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May 8, 2025
Our last two Corvette News & Headlines podcasts of 2021 have been combined here for a comprehensive look at Corvette as of 2021. Enjoy this Corvette news review! CORVETTE TODAY is a weekly podcast with your host, Steve Garrett! Every other week, hear about the latest news & headlines in the world of Corvette. On the off-weeks, Steve interviews A-List people in the world of Corvette. It's the ONLY podcast dedicated to Corvete. Listen to CORVETTE TODAY on all podcast platforms. Visit the website at www.CorvetteTodayPodcast.com. Hear all podcasts at https://adori.page.link/corvette-today
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[Music] welcome to corvette today the podcast
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corvette news and headlines with my buddy keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com as you know keith is a regular guest on
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corvette today he's here twice per month every other week to keep you up to date on what's happening with america's
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sports car keith welcome back are you ready for the holidays you know steve i'm working on and still trying to find
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those perfect gifts but having a lot of fun this year just trying to do some little things different i got a couple
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granddaughters that are getting a couple corvette things you know little things like that just trying to extend the
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excitement of corvettes into the next generations christmas is a perfect time to do that so we like to take advantage
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of it so yeah we're working on it steve how about you i am doing all right buddy i think i've got all my shopping done i
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did everything mail order this year didn't get close to a shopping center so i think i'm ready to go shopping center
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what is that exactly seriously it's been a little while since we've been to a shopping center or even a mall it's good to get
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out we've done a couple of christmas things already family-wise so hopefully you're doing the same absolutely buddy
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well let's get into it let's start off with corvette c8 production there at the bowling green assembly plant things have
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been going well we had that shut down the very beginning of november where it was just the second shift was basically
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shut down since then we've seen production return some days it's strong and some days it's it you know we have
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days where we'll do 180 482 in a day and then the next day we might only do 135
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or 140 or 150. the week averages are falling down a little bit
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870 per day but we're still able to get out these cars there's been some talk about the chip shortage impacting like
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heated seats and heated steering wheels it looks like that's happening for other cars under the general motors brand but
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for corvette it appears that we're protected again i'd say things are well the other thing that was going on with the plant was there was a quality hold
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on wheels and i have dealers now telling me that cars that have been held for a month or longer are now finally ending
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up at the dealership it looks like chevy's working their way through that one as well depending on how production
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was on friday we should cross over 10 000 bins for the 2022 model year so that's always a nice little milestone
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there absolutely that's outstanding and this was interesting to me as well keith because chevrolet is going to send 12
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gtlm c8r edition cars to mexico to sell we could have sold those here in the
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united states as well yeah part of this i think is chevy's wanting especially with these special editions they're
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wanting to get these out into a couple of their export markets to not only bridge the gap for support for corvette
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racing but it's a cool offer usually these are sold out right away united states they did sell out but it looks
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like chevy did reserve a few cars that they're sending over to mexico and i would bet a couple cars ended up in the
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middle east as well mexico has 10 performance centers that's how they sell the corvettes and camaros there through
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these dedicated performance centers gotcha so there's three in mexico city and then the rest are scattered
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throughout the country they'll get the 12 cars down there i think they're being sold for some crazy number which is
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always crazy but yeah 2.9 million pesos which i think ends up a strong price over the american msrp it's kind of sad
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to see these cars go to mexico in terms of we know that customers here would have snapped them up if given the opportunity but we also know that some
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dealers are selling these cars as a stock unit and that is a customer sold order so you might be able to find some
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of these on dealers however they will come with an up charge yeah that sounds about right
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that's about par for the course buddy exactly also chevrolet is going to begin to automate customer order updates for
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corvette buyers i thought that was outstanding yeah this is probably the most important piece of news that we've
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had over the last couple weeks the problem with ordering cars is you place your order and then general motors
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utilizes a event system with numbers so when you hit 2000 you get 3 000 you hit
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3800 something happens there well the problem is that a lot of times customers are left in the dark they're not hearing
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from their dealers that they might have crossed over one of these milestone event numbers you can call the corvette
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concierge but that's again you calling them so what they've done is they're going to come up with a way that when
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your car reaches event 3000 which is accepted for production general motors is going to start emailing you so what
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they'll do is when you're placing your order they'll capture your email address there and then when you hit 33 000
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you'll get an email that says your car is getting ready to go it just follows you all the way down to when the car is
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being shipped to the dealer you don't get a notification when the car arrives at the dealer general motor still wants
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the dealership to be the final point of contact for their customers but again this should be a great way to keep
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people notified and updated on the status of their order as their cars are being built i thought that was
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outstanding i'm looking forward to seeing that also chevrolet is going to kick off the z06 dealers tour next year
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we did that with the c8 stingray at our hendrick chevrolet dealership and i know that they've signed up to do the z06
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tour as well this is pretty exciting yeah this was huge back when it first started and again it gave people the
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opportunity to go out to the local dealers see the new mid engine sports car for the first time dealers were
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actually allowing people to sit in the cars and see you know if they fit and how they feel about it so it was a
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really good way to introduce the miniature corvette to customers now we have the z06 that's going to be out
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there i know a lot of dealers might be taking a pass on at this time their lists are full there's really no reason
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to do the cost and bring out the whole tour like you said your dealership's doing there we heard that seoka in
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atlantic city is going to be offering a z06 day these are supposedly going to start sometime in early february we
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don't have the full dates yet again general motors will plan something for the dealer but they leave it for the
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dealer to announce it so if you're wondering if this z06 tour is coming to your local dealership you might want to
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give them a call it might express interest they might want to bring it in but maybe they've already done it in which case you can look forward to
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seeing the z06 in your hometown i'm looking forward to seeing it as well even though we were at the reveal in los
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angeles at the peterson automotive museum it'll be a great opportunity for everybody to look touch see and maybe
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even sit in the car so it'll be a lot of fun exactly yeah it's a good thing and especially for maybe smaller dealers
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that don't get the kind of attention bringing an event like this is a way to really please all a lot of corvette
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enthusiasts they get to see the car you make it an event maybe you sell some cars out of it absolutely right and
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finally in our new section keith general motors issued a technical warning that radar detectors can damage the c8 side
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mirror glass that was really kind of strange what's going on with that it is and if you see the picture of a damaged
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side mirror you'll think what the heck is going on with that it actually looks like it's been infected with something so what happens is there is actually a
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power outlet behind a little panel on the rear view mirror on the interior of the car since the stingray has come out
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the 2020 stingray has been out people have been hot wiring their radar detectors into the connections there in
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that mirror there's a right way to do it in that mirror and then there's a wrong way to do it that mirror and if you get it wrong what's happening is the voltage
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is causing this mirror to display all these wavy lines and that's from the defrost system that's in the car and
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behind the mirrors to help you know melt any snow or ice that's on the mirrors but that higher voltage actually burns
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through the glass and so now you've got all these trails it looks like an ant farm actually if you if you see the mirror so general motors put out a tech
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link which is basically a notification to the people that work on the cars the service personnel they say that if a
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customer comes in complaining about that you look for the jumper that's in the rear view mirror and that little power
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outlet if a customer comes in with this issue they have to pay for it because it is something that was caused by an
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aftermarket install so chevy's going to say that you're on your own on that so if you've got a really crazy looking
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mirror that's what's happening well i think a wishlist item would be to make a connection for a hot wire for these
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radar detectors moving forward i think everybody would enjoy that and we would get more use out of it and we wouldn't
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mess up our cars in the process yeah just one more thing here before we close out this section just got the news also
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on friday morning that al unser jr had passed away former indycar racer yes al
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unser jr was the winner of the 1978 indy 500 and of course that was the first
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year that corvette paced the indy 500 he actually was able to take home that pace car from that win he is a four-time
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winner of the indy 500 another legend passing away and of course someone that had a corvette connection so we just
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wanted to put that out there absolutely keith he is a race legend he will be sorely missed yep absolutely buddy let's
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this is the corvette today podcast with steve garrett hey thanks for listening to corvette
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today the podcast that talks about everything corvette i'm your host steve garrett with me every other week is
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section number two we talk about corvette racing and corvette rumors in the racing section keith corvette racing
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is taking two c8rs to daytona that was good to see yeah you know it's funny we're talking about this it'd be like
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haven't they always taken two cars to the rolex 24 right yes they have but of course this year is going to be
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different because they are splitting off the season so one car will be racing in the imsa series here in north america
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and then one car will be racing over in europe and across the world in the world endurance championship it's the number
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four cars that's gonna be racing over in europe and so they're bringing that car back over for the inaugural race here
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for 2022 and again what we've got is we've got tommy milner and nick tandy that are
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doing the full-time driving duties of that car but for daytona they're going to add another wec driver his name is
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marco sorenson he's a danish driver he's been racing over the wec's gtd pro
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category over there in fact i think he has one or two titles in the world endurance championship gte pro category
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so we picked up what looks to be like a solid third driver for daytona and of course this race will take place at the
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very end of the month in january very nice i'm looking forward to that it'll be good to have some racing even in the
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wintertime so that's coming up soon also gmsv was taking a right-hand drive ca to
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bathhurst in australia and if you don't know where bathurst is bathurst is actually the spiritual home for
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australian motor racing so that was pretty cool to see them taking that right-hand drive over there yeah they
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had some big races going on here at the end of november and early december so for general motors to be able to set up
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their displays there now actually show real product i'm sure is very exciting for them they've got two c8s over there
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that they took to the display as well as some of their silverados gmsv just turned a year old general motor
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specialty vehicles in australia they're still feeling some growing pains there eventually they're going to have this
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full cadre of product to be able to show off so yeah it was pretty cool they went to bath first showed off the corvettes
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in silverados and we know it's just the beginning for them over there and oliver gavin also was on top gear in the uk he
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was talking about corvette racing and the c8 that was really cool to see yes oliver gavin was on top gear in the uk
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and although we haven't seen the full episode he's there because they've got the right hand drive c8 stingray that
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they're testing on the top gear track so it's pretty cool here's oliver gavin he's kind of given some of his
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background something about the car why he loves the mid-engine car so much and then they'll show the cut screens over
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to a interesting fella named freddy flintoff who's doing the driving of the c8 corvette on their test track they go
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back and forth a little bit between these two i think oliver gavin's video is about four and a half minutes and then there's another two minute video of
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just the car being tested out there it's just part of the corvette strategy of taking over the world here we are now
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with right-hand drive cars in the uk i don't know if i ever thought i would see that but they're out there now people
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are driving them and they're pretty excited about it it's good to see the cars being tested and hopefully we'll see a lot more buddy i think having a
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world car like this is just fantastic so the more the better is what i say also in the rumor section we see that there
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might be some different colors for that twin intake manifold on the new c806 i
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was really excited to see the maybe offer that opportunity to do some different colors there yeah you know the
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official photos of the lt6 engine shows the twin intake manifolds are in black
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like a flat black with the red on the valve covers it offers a nice little contrast there you remember when we were
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at the peterson they had a cutaway display there and those intake manifold covers were silver and then on another
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sighting we had motor trend when they were doing their rollout of the z06 information they were up in detroit
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where they were filming their little bit up there and they were showing an lt6 that had the red manifold cover so it
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looks like they are playing with it they gave us no confirmations when we were at the peterson but they said it is something that they are planning like
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the stingrays lt2 where you can customize the engine cover comes standard in black or you can pay 595 to
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get a red one or a silver one we are definitely hoping that general motors does something similar with the color on
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the intake manifolds there just allow people a little bit more customization to pick the right color they want to
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show off in their coop because that's where you can see it at that's awesome i think that more customization is the way
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to go when you look at ferrari and lamborghini offering that kind of option i think having corvette doing that is
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just fantastic well when you see these engines in the outside we see the cutaways we see the picture of the
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engine with a white background that's a whole lot of black up top there but when you put that carbon fiber halo engine
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appearance thing on top of it you've got your engine appearance rails on the side of it it really sits down low and you
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don't really see all that black and you might not see all that red or silver either but again it's just a nice way to offer some contrast and be a little bit
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different than everyone coming off as black hopefully they'll do this i think it's pretty cool i think so too also gm
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is going to start corvette eight-speed dual clutch production in the second quarter of next year sounds like it's
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coming around real soon yeah this was planned there was a workers strike up there in canada so as part of their
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agreements with the plan at st catherine's what they were doing was they were going to supplement ca
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transmission production up there z06 transmissions are a little bit different than the stingrays obviously the tremec
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plant produces them now in michigan they're right at the cusp they really can't handle too much more and any less
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doesn't fulfill our needs enough so they came up with a secondary location to do transmissions and of course that's just
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going to help out the corvette team in the long run of having more production the interesting thing is that they said it was going to start the production in
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second quarter of 2022 which is right around the time when we're expecting the z06 production start sometime in may i
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believe in fact it was set in may 9th was when we're going to see the z06s start down the assembly line of bowling
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green by starting off the engines a month early you're going to end up with a nice little supply buffer there it
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looks like it's all coming together i think so too buddy also in the final rumor we had two captured test vehicles
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that were spotted on a transport which means they're starting to roll out maybe to the corvette team doesn't it yeah
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we've reached out we've heard that some of the principals on the corvette team do not have their captured test fleet
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cars yet these are the pre-production cars they're painted they're built on the assembly line they're ready to go
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they can be sold after they're used we've only seen them driving around the test cars with the camouflage on it
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there's two new cars that were captured on thursday night last week they might be headed north we don't really have a
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location on them but it shows a jack cooper transport has a bunch of stingrays on it we know their stingrays
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are covered with the white transport cloths but then we had an arctic white z06 and an elkhart lake blue z06 both of
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them were in the z07 packages the arctic white car had the carbon fiber wheels and the elkhart lake blue actually had
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the forged aluminum wheels two different specs there maybe we can get these cars up to detroit taj and some of the other
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key engineers up there can start driving around we just haven't really had a lot of sightings of painted cars yet so i
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think that definitely the reason why is just because there's the ctfs for the team aren't available yet so they're
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hopefully going to be there soon hopefully we'll be driving them soon and then we'll be able to capture them and share them all with you on
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corvette today the podcast that talks about everything corvette i'm your host steve garrett with me every other week
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is keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com we keep you up to date on what's going on in the world of corvette also if
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story keith on the lighter side of corvette there was a c8 poster in the new rhodes magazine from chevrolet
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luckily i got my hands on two of them i have two posters well that's good because they're
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double-sided you know there's a picture of three cars on the front of one and then on the back it's a single standalone z07 it's good to have two
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posters because then you can show off both of them at the same time there you go chevrolet has a publication called
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new roads comes out quarterly they had a nice feature there on corvettes not only did they have this car but they talked
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to a guy that's been driving his c8 stingray as a daily driver for a year he was in there and then they also had this
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cool art thing where they had five artists come up with their vision of this corvette and so they put together a
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nice little montage of these different art projects in there if you want to get the new rhodes magazine you don't
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actually have to be a customer to get it you don't need to buy a new car we've got it on our website if you go to
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corvetteblogger.com search for new roads magazine we do have a link there to the sign up page at chevrolet.com where you
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can then subscribe to it and get the magazine yourself it was a very cool issue as a matter of fact the cover shot
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was one of the artists that had done a rendering of the c8 it was just beautiful it's definitely worth keeping
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check it out and get it at corvetteblogger.com also callaway is partnering with thompson speedway to
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develop a track delivery experience this was awesome i was so excited to see this
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story yeah callaway based out of old lime connecticut and then thompson speedway is also out of connecticut as
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well and i know that callaway has relied on thompson speedway over the years to do different features and track days and
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things like that so now it looks like they're actually just really formalizing this promotion together it looks like
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they're actually going to be offering like a track delivery option where you can come out get your car maybe do some
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laps there maybe have some lunch with the callaway team it's just something more than here's your car at a dealership take it leave kind of thing
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so right it should be pretty good and of course callaway they're a performance car company while their stingray was
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mostly just an appearance package we are expected to see some performance upgrades when they do their callaway z06
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so stay tuned for that that's going to be some exciting stuff there absolutely right also corvette racing ambassador
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doug feehan has his c8 corvette up on bring a trailer and it's for sale actually this car just sold doug had
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this 2022 2lt stingray it's a torch red car non-z51 he didn't want a lot of
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wings and spoilers and stuff he says he lives in the land of wings and spoilers and doesn't need it on his own car just
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had a very nice looking car here he put it up on bring a trailer and sold it he got 84.5 for it which actually is a
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little bit lower than the general market that's out there we generally see the 1lt cars selling for about 90 000 the
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2lt car selling for nearly 100 000 and 3lt cars selling above that i don't want to say that he lost out but he got a
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good solid number for his car the reason why he is selling the car is he's just
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buying another one another stingray now that he's not going co-6 he's not going to an instant gtlm he just found that he
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could sell a two-year-old car for more of the same way he can get a brand new car he just decided to go ahead and do
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that so that's how he sold his car well if i was the one buying that car i'd have him sign the car as well but that's
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pretty cool yep also a new study shows that the c8 service costs are higher than the c7 service costs which kind of
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makes sense i don't think this was anything that was out of the ordinary or unsuspected it does a little bit and the
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other thing too is that they're comparing the first year of the mid-engine corvette first-year cars are
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always going to have a couple of little things going on but they compared it to the last year of the c7 stingray which
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had now been out six or seven years was a very reliable platform so that's how they got those discrepancies i think and
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then people do different things their first year some people despite the fact that they didn't need an oil change
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until the very end of that first year they might have opted to get one in the middle of it they might have also opted to take their car in and do the two
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quarts of transmission fluid for their transmission there's a number of little things there that might be the reason
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why we are seeing higher costs i just really think it equates to a first-year car being compared to a last year car i
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wouldn't put too much into this and they're talking the first year car i think is under 900 still so not really
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excessive in terms of what we've seen some other cars cost definitely also there's a youtuber called rich rebuild
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and he started a c4ev project what are the details about that yeah so these
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guys if you look at their youtube channel they have millions of subscribers they've been around for a while they have a really good audience
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and they just do these cool builds i think for sema here we are talking about a corvette with an ev they took a tesla
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and dropped a v8 in it and then took it to siva so they're not all about evs or
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anything like that like this project like people think it's just doing something different they found a c4
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corvette actually it's a 40th anniversary 1993 car they go through the process they show them buying it trying
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to get it back these guys are kind of funny the things that happened to them are they trying to get this car you know the typical stuff you go buy a car the
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lady tells you oh sure it can make it home and they didn't even get 20 miles down the road before the car broke down on the side of the highway they're
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dealing with this stuff there's some other things here so it looks very funny this video the first one was kind of a
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setup to the project but i think we're going to follow along looks pretty interesting and again the thing with these c4 corvettes is they can be picked
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up for basically a song and so someone's out there that wants to follow along and maybe do a similar project the c4
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corvette might just be a great platform for an ev conversion so we're going to find out we're following rich rebuilds
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and maybe you'll want to follow along with us that sounds good buddy and our final story i was upset keith another
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guy got to drive a c806 before you and me did that was disturbing
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well actually he didn't get to drive it but he did sit in the car and he did start it up we're talking about a nascar
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infinity driver jesse iwoji and i hope i pronounced that correctly this guy's got
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a really cool resume you know he was a former lieutenant commander in the navy he played on the navy football team he
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gets out of the navy and now he wants to be a race car driver so he's worked his way up the ranks and now he's an xfinity
28:56
driver he's teamed up with emmett smith nfl hall of famer to have a racing team in 2022. he's already a corvette fan i
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looked at his instagram page he's got some corvettes on there he goes and sees the accelerate yellow z07 on display at
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phoenix last month all of a sudden he's just handed the keys and so he starts it up and he just completely loses it and
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we just hear awesome and wow over and over and over again pretty exciting stuff for him he started up gave us a
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few revs took a look around the car again just fun exciting you know you see the car you get to start it up you get
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to hear it he says it's in the cards for him so he is going to be a 06 owner at some point just have to see what he ends
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up going with well hopefully you and i are next in line to get in that z06 and take a ride that's for sure
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i think our time's coming steve we gotta just wait a little bit longer i think so we gotta be patient buddy we gotta be
29:45
patient well keith thanks for being on corvette today it's always great to have you here next time we get together it'll
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be right between christmas and new year's yeah looking forward to that steve looking forward to taking a little time off be with family and friends and
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actually you can get behind the wheel and car and do some driving hopefully everybody enjoyed this episode again you can find all the stories on
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sports car keith welcome back to the show it's fitting that the last week of 2021 is dedicated to corvette news and
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headlines it is our last time we're talking this year it was been a good year considering all the things that have gone on and been going on and the
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pandemic and the part shortages and all that i think it's relatively been a very good year for people hopefully everybody
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out there will mostly agree with that i think so too buddy first of all let's start off with an update from the
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tornado at the corvette assembly plant and then we can get into some production numbers for this week because we did
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miss a week of production last week exactly well we all know uh tornado hit the corvette assembly plant on the early
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morning hours of december 11th that saturday when we talked after that we were pretty i want to say we're a little
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bit down we're thinking that the plant's gonna be down a few weeks at least there's a fire on there we got pictures later that week that showed some pretty
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large holes and multiple holes in the roof we heard that there was damage actually inside the plant and then gm
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just sprung into action and we're used to as corvette owners sometimes we're always on the niche of things within
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general motors we don't make enough cars to really matter sometimes but then when we do we see them spring into action you know
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obviously chevrolet has got one of the highest transaction prices right now and one of the reasons why is because the
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corvettes are just selling like crazy so general motors actually had some construction plants going on they're
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constructing down at spring hill which is about 90 miles away from bowling green as well as their factory zero plan
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up in michigan with the supply chain shortages and they're having trouble getting materials and if you're in the
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construction or if you pay attention to what's going on in construction you know that all that stuff is way more expensive it's harder to get it takes
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longer to get but it looks like general motors already had a lot of those materials because they were able to move
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cranes and materials and manpower into place and by thursday of being down we
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were learning that they were coming back to work on monday and full production would be starting up on tuesday after
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the tornado event so it's pretty amazing turn around how fast they were able to get the plan up and running last week on
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monday they started there was a skeleton crew there they actually built six cars on that first monday back and then we
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received confirmation and then we see the production numbers on tuesday there was both shifts came back to work on
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that tuesday and then they built 124 cars on the wednesday they built 155
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cars we don't really know how many they built on thursday but the total count for last week of being production you
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know returning was just under 500 cars so all well and good considering what we were looking at the night of the 11th
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and the 12th and thinking that you know we might be down through january very good news steve very happy to hear about
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what's going on at the plant and you know what this should be an interesting seminar from kai spandy who does his
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plant updates at the mcm bash right so hopefully we'll be able to get an update and see just how exactly they were able
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to pull off this christmas miracle that's true and also keith you had mentioned factory zero helping the
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bowling green assembly plant talk a little bit more about that and tell everybody what factory zero actually is
36:59
well factory zero is one of the new battery plants and the new ulti implants that's going up for general motors where
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they're going to be concentrating on electric vehicles they're also doing some work down at spring hill and spanning that factory as well so yeah
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that's where they are able to pull all those construction people away and just put them on the plant we don't really
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know exactly how they do it but we got this information from the detroit free press that they were actually working
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with the factory zero people and spring hill so like i said when kai is able to talk about it it's gonna be a pretty
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interesting seminar at the ncm bash i'm looking forward to hearing that for sure also there were about 115 to 120 cars
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that were damaged from the tornado what's happening with those customers and those cars so what's going to happen
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is there was a lot of talk at the beginning they're being prioritized they're going to be moved back to the front of the line their cars weren't built last week or anything like that
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once the plant started so what they're going to do is they have to resequence and reschedule all those orders they
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have all the parts available to build those orders our understanding is that their cars will be built sooner rather
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than later they're not going to be moved to the end of the model year or anything like that but probably the first opportunities where they can resequence
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those orders and get them put back in that's what we're hearing is being done again kudos to the bowling green
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assembly staff and people up in michigan for getting that done as well i mean people been waiting forever so it's real
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good news that they were able to overcome these obstacles with these orders and these cars that were damaged and get these people back into their
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happy place and get them back into driver seats as quickly as possible so these cars that were damaged from the
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tornado will be destroyed then won't they that's what we're hearing i don't think they might be able to pull some stuff off you know do some salvage work
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on them but i don't know exactly how they do that it might just be more economical just to transport them and
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maybe they'll bring a crusher they do that sometimes they brought a mobile crusher to the assembly plant they'll do them there they might also just ship
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them out so it'll be interesting to find out how they do that again we'll probably just find out all this behind the scenes stuff when we get a chance to
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hear from kai spandy very interesting also gm says that the first service for the c8 corvette has changed a little bit
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isn't that right keith yeah this is interesting too when you buy a corvette within 12 months you get a free service
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visit where you get an oil change and then you get your transmission filter changed at no charge so what's going on
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is that this transmission filter was scheduled to be changed every 7 500
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miles at the first time and then i think it jumps up to like 22 000 miles for the second time you have to change it my
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feeling is that people buy these cars and they don't drive them a lot obviously you know sometimes in that first year you might see some corvettes
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that have 1500 or 2500 or 3500 miles so gm actually says it's just because of
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the driving habits of corvette people they're just not driving all that much our feeling is that they're trying to
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get more life out of those transmission filters your oil life is your oil life and they want you to change that 12
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months or 7 500 miles regardless right right so when you get your car your oil life monitor is going to go off in 11
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months or so and tell you okay it's almost time to get your oil changed you might want to go ahead and do that go ahead and just pay for your own oil
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change as you get closer to 7 500 miles then you can probably think about getting your free oil change and the
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transmission filter change you definitely want to save your free service call for the transmission filter
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because it can be a few hundred dollars to change it if you do that out of pocket anyway there'll be some that are arguing that you want to get your
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transmission filter changed pretty quickly we've seen some issues with transmissions you know in the last year
40:20
or two our feeling is that we think that chevrolet is probably mostly beyond the transmission issues right now it seems
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like they've done some changes to them we're not hearing about owners having all these transmission problems anymore
40:31
that's my feeling is that they're just looking to get more life out of those transmission fluid filters before owners
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utilize that free service to change them out i think that's a great idea because it's always been a problem and that
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service was a few hundred dollars like you said and that seems to cause a lot of ire with a lot of c8 owners yeah
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there's always a little bit of people not really understanding what's going on there the oil life monitors the oil life monitor you want to pay attention to
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that you do want to get your oil changed within those confines of the 12 months or the 7 500 miles gm is looking at the
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driving habits of corvette people and saying we can make some changes to help accommodate their driving habits i think
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it's a good thing in the long run definitely a good thing in the long run we also have some news for c6 and c7
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owners keith in the c6 category there's a ninth circuit court that had nixed a proposed class action lawsuit against gm
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this was for the c6 z06 and the engine valve guides what's going on with that
41:25
we've been hearing about these forever only because we're going back to the 2006 to 2013 z06s there's a known issue
41:33
with the valve guides and how people have addressed them over the years it looks like actually it's more limited to
41:38
a subset of cars sometime around 2008 or so 2009 where these valve guide issues
41:43
started wearing their ugly heads this group of owners actually wanted to force a class action lawsuit but unfortunately
41:50
the appellate court ruled that they didn't get their evidence in in time so it wasn't so much they didn't have the
41:55
correct evidence they just didn't get it in on a timely basis whether or not they're able to reconstitute this or if
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it's just done and they have to either start over or try something else remains to be seen but class action lawsuits
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against general motors they never really see it go anywhere unfortunately especially when we have stuff like the cracked wheels i think is probably the
42:12
biggest and most egregious case of wishing that the courts would take a look at some of these things that have
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been done over the years and hopefully correct them on the behalf of corvette owners that next lawsuit is the c7
42:23
corvettes and it's actually over the afm the active fuel management and it's just not corvettes this actually affects all
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v8 motors for general motors gm vehicles with the 5.3 liter the 6.0 liter and the
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6.2 liter v8 engines they say the issue is with the valve train systems with active fuel management the dynamic fuel
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management lifters which are said to be defective so they're hoping to force a recall and be able to correct those
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lifters there with the active fuel management the dynamic fuel management something to follow there should be pretty interesting to see where that
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goes we'll just have to watch and see what happens i'll be watching because that'll affect my car as well and finally in our news category keith
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some good news the 2022 c8 corvette was japan's performance car of the year this
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is what happens when you design a car for the local population right i mean
43:12
we've been selling corvettes over there for years but they've always been the left-hand drive and they've always been considered the imports from america that
43:18
never really sold a lot they'd sell 100 here 100 there right and then we got the mid-engine ca corvette with a right-hand
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drive configuration perfect for japan when they showed it over there in tokyo that first year they sold 300 and some
43:31
within just a couple days and now the first cars are over there the press is loving them they've been driving on
43:37
we've been watching track videos was a panel i think of 60 judges much like you know our north american international
43:43
automotive shows here but the car of the year that's what they did was they brought in these judges over 60 of them
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and they chose the corvette as the japanese car of the year that's outstanding well buddy let's take our first break and in segment number two
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today the podcast that talks about everything corvette i'm your host steve garrett with me every other week is
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details you can always go to corvetteblogger.com in the second segment we're going to talk about corvette rumors keith there were three
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2023 z06s seen on a trailer transport and they were heading north to the
45:46
milford proving ground and then there was another transport with six more i was so glad to see that yeah and then
45:53
there was actually a third one that i think only had one or two on there really so over the course of the last
45:59
week or so there's been public sightings of at least 10 to 12 z06s headed up towards milford we know they're headed
46:05
there the drivers what they had to do is they had actually some stingrays on there so they were stopping at dealers to drop off those stingrays and of
46:12
course people come out and look at the z06s on the back they're not wrapped they're up there and even the z07
46:17
versions have the big wing on the back of them so they're very noticeable our feeling is that they're going up to
46:22
milford some of them are going to be used for engineering they do third party engineering testing and then hopefully
46:28
the members of the corvette team will start to be getting their captured test fleet vehicles their ctfs to be able to
46:33
drive around and evaluate and further test those as well we know that as of the last time you and i talked they
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hadn't received their ctfs yet of course there's always those fun pictures of seeing these brand new corvettes and the
46:45
snow up in michigan during the time that they are driving them so we're hoping to see some of that stuff as well coming up
46:50
shortly but i think it's good news they're building z06s at the plant and they're getting them out and we're able
46:55
to see them and the other thing too is because we're able to see them without their covers we're starting to see new colors so we saw an elk partly blue we
47:02
haven't seen a black one yet i don't think and i don't think we've seen uh ceramic matrix gray or the new caffeine
47:08
so there are a few colors that we haven't seen out there but for the most part i think all the other colors now have really pretty much have been
47:14
spotted wow that's pretty cool and also gmsv in australia thinks that they're
47:20
going to start getting their c8 z06s early in 2023 as well yeah they had a
47:25
big event about a week ago they had a couple different cars out there it was actually their first time they could show off their full chevrolet lineup of
47:32
right-hand drive vehicles australians are crazy corvette people just like us even more so because they don't have the
47:38
access as we do and so when they get a chance to see them they just go crazy there's some cool video out of this
47:43
event where they're checking out the new right-hand drive stingrays there yeah the big news for coming out of there was
47:48
that they are going to be getting the z06s possibly as early as early 2023 so
47:54
that would be about six months seven months after the production starts if that's the case we've actually seen some
47:59
of the exports lag a year i wouldn't actually blame chevrolet if they did that this year just because the demand for the z06 is so high and we see some
48:06
people don't really agree with the fact of exporting cars that are so heavily in demand here let the customers here get
48:11
them but the idea is it's a world car and to be a world car you have to be sold around the world so get these cars
48:18
out let people experience them and then let's take on the exotics from europe and see what we can do all i can say is
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i can't wait for that z06 it was a monster what a beast oh it's gonna be amazing yeah that's for sure
48:30
for sure and hey did we see an uncamouflaged e-ray driving around no next question
48:38
that was not an e-ray really so we learned when they did the reveals they actually brought some people up to
48:44
detroit and one of the people they brought i forget whether it was supercar blondie or whether it was amelia but
48:50
they were in the z06 prototype and aaron link says hey sorry we're actually in one of the older versions that doesn't
48:56
have the real coolest sounding center exhaust so we know that they've got some older mules out there with the corner mounted
49:03
exhaust actually that's what we were seeing you know chevrolet has never shown a future product that's
49:08
uncamouflaged until it's been revealed even though the wide-body e-ray is expected to look similar to the
49:14
wide-body z06 there are going to be differences there just the same as the c7 grand sport was
49:20
different than the c7 z06 even though they're basically the same wide-body configuration so yeah this definitely
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was not an e-ray we talked to the professional photographer who took this photo the people that i guess were
49:31
driving this car they were spotted the last time in the e-race when we had those last e-ray camouflage pictures
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from okay so i think he just kind of made the jump and we were mistaken too we were thinking that any of the wide
49:42
bodies we saw prior to the reveal with the corner mountain exhaust were actually erased but i think that it's safe to say that we just don't know some
49:49
of them might be an e-ray but some of them also might be these older z06 mules okay well i was getting excited there
49:54
for a minute but i'll just hold on to my excitement buddy i tell you what steve it's the first time i bought spy photos
50:00
to debunk something i bought the photos knowing that it wasn't the z06 yeah i think the only ones out there saying
50:05
that this wasn't the z06 where everybody else was saying here it is the new era so wow well good for you buddy good for
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today the podcast that talks about everything corvette i'm your host steve garrett thank you very much for
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listening with me every other week is keith cornett from corvetteblogger.com we keep you current and up to date on
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what's going on with america's favorite sports car in this third and final segment we talk about the lighter side
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of corvette keith corvette sends out a brand new launch video to z06 subscribers and i'm glad i was on that
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list what a video yeah you know this was interesting when you go to chevrolet.com if you're on the z06 page so i'll tell
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you how to get there you go to chevrolet.com they have a list of vehicles on the tab and one of those tabs says upcoming vehicles and you
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click that and it shows you the 2023 z06 so if you click the z06 you'll get the product page you get some of the videos
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the launch video but there's a place there where you could sign up for updates and they'll send you email updates we got an email update this week
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from them it was just mostly hey here's the new z06 and they were talking about the design and they called a work of
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performance art with the different pictures that they have but they included this it was an unlisted youtube video it only had like 2300 views on it
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when i saw it so i knew that it was a little bit different than what was normally up there so it's just
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essentially a lot of it instead of like a lot of the performance driving talk they focused on the design and the
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artistry of the design and put out that video so again just some people might not have seen it it was recut from the
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26 minute launch video yes but if you want updates officially from general motors that's how you go get them we do
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have that link on our story if you just want to go to find our story and then hit the link there to sign up sign up everybody it's a cool car it's going to
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be hot hot hot yes it is also keith top gear in the uk reviewed the right hand drive c8 stingray how did they like it i
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had high hopes for him once again top gear lets us down over here in the united states oh i don't get it so
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they've got new hosts we used to have jeremy clarkson hate on the corvette but at least he was funny about it i'll give him props for that we watched this it
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was about a ten minute video they've got a guy there who just was spanking the heck out of the car we featured him
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before his name is freddy flintoff and we saw him in a video with oliver gavin
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so this is a longer video so he's doing like a six or seven minute track test and then we see the stig do a track test
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with the car and then when it comes to the in studio audience we get nothing but basically
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corvette bashing freddie who just had a great time driving the car said i would take the camaro over it any time and
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that's a left-hand drive camaro not a right-hand drive corvette so again top gear the driving sequences are
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fun they're exciting they're good to watch and then when it goes to in-house just go ahead and turn the channel from there yeah i agree buddy i agree also we
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had a little bit of ingenuity a hard top convertible owner used magnets to show
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off his engine bait which i thought was ingenious yeah this has kind of been one of these things out there where people
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really want the convertible but they lament over the fact that they can't show off the jewel under glass like we
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get with the lte2 under the coop and the hatch window so what this guy did was there's 18 torx screws that hold down
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that heat shield where the roof folds down and separates the roof from the engine compartment right so what he did
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was he took out all the torx screws and then he used these really strong magnets that he got off of amazon he's got all
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the instructions on his video and what he does is he uses those and surrounds them around the whole thing and then
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also uses 3m tape to put these little steel bars down that he also got from like the lows i think so those magnets
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attach this to the steel and it seems to really hold down that heat barrier
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pretty well there is a little bit of a gap and actually that we saw another video where a guy was using insulation
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tape to actually get rid of those gaps and hopefully keep any kind of fumes or anything that's from the engine compartment within the engine
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compartment but again this original guy says he goes to carson coffee he hits the button on his remote opens up that
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retractable roof panel but then you can stop it there you know in the open position and then he just reaches down
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and pulls out that cover and he can show off his engine in fact what he did was he went out and bought the edge red
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cover oh that you see on the coops and he says it fits perfectly on the convertible nice no problem there you
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just snap it right in and there it is and there's pictures of it it looks pretty cool and again there's been some others that are improving on his design
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so it'll be interesting to see what people come up with you know corvette people are pretty ingenious when they want to do something we definitely saw
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it with this project definitely that was really cool i thought that was awesome also the c8 was number 15 on the fastest
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selling list from the group called ic cars that was pretty cool to see yeah we've been talking about these guys most
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of 2021 now and in fact this was the 11th survey and corvette has been
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featured on it 10 times this year we are actually one of four cars to be featured 10 times and one of five cars to be
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featured more than 10 times pretty interesting stuff here so we're number 15 on this list what we're finding is that the average days to sell is
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actually slowing down it used to be the if you were first place you were selling cars in like seven or eight days right
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with this survey we've seen this slip all the way down to 12.7 days the interesting thing with the corvette is
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again those transaction prices just continue to grow higher and higher last month we had a transaction price of
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ninety six thousand one hundred dollars and now our transaction prices are ninety six thousand six hundred dollars
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six hundred and eighty five to be exact that just continues to grow it's a pretty stunning figure this is something
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that's pretty cool again corvette owners most of these cars are sold it takes a little time to do some pdi and get them
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to the dealerships but once they do you know the corvette owners are they're picking them up as soon as they can so that's really what's been driving
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corvette's participation on this list and staying with that theme jd power also named the c8 corvette stingray to
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the list of best cars for 2021 as well yeah we showed up well so they do two different surveys they do a quality
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survey and then like an overall appeal award right and we ranked really well on both of those what they did was they
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picked essentially the cadillac ct5 genesis g80 the nissan maxima and the
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chevrolet corvette were all tops in their various classes these are surveys based on customer interviews and it's a
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complete opposite of what we saw from consumer reports when they named the corvette as one of the least reliable cars exactly here we have jd power
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saying it's one of the best cars and they're both based on customer surveys well that's good to hear at least we've got one counter balancing the other so
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that's pretty cool also make them kissimmee is coming up in january of 2022 they've got a heck of a lineup of
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corvettes including the 1963 golf one racer talk a little bit more about that
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racer and some of the other cars that are going to be auctioned off at mecum kissimmee yeah the golf racer was a 1963
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fuel injected z06 it raced for grady davis and the gulf oil racing team the
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flying dentist dr dick thompson used to drive it this car's got winds all over different tracks across the country back
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in the day it really shows well i was telling you this before we started recording steve that the last time this
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car sold was 2009 at mikam kissimmee and i was there for that i was just a fairly
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new blogger and it was the first time i've ever been in a building and saw a corvette sell for more than a million
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dollars wow i can just remember the feeling in the air was just really electric it was so exciting and in fact
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dr dick thompson was there at the event i actually got a chance to sit with him for a couple minutes i think he was in
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his late 80s or early 90s just a little old guy but he was very excited to be
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there he actually said he was in florida at the time and he said that they brought the car by his house and
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actually let him drive gulf one up and down his driveway wow that week of the auction when i got the chance to talk to
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him i said was this your favorite car or was there something else you liked he said no the l88 was always the funnest
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pretty cool to meet two legends there the golf one and dr dick thompson but this car is coming up again and in fact
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mecum calls this offering they call it their once in a lifetime corvette offering because of just the number of
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top shelf core vessels going through it got a number of z06s a number of these cars have been raced and are well known
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race cars and then some of them are just known for really rear options tankers z06s the l88s so you're going to
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definitely want to check out beacon kissimmee this year if you're a classic corvette fan especially if you like some of these race cars and the vintage
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racers so really neat stuff going through this year absolutely and meekum kissimmee is coming up early in january
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of 2022 it's gonna be an awesome auction and if you're a corvette lover this will be heaven for you yes it will be it's
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gonna be a great auction they've really expanded this before it was after barrett-jackson now it's before barrett-jackson i think that helps right
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and then also you know there's a lot of people use this opportunity to come down to florida in the winter time do really
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have a nice time be around corvettes should be a great event and meekum always does a first class job on these
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hmm good idea get out of kansas city's winner for a little week of you might have to think about that steve yeah i
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think so too buddy finally our last story keith this was really really phenomenal there's a video that
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chevrolet put out called holiday ride if it doesn't bring a tear to your eye i don't know what will you know when you
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think of holiday car commercials it's always hey look what i bought you without telling you i bought you these two trucks you know where i bought you
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this thing it's got a big red bow on it it's just these crazy commercials so chevrolet went a different route this year they featured a 1966
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impala of all things it is a real tear jerker there's two different versions there's a 60-second version for
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television but i recommend you go to youtube or you go to corvette blogger pull up the four-minute version because
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it's a mini movie it's about a man who recently lost his wife the connection to her and the car are very evident in the
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video and then the daughter sees the pain her dad's going through and gets some car buddies of his to do an
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overhaul and special on his 66 impala it ends with the father and the daughter going on a christmas holiday ride
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thinking about their mother all really good very much a tear-jerker but i've seen this commercial listed everywhere
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on all kinds of blogs and websites and not just automotive stuff so it's obviously making an impact it's
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phenomenal it's perfect for the holidays it really is yep go check it out you'll love it well keith thank you for being
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on corvette today again thank you very much happy new year my friend and thank you for your friendship and your
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partnership on corvette today well thank you so much steve means so much to me we have such a great time doing this stuff
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it's fun to talk with you every couple weeks kind of look back it'll be what's happening with corvettes and then how it's going to look in the future and as
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we get into 2022 i think things are just going to continue to look brighter and better and moving on up and of course
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we've got a lot of exciting things happening there's still so much more that's coming down the road so stay tuned with us and corvette today and
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