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CORVETTE TODAY #93-Corvette News & Headlines, Mid January 2022
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May 8, 2025
It’s the beginning of the new year and there’s a LOT of Corvette news to tell you about! Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger.com give you the lowdown on what’s going on in the world of Corvette! Here are a few of the news and headlines covered in this podcast…. 1. The Bowling Green Assembly Plant has a rare Saturday shift, 1,036 C8 Corvettes were built last week, sets single day record for C8’s built 2. Bowling Green auto workers reject contract, strike authorized 3. Chevrolet pulls Engine Appearance Package and High Wing option from C8 orders 4. Chevrolet confirms to dealers that 2023 production starts 5. GM warns dealers about selling over MRSP for upcoming Z06’s 6. 70th Anniversary Details Leaked on the online Corvette Visualizer 7. Chevrolet to offer 1st retail C8 Z06 for charitable auction at Barrett Jackson 8. The #3 Cunningham Corvette of Lance Miller's has been sold! 9. New official C8 Z06 video comes out from Chevrolet called “The World” Stay on top of everything Corvette with this week’s CORVETTE TODAY News & Headlines Podcast!
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news and headlines with my buddy keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com as you know keith is a regular guest on
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favorite sports car keith good to have you back how's everything going for 2022. everything's been going really
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good so far steve how about yourself everything is great i'm looking forward to a good year buddy and we're starting
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off with this podcast we have tons and tons of news why don't we get right into it and talk about corvette production at
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the bowling green assembly plant sounds great steve happy to do that things have really been rolling since we've had the
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tornado issues we've had a couple snow days we had the winter holiday break and
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now it's back to work and they are really cranking out some corvettes this week we'll cross over the 13 000 number
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in the vin count wow we just go on and on now we go like 12 weeks without any breaks but the real big news with the
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corvette production i think happened maybe a couple weeks back now that we're looking at the numbers and i tell you we
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love sharing good news like this but we recently saw that the corvette plant broke its single day production record
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normally they can do 184 over the two shifts that's always like the goal we saw a count where they came in on a
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tuesday and did 197 cars wow and then the next day they came back and did 195
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cars it dipped during that week but then on the saturday they came in on a rare saturday and cranked out another 95 cars
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normally a weekly total if they hit all their marks a weekly total a full production is listed as 920 cars okay
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they did 1036 cars over that entire week so really cranking them out and you know
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that 920 figure they really don't meet that that often i think in november we averaged like 857 860 cars per week
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so you know you currently crank out that 10 36 and that's a huge number one of the things that we know about their
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worker contract the uaw contract is that they have six days of overtime scheduled
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for like weekends that they can fit in and use like whenever they need and so with those production dips in late
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december it looks like that's what they're doing they're dipping in they're working extra working overtime to make
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up those lost orders it sounds like yeah this is all really good news like i said they're going to go monday through
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friday at least all the way through april 15th and that's the easter weekend break and then they'll break there and
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then we come back in may and we've got some big news coming in may so if we can keep the supply chain humming and
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everything's working well and the omicron starts to die off a little bit we could really see a great output of
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cars in this first quarter boy that's great news keith that's so good to hear but the one thing that i was really disappointed to hear is that the auto
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workers rejected the latest contract offer and they've authorized the strike so what's the back story on all that
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yeah i know this freaked a lot of people out and i saw the headline myself and just felt my stomach drop a little bit
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but i don't think this is as serious as when you hear strike authorized that's essentially the uaw is posturing they're
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saying that we've got strike authorization from our membership however they have a bunch of things that
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they have to jump through before they would actually have be able to strike okay so it's just not like they're going next friday they're walking out this is
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a dispute that goes back a couple years now and a lot of it has to do with like outsourcing tasks to non-union members
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there's four outstanding issues in this work agreement that they're looking for the big one is they want uaw members to
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do contracted jobs such as like the 3d printing maintenance work putting stripes on the cars currently these are
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done by outside companies for chevrolet and the corvette plant they want uaw
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members there the other one is they want local 2164 that's the uaw local shop
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there in bowling green they want skilled trade workers in the performance build center and that's where the gm makes the
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performance motors they'll make the lt6 there they make the lt4 there they want those skilled trade workers in there as
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well the other ones are just really promises they want to promise to build future corvettes including electric versions in bowling green i think that's
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probably a no-brainer that was an easy one to sign off on i think and then the other one is just to commit to a higher
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pay rate for certain jobs that require a lot more skills or additional knowledge i don't think that one's too far out of
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the array for them to look at those four points are what they're looking at and again i think just the big one is they
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want to see more uaw members involved in some of the different projects there at the plant hopefully this will get done i
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really don't think that it'll ever get to the strike jason watson is the shop chairman there and he said he quoted as
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saying our membership has approved a strike authorization but there's a process that must go through the uaw
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region 8 and the national union before it ever gets there again don't fret this i think they're going to get this done
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well that's good news i was really worried about that when i saw it and i know you'd have the back story on that so it's good to hear also chevrolet has
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unfortunately pulled the engine appearance package which is the high wing out of c8 orders are they running
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out of high wings yes they are so there's two issues here the high wings are on a 100 national constraint right
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now talking to one of my dealer rep friends he said he can't even order it from like the parts division oh boy this
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is the carbon flash wing i'm not so sure actually about the painted wings if the white one the blue one or the red one
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are still in stock or not this is carbon flash so this is one it's just they're out of stock on this one so instead of
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holding up orders they're just taking them away we caught this news by a guy on the corvette forum who said that he
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was presented with options so hey you can't get that high wing he had a non z51 car which then wouldn't just default
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to the z51 wings he was actually given the opportunity to change that if you wanted to go with like the low profile
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spoiler or no spoiler it sounds like if your dealer contacts you with time you might be able to switch something out
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there the other issue is the engine appearance package this is the carbon
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fiber rails on each side of the engine as well as the light kit the led light
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kit that goes inside what dealers were told there is that the manufacturer of those side rails is getting out of the
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carbon fiber business as of january 31st this year but they're gonna have to find another supplier to redo that that's a
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real bummer because this engine appearance package it looks great and then it's got the light in there but by
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stripping that out you're taking that light away from people where they could actually have still the light and then
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do something different with the rails go after market or something like that i really wish chevrolet would actually just include the dam light in the engine
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compartment as a default thing and then let people do what they want to do there but hey that's just my own take on that steve i've got you keith no real
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timetable on when these are coming back so keep an eye out you hear from your dealers great but as soon as we have any
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news we'll post it like the high wing is back perfect that sounds good also we did get some good news from chevrolet
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and the dealer's got good news as well 2023 production starts on may 9th does
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that include z06s well that's the big key question right now we're just told 2023 start on may 9th the z06 will be at
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2023 so that's the question we've seen previously when they've done new models
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or introduced new models that there is a ramp up of that to full production so they might come in and actually start on
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day one but only do a few and then the next day do a few more the next day do a few more until they feel comfortable we
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really don't know much about the rollout how that's going to work but we did get these confirmation dates we'll just run
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through them we'll start with the 2022 info and then go into the 2023 okay so 2022 corvette production that model year
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built out so we're going to end on may 6th that's a friday final consensus march 1st so there'll be one last order
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cycle in march and then the 2023 models will kick off on may 9th which is a
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monday we'll see a order consensus the first allocations will be again in march
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and then the first order cycle where orders are matched up with dealer allocations happens march 31st pretty
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exciting stuff dealers will actually be able to start doing pre-orders on march 24th again we're looking at maybe
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just a little over 70 days until that happens so pretty crazy that we're getting this close finally the last
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thing is the order guide is set for march 21st we're really just waiting on pricing now and if i had a guest steve
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my bet would be look around the barrett-jackson auction on january 29th that's when the z06 the first retail z06
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will be sold and i'm hoping that with any kind of press release or a news announcement about that that we might
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get some additional pricing information because that would be a great opportunity there so maybe look after that auction and look for the first week
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in february maybe we'll get some pricing done that sounds logical i think that's probably spot on keith that's for sure
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and finally i loved your headline on this one keith shots fired gm warns dealers about selling over msrp for
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upcoming z06s talk about that so this was a letter that was sent to dealers from north american president steve
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carlisle and it wasn't just market adjustments and it wasn't just about the z06 so gm has a number of in-demand
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vehicles coming up they include the silverado ev they've got a gmc hummer coming out you've got the cadillac lyric
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so there's a couple other vehicles and of course the z06 as well what's been happening is just the supply and demand
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has been off the chain for automakers across the board including general motors dealers so we're seeing games being played with allocations we're
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seeing games being played with people placing orders it's unfortunate so this letter i think is just to kind of
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highlight that what he actually says in here is that these dealers risk having their vehicle allocations redirected to
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other dealers who aren't being bad actors in the new car sales process but it really doesn't stop dealers from
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saying i can charge 5000 i can charge 25 000 over i could charge 50 000 over it doesn't really stop them because in the
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dealer sales agreement the franchise agreement that they have with their different dealers the dealer set the price there's a manufacturer's suggested
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retail price and then the dealer set the price so even though this was a really strongly worded letter it also goes on
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to dealers who are dealing with brokers selling cars out the door that way exporting cars immediately overseas
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that's a huge no-no dealers can actually get blacklisted for doing that if they're caught selling cars to brokers
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and then those brokers take them overseas i think the more the stringent and the strongly awarded portion of this
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letter deals with that more than the market adjustments now that we've really had a chance to take a look at this but
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it could cause dealers to give a little pause and again we have to see how this average daily supply method of
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allocations will work with the z06 because here's the other flip side with the allocations the z06 allocations are
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just going to be part of allocations total not dealers are going to get a stingray allocation and a 06 allocation
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so this is a little bit different than previous where they were separated but what we've heard from dealers is they might say so you might get 10 cars this
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week or this month for this order cycle but you could only order say three of those could be z06s so they'll be
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probably giving guidance by chevrolet on terms of how many z06s they can do in their allocations but again we're just
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kind of wait and see this is all new to us in terms of how they're doing all this and we've never seen demand like
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this i mean we've seen demand in first years but nothing crazy is the 2023 z06 so we're just going to really watch and
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see hopefully dealers will toe the line and get in line and take care of their customers the way they should be it's
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going to be a whole new ball game in 2023 that's for sure buddy yep let's take our first break keith and in
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everything corvette in the second section we're going to talk about corvette racing and also corvette rumors
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keith emsa released a mega entry list for rolex and we've got 13 gtd pro
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series entries as well we got a big race coming up this is exciting it's race week we've got the rolex 24 daytona
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happening on saturday it's always an exciting time but wow you know we went from racing just a single
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loan porsche and maybe a couple bmws in the endurance races now there's 13 cars in this grid 11 of those will be
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competitors we have the number four car with us for this race so really exciting stuff of course over the weekend was the
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roar of the 24 the big tune-up and then the qualifying race we are actually recording this podcast before that so we
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don't have those results but really exciting stuff leading into and i can't imagine 13 cars i'm trying to remember
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the last time i saw a field that big for corvette racing most likely it was one of the le mans starts i know that we had
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nine and 10 11 cars maybe at some of the big endurance races in previous times we had like the forage racing so really
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exciting stuff so here's what we've got with these manufacturers we've got three porsche 911s we've got two bmw m4s of
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course the two corvettes there's two mercedes amgs and then we have an aston martin vantage gt3 we've got a ferrari
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488 the lamborghini huracan and a lexus rcf so really strong competition these
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are pro drivers or a mix of drivers neat thing that we've got going with us is we've got some guys that are just really
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hungry for competition so i think that looks really well for us the downside is that these manufacturers already have
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gt3 cars and we're playing with a gtlm car that's basically been downgraded our cars have the anti-lock braking system
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we tested that last year at belle isle there's going to be a revised wing profile there's some other changes here
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and there and then probably one of the bigger changes is that now all the cars in that class are going to use a single
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specification michelin tire which is different than previous years lee willard has always had a custom tire
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made specifically for corvette racing so now we're just using a single spec tire so yeah it really levels the playing
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field it's going to be a really exciting race we're very excited of course this year we'll see antonio garcia jordan
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taylor and nikki katzberg in the number three car they won last year's rolex 24
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as a part of a one-two finish for corvette racing and then the number four car tommy milner nick tandy will be
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contesting the fia world endurance championship this season but they're here for the rolex and they are joined
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by new teammate marco sorenson so really exciting stuff race takes place saturday
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afternoon hopefully everybody will be watching and cheering on corvette racing because this is like waking up and it's
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a brand new world hopefully this will be a lot more fun to watch a lot fun for the fans it's also fun for the team you
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know we want them to do well but we also want them out there this now comes down to figuring out strategies and when do
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you pit when do you fuel and just really exciting stuff i can't wait for this season to start i'm looking forward to
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it too it's a whole new world for corvette racing also keith our buddy friend of the show jeremy welborn found
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out that the 70th anniversary details were leaked on the visualizer on chevrolet.com but now they're gone yeah
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you know we've seen a couple really impressive leaks by the members of the chevrolet team and this is one hand not
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talking to another they have all kinds of departments there if you remember going back to the la auto show corvette
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enthusiasts came across 14 painted c8 models in the display case instead of the regular 12 and it just so happened
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that the extra two one of them was a white pearlescent color the other one's a carbon flash metallic obvious
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speculation was that we were going to see those as the 70th anniversary edition colors and that's what jeremy
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found he found a white pearl metallic tri-coat with satin matrix gray stripes
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or carbon flash metallic with satin black stripes so you're gonna have a white car and a black car and then
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you're gonna have like a silver or a black stripe on it really elegant the white car kind of looks like the 60th
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anniversary in 2013 right but then it really adds some neat stuff here they've got the 70th anniversary badging it's
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also on the cross flags emblems well we'll see 70th anniversary on that 70th anniversary wheel caps edge red brake
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calipers carbon flash wheels and the carbon flash mirror and spoilers the
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wheels on the car will be the spider wheels the interior is really cool white ceramic is what they're calling it white
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ceramic gt2 seats with red stitching it's almost like the strike yellow and sky cool gray in the inserts are the
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white you have black on the outside you have some white trim on the outside really looks very nice very elegant you
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know we haven't had white seats since i think the 88 anniversary edition we're picking up some cues from some previous
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anniversary editions putting them here some of the accessories will also include an edge red engine cover rear
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bumper protector and then there's going to be a custom luggage set with the 70th anniversary logo as well we have no idea
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uh pricing like i said this was a leak we went to the visualizer this morning it's down they're probably not real
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happy we're talking about this stuff but that's what happens when stuff gets leaked we're very sorry that their big plans might have been spoiled here but
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they had to get this information out anyway because if i was a guy that was buying a z06 and i was in love with the
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70th anniversary package i would definitely want to make my feelings known to the dealer that i definitely want one of those packages we're going
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to wait find out more i know the order guide again will come out in march and pricing will have some info there so
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just stay tuned the leaks are going to be coming between now and the order period it's coming it's coming that's for sure buddy also we had two z06s on
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the way to michigan and they had some carbon flash wheels on them that looked really really nice yeah so there were
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two cars again going up to warren tech center we believe that these are ctf cars or they're using these as
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third-party evaluator tester models both of the cars had the five spoke carbon fiber wheels but one of them had the
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wheels in carbon flash metallic so not the visible carbon one was invisible carbon wasn't was in carbon flash metal
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first time we've seen those wheels on the car they tested the cars though prototypes with all the camouflage on
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them and when they were shown those wheels they actually took a spray paint can and had to manually paint the visible carbon fiber over to hide it wow
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but now we are seeing carbon flash so again just more and more options are ending up on these ctf cars from the
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factory it's just a real good indicator that they are really close to getting ready for full production in may so
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we're hoping that that's the case and we're ready to go absolutely right buddy let's take our final break and in
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car keith in this third and final segment we're going to talk about the lighter side the etc side of corvette
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first off though we got the top 100 dealer list from 2021 didn't we yeah this is always big news and we're very
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happy to always be able to get our hands on this info you know it's a great way to find out who's selling the most corvettes in your region our list is
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actually you can sort it by state so you can really zoom in and find your area here's the thing too the corvette is
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bringing in so many new customers to chevrolet first-time buyers of chevrolet so they might not know where to go or
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who's selling what or who the top 10 dealers are it's just a great way to really show new buyers who's selling in
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their areas but here's the key only 39 of the total corvette sales in 2021 were
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sold by these 100 dealers that total was like 12 900 out of the 33 000 total wow
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so by far the majority of corvette sales are coming from dealers outside the top 100 i mean those definitely add up
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there's just under 3 000 dealers in the country now take that for a great assault but here we got these top
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dealers most of them are selling especially the top 10 dealers i believe most of those are selling customer
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ordered corvettes at msrp as you work your way down the list obviously we don't know you have to call and find out
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what their lists are and that's what you're really doing is you're dialing for dollars if you're serious about still looking for a z06 this list is a
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great area to start with obviously look outside the list as well sixty percent of cars were sold outside this list but
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again great resource it's all based on the individual dealership sales there are some dealers that have multiple
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locations like hendrick and bonham we don't add those up these numbers come straight from chevrolet and we present
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them as such so take a look at it if you're looking for a new corvette and hopefully this will serve as a guide for you also keith chevrolet is offering the
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first retail c806 for charitable auction at barrett-jackson in scottsdale rick
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hendrick is going to be there i bet i bet yeah this is going to be a fun one to watch we saw the first 2020 corvette
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stingray mr hendrick bought that car for three million dollars there's going to be some pretty interested parties in
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this but how high it goes i have no idea it's going to be fun to watch what we're also going to see here like i mentioned
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hopefully we'll get a press release with any kind of pricing or information following the sale it's a perfect
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opportunity you know we might not get full pricing but we might get a start set number and i think a lot of people
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would settle for that right away if i got a start set number for a z07 or a start set number for a convertible that
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would be fantastic absolutely also this is huge huge news keith the number three
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cunningham corvette owned by lance miller was recently sold give us the story about that yeah this is just one
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of these neat stories i was fortunate enough to work with all the parties involved in the sale the story of the
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cunningham corvette's pretty special we've talked about it quite a bit briggs cunningham a gentleman racer took three
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1960 corvettes over to france for the 1960 le mans it was the first time that corvettes had raced there with him he
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had zora arka stuntoff and chevrolet serving as a unofficial supporting role
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and it was the number three car that actually won its class and finished eighth overall those cars came home they
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were actually converted back to street and then resold and they were lost no one knew where they were so chip miller
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really loved this car growing up i think the le mans that it won happened during his teenage years and he was smitten
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ever since he sought and found and bought the car had it restored obviously
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to the delivery but then he passed away his goal was never met to take the car back to le mans for its 50th anniversary
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in 2010. that's where his son lance kind of picked up the charge he and john fitch the original driver of the number
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three car went to france really cool story it's all documented in the quest documentary if you get a chance to see
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that now this car has been back in the united states i think that just the opportunity came up it's the miller
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family that sold the car and i think it's just the time was right the person that bought it erwin corey
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just a great guy he's got a fantastic collection he's got probably one of the top quality corvette collections ever
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assembled this cunningham corvette will just be the centerpiece it's the holy grail of that collection it's just going
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to be right at home there irwin shows his cars he takes cars to bloomington gold muscle car and corvette nationals
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and some other shows so you'll definitely be able to see this car at some point just keep an eye out for it a
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neat story and great people all the people i talk with here are just fantastic corvettes become part of the
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family you're saying goodbye you're not just an owner you're a caretaker of the car and that's what irwin is or was now
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the next caretaker of the 1960 cunningham corvette it's in very good hands part of the process of owning
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corvettes you buy them you sell them you move on so it looks like the cunningham corvette's moving on to a new home and
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also i have to give a big shout out to our friend of the show kevin mckay from corvette repair kevin took the number
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three car and restored it back to current and he is working on the number one car it would be great to see all
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three cunningham corvettes back together at some point maybe this year even that would be so cool yeah i don't know where
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he is on the restoration of the number one car but the owners of these cars and now erwin with the number three number
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two car is owned by bruce meyer of the peterson auto museum and the number one car was purchased by briggs cunningham's
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grandson i believe that it shouldn't be too hard to get these three cars all together once they're all restored and
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ready to go that'll be fantastic also this is really cool the 1970 corvette
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that was signed by paul newman was reviewed on antique roadshow wasn't it it's always fun when corvettes show up
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on non-traditional shows the antique road show is just one of those fun you know before pawn stars and all these
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other kinds of crazy stuff came out you had the antique road show where people bring in their treasures and find out
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hey this is really worth something so this guy has a 1970 corvette he met paul
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newman at a charity event and paul newman signed his dash of course paul newman wasn't just an actor and he's not
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just a salad dresser maker he also raced cars and he raced corvettes as well so big shout out to there they took a look
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at the car she suggested that the car by itself might be valued upwards of 24 000
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but because of that newman signature on it it might actually go for 30 or 40 000
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as he actually suggested that he might even look for insurance that it's upwards of 65 000 that's the top end
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price for a paul newman signature on a corvette that he just sat and he didn't drive it he didn't own it but it's still
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neat to see corvettes on these non-traditional shows and really a neat story line with paul newman and speaking
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of celebrities buddy that was so cool by the way alan shepard the astronaut had a 1968 corvette it's also going up for
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auction at barrett-jackson in scottsdale yeah the old connection between the nasa and astronauts is very well known alan
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shepard one of the first 12 astronauts in the nasa program first american in outer space and one of the few that
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actually walked on the moon they basically got to lease a new corvette for one dollar for the year and they
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could get them however they wanted he outfitted his 68 corvette with an l89 originally a 427 435 with a four-speed
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transmission of course he was into doing all kinds of fun stuff with that car and he ended up blowing up that original
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motor and documentation shows that it was replaced under warranty with a similar motor that's still under the
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hood of this car wow if you were to look at the interior of this car you see rip seats and you see tears you might be
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thinking oh my gosh this car needs to be restored and then you find out that it's got all this documentation with nasa
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astronaut alan shepard and then you're like don't even touch this car you know leave it alone this is going to go through barrett-jackson to be
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interesting to see how well it does an unrestored 1968 427 i think it's going
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to go for some big bucks i think so too i would love to have that car that would be so cool yeah very cool also chevrolet
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released a new video called the world about the z06 if you're a z06 buyer and
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you're not on their email list you can go to chevrolet.com at the top there's a list there that says upcoming vehicles
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click on the 2023s and click on the corvette z06 and there's a link there that you can actually sign up to get
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official communications from chevrolet on the xeosic yeah we got an email one day here's a new video that they put up
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on the videos they put up you can't find them in youtube they're unlisted so you have to either follow corvette blogger
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be on one of the forums or be on the list itself you can get it right away this one had to deal with testing in the
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nurburgring and the world car aspects of it give it a watch if you get a chance we do have a link over on corvette
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blogger that's great also this is really cool i saw the gm launched an online store for ac delco and genuine gm parts
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they didn't have that before did they no normally you'd have to turn to ebay or third-party sellers that might have some
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of this stuff but one question we have is i'd love to know how far some of this new old stock goes back if that's what
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it is is it going to go back to the 60s and 70s are we really looking at more of a modern day aspect of it most likely
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more modern day but there might be a few treasures in there so we're anxious to see we don't really have a link on when
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it's going to go live yet we're going to be watching this and checking it out i'd love to see that it'll be some neat old
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stuff it goes really far back that's for sure yes it does also finally keith let's review the mecum kissimmee show it
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was a big big show with a lot of corvettes yeah this is a huge list unofficially we're showing maybe upwards
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of 400 cars went through mecum gave us some numbers over 24 million dollars in corvette sold we're really relying right
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now on my detroit bureau steve burns who really put together some great points for us here he says prices were up on
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just about everything and the big news for this is the split window coupes 1963's made up six of the top 15
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corvette sales and all of them were greater than 300 000 wow so i mean that's a big no no some of those split
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windows were former race cars or z06s so they're going to command premium prices anyways but if you're seeing just a
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regular 63 split windows with even just a regular small block in there we're seeing prices going up on those as well
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what was interesting on this list was there was only four restomods in the top 15. so you could say well they're
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starting to cool off or is this a mecum versus like what we might see at barrett-jackson which is always a really
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big money with bristol mod so that's something we're going to be watching steve has a couple of wtf prices here a
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2017 grand sport with seven miles sold for 187 000 wow a 2019 zr1 with 11 miles
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2019 zr1 we've been seeing big money out of those anyways this one sold for 297.
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and then finally this one will blow your mind a 1984 with 5 000 miles for 51 000
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so again big money coming out of mecum there are some disappointments we didn't see the 1963 gulf one former race car we
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didn't see that cell it reached a high bid of 2.4 million dollars a 1966 pilot
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l88 racer reached a high bid of 1.1 million and then a right-hand drive
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1963-06 had a high bid of 300 000 just tremendous money going through the
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markets right now and through the these auctions we have barrett jackson next week steve always calls that fantasyland
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money and it'll be interesting to see if their prices are normal or if we're just going to see another huge increase over the year really fun stuff in the market
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so yeah stay tuned and prepare to be amazed i guess steve absolutely right buddy i am always tuned those are fun
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shows to watch that's for sure aren't they really so much fun and they they've come so far and they're just really
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these big events now very excited for barrett-jackson coming up and we'll do a similar breakdown after that auction as well definitely well buddy thanks for
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being on corvette today again as always and remember if you want more in-depth information about any of the stories
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we've covered in today's podcast you can always go to corvetteblogger.com keith thanks a lot i'll see you in two
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weeks thank you steve so much best regards to everybody out there good luck to corvette racing this week and we'll
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