news about 2024's Keith Z06 and e-ray allocations came in
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starting Thursday of last week exactly yeah so last Thursday another ordering cycle for the Corvette was specifically
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for e-ray and Z06 and it's actually the first orders for the e-ray quantities are going to be low at first the plants
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can do this deliberate roll up as it did with the Z06 in fact Tad said that they were going to be doing a very deliberate
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rollout during his pocket Carlisle the quantities that we got from the e-ray allocations from some of the large
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volume dealers we can't mention specific numbers but they were all single digits so it really tells you that if the big
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volume dealers are getting single digits then they're going to be very slow for everybody else going out there we are
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seeing issues with parts for the new e-ray with the allocations obviously we got constraints as well and so we're
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seeing constraints on these new alloy wheels for the array this is more likely a launch issue than it is a supply chain
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you know it's a brand new car they're ramping up there we saw the very first constraints for the new colors and now
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all those have gone away so those appear to be in a constraint photos and colors we're hoping that's the case for the e-ray wheels but then there's also
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carbon fiber and that's affecting both the e-ray and the Z06 again the engine appearance packages are constrained the
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interior carbon fiber package is on constrained and then for Z06 the carbon fiber woes they go to the high wings and
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the ground effects and it's affecting both the visible carbon fiber versions as well as the carbon flash paint and so
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it's not one way or the other it's both of those are being affected there one of the ways around that zz3 into the
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appearance package and straight is you can order the RPO d3v d3v it's the
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wiring harness and light into the engine bay of course we're talking Coupes only I believe this is cost just a hundred
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dollars and then like I said you can go aftermarket get on the carbon fiber closeout panels or customize it with exterior painted panels to really
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customize up your engine bay this is a new option for 2024 so hopefully dealers are aware of that and do that for you if
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you had the engine appearance package on your order carbon fiber buddy it's a blessing and a curse I hear you there
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well let's take our first break Keith when we come back it's Corvette racing and Corvette rumors on Deck next at
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happening in the world decorvette in segment number two we always talk about Corvette racing and Corvette rumors
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Keith how did Corvette racing do at Indianapolis well you know it was a great venue great to be at the Brickyard
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but not so good for the Corvettes that day obviously the CHR was at the news Motor Speedway they did a race called
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the battle of the bricks which takes place on the road that goes around IMS all weekend the team kind of complained
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about you know they just couldn't get it into gear so to speak they couldn't find their speed I think they qualified in
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fifth position T5 and unfortunately that's where they finished in fifth place for the race they just could not
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hang with the class leaders no matter how hard they tried the final race of the Year actually comes up in two weeks it's the 10 hour petite Le Mans
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happening on Saturday October 14th at Road Atlanta I believe we are second still in the standings but the leader
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would just have to maybe crash out during the warm-up laps and then we would have to win I think to really have any chance of getting those points to
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take the lead there I think we'll end up probably in second place for the championship this year unless like I said something really goes gangbusters
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at feet Le Mans in which case you never know it's a 10 hour race well that will be interesting to see I always like
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petite Lamont it's a lot of fun in the rumors category Keith we got a lot of them we think that we saw two ZR1
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prototypes spotted in Colorado and these had no wheel covers on them so we saw the wheels possibly for the new ZR1 yeah
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we had a really good week watching the Corvette zero one prototypes they were testing out around golden Colorado which
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is a very high altitude so they do their high altitude drives around there and again what was unique about this group
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of testing cars was they did not have these round covers to hide their wheels and especially the rear wheels so on the
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front they had the vo6 the spider aluminum wheels but on the rears they had this new design that we'd seen leaks
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before and it was considered as a new ZR1 wheel but they were off the car so now here they are on the car and they do
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have a think of pattern that looks just like the ZR1 Wheels on the 2019 Corvette ZR1 so that's why a lot of us are really
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thinking that these are specific to the ZR1 and this these RZR ones but for each model from Stingray to z060 e-ray Chevy
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has always hid the wheel designs until the full public reveal of the car and it was the cars reveal you know they take
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all the camo off they take off the wheel covers and you can see everything because everybody's seen it already it's already been photographed but for
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whatever reason here they decided to run their cars without these covers on and we got a really good look at them at
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multiple sightings last week I really like them they look really good and we also got video of a ZR1 taking off with
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no sound yeah this is interesting you know and again I think it's just a combination of a number of different
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factors but it was another side of the cars there was a video the guy driving a car was turning off of a road and the
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ZR1 prototypes were behind him so he lowered his window and captured him as they throw past them now they're only
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going about 45 miles an hour or so but they were really quiet which made some people obviously thinking are these EVS
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are these hybrids is this the e-ray driving the stealth mode we had another video capturing the same cars at idle
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there's definitely a nice engine going on in the back there you could trick people and put exhaust ports on a car
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that's an EV when you have sound coming out of them you know it's a nice engine yeah the other conversation then turned
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off well it was the ZR1 is that the ZR1 with the Z06 with twin turbos or is it
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going to be the Z06 engine with the e-ray front drive motor where is it going to get that extra horsepower from
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we actually think the ZR1 is going to have the turbos and actually turbos can kind of quiet car even further if it's
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not driven under heavy throttle at all I mean they kind of act like a secondary Muffler in a way our take on it is as he
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rolled down his window you hear the cars drive by but there's road noise from those big tires you know riding down the
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road there I think that's what we were hearing there they kind of drowned out any kind of motor noise there another
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video like I said was directly taken behind the car and it was fumbling away there like it does we'll know for sure
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what the engine Drive training of the ZR1 is once they are publicly revealed but there's gonna be speculation going back and forth because until somebody
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can really hear turbo sounds no one's going to be satisfied with the answer until the actual reveal so it's one of
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these things where they're working their black magic they want their thing and then we just have to be surprised when it comes out we have to be patient
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patience is a virtue right buddy and that's very hard for Corvette people and especially those of us that are really
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watching new products and seeing how they're doing we're really excited about the future amen buddy in the first
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segment you know we talked about allocations coming out for the Z06 and the e-ray we actually have rumors of an
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e-rate confirmed at 3 thousand status didn't we yeah so the news came the day before the order Banks opened last
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Thursday you know dealers can submit since I think late August they've been able to submit orders into the order
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Banks but they all go in at 1100 they just accepted you know well yeah we got your order we haven't looked at it it
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takes a lot of work to put those orders in so they might put it in earlier and then what happens is they'll get the call and say you got allocation so then
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they can match that order to an allocation and then it really becomes an order we think one of these initial orders just got picked up a day earlier
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it was confirmed with a printout from the GM order Bank as it being at 3 000 status 3 000 status means the car was
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accepted by production control and that these cars will be produced shortly because this is the first order round
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for the e-ray we know that they were going to start hopefully again with strike and supply chain and all that but the official first day of the e-ray is
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supposed to come October 23rd by going to status 3000 right away they're all set up to be produced starting that week
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we think this was just an early car it got picked up a little bit early but it was confirmed with a printout from the GM order which made it significant
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because technically the order cycle didn't start until Thursday when this happened on Wednesday that's pretty cool
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here they come and I hope that the UAW strike doesn't mess it up that'll be great great fingers crossed buddy let's
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take our final break Keith when we come back it's the lighter side of Corvette coming up next on Corvette today
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was really cool a C3 Corvette got what I call a Mako over meaning it's looking
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like a mako shark 2 isn't it yeah this is pretty cool this is a video that was put out by a site called ridiculous
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rides it is a feature on a guy who founded mako shark Corvette riding out in the field the Mako Shark one was the
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Genesis for the C3 Corvette I mean the long body the big nose on the front and then a couple years later in the mid 60s
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they did the maker Shark 2 which was a show car that was much more aggressive and you know who really loved that Mako
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Shark 2 was Joel Rosen of Motion Performance the guys up in New York that were buying cars and then putting in the
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big 427s and hot rodding them well he had these mako shark kits made and then modified four and C3 so there were some
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kits out there that were being built that's what we think this car was because it already had the Mako Shark 2 very aggressive rear on the car and then
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the front was there as well but it was in pieces this guy knew exactly what it was he always loved the Mako Shark 2 and
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did this huge restoration on the car and it's just beautiful today as you saw in the video and of course the original
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Mako Shark 2 had a ZL1 in it he probably did the 427 in his car as well it was just a beautiful car but it's
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unfortunate because it's one of those cars he says it's so beautiful and it's very powerful that he hardly ever drives
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it above 60 miles an hour just because he wants to preserve it and be safe with it and that's always the kind of Shame
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with these kind of cars you know you spend all that money and time to create your dream car and then you're afraid to drive it it is a beautiful car and it's
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simply worth a video so to watch that's really cool and it looked fantastic I loved it also we had a real sad story we
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had another Corvette fall off a lift at a dealership and this time it was a z06. yeah another Corvette has fallen and it
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can't get up speed how do these service tech continue to make these rookie mistakes I can see at the very beginning of the C8 era where the jacking points
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were moved backwards because now we have 60 of the weight in the rear and you have to accommodate that with the engine back there so now here we are four years
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later into the model and a brand new Corvette Z06 that was a Chevrolet dealership undergoing PDI Tire delivery
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fell off the list and not only that not only the pictures are painful but there's actually video that shows it coming down as well imagine your car
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going through PDI delivery and you're getting that call thinking oh come pick up your car and it's no your brand new
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oh absolutely and that's not going to buff out either is it no it was painful to watch and you can see that that arm
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you're just sliding up the side of the car I think it punched out the window it made a mess so not good at all on the
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good side though Keith we do have a new Corvette song don't we I knew you like this you being a DJ whenever there's a
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song about Corvettes we always like to feature it and some of them see her really bad yes some of them are just a
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lot of auto-tune to nothing else it's a song called Corvette by a young British singer her name is sapphire it's no Life
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in the Fast Lane but it's pretty good she's a pretty girl and she does this song I guess the premise of it lost love
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just waiting at the bar to stay night hoping to find the object of her affection would return to pick her up in
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his Corvette as basically the gist of it and at the end of the video her love interest shows up in a convertible C3
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Corvette so all right in the world we watched that video a few times and it's not bad at all it really wasn't my radio
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station is a classic rock station we're not going to be playing it on the radio but it was still nice for all the
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Corvette people that liked Corvette today you can go watch the video at Corvette blogger.com that's a good one
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like I said previous ones we've had have just not been good at all so yeah I'm always more amazed by the ones that are
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pretty good so yeah definitely worth watching this is not a rap song everybody and the last couple songs that we've had about Corvette have been rap
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songs so you'll enjoy this because it is not a rap song also Keith this is pretty cool at Mecum Auction in Dallas a 2023
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70th Anniversary Z06 Coupe sold for 247 500 wow yeah I find that Mika really
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know how to throw an auction in Dallas they actually had five point three equivalent zo6s for sale the top seller
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was the 70th Anniversary it was in the white pearl it had the VIN number 84 and it was built back in January so it had
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the full factory warranty with the car it was transferable the nsrp on it was like 150 000 and the auction actually
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hammered it closed at 225 and so then with the buyer's condition the total price out the door was 247.5 so a big
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sale for the owner of that car and it actually it came down to two guys one guy was there live one guy was on the
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phone and they just kept going back and forth and back and forth until it finally closed there at the 225. big prices again for z06s the other two cars
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that sold in Dallas there's five total three of them sold the other one sold for 214 five and then 203 500 the two
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that didn't sell they had high bids of 175 and 150s marketing is obviously still red hot for these cars and when
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they're right they go for that big money and of course the anniversary editions we think they'll do very well because they're the one year the white pearls
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only that one year color that people love you love that color it's going to do very well in the future here yeah definitely and our final story Keith
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again this is really sad we had a PDR video showing a Chevy Silverado rolling
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over a C8 Corvette and it was done on purpose what the heck's going on with that yeah this is kind of our WTF story
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of the week and there was photos going around of a Silverado sitting on top of the orange C8 Corvette Stingray and your
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first Boxer oh wow you know it's an accident something happened there those photos came out they were released by the fire department on Facebook so
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that's how they went viral that way but the story got much weirder because in the owner of the stingray he released
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his PDR footage she had his PDR running as a dash cam essentially it shows both vehicles at a four-way spot office at
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night time and they're facing each other and then the truck just kind of moves slowly into the intersection and then
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runs directly at the Corvette Stingray hits the car head on pauses there for a second and then drives up on top of the
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car and when it drove up the wheels came off the top of the roof and it trapped the occupants inside the car they
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couldn't get out until the fire department got there once the fire and police were there the owner of the car showed the video to the cops and the guy
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was arrested who was driving the truck good I guess keep those pdrs running at all time with dash cams right Steve yeah
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I mean hey it came in handy this time didn't it buddy yeah just a little weird situation you never know what people are
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thinking or what they're drinking but yeah this was a really weird one and uh hopefully just stay safe out there
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strange strange well buddy thanks for being back on Corvette today have a good one we will see you in two weeks yeah
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