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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
3:41
starting to reopen but the corvette
3:43
plant has been able to maintain and
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continue production through that whole
3:46
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
3:53
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
7:37
that car so will we see two or three
7:39
different levels as well you also have
7:41
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
7:48
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
7:58
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
8:28
taking it all in again just really
8:30
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
8:35
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
8:42
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
8:48
has been leaked yet and there's actually
8:50
been some talk i know harlan kind of
8:52
mentioned this at the ncm anniversary
8:55
event there's still a chance that this
8:57
thing might be virtual we're just
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waiting to see how it goes there maybe
9:00
it might be one of these things where
9:02
they just kind of say okay our reveal is
9:04
going to happen maybe it's going to
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happen in detroit where they can lean on
9:06
the press there to be there locally
9:08
which will be interesting again there's
9:10
just so much we don't know about the
9:11
reveal so we're just still waiting to
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see and hopefully we will get the call
9:14
and saying keith you're coming and bring
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your cameras because we got some good
9:17
stuff to show keith and steve are coming
9:19
that would be the nice
9:22
that would be cool and finally keith the
9:24
national corvette museum is going to
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demolish the country hearth inn hotel
9:28
that's right there by the grounds
9:30
they're using it for firefighting
9:31
training right now but it'll be
9:32
demolished after that right exactly so
9:34
we haven't really talked about this too
9:36
much we found out maybe a couple weeks
9:38
before the ncm anniversary show that the
9:41
museum bought that property it's located
9:44
on corvette drive just before the
9:46
entrance to the museum our understanding
9:48
is that the quality of the stay there
9:51
had dropped off significantly and that
9:53
because it was so close to the museum
9:56
museum rhc customers were going there
9:58
staying the night for their deliveries
10:00
they were really having some bad
10:01
experiences so the museum took it over
10:03
there was some talk about they might
10:05
renovate it turn it over and let a third
10:06
party handle it but now they've decided
10:08
that they're gonna raise the property
10:10
which i think is probably a good thing
10:12
in the long run i don't think the
10:14
corvette museum needs to be running
10:15
their own hotel but what they've done is
10:17
they went through they pulled out all
10:19
the furniture and everything they
10:21
donated all that furniture to people
10:22
that might be needy for it and then
10:24
they're gonna let the bowling green fire
10:25
department do some training within the
10:27
building and then they'll eventually
10:29
tear it down so maybe by the bash the
10:31
next year it'll be gone we'll be
10:32
interesting to see and of course they've
10:33
got a really large parking lot i was
10:35
joking with friends every time i go
10:37
there i end up having to fly a lot of
10:39
times i don't get a park in the parking
10:40
lot because it's reserved for corvettes
10:42
only they put you over in the ditch
10:43
maybe they'll retain some of that
10:45
parking lot for the metal car parking as
10:47
we like to call it it looks like that
10:49
eyesore is gonna be gone pretty soon
10:50
it'll just be a field there that sounds
10:52
good all right buddy let's take our
10:54
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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
13:15
number four car tommy milner and nick
13:17
tandy they won their second straight
13:19
race in that street fight at long beach
13:21
again the number four car seems to be
13:23
coming on just a little bit here and
13:25
again that's good news we want both
13:26
teams to share in the victories whenever
13:29
possible the number three car still has
13:31
quite a bit of lead there's 160 points
13:34
separating the teams and the drivers
13:35
there there's only two races left so
13:37
we've got this week saturday we have vir
13:40
virginia international raceway and
13:42
that's going to be gt cars only at vir
13:45
and then the final race of the season is
13:47
coming up petite le mans is there enough
13:49
time for the number four car to be able
13:51
to grab that lead i don't think so i
13:54
think the number three has got a
13:55
comfortable lead enough and with only
13:57
three cars in the gtlm class where
13:59
everybody's guaranteed a podium
14:00
everybody's gonna get those podium
14:02
points i do like to see the number four
14:03
cars getting some victories in and they
14:05
definitely deserve it absolutely right
14:07
it's good to see the number four car
14:09
coming back strongly that's for sure and
14:11
you did say we're going to vir virginia
14:14
international raceway and that's coming
14:16
up right yeah that'll be on saturday
14:18
october 9th and i believe the race is 12
14:20
noon eastern time sounds good in the
14:22
rumors category we had more z06 pictures
14:26
of the c8 on the nurburgring and on the
14:28
streets around the nurburgring as well
14:30
didn't we it's been a month since
14:31
they've been there but these
14:32
photographers and other people just some
14:34
random people are continuing to upload
14:36
videos of the car are we learning
14:38
anything new from these videos no but
14:40
again it just is another opportunity to
14:42
see it and hear it really take it in
14:44
before the reveal on october 26th you go
14:47
to youtube you type in c806 or you type
14:50
in z06 nurburgring and you could be
14:52
entertained for hours there so if you're
14:54
looking for something to do ahead of the
14:55
reveal and you want to hear some of that
14:57
flat plain crank goodness that's
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definitely a destination for you
15:01
absolutely right also gm has a new ultim
15:04
62 kilowatt ev motor is that going to be
15:07
in the corvette e-ray well we're pretty
15:09
excited about the e-ray it's just such a
15:11
departure from what we've known
15:12
previously and that's been the story
15:14
with the c8 everything's been a
15:16
departure for what we know so a couple
15:18
weeks back mark royce general motors
15:20
president was giving a presentation and
15:23
he shared the three ultim motors that
15:26
they're gonna be releasing two of the
15:27
motors one is like a front engine motor
15:29
one's like a rear engine motor or a
15:30
truck motor and then one of them is
15:33
called a front assist motor and it's 62
15:36
kilowatts and it's called an all-wheel
15:38
drive assist motor so the question is on
15:41
the e-ray will we see one of these
15:43
motors two of these motors and i think
15:45
now that we've seen the design i almost
15:47
want to say that it's going to take two
15:48
motors almost butt it up back-to-back
15:51
that'll provide the drive for the front
15:54
wheels take two of those motors together
15:56
i know the horsepower doesn't add up but
15:58
we are seeing that these 62 kilowatt
16:00
motors might be worth about 84
16:02
horsepower each wow if you put two of
16:04
those in the car that adds 168
16:07
horsepower or that would make the e-ray
16:09
somewhere around 663 horsepower i don't
16:12
know if they do both motors if we get
16:14
that full benefit of that horsepower if
16:16
it's less than that you know it could be
16:17
down 625 or so as well right don sherman
16:20
talked about this earlier this year and
16:22
he predicted two motors in the car but
16:24
his motors were a little bit smaller and
16:26
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
16:32
supposedly that grand sport version
16:34
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
16:43
performance characteristics that are
16:45
inherent in the e-all-wheel drive
16:47
version of the c8 corvette so it's
16:49
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
16:56
weeks back they were doubt testing it
16:58
with an acura nsx which is also a
17:00
performance hybrid the good news is
17:02
they're working on it we know they're
17:03
working on it we just have to continue
17:05
to see what comes out from it well it's
17:07
pretty exciting stuff i can't wait for
17:08
it to come out that's for sure also we
17:11
saw gm shooting a commercial in
17:12
pittsburgh last week it was a z06
17:15
commercial and it was a hard top
17:17
convertible as well yes we found out
17:19
about this on corvette form a guy posted
17:21
there everybody in pennsylvania had sent
17:23
him three pictures of the car it looks
17:25
like a redness hard top convertible was
17:27
rolled off of a trailer we wonder if the
17:30
reason why they released that photo was
17:32
because the next day they would have the
17:34
car actually out in public sure enough
17:36
somebody did capture the car in public
17:37
we do see the wishbone on it the thing
17:39
is it might be a little early for a
17:41
commercial for this car but what we're
17:42
thinking is it might be video that's
17:45
going to be used in the reveal of the
17:46
car itself you know how sometimes they
17:48
have that pre-recorded videos in the
17:50
reveals or thinking that this might be
17:52
it it's also the fact that it's red mist
17:54
it kind of fits that teaser that gm put
17:57
out a few weeks ago we predicted that it
17:59
looks like they're going to use a
18:00
redness car and amplify orange car as
18:03
the reveal colors and sure enough here's
18:05
a red mist hard top convertible and the
18:07
other thing we want to comment on too is
18:09
that because we have the hardtop
18:10
convertible out we were unsure whether
18:12
we were just going to see the coupe
18:14
version at the reveal or if we're going
18:15
to see both coupe and convertible and
18:17
now that the convertible that we've seen
18:19
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
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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
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get to 57s here on corvette today but
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this is a one million dollar car for
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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
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different people as having been one of
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those cars there's not so much on our
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site but if you follow the links to the
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seller they've got this huge breakout of
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some of the history behind it for these
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people that really want to preserve
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corvette history and especially some of
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the behind the scenes things that
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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
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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
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just really like this kid i call him a
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kid because i can he's 20 21. we know
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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
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that want to know more about tracking
23:59
corvettes and how does it do up against
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some of the competition that he came
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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
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few different cars that he was up
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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
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his 2020 but he already has his 2022
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so he's already got a few videos talking
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about that here's somebody that's very
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excited about the future of corvette
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he's already on his second c8 his third
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c8 will probably be the z06 there you go
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also we had some z06 renderings and
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these were an efy body color exterior
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trim and carbon flash so that was pretty
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cool looking as well well it was we
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talked about in segment one with some of
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the people that happy with the wishbone
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one way to get rid of the wishbone when
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you outfit your car you select the efy
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rpo which essentially means that all
25:03
that black exterior trim that we usually
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see that carbon flash trim is done in
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body color so if you go with a torch red
25:10
instead of having that wishbone in
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carbon flash it's going to be tortured
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of course you could always go with a
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black car and it'll have the black trim
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and it kind of hides it as well i know
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some people are concerned about that i
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think this will be one of these things
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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
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off of it we joked about this earlier
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for the c6 corvette people were very
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upset that it didn't have pop-up
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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
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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
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are people out there that are rendering
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these cars in different versions and
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different looks we know that the
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aftermarket is also going to be very
26:04
active in this process as well and we'll
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probably see some really cool things
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that people are doing with that wishbone
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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
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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
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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
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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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