CORVETTE TODAY #56-Win a Subscription to the new Corvette Fever magazine with owner, Alan Colvin!

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my guest on corvette today is a walking
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encyclopedia of corvette and chevrolet
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he's written books called corvette by
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the numbers and chevrolet by the numbers
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he is one of the nation's top collector
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car experts
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he was also the editor of a magazine
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called corvette fever
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well that magazine folded but now alan
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has revived the publication he's the
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owner
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and corvette fever lives again as a
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matter of fact later on in the corvette
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today podcast
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you'll have a chance to win a
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subscription to corvette fever magazine
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meet alan calvin alan welcome to
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corvette today
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hey steve it's so great to be on your
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show heard a lot about it i guess you're
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in this deal for about a year now and
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it's just awesome really looking forward
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to reaching out to
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the corvette people out there and
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talking about what's great about this
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industry
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i'm glad to have you on and we want to
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talk about corvette fever magazine and
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give away some subscriptions but
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let's talk about your early years first
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alan you grew
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up in kentucky when did you realize you
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were a car guy
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well really in actuality i wasn't the
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one that realized it
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my mom basically kept everything every
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toy that i ever played with
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etc and she saved every piece of paper i
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think i ever drew on and she told me one
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time that the first legible thing that i
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ever drew was a car
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wow so i guess i've had oil in my veins
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since
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i was born two or three years old i've
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always been
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fascinated by automobiles that's very
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cool hey talk about the time when you
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saw your first corvette and knew
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that was your car you know it's sort of
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interesting i was raised in you know a
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little town in kentucky
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i think there was like one corvette in
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town maybe two
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at the most at any given time wow you
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know we did have a chevy dealership but
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they sold most
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pickup trucks and camaros and such like
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that it was later in life
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where the first quarterback i remember
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seeing was a split window could 63 split
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window
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and that's still my favorite car the
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uniqueness of it being a split window
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one year only i've just always loved
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that car in fact i
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ended up finding a watch i wore for
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years and years and years
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it was a split window coupe i think it
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was a fossil watt that they had made
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special
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and so i got one of those and wore it
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for years and years and so i think that
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that's always been my favorite car
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favorite corvette it was later on where
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i was really starting to be around them
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more
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as i got older wow i would love to find
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that fossil watch because
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just like you allen my first wow moment
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with corvette was that 63 split window
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i would love to have one of those fossil
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watches that would be so cool
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i'll send you what i have on it i'll
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send you a picture of it maybe you can
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find it on ebay they say everything's
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there
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that would be so cool so do you own a
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corvette now alan
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what's currently in your garage i've
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owned a couple of corvettes
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i bought the first one as a project car
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project c5x
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we worked with mid-america motorworks we
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did 16 articles when i was at corvette
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fever the original corvette fever we
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ended up selling that car
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then i bought another one my wife never
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got to drive that the 2001 c5
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and um it was a stick and my wife never
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got to drive it and so
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after that car went down the road to a
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new owner it was actually given away
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at fun fest one year wow i got another
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2001
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it was an automatic so my wife was
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finally able to drive the car and she
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really loved it she's real pretty blonde
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so she looked really good in it
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i bet she did as a matter of fact it's
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the same way with my wife
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my wife cannot drive a stick and my c7
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is a seven speed so
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she can't drive it but i need to get her
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into a corvette that's an automatic as
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well
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yep you know i'm looking forward as the
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magazine progresses i'm gonna get some
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type of a project car whether it's a c2
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or a c6 or a c5 again i'm going to get
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into one here pretty soon again very
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nice now you're an accomplished magazine
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writer you've been doing that for 35
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years alan
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talk about your writing career and what
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magazines you've written for
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you know i started out i went to school
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to be an engineer
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civil engineer and i did that for about
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10 years
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but i was always dabbling in cardum you
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know i thought well maybe i could write
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some articles
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and so i bought a nikon camera and
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started to go to different car shows
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and pull different cars out to be able
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to shoot and so then i was able to
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have something to sell i always liked
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how to
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and so i did some how-to stuff i was
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sort of a numbers guy numbers matching
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guy
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sure the list is sort of long but i
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obviously wrote for corvette fever i
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wrote for them
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is a columnist and did a few articles
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for them
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on muncie transmissions prior to me
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coming on board as the editor
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i wrote for let's see super chevy muscle
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car review
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i wrote for vet views for years and
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years and years
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corvette and chevy trader i wrote for
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them for years
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mustang trader i did some high
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performance pontiac
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articles automotive restore pontiac
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enthusiasts old cars weekly chevy high
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performance
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and then also corvette magazine.com
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which was done by
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the walkers and zip products alan that's
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an impressive list of car
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and corvette magazines what were some of
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your favorite articles that you like to
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write about
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i always like to find really rare stuff
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always like to
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write about things that most people
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didn't really know existed
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when i was doing my research for my
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books i uncovered
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the proof of the 1965 m22
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prototype transmission the rock crusher
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transmission they only built
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57 of them and i was able to nail all
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that down with the production totals
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from the muncie transmission plant so
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i've always been
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pulled even though i've done feature
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work and stuff like that it's mostly
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rarity rarity sort of drives my spirit
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i've always tried to come up with that
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or
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trying to educate people what's correct
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what's right and so i've used some of
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the content that i've created over the
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years from
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my books my book projects that's where i
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ended up that's very cool and you also
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owned a company called calvin media
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group
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talk about cmg and what they did too i
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was freelancing
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i was living in dayton ohio at the time
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i had lots of guys in the industry that
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you know i was fooling around with drag
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racers and circle track racers and i
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sort of ran in those circles and so
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i got the opportunity to start doing
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some catalog
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work i did a few posters for ohio george
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montgomery
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cool the only poster that's ever been
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done of his gasser
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and so i started continuing to pick up
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work like that so i
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ended up hiring several people
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underneath me and
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i made it call the media group we were
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able to do a lot of catalog
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work and that kind of thing catalog copy
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advertising those kinds of things that's
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very cool
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so you have a really well-rounded
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background in automotive thanks
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appreciate that
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you bet alan let's take our first break
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and when we come back we're going to
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talk about some of the businesses that
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you've owned
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and my husband steve garrett hey thanks
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for listening to corvette today i'm your
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host steve garrett with me today is
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alan calvin the new owner of corvette
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fever magazine
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in this second segment we're going to
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talk about some of the other books that
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alan has written
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also some of the companies he's owned
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now alan you owned a nationally known
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chevy reproduction parts company
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called cnc automotive reproductions talk
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about that real quick because
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that's some really interesting stuff
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yeah i was a camaro guy a lot
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in my life right i've owned a z269028
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i've owned a big block 396
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four-speed ss car and so i was always
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into camaros and so i decided well
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maybe there's some parts out there this
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was really early this was like
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82 83 84 and i thought well
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i wouldn't mind starting a company and
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maybe i could do some reproduction stuff
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so
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i had some friends of general motors at
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the time they didn't have
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a system where you could go to equity
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management and be able to pull prints
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the way that promoters would want you to
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so anyway i was able to get the prints
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out of gm for the chambered exhaust
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wow the chambered exhaust was offered on
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the 69 z28
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as an option well it was originally an
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oem for some of the cars
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early in the model year and then it was
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always optional for cars that didn't
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come on
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for the factory is an oe installation
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but i was able to
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meet a guy at a large car collection i
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was able to raise the money to be able
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to build the tooling
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i went to a tier 3 supplier in ohio for
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exhaust systems that was supplying
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general motors at the time
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we were able to build the complete
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chambered exhaust i came up with all the
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hangers for it i came up with all the
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hardware
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researched all of that it was a great
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project we sold thousands of them at the
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time and i built it out of 409.72 wall
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409 stainless with a
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and then the internal tube is crimped
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right
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it's a three inch muffler that's crimped
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there's two that are underneath
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the floorboard that run down the drive
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shaft and then there's two behind it
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takes the place of the transverse
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muffler
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and then there's an internal tube inside
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that three inch tube and so
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i actually manufactured that internal
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tube in 304 stainless and they're still
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out there on the road
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i get contacted all the time hey i still
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got your chambered exhaust on my car
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still sounds like the day it was built
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that's amazing that's great
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here we are 30 40 years later now you
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also wrote a four-part
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book series called chevrolet by the
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numbers talk about that book series
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and is that still available oh yeah it's
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still available in fact
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i sell them direct to the public off on
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my website alancolvin.com
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like i said i was an engineer i just got
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married i was on a big engineering job
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that came to an end and so i was laid
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off drawing some unemployment and i
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always carried around this little book
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and i talked about this in the
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introduction of all those books of how
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the whole project started
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and i would it would write down and
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research and write down and so if i was
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looking for parts
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i would go to swap meets and car shows
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around ohio
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within a couple hour radius went to
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carlisle several times
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and i would always carry that little
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book around with me and
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people would always see that i was
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looking up keeping track of what i was
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doing and what i was looking for
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i had one guy offer me like 500 for this
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little bound book in my hand
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one time he says i don't care i've got
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the money right here i'll pay you for it
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right now
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oh my gosh i can't do that dude because
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this is the only one i've got
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but it just sort of gave me thinking
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about well maybe
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it is really needed that people really
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need to know what's really was
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installed on these cars and so that
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started a
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several year process uh it started out
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as being
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one book and i was able to finally get
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clearance to be able to go inside
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general motors
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go inside the tonneau one engine plant
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the flint engine plant
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the muncie transmission plant the
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delcorini plant in indiana
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i went to all these plants and was able
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to pull all these records out
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that would verify okay what is the
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original drivetrain for all
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chevy vehicles from 1955 through 1975
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that's what i did
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and so that one book turned into four
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and then later on
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i wrote corvette by the numbers by
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itself and let's talk about corvette by
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the numbers that came out in 2002
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talk about the awards that book received
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as well and that can still be purchased
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too
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isn't that correct that's right yep all
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five of my books are still in print
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they're selling really well i actually
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since 1992
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when the first books were sold i've sold
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over 130 000 copies of those books
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i think the number now i'm over 6 000
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for corvette by the numbers
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wow but it took a while my wife says
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that everything when i was writing these
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books revolved around
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writing the books i was working
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part-time i work part-time for airborne
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once and i would get up at five o'clock
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in the morning and work until one
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get home by two work till 11 or 12 and
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get up and do it all over again
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wow she said it was like i was in
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medical school
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and so after the four were done and i
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finished the last one the corvette book
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she said uh
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we can't do this ever again you're gonna
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have to find a new place to live
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if you do another one so i took the hint
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and said well i won't do any more
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that's funny that's a great story though
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you know alan you've been involved in a
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lot of car clubs talk about some of the
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car clubs you've been in
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over your years well i was involved with
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the national monte carlo's owners
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association because i owned an ss monte
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carlo 70th monte carlo
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at one time i was a member of the
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society of automotive historians i got
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involved with them because
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of them being record seekers and trying
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to save the history of the automobile
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united states camaro club i was in it i
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was like their first 10 people that
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joined that that was based out of dayton
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ohio which is where i was living at the
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time and so
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i wrote articles from them jim worth
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from worth and associates
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actually started the club and so i was
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with them
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american chevelle and susie society aces
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that was started by a friend of mine
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chuck hanson who used to be on
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tv it was one of the first automotive
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shows on television
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he had vet club for quite a long time
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national corvette restore society i was
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a member of
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them for years and years sharing
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information pulling information from
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their judging manuals
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verifying that what i was pulling out of
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general motors and
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when i was writing my books i was making
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sure that i had it
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right but there were some things that
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i've figured out that weren't
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necessarily
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correct in their judging manuals it was
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just part of the process
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i was also in the 6566 full-size chevy
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and an advisor for many of those clubs
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it's been a great ride i haven't been as
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involved as much in the last few years
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but i've been a lot of clubs and done a
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you sure have well alan let's take our
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last break and in the segment number
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three
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hey thanks for listening to corvette
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today the podcast that talks about
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everything corvette i'm your host steve
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garrett with me today on the podcast
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is alan calvin the publisher and owner
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of corvette fever magazine alan you were
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once the editor of this publication
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talk about that time and what happened
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to that publication when you were editor
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i was actually writing resto clinic as a
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contributor
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at the time this was in what 2000 2001
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2002. we decided i was working for
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another company
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it was high stress and so my wife said
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we need to get out of here and so let's
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go to florida
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i was writing for several magazines vet
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views as well
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at the time and so i thought well let's
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go to florida and chill out
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and maybe we can have dinner or
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something with somebody at one of the
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magazines and maybe be able to write
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some of this off and so
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that's exactly what happened i went to
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dinner with one of the executives which
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was
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with prime media corvette fever had been
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sold it was in the prime media portfolio
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and so
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went to dinner had no expectation of
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anything other than having a great time
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and during that dinner executive said
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would you consider throwing your hat
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into the ring
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take uh ronnie hartman's place as editor
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and i was dumbfounded i had no idea what
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was going on
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and we sort of walked out and looked at
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each other after the dinner i said well
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sure i'll
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i definitely would consider anything and
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so we walked out of there
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that ended up working out we were able
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to in 2004
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i was able to come to florida and take
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over the editorship of corvette fever
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and it was definitely a great move for
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me
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obviously the publication has been gone
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for a little while but you've recently
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revived the magazine
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talk about the details of that in the
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restart and what your mission is
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for this edition of corvette fever
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magazine
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yeah that's been what 11 12 years ago
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and as these other magazines have shut
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down
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basically everything's gone a portfolio
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when i was with corvette fever was over
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70 magazines and basically
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all those are gone except maybe one you
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know magazine industries totally changed
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the
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landscape is totally different and so
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this got to a point where i thought you
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know what
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maybe there is a possibility that i can
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get control of the trademark
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and relaunch corvette fever and so i
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started making some phone calls
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got an intellectual properties attorney
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we were able to
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get control of that trademark and so i'm
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super excited about it because
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we have a totally different business
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model now it's digital
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and yet it's also a printed magazine i'm
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just super excited
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we've launched three weeks ago maybe
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we're having a great response
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that's fantastic now talk about the
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different subscriber options that you do
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have
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for corvette fever allen we have a
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digital subscription
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the actual proprietary software that
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we're using you can go online
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it'll actually look at the magazine on
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any digital
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machine as far as a tablet a phone
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a pc it automatically adjusts to
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whatever
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you're using i have a free option that
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you will be able to
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look at the digital flip book you'll be
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able to look at past digital flip books
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and the articles will be abridged in the
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digital subscription
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so there's not going to always be all
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the content in the digital subscription
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the majority of it probably 60 or 70
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percent will be there
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then we have a one-year subscription
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option which is
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a paid subscription for 65 you'll get
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the same digital flip book
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you'll get access to the past digital
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footbooks as we publish them
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you'll have full-length article access
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and we're going to do a quarterly
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printed
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publication and some swags and some
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decals and that kind of thing come with
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that first year subscription
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the printed publication is going to be
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the best cover the best paper it's
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probably going to be at least 200
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and possibly even 300 pages long every
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quarter
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if you go for a two-year subscription
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like i said it's all the same up until
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the point where now you're gonna just
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push those printed publications out
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you'll get eight of those
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and you'll get the decals the c1 through
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c8 decal
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and you'll get an embroidered hat which
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the discount is
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31 discount for ninety nine dollars per
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two year subscription
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and amazingly we've had quite a few
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people sign up so far and amazingly
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most of the people that are signing up
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for a paid for subscription
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are going for the 99 dollar two-year
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subscription which
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i don't know maybe it's we're giving
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away a great hat so maybe that's what's
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driving it but
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i choose to believe that people know who
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i am they know that we're gonna do a
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great job
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with the content we're setting new
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standards we're plowing new ground here
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i choose to believe that they believe in
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where we're going and where we're headed
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and we're going to have a great product
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alan that's fantastic and talk about
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your social media links as well because
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corvette fever is on all social media
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too that's right yeah we've got a
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current facebook group that we've just
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launched we're going to be going it into
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instagram pretty soon
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that's fantastic well let's give away
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three
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two-year subscriptions to the print
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product corvette fever magazine
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so here's what you need to do all you
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have to do is email me at steve
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corvette todaypodcast.com and you'll be
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entered to win
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one of these three subscriptions so we
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have till friday of this week to get
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that done
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so all you have to do is give me your
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contact information and email me at
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steve
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corvette today podcast dot com and
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you'll be in the running
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for one of our three subscriptions a two
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year subscription
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to corvette fever magazine al i'm real
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excited to give away these publications
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with you
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any final thoughts for our listeners to
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the corvette today podcast
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you know i'm just happy to be back in
26:30
the game the best job i ever had was
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being the editor of corvette fever
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magazine
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and now that i have control over it i'm
26:37
just super excited
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it's going to be a top shelf product and
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if you get the free
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subscription today you'll see the
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quality that
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we're going to be producing i'm just
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happy to be back in the chair
26:48
i'm looking forward to seeing old
26:50
friends we're going to be doing some
26:51
shows this year
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and i'm looking forward to seeing old
26:54
friends and new friends out there in
26:56
corvette land it's great to have
26:57
corvette fever magazine back
26:59
just like corvette today podcast it's
27:02
new it's fresh it's unique
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and i know that this is going to be a
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high-end high detailed publication so
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i'm really really looking forward to it
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thank you so much steve i really
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appreciate the opportunity to be on your
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podcast and i'm looking forward to
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working with you in the future
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absolutely thanks for being on corvette
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today alan thank you
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with steve garrett
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if you'd like to contact steve with any
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thoughts on the podcast or ideas for
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guests on corvette today
28:02
you can email him at stevegarrettdj
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that's stevegarrettdjmail.com
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