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CORVETTE TODAY #190-Get To Know Mike Furman, Up Close & Personal
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Jul 11, 2025
Mike Furman has sold more Corvettes than anyone in the 70 year history of the car! Mike has been on the show many times to talk about his deliver totals, which exceed 6,000 Corvettes delivered. But on this episode of CORVETTE TODAY, Mike sits down with your show host, Steve Garrett, and talks about his life and the Corvettes he has personally owned. Plus, Mike makes a HUGE Corvette announcement - it's a CORVETTE TODAY exclusive ! Get to know Mike Furman, the man and Corvette enthusiast on this episode of CORVETTE TODAY!
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back to Corvette today, my friend.
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How you doing, Steve?
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Great. Thanks for coming back on the
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show, buddy. Let's start off a little
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personal background. Tell me about your
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family growing up with your siblings.
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Where did you grow up?
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I grew up in a small town of Montail,
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New Jersey. Probably only 4,000 people
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lived in the town.
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Wow.
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Four miles by 6 miles long. I had two
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sisters and one brother. My parents are
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long gone. My brother's been gone 12
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years now. And so I just have my two
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older sisters.
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Nice. Did you guys grow up in a car
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family?
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Not at all.
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Huh.
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I'm the car nut in the family.
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Wow. Oh, that's pretty cool. Now, was
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Corvette always your go-to car, Mike, or
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were there other cars before a Corvette?
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Well, I guess you could say that I was
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heavy into the Oldmobile 442s for a long
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time. Right off the bat, at the age of
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18, they were more affordable than a
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Corvette,
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right?
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As far as ownership goes. Right around
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when I was 29, I started flipping over
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to Corvettes and 442s. And then
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somewhere around 9567 is when I just had
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Corvettes in my stable and no more 442s.
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Tell me the story about when you
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realized you were actually a Corvette
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guy.
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Well, I'm in the library spring of 78
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and graduating high school and I kept on
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seeing all these magazine articles on a
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1978 Indy500 pace car and I love the
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silver interior. It reminded me of like
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a lunar rocket space age and that did it
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for me. I just fell in love with the
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Corvettes right from that moment.
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I love that 78 pace car, buddy. That was
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one of my favorites. If I could own a
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stable of Corvettes, that 78 pace car
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would be in that stable.
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Yep. I agree.
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Now, in school, you participated in
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sports. And you were a wrestler. You
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actually wrestled a celebrity, didn't
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you?
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I wrestled a couple of them, actually. I
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wrestled a guy named Mike Shuffling. He
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had been in a bunch of movies, and one
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of them was
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16 Candles, which was pretty famous back
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in the day. He played Jake, the rich kid
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that drove the red Porsche. Then
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obviously Thomas C. May I was Tom Cruz.
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I wrestled him in high school. and Mike
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Shuffling. I wrestled in college. He
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went on to big-time fame in movies and
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stuff.
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Very cool. And didn't you kind of end
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Tom Cruz's wrestling career?
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Well, the funny thing is is that our
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match lasted about 45 seconds. I
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separated his shoulder rather quickly.
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So, a couple weeks went by and I guess
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he asked the coach if he could go out
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for theater because he couldn't wrestle
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anymore. And the coach said, "Yeah, no
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problems whatsoever." So, he went into
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he was in was Guys and Dolls and the
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rest was history. I was going to say the
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rest is history for sure.
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That's funny. Now, buddy, you've been
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selling cars about as long as I've been
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on the radio, which is 46 years. Where
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dealership?
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Well, I was very, very fortunate to live
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They were the number one Corvette dealer
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in the world from probably the mid60s
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Did you ever think you were going to be
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selling Corvettes 46 years later, buddy?
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I didn't think I'd be selling anything
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46 years later.
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It's been an illustrious career, that's
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I'm at number 25 right now. I have them
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Absolutely. Do you have any fun stories
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in the past?
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Probably for each and every one of them.
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Listen, Corvette is not for the shy. I
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You know, like I always say, buddy,
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every Corvette owner has a story and you
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hear about them all the time, don't you?
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No doubt. Every single time, every day.
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For sure. So, do you lean more towards
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coups or convertibles?
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You know, it depends on the car and the
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generation in all honesty. I happen to
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love the coupe in the C2, but in the C8,
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I prefer the convertible. I've always
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where it's always a location, location,
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location. Yeah.
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Well, with the old Corvettes, I always
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said it's condition, condition,
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condition.
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I like that. That makes a lot of sense.
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Is there a specific color you lean more
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towards, buddy?
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Blue. I just did the count and I think
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I've owned nine or 10 of my 25 have been
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blue.
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Well, let's go over the list a little
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bit. talk about some of the more
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significant ones that you've owned. I
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Yeah, I've had some cool vehicles.
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There's no doubt. VIN number-wise, cool
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color-wise or color combo. Cool.
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Options, cool. Some old ones with the
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my last several C8s, I've had some cool
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VIN numbers.
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Nice. Now, I'm looking over the list
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here. The only Corvette you haven't
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owned is a C3. What happened in the C3
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era?
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That's when I started selling them. I
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never came across one the right time.
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It's about timing and I've had some
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great ones offered to me, but it just
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wasn't the right timing. One day I'll
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get one cuz I happen to love the body
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style.
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Yeah, absolutely. C3s are awesome. So,
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C5, you've had five C6s, you've had four
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C7s, and then you've had five C8s.
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That's an amazing list of cars.
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Yeah, it's a great array of cars over a
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70-year period, isn't it?
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Yeah, definitely. So, do you lean more
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You know, I love the stick. Basically,
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That's really amazing. Now, how many of
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Let's go to my list. I think I have it
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13 used Corvettes.
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Now, some of these are really unique
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Wow. And there's Millennium Yellow.
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Mike, with all the Corvettes that you
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Well, the interesting thing is when she
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Wow.
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extraordinaire Mike Ferman. In this
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third and final segment, Mike has got a
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big announcement. Mike, this is a
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Corvette Today exclusive. First of all,
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thanks for announcing it on Corvette
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today. Tell everybody about the huge
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announcement.
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Well, I have to tell you, it still blows
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me away. I had asked many months ago.
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It's one of those things I never thought
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I would get and I'm still blown away by
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it. But I was able to take delivery on
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October 10th of VIN number 0001
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of 20124 Corvette Z06 convertible. If
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anybody knows anything about Corvettes,
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they're built sequentially. Any serial
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number one of anything is really rare,
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but to get it in a Corvette is just
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super cool. I'm blown away. I really
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happy with it. It's a Riptide Blue.
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Obviously, it was the first Riptide Blue
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Z06 built. It has the tension and
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twilight blue dipped interior. I'm just
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thrilled to death to own it, and it's in
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my garage since a little over a month
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ago. Five, six weeks ago, I got it.
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Very nice. Now, I love hearing specs.
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You gave us a little bit, but tell us
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what else you did. Does it have front
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end lift, magnetic ride, and stuff like
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that?
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Well, magnetic ride standard in a Z06,
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so it's got that, but it's got the
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carbon ceramic brakes. It's got the
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spider design machine face forged
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aluminum wheels. It's got the carbon
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flash painted in the cells and rooftop.
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It's got the body color exterior accents
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and I got the competition sport seats
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which flips the colors on the inside.
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Instead of the tension blue headrest,
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it's got the twilight blue headrest
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which I liked a lot. I also got the Z06
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badge in red on the side, but I chose
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just to have the Z, the red Z on there.
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So, it's got the red Z and the 06 is in
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black still. So, the Z really jumps out.
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You like Zoro.
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I like that. That's pretty cool. Now,
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besides this being VIN number 00001,
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why is this Corvette special to you?
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It's my 25th Corvette that I've owned.
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We all work hard for our money. I think
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it was very kind of GM. I got lucky, I'm
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sure, to get VIN number one. It's just
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the whole package, the car, the color
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combo, the Z06, the VIN number,
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everything.
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Yeah, absolutely. This one's going to be
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a keeper, don't you think?
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You know, I always say we're all just
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keepers for the next person. I'd like to
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keep this for as long as I can. I really
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enjoy having this VIN number and this
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color combo. So, I'm most certainly
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going to keep this longer than the last
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several I've had. I'll give you an
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example. I started my C8 list March of
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2014 and I put three folders in place
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with thousand deposits each. And then I
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started the Z06 list for the C8. I want
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to say that was January of 2015. And I
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put two folders in place with $1,000
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each. So, I've had three C8s and now
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this is my second Z06. Those were the
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five folders and my five C8s. Like I
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said to you earlier, Chance Favors have
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prepared mine and I was very fortunate
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to get my fifth C8 as VIN number 0001.
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That's awesome. So, is there going to be
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another Corvette in your future after
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this one? Maybe an or something beyond
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that?
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I don't have an -ray on my radar, but
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someday I'm sure I'll get another one,
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probably an older one to add to this and
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go from there because there are some old
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ones I'd love to get someday soon. But
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right now, I'm just relishing and owning
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this one. I just love it. And I got to
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tell you a quick great story. Last week
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I got a phone call from the gentleman in
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Utah who found 00001
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Corvette of 1953.
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Wow.
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So he was asking me cuz he knew I had
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original pictures of VIN number 0014 of
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1953. A buddy of mine's father had
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delivered it and I got all the original
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pictures from that delivery in October
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of 53. So, we're going along talking
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about his car and how he owns number one
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for 53 and how cool that is and
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everything else. And at the end of the
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story, I said, you know, by the way,
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I've got VIN number 00001, but for 2024
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in a Z06. And he enjoyed my story just
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as much as I enjoyed his story.
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I can imagine. Yeah, that's very cool.
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For sure. Well, Mike, it's great talking
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to you again. Thanks for being back on
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Corvette today. We look forward to
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delivery number 7,000 coming up sometime
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soon, right? I'm at like 6150, so I'm
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moving up one at a time.
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That's great. Thanks again, buddy.
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You take care.
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