CORVETTE TODAY @192 - Pete Callaway And The Future of Callaway Cars

Name: CORVETTE TODAY @192 - Pete Callaway And The Future of Callaway Cars
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enthusiasts from around the world my guest on today's show is the president of Callaway cars the home of the famous
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B2K RPO option for Corvette he's the son of Reeves Callaway he is Pete Callaway
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Pete welcome to Corvette today thank you Steve pleasure to be here Pete let's talk about your dad Reeves he was a true
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legend in the world the Corvette as well as the entire automotive industry talk about your upbringing with a dad like
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Reeves and his profound influence that I'm sure he had on you yeah absolutely
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growing up with Dad was quite memorable he had such a dedication to the business
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as kids of course couldn't have realized that at the time you know for us it was going to the shop on the weekends and
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playing around with whatever we could keep busy with what was his real passion was building and making beautifully
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crafted things many people assume he was was an engineer but he wasn't he had a degree in Fine Arts from aners college
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wow he really encouraged us to do things with our hands growing up and build
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things and have a good understanding of working with materials and shared the joy of creating things with our hands
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yeah I recall he built a really cool Christmas present for me one year which is known as the Callaway trike oh you
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can actually see it running in the credits of the video titled the genuine article which is about C Corvettes and
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with the credits rolling at the end you can see me driving the trike through the parking lot they had set up a slalom course with mobile one oil bottles but
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this interesting looking trike because it had two wheels in the front and one wheel in the rear it was fabricated from
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roughly half inch diameter steel tube and I remember him bending the steel tube around a 55 gallon drum and Welding
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this thing together which I had no idea what it was at the time but sure enough it was in the living room under the Christmas tree the next morning wow my
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sister beanie who's four years older than I am and I would spend our weekends with Dad at the shop and my first
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Corvette was a little yellow Corvette go-kart nice I must have been about 6 years old at the time wow fun memories
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of running around the shop the mechanical experiences that come along with stuff like that I remember as a p start probably a little Briggs and Strat
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engine in in this cart one day I'm P starting trying to get this thing started and sure enough the throttle it
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stuck open and it started and it took off without me I have this forever ingrained Vision in my head of the cart
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going up the driveway and making a long veering right hand turn and crashing directly into the pricker bushes oh my
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gosh to go inside tell Dad what happened but then I got to figure out what the stuck throttle man right that's fun good
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memories for sure I have another good memory at about eight years old dad had decided to set me up in the shop on one
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of the CNC machines that was configured for Milling the arrow body slats behind
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the front and rear tires in the C4 Arrow bodies this was a fixture that was set up and the course the program was
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already there and I recall he had me running these slats you loading at the fiberglass stock in running the program
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vacuuming the stuff up and then unloading it I whole long weekends of Machining those parts so you know the
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amazing part about your dad was he was self-taught which is pretty darn incredible he started Callaway cars in
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his garage right yes C cars was started in the garage in 1977 as he says in the
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back of a house that they were essentially house sitting for which didn't have a garage even built on it so
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they built a small garage and that's where the first turbo systems were constructed when he had hired friends
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from the neighborhood to come help put these kits together but I would say that it's not entirely selftaught I think
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after he graduated ammer he started a race prep and body shop in ammer with a
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friend of his Bob gray so Callaway gray was the first shop that they had had out of school he went on to work for Ray
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Caldwell at autodynamics which was the country's largest race car manufacturer
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of the time and they were building primarily formula v's and that's how he stepped his way into being the de facto
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Factory driver of the formula V is and in the beginning of that story Alex Dearborn is another influence on his
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upbringing they were building Mid Engine dune buggies based on Volkswagen Type one components called deserters this was
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a kit car that you could build and assemble yourself and the chassis were all brazed my dad learned how to braze
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their aut of Dynamics dad had wanted to learn how to do everything from any kind of fabrication to welding to Machining
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making castings that was where he really realized that his passion was building these beautiful machines that's really
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cool you know Pete your dad was on two shows of Corvette today and he really really loved being on the show but I
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know that he did a lot of work really with BMW but it was kind of the work that he did with Alfa Romeo that caught
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Chevrolet's eye wasn't it that's right that's right the Alpha Romeo gtv6 which
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was a 2.5 L nice handling little sports car of the era it just suffered from
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like most vehicles and lack of real horsepower and as I understand the story the Maserati turbo had just been
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released and Alpha was looking for a way to compete with this so they had contacted my dad and his company was
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seeing what they were doing with turbocharge systems and that was the first OE contract that Callaway cars had
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earned this was important because the Alpha Romeo had to pass all the factory durability standards as well as
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emissions compliance alpao is putting a big trust in this small group of talented folks in Old lime Connecticut
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to be able to do that within about a year's time so they could be in Market in time it came at unfortunate timing
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for Callaway by the time they finished the first 37 cars Alf Romeo was really
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struggling and they decided to pull the plug in North America and head back to Italy that was the end of the alpha
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program it left everybody in Connecticut standing around saying geez what are we going to do now we were all entirely
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focused on achieving this goal for Alpha and now the program's ended yeah it turns out that one of those 37 cars
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ended up in GM's competitive analysis Fleet and apparently did quite well they
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mclelan chief engineer of Corvette at the time called up Dad and said hey we've got this 85 Alpha 2.5 L
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six-cylinder and it's like a dead ringer for an 85 Corvette you guys have built a nice Twin Turbo System for the car us
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Corvette Engineers are trying to validate what the future is for a higher horsepower version of Corvette we're
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looking at turbocharging or we're looking at this overhead valve 4 cam development which ended up being the lt5
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for the ZR1 they said the plug's about to get pulled on the turbo effort because all the engines are failing but
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we would really like to see it at least get through validation would you guys be interested in turbocharging some
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Corvettes at that moment that was like the big call right that was the big call from GM so work began on the Corvette I
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believe that the basis for the program was to stress the rest of the vehicle as
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well for warranty data more than anything else yeah it had no initial intention of being public facing special
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version of the car that you could order through the dealers under an RP I think it really began more of as an engineering validation for the whole
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platform that's great and we're going to get more into detail on the Corvette program in segment number two of the
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show but at least that's a nice lead in it gives people something to look forward to you also Pete come from a
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very entrepreneurial family many people ask me now is Callaway cars the same as Callaway golf talk more about that and
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the relationship within the family you bet we get that question to this day all the time I bet people think that
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Callaway golf is this old historic brand that's been around forever I'd just like to point out that it was actually founded in 1982 which was after that had
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started callow cars in 1977 my grandfather elely his upbringing was in the textile industry and was running
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Burlington Industries in New York in the 60s at the time he decided the handwriting was on the wall and he was
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to find a new career path so after leaving Burlington he had an inkling that in this region of Southern
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California could be a prime area for growing varietal grapes or wine wine production he decided to leave New York
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invest in property an otherwise barely settled area of Southern California today known as Tula then known as Rancho
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California huh bought a big plot of land and had befriended and partnered with a
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local vinner who knew exactly how to establish a Vineyard everybody thought
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this was a crazy idea because Tula is quite arid it's very hot the old thinking was that this would be too hot
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for varial grapes however this certain region in Ula Valley had many years of research done by the agriculture
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department at UC Davis and they had records on this Tula Valley region which is actually only 20 mil from the coast
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as the crow flies and there's an everyday onshore flow of cool Ocean Air
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in through the valley and that was critical in that it kept the leaf temperature down of the vines which was
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essential for Quality production of the grapes coupled with rainfall which was very well known on an annual schedule
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and the soil conditions this was all formula for very good graes so he started Callaway Vineyard in 1968 and
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they built the winery a couple of years later my grandfather being a great marketer managed to get their first
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wines served at the Waldorf atoria Hotel in which the Queen of England was Independence wow so they had this dry
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white wine from Southern California being served it became immediately famous because Queen Elizabeth never had
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more than one glass of wine at these types of events she was switched to orange juice or something she requested
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a second glass of this white wine that was being served wow and all of a sudden Southern California and Callo wines was
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on the map that's amazing that's a great story so about 10 years after elely had
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started the vineyard in the winery he decided to take an offer to sell the company to hyam Walker was the comedian
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liquor giant he was now retired for the second time and looking for the next thing to keep him busy to his
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entrepreneurial Spirit my grandfather elely was always an avid golfer he found
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two gentlemen building beautifully crafted golf wedges and Putters in their basement they were using a piece of
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Hickory which was drilled down the center you know roughly 36 in Long and inserting a steel shaft known as Hickory
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Stick this was quite a challenging feat from a technical aspect to drill down a piece of wood that long and produce a
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golf club out of it so he was so impressed that he ended up buying these two guys out and they created Callaway
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Hickory Stick which then turned into Callaway golf a few years later Callaway golf this was the first the Big
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Technical Innovation there was the first metal headed woods and drivers known as the big Bera the golf company was a big
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succcess obviously yes and it was funny you you ask about the arest of the family when my grandfather told his
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children that he had this idea to name the golf club big Bera they all said oh that's a terrible idea it looks bad it
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sounds bad like it's a large gloan or something like that you know Big Bertha was actually referenced to World War I
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German Cannon of its era that's the connection to the glove right that can shoot this thing farther than anything
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else so they all told him hey that's a bad idea dad you know and look where it ended up that's great that's a great
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story didn't even know about all that that's really cool well Pete let's take our first break when we come back we're
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going to talk more about Callaway cars and its Rich history with Corvette coming up next on Corvette today we all
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docomo Steve Garrett with me today is the president of Callaway cars Pete Callaway in segment number two we're
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going to talk a lot more about Callaway cars and their history with Corvette first of all Pete you guys have three
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locations you're in Old lime Connecticut on the East Coast you're in Tula California on the west coast you also
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have a place in line Garten Germany talk about those locations and what all three of those locations do or special I in
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absolutely my dad founded the company in Old lime Connecticut his Callaway turbo systems originally the four business
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units today are Callaway cars Callaway engineering Callaway carbon and Callaway competition Callaway cars specializes in
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the production of high performance road-going automobiles primarily the Corvette emissions compliant warranty
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Etc Callaway engineering is a faet of the company that does oe Engineering
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Services for other car companies some of the other projects we've spoken about over the years callaways of diverse
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group of talented folks and we are often called upon for help in other technical
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challenges Calla carbon is the division dedicated to primarily carbon fiber
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composite structures not only Automotive but Aerospace and Military and defense applications and Callaway competition
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which is based in Li Garten Germany has been responsible for production of all the Callaway race cars over the years
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that have competed worldwide everywhere from GT Racing to 20 4 hours of lont
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sports car racing worldwide and construction of both the C6 GT3 car as
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well as the C7 GT3 car which were both authorized Constructor by GM to design
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and homologate those cars and Callaway cars the famous RPO code is B2K that
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means your Callaway Corvette is fully licensed by Chevrolet and it comes with a full factory warranty right that's
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correct RPO B2K was assigned to the twin turbo program in 1987 and it was kind of
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a secret code it wasn't in the ordering guide for dealers to configure the car you had to know the code to be able to
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put in the order the car would then drop shipped to Old lime Connecticut from bowet Green it would be converted to
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Callaway twin turbo spec and then shipped off to the dealer and you're celebrating 36 years of Callaway cars
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now too aren't you yeah yeah probably that's 36 years ago and I just say that you know in 1987 I was all 5 years old I
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know to clarify the relationship with Chevrolet and the Corvette team has always been quite informal it's always
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been a handshake and an agreement that we do what we do and we stick to it and
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they do what they do and it doesn't compromise anything on the Corvette side again back to the quality and the fact
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that the warranty can remain intact and it's supplemented by Callaway's warranty that speaks volumes to the goal of
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Callaway is always been to do the highest quality job possible retain the car's reliability but at a much higher
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performance the emissions compli client and really no funny stuff but the RPO B2K just to clarifi that was assigned to
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the twin turbo program however it wasn't used again until 2012 which was the 25th
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anniversary of Callaway Corvette it was reissued to produce 25 special editions of the car the ca Corvettes produced in
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between those erors did not carry the RPO they were built essentially as aftermarket and still distributed
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through the Calla dealer Group which is about 30 select Chevrolet dealers around
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the country and it was all done on a handshake that's pretty cool yeah between my dad and Dave mclen and it's
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remained that way B2K was also used last year in the 35th anniversary of Cal
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Corvettes and it was used for what's known as the B2K anniversary edition oh
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and interestingly it wasn't actually the RPO used rpos in the B category have an
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engineering tie in and to get this program done in the 35th year a different RPO was established called PCY
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that was done because these days new rpos to get through engineering frankly just takes too long yeah so they came up
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with the idea to assign more of a marketing RPO to it we joked that it was nice of them to choose my initials as
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Pete Callaway y car for the Corvette that's nice I like that that's awesome now Pete you've got three different
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types of Callaway cars there's turbocharged Supernatural and supercharged talk about those three
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variants absolutely it's connected to the best tech techical solution of the time right in the late 70s turbocharger
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was absolutely the best way to create positive manifold pressure people ask why after B2K why didn't we continue
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turbocharging Corvette it seemed to be such a good recipe as I understand that when the l98 engine was replaced by the
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LT1 it featured a reverse flow cooling system which basically made turbocharging a nonstarter so we started
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looking at ways to improve the efficiency of the naturally aspirated engine configuration and we duve that as
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Supernatural fast forward into the C5 generation in the beginning of the C6 we
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started looking at current supercharger technology of the day which was the fifth generation supercharger there's a
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number of things to consider when we're looking at doing this from an aftermarket perspective the supercharger in that fifth generation Eden was
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looking quite attractive here's a unit that you could remove the intake manifold from the engine install the
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supercharger unit basically all self-contained it had no requirement of changing anything on the exhaust system
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side so it's all on the cold side of the engine so from a thermal standpoint and Longevity and durability that was much
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better from an emissions compliance standpoint again you get to leave the factory manifolds and cats in place
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which was a big help for achieving emissions compliance the cost frankly was more attractive and at the end of it
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when you drove the car the really satisfying part of a supercharged car is as soon as you ask for the throttle
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you've got the Boost as opposed to a turbocharged car you have an inherent lag waiting for the Boost to build right
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and a supercharged car was being driven by the belt and a positive displacement supercharger really all the airf flow is
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available to you at a very low RPM and that made it feel like you were driving
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frankly a big naturally aspirated engine it was instantaneous gratification yeah
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and of course we can't talk about Callaway Corvettes without mentioning the sledgehammer of course of course I
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was fond memories of this one Corvette in the shop that had four Center exit super trap Mufflers as a child you know
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I was why is that one different than that one right yeah we rode around in the back of the C4 as kids as my dad
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would have told the story that the drive from the house to the shop was about six miles through the back roads of Connecticut so you'd hear us sort of
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Thump Thump Thump to one side and Thump Thump Thump to the other side little different than today's rides and Corvettes as kids I guess the
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sledgehammer was such a neat program and amazing for the time you know 24.7 6 milph in 1988 we're talking about
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configuring a car for journalists to go drive right for top speed testing you know you look back at that now I like
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wow it very dangerous those speeds any little thing going wrong this B but from
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a technical achievement the sledgehammer is great and it's such a neat Story how the intent of the car was to still look
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and drive and operate like a normal street car it also had to be able to go 250 M hour yeah aerodynamics of course
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plays a huge role in that Paul deutman is a Montreal based designer who my dad
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met Paul designed a prototype car for Porsche called the Specter my dad saw
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the specer and said wow that's a beautiful car I'd like to meet the guy who designed it so he called for a
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meeting with Paul on the first phone call my dad asked Paul do you think you can design a body that's aerodynamically
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stable for the Corvette at 250 miles per hour I think Paul took a deep breath and said well yes sir of
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course that was the beginning of a long-standing relationship Paul in fact has designed every Callaway car since
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then wow any c designed part has been designed by one man and again with a
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vision between my dad and Paul they were able to produce all the generations of caway designs which work not just
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aesthetically but of course they have to technically achieve the goal as well right the sledgehammer is really the
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embodiment of that yeah and you know what 254 miles an hour in today's standards Pete is fantastic let alone
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from 1988 that's just pretty darn amazing yeah we joke that it took Bugatti 25 years to go 2 mil per hour
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faster exactly well buddy let's take our final break when we come back in segment number three we're going to talk about
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the Callaway offerings for the C8 Corvette that's coming up next with Pete Callaway here on Corvette
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number 11 Reeves was with me on the show at the end of June in 2020 and also we
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talked about the 3 5 year anniversary of Callaway cars in episode number 148 so
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make sure you check those out but in this third and final segment we're going to talk about the C8 Corvette before we
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do that though Pete talk to me about how you got into the family business yeah going back to spending weekends in the
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shop as a kid that turned into a summer job at the shop my high school years basically did a sort of an apprentice
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program I spent time in a few different departments one fabrication and Welding engine building running the dyno testing
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dad was big on us gaining as much experience as young kids as possible that opened my eyes to a lot of
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different things and when it came time to choose what I was going to study in University I felt that engineering would
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make the most sense so I went and I ended up getting a degree in mechanical engineering after that was done we
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decided that it would make sense to expand the business and we started the
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facility in Southern California that was my job to establish the facil and grow the the West Coast operations as a way
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of expanding our dealer Network into the western region and increasing the capacity of building production
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supercharged cars gotcha also Pete let's talk about the current offerings for the C8 Corvette through Callaway cars
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absolutely it's an exciting time you know the Corvette itself has always been what we've thought is the world's best
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starting point for what we want to do with an automobile that C8 of course brings all entirely new platform being
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Mid Engine configuration even you got to say driven a stock or at C it's wildly impressive how good the car is right out
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of the box of course Callaway we need to add more power right so we've just announced our latest iteration of The
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Supercharged Callaway Corvette it's different than past Callaway Corvettes we'll talk about a few of those things
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it's the best and fastest version of the cars we've ever produced it features the generation 4 supercharger I'd like to
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get into a little bit of the technical detail on that it's quite amazing what we're able to achieve with today's latest technology we talked about
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starting with turbocharging then shift to naturally aspirated then just supercharging and today is a further
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evolution of that supercharger technology so the Gen 4 supercharger is still a positive displacement
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supercharger and what that means is that for every revolution of the supercharger itself it moves a certain volume of air
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in the previous generations that was typically a 2.3 l displacement in The Roots type supercharger in the Calaway
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gen 3 supercharger in the fourth generation of the supercharger we're actually going to a different design
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design of the rotor pack itself and this is a twin screw configuration it is a 3 l displacement the difference between a
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Roots type and a twin screw while they may look similar from the outside when you open the hood a Roots type is
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essentially more of an air pump where it's pushing the air into the engine it's being compressed in the intake
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manifold and therefore the combustion chamber after the supercharger itself whereas in a twin screw design the air
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is actually being compressed down the length of the supercharger rotors then delivered to the engine at the elevated
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pressure the difference there is that the twin screw design is actually a more efficient way of compressing and
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delivering the pressurized air to the engine and that is proven by several things but one is the data from testing
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when you compress air naturally there's a temperature rise right the better job you can do of compressing the air is to
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minimize that temperature increase it's really quite phenomenal if you look at turbocharged or supercharged cars over
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the era it's quite impressive let's just say for rough numbers what all this translates to so here's just a couple of
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numbers from our test data to share this with you because we're very happy to see these results and to share with everybody let's say you've got an airbox
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temperature of 104 degrees that gets drawn in before the throttle body right that gets drawn into the engine that's
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then at 123° go through the supercharger the compressed air has a rise to
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235° so that's 112° rise with the increase in pressure then it passes
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through the intercooler the result coming out of the intercooler is 144°
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that's a net rise of only 21° coming into the Supercharger so we're shedding off 91° across the intercooler This is
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highly more efficient than any other type of supercharger that we've tested or used in the past that's shedding
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basically 81% of the temperature that was associated with the pressure rise it's quite good and what that of course
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means is that no matter how long you stand on the throttle pedal the temperatures are controlled it doesn't
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heat soak and lose power which which is historically associated with superchargers is that they would heat soak and not make the power after really
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being driven hard for long periods of time that's basically gone now so these cars perform flawlessly driven around
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the road course or down the drag strip the temperatures are very well controlled it just speaks to the reason
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why supercharging and all these factors really explain that all that also translates to you the amount of power
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that we're making per PSI of manifold pressure is more than devious design and speaking of power talk about the
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horsepower gain and the torque gain so the stock per at 495 horsepower out of
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the lt2 we are producing 687 horsepower wow and 643 pound feet of torque you
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have to stop and think about that for a second because we're talking about 193 more horsepower than the factory engine
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without even removing the cylinder heads it speaks again volumes to talking about the best starting point and GM have done
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such a good job on powertrain development over the years I mean the bottom end can handle it the cylinder heads flow well enough we're not running
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a huge about manifold pressure you know we're talking about just sub 8psi range for making that much power is really
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phenomenal absolutely plus when you get your car Calla as I like to say it there are other options that you can order
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talk about like the widebody kit the front splitter the famous Double D exhaust and some of the other things
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that you can get with the Callaway cars that's a good point yeah so to get yourself into a Callaway Corvette it's
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primarily The Supercharged package that we spoke about that comes along with the branding of the vehicle there's build
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plaque with a VIN number engraved cars are serialized there's anodized aluminum threshold panels other options after
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that are really menu driven options it's all very much all c yeah those can be
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groups of aerodynamic components mechanical components suspension wheel tire brake we have a nice widebody
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package that we've just shown at Carlile this year the main idea there was let's offer a package that is visually
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pleasing of course but also allows us to run a larger wheel entire package so now
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you can have a supercharged Callaway Stingray but configure it so that it has the same tire that comes on as 06 Nice
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Pete all this is great what is in the future for Callaway cars now the future is wide open as we say there's a lot of
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questions about as the industry goes from internal combustion engines to electrified where does Callaway fit in
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and I think that we are pretty good at adapting to the current market and finding clever Technical Solutions to no
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matter what it is that we're working on very interesting though is the concept of what will you do with the r-ray being
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electric assistance to the front wheels of course while the car is brand new from GM we haven't had any chance to
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evaluate at the moment but theoretically it's a stingray with an independent electric assist to the front axle the
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internal combustion power Trin is what comes in the stingray so theoretically Callaway supercharged eay could make
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sense now do you still add the 160 horsepower and the 125 PB feet to the
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Callaway numbers well if you did that would mean 847 horsepower and 768 pound
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feet now I'm not saying that's what's going to be available or that's going to be the final configuration but from a
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high level that looks pretty enticing yeah in all-wheel drive configuration of a Corvette that's amazing those are
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mindboggling numbers that's hard to believe secondary to that we are looking
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at the C8 and really thinking that a track day only version of the car would
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be another product offering that makes sense for the Callaway fit especially with the history and competition side
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and Motorsports tie-in and the experiential side for consumers as you know if you buy a new Corvette you're
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encouraged to go attend the Corvette driving school at Spring Mountain and most folks Come Away With A great
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experience and are probably looking for more that's driving a street car on the track and as you progress as a driver
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being in a road car and road tires you work up to a level where you're ready for more we would like to develop
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something that would would be just that something as track dedicated car as your skill increases and you're wanting more
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performance have a car that is mechanically sound it's lighter weight it's got proper safety it's got the
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ability to run on a slick Tire with improved chassis componentry and the experience of being in a real track
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prepared car is totally different than driving a stock Road car on track so there's a nice program available that
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you could sign up to be part either own a Callaway dedicated track car or to have more of an arrive and drive program
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where you can come and work your driver skills up at different tracks around the country and not have to worry about the
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car ownership that's a thought for the next iterations of the car you know the Z06 could play into that quite well man
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that sounds good to me now how long does this entire process take Pete the build process for callow Corvette is typically
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about two weeks depending on the options okay doing the widebody and adds a little more time the pieces are attached
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to the existing fenders and quarter panels so that it doesn't require repainting of any of the factory body work that's great the panels are all
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crafted in carbon fiber and it's beautifully meticulously made you know no Distortion in the weave the parts are
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very high quality and they look great typically leave them clear coated carbon fiber contrast against the Corvette's
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body colors looks great or as an option they could be painted body color to match both configurations are shown on
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our website galleries but that really gives the car a nice muscular stance and of course the benefit of running a wider
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Wheel and Tire and it looked great at Carlile boy that was an awesome looking car and that leads me into my final
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question if someone wants to get their car Callaway as I say where can they do that how can they get in touch with
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Callaway cars yeah absolutely uh Shameless plug here so Callaway cars.com you can reach out by phone or text
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follow us on various social media channels at Callaway cars there's really three ways of getting your Callaway
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typically the cars are ordered by our Callaway dealers they would put in a new order for you it would be built to your
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specifications in Bowling Green it then has a Callaway drop shipped code so it would either get drop shipped to
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California or Connecticut depending where you would like to take delivery the car or get shipped back to you and then it's shipped back to you or your
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dealer or you can fly in and take Factory delivery and get a tour through the shop and go over the car that's the
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most common method if you already own a C8 that's fine so long as the car is in sound mechanical condition and it hasn't
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been otherwise modified you're welcome to send us your existing C8 and all the same delivery options or if you need
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help find a car you know there's still a big demand for Corvettes it can be tricky we can work with you in Source
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you the vehicle and turn into a much faster very special version of the car absolutely Pete thank you so much for
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taking the time to be on Corvette today we miss your dad it was a huge loss in the Corvette World and the automotive
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industry it's good to see you at the Helm of the company taking Callaway cars forward oh thank you so much Steve that
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