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We are thrilled to say that this podcast begins year #2 for CORVETTE TODAY! Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger.com teams up with your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, to keep you on top of what's going on in the world of Corvette.
Here are some of the topics covered in this podcast:
1. April 2021 Constraints and Production Update – 11000 orders still to produce
3. Zeus Bronze and Sebring Orange are now no longer available for order
3. Corvette is the fastest selling new car for the 3rd month in a row!
4. Corvette dominates Q1 sales with 51% marketshare
5. Corvette has highest model loyalty in Luxury Sports Car segment
6. Sportscar 365 says GM Racing will make a decision on LMDH & GTD Pro in 45 days
7. Digital Paint samples for three new 2022 colors revealed
8. Tonowanda #1 Team Badges available for sale at Chevy Parts Counter
9. Corvettes at Carlisle to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the ’96 Grand Sport
10. Supercar Blondie is a fan of the C8 Corvette!
Join us as we start year #2 with this News & Headlines podcast for CORVETTE TODAY!
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[Music] welcome to corvette today
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the podcast that talks about everything corvette with your host steve garrett mc and dj at one of the largest corvette
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and radio disc jockey at the number one radio station in kansas city for over 40 years here's steve garrett
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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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16 or eighteen dollars you avoid the corvette tax on that and get yourself something that's a really cool badge for
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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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