CORVETTE TODAY #53-We Start Year #2 With News & Headlines for mid-April 2021.

Name: CORVETTE TODAY #53-We Start Year #2 With News & Headlines for mid-April 2021.
Uploaded: 2025-05-09T00:23:49+00:00
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corvette news and headlines with my buddy keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com as you know keith is
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a regular guest on corvette today he's here twice per month to keep you up to date on what's happening in the world
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of corvette keith welcome back to the podcast i am so excited my friend because this podcast marks the start of
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year number two of corvette today you know it's an amazing feat and we always hear about small businesses fail
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within the first year of business it's tough to get out there and start new things and you've really taken this
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bull by the horns it's the go-to place for corvette podcasting obviously i gotta tell you that the
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number of people and the quality of people that you've had on the show are simply amazing yeah keith we've been very lucky you
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know harlan charles the product manager for corvette has been on twice tad jupter has been on the chief
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engineer kirk benion the exterior design director we've also had tom peters who was the
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exterior design director derek moore and all the people from the national corvette museum have been on
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dave kindig from ken diggett designs and bitchin rides has been on corvette test driver jim miro peter
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brock who designed the c2 core of that also ken lingenfelter kevin mckay the corvette hunter
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has been on reeves callaway from callaway cars and also rick malone the lead instructor
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over at spring mountain so we've been very fortunate and i was so excited because you and i started our news and
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headlines podcast in early september and it's been going fantastic it's so what seven months now that we've
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been doing this i get tremendous feedback from the people that have listened to this and they continue to listen to it every two weeks and
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obviously your podcast every week but the feedback has just been great and i really do appreciate those that have reached out
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to us and said that they like it obviously you and i have known each other for a while so it's easy for us to sit down and talk about these things and
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you're guest list again a cornucopia of corvette personalities is just an unbelievable achievement so
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congratulations again on your first year and may you have many more well thank you buddy and thank you for being a part such an integral part of
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corvette today let's start with our news section keith corvette today production update what's
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going on over there bowling green they've been cranking out cars ever since the last official shutdown which was back in
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the first week of march we've seen them come roaring back again they are averaging around 180 to 183
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cars per day last friday they crossed over the 11 000 mark so yeah it's just cranking right along
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right now and hopefully no more shutdowns we'll just keep working hard and see where it gets us but there's
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been some talk about where the model year is going to end i think we're still boating well for some time around mid july
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do we have any constraints on production as we sit right now it's interesting how they put this out so a little over a week ago they put out
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their first list of constraints the only thing really is the carbon fiber pedestrian protection on the front grills
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those are constrained actually one of the things that's coming back is a big item is the high wing is now available
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to order through your dealer again when you're placing a new order for a corvette great that's been a big thing
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but the really interesting thing about that april constraint report in the production report was that chevrolet told dealers that hey
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we've got 11 000 orders still to build and again we think wow you know that's
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obviously quite a lot they just built 10 000 11 000 cars so they're halfway through production at
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this point right now of course earlier in the month they put out a stop sale order meaning that they don't want any more
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new sales orders to go into the system so that they can make sure that they accomplish the production for those
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existing orders they don't want a repeat of 2020 where they had all these extra orders that they were trying to finish
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i think they've got it well under control and in hand so with eleven thousand now ten thousand cars to
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build that does put us right around mid july as a potential stopping point whether they go into the two-week downtime
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like they've traditionally done for their summer break or if they just roll right over and go into the 2022's that we'll just have to wait and see
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that sounds good and also i saw that zeus bronze and sebring orange can no longer be ordered on a 2021. yep that's right we
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knew this was coming they had actually put out a final order date of 4 29 but of course the final order date is
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tuesday for this month's allocation cycle and they did say no more sebring
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orange or zeus bronze it is gone so for anybody that had to add an order this week or coming up
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no more orange no more zeus bronze it's been a good run for those colors obviously the zeus bronze
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was at the bottom of the exterior list but sebring orange i think was ranked right around the fourth color
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i know there's some people that are disappointed there's some other colors that we've got coming up i think that will definitely fill that
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void well that looked good i love that zeus bronze mike furman from criswell chevrolet
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showed a delivery of a zeus bronze with a full morello red interior and man that was just stunning
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it looked great yeah and you know they've also got the pewter wheels we just don't see enough of those but that's obviously a very nice combination
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so the people that do own the zeus frog they're going to have a very unique and rare color absolutely right also corvette delivered
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over 6 600 cars in the first quarter of this year that's a great number it is a good number
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if you think also that we had three weeks of downtime during that period which equates to at
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least 2700 vehicles you know in fourth quarter last year they did 8992 so nearly 9 000 cars
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and so yeah that missing production is definitely reflected in the 6611 that was the first quarter so again they are
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doing just about as many cars as they can build in the day if we can just continue on we should see a nice healthy bump there
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for the second quarter also corvette was the fastest selling car for the third month in a row which
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is great news yeah you've been watching this it is exciting it's fun that when it's your cars
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you know at the top of this chart list most corvettes are on a sold order basis so they're already sold so when they do
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reach the dealer there's obviously a period where the car goes through pdi delivery and then before the
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customer gets it they are averaging right now about 9.4 average days to sell we knew it was a
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fast car but it's also fast not only on the street but in the showroom and we've seen that now for three
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consecutive months and hopefully i bet it carries over to the fourth month in april i was wondering how long do you
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think this would really last well there's a couple other competitors out there there's a new toyota rav4 which is number two
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that one's average sale time is 10.2 days if i recall the prime is a hybrid there is a
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huge demand for that card there's a waiting list for it from what i've heard so that's what we're dealing with all these cars that
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are already sold as an order obviously they're going to go out the door the fastest corvette i think we're going to look at and see
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april is again the fourth consecutive month but we'll just have to wait and see that sounds good also corvette dominated
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first quarter sales with a 51 market share that's unheard of it really
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is this is always the slides that harlan likes to show during like the bash where corvette ranks high above its
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competitors in the luxury sports class and so we're talking the porsche 911 the porsche 718
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mercedes-amg gt mercedes-benz sl audi r8 nissan gtr obviously the ford gt
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acura nsx and the bmw i8 are all in that luxury sport these are north american sales and
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corvette just dominates that market we've always seen it do that too so it'll be interesting to see as we go
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into the year and we get some more models maybe we'll get a z06 obviously next year we might be looking at the e-ray that'll even add more to
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that pretty exciting time for corvette absolutely and speaking of that luxury sports car segment
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corvette had the highest loyalty in that segment of any model well that's no surprise uh corvette people love their cars they
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order the new ones as fast as they can a big surprise for anybody absolutely right keith let's take our first break
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and coming up in segment number two we'll talk about corvette racing and also rumors in the world of corvette
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this is the corvette today podcast with steve garrett hey thanks for listening to corvette
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today the podcast that talks about everything corvette i'm your host steve garrett with me every other week is
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keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com we keep you up to date on what's going on in the world of corvette
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in segment number two we're going to talk about corvette racing and rumors in the world of corvette first we'll start with racing keith
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mobile won the grid recap corvette racing at sebring with a very cool video yeah they do this they're obviously
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mobile one's a trusted partner of corvette racing and the factory fill for factory corvettes going back to the 90s
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so they do these recap videos they do driver interviews so it's a great channel to follow mobile one to grid on youtube
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so they do this recap and it shows the c-ring race and the more i watch that i watched it a couple times and we posted
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it on the website but it's just such a you know i'm mad about it steve i'll tell you right now i'm mad about it
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because we were leading that race we should have won it and bmw played the spoiler and the more i look back i see how
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leading up to that accident with eight minutes left accident not really but as we're leading up to that time period
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the driver behind antonio was flashing his lights just constantly just being trying to be a pain in the butt on it
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i really just think with bmw only being in four races this year i think their only goal is to gonna be the spoiler
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obviously i think that corvette racing will win enough points throughout the whole season that will be the champions again it's
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kind of a hollow championship we're basically racing one porsche and then four times a year these bmws but
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i just see them being the spoilers i watched this mobile one the grid video and obviously we had trouble with the number four car
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early on but boy that number three car was just assuming for a victory when they got taken out
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i don't wanna say it was on purpose but there was obviously a little bit more of a push there than uh it probably was
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warranted at that time period i agree keith i was disappointed to see the end of that race as well so i'm
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right there with you buddy it's just so frustrating and actually uh antonio had commented on the flashing lights he says
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over in spain when somebody flashes their lights we don't move over even jordan taylor did a spoof video on it where he
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pretended to be the c8rs rear tara lights he's like why are these people flashing at me a
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pretty funny video as well see right now in our rear view headlights looks like we're moving on absolutely right also sports car 365
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said the gm racing is going to make a decision about lmdh and also gtd pro
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in the next 45 days yeah so the lmdh is going to be the top category
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and all these manufacturers look like they're moving to it the porsches the ferraris the audis the question for gm racing is who do we
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want there do we want corvette racing to be going against these cars and then also going for the overall win at lawn
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or do we want cadillac racing which has this history of racing prototypes already to be in that position they're telling us
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about 45 days and i was looking at the calendars we were talking steve and i think that's going to be right around
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the belle isle race in june okay so they might make an announcement sometime around then about the future of
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the car either corvette racing will go gtd pro in the new imsa category next year
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or we'll see cadillac or we'll see corvette do the lmdh and go for the top prize at le mans very
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interesting i'm anxious to see what decisions are made by gm racing that also flows into our next story
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porsche and ferrari have agreed to race their gte spec cars for another year in the wec the world
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endurance championship over in europe so they've got four cars in that class so let's just say that if something
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doesn't work out in favor of corvette racing for gtd pro and imsa they do always have that fallback of
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putting a car over in that other series i don't think that's going to happen i think they'll get some accommodations to race in gtd pro and imsa
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obviously that's where their customer base is right now but there is a plan and we'll be hearing about it probably sometime around belle isle in june
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that sounds good i'm anxious to hear what happens also our newest corvette racer nick tandy test out a new
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radio controlled c8r at silverstone that looks really really cool you know when you got some time on your hands with
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kovid some of these guys did their projects some of them built sim racers niktani built an rc racer that is a
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model of his car this thing zooms it goes like 70 or 80 miles an hour wow i make sure to see one of those going
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and maybe even have some fun with that that'd be a blast to drive around i'd love to have one buddy that's for sure in the rumors category keith
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digital paint samples have been seen now for the three new colors for 2022. talk about those for me so this is
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pretty interesting on yesterday's news that sebring orange and zeus bronze would no longer be available we've got a couple of sites that we
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check around that kind of gives us an idea of new colors and what they are and one of these sites is an automotive
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touch-up paint site these manufacturers get their paint codes they're submitted obviously these other manufacturers make
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paint touch-up kits for vehicles and so it gives us an idea of what these colors might look like so as i was going through yesterday i
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was looking for obviously 2022 colors and we have the rpo codes from those new
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colors and of course i found them under a listing for the gmc's the three colors are there so
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the amplify which is going to be the replacement for orange the sebring orange is amplified non-metallic it's a really
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kind of an interesting color again these are digital paint swatches so they're not all that realistic looking
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but it does give us an idea of what the color is going to look like and think of the orange kind of like the
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rapid blue where it's a bright color but it's not very metallic as it's called the non-metallic tint coat
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i think that's what we're going to see for the new orange okay so it's not a matte finish it's just a non-metallic finish correct
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it's it's still bright and again i draw the comparison to rapid blue another pastel color very bright in the sun very bright in
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the shade as well i think that this orange is going to be like that okay and then for the other colors
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they originally called it caffeine but this touch-up site calls it galactica metallic but it's a darker brown it's almost like
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a deep rich dark brown compared to the lighter brown that was zeus okay so we're going from zeus bronze to
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more of a coffee color yeah it's a much darker and richer color it looks like okay and the third color is hypersonic
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metallic this is the new gray we've got a color comparison to the dark shadow and the dark shadows seem to have
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some blue or some purple in it this one doesn't this one has just a little bit more silver in it so i actually took that swatch and i put
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it up against the number four c8r in silver or gray it's close i don't know if it's an exact match but it could be
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that the new hypersonic gray is more similar to the gray on the c8r got it well i always love seeing the new
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colors so i'm anxious to see exactly what comes out and exactly what those names are too so
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we always tell people these are just representations digitally created before you really draw any conclusions let's wait till we see fully
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painted cars under the sun that's the best way to judge for yourself whether that's going to be the color that you want from 2022
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or if you're going to go with one of the more traditional colors it's interesting these colors out there i think they're falling into line with
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what they thought we'd be right right also the tonawana number one team badges
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are available for sale now at your chevy counterpart that's a really cool badge to have on your engine well it's such a
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throwback to the 60s and 70s where the big blocks ruled the boulevards they were making engines out of tana
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wanda so these are these team tonawanda stickers originally we heard about him in 2019
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when gm president mark royce went to the plant and he's like i want that sticker on that engine yeah
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it's not really a sticker it's actually a metal plate they had a little hiccup i guess getting it ready for 2020
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but these have been on the engines since 2021 i think back in november or december is when they started
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so now you can order them if you've got a 2020 that doesn't have that and you want that you can order it from your chevy dealer let's see i'll give you the
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part number here it's one two seven zero seven three seven four and i think they're only like
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your engine very nice and finally we have some new events coming up for bloomington gold isn't that right
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yeah this is always a great show it's a little disappointing that they're not at the indianapolis motor speedway anymore just
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because that's such a great venue for driving and everything true but by being at lucas oil stadium which is where the
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colts play everything's indoors you've been in indianapolis in july it's hot it's muggy
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they've had bad weather the last few years so now everything's mostly inside it's just a really cool venue so yeah
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they've got writer steve who's been going to these since he was a kid he's like yeah beer garden so that's one of their new kids
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and then they've got the bloomington gold theater where they're giving me running videos of past shows and different events oh wow that
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these bloomington gold cars have been part of so i think that's really cool and then they've got three different driving tours that they're doing as well
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so they're really trying to make it a great show and if you're in the midwest june june 18th and 19th bloomington gold would be
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a great event to take it put that on your calendar right now buddy let's take our final break and coming up in segment number three we're
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for listening to corvette today the podcast that talks about everything corvette i'm your host steve garrett keith cornett is here from
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corvetteblogger.com every other week we keep you up to date on what's going on in the world of corvette
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in this final segment of the podcast we'll talk about the lighter side of corvette actually this isn't quite the lighter
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side keith but paul corner one of the master corvette technicians did a great series on changing out an
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engine in a c8 corvette talk about that yeah so he's a gm certified technician up at key
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chevrolet in middletown connecticut we all know him from the different events corporates at carlisle
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gold he goes to the mid-america show he's done seminars at the national corvette museum paul
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just a great guy to know and just a wealth of knowledge so he had a customer that had a bad engine
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in his c8 corvette he introduces it by saying what we've got here are pieces
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and you can see pieces of engine parts that were blown through these holes in the bottom of the lt2 engine block
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wow pretty catastrophic engine failure we didn't realize just how much was going to be involved in this we see all
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engine swap and then you know a few days later it's done that's generally for us on the outside of the dealer service bays
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that's what we see so paul though does these little quick videos and he uploads them to his facebook page the corvette mechanic
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is just a wealth of information shows us exactly what he's doing he talks about before we even do the engine we do all
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this preparation work he's doing homework on sunday nights looking at what he's going to be doing the next day he'd order new parts he'd
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show us off these parts as they came in and then kind of give us a little foreshadowing of what might happen
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and we saw that one of the questions was if there's a catastrophic failure at the bottom of the engine why are you
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changing the intake which is on the top of the engine right and he talks about reversion and how parts might get up in there and sure
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enough he takes off that old intake and he slams it on the ground and you see all the stuff come out just
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you can imagine you know somebody putting that on an engine and then having that one blow just so much information that he's able
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to process and then provide to us and just to give us that insight over the course of two weeks we followed along he ordered the parts
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he took the old engine out he had to replace the wiring harness for that then he had to mate everything back together again get it in
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there of course nothing fired up right away so he had to troubleshoot that a great little project to follow along and give
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us insight on something that we don't usually see it's been a great series of videos and it's a lot of fun to watch even if
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you're not mechanically inclined to get you a little bit closer to that as well so check that out on corvetblogger.com the
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whole series is excellent also another premier show keith is corvettes at carlisle and this
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year they're going to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 1996 grand sport which will be
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very very cool yeah hard to believe it's been 25 years the grand sport was just one of these
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special editions that has just continued to captivate people only a thousand of these cars were made
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the admiral blue with the white stripe and the red hash marks on them the owners of these cars are fanatics i
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mean that's the only way to explain them we're good friends with hutch and the people over at grand sport registry so they're working with carlisle to do a
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special grand sport display at corvettes of carlisle and they're bringing in john heinrich also known as the hind rocket and he's
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the father of the grand sport corvette it was him that kind of led the push to do this grand sport he owns grand sport number zero zero one
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and he's gonna have that car there as well so if you're interested in joining the grand sport registry at corvettes of carlisle we've got the link on our
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website or you can go to grandsportregistry.com that sounds cool also porsche is following the lead of
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the c4 zr1 they ran their new gt3 for 5 000 kilometers
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averaging 186 miles per hour talk about that and how that ties in with the c4
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zr1 so when the c4 zr1 came out a group of people essentially ran that car at full speed
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for 24 hours it set a record and i want to say i should have looked this up
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because i knew you were going to talk about it but i want to say that it averaged somewhere in the 170s
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for 24 hours so they only would stop for gas they'd go back out and run this thing and the track actually was actually a
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little sketchy they were out in the wilderness they could have had wildlife running across the track at some point but they completed within 24
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hours and that record stood for i want to say 15 or 20 years or so so now we raised the porsche basically
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did the same thing is when their new car that they ran it flat out 24 hours only stopping for gas and
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checking fluids i remember last year i met with doug feehan corvette racing when they were introducing the c8r
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and that was one of the questions i had asked doug is are you out there did you race this thing for 24 hours straight and he's like no we didn't really have
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to this time because of engine simulations but we all know that engine simulations don't take into account the real weird
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error that happens on these engines we actually have seen some problems with corvette engines in the c8r a couple
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times so again the more you race the more you're going to find out if they're stable or not it's a good thing to do and i'd like to
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see corvette try to recapture that title because that stood for a long time for the zr1 record it sure did that'd be really cool
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to see him reset that record also this was a fascinating story keith there's a blind corvette racer that set
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the challenge world speed record in a c6 that was just amazing yeah his
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name is dan parker he lost his sight he was i think a drag racer lost his sight back in 2012 when
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his 63 corvette slammed into a wall regardless the guy still races today he's built his own c6 corvette that's
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capable of 200 miles an hour and there's a guinness book of world records called driving the fastest car
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blindfolded and of course if you're blind you don't need the fold and he says that so he's going to be
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trying to set that record which i think stands right around 200 miles an hour so his goal is to do 210
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in his red c6 corvette if he does succeed he will be the fastest man blindfolded
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very cool that's simply amazing i'm just not sure how he does it being blind but
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that's pretty darn amazing well one of the ways they do this is obviously on the track is difficult
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because you have to stay within the timelines of the track and these speed records are set out at like bonneville
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where you could go you can veer and still get speeds and not worry about crashing into something it should be a
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safe venue for him and godspeed we hope he gets that record absolutely right our final story is pretty cool if you're a youtuber
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you've seen a girl named supercar blondie and she's a fan of the c8 corvette
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you know when you've driven everything and especially you've driven everything at the caliber of supercars from
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bugattis and ferraris and bentleys and all these amazing mercedes amg supercars
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you become used to that so then when you get into a 60 000 american corvette what's the perception
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then she had said that she had trouble getting a car from general motors because they don't have any she's based
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over in europe i believe this one this video she was actually in dubai and rented the car so that she could
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test drive it and do her review on it so she comes back there's a few things she doesn't like particularly she doesn't like the great wall of buttons in the
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interior but other than that she's pretty much a fan of the car she says she's a fan of the direction of the c8
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i think as we get up into some of the more exotic version z06 e-ray zr1 01 zora she'll be back and
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testing those cars as well as an automotive reviewer she has one of the largest channels on youtube i think
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over six million subscribers true so it's a big deal she said she likes it the video's already been seen by
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700 000 people so i mean it's getting a lot of play that's wonderful i'm glad to see that she likes it and i think she is
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based in abu dhabi or the uae or something like that so it's pretty cool she travels she goes to
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different shows and wherever she get her hands on a car you know she does a great walk around she's very knowledgeable
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and had some comments people didn't really quite know i'm like man you got to go to youtube because she's seen it all and done it all that's
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true well buddy thanks for being on corvette today we will see you in two weeks and here's to year number two of our
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podcast together well and again congratulations on one year steve looking forward to making the second
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