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How Is The Corvette Museum Celebrating 30th Anniversary? | 2024 Corvette Caravan CORVETTE TODAY#224
May 8, 2025
Welcome! In today's video, we delve into the vital aspects of the 2024 Corvette Caravan and explore how is the Corvette Museum celebrating 30th anniversary.
This video covers how is the Corvette Museum celebrating 30th anniversary and discusses the following subjects:
- National Corvette Caravan
- Corvette Museum 30th anniversary events
- National Corvette Museum 30th anniversary celebration
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The National Corvette Museum is celebrating its 30th Anniversary! Corvettes from all over North American will converge on Bowling Green, Kentucky to celebrate this milestone.
To give you a preview of the Anniversary Celebration and Caravan, your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett talks with Maci Johnson, Events Specialist at the NCM and gives you a full preview of the event!
If you haven't made plans to attend yet, this show will definitely get you going. Get a full overview of the National Corvette Museum's 30th Anniversary celebration and Caravan on this episode of CORVETTE TODAY.
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Explore our other video content here on YouTube where you'll find more insights on how is the Corvette Museum celebrating 30th anniversary along with relevant social media links.
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Museum will soon celebrate their 30th
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Anniversary now this is going to be a
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huge event at the Museum the last week
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of August and here to preview this event
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is Macy Johnson event specialist at the
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National Corvette Museum
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Macy welcome back to Corvette today my
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friend thank you so much we are looking
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forward to this event it will be here
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before we know it it absolutely will now
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this is an anniversary celebration it's
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very special because it's the 30th
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anniversary of the National Corvette
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Museum plus it's a caravan Year too
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isn't it that is correct so this event
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takes place every five years this is a
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very special event for us celebrating
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the anniversary of the Corvette museum
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it will actually be beginning to take
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place on August the 28th and we'll wrap
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up on Saturday August the 31st now with
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this being a caravan year Macy how many
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Corvettes and how many people are you
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guys expecting for the event so we are
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expecting roughly between 6,000 to 8,000
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participants here outside at the
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Corvette museum so that would put us to
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expecting I would say between 3,000 and
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4,000 Corvettes wow that's amazing and
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there's so much going on during this
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anniversary celebration how can someone
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register for the event definitely we
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would love to have any one register so
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if anyone wants to register they can
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call in to the events Department to
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Melissa comr at
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4556 and this would be able to get them
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registered for the overall event and to
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be able to participate in the seminars
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and presentations here on site that
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sounds good now with the Caravans coming
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in you should realize that you don't
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have to come in with a caravan to attend
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do you you do not so you can actually
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participate in no caravan which means
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you could travel down on your own
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individually at your own Leisure so we
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welcome those participants who feel more
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comfortable traveling by no caravan so
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it is not just restricted to Caravan
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anyone who wants to come down on our own
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is very welcome too and also if you're
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not a member of the museum yet you can
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still attend this event that is correct
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you do not have to be a member to
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participate in any of our on-site events
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however it may encourage them to become
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a member and join the museum just due to
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all the benefits that they would get
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regarding an event regarding the
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discount and other special benefits but
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you do not have to be a member to
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register and I'll tell you what you need
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to come and be a member of the museum
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whether it's a lifetime member or an
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annual member you get so many perks from
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that it's such a great time Macy let's
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take our first break when we come back
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I'm your host Steve Garrett with me is
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Macy Johnson the event specialist for
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the National Corvette Museum we are
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talking about the big anniversary
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celebration and the Caravan in segment
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number two we're going to go over a
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little bit more of the specifics during
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that time Macy if someone wants to join
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the Caravan first of all if they want to
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get in where's the best place for them
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to start definitely so they would want
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to reach out to the Corvette museum with
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the events department and call in to
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Melissa comr at
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4556 and we will be able to register
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them over the phone however if they
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wanted to register for a caravan they
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will need to contact their Caravan
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Captain to confirm all of the logistics
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on their side as well and we'd be happy
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to have them that sounds good now
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there's a full schedule events going on
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during the anniversary Caravan
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celebration give me a few of the
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highlights of some of the events that
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will be going on definitely so we're
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expecting a lot of guest speakers here
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during the event with Michelin general
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motor Bowling Green assembly plant and
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others so we are very excited to have
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these special guest speakers along with
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a few dinner Banquets that we are
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planning on having such as our dinner
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and dancing with live entertainment
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taking place on Friday August the 30th
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at saloan convention center and then we
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are also having our 2024 Hall of Fame
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induction ceremony taking place on
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Saturday August the 31st at Sky pack a
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venue downtown here in bing green and
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we're super excited for that as well and
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that's a fantastic event as well now
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there's a full schedule of other
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seminars going on that attendees can go
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to as well overview some of those
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seminars that are taking place during
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the event and where can they go to see
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the entire agenda definitely so
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individuals can go on to the website at
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Corvette
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museum.org
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garavan D aggenda to view the full list
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of seminars presentations and dinner
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Banquets that we currently have on our
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online agenda we are still of course
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adding events to this website so
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definitely continue to check
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periodically as we're adding more events
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to the itinerary that's great and the
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Motorsports Park is going to be open too
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let's talk about some of the things that
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will be going on at the Motorsports Park
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during this anniversary celebration so
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yes the Motorsports Park will have
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several events over at their venue
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including on track activities along with
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a number of vendors attending their
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event as well so we're looking forward
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to that and they will also have several
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dinner Banquets as well so that's
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something that they plan on having at
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the Motorsports Park it's something that
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we're doing bigger and trying to do
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better than ever for this upcoming
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anniversary wow that's really cool
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that's nice and Museum deliveries will
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be taking place during this event as
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well that's always fun to watch that is
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correct so we will have Museum
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deliveries taking place during the 30th
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Anniversary so we would love for any
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participants that are on site to join us
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and congratulate them on our Corvette
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Boulevard that sounds great Macy let's
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take our final break when we come back
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we'll finish up the calendar of events
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going on during the anniversary
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with me is Macy Johnson the event
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specialist at the National Corvette
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Museum we are talking about the
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anniversary celebration and the Caravan
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coming up at the end of August Macy one
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of my favorite things at this event is
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the Corvette Hall of Fame ceremony talk
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about that and who will be inducted this
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year our Hall of Fame ceremony is taking
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place on August the 31st on Saturday
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here in bing green at Sky pack at
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downtown venue here in bing green the
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Hall of Fame is where we celebrate
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exceptional individuals who have
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significantly contributed to the
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Corvette's Legacy through their
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achievements and this year's inductees
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include Oliver Gavin y Magnuson Taj juor
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and Richard Prince that's really great
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that's a great lineup of people being
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inducted this year plus there's some
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terrific exhibits ongoing at the
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National Corvette Museum let's talk
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about a few of the exhibits that people
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can see as they go through the museum
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and when they'll be there of course so
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we're actually going to have several
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exhibits here at the Corvette museum for
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participants to visit while they are
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here including the ground the sky the
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sink hle reimagine which will be here
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through September the 15th so we really
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want to encourage our participants to go
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back into our Museum and visit this
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exhibit we do have an American love
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affair driven by Design and our luster
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exhibit as well that sounds great and
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the Corvette store is going to be open
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plus their 30th anniversary clothing
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available too isn't there there is tons
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of Corvette apparel clothing here so we
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will definitely love to have
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participants check out and shop in our
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Corvette store upon their arrival on
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Wednesday and throughout the entire
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event we will be having event apparel
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mentioning the 30th anniversary
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celebration on a first come first serve
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basis until they sell out that sounds
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great all roads are going to be leading
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to Bowling Green once again Macy let's
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tell everybody where they can register
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for the event definitely so they can
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register on Corvette museum.org backc
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Caravan by calling the events Department
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to Melissa comr at
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27777 4556 that sounds great Macy I'm
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looking forward to this event this will
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be the first time I've come to the
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anniversary celebration I always make it
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to the NCM Michelin bash but this will
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be my first time there I'm really
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looking forward to this well we look
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forward to having you join us it's going
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to be a great event thanks again for
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