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CORVETTE TODAY #193 - Corvette News & Headlines, Late December 2023
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May 8, 2025
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headlines with my pal Keith cornette from Corvette blogger.com Keith and I get together every other week and we
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keep you current and up toate on what's happening with America Sports Car Keith Merry Christmas buddy how are you doing
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great today Steve Merry Christmas to you as well and your family I am just excited we had a great year there's so
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much promise and opportunity coming next year so there's a lot of great things happening so I'm very optimistic about
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the outlook for Corvette me too and it's a unique week because the show releases on Christmas Day I mean Christmas day
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comes on the day of the show but it's also the week between Christmas and New Year's too so it's a very unique year as
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far as the holidays go yes it's a fun time period you know you're surrounded by family and friends other things
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aren't quite as important as they are during the normal course of the year so he kind of gives you a chance to reflect and do some things and we hoping for
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some big things to happen in 2024 for us personally with Corvettes as well so stay tuned for that absolutely the good
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thing is you still got a Corvette Today Show coming out on Monday even though it's Christmas day that's your Christmas
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present from Keith and Steve there you go that's exactly right well buddy let's start off the show like we always do
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let's get an update on production from the Bowling Green assembly plant absolutely so we're headed into the home stretch for 2023 Corvette production
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remains very strong looking at the VIN counts we have 8,177 stingrays built and we have
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another 2736 z06's for a total of 10,913 you know if you take those two
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numbers we're operating at roughly 75% sting rays and 25% z6s again these
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counts are just coming out very strong each day we're seeing 185 195 per day
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most days interruptions are still happening we saw back on December 15th just 109 that was a Friday so just 109
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were completed but then on the flip side looking at December's production December 5th they did 214 which included
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69 z6s so when they have everything they do have the ability to pump them out and then of course there was three e-rays
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that were built last week as well so looks like it's all starting to come together and there there's some good news coming up that we'll talk about
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well it's really cool because we were kind of stunned that we all of a sudden got eay production ramped up and going
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weren't we yeah we got the news late on Monday December 11th that two were already on the assembly line and then by
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that Wednesday the daily tracker report from Robert Keel confirmed that there were a total of three eays completed for
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the week now since those first three eays were completed we haven't seen any more go down the line that kind of leads
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into our assumption that Chevy wanted to say that eay production started in 20123 which is what it was planned for we
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really start to see regular eay production ramping up probably the week of January 88th I don't know what it
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really in store I think there was some tpws for that week of 1 most of the stuff we're starting to see is the we
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week of 1 18 January 8th okay and a couple people have been posting that their tpws have changed from 3,000
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status to 3,300 which means scheduled for production so that's the last notice they get before their car gets produced
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it looks like that's really starting to happen also exciting is that we got a heads up on all this from the Detroit
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news and they said that they had a employee memo that went out to everybody working at the plant saying that when
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the EAS start down the line there's going to be filming happening in the plant so just know that that's going on all that stuff should be coming up here
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shortly that's pretty exciting and of course remember that that first eray was purchased by Rick Hendrick at Barett Jackson Palm Beach in April for 1.15
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million and those funds went to Charities he has a thing for black Corvettes we saw a black ZO6 come off the line first that was his most likely
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we're going to see a black eay coming off the line Chevy will share those photos sooner rather than later I'd love
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to see some video we'll put some of that video on the YouTube version of Corvette today that would be fun of course we got
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the good news about the eay then we got the constraints for December for Stingray and ZO6 yeah so only one order
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cycle in December for Corvettes and if you recall there were no r-ray allocations just dealers getting numbers for Stingray and Z6 and actually the
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stingray numbers were huge so the constraints the dealers received on December 14th were just for those two
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models but there's really good news especially if you're a Z06 buyer wanting z07 but first with Stingray orders we're
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seeing a split again the non z51 versus z51 they've got numbers next to them dealers are being told you can order
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number of nons versus the z51 performance packages so that's still kind of happening but the numbers are healthy enough that I don't see people
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really being too Limited in that we also have gloss black wheels and the fa5 interior level one carbon fiber package
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which are available but with limitations some of the stuff that's not available is like that Tech bronze package the
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wheels the stripes things like that okay maybe they're just starting that up that might be the case there but the real big
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news for ZO6 is we're not seeing any constraints on the cfv and the cfz ground effects or the visible carbon
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fiber arrow for z7 the only the painted carbon fiber arrow is constrained which is backwards of my book Steve you you
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get a blemish on visible carbon fiber you paint it carbon Flash and you're set right yeah but it's the opposite we have
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all these visible carbon fiber Arrow packages but we don't have the painted carbon Flash the good news for a dealer
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let's say dealer get five Z6 allocations last month for December they could actually order five z7s as long as the
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buyers were selecting the visible carbon fiber arrow and the ground effects that's really good news we've not seen
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that for a little while here we hope that that stands our next order cycle for Corvettes happens later in January
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towards the end of the month so we're actually hoping to see even more improvements by then it seems like Corvette and Chevrolet have kind of
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solved the problem of the visible carbon fiber and keiith you know me there's never enough carbon fiber to go around
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yeah but it's you know it's been cyclical where it seems like they fixed it then all of a sudden we get hit again with major constraints and stuff I don't
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know if that's an industry thing that's happening on the composite side of the business or if it's just all of a sudden
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the demand goes way up high and then they shoot through their supplies and then we're stuck to waiting for the trucks to come again exactly hopefully
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we are seeing the flip side that just more is available the other talk too is that once the e- come down where is that
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production going to come from is it going to come from The Sting Ray or is it going to come from the z6s I think it's going to come from a little bit of
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both but it helps the z6s by constraining the numbers of cars that are built anyways for Z6 owners they
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love it because not as many cars out there their cars retain their values higher longer sure and then of course
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for eay owners they're not buying that heavy Arrow package none of that stuff's really available for the eay it's mostly
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like the interior carbon packages you do have the carbon fiber wheels and some of the other things for the most part I think it's going to slot in rather
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nicely the uray with the stingray and the Z6 production based on the numbers we've seen the last few weeks we're
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really excited to see how that's going to happen and just to say this one more time they are expecting a slow ramp bu with eay production it could be a few
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months before we get any real semblance of what those real numbers are going to be that's true speaking of eay Keith the
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drive has named the eay the best performance car for 2024 yeah we're hoping that this is again the start of a
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bunch of awards and people testing these cars and seeing how good it is they beat out the Porsche 9911 to car which is
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that off-road Porsche oh it beat the Ford Mustang Dark Horse the Acura Integra Type S and the McLaren artura
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which is a new car from McLaren as well here's what they said about it I really do enjoy what they said about it they said the eay is easily the cheapest
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hybrid Supercar out there and it's quicker than many of them too for God's sake it's as quick as his 60 miles per
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hour as the McLaren P1 but for less than one 10 the price and then they also said this keep in mind that for the 106 595
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that the eay starts at you can't even get a base por 911 for that amount that's right congratulations again to
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the eay we're hoping that this will be many awards for Chevy's first performance hybrid sports car like to see more yeah always we'll take as many
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awards as possible thank you very much right also Keith Chevrolet is officially out of the attainable performance car
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game what the heck does that mean first of all this is one of our most read articles of the year it was written by
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Alex Summers my guy from Colorado he's a Camaro owner and he's lamenting the fact that the Camaro ended production
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officially this month right what's happened is the fact with with the Camaro ceasing production Chevrolet no
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longer provides any affordable V8 powered vehicles he says back in 2017 you could join the va8 club in a Camaro
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for just $36,900 right now with the Camaro gone you know you get the base Corvette for $770,000 which is nearly double it's
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like 87% of the price he also says that back in 2017 you can walk into a Chevy dealer there would be six different
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Vehicles powered by the small block V8 which included Camaro Corvette and that Chevy SS sedan and now the push is in
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the other direction where you have all these high horsepower Vehicles selling for well over $100,000 what are we going
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to see when the ZR1 or the zor come in will they be $150,000 or the $200,000
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I'm really afraid that Alex is correct in saying that Chevrolet is now out of the attainable performance car game for
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those that really want a V8 powered vehicle well that all makes sense that's for sure well buddy let's take our first
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what's happening in the world of Corvette in segment number two we always cover Corvette racing and Corvette
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rumors Keith Corvette Racing's chassis number one went back to Bowling Green that was kind of a cool deal with some
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nice pictures too yeah we caught this news from racing driver Tommy Milner he shared photos of the Corvette Z06 GT3
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racer this is chassis number one and it was on display inside the Bowling Green assembly plant mid December Tommy writes
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the line at Bowling Green special day to get a tour of the facility and show the men and women who make these production
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little special when they bring the car back and give people a chance to see the car completed as well as talk to Tommy
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Tommy's the development driver for the car he has more time in it than probably anyone so he's getting ready to join the
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full-time staff for Corvette racing again in January nice way to show thanks to where it does start off the line of
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course the gt3s RS contain a whole bunch of production parts from the street cars
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so it's a lot more than what we've seen previously with the c8r right definitely and also AWA revealed their Corvette
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Livery for the upcoming season as well yep Canadian team AWA racing they're racing in imsa's GTD amateur class with
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two Z6 gt3r Racers and they released their Livery design one of these cars will be painted the traditional yellow
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and black although it's different from the way the Corvette racing is a lot more black on the sides you can tell the
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difference but you're going to see that front end with that yellow and right away You're Gonna think Corvette racing no no AWA it's kind of like Cadillac had
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a yellow car this year even in the top class and occasionally you'd see it and see is that the Corvette no no no no
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it's Cadillac there's going to be a little bit of that going on their other car is painted a dark green with a red
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stripe down the middle and then a white and black accents around it too that's kind of the same colors I think they've been running in lmp3 so they wanted to
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and yellow car I know is number 13 I don't know how lucky that number is but we're going to be wishing the best form
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yeah definitely in the rumor section Keith did we set a new world record for a C8 Corvette in a quarter mile well
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this was a fun story that caused us to look back at 2021 and 2022 and there were several tuners and Builders trying
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to get that Corvette Stingray faster they did it quarter mile at a time we had players like extreme turbo systems
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they were the first to get into the nines of course Amilia Hartford she had the record for six months or so fuel
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were all jockeying we'd see some different position something would happen fuel Tech USA would be the first in the e in the quarter mile with a time
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of 8.97 3 seconds at 160 mph soon after their record was eclipsed by late model
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racecraft with a time of 8.83 3 seconds at 160 mph so again we're talking about the Corvette Stingray the video that
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came out last week was the return of extreme turbo systems back to the track they ran a quarter mile with their Twin
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wild too because there's another run that they show first and that sting race front end really pops a wheelie and
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driving with a wheelie down the drag strip wow that's making a whole lot of power there it was so much fun watching
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these records fall we really were hoping to see a lot more of that with the 6 we kind of saw just a little bit of it but
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people keep saying that engine's just too good to tune or it sounds too good to make changes to and so that makes me
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wonder if where the eay because it is the lt2 V8 people won't be as afraid to modify that put a procharger on it put
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some turbos on it and then get the all-wheel drive to talk somehow with the other system so should be interesting to
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see how that works out but we'd like to see more record I think this is a lot of fun for people this story did very well for us as well so I think people really
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always talk about the lighter side of Corvette Keith let's start off with a couple stories about the National Corvette Museum first of all they did
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announce their 2024 exhibit an event schedule which I'm glad to see came early yeah it gives you some time to
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make some plans there's some good stuff happening in 2024 of course next year is the 30th anniversary of the National Corvette Museum that means that the 2024
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National Corvette Caravan is happening in late August that's going to be a really big event you know brings 5,000
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Corvettes or so to the National Corvette Museum for their anniversary show in August I was there four years ago for
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the last one it was a lot of fun bringing in all those new people many people have never been to the museum before of course all those cars making a
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Target Rich environment M for looking at cool license plates or mods or exciting new pain jobs or W it's just a really
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fun time so really looking forward to that and then also 2024 is the 10y year anniversary of the infamous sinkhole
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that opened up in swallowed eight Corvettes wow there's G to be a special display to mark that occasion some of the other events March 15th are going to
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have an art show called luster realism and hyperrealism in contemporary automotive and motorcycle painting
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they'll display like 55 paintings by realists and Hyper realists whose favorite subjects are cars and motorcycles something a little bit
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different there 55 paintings that's a lot to look at there's going to be some good stuff there I'm sure my favorite show the NCM bash is on the schedule for
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April 25th through the 27th I've already got my plane tickets and the hotel booked for that that's always a great
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show to be at the veterans will again be celebrated during military appreciation month which runs the month of May and
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then the year will close out in October with they did that American love affair which was a multimedia presentation and
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then they've got a new one coming out called pop culture and the Corvette and it'll include that new multimedia performance in the Skydome with with
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those display panels that go around the circular building should be pretty cool there that's what's coming for the
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Corvette museum in 2024 as a matter of fact we'll have a Corvette today teaser at the end of January Mariah Hughes the
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marketing manager for the National Corvette Museum will be on Corvette today with me and talk a little bit more
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in- depth about everything that Keith just covered so make sure you mark your calendar for the end of January for that
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show coming up on Corvette today the other news at the National Corvette Museum I was glad to see we have a new
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rhc delivery manager don't we yeah join me in welcoming Rod Keller who is the Corvette Museum's new senior Corvette
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delivery experience manager and Rod's taking over for Shane Webb who has led the delivery program for the last few years I think Shane's been there at
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least since 2015 and maybe even longer Shane will be staying on at the Museum and we thank him obviously for his high
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work on behalf of Corvette buyers doing the RAC deliveries and we find out a lot of information because the RAC
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deliveries are so different and there's a really good communication that happens usually between the museum and the
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buyers that's how we find out certain things like tpws for the eay where everybody else just has a status really
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thank you Shane for everything that he did here Rod Keller he brings Decades of experience in sales operations customer
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service and team leadership experience according to the museum he said he's an avid Corvette Enthusiast a member of
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Florida's Pon Inlet Corvette club which I think is over in Valia County he currently owns a 2015 coupe which is his
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fifth he's a longtime supporter of the National Corvette Museum and he was part of the ncm's grand opening in 1994
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somebody with a lot of Corvette gravitas sounds like is going to be leading the delivery program experience so good to have him again thanks to Shane for all
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he did and Rod is a faithful follower of Corvette today he loves the show loves our news and headlines show Rod has
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already reached out to me to tell me about his new appointment there at the National Corvette Museum oh good rod
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congratulations we look forward to having you on the show sometime soon yeah I'll have to listen to that one for sure absolutely also for our friends in
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the great white North Corvette wins the Canada blackbook as the best retained value car for 2023 yeah this is always a
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fun award name won their category which is sports car luxury it was the 16th annual Canadian black book and they do
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best retain value Awards which means that they're honoring Vehicles predicted to retain the highest percentage of
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original MSRP in 2027 so this is four years after today's cars are being sold
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but there's a lot of history there and they really know how to take a look at those numbers for this year we beat out
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the Porsche 911 and the Porsche 718 Boxster for that award wow good for Corvette and Canadian buyers you know
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you're buying a car you're gonna have a great retained values for up to four years after and probably longer I like
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the way they think buddy that's pretty cool our final story Keith again City
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Chevrolet was named the Chevrolet dealer of the year yeah so each year Chevy Awards its most outstanding dealerships
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the coveted dealer of the Year award it's really the most prestigious award a Chevrolet dealership can receive from
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Chevrolet there's 2903 dealers in the country only 60 of them were named
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dealer of the year and it's a really big deal winners receive a trophy and Banner that can be displayed in the dealership
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as we saw down at City chevrol leet they closed the store for the afternoon all 185 some employees came in Mr hendrik
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was there members of Chevrolet were there they said it was a big deal for them this time because they haven't been able to celebrate because of Co before
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so this is really the first time they've been able to do this huge gathering with everybody you know kind of an all hands
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on debt kind of thing and again for Mr hendrik to come and he takes a ton of photos shakes everybody's hands this was
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his very first dealership that he bought back in 19 78 and it became the spring board for the hendrik Automotive Group
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which is now over a 100 dealerships I think they're one of the top five dealer groups in the country congratulations to
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them this was their seventh consecutive year to be named dealer of the year and it was the 13th time overall they're
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real proud of it we are glad to feature them they've been good friends of ours of course Rick cruzo is there he handles
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the Corvette sales good guy to know so if you're looking for a Corvette you're in the Charlotte area give Ricky call absolutely well congratulations to them
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Keith thank you for being back on the show and Merry Christmas buddy well Merry Christmas have a happy New Year
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Steve I always look forward to these dates there're so much fun for us thank you again for everybody that comes up to us when we see him you know you listen
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