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CORVETTE TODAY #251 - Corvette News & Headlines, Early February 2025
As we make our way through winter, Corvette news has not slowed down.
Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, is joined by Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger once again to bring you stories like these and many more.
1. GM announces four new appearance packages for 2025
2. C8 ZR1 pre-orders started January 23rd
3. Corvette Racing at the Rolex 24
4. NCM Motorsports Park and Pratt & Miller announce Corvette Racing Fantasy Camp
5. Rick Hendrick purchases C8 ZR1 for $3.7 million at Barrett Jackson
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corvette blogger.com. As you know, Keith is with me every other week and we keep you current and uptodate on what's
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happening with America sports car. Keith, welcome back to the show, buddy. It was a monumental week last week.
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Episode number 250 for Corvette today and the beginning of year number six will happen in midappril just a couple
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months away. Well, the amazing thing is, you know, and and I had the same process when I was talking about starting the blog is
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is there enough news out there? Is there enough interesting people out there and now that you're 250 episodes, I know
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that you've done a couple people a few times, but there is such a wide bandwidth that you can apply to the Corvette hobby. So, I mean, there are
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stories everywhere. So again, kudos to you, Steve, for taking on this project and really turning it into. I know people that tune in every Monday for the
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show. It's just fantastic for you. And congratulations again on that milestone. Thank you, buddy. As a matter of fact, after 250 episodes, we've never
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duplicated any episode. So, whatever episode you listen to, know it's a single episode. It's not a duplicated
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episode, which is pretty darn cool. Yeah. All right, buddy. Let's start off like we always do. Let's get a production update on Corvettes from the Bowling
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Green assembly plant. That's good. So, our numbers take us almost to the end of the month and production we see is still running very
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strong. We actually went back and looked. The plant has been averaging around 156 Corvettes completed per day
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over the past 2 weeks. Currently, we stand at 8,736 stingrays, 3,579
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Z06s, and 1,246 - based on the latest bin count. That's
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a great total of 13,561 Corvettes produced so far for 2025 model year. One of the interesting things is
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that I saw that 156 Corvettes being produced averely per day. So I went back and looked at what January and February
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was in 2024 and we were building roughly 200 and some Corvettes per day.
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Huh. That's a reduction of about 50 cars over the two shifts. So it does feel like some steps are being taken to slow
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down the production of the Stingrays. We see these dealers offering upwards of 15% off of MSRP for discounts. 2024s are
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still out there. So, if you're looking for a good deal, that's where I would go is look at those 2024 selling dealer a lot. But, it does feel like steps are
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being taken to slow down that production. And hopefully, we'll see an emphasis then with the ZR1 coming, shifting more towards the widebody
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production. Of course, GM makes really some great money on these Corvettes that all start north of $100,000 with the
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base Stingray. They sell more of those than any other car, but the market's saturated. So, we're really excited about ZR1 coming online. The -ays have
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been very steady with their production numbers and of course the Z06s they're building about 50 a day or so.
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Yeah, it all seems pretty good so far and again we're just watching latest constraints and all that stuff but production still running strong.
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That's good. And speaking of ZR1, pre-orders went in on January 23rd. Yeah, so we're getting closer to the
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official ZR1 order cycle. Starts on February 13th, but GM opened the order
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bank for pre-orders on January 23rd. Now, these orders all go in at status 1100, and they're not really official
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until that order is matched to a dealer's allocation, which is coming February 13th. Some dealers like to get
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those customer orders in early. It does allow GM to see what customers want on their cars. Someone said, "It's not
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worth the paper to print it on, but you're there." We hear people all the time now on Facebook and stuff saying, "I've got a ZR1 allocation." No, you
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don't. You've got a spot in line. We'll wait to see what allocations are. We expect them to be very loose starting
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off with and then just sort of ramping up there, right? We also have some other news. Chevrolet told dealers they will be
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receiving the ZR1 playbook. This is a helpful PDF guide outlining all the equipment for the car and ordering. You
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generally we don't see that. That's for dealers. But a big thing that's coming up for buyers will be the configurator
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will go live on Chevrolet.com on February 11th. Nice. Just before those allocations come out,
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we'll all be able to build our cars. And I know we're going to do a couple sample builds and share those among our riders
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here at Corvette Bloggers. So that's always fun. Now, there is some bad news regarding ZR1 ordering. As Chevrolet has
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already notified dealers that the ZR1's visible carbon fiber wheels, these are exclusive only to the ZR1. These wheels
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will be on 100% constraint when ordering opens. They are listed as a late availability. So, there's actually no
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telling when these wheels will show up. And of course, we always see these issues with carbon fiber arrow bits as
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well. So, be watching that. But Chevrolet came out and said, don't expect carbon fiber wheels when ordering opens. Our advice is if you really want
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one of the first ZR1s and you get that allocation, just be prepared to be flexible because demand's going to be high, initial allocations will be low.
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And then, of course, one of the lessons we've learned over the past few years is that many of the things that the buyers missed out on due to constraints can be
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purchased later through Chevrolet's parts department or the aftermarket. So, keep that in mind. And of course, adding a set of wheels after the fact is very
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easy. Sometimes adding the arrow is a little bit more difficult, but we're seeing actually Z06 replica wings out
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being sold now and stuff like that. So, it'll come. It just depends on how bad you want that car and how fast you want
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that car. Just always keep that in mind. Believe it or not, Keith, as much as I love carbon fiber, that's okay with me
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on the wheels because my spec would be the black one with the edge blue wheel. So, I'm okay with the 100% constraint on
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the carbon fiber wheels on the ZR1. How about that? Yeah, I think we both talked about that last time. I think the black is very
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stunning. Of course, you got to go with the coupe and the split window because it's the iconic look. And again, that
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blue stripe and those blue wheels are pretty cool. That's my spec for sure. Also, Keith, GM announced four new
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appearance packages for 2025. This kind of reminds me of the Atlantic and Pacific builds backed for C7.
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Yeah. And also the 2019 Corvette ZR1 Sebring Orange design package. This was a car that was set up in a way kind of
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offers a uniform look with a package price. Yeah. When you do it that way, you actually get a discount as opposed to adding up
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all those various options individually. We also see this Chevrolet Japan does a lot of these. They'll generally have two
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or three different design packages a year. and it just kind of standardizes the ordering process while also, like you said, offering a little discount to
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that. These appearance packages are 2025 Corvettes. They will save you between 1475 and $1,670 in savings when you add
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up all the things that you get. They're available as coups and convertibles, and you can still add options like Z-51
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performance package and other things. The packages are called the Adrenaline Red Accent Package. This is available in
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torch red, arctic white, and black. and you have to order the adrenaline red interior and it comes with black wheels.
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The tension blue accent package is available in arctic white only with sky cool gray interiors and this car is sort
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of set up like the old serve one research vehicles white with the blue stripes. The third one is the velocity
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yellow accent package. This is available in riptide blue, arctic white, and hysteria purple. The final one, edge
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orange accent package available in black or arctic white. All these cars, they all feature black wheels. They all
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include that lowprofile spoiler, racing stripes or stingers, and then all come with the NPP performance exhaust, which
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again, that's a $1,200 option right there. Dealers will have the details for ordering these appearance packages on
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February 6th. For questions, and see your dealers for details. Nice to see a little bit of some fun happening. We
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haven't had a true special edition, I think, since the C8R versions back in 2022, but pretty exciting to see this
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stuff happening. And again, see your dealers for details. Yeah, I like those special packages because when you see them, it's like, "Oh, that's cool. Look,
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there's one of those special package cars." That's pretty cool. Also, I think everybody will be excited about this. The Federal Trade Commission has banned
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GM and OnStar from selling our driving data for 5 years. Yeah, this goes back
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to last year's stories about GM and OnStar selling your driving data to brokers who then turned around and sold
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it to the insurance companies. And then owners are wondering why their rates are going up each and every year. And it's
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because GM was providing pages and pages of driving data for those quote opted into the program when it turns out that
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the opt-in notice wasn't clearly stated that their intentions and all that stuff. It was a crazy story. New York
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Times actually blew the lid off of it. There's actually been several lawsuits filed as well. So the Federal Trade
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Commission announced as punishment that General Motors and its subsidiary OnStar will not be allowed to sell customer
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geoloccation data and driving behavior data for the next five years. Of course, we'll have to see what happens after
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that, but no one likes their personal data shared. Gotcha. Also, Keith, we have a new board member for the National Corvette Museum.
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It's Amy Msika. Yeah. She's actually Chevrolet's director of marketing, and she's going to be taking over the board seat that
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been occupied by Harlon Charles, Corvett's product marketing manager. He's been there since, I think, 2005.
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Wow. So, he's probably just, you know, looking for a little bit of a break from the position. She says she's honored to
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join the board. She's calling the Corvette not just a car, it's a culture, a community, and a symbol of innovation. Hopefully we'll get a meet Amy at the
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MCM Bash in April. Welcome to the MCM and we're expecting some good things to happen. Definitely. And our last story in the
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news section, Keith, all three Corvette models were in Car and Driver's 2025 editor's choice list. Another award for
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Corvette. Yeah, this is Car and Driver. Think about the 10 best list, the 10 best cars. And then this is really an
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expanded version of that. So two Corvettes already made that 10 best list, the Stingray and the E-Ray. But now we have the Z06 added. The Z06
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wasn't allowed in the 10 best because there's a price cap there. Oh, but it's nice to see that they recognize
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that all three Corvettes are in editor's choice. They're all done in their different segments. The Corvette Stingray was listed as the sports car
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segment. Ray was listed in the hybrid luxury sports car segment and then of course the Z06 was in the luxury sports
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car segment. One of the things they mentioned in their article is hopefully you're buying a new Corvette because it's the car that you love and we're
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pretty sure that you're going to end up loving the car that you bought. Check out either Corvette Blogger for what they said about the Corvettes or if you
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want to go see all the different cars. It's over at Car and Driver. That's cool. All right, buddy. Time for our first break. When we come back, it's
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We keep you current and uptodate on what's happening with America's sports car. In segment two, we always cover
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Corvette racing. First, let's talk about how Corvette racing did at Daytona. Yeah, that was some great racing to
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watch. Amazing stuff happening there. We had five Z06 GT3rs in the field with three of those in the GT Pro class and
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then two running in the GTD class. The biggest news coming from the weekend is that AWA Racing, their Z06 GT3R won the
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GDD class by just 1.45 seconds. This is the 21st victory for Chevrolet in the
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Rolex 24, the fifth for the Corvette racing program since 1999. So, congratulations to AWA Racing. In GTD
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Pro, the racing again, extremely fun to watch. Both Corvettes were competitive all the way through the race. The number
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three Corvette placed second and it was actually sandwiched between the two Ford Mustangs who went first and third. There
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of course was some drama which everyone was talking about after the race. In the final hours, the number four Corvette with Tommy Milner was running first, and
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he was fending off a challenge from the number one BMW when the BMW's teammate in the number 48 car, which again was
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several laps down and out of contention, began deliberately blocking Tommy in the Corvette, despite receiving a call from
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IMSA's race control for intentional blocking Farfus, who was the driver of that number 48 Corvette, stayed with it
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and deliberately blocked Milner in the International Horseshoe Curve there. As Tommy was trying to get out of the way
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from him, he hit the number one BMW on his side and ended up damaging the Corvette's rear fascia. This is the big
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story here, the big windup. As Tommy came a breast of the number 48 BMW, he opened up that little small window on
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the side of the Z06 GTR, stuck his entire arm out there, and extended his middle finger, which of course was captured by the TV cameras. That's all
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everybody was talking about afterwards. With the damage, the number four Corvette fell to seventh place to finish the race. But the good news is you can
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now buy a t-shirt with an illustration of Milner communicating his displeasure to the BMW. We've got that link on
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And finally, the just the last point here is reliability has been an issue last year for these Z06s, but this year
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four of the five all finished the race. Unfortunately, the entry from DXDT Racing suffered an engine fire in the
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middle of the night. They would finish 20th in class, but everybody else finished right where they should have been. That was good to see.
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That was good to see. And it was really good to see that t-shirt. I thought that was awesome. It's nice to do relations
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with BMW and give them the middle finger salute. That's awesome. There you go. Also, the National Corvette Museum's
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Motorsports Park is teaming up with Prattton Miller. They're doing a Corvette racing fantasy camp. What's
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going on with that? Yeah, this was big news. was announced during the Corvette Corral seminars at the Rolex 24. So, coming in October is
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the first Corvette racing fantasy camp. It'll bring together racing enthusiasts with some of the top minds at Pratt
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Miller for really what's going to be like an immersive experience. I kind of think of space camp, you know, where you go and learn all about NASA and all that
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stuff, right? This is racing camp. Participants will learn about prepping a car, the technology that provides all
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the crew with insights and data, then using that data to plan out your race.
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Participants will also do pit stops and there'll be on track driving experience as well at the NCM Motorsports Park.
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According to the initial plans, the Corvette racing fantasy camps will take place in October. The first class, I
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believe, is October 22nd. And what they're going to do is they're going to limit this to 28 participants and then
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each of the sessions will be broken up. So, when you do something, you're only in a group of four people, which is kind of cool as well. So, you'll really get
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hands-on there. If you're interested, the NCM Motorsports Park already has the details for the Pratt Miller Fantasy
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Camp. And registration is open for that first class. The cost to participate is $3,180 for each person. Just reminds me
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of the old adage, if you want to make a little money in racing, start with a lot. There you go. That would be cool. I'd
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love to be on the pit crew that changes out tires, either with the gun or moving the tires. That'd be fun.
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I'll do the fuel, Phil. Our final story in the second segment,
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Keith, is a rumor. Did our buddy, the chief engineer for Corvette, Josh Holder, get a new updated title?
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Yeah, this was kind of exciting. Of course, Corvette Nation recently tuned into Barrett Jackson's collector car auction in Scottsdale to watch the sale
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of the first 2025 Corvette ZR1 that's going to wear VIN 001. And on the stage
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introducing the car was Josh Holder. He's the vehicle chief engineer for the Corvette as opposed to Tony Roma who's
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the executive chief engineer. Josh is hands-on with the car as the vehicle chief engineer. But one of the things
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that was interesting is I was watching the live YouTube feed for the auction, but a member of the Mid-enine Corvette
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forum named Shepard 777 was watching the broadcast on the history channel and when it showed Josh talking on the
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auction block underneath him was the graphic that read vehicle chief engineer- Corvette ICE. Of course, we
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all know that ICE stands for internal combustion engine. So that begs the question, does GM also have a vehicle
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chief engineer for Corvette EVs? You know, one of the persistent rumors between C7 and C8 was that Chevy might
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pursue a dual production strategy for both those cars, thinking that some people wouldn't embrace the mid-engine
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technology. That rumor actually turned out to be true. But could it be now that Chevrolet is also looking for a similar
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dual track for producing a Corvette EV while also providing customers with CA Corvettes powered by reliable and
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powerful gas engines? I'd have to say I do like this strategy. There's quite a few rumors that Chevy is working on an
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EV sports car and possibly a Corvette badged SUV. The good news is that those who want that kind of technology, those
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who want to jump into a plug-in electric car, they'd be able to do so. Meanwhile, those of us that really like gas
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engines, the sound of exhaust roaring in our ears will still have those choices as well. And I think this is probably
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most likely the kind of thing that we're going to see here. It does seem to confirm that with him having that new
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title, this dual production strategy may be in effect. That's cool. Well, we'll have to wait and see. We'll talk to Josh at the Bash
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and see what's exactly going on with his job title. That'll be cool. There were some stuff coming out that, you know, we might see SUVs or EVs in
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2025, 2026, 27. I think a lot of those have been pushed back towards 2029 and
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2030. Again, that's all rumors. We're still, I think, a couple years away from all that stuff. Yeah, definitely. All right, buddy.
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I'm your host Steve Garrett. With me is my buddy Keith Cornet from Corvette Blogger. If you want a deeper dive into
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any of the stories that we cover, you can always go to corvette blogger.com. In this final segment, we always cover
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the fun side, the lighter side of Corvette. Keith, this story was really kind of a pigtail from the story that we
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just did in segment two. Rick Hendrick once again bought ZR1 number 01 at
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Barrett Jackson for $3.7 million. Wow. Yeah. And that money will go to charity,
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too. It all goes to the American Red Cross, which is one of the organizations helping all those people out in
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California with the fires. This is a really cool program. Chevrolet has been doing this now for about 20 years in which they offer the right of the
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auction bidder Barrett Jackson to buy basically the first VIN 001 Corvette. For nearly 20 years, most of these cars
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have been purchased by Chevrolet dealer and NASCAR team owner Rick Hendricks. His checkbook once again got to work out at Bear Jackson Scottsdale. Paid $3.7
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million for the right to build the first 2025 Corvette ZR1. He'll be able to option however he wants. Coupe
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convertible. He'll be able to pick his colors and pick options as well. This was a record price for a charity auction
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and I think it brings a total I think Barrett Jackson put out that they've raised 12.9 million for the charity of
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all the VIN 001 C8s that have been sold since 2019 or so. Wow. Congratulations to Rick for getting that
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car. He usually shares some photos when it arrives at City Chevrolet. Once production starts and we know that the
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car has been released, we'll obviously be looking for that. Really cool thing that he's done. And again, American Red
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Cross just got a donation for $3.7 million. So, everybody wins. It's good to be Rick Hendrick. That's
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for sure. That's right. Also, Keith, the owner's manual for 2025 is only digital, but we did figure out
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how to get a printed version, didn't we? So, I told you I bought a 2025 Corvette. Right. Right.
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Well, when I bought the car, I didn't know that it was not going to come with an owner's manual. When I opened up the glove box, there was another manual in
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there called essential operating and safety information. And apparently to save cost, GM is now telling us to
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download the owner's manual from Chevrolet.com or to view it on my Chevrolet app. Well, Steve, I'm a bit old school. I like the convenience of
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the digital owner's manual, but I also like the idea of having access to a printed manual whenever I need it in the
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glove compartment. There is a process where you can buy a printed owner's manual, and I just went through that process. You go to chevrolet.com. You
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click on the menu to expand it and then click on owner's manuals. There's a specific link there for that. And then
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once you find your year, there's actually a place there where you can jump over to a company called Helm Incorporated and order a printed manual.
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Now, the manual for my 2025 was $55. It cost me another $30 to ship it to me.
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So, altogether my cost was $86.30. Ouch. But at least now I have a full
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manual in my glove box should I ever need it. It was funny because no one actually knew this. We actually heard
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that dealers reached out to Chevrolet saying, "Hey, none of my customers have owners manuals." And at first, we were
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kind of thinking that, "Oh, they're coming. They're going to be replaced." And then we were told, "No, no, no. What you have is what you got. If you need a
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manual, go to Chevrolet.com." I don't like those kinds of cost savings. So, I went and bought my own. I don't blame you, buddy. I would want
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one in the glove box as well. Also, this is another great story from Barrett Jackson. We talked about Peter Brock,
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who is the living legend that drew and designed the C2 Corvette. Well, he has a re-imagined 63 split window and his very
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first one was sold to Barrett Jackson. Yeah, we covered this car when he debuted it at SEMA and it's really cool.
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I mean, that's got a lot of rest stuff on it, but if you just think of the body, now it's got integrated lights.
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The 63 had fake vents on the hood. Those are all now real vents on the sides are all real. And the biggest change I think
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is he enlarged the size of the two windows on the rear. Offers a lot more visibility. In fact, so much more
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visibility that maybe even Zora would have liked this design. Who knows? Yeah, we saw that car first at SEMA and then
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he took it to Barrett Jackson where it was sold for $325,000.
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The good news is I traded a couple emails with Peter as we were leading up to this. And it sounds like there's talk
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that his split window design, he calls it the studio concept 1963 Corvette, it
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could be created as a series for buyers. So, they might build up to 20 of them if there's enough interest in that. Really
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cool car, a great design. and I think people are really going to like it. Congratulations for that first sale 325
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and we'll see what else comes of it. That's true. And as a matter of fact, I've got Peter Brock coming to Corvette today again. He was on show number 30
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way back in November of 2020. But Peter Brock has already been recorded. It's in the can and ready to go. We will be
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talking about that re-imagined 63 split window either in late February or early March of this year. It's a great story
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and it's a really good show. Make sure you check it out. Also, Keith, we have the top 11 of the Mikum auction of
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Corvettes that were sold there at Mikum CMI. Yeah, some amazing stats coming out of there. Before we get to the top 11, just
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a couple stats here that were compiled by our Detroit bureau, Steve Burns. The top 11 Corvettes included one restood
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and then the other 10 were restored and highly awarded cars. The two top best sellers from the auction were actually
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both previously owned by Corvette Mike. Mike obviously knows how to find the good cars, right? Oh, yeah. 88 of the top 100 sales were
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all C1, C2s or C3s. Seven of those top 100s were the C7s, ZR1s. So, you can
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kind of get these trends of going. 125 total Corvettes sold for over $100,000
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and then another 32 were no sales at over $100,000 or more. And then this really blew my mind and I saw it at the
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auction. 29 split window coups were offered. 19 of those sold for an average of $24,000.
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There were 32 1967 Corvettes offered and 26 of those sold. 28 of those 32 were
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all big blocks. So that's where you really want to be if you want a collectible 67 is a big blocks. Some of
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the notable no sales was a red red 1967 L88 coupe that reached 2.5 million but
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did not sell. A 1968 L88 coupe reached 400,000 in bidding, did not sell. A 1963
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Z06 375K was a no sale. And the 2025 Corvette -ray was a no sale at $150,000,
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which I don't know about that one. I think maybe buyers should have taken the money on that one. Yeah. Our top 11, uh, 1967 Corvette L88 coupe.
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Top bestseller, 2.25 million. Wow. Number two, 1967. This was a Corvette
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L89 coupe. Again, formerly owned by Corvette Mike. Very highly documented. I think only two of these cars had the
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same kind of equipment and only one exists today, which is this car. It sold for 1.7 million. And then third, 1969
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Corvette L88 convertible, $759,000. That 57 big brake airbox car sold for
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$715,000. Wow. Number five was a 1963 Corvette, a Z06
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with a big tank and a split window coupe. That was $511,000. Number six, 1963 Corvette fuel injected
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Z06 with the big tank option. Sold for $489,500. Number seven, this was really cool. The
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Corvette ZR1 pilot car convertible. The very first ZR1 in history sold for
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$451,000. You know, it kind of seems a little low, but again, with the kind of equipment on it, it's a great car for that money. I
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think it actually was right where it should have been. Uh 1958 Corvette convertible, $396,000.
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I think that was one of the high prices ever for a 58. You and I talked about that, right? You got a shout out for supplying that
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answer, so congratulations to you there. I did. Thanks. Number nine was a 1958 convertible,
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$385,000. Number 10, 1965 fuel injected tanker coupe sold for $379,500.
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And finally, our top 11 was a 1968 Corvette L88 coupe, which sold for
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$363,000. All in all, close to 400 of the 500 some Corvettes offered at Nikham CMI 2025
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were sold. Looks like a hugely successful auction once again for the people at Nikum. It was one of the best auctions I'd been to in a long time with
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the amount of talent that was there with these cars was just amazing and mind-blowing. Not only do you get to see these cars sell, but it's like, you
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know, a big car show where you get to see everything. It was a lot of fun for Corvette Day that we had and being able to walk around and and just view these
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beautiful cars and take them all in. Congratulations again to the buyers and sellers at Meum. That was really, really cool and a lot
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of fun for sure. Well, buddy, thanks for being on Corvette today. We'll see you back in two weeks. Sounds great, Steve. We see you out on
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