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CORVETTE TODAY #71 - Corvette News & Headlines, Late August 2021
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May 8, 2025
This news & headlines podcast is the one that C8 enthusiasts are waiting for! We have the C8 Z06 news everyone has been waiting to hear. Plus, we have Corvette Racing results for you from Le Mans on Sunday. Here’s a rundown of some of the other topics you’ll hear about on this CORVETTE TODAY podcast: 1. Chevrolet tells dealers when 2022 C8 production will start 2. Corvette was the fastest selling new car in July 2021 3. The C8 Z06 and Z07 gives us a great view from the Nurburgring plus all the new variants we saw 4. The C8 Z06 makes a surprise visit at Le Mans 5. Lingenfelter makes a Carbon Fiber intake manifold for the C8’s LT2 engine 6. A C6 Corvette C6 race car is donated to the NCM 7. Neil Peart’s (the drummer from the band, Rush) ’63 Split Window sells for $368,000 at Pebble Beach Don’t snooze and lose - be sure to check out this CORVETTE TODAY podcast! Listen here: https://adori.page.link/corvette-today Website & Merchandise: www.CorvetteTodayPodcast.com Get CORVETTE TODAY emails: https://CorvetteToday.ck.page Join the CORVETTE TODAY Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2718423201763136 Watch & Subscribe to the CORVETTE TODAY on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXCRn-2X0SjjEXUt_UlOPPQ
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[Music] welcome to corvette today the podcast
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welcoming corvette owners from around the world it's time to get the latest corvette news and headlines with my
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buddy keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com as you know keith is a regular guest on corvette today he's
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here twice per month every other week to keep you up to date on what's going on with america's sports car keith welcome
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back to the show this is the week that every corvette enthusiast circles on their calendars and it's a must-have
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weekend it's corvettes at carlisle week hey steve i'm glad to be here yeah it is exciting this is like the big first show
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for a lot of people i know it's my first show in almost two years just couldn't be happier carlyle course is like the
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great enthusiast shows so much to see so much to do i think they usually are expecting around 5 000 cars everybody
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i've talked to is going to be there of course we know that the corvette team's going to be there they're bringing in like 25 c8s with them wow hopefully
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we'll be able to see some of those new colors there's some great displays this year of course the salute at chip's
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choice is a salute to law enforcement which i think is well needed at this point yes of course it's also the 50th
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anniversary of the 1971 corvette the 25th anniversary of the 1996 corvette
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grand sports there's just so much to see there paul corner brittany and the corvette mechanics team will be there
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john hirsty is going to be there steve i even understand that you're doing a seminar i am as a matter of fact keith i
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am doing two seminars at corvette carlisle on the corvette today podcast one will be at two o'clock on friday
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afternoon and then saturday morning at nine a.m and when i'm not in the seminars i will be over at the corvette
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fever magazine booth i'm going to have a little table there so make sure you come by and say hello well that would be very
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cool really exciting it's fun we've been cooped up we've been doing these for almost a year now but to get out and
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actually meet people and say hello and they can see actually who we are that's a lot of fun so i'll have to stop by
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your seminars and check those out that would be fantastic keith you know i've been doing radio here in kansas city for
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44 years and i've always been told i have a great face for radio
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absolutely it'll be great to meet everybody well buddy let's get into corvette news and headlines let's get an
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update on corvette c8 production well things are rolling i'm really feeling good about this stuff right now you know
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before it was like kind of walking on eggshells but it's been 11 weeks now since our last interruption they're still averaging right around 175 cars
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per day we saw no real disruptions at all in the last couple weeks that we've talked last week they just crossed over
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24 000 cars for the 2021 model year wow the big news is that there's only about
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three weeks to go we know that production is going to end sometime around september 6th it seems like it's
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going well they're trying to get all those cars done like i said with no interruptions and decent output i don't
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doubt that they'll do that that sounds good and yes chevrolet did tell dealerships that 2022 production is
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supposed to start the week of september 6th yeah and we don't know exactly because the 6th is labor day and of
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course they'll have that day off will there be a couple tpw's still for the 2021s on that tuesday or wednesday and
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then maybe they start on a thursday or friday that kind is up in the air so we're definitely watching and looking
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for that and to see what's going to happen that sounds good also corvette is the fastest selling new car in july of
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2021 we fell off the map there for a month or so but we're back in there aren't we yeah the reason why we fell
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off the map was because of those shutdowns in may those three weeks that just really killed that momentum but we
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are back and not only back you know our average time to sell was around nine to ten days and we did this one in july it
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was seven days wow so again that just shows that that bodes well that dealers are getting their cars those cars are
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going directly to those customers that order them right away that's good news the other thing that chevy's got to be
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happy with is that the average transaction price they saw was 86 785 those are people ordering
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well-optioned cars two lts three lts the convertibles all with a lot of options so all good stuff happening for
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chevrolet in that regard and that's really good news because the last corvette today news and headlines podcast we did we were talking about the
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average selling price being 82 289 so it's up about four thousand dollars
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even more isn't it yeah those were two different surveys so they could have a little bit different of methodology in
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terms of how they compute that the fact is you know being only four thousand dollars off that's a pretty good spread
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right there in terms of being correct i would say that the average cars are selling for about 85 000 right now
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that's wonderful all right keith and as of friday we had some big big breaking news about the z06 tell us what that is
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yeah on friday afternoon all of a sudden we get an email from chevrolet media saying that the new 2023 corvette z06
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will officially be revealed on october 26th we don't know where we don't know how hopefully we'll be there but this is
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great news what they did was they also shared a teaser video that shows the z06 prototype driving from the nurburgring
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does a nice little picturesque sightseeing tour through france and then all of a sudden ends up at the circuit
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de la sarth where it drives on the track and then finishes at the paddock of corvette racing in the 24 hours of le
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mans good news finally we have a date i believe that's about 67 days as a friday
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we are over the moon excited can't wait to see it that is fantastic news buddy yeah i'm sure there's going to be some
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more info coming out the next thing that will happen is if they are doing a live reveal invites will go out so as soon as
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that happens people start talking that will know exactly where that will be and finally finally we got our first look at
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the amplify orange new color on a c8 corvette yeah this kind of caught us all by surprise so there was a job fair in
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bowling green at one of the local malls there and a bunch of companies showed up the plant was there too and they brought
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the car 2022 pre-production car in amplify orange now we always like to say
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you can't judge a car until you see it outside in the sun this was inside under lights but it's a non-metallic car so we
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don't really have to wait to see it out in the sun in terms of it's welded i think that's what it's going to look like i kind of like the color it's uh
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tangelo i've always liked that shade it ran three days at this job fair we got a
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call on sunday saying hey we found that car it's actually parked up at the plant right now in the parking lot huh the guy
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who that was there to pick up his c8 the day after at the ncm he took a bunch of great photos of he's a professional
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photographer a guy named marco polo over at the ninja corvette forum got some really good photos of the car i'm really
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looking forward to seeing it and i hope that it is at corvitz at carlisle this year i'm looking forward to seeing it in person hopefully we'll see all three new
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colors at corvettes at carlisle exactly yeah there's the hypersonic gray i know a lot of people are very excited about
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that color and then the caffeine metallic exactly right well keith let's take our first break and when we come
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steve garrett thanks for listening to corvette today the podcast that talks about everything
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corvette i'm your host steve garrett with me every other week is keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com
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we keep you up to date on what's going on with america's sports car in this section of corvette today we're going to
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talk about corvette rumors and keith we got some hot juicy rumors first of all the c806 and the z07 we got a great view
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of those at the nurburgring plus all the new variants we saw as well i was really surprised that there is a
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c806 and a z07 but this is great news well exactly steve and of course when we
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say z07 we're referring to the performance package on the z06 so if you're kind of new to that don't be
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confused it's not a different model it's just the upgraded performance package on the z06 so there's the base z06 that's
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the one that surprised us because we'd seen the one before with that i don't know what to call it we call it the funky wing on that because it's the way
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it's shaped right obviously these wide bodies it's got the full arrow on the front of the car with dive planes and a
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really big splitter that sticks out it just looks like it gobbles up air and plants that car down to the ground so
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they take these cars the nurburgring and because they want to test them as best they can they take all that black heavy
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fabric camouflage off the cars and then just run them with the wrap for us it's the best look that we've gotten at the
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cars so far and again to see both the z06 base model which has like a lip
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spoiler on the back doesn't have all the arrow on the front but it's still got the same shape of the grille in these
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cars on that front we do see an extra radiator that's right in the middle so the stingrays just got the two radiators
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on each corner but now we're seeing three radiators one on each corner and then one in the middle there and then
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there's also these ducts that probably just feed air directly into the tires for brake cooling as well that faces on
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both the cars the base and the z07 performance package there's also two different wheels we've seen we've seen
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those alloy wheels like a black alloy wheel we refer to those as sort of like a tuning fork shaped and then there's a
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five spoke wheel that was carbon fiber and we think it's carbon fiber i've got spy photos and when i get these i'm able
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to zoom in on a lot of stuff i don't see any hints of any carbon fiber patterns or anything like that so it might be the
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design of that carbon fiber wheel that we saw that maybe two years ago that ended up on ebay actually i'm not
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convinced that these are real carbon fiber wheels yet we'll just have to continue to watch that but these cars
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are rolling around the nurburgring it's 12.9 miles i think over 150 turns curves
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on it generally in the spy videos that we've seen and they're really coming out good in fact there's a couple more that
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i'm expecting to see cars are just flying around there we can hear them they sound great the high revving lt6
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engine expected to go rev over 8 000 rpm we called this z06 week last week
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because every day was dominated by that news in terms of the cars we think that there were six cars there there were two
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base models three high wings and in fact one of those high wings made a surprise visit to the le mans paddock where it
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was photographed alongside the c8r we're not sure what they're doing there whether that was for a promotional thing
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that's still going to come out it might be part of the documentary if they're going to do another segment of the mid-engine revolution documentary so
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there was a car at le mans and then surprisingly we came across a sixth car this one had the front fascia of the z06
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it looked to be the wide body but the rear of it showed the corner mounted exhaust like the c8 stingray so that car
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is a little bit of a mystery right now we're not exactly sure what we're looking at there but we're intrigued so that's the thing with general motors is
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they just always keep us intrigued keep us wondering what's going on they're doing all their testing right now people
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are wondering about ring times i don't think we'll see a ring time on this visit i think right now they just
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concentrate on the ride and handling and even if they do a ring time a lot of times they haven't told us in the last
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generation especially they never told us what their ring times were maybe one of the watchers there is running the stopwatch as it goes by i haven't seen
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anything yet but right now with the traffic on the track all these manufacturers are doing testing right
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now that's why they're there it's like a manufacturer's testing week right it's just been a real exciting time to watch
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this stuff now that we know that the reveal is going to be later this year people really have something to look
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forward to definitely have something to look forward to and i love the z07 with the big wing and the arrow in front i
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was really surprised to see that other variant because i thought the z06 would start with the big wing but it looks
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like it has just a lip spoiler in the back and that visit to le mans that was really cool because it was sitting right
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by the race car with one of the race drivers in the picture yeah that was with jordan taylor hopefully it's going
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to see some promotional stuff with that once it comes out that first car that was at le mans was the very first
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sighting we had at the nurburgring it's got the same license plate number on it they trucked it down there just for that
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photo opportunity it was a pretty cool thing definitely a cool thing and this is really interesting as well keith we
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saw spy shots of the possible e-ray and it also looks to be a wide body car as
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well yeah this is interesting we've been kind of going back and forth on this is it going to be the stingray body is it
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going to be the wide body like the z06 it looks like the tire sizes at least on the spy shots that were confirmed show
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that the same tires as the z06 which are the 275s in the front and then the 345s
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in the rear and the question is with the 345s those look to be the all-season
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tires as well the z07 package on the z06 will have the cup tires basically the summer tires of the racing tires with
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the all-season tires on the e-ray that'll be interesting to see because the 345s are like the biggest tire
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you've ever seen i think they're what 12 inches 13 inches wide right they're just huge tires and if you think the e-ray
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with an all-wheel drive and then those tires on it that thing's just gonna move out from zero to sixty it's gonna be a
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monster and a beast all in one keith that's for sure exactly and then the final rumor about that we're not so sure
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about this one i saw this on gm authority they said that the e-ray might show up a few months after the z06 oh i
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just don't know about that because here's the deal you got your order in and you're all excited about a car and
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then next thing you know in the middle of the order year they come out with a new car and you wanted that one but
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you've got this one ordered it causes confusion for the customer i think corvette people like to know exactly
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what's coming out at the beginning of the model year that's why the order guide and all the press about what are the new options in any models or
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anything like that it's so important because it allows you then to really get the car that you want not the car that
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you wish you could have ordered to the other one you know right but we'll see about that i mean obviously there's still plenty of models to come out
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there's the zr1 there's maybe the possible zora so we'll just have to wait and see well it'll be interesting the
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e-ray the zora the zr1 i can't wait i can't wait right well buddy let's take another break and when we come back
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[Music] hey i really appreciate you listening to corvette today the podcast that talks
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about everything corvette i'm your host steve garrett with me every other week is keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com
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we keep you up to date on what's going on with america's sports car in this section we're going to talk about corvette racing keith velma just
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finished on sunday we had a big week there in france didn't we lemans is just always exciting especially the week
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leading up to it there's so much promise and opportunity and a lot of what could happen what would happen if we won what
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would happen if this happened you know it's just crazy in terms of the anticipation from everybody and i think
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the hopes were especially high for corvette racing just because we missed last year and anybody that watched the
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race last year without the team and it was just not the same at all so to be able to see our corvettes out there and
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doing well was obviously very exciting for everybody we led up the week we had some cool fun news like jordan taylor's
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helmet which he dedicated to the intimidator dale earnhardt so he had the black helmet with the number three on it
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the good wrench parts that was really neat to see both cars ran pretty well i think that the number 63 car had a
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little bit trouble early on with the practice sessions mick tandy put the number 64 car into the hyper pole which
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was like an extended pole position battle so they took like the top cars of each of the classes that ran and then
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created this hyper pole nick tandy finished third there they were on the second row of the gte starting grid so
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again there's so much promise there what do they say about a battle once the green flag drops anything can happen and
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of course that's exactly what happened we started getting into the race we had the number 64 car got hit on the
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starting grid in the rear and that would end up causing all kinds of problems later on in the race wow and so where'd
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we finish up then overall ferrari finished first corvette was second the number 63 car was second and then a
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porsche was third the same guys we race against the same manufacturers we race against just proves again the spirit of
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corvette racing they hung there they were tight it was really cool at the very beginning to see the number 64 car
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got out the lead and garcia was right behind him it was milner started the race and then garcia right behind him
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and then it was just a couple hours later we learned that milner was reporting that he got hit by a ferrari as they were leaving the grid they
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continued racing with it they were asking antonio who was behind the 64. do you see any damage they didn't really
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see anything but five or six hours into the race they started feeling a lot of vibration from the rear diffuser so they
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had to pull into the garage replace the diffuser they also did a quick break change i think they were in and out in
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about 12 minutes or so but that was two laps down and they were just never able to recover after that all three drivers
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of the 63 car led during their stints it was really back and forth a lot of times the fastest lap was actually set in the
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gte pro category by nick katzberg he kept improving and improving and not
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only was it the fastest lap i believe it was also a track record for gte pro he ran a 347 and some change there we were
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in the hunt all the way there towards the end and in fact with about three hours to go the gap was only 28 seconds
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behind unfortunately we got caught in a slow zone behind a safety car the ferrari didn't so we just never able to
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recover from that so we got a second place and a sixth place with the number 64 car yeah the 64 car they ended up
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having some other issues in the middle of the night they ended up having to do some repairs on the clutch the gearbox
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and the alternator i believe but they still finished strong they finished t6 which is too ahead of some other
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competitors so we weren't dead last they were just snake bit from the very beginning once again and i think nick taylor said the cursed season continued
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for the teams these guys need some wins and so hopefully when the second half of the season starts at himself we'll
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definitely see some improvements there we'll keep our fingers crossed for sure buddy also gm was waiting for
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clarification from aco about the future of the gte pro class for wec did we get
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any updates during le mans for this we did actually this news kind of came out friday i believe that we're all so
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focused on everything else we didn't really catch it until over the weekend unfortunately it's not good news at all now we know why the gm performance team
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had been holding back and waiting to see what was going to happen because they were also set to announce the cadillac
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lmdh program over the weekend and that never happened so essentially what is going on is they set the gt3 specs for
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2024 but here's the kicker they don't want any factory teams in fact they want to do the gt3s with amateur drivers and
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private teams no factory back teams starting in sports car 365 was there and asked the
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president of the aco about what's that leave a corvette and he said basically
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you have to ask that question to corvette they can come with amateur drivers and private teams so who knows
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what that's going to do now to the gt3 program which it sounds like that's what we were gearing up to compete with
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obviously we need to have a gt3 car at imsa imsa still believes in factory gt entries according to sports car 365 and
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they're supporting that over the next couple years but that's kind of a kick in the teeth for corvette racing fans
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who have always had the factory pack teams there what's that going to do now for both us and for cadillac racing i
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think we're kind of going back to the drawing board yeah it sure sounds like it well we'll look forward to hearing what gm has to say about this and wait
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for laura klauser to give us some definitive direction from gm and corvette plus cadillac as well it's
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going to be interesting to see how the future plays out with these announcements absolutely right well keith let's take our final break and in
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on in the world of corvette and we have a lot of news in this final section we have the lighter sided corvette keith
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guy fieri and chevrolet offer a recipe for the ultimate baseball snack from their famous tagline and it involves
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chevrolet right exactly well if you were around in the 70s both you and i were yes we all remember the baseball hot
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dogs apple pie and chevrolet commercials and of course see the usa in your chevrolet right so what they did was
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there was the major league baseball game that took place in iowa at the cornfields based on the field of dreams game so he came up with a recipe of
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baseball hot dogs and apple pie of course it's vintage guy fairy in terms of how he cooks and the way he does his
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thing actually the funny story is one of my writers mitch he says he actually made it and they were pretty good really
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when you think of hot dogs and apple pie combined together it might be a different taste but yet he said it
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worked well we'll have to take mitch's word for it won't we we'll try it i don't know if i'm not brave to try something like that but and
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of course the presentation that guy does is real good as well and there's a couple videos that chevrolet put out they also showed the old commercial you
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know guys he's a chevy enthusiast he's got a corvette he's got a couple other older muscle cars from chevy so it was a
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natural tie-in for him actually on his show diners drive-ins and dives he drives a 69 camaro so he is definitely a
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chevrolet guy for sure yeah he also had a custom 427 convertible he showed that
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at the sema show back in the day i think it was 2012 or 2013. okay it was black with yellow stripes and it looked really
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good speaking of food keith the national corvette museum's stingray grill is now open and ready to serve anybody that
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comes by the museum now i'm kind of looking forward to this before it was the corvette cafe and it was a diner
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style 50s kind of thing with records on the wall they really renovated it made it into more of a nouveau cuisine kind
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of place they hired a chef his name is kelvin williams he's put together a menu that looks pretty good now one of the
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local tv stations did a segment on it and it shows basically a stingray burger
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and you got to hear this thing this is 25 elk 25 wild boar 25 bison and 25
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waigu beef wow it's seasoned it's got arugula a slice of a granny smith apple
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smoked cheddar cheese bacon slices and more it's all topped with a big bun and then they put the pick in it and the
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pick is the shape of the stingray emblem on the c8s amazing they've got breakfast that they're also serving we're going to
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be able to sample that stuff when we go to the national corvette museum for the 27th anniversary just the weekend before
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labor day we're actually looking forward to there we're going to try out some of that food we got to get to the next story because i'm hungry all of a sudden
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right now also chevrolet just finished their second annual virtual heritage week and
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amelia hartford was part of that as well yeah influencers got an influence i guess so last week was the woodward
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dream cruise all sorts of stuff going on up there they did this last year chevy just because of the pandemic that people
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couldn't get out so they do this virtual thing where each day they kind of concentrate on a different subject i
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know some of the favorite stuff is like the performance they had chief engineer al eipenheiser he was the guy that
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really put the camaro back together recently he's over in electric cars now he was saluted also pinky randall known
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as mr chevy was there just some neat stuff it was all done on social media just real quick videos and some other
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things all in conjunction with the woodward dream crews very nice also our friend of the show mr ken lingenfelter
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his company has made a near and dear to my heart keith a carbon fiber intake manifold for the lt2 engine of the c8
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that was awesome looking yeah they call this the performance design ptr carbon fiber intake manifold it's large it
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really comes up over there they said with their lincoln filter and 95 millimeter throttle body that it just
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adds an additional 25 horsepower to the rear wheels right away and of course we know lincoln feller is using this setup
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to tune some of the cars there's that cunningham c8 60th anniversary car that we're going to see at carlisle right
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that thing's making 600 horsepower and then they're also doing a giveaway car for the corvette dream giveaway where
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they do the new c8 and then the old restomod and that car is going to have 600 horsepower and it's all used in
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conjunction with this carbon fiber intake manifold so pretty cool stuff well hopefully we'll see some more from
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that from ken and see what else he's got up his sleeve i liked it it looked really really good also talking about
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the national corvette museum again keith a c6 corvette race car was just recently
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donated to the museum and that's a really significant car wasn't it yeah this is a race car that was actually
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built by john higracy if you don't know the name john heinrichy was instrumental in the c4s and c5s especially the c4 zr1
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kind of the godfather of the 1996 corvette grand sport he owns grand sport number one he was also the first gm
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performance director there he built this race car they call him the hind rocket you know that from your segment that you
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did with him so this car was actually donated by a couple they've been married 55 years they say they've been racing
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just about as that long david and linda goebbel the car is actually going to be used on the track across the street over at the ncm's motorsports park pretty
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cool to be able to really drive a race-ready corvette over there i'm looking forward to seeing that that
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would be so much fun and if you want to listen to john heinrichy talk about all that stuff listen to last week's
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corvette today podcast john was my special guest last week on corvette today and finally keith near and dear to
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my heart i've been a classic rock jock here on the radio and like i was telling you earlier this is your number 44 on
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the radio here in kansas city for me but from rush neil perch 1963 split window
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corvette sold for wow 368 thousand dollars at pebble beach
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really amazing i mean especially this is a gooding and company auction that they did at pebble beach obviously lots of
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money floating around out there but the estimates on this car were only 150 to 180 000. it's not a fuel-injected model
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it's the 327 340 horse l76 silver with red interior his collection he had a
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bunch of silver cars and one black car they called it his silver surfer collection to see that thing sell for
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368 i think both the provenance of the celebrity ownership plus it's a really a quality car itself so that's going to be
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somebody's really cool centerpiece to a collection somewhere that was really cool to see and neil peart and rush are
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near and dear to my heart i've been playing neil pert and rush for shoot 25 35 years so it was great to see that
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sell for such a high price well buddy thanks for being on corvette today we will see you in two weeks and we'll
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celebrate our one year anniversary of doing news and headlines podcasts on corvette today with our next corvette
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today news and headlines podcast exactly and we'll see each other in person this week at corvettes at carlisle absolutely
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