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CORVETTE TODAY #77 - Corvette News & Headlines, Early October 2021
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May 8, 2025
As we get closer to the October 26th reveal date for the new C8 Z06, CORVETTE TODAY's News & Headlines podcast is packed with critical information about this new car! Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger.com go over everything that's available on the new C8 Z06. Here is a quick overview of the topics covered in this podcast.... 1. GM teases the new C8 Z06 on Instagram 2. First Z06 picture-what are we looking at? Have we seen it before? 3. The NCM will demolish the Country Hearth Inn Hotel after Firefighter Training 4. The C8 Z06 is photographed on the streets around the Nurburgring 5. Is GM’s new Ultium 62kw EV motor headed for the Corvette E-ray? 6. GM shot a Z06 commercial in Pittsburgh last week with the Z06, and it’s an Hard Top Convertible! 7. Testing of the C8 Z06 HTC is seen at GM’s Milford Proving Grounds 8. A $1million ’57 Corvette for sale-it was from Zora’s Fuelie Test Fleet 9. Z06 renderings done in EFY body colored exterior trim vs Carbon Flash If you're waiting for this Z06, like we are, don't miss this episode of CORVETTE TODAY!
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news and headlines with keith cornett
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from corvetteblogger.com as you know
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keith is a regular guest on corvette
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today he's here twice per month every
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what's going on with america's favorite
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sports car keith welcome back we are
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less than a month away from the reveal
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of the z06 and we have tons and tons of
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information for everybody about the z06
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itself yeah glad to be back steve last
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week was definitely z06 week we had the
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picture come out we've been everybody's
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been talking and going to town on it
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this is the fun time for when the cars
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get ready to come out but so close we
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can taste it but yet a lot of it's still
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a mystery it's been fun when we get
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stuff like this it has been fun for sure
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buddy let's start off as we always do
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with corvette production numbers for the
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2022 corvettes it seems like 2022
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production just started it seems like it
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was just last week we've had three and a
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half full weeks of production this week
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we will see the 3000 2022 built they're
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really cranking them out i think we're
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running around 16 weeks of uninterrupted
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production with the plant some of the
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plants that they closed down a few weeks
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ago over the chip shortages are just now
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starting to reopen but the corvette
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plant has been able to maintain and
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continue production through that whole
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time so it's just been amazing that
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we've been able to do that we're closing
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in on 3 000 this week what's going to be
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interesting now is with the end of the
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quarter we will get the quarterly sales
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report from general motors that should
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come out on monday i'm betting it's
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going to be somewhere around 9 000 cars
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were sold over the three months of the
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second quarter so it will be very
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interesting to see it might be one of
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the highest numbers we've seen like i
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said we've been operating at nearly full
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production for the corvettes at bowling
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green i think it's gonna be a really
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good number that sounds fantastic that's
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amazing too keith we've had 16 weeks of
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the uninterrupted production and 3 000
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cars when we just started really what
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wednesday of last week right yeah we
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talked about this last time the imsa
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gtlm editions are selling right we're
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actually seeing them get into the hands
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of customers now so that's exciting we
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know that nearly half of that 1000
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limited edition production has already
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been sold i got people calling me every
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day it seems like saying do you know a
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dealer where i can get one of those so
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i'm like you're really almost too late i
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bet i would bet if they continue on with
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the kind of interest they've had in that
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special edition that it'll probably be
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sold out here by the end of october
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absolutely right also and here's the big
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news general motors actually teased on
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instagram a picture of the new c806 that
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started a whole uproar didn't it it
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really did first of all we really have
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to question the reason why they put out
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a full picture of the car there was
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really no reason that we could see
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obviously we know what the car looks
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like we've seen the car running nearly
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without camo although just the light
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camo at the nurburgring it didn't have
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all the exterior trim and then when they
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showed the car the picture they offered
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up showed us a lot but yet it wasn't the
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most flattering photo it's one of these
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things where i know they want to put out
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information they want to tease us but
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this was really a shocker that we saw
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the whole photo what we did see was the
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2023 z06 in what we think is going to be
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the base form it's got the lower spoiler
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on the back it does have ground effects
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with the front splitter and side rocker
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panels the big surprise obviously was
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the side intake trim before we had that
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more of that angular shape on the
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stingray and now at the top of what we
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call the boomerang has been extended
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along the side of the car people have
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taken to calling it a wishbone or
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actually a shark's tooth if you look at
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it at the side it almost does look like
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a shark's tooth as well we're sticking
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with wishbone right now we think that's
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a pretty accurate description of it but
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yeah there's a lot of strong feelings
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out right now about that wishbone design
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it's going to be interesting to see i
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think maybe that might be one of the
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reasons why they showed the photo they
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wanted to get the image out there so
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people can get used to it so that when
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the reveal does come everybody's more
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focused on the performance aspects of
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the car but we got a photo of it we've
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also seen digital artists go to work on
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it they've rendered everything from
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different colors on the car to changing
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the wishbone structure to just showing
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what the z07 package might look like so
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for us it's been a boom we really enjoy
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this kind of time prior to the reveal
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because all these different ideas are
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out there and not for us nothing's set
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in stone for the people that think well
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maybe they're just going to get rid of
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that wishbone with all the people
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talking bad about it you can forget
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about that right now that wishbone's
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there to stay keith i thought the
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wishbone looked really good i liked it a
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lot but the question is what are we
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looking at exactly have we seen some of
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this before i think so there's some
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different aspects of the car that we
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really like it looks like these are
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brighter wheels are coming back which
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will brighten things up on the car
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obviously there's no chrome wheels but
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if we get some really bright wheels i
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think that'll go a long way to making
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some people happy right you know as we
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zoomed in on the car we saw that this
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base car did have what appeared to be
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carbon ceramic brakes nice whether
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that'll come on the base or that's an
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option these are questions that we don't
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know the aerodynamic package obviously
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is a lot less on the base car than what
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we'll see in the z07 there might be
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different aspects of that different
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levels we saw that c706 there was three
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different levels of aerodynamics for
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that car so will we see two or three
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different levels as well you also have
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some other interesting things happening
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with the car we got that rear wing
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that's going to come on the z07 right it
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looks very strange when you look at that
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car head-on it looks like the wing goes
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straight across the back of the car but
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if you're looking at the side view it's
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almost like a saucer shape it's very
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rounded as it follows the rear of the
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car so i think that's really going to
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surprise some people when they see it
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and then of course you have these dive
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planes on the front of the car those
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were first put on a camaro zl1 we had
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some spy photos come up late last week
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as well and when the car is turned in a
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little bit of a corner and you can see
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those dive planes jumping off the corner
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of the front fascia that'll be a first
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for the corvette as well to have those
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kinds of dive planes up front so yeah
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there's so much we haven't seen yet i
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don't want to say that the reveal is
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going to be boring or anything because
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we're going to be on pins and needles
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taking it all in again just really
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surprising that they did show what they
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did show off this car with less than a
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month ago before it's shown publicly for
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the first time all i can say is buddy i
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can't wait for october 26th this is
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gonna be good yeah let me throw this in
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so we're less than a month out as far as
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we know no invites have been placed
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we've talked to a few people no location
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has been leaked yet and there's actually
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been some talk i know harlan kind of
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mentioned this at the ncm anniversary
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event there's still a chance that this
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thing might be virtual we're just
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waiting to see how it goes there maybe
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it might be one of these things where
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they just kind of say okay our reveal is
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going to happen maybe it's going to
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happen in detroit where they can lean on
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the press there to be there locally
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which will be interesting again there's
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just so much we don't know about the
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reveal so we're just still waiting to
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see and hopefully we will get the call
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and saying keith you're coming and bring
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your cameras because we got some good
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stuff to show keith and steve are coming
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that would be the nice
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that would be cool and finally keith the
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national corvette museum is going to
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demolish the country hearth inn hotel
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that's right there by the grounds
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they're using it for firefighting
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training right now but it'll be
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demolished after that right exactly so
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we haven't really talked about this too
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much we found out maybe a couple weeks
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before the ncm anniversary show that the
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museum bought that property it's located
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on corvette drive just before the
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entrance to the museum our understanding
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is that the quality of the stay there
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had dropped off significantly and that
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because it was so close to the museum
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museum rhc customers were going there
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staying the night for their deliveries
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they were really having some bad
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experiences so the museum took it over
10:03
there was some talk about they might
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renovate it turn it over and let a third
10:06
party handle it but now they've decided
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that they're gonna raise the property
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which i think is probably a good thing
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in the long run i don't think the
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corvette museum needs to be running
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their own hotel but what they've done is
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they went through they pulled out all
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the furniture and everything they
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donated all that furniture to people
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that might be needy for it and then
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they're gonna let the bowling green fire
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department do some training within the
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building and then they'll eventually
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tear it down so maybe by the bash the
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next year it'll be gone we'll be
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interesting to see and of course they've
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got a really large parking lot i was
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joking with friends every time i go
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there i end up having to fly a lot of
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times i don't get a park in the parking
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lot because it's reserved for corvettes
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only they put you over in the ditch
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maybe they'll retain some of that
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parking lot for the metal car parking as
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we like to call it it looks like that
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eyesore is gonna be gone pretty soon
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it'll just be a field there that sounds
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good all right buddy let's take our
10:54
first break when we come back segment
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number two is corvette racing and
10:57
corvette rumors on corvette today
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first keith let's start with corvette
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racing and review corvette racing at
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long beach again more good news for the
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number four car tommy milner and nick
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tandy they won their second straight
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race in that street fight at long beach
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again the number four car seems to be
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coming on just a little bit here and
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again that's good news we want both
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teams to share in the victories whenever
13:29
possible the number three car still has
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quite a bit of lead there's 160 points
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separating the teams and the drivers
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there there's only two races left so
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we've got this week saturday we have vir
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virginia international raceway and
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that's going to be gt cars only at vir
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and then the final race of the season is
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coming up petite le mans is there enough
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time for the number four car to be able
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to grab that lead i don't think so i
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think the number three has got a
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comfortable lead enough and with only
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three cars in the gtlm class where
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everybody's guaranteed a podium
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everybody's gonna get those podium
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points i do like to see the number four
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cars getting some victories in and they
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definitely deserve it absolutely right
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it's good to see the number four car
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coming back strongly that's for sure and
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you did say we're going to vir virginia
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international raceway and that's coming
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up right yeah that'll be on saturday
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october 9th and i believe the race is 12
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noon eastern time sounds good in the
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rumors category we had more z06 pictures
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of the c8 on the nurburgring and on the
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streets around the nurburgring as well
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didn't we it's been a month since
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they've been there but these
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photographers and other people just some
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random people are continuing to upload
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videos of the car are we learning
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anything new from these videos no but
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again it just is another opportunity to
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see it and hear it really take it in
14:44
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to youtube you type in c806 or you type
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14:55
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absolutely right also gm has a new ultim
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62 kilowatt ev motor is that going to be
15:07
in the corvette e-ray well we're pretty
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excited about the e-ray it's just such a
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departure from what we've known
15:12
previously and that's been the story
15:14
with the c8 everything's been a
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departure for what we know so a couple
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weeks back mark royce general motors
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president was giving a presentation and
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he shared the three ultim motors that
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they're gonna be releasing two of the
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motors one is like a front engine motor
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one's like a rear engine motor or a
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truck motor and then one of them is
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called a front assist motor and it's 62
15:36
kilowatts and it's called an all-wheel
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drive assist motor so the question is on
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the e-ray will we see one of these
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motors two of these motors and i think
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now that we've seen the design i almost
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want to say that it's going to take two
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motors almost butt it up back-to-back
15:51
that'll provide the drive for the front
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wheels take two of those motors together
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i know the horsepower doesn't add up but
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we are seeing that these 62 kilowatt
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motors might be worth about 84
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horsepower each wow if you put two of
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those in the car that adds 168
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horsepower or that would make the e-ray
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somewhere around 663 horsepower i don't
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know if they do both motors if we get
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that full benefit of that horsepower if
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it's less than that you know it could be
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down 625 or so as well right don sherman
16:20
talked about this earlier this year and
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he predicted two motors in the car but
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his motors were a little bit smaller and
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so his estimates were just over 600
16:28
horsepower we talked about the hierarchy
16:30
of the corvette models the e-ray is
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supposedly that grand sport version
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that's going to slot between the
16:36
stingray and the z06 it's hard to see
16:38
how those slot between those if it has a
16:40
higher horsepower it ends up being
16:42
quicker on the line and some other the
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performance characteristics that are
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inherent in the e-all-wheel drive
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version of the c8 corvette so it's
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pretty heavy stuff we don't know where
16:51
we are in terms of a release for this
16:53
car probably 2024 but we did see a few
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weeks back they were doubt testing it
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with an acura nsx which is also a
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performance hybrid the good news is
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they're working on it we know they're
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working on it we just have to continue
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to see what comes out from it well it's
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pretty exciting stuff i can't wait for
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it to come out that's for sure also we
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saw gm shooting a commercial in
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pittsburgh last week it was a z06
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commercial and it was a hard top
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convertible as well yes we found out
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about this on corvette form a guy posted
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there everybody in pennsylvania had sent
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him three pictures of the car it looks
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like a redness hard top convertible was
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rolled off of a trailer we wonder if the
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reason why they released that photo was
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because the next day they would have the
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car actually out in public sure enough
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somebody did capture the car in public
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we do see the wishbone on it the thing
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is it might be a little early for a
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commercial for this car but what we're
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thinking is it might be video that's
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going to be used in the reveal of the
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car itself you know how sometimes they
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have that pre-recorded videos in the
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reveals or thinking that this might be
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it it's also the fact that it's red mist
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it kind of fits that teaser that gm put
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out a few weeks ago we predicted that it
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looks like they're going to use a
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redness car and amplify orange car as
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the reveal colors and sure enough here's
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a red mist hard top convertible and the
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other thing we want to comment on too is
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that because we have the hardtop
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convertible out we were unsure whether
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we were just going to see the coupe
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version at the reveal or if we're going
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to see both coupe and convertible and
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now that the convertible that we've seen
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it at least shooting this commercial
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it's likely that we'll see both versions
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of the z06 at the reveal on october 26th
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very true and we saw at the milford
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proving grounds they were testing that
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z06 hardtop convertible as well yeah
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this one was captured outside the gates
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but what we found on this car were very
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interesting first of all the mirrors
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were uncovered it was amplify orange
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they've only been making 20 22s for a
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couple weeks now three and a half weeks
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as we talked about earlier when you look
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at the rear of this car especially
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around the exhaust area it's very
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finished very refined so we're thinking
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that this is a production-ready version
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of the car that they are testing it was
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missing a rear wing but we could see
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where the rear wing might bolt into some
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supports there on the back deck but it's
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a very interesting car again it looked
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like it was production ready on the rear
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so that should be pretty exciting very
19:08
true well buddy let's take our final
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hey thanks for listening to corvette
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today the podcast that talks about
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everything corvette i'm your host steve
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garrett with me every other week is
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keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com
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we keep you up to date on what's going
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on with america's favorite sports car in
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this third and final segment we'll talk
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about the lighter side of corvette keith
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we had a fan that made a corvette
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commercial called driving the human
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legacy that was a really cool spot you
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know it really was and a lot of times
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these kinds of things these kinds of
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videos put out by fans or enthusiasts
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can even be better than what we see out
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of the creative heads out of chevrolet
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and general motors we found this video
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this was funny we found this video and i
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think it had less than 10 views on it
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the company that uploaded it was
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actually a company they called it a spec
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film meaning when you don't have any
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clients you go develop some spec films
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and then you use that to sell yourself
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they put together a nice video called
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driving a human legacy it has a female
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voice over just talking about the
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moments of design and inspiration and
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that visceral feeling you get behind the
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wheel two cars were featured in that a
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rapid blue c8 corvette and then a nassau
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blue 1965 roadster at the end they come
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together as one it's a good video it
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gave me goosebumps the first time i
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watched it and i thought okay if it
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gives me goosebumps i know other people
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will watch it too and i think now
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they've had over 5000 views on it since
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we posted it i've seen it posted
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elsewhere chevrolet hardly ever puts out
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tv commercials anyways the fact that if
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we can get something fun like this you
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know it's definitely worth sharing and
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go to corvetteblogger.com if you want to
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see that video called driving the human
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legacy it was really cool also keith we
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had a 57 corvette and we never really
22:28
get to 57s here on corvette today but
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this is a one million dollar car for
22:32
sale and it was zoro's fuelie test fleet
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car that was cool yeah the story of this
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car is that it was one of five cars that
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were specially built with fuel injection
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the heavy-duty brakes four-speed manual
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transmission i believe there's a
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suspension that was put on the car and
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these weren't available yet to the
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public but he was testing them and we
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know that 57 was a pivotal year for
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corvette performance obviously that's
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when the horsepower equaled cubic inches
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the 283 283 v8 engine the four-speed
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manual transmission obviously fuel
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injection so 57 was a pivotal year and
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this car has been verified by a couple
23:08
different people as having been one of
23:10
those cars there's not so much on our
23:13
site but if you follow the links to the
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seller they've got this huge breakout of
23:17
some of the history behind it for these
23:19
people that really want to preserve
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corvette history and especially some of
23:22
the behind the scenes things that
23:23
happened there it's a pretty cool car
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but yet it does come with a significant
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price tag one million dollars is a lot
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for 57 but it was part of zora's fleet
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so it's pretty cool yeah also from
23:34
youtube speed phenom kind of reacted and
23:36
broke down the pictures of the z06 what
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did he think of everything you know i
23:41
just really like this kid i call him a
23:42
kid because i can he's 20 21. we know
23:46
that he's going to get the car he's the
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guy that was tracking the c8 stingray
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probably more than anybody else that we
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saw on youtube he's a really good driver
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so his input matters to those people
23:57
that want to know more about tracking
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corvettes and how does it do up against
24:02
some of the competition that he came
24:03
across he's tracking his c8 against
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everything from the mustang gt350s to
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mclarens to porsche gt3s we saw quite a
24:12
few different cars that he was up
24:14
against and the c8 stingray did very
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well so the z06 should do even better
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since it is the trek focused version of
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the car the other thing with speed
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phenom 2 is that he just sold his c8 we
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talked about that a couple weeks back
24:26
his 2020 but he already has his 2022
24:30
imsa gtlm edition
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so he's already got a few videos talking
24:34
about that here's somebody that's very
24:36
excited about the future of corvette
24:37
he's already on his second c8 his third
24:40
c8 will probably be the z06 there you go
24:42
also we had some z06 renderings and
24:45
these were an efy body color exterior
24:47
trim and carbon flash so that was pretty
24:50
cool looking as well well it was we
24:52
talked about in segment one with some of
24:54
the people that happy with the wishbone
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one way to get rid of the wishbone when
24:58
you outfit your car you select the efy
25:01
rpo which essentially means that all
25:03
that black exterior trim that we usually
25:05
see that carbon flash trim is done in
25:07
body color so if you go with a torch red
25:10
instead of having that wishbone in
25:12
carbon flash it's going to be tortured
25:15
of course you could always go with a
25:16
black car and it'll have the black trim
25:18
and it kind of hides it as well i know
25:20
some people are concerned about that i
25:21
think this will be one of these things
25:23
that will kind of be in the periphery of
25:25
some people but i think most people are
25:27
probably already beginning to move on
25:29
off of it we joked about this earlier
25:31
for the c6 corvette people were very
25:33
upset that it didn't have pop-up
25:34
headlights if you remember that right
25:36
they didn't like the fixed headlights
25:38
and then the c7 they didn't like the
25:40
rear taillights and of course there was
25:42
a group there that thought that all tail
25:43
lights should be round on the c7s right
25:45
so now the c8s is it the wishbone of the
25:47
z06 who knows sometimes corvette people
25:50
have trouble letting go of the past and
25:52
embracing the future the z06 certainly
25:54
is part of the future so hopefully this
25:56
won't be a hang up for many people there
25:58
are people out there that are rendering
25:59
these cars in different versions and
26:01
different looks we know that the
26:02
aftermarket is also going to be very
26:04
active in this process as well and we'll
26:06
probably see some really cool things
26:08
that people are doing with that wishbone
26:10
via the aftermarket and remember they
26:12
also didn't like the rear end of the c8
26:14
corvette as well but once it came out
26:16
all that went away so i'm sure that this
26:17
wishbone thing will also be a thing of
26:19
the past you know there's some people
26:21
that'll like it some people don't i
26:23
thought it looked fine i thought it
26:24
looked great so i'm looking forward to
26:26
seeing it in a carbon flash or carbon
26:28
fiber finish on it and i think it'll
26:30
look good in any color i do agree and i
26:32
think in carbon fiber especially because
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it's so big that would really draw your
26:36
eyes to it for sure well keith thanks
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for again for being on corvette today
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and remember you can see all the items
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that we talked about on today's podcast
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at corvetteblogger.com buddy we'll see
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in two weeks we'll be even closer to
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that z06 reveal yes steve i appreciate
26:50
you having me on as always this has been
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fun you uh see on the road throw up that
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