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CORVETTE TODAY #82-Meet the Author of the Book "Ladies & Vettes", June Bartlett
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May 8, 2025
If you're looking for a great Corvette gift for the female Corvette enthusiast in your life, be sure to listen to this CORVETTE TODAY podcast! You'll meet June Barlett, the co-author of the book "Ladies & Vettes, A Guide For the Female Corvette Enthusiast". Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, talks to June about her motivation to write this book and what the book is all about. Plus, you can win an autographed copy of the book in the contest via the podcast. It's a another great episode of CORVETTE TODAY where you can win this book!
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corvette owners from around the world my
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guest on corvette today has published a
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book on corvettes for women it's called
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ladies and vets a guide for the female
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corvette enthusiast she also has a
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facebook group called ladies and vets
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we're going to be talking about both of
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those today on the show and we're gonna
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give away a copy of ladies and vets book
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i'd like to welcome to the show june
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bartlett june welcome to corvette today
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thank you so much steve how are you i am
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fine and thank you so much for being my
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guest on the podcast june let's talk
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about your early years talk about where
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you grew up talk about your family and
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how your parents influenced you as a
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young girl well i'm originally from
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jamaica queens new york i grew up in a
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fairly middle middle-class neighborhood
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my parents migrated from the south in
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the 50s and they wound up in jamaica
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queens and my mom actually is still
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there she had a business and real estate
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she was a real estate broker for many
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years for about 40 years and my father
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worked in the railroad for many years
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and it's myself and my brother we grew
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up there i went to local schools in the
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queens area i wound up going out of
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state to school to morgan state
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university and to hampton institute and
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i finally came back to new york and
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graduated from hunter college with a
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degree in media studies and a minor in
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film and i've always loved cars but it
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took a while for me to get into the
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hobby but i'm just a new yorker well
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that sounds good and everybody that's
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from new york loves new york and never
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wants to leave that's for sure yes now
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tell me about when you realize that you
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were a car person well that kind of
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started in my mid to late teens there
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was a show on tv at that time mid 70s to
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80s called dallas oh yeah i remember
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dallas yeah yeah and there was a
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character pamela ewing i think she was
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married to one of the viewing brothers
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and she drove a beautiful black on black
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c3 corvette and i just fell in love with
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that car and with the show and just
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thought it piqued my interest in cars at
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that time very nice now what things did
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you do as a child that were car related
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june that kind of brought you to where
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you are today as a woman and a car
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enthusiast well it did take me a while
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as i said to get into the hobby but my
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dad always had very nice cars he had a
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cadillac he had a continental and he
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always took care of them kept them clean
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and so forth but i didn't really get
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into the car hobby as far as going to
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attending shows and so forth they
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weren't that big you know in my area at
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that time but i did have appreciation of
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cars that's nice now what drew you to
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corvettes was it watching pamela ewing
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on dallas that kind of started it
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because as i said i still remember that
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car to this day it was a beautiful black
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on black c3 again my father having the
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nice cars and i had a few relatives who
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had some nice cars mustangs and so forth
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the corvette started my attention to
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them really kind of started in my early
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20s and i started to notice them a lot
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more i even had a dream that my parents
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bought me a black on black c3 like
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pamela's and i got up that next day to
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look to see if it was in the driveway of
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course i was disappointed no corvette
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but as i started to look at cars more
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and i noticed the corvettes i just loved
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the stance of them the performance of
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them it just grew on me and for me at
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this point in my life there was no other
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car corvette is it that was it that's
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for sure now as you were growing up were
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you in some car clubs or corvette clubs
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as you were becoming a young adult and
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then an adult i wasn't in any clubs
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growing up as an adult but i did get
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into the hobby for my first marriage we
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had 82 collectors we bought that in 1993
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and i joined a car club a local club out
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here called long island corvette owners
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association like hoa so we belong to
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that in 93 and then i had my first child
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in 94 so it wasn't room for both of them
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in our lives at the time so i sold the
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82 collectors which i loved at that time
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of course it was family first so i vowed
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to get another one and i did in 2004 i
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bought my second corvette i bought my
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1981 corvette which i still have i'm
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actually selling it now but i still have
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that headed for 17 years
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and i just wanted to get something that
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i could fix up so i bought it very
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cheaply and i just put money into it
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year after year i do a little something
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to it so then i started to get more into
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the corporate hobby i started a club
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here i was approached actually to start
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a club and i became the secretary and
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then later the president of a club
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called the national afro-american
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corvette club in aacc
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they originated in texas and they
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started to branch out to start other
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chapters so that chapter went on for a
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little bit and then they dissolved and
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we became a member of another group
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called the queen's classic club and i'm
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still the vice president of that club
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and we're still together so this day we
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have two shows a year we have all types
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of cars we have corvettes we have
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lamborghinis we have mustangs we have
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every old school car you can think of
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our last show was in september we had
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about 142 cars we have a blast it's a
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good time to bring everybody from the
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different boroughs into new york and we
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just have a good time that sounds like
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so much fun well jim let's take our
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first break and in segment number two
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we're going to talk more about your book
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ladies and vets a guide to the female
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hey thanks for listening the 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 today is june bartlett
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june has written a book called ladies
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and vets a guide to the female corvette
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enthusiast and in segment number two
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we're going to talk about that book june
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tell me about what motivated you to
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write this book ladies and vets well
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basically it was just the love of the
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hobby you know me being a female i'm a
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member of actually two clubs here in new
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york and i'm on a board up in the a club
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outside of new york i'd go into
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different meetings and different shows
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and so forth and i you know i love my
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brothers they're all very helpful very
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courteous to me but i was just missing
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the female friendships within the club
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so there aren't a lot of women in most
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of the clubs that i've seen or coming to
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some of the shows so a friend of mine
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teresa marshall i call her t
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we became friends actually
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from attending the new york auto show
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here many years ago so we started
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corresponding and so forth she even
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started a online female group also and
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then we said would be so nice if we had
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something that relate to women more so
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than anything so we decided to write the
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book so she started writing a portion of
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it i started writing a portion of it it
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took us about two years and we got it
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done through a lot of emailing and
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talking and breaks and so forth but the
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purpose of the book is just really to
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bring women together to introduce women
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who are new to the hobby especially
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corvettes and just tell them about the
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different things what to expect and
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being a corvette owner what the hobby
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about that sounds great because if it
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took you two years you guys really did
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your research you and theresa did is
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there anything else that you have
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included in the book that was kind of
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the premise for really motivating and
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writing this book well in the book we
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have a few different chapters
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one thing that i really wanted to
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emphasize is what women have done and
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contributed to the auto industry so we
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have a small chapter in here there's
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women who shook the auto industry
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talking about various women who did
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different things for instance florence
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lawrence florence lawrence was a female
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who actually invented the first vehicle
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turn indicator and she did that all by
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herself back in the 1900s charlotte
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bridgewood she invented the storm
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windshield cleaner back in 1917
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so who would think that your indicator
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on your car was invented by a woman and
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your storm windshield cleaner was
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invented by a woman you would never
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think that so these are the things we
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wanted to bring women's attention to i
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listed even some of the celebrity
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corvette owners like cindy crawford
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sarah foster that in 1970 patti labelle
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has a 1963 c2 kendall jenner has a 56 c1
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people like that again you wouldn't
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think that we're in the hobby we also
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have a section in the book about car
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care which is something most women don't
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think of most women who have the newer
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vets they may not take care of them
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themselves much they might have them
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detailed by a company but the older vets
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like mine the c3 you would take care of
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it yourself you never take a corvette to
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the car wash that's very terrible you
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just don't do that because they're so
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low to the ground just knowing how to
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wash your car in the book there's an
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article about car care and using a two
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bucket system where you wash in one
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bucket and rinsing another bucket and
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how do you start washing the car from
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the bottom up section by section you
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wash the tires and so forth you wash
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sections by themselves and so forth we
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want it just to bring a lot of
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information and just a guide we're not
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experts but we wanted just to expose
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women and tell them about certain things
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that they should be doing with their car
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it was really nice to read and also your
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book is very extensive also about the
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different generations of corvettes and
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pricing as well june talk about where
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you did your research and gather all
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that information well we did a lot of
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research we got some information from
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the internet we got some information
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from the corvette black book i just
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thought it would be interesting to
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gather and really talk about each
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generation in the book we literally go
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from 1953 to 2017
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stating exactly how many cars were made
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that year whether it was a coupe whether
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it was a convertible and the price of it
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and i just thought it was so interesting
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that 1953 of course it was only 300 vets
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at 3 400
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3 498 to be exact that was the price of
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a corvette and 53 goes from that to the
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price of a vet now so which is about 62
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000. i just wanted to demonstrate that
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the difference in the years and i think
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it's nice when you can go and look up
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the year of your car and you can see
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okay wow in 1987 which is the year of my
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c4 i have now they made 2007 sport
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coupes at 27 dollars things like that
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and then you can kind of see or say
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according to where you are well 1987
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there were twenty thousand i wonder how
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many there are around now and you kind
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of get an idea of the value of what your
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car should be you know according to
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where you are with the car according to
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how many cars that are left from that
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year and so forth right and also in the
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book june you have a very extensive list
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of all the corvette clubs by state in
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the united states that had to take a lot
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of work to compile that list it really
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did it really did because we wanted to
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keep it up to date actually when we
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started we had some clubs that were were
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not even in existence so we had to
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eliminate those and add in some more but
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the purpose of us doing that basically
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was to make sure that women whatever
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state that you're in you can find a club
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if you're in california if you're in
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north carolina you can look in the book
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and say oh look there's a corvette club
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maybe i'll look them up and i'll call
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them so we listen the names and the
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person to contact the address and phone
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numbers so this way women can get more
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connected to the hobby and to other
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people within the hobby i thought that
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was fantastic well june let's take our
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final break and in section number three
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we're going to talk about where you can
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buy the book and talk about some of the
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bartlett she wrote a book called ladies
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steve garrett with me today is june
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bartlett june has written a book called
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ladies and vets it's a guide to the
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female corvette enthusiast in this third
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and final segment we're going to talk a
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little bit more about the book and where
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you can buy the book now june before we
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get into all that i've always seen the
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corvette 10 commandments before but you
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have a ladies owner's corvette 10
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commandments don't you yes i do yes we
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do in the book you've already seen that
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somewhere some people just take it and
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change it so we did the same thing we
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just changed it around was just having
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fun with it said things like you know
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always look fierce while driving your
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vet always
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well then that's what women do allow
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your husband or your boyfriend to wash
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that vet never let your children eat or
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drink in thy vet drive thy bed to
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release stress and always color
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coordinate clothing with your vet so
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those are just a few of the things it's
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just something to have fun with also in
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the book i wanted to bring attention to
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a section that we named because i
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thought it was just so funny chapter
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nine is oh that's cool your husband let
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you drop his vet
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yeah and that's an exact quote of what
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someone said to me actually when we were
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at corvettes at carlisle in carlisle
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pennsylvania one year i was actually
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driving my corvette and we were coming
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up to the hotel i'm behind the wheel and
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the guy says gets out of a pickup truck
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oh that's cool he lets you drive his car
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vet and that's my car i'm behind it but
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it just goes to show you that most men
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different women and different quotes
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from them things like that being said to
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them as well that's so funny oh good
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that is too funny june let's talk about
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where people can purchase ladies and
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vets because the holiday season is
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corvette life tell me where you can
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the female corvette enthusiast okay you
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can contact me at andrews i'll spell it
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out a n d
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r e w s v like victor t t like tom at
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aol you can contact me i'll send you a
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copy a signed copy just email me i'll
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send it out to you right away and can
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you buy the book on amazon as well june
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yes you can you can buy it on amazon
20:08
just type in ladies and vets a guide for
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the female corvette enthusiast and it
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comes right out that's wonderful and
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what about a phone number if someone
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wants to reach out to you sure you can
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reach me at 347
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that's 347-744-0819
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and june you've also started a facebook
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group for ladies and vets haven't you
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yes i have we were on our way to
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corvettes in carlisle about a year ago
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and i said it'd be so nice you know just
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to hang out and meet up with some women
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so i said oh maybe i'll just start up
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facebook and see if anybody's interested
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and lo and behold before we went to
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corvettes at carlisle that august this
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was in 2019 i had about 50 people to
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join and right now we've got about 212.
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so it's just a fun facebook page we get
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on it's only for women because we want
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to keep it girly we just get on and we
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share posts you know about maybe what's
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happening in your state if there's a
21:08
show coming up sometimes we ask
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questions i want to do something to my
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vet what do you think just different
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things like that it's very friendly very
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nice it's just fun that's fantastic june
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well congratulations on all this thank
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you and i tell you what june has been
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gracious enough to give us one
21:25
autographed copy of the book so if you'd
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like to win a copy of ladies and vets a
21:30
guide to the female corvette enthusiast
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you can write to me this week steve at
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corvettetodaypodcast.com to get in the
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running and we'll choose one winner and
21:39
june will sign the book and mail it to
21:41
you for the holidays june thank you so
21:43
much for being my guest on corvette
21:45
today this has been a lot of fun
21:46
continued success and all the best to
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you with your book ladies and vets thank
21:51
you steve so much for having me i
21:52
certainly appreciate it thanks for
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