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CORVETTE TODAY #65-Corvette News & Headlines, July 2021
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May 8, 2025
It’s time to catch up on the latest news and headlines in the world of Corvette with the CORVETTE TODAY podcast! Your host, Steve Garrett and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger.com tell you what’s going on in regards to Corvette. Here are some of the topics we cover in this podcast…. 1. 2022 Order Guide shows a Carbon Fiber high wing and intake trim for the C8 2. Ordering for 2022’s are open…with a catch! 3. New 2022 pricing is in for Z51, front-end lift and Destination Fees 4. Tadge Juechter on allowing access to the C8 Corvette’s ECU 5. Laura Clausser from Corvette Racing offers update on C8.R’s conversion to GT3 specs for 2022 6. The Simeone Museum brings out their #2 1963 Grand Sport 7. The #1 Corvette dealership in the USA, Kerbeck Chevrolet, sells to Ciocca Dealerships and launches new website 8. Gooding & Co. auctioned off drummer Neal Peart's (from the band, Rush) car collection, which included a ’63 Split Window 9. GM Design Team shares early design sketch of 1961 Corvette Stingray concept
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from corvetteblogger.com as you know
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keith welcome back to the show and i
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have to on a personal note say
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congratulations
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keith lives in tampa and his tampa bay
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lightning last week
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won the stanley cup in the national
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hockey league for the second straight
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year in a row which is very difficult to
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do
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yeah it's an exciting time for tampa
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because forever we had the worst sports
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team
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i say team because we had the buccaneers
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for years that just didn't do anything
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back in the day when i worked in radio i
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worked for the station that had the
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broadcasting rights for the buccaneers i
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remember just getting endorsed into my
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face no one wanted to talk to people
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team's a loser but boy has that all
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changed we've got the tampa bay
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lightning now this has really become a
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hockey town too which is a lot of fun
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but the lightning two in a row of course
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the buccaneers won the super bowl last
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year
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the tampa bay rays and baseball were in
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the world series
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so all of a sudden you know it's like
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title town around here so it's been a
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lot of fun and pretty exciting
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very nice buddy well let's get to
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corvette news let's get an update on
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corvette production
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yeah so we had a couple closures back in
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may we remember those weeks off but now
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we've got four solid weeks of production
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cars have been averaging about 177 per
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day
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over those last four weeks so it's a
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little bit down i don't want to say a
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lot down we've had a couple weeks where
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they were doing about 172 per day
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which generally is a down day within the
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week that brings down the average so you
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know 172 175 177 cars per day
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it's still a very good output actually
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we've got like nine weeks to go
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before we get to the week of nine six
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september six is labor day that's a
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monday
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we know of a couple dealers that have
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had customer tpw's
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cars that are going to be built that
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week of 9 6 these are 2021s
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so we could see the change over that
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week it could be the next week we're
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waiting to see
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what those last reported tpw's are and i
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think that'll give us a really good idea
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of when we can expect the
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model year to do its changeover and
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steven some other production news we did
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get the quarterly update
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for second quarter on total sales for
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the corvette
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and general motors reported 7971 new
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corvettes were delivered to their
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customers during april may and june
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so it was a solid quarter it was about a
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thousand cars less than fourth quarter
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of 2020 and i think you can basically
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attribute those thousand cars to those
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weeks being down
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at the plant in may that's why we're
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seeing a deficit there but they're
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selling as fast as they can build them
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they're delivering them as fast as they
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can build them
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it's great to see at least these sales
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numbers we talked about this you know
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when corvette was number one on the
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sales charts and the fastest selling car
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these are the fun times right now
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because at some point things will change
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we'll start seeing cars on dealer lots
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they'll be there for a little while
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it might not be the same kind of
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excitement but as for right now yeah
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these things are just moving like hot
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cakes
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i gotta believe that gm is happy with
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what they're saying that sounds good and
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also i saw
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on the order guide for 2022 they've got
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something near and dear to my heart
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they've got carbon fiber high wings and
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also the trim on the intake on the door
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that's in carbon fiber too that's a
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great option yeah so the order guide
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drop and if you aren't familiar with the
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order guide it can be some dry reading
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it's just 40 50 60 pages of data but
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what it does is it shows
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all the options it shows standard
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equipment versus what you can get on the
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different trim levels
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and what's required and what's not
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required and for
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data geeks like me i really like to get
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in there and look around and see what's
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new and what's coming
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we did see these new lpo options these
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are dealer installed options where we'll
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have a carbon fiber boomerang a carbon
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fiber high wing
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but you know what we just had some
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information come out with
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pricing and those weren't on there so
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that tells us that these are probably a
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little bit of a later availability okay
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they're on the order guide so they are
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expected in 2022
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we just don't have any pricing for them
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yet which tells us that they're gonna be
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and they weren't even on the pricing
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sheet so they're going to be coming
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along probably just a little bit later
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very interesting and speaking of
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ordering ordering is now open
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but there's a catch right well yeah
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because as of the earlier last week
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ordering it actually opened on july 1st
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but the caveat was there was no pricing
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in the system
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so dealers were putting these orders in
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some of them like to get them in there
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some dealers don't put them in right
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away it just depends
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they wait for allocations to match up i
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don't know which way is the best way but
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some dealers were
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obviously putting their customers in
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there getting them order numbers these
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are orders that can be
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changed coupe convertible black car blue
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car
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you can make a lot of changes to it and
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when these dealers are entering in these
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orders without the pricing they're going
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to have to update them anyways because
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obviously they need the price to show up
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here before anything moves forward
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beyond that
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so yeah good news is ordering is open
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now we're probably looking at
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two weeks to go or so before the actual
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order cycle opens
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and the order cycle is when gm tells
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dealers how many cars they have to order
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and then those dealers match up their
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customers with those allocations and
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submit them so we're about two weeks
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away from that
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we think again we don't really know it's
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just what's been expected what dealers
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are talking about what they're looking
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forward to
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also there's new pricing on z51 the
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front end lift
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and destination fees we just talked
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about the destination fees
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in our last news and headlines podcast
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so give us an update on all those three
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things
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okay so chevrolet had announced last
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month that they were going to do a 1200
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increase on the car and what we learned
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again this was a leak from the general
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motors workbench ordering system
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it showed all the options some of them
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have prices some don't so now all of a
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sudden we've got more data to work with
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within the order system we found that
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that 1200 dollars
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a thousand of it is the trim so the
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1lt2lt 3lt are all going up by a
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thousand dollars
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and then gm raised the destination fee
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from one thousand ninety five dollars to
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one thousand two hundred ninety five
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dollars so there's your extra two
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hundred dollars there
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there's your twelve hundred dollars
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total that everybody's gotta pay no
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matter what
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so now that you've got that out of the
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way as we're going down this list
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we find that some the really popular
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options have also been increased
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one of them and this one actually caught
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us by surprise because z51 performance
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package
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they had already raised it last year and
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they raised it substantially it went
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from five thousand dollars in 2020
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to 59.95 in 2021
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and now it's going up to 6345
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wow for the z51 package and this is a
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package that nearly 70 percent of
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corvettes are ordered with
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so again there's something that's going
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to be another fee that you got to pay
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to get the z51 it'll be interesting to
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see if that does anything to the take
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rates i don't think it will
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where we were basically talking about
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300 but yeah we'll see what happens
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there
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but the other surprise too was the e60
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front end lift
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also saw another increase it's now at
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22.60
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when they came out originally in 2020 it
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was 1400 so we've seen an 860 dollar
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increase over the last three years with
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that
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couple other little increases black
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trident wheels were increased by a
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hundred dollars to 29.95
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the high wing is now 12.50 there's a few
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more a lot of little lpos maybe went up
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like twenty dollars a year
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twenty dollars there but those are the
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big impacts that i think that will
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affect most people
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again you know we're dealing with an
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inflationary environment
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everything's more expensive shipping is
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more expensive we kind of said that we
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were expecting some of these options to
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go up along with the 1200
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increase announced earlier now we can
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see which they targeted which was some
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popular options there
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absolutely right and our last item on
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the
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news list is that executive chief
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engineer
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taj jupter has talked about allowing
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access for the ecu
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on the new c8 corvette what's the back
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story on that one keith
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so the back story is that the 2020
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corvettes are operating on what gm calls
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their global bd
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architecture and a lot of this has to do
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with the fact that these cars are
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pushing a lot more data than they ever
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have before
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so there's security concerns there but i
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think the most depressing thing that
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they're concerned about obviously is
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they do over-the-air updates
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so they don't want anybody to get in
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there and be able to hack
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a car and maybe cause bad things to
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happen to it
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unfortunately you're thinking about bad
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actors doing that that
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impacts the tuners that just want to
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make these cars go faster
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this ecu the engine control module or
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your control unit
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is encrypted now and they can't get into
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it and we've heard that some people have
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been able to get into it but then it
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changes within like 30 minutes or so so
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anything that they've done has gone in a
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race
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wow it's just a constant battle that
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they're trying to get in there to do
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that so
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i think at some point maybe somebody
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might be able to do it but again when
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you're talking
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some major encryption obviously you need
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some computing power behind it to get
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through there and i don't know if we're
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there yet
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so far we haven't really seen anybody be
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able to do that and caddz is basically
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saying yeah these are our systems
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unfortunately we can't go out and
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benchmark and do all this testing for
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all these aftermarket products
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we've got our own stuff to worry about
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so they said this is not going to happen
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except he did throw out a caveat that
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they have worked with callaway
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obviously there's a relationship there
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if there's anybody that they do
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decide to work with it'll be somebody
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like that again callaway offers not only
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a warranty on their work
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with being able to order through select
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general motors dealerships
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but then also they do share some
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customer data back and there's probably
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some other engineering
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sharing as well if anybody's going to be
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able to get access to it
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hopefully to be calloway but so far it
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doesn't sound like
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anybody's been granted access yet yep
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that sounds right and it's bad news for
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aftermarket tuners but it's good news
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for us
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as new c8 corvette owners let's take our
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segment of corvette today
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every other week is keith cornett from
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what's going on in the world of corvette
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in this second segment we're going to
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talk about corvette racing and rumors
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first of all keith a couple weeks ago
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corvette was at watkins glen how did
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everything turn out
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you know it went pretty good for the
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team in yellow and when i say the team
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in yellow i mean the number three car
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this was interesting they actually ran
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back-to-back races at watkins glen they
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did the six-hour race which we talked
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about the last podcast
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and then they were there the following
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weekend for a regular two hour 40 minute
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sprint race
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the corvettes race there was only the
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porsche weathertech car
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that was in the gtlm class the bmws were
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there the week before for the six hour
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race they're just doing the endurance
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races
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for this race it was just the three cars
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in gtlm i could report that we came in
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first and second
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again antonio garcia and jordan taylor
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won so they swept at watkins glen
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their championship points now seemed
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we're getting to the point where it
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might be insurmountable in terms of the
14:41
number four car being able to come back
14:43
they pretty much have to win everything
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i would think to do that
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right now the number three car is just
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running well looks like our next race is
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lime rock park july 16th and 17th so
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that's a two hour 40 minute race
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i think after that they might be going
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to le mans i have to look at the
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schedule but i know that le mans
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is coming up there so as they're doing
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all the preparation for lime rock and
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coming off of watkins glen
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they've got to be thinking france in the
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back of their minds absolutely right
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and also laura clauser gave us an update
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on the c8rs conversion
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to gt3 specs for next year yeah so i
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don't think they're actually doing this
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when they were at belle isle in june we
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got told still another
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few weeks off the announcements gonna be
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made again we're waiting to see
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exactly what they're gonna announce for
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corvette racing
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as well as their lmdh program is
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cadillac going to go on the lmdh
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are they even going to go after lmdh
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it's hard to say right now
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commenting on what they have to do for
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corvettes and the gt3s obviously they're
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working with emsa
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to try to get waivers to be able to use
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those cars
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she says we can do it it's just a huge
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investment and we can't do it overnight
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so that's the problem that's why they're
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looking for the extension
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but one of the interesting things she
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says is that other than the cars being a
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little bit slower and
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having a little bit less downforce than
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gt3 the conversion
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not super easy but one of the major
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points it sounds like it is is the
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addition of abs brakes
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she called that a big easy one for the
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corvette racing team so
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i think what they're doing right now is
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they're obviously scoping all out seeing
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what they can do seeing what they can
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get from imsa
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and then i think from there they'll
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probably make their announcement
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i'm hoping that we get that announcement
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before lemon but that's probably when
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there's so much news that comes out
16:17
about le mans sometimes they like to
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sneak that stuff in there
16:20
make an announcement for the following
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year because they know people are
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watching
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it does sound like the corvettes are
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going to be racing at imsa for a couple
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more years
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i think that's a good thing i think
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people want to see the gt car
16:31
race because that's what they watch on
16:33
sunday and that's
16:34
what they can buy on monday absolutely
16:36
right buddy well we'll wait and see what
16:38
laura has to offer for us
16:39
and keep our ears to the ground and kind
16:41
of patiently wait for her announcement i
16:43
guess right
16:44
yeah yeah the more i think about this i
16:46
think maybe corvette should go lmdh
16:48
there's a couple big teams have already
16:50
have said they're going that way and
16:52
it'd be fun to be competing for the
16:53
ultimate prize the overall win
16:55
at le mans but at the same time too the
16:58
gtd class
16:59
they have so many entries there it'd be
17:01
nice to get into a class where there's
17:03
eight nine ten cars again right we
17:05
forget how good that racing was
17:07
when we see just the two and three cars
17:08
together that's not as much fun there's
17:10
not much excitement watching that
17:12
so obviously a change has got to be made
17:13
it's just we hope that it goes the right
17:15
way
17:15
well it'll be interesting to see which
17:17
way they go that's for sure yep
17:19
also the simeon museum brings out their
17:21
number two
17:22
1963 grand sport which was really really
17:25
cool to see
17:26
you know when you think about cars and
17:27
museums you think they're just there
17:29
they're languishing they're gathering
17:30
dust people can come by and look at them
17:32
but you don't get experience that heart
17:35
pounding v8
17:36
going and the exhaust and the smell and
17:39
what i really like about the simeon
17:41
museum is that
17:42
they actually demonstrate their car so
17:44
they'll have these demonstration
17:46
days and they'll bring out two or three
17:48
cars they have a nice big lot in the
17:50
back that they can run them up and down
17:52
and that's what they do they have people
17:53
stand back behind a guardrail
17:55
and they'll just let people get right up
17:56
and close when they start the car
17:58
everybody jumps back when it was the
18:00
corvette grand sport starting up because
18:02
i mean come on it's the grand sport
18:03
there's no mufflers on it's just open
18:05
pipes they ran up and down a few times
18:08
it's just fun to see this car
18:09
it's the number two chassis which is the
18:11
roadster
18:12
it was campaigned by george winterstein
18:14
back in the day
18:15
he's actually come to the simeon and
18:17
drove his car previously at doing one of
18:19
these demonstration days
18:21
you hate to see a car just sitting there
18:22
when you want to be able to see it and
18:24
hear it and feel it so
18:25
it's great that the simeon foundation
18:27
does this it's so cool because if it
18:29
starts up
18:30
let that baby run that's right yep also
18:33
late model racecraft has overhauled
18:35
youtuber jt hunt's
18:37
twin turbo c8 and they got some help
18:39
from fuel tech
18:40
this was pretty interesting how it all
18:42
came about wasn't it
18:43
yeah exactly so tj hunt got one of the
18:46
very first c8s in the world
18:48
i want to say he was like 14 or number
18:51
16.
18:52
i forget the exact number but he was one
18:53
of the first and then he was also one of
18:55
the first to actually put a twin turbo
18:57
system on it
18:58
my understanding is and we haven't seen
18:59
the car for a while but he'd been having
19:01
some troubles with it it just wasn't
19:02
really running
19:03
where he wanted to be and so he took it
19:06
to late model racecraft
19:07
in texas and stephen faraday and his
19:10
guys started working on it
19:11
what they did was they replaced the
19:13
system with their own twin turbo system
19:15
they actually are using a secondary
19:18
fueling system
19:19
a port injection just like fuel tank
19:21
does if you remember
19:23
i think we talked about this a few weeks
19:24
ago when fuel tech was doing some
19:26
testing
19:27
steven faraday went out there and was
19:29
helping him with some stuff
19:30
the setup on the cars is similar because
19:32
they put the turbos up in the engine
19:34
compartment
19:34
whereas like amelia's car the turbos are
19:37
down low by the exhaust
19:38
right so they're working to obviously
19:40
get the bugs out of his system first
19:42
but then my guess is that they really
19:45
want to be laying some horsepower down
19:46
the funny thing is i saw another video
19:48
just recently where tj hunt bumped into
19:50
amelia hartford
19:51
she was giving him all kinds of crap
19:52
about his car being gone and in the shop
19:54
and stuff so
19:55
there might be a grudge match coming up
19:57
i know they raced like eight or nine
19:58
months ago
19:59
she won that one so who knows there's
20:01
all these cars now we're starting to
20:02
hear of another car going through cco
20:04
performance that wants to go after the
20:06
world record for speed in the c8
20:08
corvette gonna be a lot more people that
20:10
are
20:10
trying to do this now that some of the
20:11
technologies out there and we've seen
20:13
the proven results
20:14
buddy all i can say is bragging rights
20:16
it's on it is
20:17
this is gonna be good yeah all right
20:19
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i'm your host steve garrett with me this
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week is keith cornett from corvette
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every other week keith and i keep you up
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21:46
of corvette
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in this third and final segment we're
21:48
going to talk about the lighter side of
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corvette
21:50
actually though keith some really
21:52
important news quebec chevrolet is the
21:54
number one corvette dealership
21:56
in the country and it has been sold to
21:58
another dealership
21:59
talk about that okay i have a little bit
22:02
of
22:02
interest in this obviously quebec was
22:04
our very first sponsor going back to
22:06
gee 2007 or so 2008 that's how long
22:09
they've been on the site with us
22:10
but they're our very first sponsor then
22:12
in pro team they've been the number one
22:14
corvette dealership since 1994
22:16
outselling everybody for 27 years so
22:19
obviously when you hear that there's
22:20
going to be an ownership change
22:22
a lot of people perked up and said wow
22:23
this is obviously interesting
22:25
the other thing is they're concerned is
22:27
the dealership going to be okay are they
22:29
going to honor my order
22:30
i placed an order are they going to do
22:31
all that well the good news is all that
22:33
apparently is in place all orders are
22:36
going to be honored they're selling
22:37
stingrays at msrp
22:38
still we're waiting to see what
22:40
allocations are coming up for the new
22:42
year under the new dealership which is
22:43
seoka seoka dealerships
22:45
which is primarily based in pennsylvania
22:48
delaware
22:49
new york that area okay they had
22:51
purchased the kerbec
22:52
subaru dealership earlier this year we
22:55
know now that they have also now
22:56
purchased the chevrolet dealership the
22:58
cadillac dealership and the buick gmc
23:00
dealership as well as part of this deal
23:02
they're already rebranded at
23:04
cioccacorvet.com
23:05
is their website seoka dealerships has
23:08
all the same people there that were
23:09
under curbex so dave salvatore's there
23:12
all the sales guys they have the six
23:13
sales guys that are all there
23:15
so it's so far nothing's really changed
23:17
will you understand is that greg ciocca
23:19
who as the
23:20
ceo of the company is apparently a real
23:23
go-getter that really wants to
23:24
see this dealership continue on its rich
23:27
tradition of being the world's largest
23:29
selling more corvettes than anybody
23:30
we've been told that they're going to
23:32
pull out some stops to try to make that
23:33
happen we'll be interested to see how
23:35
that all goes but yeah it's big news in
23:37
the world of corvettes whenever you have
23:38
a big change like that
23:39
absolutely when the number one
23:41
dealership changes hands everybody stops
23:43
and watches what's going on that's for
23:45
sure yep
23:45
also gooding and company is auctioning
23:48
off a car collection
23:49
from the late drummer from rush neal
23:51
pert and that included a 63 split window
23:54
yeah this is gonna be a cool auction he
23:56
calls these the silver surfers there was
23:58
six or seven cars that he had all of
24:00
them are silver except he's got one
24:01
black car
24:02
which i believe is a triumph or an mg or
24:04
something i'm not really sure
24:06
but these cars are going to be sold at
24:08
pebble beach august 13th and 14th
24:10
monterey car week one of his cars is a
24:12
1963 split window in silver
24:15
that'd be pretty cool to own a car owned
24:16
by the drummer of rush and you could
24:18
drive around listening to
24:19
some of those great songs thinking man
24:21
the drummer rush drove this car so
24:22
that's always kind of fun he had passed
24:24
away he's got a couple other cars he's
24:26
got a
24:26
lamborghini i think that's estimated to
24:28
go for over a million
24:30
so that should be interesting so we'll
24:32
be paying attention to that see what
24:33
this car goes for
24:34
i'm anxious to see how that all goes
24:36
because neil per being a classic rock
24:38
disc jockey
24:39
here in kansas city at the number one
24:40
radio station in town
24:42
we play a lot of rush and i miss neil
24:44
pert it was a shame to see him pass away
24:46
but
24:46
i'm anxious to see what all these cars
24:48
sell for that's for sure
24:49
also the gm design team shared some
24:52
early sketches
24:53
of the corvette stingray concept from
24:55
1961.
24:57
that was really really cool to see i
24:59
really like this this is an instagram
25:01
account
25:01
general motors design studio and they
25:04
just go into their archives and some of
25:06
it's real new stuff some of it's very
25:07
old stuff this is from 1961
25:10
what this car is is essentially it's the
25:11
very first mako shark it wasn't done by
25:13
peter brock or larry shinoda
25:15
it was actually done by a designer named
25:17
bill porter who
25:18
again i think he ran the studio for a
25:20
little bit there a really
25:22
time period rendering of what we think
25:24
is the mako shark
25:25
so it's a fun instagram account where
25:27
they're corvette related we tried to
25:28
pick them up there's some interesting
25:29
things there
25:30
a couple months back they had a concept
25:32
for
25:33
the serv5 served being the chevrolet
25:36
research engineering vehicles line
25:38
they've done four of them that were
25:39
corvettes and they kind of made this one
25:41
up as a fifth one
25:42
so there's always something interesting
25:43
and cool and you never know what you're
25:45
going to see coming out of there just
25:46
because of
25:47
all the years of access they have to
25:49
those archives again just why this is on
25:50
the lighter side it's just fun stuff to
25:52
see we like the corvette history
25:54
absolutely right and if you're an
25:55
instagrammer you can follow them
25:57
it's general motors design i follow them
26:00
on instagram and it's really cool to see
26:02
all that stuff and finally keith our
26:04
last story is
26:05
everyday driver from youtube looks at
26:08
the new c8 versus the
26:10
lexus lc 500 as which one is the best
26:13
for golf that was kind of crazy but
26:15
you know what a lot of cars these days
26:17
are judged and
26:18
how many times do people say but will
26:20
the c8 carry
26:22
a bag or two of golf clubs that was kind
26:24
of the
26:25
reasoning behind this comparison because
26:27
there's no golf in this video they don't
26:29
even show you the golf bags i think in
26:30
the back
26:31
they just drive they talk about
26:32
performance they talk about what you're
26:34
going to be feeling like when you pull
26:35
up to the club
26:36
and then get out and go get your golf
26:37
bag out of the back so there's no golf
26:39
involved in this so if you're thinking
26:40
golf and you're rolling your eyes
26:42
go watch it because they do this review
26:44
it's incredible scenery
26:45
they drive it's very well done in terms
26:47
of the hosts and he does set it up he
26:49
says think about all the different times
26:51
that a car is marketed because it holds
26:53
a golf bag in the back
26:54
so one of the hosts at the end he kind
26:56
of asked this and it really kind of
26:57
struck me a little bit he's like what
26:59
other sports car
27:00
designer the engineering of these cars
27:02
that are impacted by sports
27:04
you can think well obviously racing's
27:06
the easy one but golf
27:08
is the other one you might see some
27:09
marketing with mom picking up the kids
27:11
from the soccer match in the
27:13
suv or the minivan but nothing quite
27:16
like
27:16
measuring bags and making sure that they
27:18
can fit in the back of a c8 it's an
27:19
interesting review and again the scenery
27:21
and the video is great so
27:23
go watch it and all these videos that we
27:25
are talking about on this podcast today
27:27
can be seen on corvetteblogger.com so
27:30
make sure you visit keith's website as
27:32
well
27:32
keith thanks for being here on corvette
27:34
today we'll do the same thing again in
27:36
two weeks
27:36
sounds great happy to be here uh
27:38
hopefully everybody's out there driving
27:40
their cars having fun if you see another
27:41
corvette coming at you make sure you
27:43
throw the corvette wave
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