CORVETTE TODAY#105-A Special Edition, We Celebrate The Start Of Year #3!

Name: CORVETTE TODAY#105-A Special Edition, We Celebrate The Start Of Year #3!
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cornett from corvetteblogger.com as you know keith is a regular guest on corvette today he's here twice per month
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every other week to keep you up to date on what's happening with america's sports car keith it's always great to
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have you back on the show welcome back and this is a monumental podcast because
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this week starts year number three for corvette today it's an amazing milestone steve and we're just glad to be part of
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it this has been fun to watch we go to these shows and people come up and say before it be like i get your email and
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now it's like i really love hearing you and steve talk on the podcast it's a lot of fun glad that people are listening
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and enjoying the youtube video as well there's going to be some great news coming out this year so if you're paying
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attention to the podcast you're going to be up on everything absolutely right buddy well let's get right into it keith let's talk about corvette production
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this week at the bowling green assembly plant production's going strong as it can be in this environment we're looking
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about three weeks open since that march 21st weekly closure and then we also had
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the plant close good friday and then easter monday this week we will actually see the 2022 model year should cross
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over 22 000 bins for the model year so that's a nice milestone i've kind of been looking at where we're going to end
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up we had some great numbers for the quarter we're really looking thinking about where we're going to end up for 2022 model year production the total
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there's only about 24 days left in production for the 2022 model year and
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we think that they're probably going to end up somewhere close to about 26 000 cars now there's what they can build and
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then what they have been building and the two don't usually equal each other right we think about 26 000 which again
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would be a great number for the model year it really sets up everything for 2023 which is the 70th anniversary year
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and of course the z06 will start as well and speaking of z06 there are some reports that came out of the factory
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that 36 ctf cars captured test fleet cars were built and have been sent off
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this is one of these milestones that we've also been waiting for the ctf cars generally represent saleable units
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meaning that we're done with the ex cars the experimental bins we've moved to a pre-production bin that these cars can
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be sold once they're finished with if that's the case that 36 cars did get built and get out to the corvette team
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it just shows that they're really wrapping up all the testing and all the validation and moving towards the
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production specs as we're looking forward to z06 starting up sometime this summer ma'am that's great news buddy and
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speaking of great numbers gm delivered 8 811 corvettes in quarter one of 2022.
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yeah and you know this is with a missed week of production so you have to wonder you know would we have been close to
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that 10 000 mark it would have been really close it would have been probably 96 98 or so again a huge number of four
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corvettes in the first quarter it was a 33.3 increase over the 6600 that were
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built the year before the goal i think for the corvette team is to somehow reach about 40 000 over the last few
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quarters they did over 10 000 in the quarter i think it was third quarter of 2021 last year and then we've had a
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couple in the high eight so they're very close to being able to do 40 000 and again it's just whipping the supply
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chain into shape and making sure that we can get everything that we need to do those cars so another great quarter production for corvette then that's one
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variable we have no control over is the supply chain so if it wasn't for all the outside factors we probably would have
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40 000 cars that would be so cool we also found out that chevrolet is going to extend the 22 model year one extra
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week didn't we yeah this is again related back to that march 21st that weekly closure there you know we built
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about 900
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you want to give the customer what they ordered that way they don't have to worry about resubmitting for 2023 and if there's price protection or if they're
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going to be moved to the top of the list you know they just get their car right now we're looking at the 2023 corvette
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stingrays will now start production probably the week of may 16th although
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as we get closer sometimes they'll wrap up their final cars on the thursday or friday before and they might actually
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start a little bit early so we'll just have to wait and see but that's the goal right now may 16th we'll start the corvette stingrays and then again later
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this summer sometime we'll have the z06 start production and also speaking of stingrays we saw that the visualizer has
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launched some new updates and also the z06 visualizer has some updates too isn't that correct yeah we've been
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waiting for this you know and of course we had already the first order cycle so people were putting together cars that they didn't know what they looked like
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and especially what i'm talking about it's like the 70th anniversary stingray when chevrolet rolled out the package
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for the 70th anniversary they showed it only on the z06 we knew what kind of look for but you know there's nothing
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like seeing it in your head and either rendering or a visualizer now you can go see the 70th anniversary visualizer for
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the stingray you can play with the two different colors there you can add stripes the new 20 spoke wheels are
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shown and there's a new wheel actually that kind of surprised us we didn't see this in the order guide but it's a tech
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bronze wheel that is a lpo meaning that it's a dealer installed option oh it's tech bronze and it's a 20 spoke design
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so it's the same design as you get on the 70th anniversary it's just this bronze cover which one really looks nice
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i think the other thing too that you can do is the 70th anniversary wheels are 20 spoke wheel they're in carbon flash
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metallic with a edge red line around the rim while those will go on the 70th
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anniversary cars that's a free flow option so you can actually order those for any stingray during the model year
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as well so that was again another nice surprise those redline wheels look great on black cars i think because it offers
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that color and especially if you tie in the edge red calipers i think that just was a great look some of the other
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changes of course we saw a new carbon engine bow for the stingray that's something that we saw at sema last year
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so that's something that's new and then we also got z06 update one of the really neat things is that there's now this
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jake hash mark but instead of appearing on the front fender it appears on the rear fender it's definitely an
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interesting look there's other things too that are changes you can get your z06 badge in red you can now with the
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visualizer when you play with the cars you can add the racing stripes to the 70th anniversary builds and on
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convertibles now you can play with the black nay cells or roof options which that wasn't available before so you're
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getting more and more updates to the z06 visualize and of course it's happy to see the stingray visualize it for the
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first time i'm assuming that we'll probably see the build in price configurator for stingray sometime
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around when production starts that's generally when it falls when you build out your car it'll give you a price of
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all the options as well so hopefully we'll see that soon but yeah this was a good week for just being able to see
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these and play with them and spin them around and what do they look like the visualizers are a lot of fun and we
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spent more than a few hours messing around with cars in them so hopefully you have too you picked out your perfect build for 2023. keith i know when it
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came out on corvetteblogger.com i immediately went to the visualizer and i think i looked up and it was like a
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little over two hours that i was playing with the stingray and the z06 it's like oh my gosh
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where did the time go where did the time go yeah it was definitely a time suck when you're really into it you're doing
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stuff it's funny too because for years you'll go through and you know there's no real i'm looking i'm looking but i'm
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not wedded to anything but ever since the ca came out i love the convertibles you know i love some of these different options that you got to have and so
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you're always trying to work those into the build and then play with the new stuff so it's definitely a fun thing to do absolutely right also at the national
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corvette museum we got news that the hot wheels race to win exhibit comes in may of 2022. yeah this should be a fun one
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and it opens after the bash it actually comes may 27th and i'll run through september 25th it's a fun family
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oriented display it comes from the children's museum out of indianapolis which helped put it together and so
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there's a lot of learning involved there's a physics display they investigate how cars can go faster and
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there's things in there that you can work with to make your car go faster and then also there's a six lane downhill
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speed track there's a pit stop challenge looks like a very fun hands-on display these things are always fun for kids to
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get them involved you get a kid hooked on cars early in life you're gonna make a corvette enthusiast for life as well better to get them involved good to see
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this coming we'll be looking for that to open on may 27th start those kids off early my friend that's the way to go
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section we're going to talk about corvette racing and corvette rumors first off keith we have results for
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corvette racing at long beach don't we it was a good week for corvette racing although some interesting stuff happened
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this is the third race of the season and it was the first sprint race for us the first two are big endurance races so now
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we're in a spring race of course made some more changes to bounce the performance leading up to it and we got
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dinged a little bit but not too bad because of the way that long beach is it's a 100 minute sprint race and you
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essentially get one pit stop and the one driver change in the middle of that so if we can get out in front the idea was
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that passing's just very hard there's only a couple places that you can pass the team really set themselves up for a
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fast run during qualifying and sure enough jordan taylor did get the pole position on his very last lap of
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qualifying it took a little bit the fuel burned off and then he was able to just snag it there at the very end once the
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race started then he was out in front for that first part of that race so everything's looking good we go into the
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pits for a pit stop and as the car left we learned that there was an incident in
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pit lane and this is the craziest thing if you haven't seen this video you've got to see it so as the tire change guy
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his name was alex he's doing the right front tire these guns they spin these wheel nuts at about 15 000 rpms or so so
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he spun the wheel and you see they pull the wheel gun out and the nut falls out of the end and it spins and it goes down
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pit lane it hits a tire change hose or something there and it launches it goes
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on top of the number nine porsche 911 it hits the top of the roof hits the side of the car and then lands right in the
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radiator basket you see the pit stop guys there they've got a camera on it so you see this nut go over the top of the
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car and into where the radiator is the hot air exchanger there the guy just reaches down pulls the nut out and
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throws it on the ground but then when that nut went in there it gives the radiator i think they started having leakage and that was the end of their
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run for the number nine porsche so corvette racing got assigned a drive-through penalty with antonio
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garcia now behind the wheel they were able to finish third place for the race tough i mean we were in contention to
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win that thing we were out in front again passing was very difficult we had a fast enough car to keep everybody behind us but that drive-through penalty
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made us go back to third place but it was still a good points race for the team they now lead the class gtb pro
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class after three races and two weeks we'll be at laguna seca so it's always the same weekend as the bash the
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corvette racing team will be out in california gotcha well and also jordan taylor did a recap on long beach's
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weekend as well didn't he yeah we actually got two of them the first one actually was one of his fun videos where
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he blames this alter ego rodney sandstorm for the wheel nut incident he shows exactly how that happens so if you
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haven't seen that yet we highly recommend it but then he also does another one of his behind the scenes at long beach and so you see all these
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great racing videos the car's in slow motion and he gives updates from pit lane from the team trailer of where they
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are again just good stuff we really enjoy jordan's videos and it just offers a glimpse of what's going on behind the
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scenes so we definitely recommend checking both of those out they're lots of fun in that that incident video was really funny as well it's just so
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unexpected and i think jordan caught it it was a fluke of an accident i mean you couldn't do that in the 100 years i bet
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not if you tried keith not if you tried that's for sure also ims got 50 camaro
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convertibles for the indy 500 festival that was pretty cool yeah this is always exciting i'm a former hoosier so april
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and may are always big months as we turn the focus towards the indianapolis motor speedway and the indy 500 so these 50
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camaros are all done in identical wild cherry which is the same as our red mist i believe these cars are the festival
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cars so they'll be used by race organizers and other prominent people during the month of april and may leading up to the race you know they're
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all decked out they have the indy 500 logos on the side of the car they got racing stripes and they actually got
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these white seats that are very similar to the ceramic seats that are going in the 70th anniversary corvettes so our
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big question is we're thinking that while the festival cars here are the camaros we're gonna actually see the
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indy 500 pace cars on the track hopefully will be 70th anniversary corvettes is what we're thinking and we
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think they'll be stingrays as well since the z06s haven't started production yet right also keith in the rumors section
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we saw attached jekter in a c806 didn't we yeah this was kind of a neat sighting a guy pulls up he's following this car
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for a little bit michigan always has these weird left lane turns he comes up and he's turning to the left there he's
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got this car beside him and he sees that it's corvette chief engineer transjector behind the wheel we see a couple
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pictures there but the story actually gets picked up by our friend rick conti who interviewed the guy and he says that
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he followed taj park and he and taj had like a 20-minute conversation about the new cars and everything that's going on
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there a fun encounter great for ted to spend some time with the customer i don't know if we're going to see tags at
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the bash this year he might be out in california they always do it like a corvette racing dinner out there for laguna seca anytime you can talk to the
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chief engineer about corvettes that's time well spent in our book absolutely right also we saw a right-hand drive z06
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in a parking lot here in the united states didn't we yeah this one's filed under the category of you don't see that
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every day some guy came across a it looks like a ceramic gray z06 that was parked in a parking lot when he came up
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closer to it he saw that was a right-hand drive model we've already had the folks down in australia confirmed
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that the z06 is coming there and right-hand drive configuration they announced that the day after the reveal
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of the car back in october so we know it's coming but to actually see it i'm sure is good news there and of course
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not just australia but new zealand the uk japan will all get these cars as well and they're turning out to be big
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sellers there based on the right hand drive configuration where before you know they had to drive with just a regular left hand so they didn't sell as
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well it's all good stuff happening there and just another indication that these cars are real and they'll be coming down
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under real soon that's true that's true and probably one of the biggest rumors we saw in the last two weeks there was a
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sketch by gm design that had everybody talking about an electric suv corvette
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yeah i mean it was obviously a racy looking drawing but there was a very boomerang looking element that was put
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on the doors that makes you think hmm you know i wonder why they'd be putting an air intake back there unless it's
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just really a takeoff on making it look like the stingray so something to that i know that we're going to see some sort
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of hybrid or an electric suv smaller suv that might have some corvette characteristics involved of course a lot
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of the corvette designs already carried through much of chevrolet the grille design wheels and some other things tail
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lights generally are a focus it's not that far off the realm that we'll see an electric suv that might have some very
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corvette design characteristics with it very cool well buddy let's take our final break and when we come back we'll
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story keith in this final section we'll talk about the lighter side of corvette you and i were both watching barrett
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jackson last week and we saw rick hendrick buy the first production c806 hardtop convertible for one million
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dollars yeah you know and this completes the set for him because he spent 3.6 million dollars to buy the vin 001 of
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the coupe this is pretty cool he's got the collection here this is the first retail version you know they don't have a then one for the convertible because
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the coupes and convertibles they'll share the bin structure so the vino one was the coupe but then this is the first
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retail so whatever that comes up will be is what he gets he can build this car however he wants to unlike the coupe
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which was the 70th anniversary version and if you watch the video it was pretty cool we talked to dale ledbetter who
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works with hendrick and he was actually behind him there you see him in the background he said that it was kind of a special moment because kendrick's
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grandson was there with him together when hendrick bought one of the c7 z06s
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they did the engine build program together dale says that it looks like his grandson will also join rick when
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they do the engine build on the lt6 for the z06 so that should be fun and again you turn a kid into a corvette
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enthusiast early and he's going to be there for life so great job there chevrolet does these for fundraisers and
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charity and the proceeds of this auction went to the thurgood marshall college fund which supports historically black
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colleges and universities great for chevrolet to offer this up for this charity event rick hendricks stepped up
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and spent a million dollars of his money to get the car a fun event and glad to see it that was really cool to watch
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also a 1986 corvette pace car brought 1.76 million dollars at barrett-jackson
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and all that money goes to help ukraine humanitarian relief efforts doesn't it yeah this was an auction that had the 86
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pace car and then it was combined with a modern shelby ford super snake 700 and
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some horsepower so these two cars together were offered when the auction concluded again it was rick hendricks
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stepping up and adding a million dollars to that car he got that one and the
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shelby super snake but what was really cool is after the auction concluded there was a bunch of people there that
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also raised up their hands and said we also want to donate above it so they actually raised the 1.76 million dollars
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with 760 000 of that coming after the final bell rang as this was in florida our governor desantis was there he got
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to actually start the auction and hammer it and then they had actual family members of one of the people that
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donated the car his wife is ukrainian and so they actually have family that's come over as basically refugees and
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they're on stage as well holding ukrainian flags nice to see money raised for these refugees the money actually
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goes to samaritan's purse which does great work with these kinds of things again just great to see people step up
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and do some good for the neighborhood out there what a great story and what a great contribution that was fantastic we
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also found out that our friend amelia hartford has some more trouble with her c8 corvette doesn't she yeah we tuned in
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again she actually had her car back on the track they've been playing with clutch setups and they had some r d
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clutches in there now and they felt that as they were turning at the boost on the car it was just starting to slip again
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her latest video does show all that racing action but what happens is when they got back and they were going to
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actually take out those clutches and put in a new set of clutches from sicio performance they found a milky white
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substance in their oil so they were kind of freaking out there sounds like they're going to do a complete engine rebuild on the car and actually it's
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going to be at ls fest west in las vegas april 22 to 24. so there's some big
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stuff happening out there and if you get a chance to see amelia's car phoenix run that's always great to see i think she
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still says they're going for the eight second mark they've got the third fastest time as far as we know so they could actually do it good luck to emilia
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she's had a crazy run with that c8 corvette i hope it all turns out really really well also the bowling green fire
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department picked up a new c8 corvette from the national corvette museum what's the back story on that this is pretty
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cool so they purchased the car and took delivery at the ncm this is going to be like a public education car but then
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they're going to do a raffle at the end of the year so it's basically their annual fundraiser public education
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they'll take it to the schools and talk to the kids and things like that this is pretty cool the car will be given away november 19th as a raffle and our friend
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mike fuhrman at criswell was instrumental in getting the allocation for the bowling green fire department on this pretty cool for mike for helping
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out there they had the fire department out at the museum to take delivery they had a couple trucks out there and got
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some pictures of the fire engine red corvette in front of the fire engines themselves cool stuff we're gonna tune
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in and see that raffle in november that was cool it was great to see those pictures too with the fire engine and
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the corvette all together also we got some good news that corvette gained a 16 market share and now they lead the
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premium sports car segment don't they yeah again just shows the strength of the corvette and actually the strength
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of the corvette when they can build cars in first quarter 2021 there's only 6 600 corvettes sold so the market share from
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last year to this year went up 16 last year was 52 in the quarter this year at
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68 in the corner what's crazy is that chevrolet sold 4 000 more corvettes than
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all the other competitors combined we're talking porsches we're talking mercedes-benz amgs we're talking nissans
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and we're talking acura are a again good stuff from corvette we expect this to
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probably continue throughout the rest of the year where they're just shellacking the competition in that luxury sports car segment that was great to see i'd
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love shellacking those other cars especially this is a really really important segment and i thought that was
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good to see the corvette led the pack yeah absolutely it's always good to see that and again other people say well
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where is lamborghinis and others these cars they don't sell too much i think half a lamborghini sales these days are
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all suvs with their euros it's an interesting market for sure that kind of shows why that electric corvette might
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be on the horizon with lamborghini selling half their car sales be in suvs crazy stuff out there but good to see
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corvette doing well crazy indeed buddy and finally chevrolet launches its corvette z06 academy videos i watched
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some of those they were so cool every time i watch those videos i get more and more excited about the z06 yeah this was
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a fun series they did this with c8 stingray started off with teasers and behind the scenes stuff and then when
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the car was delivered they actually did this whole series of how to operate it so everything from the performance data
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recorder to the memory seat functions how the trunk and the front goal open and close that kind of stuff so i'm
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assuming that as we get into production of the cars we'll see a lot more driver specific operational type videos but
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leading up into this one we saw a nice little trailer with new stuff in it too it's not just rehashing the launch video
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this one also had a video called zora's legacy which had some footage back in the day that we hadn't seen before and
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then another one called purpose and promise chevrolet now actually has all these in a z06 playlist on their youtube
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channel so you can check that out of course we link to it from corvette blogger absolutely right well buddy thanks again for being here on corvette
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today and thank you so much for being such an integral part of the show as we start your number three of corvette
30:33
today well i appreciate that steve i got two more things just real quick hits here corvettes at carlisle they're
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looking for 1972 corvettes for their 50th anniversary display so if you've got a 1972 corvette and you want free
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tickets to the show and want to go there we've got the contact person on corvette blogger that you need to talk to and
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then also we wanted to say congratulations to our friends at the mid-engine corvette forum they just surpassed 10 000 members again a huge
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milestone it's a great forum very friendly congratulations again to the mid-indian corvette forum for doing all
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that steve as we wrap up tell us what you got coming up next week that'll be the week of the mcm bash at the national
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corvette museum i have jordan lee and dustin gardner jordan is the global
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chief engineer for small block engines for chevrolet and dustin gardner is the assistant global chief engineer for
31:22
chevrolet for small block engines both of them are on the podcast together and they talk about the new z06 lt6 engine
31:30
you know it's one thing to read about it in motor trend or car and driver but it's another thing to listen to the guys
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that made and design the engine talk about the engine you can hear the excitement and enthusiasm that they have
31:42
they said that the engine was seven years in development and they're so excited because now they can finally
31:48
talk about it that's coming up next week on corvette today well that would be a great setup for the bash because they
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are actually going to be at the bash as well so yeah listen to it get your all your questions here in advance and then
31:58
when you see them in person let them know that you listen to them on the corvette today podcast i'm sure they'll be excited to hear that thanks for
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