CORVETTE TODAY #59 - News & Headlines, June 2021

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as you know keith is a regular guest on
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to keep you up to date on what's
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happening with america's sports car
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keith welcome back here we are in june
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it's the unofficial start of summer
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we've got corvette news and headlines
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for everybody well it's exciting time
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steve i know there's some news that
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people don't want to hear but summer is
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here
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it's time to get those cars out and
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driving memorial day hopefully everybody
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had a great day there of course we
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remember our
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veterans who served this country admiral
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and were lost but at the same time
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it is the unofficial kickoff or summer
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and there's only one
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sports car i can think of for summertime
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driving and that's the chevy corvette so
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let's go have some fun absolutely right
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buddy well let's get right into it give
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us an update on corvette production
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well we know that the plant has been
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down it was expected to open up
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on tuesday the first but then on
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thursday last week
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we found out they were shutting it down
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again they tell us it's the same exact
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thing
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probably what they're doing is they're
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probably just trying to stockpile right
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now
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and get as many of these parts that
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they're lagging behind the rumor is that
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it's been the transmissions
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or parts for the transmission okay
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tramic makes those
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they're assembled in michigan but they
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do get parts from other places and we've
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been hearing that some of those parts do
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come from mexico
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so it could be that they're having some
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production delays down there and of
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course that's holding us up
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up here no one's really talking about it
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we've spoken to the corvette concierge
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we've
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reached out to chevy's pr department and
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they just essentially say
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it's a part supply issue but it's not
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chips it's not the semiconductor chips
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okay
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it just seems to me like knowing that
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with monday being a holiday and they
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only had the four days then this week
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i'm wondering if they just said you know
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what let's go ahead and just stockpile
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as many parts as we can
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and then see if we can make a run
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through the end of the model here
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without any more closures
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hard to say what's happening obviously
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it's not the ideal situation
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when they last produced a car that
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number was 14558 was the vin on that
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okay we've been hearing that the model
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year for the 2021 production will run
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through
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mid august maybe into early september
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how this will
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all the fact these shutdowns will all
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affect june's allocations which is the
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final allocation for the model year
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it's just hard to say we don't know if
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they're just going to try to extend it
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or if they're just going to cut it off
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and say
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sorry but this is what we're dealing
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with right now we're just going to have
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to watch and see what they do
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it's unfortunate but what do you do and
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this is unprecedented because it's the
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second consecutive week to shut down the
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plant
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yeah it's been very rare that they've
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done more than one week at a time
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we saw that back in february where it
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first happened again that was related to
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transmissions as we were told
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but yeah it's just an unfortunate
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situation but you know the manufacturers
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the auto manufacturers are dealing with
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this on a huge scale and it's just not
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corvette
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chevrolet and gm i think had four or
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five different plants shut down
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some of the shutdowns i think camaro the
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plant that was shut down for several
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weeks
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wow then the other flip side is that
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ford and chevy
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are building trucks but they can't
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complete them so they're building
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what they can and then they're just
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parking them so there might be
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40 or 50 000 trucks between ford and
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chevy alone
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that have been constructed but can't be
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delivered because they're still waiting
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on some crucial parts
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it's mostly related to chips there
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amazing we're just in our own little
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bubble here with corvettes and of course
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we all want the corvette to come out and
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especially the people who had tpw's
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target production weeks for the car
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coming up but there's a lot more going
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on than just our problems with tremec
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and transmission
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very true hopefully everybody will just
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take a deep breath we'll get through
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this together
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the car will come so just hang in there
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if you're waiting on the positive side
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keith
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chevrolet has offered tips on how to
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keep the c8 lt2 engine running well i
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was glad to see that
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yeah they reached out to several the
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forums and just say hey we wanted to
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give you a statement on this
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and so i think what they're seeing is in
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some of their diagnostic testing and of
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course
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if an engine breaks down we followed
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paul corner the corvette mechanic where
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he had to do an engine replacement
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they get those engines back at detroit
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they tear them down and figure out
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what's going on with them
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so one of the things that they're seeing
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is that many corvette owners are doing
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these
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short startup iterations where you know
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you just start the car for a second or a
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minute and it's not fully heating up
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so they want to see instead of just
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turning off and off the car really
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quickly
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if you're like even just moving it
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around the garage or your driveway or
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whatever
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they want to see you start it up and let
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it run for about three minutes or so
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or at least until the coolant
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temperature reaches greater than 125.
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it seems to me like i said they've got
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some diagnostic information that
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supports this
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and then the other flip side is they
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want us to go drive our cars amazingly
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they said get out there and exercise
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them have fun on your favorite road
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let the rpms flow that all helps keep
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the spark plugs clean
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that's dealing with like a carbon
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buildup that they were seeing on those
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so
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yeah get out there and drive that's a
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great advice from chevrolet that's
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really cool
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and also executive chief engineer taj
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jupter
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talked about the brake fade warning
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system on the c8
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it's nice to see them coming out and
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talking about these things
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well especially on some of these
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diagnostic systems that the car has
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where a lot of times you know you're
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driving and all of a sudden you'll see a
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warning system
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on your dash display there you might not
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know exactly what that means
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what does a level one warning mean for
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brake fade
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he's done this asktag column over at the
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corvette forum for a couple years now
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but it looks like they actually have
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moved that over just to chevrolet.com
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which is where they seem to be posting
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that now so
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you can see aztaj at chevrolet.com and
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you just go to the corvette page there
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that's where they're posting that but
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yeah he shows some of the screen grabs
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showing the warning system
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there's actually two stages of the brake
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fade the most important thing he says i
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think
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is that if you're seeing brake fade if
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you're feeling it
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brake fade is where you're aggressively
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pressing on the brakes and you're taking
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longer and longer to stop
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the first warning is going to obviously
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say hey you might want to cool down
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those brakes
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but the second one is it's going to
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throw codes and you're going to have to
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take it in the service
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one of the considerations he says is
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that this is all for
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stock oem parts so if you're running a
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different brand of
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brake pads or you've changed the rotors
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around the brake fade system might not
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work correctly
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but it's a really technical in-depth
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article if you're interested in that
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kind of stuff yeah definitely go read it
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absolutely right also a judge ruled that
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the cracked wheel lawsuit
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can proceed on the c7s that was
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interesting to see
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yeah this has been going on and on and
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it looks like from this judge they've
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got
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like five or six different law firms
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that are working with plaintiffs
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from what we understand there's about 18
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plaintiffs that have been accepted
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it's a class action lawsuit there's some
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different regulations out there
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regarding how many members of the
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class-action lawsuit there need to be
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and on warranty claims it generally
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needs to be you have to have 100 members
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of this lawsuit
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but the judge said no we're going to
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proceed with the 18
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and then there's various claims as well
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that have been going back and forth
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chevy actually getting a couple of them
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thrown out but they are ruling that
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these
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claims can proceed what's going on is on
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the c7
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z06 and grand sports these wheels are
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cast which means that the
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aluminum's poured into a mold they're
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cast
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aluminum and then they're finding these
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little hairline fractures
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after just several thousand miles of
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driving and a lot of drivers that we've
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talked to
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that have experienced crack rims on
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their cars they're not
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aggressive driving at all this is just
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normal everyday driving some cars will
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have a thousand miles some will have 10
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000 but what's happening is these owners
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are
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having to spend upwards of a thousand
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dollars per wheel to replace it but then
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you're replacing it with a potentially
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defective wheel again
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so it's not a good situation at all we
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really hope that they can find some
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relief here
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whether or not other people can join in
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whether or not there's some sort of
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overall ruling
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we'll just have to wait and see it's a
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bad situation for sure
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it is i've got after-market wheels so i
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don't have to worry about that but it's
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sure sad to see that
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this situation is really going on and on
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and on
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finally keith australia is getting the
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2022 c8 corvette but it just got more
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expensive
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what happened well like everything you
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see the cars are advertised at an msrp
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price but then you always kind of kind
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of think in the back of your mind oh
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there's going to be some document fees
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and maybe a delivery
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charge you know we have the shipping
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charges over here over in australia
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they've also got
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a luxury tax on cars with an msrp of
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greater than
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67 500 i believe okay so that goes into
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place
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and then you also have stamp fees based
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on what state or territory you live in
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oh so on this car that's already
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starting at 145
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000 for the 2lt coupe you could have
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another 40
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000 in fees tacked on to it whoa which
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is now
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pushing that car upwards of 200 000
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we've been told by one
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gentleman in our comment section that it
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was just one dealership that was showing
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those prices so it could vary
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based on whatever dealership is selling
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that car in that state and territory
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but that's what they're doing is these
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extra taxes and fees are just really
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blowing up the price of the cars
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wow well keep an eye on that for us and
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let us know what's going on okay
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absolutely yep let's take our first
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up to date on what's going on in the
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world of corvette in segment number two
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we're going to talk about corvette
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racing keith mobile won the grid
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profiled the drivers of corvette racing
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which was so cool
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yeah you know they film these in advance
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they roll them out throughout the season
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we're kind of in a little bit of a lull
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right now you know we haven't had any
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racing action for the c8rs they went
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over to
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the wec in europe but here in the states
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in our last race with sebring we're kind
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of in a low right now
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we're begging for content wherever we
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get it and mobile won the grid always
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puts out some really nice features on
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the team
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obviously mobile one's a technical
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partner with the corvette racing team so
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it makes a lot of sense there but yeah
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this was a nice tie-in they
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really kind of focused on nick tandy and
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him joining the team of course he had
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some very complimentary things to say
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about oliver gavin the driver he
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replaced
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they both are from the same hometown
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back in england that have probably known
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each other pretty well and so
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yeah there's some complimentary stuff
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that's there but you know the team
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members they all talk about each other
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and what they
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are trying to accomplish they got the
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obviously c8rs been doing very well the
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last two seasons and so they want to
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continue that success so
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mobile won the grid a great channel
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there on youtube go take a look at that
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of course we have it here in corvette
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blogger as well
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our next race is the detroit grand prix
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at belle isle
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i think the corvettes race saturday
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night at five o'clock on
15:26
june 12th very nice very nice also it
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was nice to see danica patrick
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driving the indy 500 c8 pace car that
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was really cool
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yeah it's a good-looking pace car the
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more i see it i really kind of like the
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tones the base coats the white with
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obviously the black trim and stuff like
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that but then they used yellow in
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certain areas
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and it ties in with the yellow calipers
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they had yellow on the arrow and on the
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high wing
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but it's a good looking car and of
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course it makes sense bringing in danica
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she was a chevrolet driver
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obviously a driver there at indy as well
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she holds several records for
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top finishes as a female driver at ed
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indianapolis good to see the car out on
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the track it must be amazing you know to
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be driving a car and have all those indy
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cars behind you you know leading the
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pack so to speak for that first green
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flag
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pretty interesting very cool and also we
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reported on this a couple weeks ago
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the c4 sledgehammer the high bid on that
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car was 500
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000 a half a million dollars it wasn't
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enough not enough to bring home what was
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the fastest car in the world for a long
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time
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if you remember it ran 254 76
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at the ohio transportation research
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center there
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on their huge oval track this car has
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been one of my favorites forever
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it's one of my top five favorites
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actually would love to see this go to a
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great collector would like to see it
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actually in a place where we could also
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see it the fact that it didn't sell
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maybe gives it a chance maybe we can see
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it end up in a museum somewhere
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but boy it's a dynamite car it's got a
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legendary reputation
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it definitely deserves to be out there
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and shown maybe this is a
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good thing and we'll see what happens
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the next time it goes up for sale i
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wonder what it would have taken to get
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that car
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sold if half a million dollars wasn't
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good enough what do you think that
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number would be
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i think that they are probably looking
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upwards of a million
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wow they're only halfway there
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interesting
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right and they got to that halfway real
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quick too that was the other thing
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it went right to 500 000 and then it
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seemed to stall out for the rest of the
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auction
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no kidding we're going to keep an eye on
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it and see if it shows up again
17:20
and finally in the corvette racing
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segment keith this isn't about corvette
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racing but it's about corvette drag
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racing
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fuel tech c8 goes wheels up and it posts
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a new trap
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record on the track so we've been
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following the fuel tack team
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they took the high horsepower record
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away from emilia hartford with a dyno
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run
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of 1075 and that's horsepower at the
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wheels
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they've been out on the track with it i
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think they've done a 9-6
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they went back to a track they rented
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out a private track and then had it to
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themselves
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they brought in steve faraday from late
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model racecraft who also has experience
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with twin turbo setups
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and they're really trying to maximize
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their launches they even added
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nitrous to the car so they could launch
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it and then the nitrous shuts off as
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their turbochargers are all spooled up
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with the maximum amount of boost so
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it's pretty interesting what they're
18:09
doing but what we've really seen is
18:11
that this has really opened up a little
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rivalry between fuel tech and their car
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and then emilia hartford in her car
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she's got the fastest car
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she did a 9.41 at the quarter mile
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fastest time for fuel tank i believe is
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9.667
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the funny thing is now that fuel tech
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has the highest horsepower rating
18:29
amelia just put out another video saying
18:31
that she's trying to get it back and so
18:33
we kind of go through
18:34
and watch her trials and tribulations as
18:35
she's doing that it's a friendly rivalry
18:38
they're commenting on each other's
18:39
youtube posts
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when you get up to a thousand horsepower
18:43
trying to get more can be a little bit
18:44
difficult and they're both kind of
18:45
running into that so
18:47
it's gonna be interesting to see how it
18:48
shakes out i know amelia says that she
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wants to get her car into the eights
18:52
fuel tech their system is really nicely
18:54
set up they have a controller integrated
18:56
into the cup holder so they can make
18:57
changes to the fuel mappings and things
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like that on the fly
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so it's a really interesting setup and
19:02
at some point i think they're probably
19:03
going to start selling packages
19:05
it's fun to watch this development but
19:07
knowing that if you wanted to you could
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do something similar with your car
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i think that's what makes these so much
19:12
fun absolutely well
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it's on we'll see how that goes keep us
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updated okay
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exactly all right we'll do we'll take
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our second break keith and in the third
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segment we'll talk about the lighter
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this is the corvette today podcast with
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steve garrett
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hey thanks for listening to corvette
21:05
today the podcast that talks about
21:07
everything corvette
21:08
i'm your host steve garrett with me
21:10
today is keith cornett
21:11
keith is here every other week he's from
21:13
corvetteblogger.com
21:15
we keep you up to date on what's going
21:16
on in the world of corvette
21:18
keith on the lighter side we've got some
21:19
great stories finally
21:21
finally the c8 corvette is featured on
21:24
top gear
21:25
tell us about that yeah this is top care
21:27
america that runs on the motor trend
21:29
they did like best drivers car under a
21:31
hundred thousand dollars
21:33
so of course the c8 was there they had a
21:34
porsche and then a lotus
21:36
the guys did a shootout but of course
21:38
it's top gear so the shootout's not like
21:40
the fastest car
21:41
all that it's what can this car do to
21:43
prove my theory so to speak
21:45
so for like dax shepherd his theory was
21:47
he's always going he's working so hard
21:49
that he eats a lot in his car so what
21:51
car is the easiest one to eat in
21:53
and of course he's out there doing
21:54
burnouts while trying to take the bites
21:56
of these burgers and stuff and
21:58
it's pretty funny but again it's fun to
22:00
see these kinds of shows
22:02
we know that top gear in the united
22:04
states has never really broken out but
22:07
this is a fun group of guys
22:08
it's great to see our car on there so
22:10
we're gonna be paying attention
22:11
hopefully we'll be able to see a plastic
22:13
fantastic return to uh top gear america
22:15
wait buddy there's no eating in
22:17
corvettes
22:18
right yeah not according to dax shepard
22:21
well
22:21
somebody's gotta get with dax expert and
22:23
tell them there's no eating in corvettes
22:25
there's no crying in baseball and
22:26
there's no eating at corvettes
22:28
that's right also corvettes at woodward
22:31
the charity event is kind of taking
22:33
shape and that's really cool because the
22:34
woodward event up in michigan
22:36
is kind of like the pinnacle up there
22:38
isn't it yeah there's the woodward dream
22:39
cruise and that will happen
22:41
on saturday august 21st but for the last
22:44
10 15 years there's a guy up there larry
22:47
courtney great guy
22:48
puts together a number of corvette
22:50
related events and they start early in
22:52
the week so generally on the wednesday
22:53
before
22:54
the woodward dream cruise there's always
22:55
a corvette's on woodward event
22:57
of course people are already driving and
22:59
cruising the boulevard anyways
23:01
and then you get out there and we got
23:02
like three or four hundred corvettes
23:04
from
23:04
larry's group will get out there and
23:06
what they do is not only do they cruise
23:08
but they'll make a run they'll drop
23:09
off supplies at food banks and then he
23:12
also organizes generally like tours
23:13
where you go
23:14
see like the lincoln feller collection
23:16
or you go to the gm heritage center
23:18
so he's got a lot of great stuff up
23:19
there so we follow him our guy steve
23:21
burns our detroit bureau
23:23
up there will usually participate as
23:25
well so if you're in the area you want
23:26
to do some really fun stuff that week
23:28
yeah you want to hook up with larry
23:29
courtney and his group and everything
23:31
kicks off on august 18th
23:33
looks like a lot of fun very nice also
23:35
lance miller's cunningham corvettes were
23:37
just featured at amelia island that had
23:40
to be a great display
23:41
we've been talking about he's got this
23:43
charity car for
23:44
the chip miller and emily doidosis
23:47
foundation
23:47
and it's a c8 but it's upgraded to 600
23:50
horsepower
23:51
they call it the cunningham edition the
23:53
60th anniversary of course
23:55
references 60 years back to the first
23:57
corvettes to win
23:58
at le mans in 1960. they've got this car
24:01
that's going to be raising money for
24:03
the foundation and so it made its debut
24:05
at amelia island
24:06
alongside the winning car from lamont's
24:08
the number three car
24:09
1960 corvette that is owned by land
24:12
pretty cool to see those two cars
24:13
together
24:14
and of course during the event there was
24:16
also the auction there
24:17
that's where the unrestored car the
24:20
number one car there was three cars that
24:21
raced at le mans in 1960
24:23
actually there was four but there's
24:24
three of them that were part of the
24:25
briggs cunningham group
24:27
they've known where to these cars are
24:28
forever this third one's been through
24:30
all these legal wranglings we've talked
24:31
about it
24:32
that car sold the hammer price was 685
24:35
675 i think and then
24:37
out the door was 7.85 but the cool thing
24:40
about that car was that it was
24:42
actually purchased by the grandson of
24:44
briggs cunningham
24:46
it sounds like it's going to be restored
24:48
through kevin mckay
24:49
shop corvette repair we're going to see
24:51
this card
24:52
eventually on the show circuit so it
24:54
should be pretty exciting absolutely
24:55
fantastic and kevin mckay is the guy to
24:58
make that car look
24:59
the way it did back in 1960 oh yeah yeah
25:02
he restored the number three car
25:03
he's intimately familiar with it all
25:05
these three cars were all set up exactly
25:07
the same
25:08
so even though that cunningham car was
25:09
heavily modified after the race
25:11
they're gonna get it looking back the
25:13
way it should so it should be
25:14
interesting a lot of fun
25:15
and here's a story that's near and dear
25:17
to my heart because hallmark
25:18
here in kansas city is offering a torch
25:21
red c8 corvette christmas ornament
25:24
nothing says christmas like corvettes
25:26
right
25:27
been a hallmark fan for years not only
25:30
do i have several corvettes on the tree
25:31
but i've got a whole slew of star wars
25:33
ornaments as well over the years it was
25:35
great with the kids when we were growing
25:37
up
25:37
they had a lot of fun with that but now
25:38
they mostly just stay in the box
25:40
but the corvette stuff i've got several
25:42
of them that they've done over the years
25:44
and that's the great thing is you know
25:45
you buy this once and then for the next
25:48
how many years you know every year
25:50
you're setting up your tree you're like
25:51
oh yeah the red stingray
25:52
a lot of fun these are only going to be
25:54
like 19.95 so they're not that expensive
25:56
but
25:56
here's the deal is they always sell out
25:58
and once they're sold out if you wanted
26:00
one you'd have to go to ebay and then
26:01
pay for it that way
26:02
they're going to be offered for sale
26:04
this summer i believe you'll be able to
26:05
find them for 19.99
26:07
and then also you can go to hallmark.com
26:09
and you can see them there
26:10
and i'm sorry everybody even though
26:12
hallmark is here in kansas city i have
26:14
no connections at hallmark so
26:16
you're going to have to order through
26:17
the website and get it just like
26:18
everybody else
26:19
sorry about it and keith finally our
26:21
feel-good story of the day
26:23
an 87 year old man buys his very very
26:26
first corvette
26:28
this is a great story you know these are
26:30
you're never too
26:31
young to buy your first corvette right
26:33
right he's 87 years old vern
26:35
eden from valley ford washington the
26:37
picture shows him he's a farmer he's
26:39
wearing
26:39
overalls and he talks about using the
26:42
car he's made a couple parts runs for
26:44
his
26:44
tractors in it wow i think the funny
26:46
quote is that he says when they asked
26:48
him what took him so long to buy a
26:49
corvette he says well they finally got
26:51
this one right
26:52
because he likes the balance of having
26:54
the mid engine
26:55
and the cornering capabilities and how
26:57
it looks and drives he says they finally
26:59
got this one right
27:00
it's fun to listen to some of his quotes
27:02
he wants to get out there and
27:04
test the launch control and see how fast
27:06
he can go with it too so
27:07
like i said you're never too young to
27:09
all the corettes 87 years old that is
27:12
fantastic
27:13
right well buddy thanks for being on
27:15
corvette today we will see you in two
27:17
weeks and we'll get more information and
27:19
keep everybody up to date
27:20
on our news and headlines podcast
27:22
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27:24
about are on corvetteblogger.com and we
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