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To learn more about what are GM’s new C8 engine graphics and C8 Corvette 2029, please feel free to visit our YouTube channel. This video covers what are GM’s new C8 engine graphics, along with the following topics: - When will the next-generation C8 Corvette launch? - 1953 Corvette sale - Florida Highway Patrol using C8 Corvette ********************** CORVETTE TODAY #263 - Corvette News & Headlines, Late April 2025 We are attending the NCM Michelin Bash at the National Corvette Museum this week. Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, is attending the show. So is Steve's co-host for our News & Headlines shows, Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger. Steve and Keith will do this upcoming News & Headlines show together, in person, for the very first time! They will report on what's happening at the Michelin Bash along with these stories… 1. AutoForecast predicts the next generation C8 will start production in 2029 2. GM releases new engine graphics for the C8 Corvette
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uptodate on what's happening with America Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show This is a really really cool
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show because Keith and I have done the news and headline shows for five and a half years We have never done it face to
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face We finally get to do it today You know you keep telling me that you have a face that's perfect for radio Yes And I
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see it now It is great being here Um we just uh did
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a fantastic show with the Corvette team You guys are going to love that coming up Uh but so much great news coming out
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of the NCM Bash that uh well not actually there wasn't a lot of news but
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there was some something that people will like I think there's enough to get it to you guys and we will do that at
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the end of the show Yep First as we always do buddy let's get a a Corvette production update from the Bowling Green
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assembly plant Yeah So you know the plant was closed for those two weeks it reopened the week of March 31st and the
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numbers been really interesting to watch because I think what we're seeing is actually a ramp up again So following
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the the project improvements that they did the first week back they only built 86 cars total for the whole week And
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then the number grew to 198 in week two and then 244 in week three So what's
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been really interesting though is around the week of April 7th so that second week back the Z06 has began out
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producing stingrays Wow And that trend is actually continuing through today Unfortunately we've seen a dramatic drop
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in -ays with zero reported over the last couple weeks Uh so whatever they did at
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the plant we've actually seen a real emphasis in the Z06 over everything else And as far as production counts go we
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have 10,957 Stingrays 5,532 Z06s and 1,897
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E-rays That's a grand total of 18,386 Corvettes produced so far for the 2025
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year Now what I find interesting is during that uh NCM update with the Corvette team they actually said that
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this year is kind of going to be limited So you know I'm wondering if we're already at 18,000 now are we looking at
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24 26,000 or so it's actually going to be a reduced number because we have seen a reduction in those lower rates and uh
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you know before they were doing like 220 a day where they were really ripping up especially during the the 2023 year but
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they were going for that record but now they're doing like 140 sometimes you know and actually now after the thing
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you know after they did the uh update you know 244 in a whole week you know they were doing 244 in a day sometimes
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Exactly So it's really interesting to see and we're going to keep an eye on this because uh I know at around May 1st or so I'm going to go back and do
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another one of those on the ground updates but we'll look at the Chevrolet line tracker inventory and see what those numbers are But things are really
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interesting right now and it's it's you can't go back and look historically now because it's different Yes Absolutely
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right And what about allocations didn't we have allocations last week you know we weren't expecting them but we
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actually had some dealers saying we got Z06s Really so we had a couple dealers tell us yes they got only Z06s Other
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dealers even top 10 dealers said we didn't get anything Wow So um and of course no Stingrays no E-rays There
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hasn't been an order period for Stingrays and E-rays in uh two months now Wow Nothing in March nothing in
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April And so we are looking at something coming up in in May but again is it going to be Stingrays and E-rays we
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don't know So it'll be interesting to see what's going on there But again uh you know with more Z06s being built GM
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is actually setting more allocations for more Z06s So it seems like they're something's going on there And we know
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that dealers still don't have lists They have customers that want those Z06s Of course the big problem there is always
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been constraints Yeah I was I was going to ask you that dealers still are working off list then for Z06 Okay Yeah
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The big ones are specialists though Also we got 2025 2026 production dates start
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dates and end dates didn't we yeah So we were told that Chevrolet will have one more ordering opportunity for the 2020
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model year most likely in May The last order dates will be submitted on May 22nd with allocations coming on the week
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before probably May 15th So the 2025 model year will be produced through the summer and it will end on August 1st
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which is a Friday Okay So we got the end date for that Now as a 26 model year the
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first ordering for that car will begin on June 26th Okay And then production will start on Monday August 4th Oh So
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you know they've been doing the last couple years we've seen September starts Now we've got an August start It's just
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constantly changing but it's you know it seemed to starting to stabilize around August and September which is good
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because that puts it in people's minds of you know when's the model year you're going to change when it's going to flip over So I think that's kind of I'd
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rather see more emphasis on being consistent as opposed to all these crazy start and stop dates Yeah It was always
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at least late late summer early fall right yeah that sounds good This next story was kind of interesting There was
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a UAW local president that said GM Rochester plant can produce more parts
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Now I'm got to think that he's probably thinking we got tariffs coming and stuff like that We can do more to help the
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American economy Exactly And so Rochester facility is one of the GM plants that builds a variety of parts for vehicles They do integrated air fuel
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modules fuel rails limited oil manifold assemblies Uh I know they do the tops of
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some of the uh uh intakes for cars for Corvettes Okay fuel injectors for Cadillac Chevy and GMC vehicles And you
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know back in the day they had 11,000 employees there Now they're only got like 600 or 700 But this
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uh UAWGA UAWGM Rochester's Dan Maloney was
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asked by a local television station you know do they have the capacity to build more and he's like hell yeah You know he
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tells the story about in 2006 they moved an entire fuel injection factory from Michigan to Rochester in just 6 weeks
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Wow And so you think if they can do that you know obviously they there's some certain targeted areas that they say we
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got to get this out of that market get it back in the US And you know a facility like Rochester is a perfect
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place for that Yeah Very cool Also this is kind of an interesting story too The Arnold Clark Group now this is in the
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United Kingdom They are beginning new Corvette deliveries over there in the UK Yeah we had this story I like to call
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this the Corvette's World Domination Tour Exactly We talked about this before GM has a new dealership that's working
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with the UK Arnold Clark Group They just started deliveries as two of their locations and the customers are actually
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really excited because not only can they order America's favorite sports car I guess it may be maybe England's favorite sports car Could be on the way but you
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know they get them now in right-hand drive which is obviously you know the most natural way to drive a car for them
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over there So um great great for them And you know the interesting thing is I'm reading the story the headline
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didn't make sense to me because you know what they call deliveries in the UK they call them handovers Oh so I'm going to
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hand over the keys you know and that makes total sense So but you know I'm reading the the the headline I'm like
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what is this handover stuff and it turned out to be deliveries they were talking about Well it's like it's not an apartment it's a flat you know So it's
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not an elevator it's a lift There you go Crazy So it's a handover It's a handover
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and I hope I pronounced that name right not Yohor They got first place at Malaysia with a C8 GT3R That's awesome
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Well this was a very significant run for them First of all they're new to the Corvette team This is basically their first weekend So huge win You know you
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go out the very first time and win a race Perfect You know they did it in Malaysia which is where they're from So
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the number 99 Corvette Alexander Sims the Corvette racing factory drivers you know he's over there with them helping
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congratulations to these guys They're fired up about having the Z06 GT3R over there Their introduction videos I mean
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they went over the top on them So they're they're pretty excited and then to come out and win Yeah Now they're really going to be excited Talk about
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getting off on the right foot right exactly So congratulations to those guys Absolutely Right And we had Corvette
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over the weekend The two Corvette Z06's GT3RS both got points for that race They
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it won its debut out there So the uh they are still in actually the championship lead Oh So they're looking
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really good right now And again now the goal is always for points As many points as you want They're actually headed to
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Belgium next for the 6 hours of spot on May 10th Wow So that's the thing about Corvet racing these days is there's
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almost no off weekends for us you know because we've got all these races everywhere We got a couple more teams over in the UK of course uh we got Asia
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They're just growing now in in here We've got you know the GT World Challenge America right tons of racing
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going on Talk about world domination buddy There you go Absolutely And we've got Corvette racing helping us out right
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that's right That's awesome Let's go to rumors Keith There's a company called Auto Forecast Solutions They say that
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the next gen C8 is going to start production in 2029 That's a juicy rumor It is And these guys are professionals
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These are the ones that um all the automakers rely on It kind of gives them insights into what else is coming around
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trends in the market They actually predicted well they almost predicted the
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correct starting date for the CA Corvette in 2020 Okay And they would have nailed it had it not been for a UAW
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strike that went on for you know five six weeks or so Um they've done some other predictions Most recently a lot of
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their stuff's been the EV stuff So we've heard some predictions on sedans and the EV SUV kind of stuff Okay Um not really
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panning out Of course that market's changing and the the automakers use that So what's interesting is this comes from
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Autoline Daily Uh they had their daily update with this And what's interesting they call it the next generation
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Corvette to go in production in June 2029 And the good news is is that the Bowling Green assembly plant in Kentucky
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And why I say that's good news is because anytime they forecasted an EV style Corvette SUV or sedan it was going
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ice engine Wow So um actually heard another rumor about maybe Gen 6 as well coming out So we'll have some more of
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Solutions saying June 2029 We've often heard that the Corvette C8 program was at least eight years and uh it could be
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extended Um and of course that they're selling cars why wouldn't they extend it a little bit right um but again one more
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thing with this report is that uh Auto Forecast Solutions is saying that GM's internal code for the platform is still
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called C8 So I'm thinking like maybe it's a C8 plus maybe it's you know sort of like the same architecture but you
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can do different power plants different bodies structure on the car And of course you can also change that structure but you know it's still quote
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C8 So it'll be interesting to see These are forecasts our good friend Winnie Miller She's a forecaster so she's kind
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of in this business as well So we'll have you know we'll have to see what we get But it's I like that rumor That's a good one That's a juicy one Especially
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if it's going to stay C8 We always I always thought I heard that it was going to go to the end of the decade right
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true through 2030 So this is different Yeah And it's always kind of changing
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you know and of course we're still you know five six years out from there But we know that I tell people I think they
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were driving the G-ray in 2018 or early 2019 you know and it comes out in 2024
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So that's the kind of lead time that they need to develop this stuff And so again it's just a good news to hear that
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we're finding out some of these little tidbits And again it just connects the dots to what's happening in the future We need to see if that rumor is true
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Right Our last rumor GM parts catalog show I think this is another fauxpaw unfortunately but they showed off the
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new 2026 interior as a sketch Yeah it's one of these uh uh parts diagrams that
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you see on like GM parts direct or GM parts warehouse and our friend Justin at Horsepower Obsessed the YouTube video Uh
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he had that schematic um from one of them on there and it actually looks pretty good It showed the uh uh it
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showed the entertainment screen and you can see it's extended and underneath it there was a little bit of row of buttons where there's some HVAC buttons and then
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it didn't show any of the stuff over here on the side So we don't know what that center console was but it did look like the screen was a little bit larger
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cooling stuff Those will probably be moved over to the doors we're thinking Um again they look really well integrated We were hoping to see them
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they'll come out with that because they're going to start ordering the 226es in June So we're we're just a month away from seeing it Yeah that
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Yeah I like to call it a new weapon for justice It's a 2023 Corvette that was seized
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from a bad guy and being put to work by the good guys The car is fully functional police car except there's no place to put an offender should you know
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that penalty be more than a misdemeanor boost Uh but uh again the video that was
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car they pulled over was a Porsche Oh my gosh So it wasn't for show It was a real car for real speed And then they went
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gosh How funny is that this is also a really cool story Corvette number five from 1953 was sold on Bring a Trailer
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Fifth car Fifth car ever Exactly So this is a great story So John Clay Wolf he's an automotive wholesaler out of Texas
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And last year he had the opportunity to buy this entire car collection $4 million total Wow And so what he did was
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so he bought the collection but he had to sell the cars to pay for it Okay So that was the that that was his job That
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was his assignment So one of the cars was the fifth Corvette ever produced Originally owned by the Dupont company's
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president Crawford Greenwald which makes sense because you know some of those first cars went to GM's closest friends
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and and partners in this Sure So John sold the collection at Dallas Mannheim Again a wear a wholesale uh auction
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company right and uh but Corvette didn't get the bid that he wanted So he he didn't sell it And then he took that car
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to bring a trailer where it sold for $410,000 Wow Now again it's YouTube so there was
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some drama Um apparently the um a federal judge was watching the sale
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because the guy that he bought the collection fund from owned like $100 million to people Wow And so they knew
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exactly So he got a subpoena This this John Clay Wolf got a subpoena saying
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"We've been watching you watching the sale of cars Where's that money going?" Yeah And he's like "I'm just getting it
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back." you know so I I don't know exactly what happened there but he showed the holding up the subpoena and stuff It's a great great video if you
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get a chance to see it on coretblogger.com And uh again just all the some of the cars he had He had also
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a a Z06 tanker I believe Wow That was one of the other big cars that that that did well So um and then all kinds of
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other stuff It's a really cool classic So again to take that you know the idea that you know you think you take it to
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Barrett Jackson or amum you know no he took it to Dallas Mannheim sold them for wholesale where he could you know
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whatever he knew a price that he wanted right and then the ones that he did he took elsewhere so this number five car
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$410,000 I thought it would go for more actually Yeah maybe so but I mean it's still
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number five and there's the number three car and there's the number one car now So I mean this is actually now probably
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just the third car in existence Although they were talking about that number two car somewhere that might be out there Who knows you know we need we need some
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of those older guys to really set a strain on that Yeah definitely Also this is nice GM came out with new engine
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graphics for the back end of the C8 Corvette in the engine bay Yeah So for 2025 you know they came out with that
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first that specification sticker that you can put on there right and then if you've ever noticed those uh side kind
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of indentations on the uh surround of your This is only for coups right um
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there stickers that actually go in those indentations They got a red stripe and they got a carbon fiber pattern on them
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One of them's got the silhouette of the C8 Looks really nice This is actually called uh LPO option VUP And there's two
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graphics on each side of your C8's engine bay And again they look pretty good Now GM is charging 295 for the
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engine closeout graphics when you order your Corvette but if you go through Corvette accessories they're 2.75% Okay
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and so you can save just a little bit more And then again you might take that uh part number and then go look at some of the GM parts warehouse or parts
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categories and see what they have because uh again you could probably save on this but they actually really kind of
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dress out the car Yeah it looks good Yeah I think so Where's it been for 5 years i don't know You got to wonder
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about kind of the roll out here This seems like a year two year three kind of thing It's like guys were 5 years late
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right but was this a was this a co thing i don't know And our final story we're
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going to kind of wrap up everything from the Michelin Bash or the National Corvette right yeah I I really have no notes for this so we'll just kind of
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talk off the cuff Um what we had today we had the uh what's new with Chevrolet or what's new with the Corvette 7R And
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uh we were wondering if the 2026 car was going to be here Unfortunately it wasn't Correct Um don't know why They've got
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their own reasons but they did give us a tidbit We did get two new colors today Yes we got a green a Roswell green
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metallic right and then Blaine Silver's coming back Thank goodness So Blaine Silver was on the C8 back in 2020 Uh but
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then it went away after that And uh again the sad news is because they had two colors they got to take two colors
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away right and that's Seawolf gray which is tough because I think that's a top five color right oh no kidding I think
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it's top five or top six It's a great color It's people love it And then the other color going away is rapid blue
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metallic right which we kind of kind of knew that's been there for six years It ran I think uh this year 2025 it's
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actually at the bottom of the heap right now Uh so change was due and that kind of freshens it up They did say more to
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come We we know that the interior stuff's coming out So they're probably just waiting not to step on the toes of the final 2025 orders right um so that
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was really the biggest news coming out of there Uh we got great pictures up You you're going to see them all over the place because everybody was taking
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pictures of that stuff We got the frogs They showed the frogs those designs And uh the um the green itself when you put
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a light on it It was overcast here It was raining today in Golden Green but I put my flashlight on it and uh there's
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like a gold flake underneath it So when the sun you think about that green with that little gold undertones to it I
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think it was going pretty good And I asked Chuck Valentini the paint director I said "Remember when they did that NFT
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cart with that minted green?" Yes Um is it similar is it close he said actually it's two different colors but they are a
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little I mean they're kind of in the same family but two different colors Uh so don't don't think that that's what it was Um and as far as blade silver they
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just really wanted to get another you know people just love the silvers even though it's kind of a midland cover you
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know that middle of the road cover It's a corporate color but but it's a it's very safe and again with some of the stripe packages you have on there you
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can really dress it up I talked to Chuck as well and he said this blade silver is a little different from the old blade
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silver Yeah because actually they had to recalibrate it for the new uh paint the
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paint plan over there and they did some other things to it So yeah he had to he said I could have gone back to the the
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silver flare but then you know it it they wanted to do something different So So that's the big news there Uh the
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other news that we got through the uh plant update was they did some reconfigurations but they wouldn't really quite tell us why I did ask the
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question of what you know they have a line right now Uh Ray said he wouldn't couldn't kind of tell that I like
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Banning used to tell us all that stuff all the time See Mike but but uh they were a little close to the chest on that
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But again I it's I think there's there's these changes that are coming like I said with the Z06 is there Um we just
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had a wonderful reception here at the NCA Bash You come for the cars you come back for the people We actually both
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Steve and I um this wonderful couple came up I I do not have their names Maybe you do I They're so nice I see
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them every year Yes They gave us they gave us a gift a thank you card and a gift It was really really nice
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Appreciate it Yeah But all the people that come up to us and say "I love you I listen to the show." You know I I they
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always tell us how they listen too You know I'm driving I'm working out You know I might be on my walk But uh it's
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always interesting how people tell us how they consume this media But it's it's just a fabulous opportunity I'm so
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blessed to be on your show Steve I really mean that and uh just to be here and my own personal graceand is how I
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always describe the NCM Uh just a lot of good stuff happening here The other good stuff happening here obviously with you
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know the changes to the NCM we went through that uh David Hill fiasco but now we've got Bryce as our our CEO and
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president Everybody just loves him He's going to really grow into this position He has a chance to really stay here and
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cement his legacy as well as you know push this museum to new levels as well
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Absolutely So uh the staff couldn't be happier to have Bryce in charge right and they're all very excited to come to
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work now Yeah absolutely And I did the museum experience delivery here with my car which is fun Yeah So Steve's car was
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out on the boulevard Um that that that's a $500 option And uh he drops off his
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car they goes through all the detailing that all the new cars do the PDI kind of stuff and then it goes out on the
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boulevard He actually gets to sit and talk with one of the uh uh hosts Yeah one of the hosts that walks them takes
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them through the car some of the settings that you know even seasoned owners might not know or where to find something or you did not know that you
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could do that I learned some new stuff I bet I did And then Steve had the opportunity to start his car multiple
34:42
times in the in the on the boulevard which I think signed some walls a little bit That Soul Performance Products
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then for me personally um this is the first I've been coming to the NCM Bash maybe 15 years now Wow Um been doing
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Carlile and all these shows these major shows First time I've ever been able to drive my own car and brought my up from
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Tampa It was about 775 miles So about 11 hours or so on the road It was fabulous
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I tell people I broke up the trip with the hour stop at a BIES which is just you know becoming the the big trip now
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You got to the big stop you got to do Absolutely Um but the E-Ray did fantastic Great road car I just can't
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talk enough about it Had dinner actually one of the nights here with five other owners And uh I got to tell you they're
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the happiest owners Yeah they're the happiest owners They're the happiest They they like it better than the Z06 They they just you know it's just a
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great road car And you know a lot of us feel like it doesn't get as just desserts And you know there's the other
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the questions of did they quite market it correctly um well that's why we're here We're here to help them market it
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correctly It's a great car Fantastic road car Great GT driving GT2 seats no
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problem with the back or anything and just a just a fun ride So um happy to be here and excited again you know me cross
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sitting This is new for us and fantastic you know nor were just talking on the phone together and uh to be able to see
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each other's reactions and kind of work off that and and actually for me you know I do a lot of making sure I'm
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reading and you know want to have it right but this is much more conversational and I I actually feel the difference in just what we're doing here
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Absolutely out It's definitely better Yeah it really is So guys you've got to get up to the NCM Bash if you've never
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been Uh of course they've got the anniversary show coming up here uh shortly uh in the the fall Yep And uh oh
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there was one more thing that we didn't talk about which was the Hall of Fame Oh yes Who I I didn't make that meeting Who
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was in the Hall okay So for GM Chuck Jordan former VP of design for General
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Motors and and he did a lot of work on Corvettes I think C4C5 stuff was where he really fit in there
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Yeah And then for um racing we had Kim Baker Oh He very well-known SECA racer
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He really got his chops in on the uh Corvette Challenge series I believe And he's been on Corvette today Yeah Um I
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think he won the SEC Championship 85 86 87 is what they said right and they called him up and they he was just very
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excited and happy to be there So he was the racing And then for the enthusiast it was Charlie and Jim Robertson Oh uh
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NCM members and if anybody follows Corvette Racing I've been you know a big fan of Corvette Racing since I got into
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this Yeah And uh those guys are really Corvette racing ambassadors They do a lot Um he used to be you know uh
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Charlie's email list you know really kept people up to date You know you get all the the racing stuff and it's kind
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of behind the scenes stuff and they're always working with the team So congratulations to them I I tell people Jim and Charlie are some of my favorite
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people in the Corvette hobby and uh very happy to see them in it They're good people Yeah Well buddy thanks for being
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back live on Corvette We got to do this We got to do this more often Absolutely Thanks All right Thanks guys Appreciate
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