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CORVETTE TODAY #56-Win a Subscription to the new Corvette Fever magazine with owner, Alan Colvin!
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May 9, 2025
CORVETTE TODAY #56-Win a subscription to the new Corvette Fever magazine with owner and publisher, Alan Colvin! Corvette Fever magazine has not been published for a while. But Alan Colvin, a walking encyclopedia of GM cars as well as Corvette, has purchased the rights to Corvette Fever and has revived this publication! Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, visits with Alan to talk about the books he's written on Corvette and other GM products, his history with the old Corvette Fever magazine and how he plans to revive the publication. Plus, listen to this podcast and register to win one of 3-two year subscriptions to Corvette Fever that we're giving away exclusively on this episode! Listen to this CORVETTE TODAY podcast and win a subscription to Corvette Fever magazine!!! Listen Here: https://adori.page.link/corvette-today Join the CORVETTE TODAY Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2718423201763136 Visit the CORVETTE TODAY website: www.CorvetteTodayPodcast.com Sign up for CORVETTE TODAY emails: https://CorvetteToday.ck.page Now watch the CORVETTE TODAY podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXCRn-2X0SjjEXUt_...
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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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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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that was started by a friend of mine
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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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club i was a senior judge
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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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lot of work with them
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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
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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
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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
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i'm looking forward to seeing old
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friends we're going to be doing some
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shows this year
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and i'm looking forward to seeing old
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friends and new friends out there in
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corvette land it's great to have
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corvette fever magazine back
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just like corvette today podcast it's
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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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