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CORVETTE TODAY #237 - Corvette News & Headlines, Late October 2024
It's time for another installment of the every-other-week CORVETTE TODAY News & Headlines show next week!
Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger returns to the show after the clean-up from Hurricane Milton and re-joins your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett,
Here are a few of the topics that Steve and Keith will cover:
1. The C8 ZR1 posts a top speed of 233 miles per hour!
2. Chevrolet releases final official 2024 stats
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the show everybody including myself
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missed you on the last news and the
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headline show buddy well I appreciate
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that and the funny thing is I did get a
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couple emails myself of people saying
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the same thing it was a very scary
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situation we actually had two hurricanes
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within two weeks the very first one
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Helen that's where we got a lot of
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flooding and that's where most of our
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damage came from and then they scared
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the crap out of us so we left for Milton
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that was really a wind event here so
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there's a lot of branches and stuff down
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like that the house came through okay we
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had very little damage a couple things
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got hurt but but for the most part
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anything that can be replaced will be
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replaced so feel pretty good about it
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that's awesome buddy we're glad to have
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you back well thank you so much let's
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start off like we always do with a
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production update from the Bowling Green
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assembly plant absolutely so our last
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count of current 2025 Corvette BS we're
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looking back at the last week and we see
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that the stingray is actually off to
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another great start with 40003 built
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while the Z6 is at 1,27 and the erray is
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at 228 so we're looking at so far a
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total of
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5,258 Corvettes produced so far for the
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2025 model year again a great start we
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just started September 9th so we're well
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on the way we're going to talk about
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this a little bit more in the 2024
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production stats but I went back and I
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looked at the current breakdown for
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these numbers and right now the plan is
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building 70% sting rays 19 a. half% z6s
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and a little over 4 and a half% or so
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eays it's still a nice mix in there we'd
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still like to see that eay number come
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up a little bit but for the most part
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they are cranking out these cars seeing
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really no issues that's great and we
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also have constraints for Oct 2 don't we
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yeah the last constraint report really
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gave us some good news because now we
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see that all three colors are available
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for unlimited ordering this is the seing
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orange metallic hysteria purple and the
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competition yellow they can be ordered
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across the board now they always did
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that little ramp up first but that's
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open for the stingray same same q9i
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gloss black wheels and then there's a
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limit on 1 LT trim packages for the eay
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this is interesting cuz it's carbon
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fiber related H you couldn't get the
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visible carbon fiber ground effects with
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the eay they are only saving those for
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the Z06 and those cars that have the
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high Wings if you did the painted carbon
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fiber you have to pair that obviously to
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the painted carbon fiber High wi and
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then the only other thing we saw was the
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gloss black spider forged wheels for ZO6
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as well we got some new stuff coming
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online we're still waiting to see some
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of those new Wheels I believe for the
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ZO6 for the most part it's a pretty
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standard constraint report from what
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we've seen over the last few months all
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right that sounds good then we also had
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the 2025 eay officially arrived down
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under which is pretty cool too yeah this
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is the 2025 model so when I was looking
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at the production numbers there's
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actually kind of a gap in there at the
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beginning of the 2025 model year for the
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eay and it looks like well hey maybe
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that's what they were doing is they were
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building some e-rays for export
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Australia New Zealand got their cars
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that was announced by GM specialty
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Vehicles there's nice because now you
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got some comparison videos coming out
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from some of the Australian magazines
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down there that are driving the eay and
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the Z6 for those that are wondering the
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starting MSRP for the eay in Australia
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is
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$275,000 but that's Australian dollars
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and that's also before what they call
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their onroad costs which adds taxes and
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Licensing and all some other stuff and I
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hear that's a hefty number as well again
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if you want to see some track tests of
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the eay the Z6 together on YouTube with
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right-hand drive configurated cars
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there's some cool stuff that's out there
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right now and didn't GM specially
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Vehicles release a new Corvette video
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too oh Steve it's so good yeah if you
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haven't seen this it's really one of the
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best overall Corvette commercials I've
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seen they call It Love is All Around It
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features a lady driving an eay a man
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driving a stingray and then there's some
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back and forth on the track between
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these two cars when suddenly a white Z6
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comes up and joins the fun with them I
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said in my blog post that it's really
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cool because the vehicles are doing the
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talking but the visuals from it it's
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like an emotional reaction from how the
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drivers are feeling that fun and freedom
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and the competition so I mean it's a
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really a fantastic video obviously would
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love to see that over here but it's
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right-hand drive cars but it's really
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one of the best Corvette commercial I've
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seen nice and you can see it on Corvette
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blogger.com so make sure to check that
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out also buddy I was really excited
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about this we got a top speed for the C8
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ZR1 at 233 mph again once again
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Unthinkable right Steve I mean no one I
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don't think expected that I think a lot
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of people are thinking 212 was the C7
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maybe we're looking at 220 225 somewhere
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in there for them to go 233 is just
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amazing this was done with GM president
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Mark Royce doing the driving the test
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was conducted at the at P track in
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penberg Germany and that was the same
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red missier one that we saw the Corvette
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team driving at the nurur ring last
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month when Chevy does these top speed
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runs they actually run in two directions
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and then they average the difference so
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the first run netted a top speed of
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233.356
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again amazing times but here's the thing
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during the testing they had five
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engineers and then they had two ZR1
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development cars and they all exceeded
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230 mph across multiple runs it's a
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fantastic event the video out there you
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got to watch it if you haven't seen it
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the ZR1 that they used is just a
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standard chassis in the arrow package
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with the standard low spoiler had carbon
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fiber ground effects Michelin Pilot
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Sport 4S tires and aluminum wheels I
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think other than some racing seats this
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is like the car that people are trying
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to buy these days yeah you know what I
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watched the video and Mark Roy was
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obviously like you said driving the car
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but he had a passenger so if you get a
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real race car driver and no passenger I
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bet that ZR1 is going to go 235 plus mph
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might have had it in there on one of
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those runs if you would have had a good
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Tailwind on it you know might have even
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been higher we saw that I think with the
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C7 Z1 the difference between the two
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directions was like 2 or 3 miles hour
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yeah here it was a very small window of
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difference so again 233 M hour for the
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Corvette ZR1 amazing that is truly
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amazing indeed if you have a C8 Z6 with
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leaky engine coolant we've got a service
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Bolton all ready to go to get that fixed
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yeah the good news is doesn't look that
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major if you're seeing engine coolant on
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the ground on the front of the engine
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this is for the 2023 and 2024 Corvette
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z6s after the car has been parked for a
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little while it looks like it's just a
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hose clamp so if you're seeing that
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stuff you might be able to reach around
10:09
there and look at yourself but take it
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to the dealership they'll get
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investigated and hopefully remedy the
10:14
situation but it looks like it's just a
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hose clamp that was improperly installed
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oh that's good maybe you just tighten
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that thing up and you're good to go then
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right looks like it y awesome and we got
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2024 stats for the Corvette which is
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great this is really early too isn't it
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last year there was all that work you
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you know they had the extended year they
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went 17 months for 2023 that's how we
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got up to that 53,000 cars produced this
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was a more standard year you know
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September to September this is kind of
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what I call a typical production year
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and I think this is what C8 planners
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have been hoping for in that run they
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produced
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42,900 which significantly impacted
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production during the model year I'll
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run through some of these numbers real
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quick I know doing numbers on podcasts
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is sometimes tough to follow along but I
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know people want to know this so best
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selling model by far Stingray coupe with
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42% the Stingray convertible had
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29.8% that was followed by the Z6 Coupe
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at 12 a half% and then the Z6
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convertible with 12.2% the eay coupe
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1.4% and then the eay convertible
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1.9% as we know the eay came in late did
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a really slow ramp up I think the
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overall numbers were like about 3% or so
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for the eay overall it was a good
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production number I know people love to
11:30
know about colors I'll just run through
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them real quick I won't give percentages
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you know the first four colors are like
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high and above the rest of them so
11:37
they're arctic white torch red black and
11:39
red mist and then we're followed by a
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new color Seawolf gray Hypersonic gray
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which is retired Riptide blue rapid blue
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carbon Flash and then amplify orange
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again retired color ceramic Matrix gray
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silver flare and then the last two
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colors cacti and accelerate yellow
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accelerate yellow these produced color
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2. 6% and only 1,133 of those are out
12:02
there we also have these figures for the
12:04
external Colors by model you can check
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that out on Corvette blogger.com and
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then finally if you add up all the
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production numbers in C8 we are at
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169,170 Corvettes produced during the C8
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generation they are really moving some
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Corvettes I think we're going to have
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another banner year this year I think so
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Corvette racing and Corvette rumors
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Keith how did Corvette racing do in
16:12
Atlanta for petite Lama and it was just
16:15
again another tough race for both the
16:16
number three and the number four
16:17
Corvettes the number three car actually
16:19
had damage during the Thursday night
16:21
practice and they actually really had to
16:23
scramble to make the race on Saturday
16:24
morning that number three car would
16:26
actually finish in fifth place in class
16:28
they were actually able to be
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competitive once they got back together
16:31
the number four Corvette got hit by an
16:33
lmp3 car during the race damaged the
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front rear suspensions and they knocked
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them down like 50 laps they actually
16:40
able to repair but once they got out
16:41
there their race was basically over with
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the good news is that the Corbat racing
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team won the imsa Michelin endurance cup
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manufacturers championship this is based
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on the five imsa endurance races that
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included petite lemon I think it's been
16:54
a little while since we won that one
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maybe 2015 or so again a really good
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result there and then our friends at AWA
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racing had some great news they actually
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had their ticket punched for an
17:03
automatic entry to the 24 hours L mom
17:05
next year because they won the Bob Akin
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award that Bob Akin award is given to
17:09
the team with the highest rated bronze
17:11
driver oay fidani on the team is that
17:14
guy and so they're going to lamons next
17:16
year so that's good news for them the
17:18
Corvette Z6 gdr program returns to imsa
17:21
competition in January for the Rox 24
17:23
Steve that's like only a month and a
17:25
half away or so I know it's crazy how
17:27
quickly this goes already getting ready
17:29
for 2025 exactly yeah that's crazy and
17:32
we also had some news from dxdt racing
17:35
they're going to go in the MSA GTD class
17:37
next year aren't they yeah they had that
17:39
fantastic season in the GT World
17:41
Challenge America obviously Tommy Milner
17:43
was one of the co- drivers there but
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they made the announcement they are
17:46
moving up to imsa's GTD class with a
17:49
single entry Z06 gt3r of course Tomy
17:51
won't be part of that team but now that
17:53
gives us two Corvette z6s to route for
17:56
in GTD in addition to our two Corvette
17:58
racing GTD Pro classes pretty exciting
18:00
four cars to watch for next season
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that's great I love it in the rumors
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category Keith we think we saw some zor
18:07
prototypes in a Colorado parking garage
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didn't we yeah so corv Engineers they
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were out doing some what we assumed to
18:13
be high altitude testing they were like
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at 9,000 ft wow where they were the
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prototypes were actually discovered
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parked in a hotel parking garage a guy
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videotaped that and shared it with Mike
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Brink on the brink of speed YouTube
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channel he actually got some great looks
18:27
at these cars looking at it head on we
18:29
see that e- style cooling Radiator on
18:31
the front driver side of the car which
18:32
tells us that these are most likely the
18:34
Zora prototypes the really interesting
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thing is that the guy who captured the
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says it resembled the zr1's lt7 twin
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turbo engine but instead of that blue
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we're thinking wow if this is the Zora's
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hybrid system similar to the eBay we
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could be looking at 1,224 horsepower
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combined again no one would have thought
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that just a few years ago if that's what
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it is man that's just going to be
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fantastic and it gives us something else
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to Target some more expensive cars to go
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after yeah that's incredible 1,224
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horsepower would be unbelievable
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Unthinkable Steve Unthinkable
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Corvette Museum I thought this was
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interesting because you had talked about
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developing the Elfie silver Pearl
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Sisterhood group yes and then she also
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helped secure funding for the e pierce
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to have Amy back to the National
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Corvette Museum and looking forward to
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saying hi to her at the bash next April
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yeah we're going to have Amy on the show
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as a matter of fact coming up pretty
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soon it's great to have Amy back at the
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Museum we always talked about the C8 Z1
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going 233 mil per hour we had a 2006
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Corvette ZO6 with an LS engine running a
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standard mile at a record
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264 milph wow again amazing speed this
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is a Twin Turbo Corvette with a built
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motor I think it's got really big turbos
23:38
on it like the ZR1 76 millim maybe nice
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but it makes 2200 horsepower and it's
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street legal he actually had some engine
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issues during the event so he only got
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that one run in but that one was all he
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needed to set that record Kelly Beast I
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believe his name is
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263.50 milph in a standing mile just
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amazing that's incred incredible and
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this next Story Probably should have
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been in our rumor section but we think
24:02
that the Zora is benchmarked by the
24:04
McLaren and the Ferrari hyper cars not
24:07
just the regular cars yeah we got two
24:09
new competitors for the Zora so I know
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that's one of the things that we'll be
24:13
interested in seeing let's talk about
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them real quick McLaren W1 yes a
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Performance Hybrid with 1,258 horsepower
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weighs only 3,300 lbs I think it's based
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on some of their F1 work that they've
24:25
done before and then in the other Corner
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this Contender for ferari f80 a 3 l twin
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turbo V6 with three electric motors to
24:32
make 1,184 horsepower both of these cars
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will feature seven bigger price tags the
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W1 starts at 2.1 million and the f80
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will set you back 3.92 five million and
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that's the start you know oh if I want
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that paint that's gonna add 25,000 if
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you want this it's gonna add 30,000 so
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it's probably pretty interesting but
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meanwhile you know we've got our
24:52
Corvette team if we're going to get that
24:54
1,224 out of the Zora we might be a
24:57
little competitive although we're
24:58
definitely going to be a little bit
24:59
heavier than these cars yeah and for the
25:01
McLaren the W1 replaces the F1 and the
25:04
P1 so that's going to be their new Halo
25:06
car and then for Ferrari the f80 will
25:09
replace the La Ferrari so these are big
25:11
big cars that haven't even really come
25:13
out yet so the zor is going to be really
25:15
benchmarked against some really really
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great cars yeah I wonder if somebody
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from GM's going to make the pitch hey
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you know we need to buy a new f80 to you
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know test it out against our because
25:25
that's what they did with the sf90 yeah
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that's basically true isn't it uhhuh
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well that'd be pretty cool and that's
25:31
some great competition for sure you know
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Keith I was watching television I saw
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this Pepsi commercial and there's a blue
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C8 Corvette in the commercial what's
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going on with that yeah I was watching
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the baseball playoffs and there it was
25:42
I'm like I've not seen this before it's
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a commercial they call it Chase your
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pizza with Pepsi and the premise of the
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commercial is that Pepsi reps in the C8
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Corvette are essentially chasing down
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pizza delivery drivers and they run up
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to the door and they offer the customers
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a 12-pack of Pepsi to chase your pizza
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with we've actually found the commercial
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to be pretty hilarious I think one of
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the funniest parts is at the end the
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stingray is doing donuts and you hear
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the passenger say there's nothing to
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grab on to as he's trying to hold
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himself steady so see even the Pepsi man
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thinks that the C8 should have a grab
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handle for those quote shut the front
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door moments yeah for sure our final
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story buddy this is actually pretty cool
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Nicholas Cage just sold a 1969 Corvette
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on bring a trailer yeah actually it
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wasn't him but it was a car that he
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previously owned okay you know he had a
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pretty extensive collection going back
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this is just one of his cars is a
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beautiful Cortez silver silver interior
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427 with a 390 horsepower v8 in it the
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auction ended with the car selling for
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55553 so got a really good price on a
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427 1969 Corvette the Providence of
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having something owned by Nicholas Cage
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would be pretty cool my wife would like
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to have that car she's a big nicholos
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cage fan I wish I had known I would have
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been on it on bringing a trailer for so
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here honey here's a Corvette for you and
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it used to be owned by Nicholas Cage
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