CORVETTE TODAY #51-News & Headlines for early April 2021

Name: CORVETTE TODAY #51-News & Headlines for early April 2021
Uploaded: 2025-05-09T00:27:26+00:00
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on what's going on keith welcome back to corvette today keith springtime is here and i'm real excited about getting the car out
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and i'm real excited because corvette today is approaching its one year anniversary
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well you know milestones are important for any organization but this has been a lot of fun steve you brought us some great stories from
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it's been a fun trip with you that's for sure well thank you and i appreciate you being on that trip keith it's been a definite labor of love and i
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hope to keep this going for many years to come yes sir absolutely let's get right into it buddy let's start with news on
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corvette let's get an update on production over at the bowling green plant well sure we're checking out the latest
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numbers of course this airs on monday and our numbers are through last thursday the plant had closed that first week of
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march and since then we've gotten nearly four complete weeks of production and those guys are really
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moving some cars down there we find that the average is about 182 per day over the last four weeks
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wow they just closed out with number 93 56 so by next week they'll have monday off
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for easter monday but then next week they should cross that then 10 000 for the 2021 corvettes that's
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awesome that's good to hear i'm glad they're cranking things out over there yeah it's been obviously a concern with what we've seen the shutdowns previously
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obviously there's concern in the marketplace over the chip shortage i just read that they're going to be
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idling ford f-150s again but for corvettes they've prioritized it it looks like they're making it happen
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well that's good to see and good to hear also gm has suspended chevy dealers from submitting any more
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2021 sold orders for corvette explain exactly what that is keith well this is
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really in response to those previous down times that we had earlier this year we lost three weeks of production
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there's been a couple other days where production's fallen so the team doesn't want to get into a situation where
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like the 2020s where they had all these customers with orders and then the expectations were they're not going to
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get their cars and then you have those people being upset about it also we think that there is going to be a pricing increase for 2022
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and they don't want to get into another situation where they feel like they have to price protect so what they've done now
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and this is also in response to the major dealers they really kind of know what their allocations are and what
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their limits are where you have some smaller dealers that are just writing orders it doesn't matter how many allocations they could
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have five allocations but they could have 30 orders in well that's 25 people that aren't getting cars yeah so it's really in
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response to limiting that activity and then just being able to concentrate on the existing order so
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the key word here is within allocation is the statement let me read that to you real quick due to continued overwhelming response
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to the 2021 corvette and to avoid false customer expectations it's necessary to suspend the ability to
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create a sold order beginning march 26th this does not prevent you from processing existing
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sold orders within allocation nor creating or processing a normal stock order again this is in response to
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that unplanned downtime they're just looking to tap the brakes a little bit on some of those dealers that are continuing to write orders when they
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don't have the allocations to do so usually you'll go to your dealership you'll place a pre-order
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and then when your allocation when your number comes up you get the call you go finalize it so you're still able
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to do all that it's just you can't do a brand new sold order for the 2021s
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got it okay that makes a lot of sense and i'm glad we kind of clarified and cleared things up on that there's a lot
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of moving parts there yes and of course you know we hear no more sold orders that people start freaking out but again it's just in
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response to the marketplace and the production schedules and what can be handled there i think it's probably a real good move
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on their part i think forecasting wise they might be looking out and saying are we going to have some additional
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down times you know we really need to be careful so let's just stop this right now and we'll regroup for the 2022s
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that's the other news in this story was that dealers would be able to submit orders for the 2022 model year corvettes
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in early july so that leads us to believe that the 2022 model changeover probably august so we're keeping an eye
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on that real close very cool also the national corvette museum for anybody that's doing a museum
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delivery this is a great news here because the national corvette museum is upping their deliveries to 55
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per week yeah this is big news they've been doing 45 per week through january or so
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and what's happening is there's been a little bit of a backlog of deliveries that need to be made we're hearing that the deliveries are
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taking place about an average of two weeks after the car has been produced if you've seen any of these deliveries if you participated in them
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you know that your person there that does the walkthrough of the car and all the controls and everything they're with you for several hours so to
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be able to get that personalized time is one of the big draws for the rac museum deliveries so the fact
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that they're able to do a few more per week cuts down on that backlog but also these people are getting a fabulous
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experience and a nice personalized review of their car before they drive off they might have to hire some more people
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to help with those museum deliveries if they're upping it to 55 a week so that's 10 more per week
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which equals two per day extra it's a big deal up there and again it's one of the main draws for
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ordering a car and having it delivered you know it would really be nice that we get those buyer tours back where you can then do factory tours and things like that but i
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still think we're a little ways out for that probably after the pandemic is really pretty much over we'll get back to going
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through the bowling green assembly plant right yep also corvette was the fastest selling car in february 2021 which is
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great news but kind of for us it's obvious news right yeah so you know it's a little bit obvious
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this is the second month in a row that we've seen corvette lead new car sales did time to sales fall in just a little
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bit it was 10 days i believe in january and then 13 days in february but it's still a hot
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car people want it we know that people will go to the dealership as soon as they hear the truck has arrived to watch it
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come off and then obviously it takes a couple days to pdi the car and get it prepped there's your delays there that's how
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you're getting to 13 days probably it's fun to see our car at the top and the other news the same study also looks
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at used cars and the chevrolet corvette is fifth on the list with an average sale of around
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29 days so about a month to sell a used corvette again that bodes well for the marketplace absolutely right and the average
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transaction price keith was eighty six thousand one hundred eighty five dollars for a 2021 c8 yeah this is amazing again
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this is the strength of the car people are loading them up they're getting the options they want we know the 2020 cars
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it was the 3lt was the top package there like 45 of production i believe so people are
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loading up these cars they've made some great options obviously that does boost the price we don't see many 1lts going out the
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door for 59 995 right the other thing did is i took the math so if an average car is selling for
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86 thousand dollars and they're making 182 of them per day that's 15.6 million dollars
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a day what those average cars work out to be so pretty incredible when you think of the corvette's place in the
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market to be able to put out that kind of output you're just selling cars and you have the long list of people wanting it
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gm's got to be happy with their decision to go to the mid engine absolutely right it's a good time to be a corvette
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enthusiast owner and a dealership exactly yes it is also we got new pricing for 2022 for
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corvette in australia and new zealand yeah these cars are coming they're going to get 20 22s
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probably in the fourth quarter of this year in australia they're going to be offering five different versions they're
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going to be doing the 2lt and 3lt coupes and convertibles so there's four cars and then they've got a special edition coming calling the
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carbon edition corvette ooh they don't have a lot of news on that they explain that it'll have like a
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hand-picked interior trim package with premium wheels unique brake calipers and exclusive
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interior build plate so not a lot of customizations but it does sound interesting i'm kind of thinking
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back to the c7s carbon edition the 65 carbon that they put out as an anniversary edition there
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wondering if it might be something along those lines the prices aren't cheap for australia the 2lt coupe starts at 144
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990 it goes all the way up to 175 for the 3lt convertible wow in new
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zealand they're getting three cars either the 2lt coupe or the 3lt coupe and then the 3lt convertible
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their prices start at 154 000 and their top price is 184 000. so yeah the great news so you know they're
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getting a right-hand drive corvette directly from the factory but they do pay for it down there so we
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are glad to have them though and they'll be interesting to see exactly how many cars are taken in the fourth quarter by customers in new zealand and australia
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absolutely right well here comes our rural car buddy it's the tip of the iceberg that's for sure right
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also gm has announced the tsb over faulty wheel castings why don't you explain exactly what we're
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talking about okay we just covered the good news aspect of corvette news and now we're getting into a little bit of a downer story
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right so last week general motors came out with a new technical service bulletin that talked about visible
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porosity in wheels what they found is this covers 2020s and 2021s
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there are like 13 000 cars that are on this list of bins and so if they think that you have one
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of these cars that might be affected when you go in for an oil change or whatever they're directed to check the wheels
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they'll take off the wheels and they look at the back to the barrel of the wheel and where the spokes are and they're looking for like
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minuscule holes or cracks or where it's not smooth the tech link
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article has a bunch of photos that shows these little holes and pin dots it's just not good and we're coming off
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a situation where c7 owners particularly grand sport and z06 owners are dealing with these cracked wheels
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and general motors has never owned up for that and so there's a whole lot of questions about what's going to go on here the good news is these are under
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warranty they said they are taking the place of them they believe that of that 13 000 cars that only 10
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of those vehicles are impacted so it may not be a huge number no one wants to see wheel
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problems on the c8 right now absolutely right and finally in our news section keith the c8 corvette and the national
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corvette museum along with mobile one will have a livery that will promote partnership year round
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which is really really a great looking car yeah this convertible made its debut down at sebring and
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served as like the lead car for the parade laps that the owners do then it'll go off and do some other events i bet we'll see it at additional
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races it does have the mobile one logo on the back quarter and then the big corvette museum logo there on the doors so
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it's a pretty cool looking hardtop convertible and i'm sure it's going to be at the dash later this month and people will be able
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to check it out there mobile one has been the partner of corvette racing from the beginning and for corvette owners
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we've been receiving mobile one in our cars at the factory since then 93 or 94. it's a long-standing partnership and
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it's always fun i think for these guys when they get to do stuff like this in conjunction with the museum and it puts them out to the enthusiast community
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it's fun to see it absolutely is it's a great looking car and i'm looking forward to seeing it at the birthday
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bash buddy let's take our first break and when we come back we'll talk about corvette racing and corvette rumors
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other week to make sure you're up to date on everything that's going on in the world of corvette in segment number two we're going to
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talk about corvette racing and also rumors about corvette keith i'm excited to talk about corvette
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racing because doug feehan the former program manager for corvette racing has left but now
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he's got a new job as ambassador for corvette racing isn't that right this is what we're hearing and you know
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this news came out on april 2nd i actually had to go back and check a couple sources just to confirm that this
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wasn't an april fool's joke that got carried over because that would be pretty sick if it was because doug feehand is well loved
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by the corvette racing community he's the face of the program that we've known and when he was dismissed in december
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with laura klosser taking his position many of us were shocked and a little bit of outrage yes it's just
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hard to imagine going to a corvette race and not hearing from doug feehan so they had sebring a couple weeks ago
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and i'm not sure how that went in terms of what kind of the entertainment and the seminars that they put on down there but i know that that would have been a
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hole in the program so the good news is it sounds like doug is back the next race for corvettes in the
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united states will be at belle isle in detroit and he's going to be there so imagine doug doing the seminar
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conversations and bringing you updates and we'll see him probably on tv giving quotes to media
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all the things that he did extremely well when he was the program manager now he's just got other people worrying
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about all the racing stuff behind him and then he can concentrate on customer engagement and so forth it's a
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fantastic move by corvette racing thank you guys for making that happen we're definitely glad to see doug back
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in the fold absolutely right he's such a vibrant personality and the face of corvette racing
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it's good to see him back we always say that no one's been a better band ambassador than doug he him we've been to all these
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different events we've been to reveals we've been to technical seminars by general motors what doug says to the customers
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and to the fans in these corrals is always very positive towards general motors not only supporting corvette but
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supporting the other four brands cadillac buick the trucks gmc and of course chevy he does a great job doing
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that so we're definitely glad to have him back absolutely right also you just mentioned belle isle and corvette racing is going to be there
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because the imsa schedule shifted around didn't it yeah so when they rescheduled the 24 hours of le mans
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then they didn't need this buffer week where belle isle was so they moved it back a week i believe now it's june 11th
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through the 14th and that's now the same weekend as the indycar race that goes on at belle isle
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as well so now you've got imsa and indycar the same weekend so that's already exciting as itself but then
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because the corvettes don't have to be shipped off to le mans for another couple months they've decided to allow the gtlm cars
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to compete however that competition for this race it is a non-points race
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okay so i don't know if it's just going to be the corvettes and maybe that lone weathertech porsche that'll be there or
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if the porsche is not going to be there it's just going to be the two cars racing each other it'll be interesting and again because
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it's in the hometown in the shadow of the renaissance center we'll expect a huge contingent of gm employees
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to be over at the race absolutely that'll be a great tune-up for le mans so that'll be really fun to
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see also corvette racing is going to hopefully get a waiver to race the c8rs
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at the imsa gtd pro class next year isn't that right so yeah the last time we talked we had
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the news that there was no gt3 car in development for 2022 right so then where does that leave
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corvette racing either you race gtd pro here in imsa or you go over to europe and race gtlm and
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wec i think that imsa kind of had a holy cow moment what's going to happen if all these corvette racing fans aren't coming
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to our races and they are obviously wanting to make any accommodation available
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for the gtlm spec cars to be able to race against gt3 cars in the new gtd pro
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class right they were talking about detuning and some other balance of performance options there
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huh it's still interesting because the gt3 cars have abs the gtlm cars don't so how does that
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work out but i think they're going to pull out all the stops at least keep corvette racing in imsa for 2022 and then whatever happens with
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the gt3 program that's what happens okay that makes sense i'm glad to see that we're going to hopefully get that waiver because
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it would be kind of weird not being able to do that stuff yes it would also in the rumors category we saw some
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c8 mules with center mounted exhausts and we're thinking that this might be the c8 zr1
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there's been a lot of speculation about these cars we've seen them testing for almost a year now essentially all the c8
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corvettes obviously the stingrays that we have they have the exhaust that's mounted on the corners and then we've seen some of the new
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prototypes that are covered that has the exhaust mount on the corners but then it was last june that all of a sudden we started
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seeing a prototypes with the center mount exhaust and they have the two big ports in the middle and then there's two
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smaller ones off of the side we talked about the tire size in our last conversation too with these mules wearing the 345s of the rears
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right and the same guy who was there and he was able to talk to a couple of the engineers as he's making observations about these
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cars realizes that the sound they're making definitely does sound turbocharged from there he draws the conclusions in
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this video by brink of speed they go through and they look at all these other different exotics that have
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this quad car set up and realizes those two outside the smaller exhaust ports are probably
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wastegates for the turbos you'll see examples of other cars that have the same setup of course there's the sound of the car
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and then the lastly they're benchmarking this particular car against a porsche gt2 and that's also
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a turbocharged car right and it makes more sense if you're going to benchmark a car you want to do apples to apples and that
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apples to oranges a naturally aspirated z06 compared to a turbo car obviously is
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going to be different so it's an interesting theory i would say that it's probably correct the gm engineers need to put as many
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miles on these cars as possible and especially when you have different engine setups so i think that's really what we're looking at now
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who knows when this car will be here are we looking at 2024 are we looking at 2025 but it bodes well for the future that we
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see this kind of development happening right in front of our eyes i know i can't wait to see these new variants of the c8 corvette
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this is going to be really really cool also we saw the new color i think we saw the new color
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it was called amplify orange now that won't be the final name of the color but we did kind of catch a glimpse of it
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didn't we again this is something that's been floating this picture has been floating around the forums for a few weeks now it looks like it's not
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an official picture it looks like somebody had the paint codes and essentially whipped up their own batch oh okay they made their own colored so
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it's a color sample that and then there's a color sample also of the sebring orange it's a picture that's taken inside at
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night there's a flash on it so the colors are really kind of muted but the idea i think that we're starting to see is that amplify orange
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and you're right that won't be the official color when it comes to corvette but that orange i think is going to be a
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little bit lighter than sebring but it also might be a little bit less reflective okay like the rapid blue is obviously a
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bright color but it's not like super reflective super metallic-y right so i'm thinking that this orange
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might be sort of like that and i've been a big fan like the tangelo orange we saw those on the forgiato wide
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body c7s when they first came out yes lamborghini makes a great orange as well so it'll be interesting but i think
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it's going to be a good color it'll be a lot of fun to see i can't wait for it maybe we'll see it at the national corvette museum's birthday bash
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coming up that's a good guess yeah also motor trend says that the e-ray is going to be quicker than the z06 i
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looked at that and said really and that's the key word quicker not faster quicker means zero to 60 times so when
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you've got that e-all-wheel drive kicking in and obviously supplying its own horsepower to those front wheels
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the car should do a little bit faster in that zero to 60 time than the upcoming z06 okay so now the
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z06 should be faster overall so we're expecting that to still be the case so don't worry too much about it
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but it does bode well for a little bit of bragging rights for the guy that goes for the e-ray or the z06
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so there's a difference between quicker and faster then correct yes sir also keith are we really
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going to see an suv corvette tells me yes on this i know the fan base is not real excited
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about this we've seen other vehicle manufacturers split off a well-known brand into being able to do some sub models around
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that brand and i think corvette's time is actually coming here the rumor is that there's a project
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r is what it's called and that's a four-door four-seat performance oriented suv with corvette
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design characteristics involved again motor trend says that might be a 2024 model but some are saying 2025. still got a
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few years to get used to the idea of a corvette suv it's going to take a little time for me but you know what the only constant
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is change so if we get an suv corvette that's okay well you got to drive something in the rain right
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well that's true most of us don't get our cars out in the rain obviously not the snow either so maybe
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this corvette you could have a full corvette garage yeah an suv and a regular c8 c7 whatever
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well my friend dave salvatore from kerbec tells me that when you know people are coming to pick up their new corvettes
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nine out of ten times they're getting out of an suv or a crossover oh so why not offer that as well i like the
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idea of expanding the brand people don't like they say it's going to water down the corvette name i want more corvettes out there i want
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more people driving corvettes even if it's not the traditional sports car that we think if i get a monster suv or a crossover
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with very corvette-like characteristics and personality that's gonna be a fun car to drive and you can take along three of your friends
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absolutely right and if lamborghini and porsha can do it darn it we can do it too exactly not
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only that we can do it better and cheaper absolutely right well keith let's take our final break and in the third segment
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host and my husband steve garrett hey thanks for listening to corvette today
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i'm your host steve garrett with me every other week is keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com
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twice per month we keep you up to date on what's going on the world of corvette in this final segment we're going to
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talk about the lighter side of corvette also in corvette today podcast number 10
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i interviewed reeves callaway from callaway cars and reeves says that top speed records are just a
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waste of time what's he talking about keith you know this is interesting coming from reeves who largely built the callaway brand on
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these speed records yes the most famous being the sledgehammer which reached 254 miles in a test 33
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years ago yes so today he's saying it's largely a waste of time but yet we still see these exotic cars like bugattis there's
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this new one out there that did like 330 i think but for the guys that can go 300 miles an hour speed records are still
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important for cars that aren't quite that fast i don't think that there's much of a reason to do them reeves says the biggest things not so
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much doing the records is it's finding a place to do them when he did his at the automotive loop there in
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ohio he's now saying there's just not enough straight away for those speeds and obviously you don't
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want to go into curves at 300 miles an hour plus it's an interesting conversation i think
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that he's probably right but we do like the fact that our cars go fast and even though we might never reach 214
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miles an hour in a corvette zr1 it's nice to know that the car will do that those that can will set speed
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records and those that can't will just say they're largely a waste of time yeah and you know what americans are drunk with horsepower horsepower is
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everything in america and brands like lamborghini are saying the same thing they're not focusing on raw horsepower
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they're focusing on performance so maybe this is where reeves is coming from yeah and again we don't have a new car
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from them yet hopefully that will change soon at some point it's largely a fact i think of like you said they'd
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like to tout the upper horsepower numbers but most people aren't going to be able to go 200 miles an hour let it load 300 miles
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darn it what kind of world is this yeah we can't go 300 miles an hour come
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on we need 300 miles an hour if koenigsegg can do it can't we do it with corvette and reeves does say the
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place to do that is like bonneville or some of these other places where you just have miles and miles of space in
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front of you so we'll see what happens when he gets a new car out there and maybe that those things will change a lot of it comes down to aerodynamics
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keith and there was an interesting article about which generation a corvette was the most aerodynamic
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tell everybody which one it was according to a youtuber who went through all the public numbers and what he did
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was as he was getting into this he just said you know what i'm going to rely on the very first year of each generation
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and see if i can find that number and in his research he came out with that the c5
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is actually the slipperiest car whereas the newest car the c8 actually is i believe fourth on the list there's
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different dynamics obviously involved and i'm certainly not up in all my fluid computational dynamics of figuring out
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coefficients and drag and all that stuff but it is an interesting piece we do know that from the c4 to the c5 to
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the c6 that shape really lent itself well to being able to cut through the air
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but he does say the c5 is the slipperiest very cool also john greenwood's spirit of le mans
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is going to be on display at the motorsports hall of fame which is very very cool yeah this is in daytona beach the
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motorsports hall of spain people can see the spirit of le mans 76. these cars were really famous back in the day
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these really wide body c3s at that time we had the american bicentennial was
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going on there was a lot of patriotic fever for the country despite the times that we were in with
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high interest rates the lemays following the vietnam war but it was really a good time to present
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a car that was all american and that's what these spirit of le mans cars did he also had a spirit of sebring car
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and it had the red white and blue livery on it john greenwood just such a legend for corvette racing over the years
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it's nice to see his cars are still out with us and getting recognition that they deserve definitely also briggs cunningham's 1960
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le mans race car is headed to the amelia island auction this is really interesting because they thought that
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car was just gone didn't they yeah so briggs cunningham goes over to le mans he takes three 1960 corvettes
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with him they're all modified for racing two of them wreck one of them wins its class the number three car this is the number
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one car and after the race they're shipped back to united states they're converted back to stock form
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mostly stock form they still had some characteristics that they were race cars but for the person that might not know
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that they might have just glossed over and said oh it's just part of being a corvette but these cars were lost they were just
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sold as used cars years and years and years later the number two car was found that was put into bruce meyer's
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collection out in california and then chip miller and kevin mckay located the third car
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the le mans winning car so that one's been restored but that number one car was gone it was missing
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they found it back in 2015 i believe in a st petersburg warehouse they did a vin
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check it came back as being one of those cars and so it's just been a really weird story though because of all the twisted turns
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of people jumping in and saying that it was their car and they had a right to it this car spent more time in courtrooms
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with judges deciding who's owning it and who's got to sell it but now it looks like it's going to be for sale at the amelia island auction in
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may and then the person that buys that car will own it free and clear of all its previous legal difficulties
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so hopefully somebody will buy it and then we'll be able to see get restored back to its le mans livery conditions
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very nice and as a matter of fact if you want to hear the story of the number three 1960 corvette that won its class at le
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mans listen to corvette today podcast number 28 lance miller the owner of corvettes at carlisle which
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is chip miller's son tells you that story on that podcast it's a great great story
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it really is it's just such a piece of history and for people that really enjoy the sleuthing that goes on to find these
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cars and to bring them back lance of course you know after his car was built and stuff he actually took his
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car back over to le mans for that 50th anniversary exactly so again a way to recap a very special
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car there it's also detailed in the documentary the quest by michael brown so hopefully you've seen that absolutely and also you
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can get some of the backstory on corvette today podcast number 14. that's with legendary corvette hunter
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and restorer kevin mckay he also talks about that story with him and lance and getting that car back to
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le mans for its anniversary as well it's a great story these cars are such a pivotal part of history
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so hopefully all this legal wrangling is all behind this car we can actually see it get completed and
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then shown and enjoyed also the first retail hardtop convertible raised 400 000 for charity
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wow yeah this went under the block at barrett-jackson in scottsdale obviously it was a black car this is a
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car that was built in august of 2020 and the coupes and convertibles don't have separate bins so
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this was like a 7 000 range bin and it bid it up to 400 thousand dollars not quite sure who bought the car
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we do know that 100 of proceeds are going to the united way for southeastern michigan
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they had a rep from the united way up there and they said one of the things that they're going to do with the money is they look at people that are working
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in the detroit area and might need some sort of assistance you know you get a new job but then all of a sudden you don't have reliable
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transportation you end up losing that job so keeping a car into running condition is important and
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so they're going to be helping out people doing those kinds of projects and funding for those kinds of grants so pretty cool
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that the sale of a car is going to help people be able to use their cars to get jobs very nice it's good to see it goes to a
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charity like that that really helps out exactly and finally keith comedian kevin hart bought a mint c1
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corvette for 825 000. obviously money is no object to kevin
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hart well and we say mint it's mint green this is a resto mod that is just beautifully done
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these cars they're not regular cars they become the version of what an artist thinks the car should be and they're
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constructed with the best components and they're designed in a way to really you know you want that car and obviously when kevin hart
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saw that car he's like i have to have it the out the door price was 8.25 825
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000 spent on a restomod which i think is the highest price i've ever seen on such a car that wasn't like a tribute
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or an l88 this is just a 1959 resto mod he paid big bugs forward well i hope he comes by
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the house and picks me up because i'd really like to see this car well we might be able to see it he was in town with a group of guys and there's
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photos of him at the auction with this group and they call themselves the plastic cup boys the boys b-o-y-z
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it turns out that the plastic cup boys will have a show on motor trend where they talk about
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collecting cars so buying and selling and something tells me that this buy by kevin hart is going to be one of those
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featured on the show very nice i'm glad that we talked about that then i'm looking forward to it i love motor trend and all the shows and
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the episodes that they've got on there so i'm looking forward to looking for that show yep we talked about sylvester
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stallone buying the c8 convertible a couple weeks back we are always a little bit starstruck when they buy the
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same cars that we love so again here's another corvette owner hope that he really does enjoy his new
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car absolutely keith thanks for being here on corvette today we will talk to you in two weeks and as
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a matter of fact when we do our next news and headlines podcast that'll be the beginning of year number
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two for corvette today well that's fantastic news steve keep up the great work we get comments all the time about our appearances here
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i look forward to them every two weeks absolutely me too buddy we will talk to you in two weeks talk to you soon thank you thanks for
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