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CORVETTE TODAY #235 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid October 2024
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Jul 12, 2025
CORVETTE TODAY #235 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid-October 2024 First, my thoughts and prayers go out to my News & Headlines partner, Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger. Keith lives in Tampa, Florida was is in the path of Hurricane Milton. So he is not on this show. Nonetheless, our every-other-week News & Headlines show is available now on podcast and YouTube! As we continue on with our 5th year of the ever-popular News & Headlines shows, here are some of the topics that are discussed by Steve Garrett, your CORVETTE TODAY host. 1. Temporary workers at the Bowling Green Assembly Plant could be let go due to a disagreement with the local UAW. 2. Chevrolet releases a new ZR1 video 3. A new C8 software update requires a visit to your dealership
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and headlines. Usually Keith Cornet from
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other week. Keith lives in Tampa,
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Florida, and Keith has suffered from not
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only Hurricane Helen, but also Hurricane
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Milton. He's in the middle of recovery
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for Hurricane Milton. He has no power at
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the house, but everything looks pretty
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good. I wish Keith and his family and
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everybody in Florida a speedy recovery.
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But we do have Corvette news and
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headlines. Let's start off with the
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latest Corvette production update from
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the Bowling Green assembly plant. In
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looking over Richard Ke's graphics, it
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looks like last week in Stingrays. Now,
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these are 2025 cars. They produced 740
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Stingrays. The week before 714. I want
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to give you the last two week update
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because we reported on this two weeks
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ago. That makes,454
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stingrays in the last two weeks. Z06s,
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last week we did 51 Z06s and the week
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before that was 115 Z06s for a total of
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166. With E-Rays, last week they
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produced 45 E-rays. The week before
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50-rays for a total of 95. So, it looks
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like production for the 2025 model year
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is going along pretty good. In studying
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this graphic that Richard Keel puts out,
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it looks like the first two weeks of the
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month go along pretty regularly, but it
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looks like the last two weeks of every
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month, it seems like production really
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ramps up really, really hard. So, I
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think numbers look pretty good and
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things are going along pretty well. I
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think that if you're getting a stingray,
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you got lots to choose from. Also in the
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news, there's a story about temporary
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workers at the Bowling Green Assembly
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Plant may be let go due to a
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disagreement with the local UAW. Here's
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the backstory on that. There's about 25
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workers at the Bowling Green assembly
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plant and then about 275 workers at the
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Fort Wayne assembly plant in Indiana
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where Chevrolet makes the Silverado and
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the GMC Sierra pickup. Basically, what's
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going on here is GM recently had sent
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letters to local UAW leaders telling
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them that if they didn't sign letters of
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agreement, keeping the workers as
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part-time temporary workers instead of
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making them full-time temps or permanent
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workers, they would be let go by the end
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of last month. And that's according to a
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story from the Detroit Free Press.
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There's a GM spokesperson named Tara
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Counan that said in a statement last
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week, "Without those signed agreements,
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provisions for the 2019 National UAW GM
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contract allow the release of these
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temporary workers at both of these
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plants. In fact, the temporary workers
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at Bowling Green Assembly have also
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received a letter on September 27th
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saying that would be their last day." GM
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told the plant manager at Bowling Green
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Assembly that he can have up to 80
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full-time temporary people going forward
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for the next quarter, but he's not
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willing and wants to keep them
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part-time. The union doesn't want to
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string these people along as part-timers
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when you can make them full-time. As a
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matter of fact, the Bowling Green
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assembly plant is understaffed and has
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full-time openings. And especially with
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the ZR1 coming out, when you have a
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first launch like that, a product like
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that takes a lot of manpower. We'll keep
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on top of that story and find out more
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and report back as we get more
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information. Also, Chevrolet dropped a
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new ZR1 video late last week. It's in
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the Corvette Insider series. This video
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featured ZR1 lead development engineer
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Chris Barber. He talks about the turbo
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driving experience of the new ZR1 and
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how it can either be a borderline race
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car or a daily commuter vehicle. And I
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quote here from Chris Barber. I think
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the most memorable thing about the ZR1
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is going to be the turbo experience.
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Turbo engines respond, you know, very
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differently from naturally aspirated
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engines. And we wanted to make the
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behavior. And I think we really hit the
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mark with this one. The ZR1 does not
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taper off. It's very, very fast. And it
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just continues to pull and really sets
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itself apart from the competitions at
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that high speed. Unreal performance is
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hard to put into words, and the Corvette
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ZR1 is a turbocharged superstar that
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doesn't taper off. It's both a commuter
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car and a street legal borderline race
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car. Chris Barber again is the lead
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development engineer and he explains how
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it sets itself apart with 1,000 plus
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horsepower at those speeds. As a matter
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of fact, coming up on Corvette today
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within the next four weeks, we'll have
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Corvette brand manager Harlon Charles
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talking about the CR1. And we'll also
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have Jordan Lee, the global chief
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engineer for small block engines for
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General Motors. And also Dustin Gardner,
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the assistant chief engineer for small
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block engines for General Motors on the
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show talking about the new ZR1. That's
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coming up real soon. Also, speaking of
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the ZR1, if you're wondering why there's
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no active arrow, our retired executive
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chief engineer Taj Jucker explains that.
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And it's really pretty simple. For
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years, there's been a rumor about the
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eighth generation Corvette ZR1 having
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active arrow. Now that it's a,64
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horsepower and has officially been
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unveiled, there's no active arrow system
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to be found. Taj explains it's a very,
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very simple explanation. He said in a
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nutshell, no active arrow because the
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fixed arrow that you see on Corvette
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race cars does the trick. It's very,
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very powerful. The lift to drag ratio is
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really good. He says his engineering
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team discovered that during development,
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Active Arrow would have been just for
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aesthetic purposes, which really goes
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against Corvette's entire thinking and
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philosophy. Taj says almost every Active
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Arrow system that we've had the
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opportunity to test, is there to make an
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aesthetic possible. So, when the active
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arrow is deployed, it's both lower drag
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and more downforce. Because it achieves
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both, why not just leave it deployed all
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the time? That makes good common sense,
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doesn't it? Taj also says it's not like
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trading one for the other, so why not
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leave it on all the time? That makes
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sense to me, too. Our final news story.
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Chevy has sent out an email saying that
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there's a new software update
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notification that requires a visit to
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the dealership. So, one of the
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advantages of GM's global B electrical
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architecture is that the new C8 Corvette
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can handle large amounts of data over
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the air. So, Chevrolet has issued a TSB,
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a technical service bulletin, and
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updates your BCM software. It says the
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BCM software in certain cars may be
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preventing over-the-air updates from
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progressing past the initial step. The
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reason they want you to go to a
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dealership is that this update
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specifically targets the OTAA update
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system. The new updates can be flashed
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on your Corvette. The software update
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should help fix those issues where the
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battery may drain while the update is
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being installed. If the battery drains
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take less than an hour. As a matter of
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now from Hurricane Helen and also
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Hurricane Melton. In this second
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racing and Corvette rumors. First off,
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we'll talk about Corvette racing. We had
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a race on Saturday last week. It's the
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Petite Lama done at Road Atlanta. As a
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matter of fact, three of the first year
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will be their final race for 2024. the
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Saturday. Since we record this on
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Friday, the day before the race, we'll
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have the final results for you on the
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next news and headline show coming up in
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number three Corvette. Tommy Milner,
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Nikki Catsburg, and Earl Bamber will be
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Again, we'll give you results coming up
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on Corvette today. In the rumors
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Z06 time on the Nurburg Ring? Well,
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Christian Ghart from the German auto
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Spec C8 Z06 on the Nurburg Ring in
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Norwich lap was recorded and it was the
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fastest autoport lap time in the 2024
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says you'll be able to read the results
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two weeks or so we'll have that and
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we'll post a video of it when it becomes
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And now back to Corvette Today with your
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I'm your host Steve Garrett. Usually
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Keith Cornet is with me. This is the
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very first time in over five years that
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unfortunately Keith had to miss. He was
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right in the line of Hurricane Milton.
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So Keith is back home recovering from
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the hurricane. In this third and final
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segment, we always talk about the
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lighter side of Corvette and this story
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is really, really cool. A complete set
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of C4 ZR1s headed to Barrett Jackson in
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Scottsdale last weekend. Now, obviously,
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we don't have the results of this
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because we recorded the day before on
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Friday, but this is really, really cool
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because they come from Montana collector
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Dave Wrestler. Dave has always been
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really well known in the Corvette
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industry and the collector industry. He
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sadly passed away in 2017. So, now his
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family is starting the beginning of
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selling off his extensive collection. He
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has a complete set of ZR1s that are all
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Bloomington Gold. They either have two
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or three miles on the odometer. Heck,
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some even have plastic still on the door
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sills. But let me go over these ZR1's
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because they are really, really amazing.
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The first one is a 1990 black black ZR1.
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The second one is a 1991 blue steel and
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blue ZR1. Then he also has a 1992
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white-on-white ZR1. And there's also a
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40th anniversary 1993 ZR1. Also in there
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is a 1994 Polo Green with a beige
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interior ZR1, a 1995 competition yellow
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and beige interior ZR1. These cars are
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really cool and people are lining up to
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get these cars in the next news and
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headline show. We will let you know what
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they sold for here on Corvette today.
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Also, one of the new options available
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for the 2025 Corvette is an engine
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specifications plaque that gets
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installed inside the engine bay. And we
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got our first look at it for the Z06.
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The plaque offers engine specs about the
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LT6 Z06 engine. They will also have it
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for the LT2 Stingray and the -ray, but
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right now the LPO code is SL9 and it's
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only $95, which is pretty cool. Right
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now, they've got Z06 out, but basically
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it sits on the seal right between the
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engine bay and the trunk area. The GM
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part number for it is 8781862.
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87818062.
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We've only seen the Z06 spec plaque so
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far, but we're looking for the Stingray
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and -ray, which I'm sure will be coming
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out pretty soon. Our final story, I want
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to talk a little bit more about Keith
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Cornet. As I told you earlier, Keith
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lives in Tampa, and he's been in two
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hurricanes in just 13 days. With Helen,
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he almost lost his 66 Corvette. That was
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his father's car. Unfortunately, Keith
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has been having some carburetor problems
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with the Corvette, so he left the
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Corvette in the garage during Helen and
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it almost came up and took the car.
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Luckily, it didn't. It only came up
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about 6 in. So, he was saved from that.
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But, they had to pull his wife's horse,
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there too many horses, out of the farm
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area in the back and put them into the
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backyard because there's only about 3 in
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of water in the backyard. Ironically,
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Keith also has a koi pond, and he said
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there are some fish swimming in the
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backyard, but once the water receded,
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they all went back into the pond, which
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worked out really, really well. They did
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have a pig that didn't make it, and they
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have honeybee hives that also got wiped
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out as well. Luckily, the water receded.
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I'm not sure exactly how he's doing with
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Hurricane Milton. I know that it was a
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much bigger storm, so they're in the
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process of recovering from that. We wish
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Keith and everybody in the state of
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Florida, not just Corvette owners, the
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very, very best. Hopefully, you haven't
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been totally devastated. You'll get
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power back and everything can come back
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and you can recover very quickly. I know
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that for Hurricane Milton, Keith was
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able to move the Corvette into higher
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ground into a public garage for parking
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amongst a lot of Corvettes, Ferraris,
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and Porsches. Thanks for listening to
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our news and headlines show. All the
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best goes out to my buddy Keith Cornet
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at Corvette Blogger. hopefully a speedy
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recovery for them and everybody in
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Florida. We will talk to you again in
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two weeks. Thanks again for listening
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and watching Corvette Today. And be sure
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