What Is New At The National Corvette Museum In 2025? | National Corvette Museum CORVETTE TODAY #246

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around the world at the beginning of each year I always like to check in with the National Corvette Museum to see
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what's in store for the upcoming New Year Ryan Iker the director of marketing and Communications for the NCM is back
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with me on Corvette today to talk about the m in 2025 Ryan happy New Year and
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welcome back to the show buddy thank you Steve happy New Year to you Happy New Year to all your Die Hard Corvette
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listeners the National Corvette Museum just celebrated 30 years of existence what a milestone that's awesome and I'm
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sure everybody the museum is obviously very excited talk to me what's the vibe around the museum as we work in through
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year number 30 year number 30 right what an amazing accomplishment right I mean that's kind of the first piece is just a
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moment of pride and celebration of course our Founders always when they
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open the museum assumed it would be successful as everybody does in any type of new Endeavor but to be able to look
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forward now 30 years later and see the size of the campus the amount of guests that we welcome every single day to the
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museum the amount of children that we introduce Corvette to and excite and then of course the celebration and
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thankfulness that we have to our members I would say all that is just kind of a collective frenzy that it's building us
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up to as we look to what the next 30 years are going to look like that's pretty cool and we also have some new hires of the museum tell me about the
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Three A's Amy Andy and Andrea yeah it has been a very busy time
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for our HR team we had a couple key roles that have been open over the last couple months we were able to bring on
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Amy Harden who is our director of development Amy is a boomerang to the National Corvette Museum she actually
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had this role back in 2019 and then moved over to a few other organizations
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and then was able to join us and already is hitting the ground run I know that she's been meeting with some Corvette clubs already and starting to put a plan
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in place of really how we drive kind of that development piece forward Andy Markham joined us as our director of
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accounting has been amazing already incredible impact that he's made in the last 30 days because of course you know
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the end of the year is always that budgeting time so came in really at the right time and then also named Andrea
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baitman as our director of membership now for anybody that's been close to the museum for the last 6 months they've
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probably interacted with Andrea because she's really been on the front line really making sure that all of our
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members are receiving their benefits receiving the recognition that they deserve Andrea started out just about a
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year ago at the National Corvette Museum as the assistant to the CEO's office and really stepped in to help out with
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membership so very excited that we were able to elevate her so with that really the leadership team at the museum has
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been completely filled out which also certainly sets us up for a lot of success for 2025 that's great news now I
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know Museum delivery is also going strong our buddy Rod Keller and his staff are working overtime and you have
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a brand new mural on the outside wall of the museum as well so when you pull your car out you get a picture of your car
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with you with that new mural how many Corvettes did the museum deliver in 2024
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and what's the target number for 2025 well first off Steve let's just pause and just celebrate Rod okay because Rod
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Keller is somebody if you encounter him in the museum he's almost out of breath because he's sprinting from one place to
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another and Rod's somebody that really just joined us a year ago now and started in January of 2024 right has
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made an incredible impact you mentioned the mural the feedback that we've received on that new mural has been
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really fantastic I think from a marketing perspective you know I love how it really melds this idea of
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adrenaline Meats tradition together yeah but also was reflective of the feedback that we heard from all of our Museum
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delivery customers who said well kind of the direction that we went let's be honest it had a Mustang on it okay it
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was a horse it makes sense in Kentucky but it's a Mustang still right so feedback on that has been great and that's something that we're going to
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look to refresh pretty regularly just because of where it is it gets hit by the elements we know it's such a great
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photo backdrop and then really to get to what you specifically asked you know that photo backdrop was the backdrop to
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more than 1,200 Corvettes that were delivered in 2024 wow the program has been rocking you know of course rhc is
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always going to be a little contingent on Supply from our friends across the street at the Bowling Green assembly
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plan anticipating a great year for 2025 the other place that were really seen a
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lot of excitement is around the National Corvette Museum delivery program that
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experience that we do for all generation Corvettes that's actually up 90% this
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year wow I've seen just in the last quarter some absolutely incredible cars
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coming through that we had a gentleman who was visiting from Germany had shipped the ZR1 in and we were able to
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put that on the boulevard as one of the museum delivery experiences that was a C7 ZR1 one of the orange ones amazing
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story but you know when you walk out and you see everything from a two-tone C3 to some of these highly modified C4 up to
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the latest and greatest C8 that maybe is not taking rhc Museum delivery it's just so fun to be able to reinforce the
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people that even if you're coming to visit the museum for a day but you're driving your Corvette call Rod reach out
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to us let's get your Corvette on the boulevard let's get it through that museum experience buddy it's ironic that
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you're talking about that because I've already talked to Rod during the anniversary celebration about doing
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Museum delivery for my 70th anniv iversary 2023 white pearl metallic Stingray Coupe so I'm going to be doing
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that during The Bash so my museum delivery is already scheduled I'm ready to go I'm so looking forward to it can't
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wait can't wait we'll give you P1 on Corvette Boulevard that first delivery spot okay love it buddy that's awesome
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now let's talk about the Corvette Museum Store yeah inside the store has been updated too talk about the changes to
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the Corvette store yeah so you know we've certainly refreshed and reimagined some of the products that we offer
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curtain the buyer of this the eighth generation Corvette they're looking for a wide variety of products and
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accessories so we need to make sure that we can satisfy what they're looking for but also near and dear to my heart is
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when you have a C4 owner fourth generation owner coming in so it's really been a focus of broadening our
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products for all of the generation Corvette but then also at the same time making sure that we do about 75% of the
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people that go through the museum and our guest of the museum it's the first time they've been through so we need to make sure that we're offering those kind
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of smaller items that you can kind of grab and go and take with that make great gifts to say I was at the National
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Corvette Museum but maybe don't involve you buying a carbon fiber splitter so you know new products new accessories
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and then we continue to enhance our Corvette store online that continues to do fantastic for us and I encourage
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anybody that's looking for a very unique or hardto find gift check us out Corvett store.com number one seller is actually
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the replica window stickers wow no surprise though right because if you're a Corvette owner you want to have that
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mudy label right you want to have that window stickers so it's so great that we're able to offer that to guests and owners as well that's awesome now
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Corvette Raffles continue to be a hugely popular event there at the Museum let's talk about the Raffles what kind of cars
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do you see coming up for 2025 Raffles well 2025 for our Corvette raffle also
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going to be very exciting even kicking off very early in January on January 16th we're going to be raffling off our
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first Corvette r-ray perfect winter time all-wheel drive yes fits in well but you
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know you will see kind of the usual combination of build your own Corvettes as well as some unique models and then
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of course this eay we've given away nearly 500 corvet since the beginning of the program so really really successful
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for us and of course every raffle ticket supports our museum mission very cool and becoming a member of the museum is
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very simple and easy let's talk for a minute about the different levels of membership and how people can join yeah
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absolutely well the easiest way to do is just visit Corvette museum.org click on membership and you can see the different
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membership level and of course every member supports our important Mission which is really celebrating the legacy
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of America sports car right and continuing the education on that we have our annual memberships our family
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memberships which actually gets a family of four free admission to the museum along with all of the discounts that you
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would have with ncmi collector car insurance as well as the Corvette store then we of course have our lifetime
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membership level so this is for somebody that really wants to make their Mark and continue that Corvette Legacy and become
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a lifetime member of the museum and then certainly business level memberships as well for folks who may have a business
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that want to get involved with the National Corvette Museum as well over 38,000 members strong and with Andrea
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baitman now really taking the Reigns of membership we're very excited to see what new enhancements and benefits will
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be bringing to the table for 2025 fantastic I'm a lifetime member and absolutely love it thank you buddy let's
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take our first break when we come back we'll talk about exhibits for 2025 at the National Corvette Museum coming up
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National Corvette Museum in segment number two we're going to talk about some of the new exhibits coming in 2025
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first off Ryan a huge calling for any visit to the National Corvette Museum includes the w round video wall in the
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Sky Dome let's talk about that because that was a huge addition last year huge addition Steve so yeah so we
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affectionately call that the skywall so you go into the sky dome and you look into the skywall that is a 300° 9ft tall
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video wall that wraps the room I really right now compare it to almost an IMAX
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theater because we've updated the content that's playing in there and it's tied the the current exhibit so you're
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standing there watching movies that Corvettes have been in with the Cor vet that were in it right in front of you so
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I mean it's almost IMAX with an experiential feel to it it's really amazing and you know to walk in that
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space and to see people almost transfixed in the Sight and Sound and what they're watching versus prior to
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that you know of course that space has always been an icon for us people would kind of just walk through and do a loop but now with the skywall people really
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do stop in their tracks see what's playing read the stories of course spend more time learning about our Hall of
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Fame so it's really been a successful program for us how cool is that man and I know pop culture and Corvettes is the
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main attraction right now at the Museum tell me more about that that sounds cool yeah and that is what is mainly featured
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right now in the Skydome again so when I had mentioned movies pop culture and Corvette is really an exhibition that
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really dives into that Pop Culture Connection that Corvette has and you know when you think over the last 71
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years Corvette has been this status symbol in this icon so it only makes sense that it's used in movies TV
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commercials music videos driven by astronauts so it's an exhibition that really explains all that and really set
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against this amazing skywall content where you can watch Corvette Summer playing in the background as an example
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and then there's these Corvettes in front of it it's really an incredible exhibit and one that will be here for the majority of 2025 as well we'll be
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bringing in new Corvettes right now we have the stingray racer that Elvis Presley drove in Clambake we just
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brought that on to exhibition part of the exhibit so it's really really a cool space and a great exhibition wow that's
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really cool now there's an exhibit called luster that's finishing up on January 5th what else is planned for
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2025 then awesome well luster I encourage everybody you got a few more days if you're listening to come and see
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it if you haven't seen luster yet that will close on the 5th of January for anybody that's been through the museum
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you remember we did do quite a transformation to that limited engagement gallery and really turned it
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into this high-end art gallery for luster which was these photo realistic paintings of cars and engines so we're
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going to keep that kind of Art Museum Vibe going in that final space and in
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2025 we'll be opening speed captured the photographic works of Richard Prince wow
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that's going to open in March of 2025 and really going to be a breathtaking exhibition that celebrates the art of
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speed through the lens of famed Automotive photographer and Corvette Hall of Famer Richard Prince yes now of
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course Richard is known for capturing that essence of motion design and adrenaline and this will feature not
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only iconic Corvette images but some of those iconic Corvettes that were the subject of it so really excited for this
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one and of course I think you know for anybody that spends time around Corvettes or cars taking pictures of
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cars is something that we all love to do right I mean I'm sure you're stopping and looking back and snapping a picture of your Corvette so I think to be able
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to bring that to life with Richard's work and then some even self-explanatory of how you can take some amazing
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Automotive photography yourself will also be part of it so we're very excited for that opening in March of 2025 that's
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cool as a matter of fact my wife says I have more pictures of my Corvette on my phone than of her
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I fall in that category my friend it's a problem for many of us that are around Corvette right absolutely right now
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driven by Design is an ongoing feature of the museum that's been really popular too love driven by Design you know again
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telling really the story from sketch all the way to reveal of a new Corvette model and everything that goes into it
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from color to Clay modeling so that space again an area that we're always
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looking at how we can reimagine and how we can bring in New Concept cars prototype Corvettes current model
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Corvettes just to really illustrate the depth of thinking and the level of focus that goes into the design of the
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Corvette over the last 71 years yeah and also the McMichael family education Gallery continues to be a huge hit for
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kids of all ages isn't it absolutely of course you know education being at the center of our mission and really
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inspiring that next generation of Corvette fans but Automotive designers and Engineers we've seen an a tremendous
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outpouring of support as well as student groups coming through the McMichael family education Gallery this year you
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know with that studio X that we have in the back there that really replicates that studio x that you saw at the Warren Tech Center back in the 50s it really is
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a fantastic space my favorite part about it is you know there is some tactile experiences in there because for a kid
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coming through the museum it's hands off right yeah the cars are collection cars you can't touch them but when you get
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into the McMichael family education Gallery you know there's different materials kids can touch and feel what a brake petal feels like what a leather
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interior feels like so some of those Hands-On pieces as well being able to design their own idea of what a future
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Corvette would be it's just a great space and again so close to our mission can't than the McMichael family enough
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for the contributions that they've made not only to the National Corvette Museum but how they're really inspiring that
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next Generation absolutely and the two exhibits that really caught my eye and we kind of alluded to it a little bit
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earlier in the show there's a Corvette that was owned by Jerry Lee Lewis and also Apollo astronaut Jim level's
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Corvette is there at the Museum tell me more about those I love both of those absolutely well the 54 Jerry Lee Lewis's
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Corvette interesting story behind that one you know of course that was really at the dawn of Corvette so a
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technological Marvel at the time and Lewis owned multiple Corvettes throughout his life however this one is
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very unique it was actually repossessed by the IRS in 1980 as so many times these do right
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yeah it disappeared from public view for several decades and then resurfaced in
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2023 fortunate enough to be able to have that on loan and have that on exhibition and really illust straight what a true
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rocker drove back then interesting story and then of course Jim lavel Corvette
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Amazing Story there right I mean many of us are aware you know Corvettes became associated with astronauts after General
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Motors gifted Alan shefford I believe it was in 1962 and then this relationship
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extended through the very famous indie car driver Jim wrathman right who was the owner of that Chevrolet dealership
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near Cape canaval so thus you have that connection to the astronauts wrathman actually struck the deal where astronaut
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were allowed to lease a Corvette for $1 a year through his dealership and of course many of them choosing Corvettes
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this specific car level leas several Corvettes during his astronaut career this is a silver 1968 with 327 you can
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almost Picture level driving this Corvette we preparing for that Apollo 8 mission very very cool and there's even
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some additional artifacts on loan from the space center and Rocket Center in Huntsville Alabama that really
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compliment that exhibition wow beautiful car and a great story is that least program for adult or you're still in I'd
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love to get in on that you know it might be do you and I qualify as astronauts I'm not sure I wish I wish well you got
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yourself a rocket in your Corvette so well for sure for sure all right buddy it's time to take our final break we
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just talked about exhibits in our final segment we're going to talk about events coming up in the National Corvette
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4231 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me is my buddy Ryan Iker the director of marketing and Communications for the
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National Corvette Museum we're talking about everything that's coming up in 2025 at the NCM in this final segment
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we're going to talk about events going on at Museum Ryan the two big shows that the NCM put on every year are the
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Michelin bash and the anniversary celebration give me a little overview of both of those shows and when
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registration opens up well thanks Steve and of course two events that are at absolutely Corvette and National
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Corvette Museum fan favorites the National Corvette Museum Michelin bash will be April 24th to the 26th of 2025
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and then of course our National Corvette Museum anniversary in Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be August 28th
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to the 30th 2025 both of these are Signature Events that of course every Corvette fan needs to put on their
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calendar and experience registration for The Bash will be opening in January and then later in the spring around April
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May timing we be opening up registration for anniversary best place for folks to get information on that is either
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Corvette museum.org any of our email communication as well as our social channels that's perfect that's great now
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you've got other shows planned for 2025 I know like the cultural awareness Corvette weekend is real popular what
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are some of the other shows that might not be as big as the bash or the anniversary celebration well we'll first
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talk a little bit about cultural awareness Corvette weekend because that does return to the National Corvette Museum August 14th to the 16th some of
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the friendliest Corvette owners you'll find but also some of those most amazing modified Corvettes you'll ever see so
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that's a really fun event and then I always will say any given day in the parking lot of the National Corvette
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Museum is an amazing event especially during those warm weather travel Seasons because we do have so many groups that
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Caravan to the museum whether it be a DeLorean Club the Bandit run all the
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folks that own those incredible mid 7s late '70s black and gold trans am oh
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yeah those events end up being where we'll do a group tour of the museum but they're leaving their cars in the
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parking lot and it is just amazing that's awesome I know Paul Crafton who oversees our group sales brought in a
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rollsroyce phantom Owners Group and I'm talking rollsroyce Phantoms that were built between
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1920 and 1930 wow Caravan to the museum are parked in the parking lot and then
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of course respecting honoring and learning about the legacy of America sports cars you know we do have these
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signature big events but really to me looking out the window seeing what's in the parking lot is also an event itself
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wow that's amazing hope you got some pictures of all those rolls-royces the rolls Ro out of this world and again
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driven from in some cases New York wow absolutely out of control truly amazing
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now you know one thing I don't know if every Corvette Enthusiast knows about or is aware of but the museum has events
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called Museum in motion this is where you go on drives with the museum places like tale of the Dragon the Rolex 24 and
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Daytona some Branson experiences talk more about Museum in motion you know Museum in motion for us is such a
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fantastic program because as a Corvette owner it's about getting in your car and
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driving and enjoying it and then enjoying your car with other like-minded Corvette owners so that's really what
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the museum and motions do we're bringing together the Corvette community and then traveling to very historic places for
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some context on history of course but also the fun ends up being in the drive so of course we will be going to the
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Rolex 24 in Daytona Branson the really really popular Kentucky one laps will
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return again in 2025 and those are these beautiful fall drives through the winding roads of Kentucky that kick off
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from the National Corvette Museum and then we have events like our Museum in motion to Lama now in that case you're
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not shipping your Corvette over to Europe you're riding around with other Corvette owners as we take you through some of the more historical points of
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Europe but then also hanging out with the Corvette racing team in Lama as well it's a fantastic program and again if
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want to learn more just visit Corvette museum.org and if you hit events you'll find all the museum and motion schedule
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that's cool and when you come to the museum lunch or dinner is a must at the stingray Grill love the stingray
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continues to be so popular with all of our guests Chef Jake does an amazing job
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they really elevated food Burgers we have that Blackberry grilled cheese sandwich that really is to die for
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people love it so yeah definitely lunch at the stingray Grill we're open midday I highly do recommend reservations which
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you can make off Corvette museum.org it's amazing what Chef is able to do with a small space but continue to hear great feedback on that look for some
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menu enhancements a little tease here into 2025 on how we may be bringing in some different menu items but then also
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working to also offer a variety of different beverages mixed drinks cocktails things like that very nice I
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don't mean to put you on the spot but tell me about something that might be unexpected that guest will see at the National Corvette Museum so always
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something new here and one enhancement that's a lot of fun for as we talked a lot about rhc and the National Corvette
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Museum experience the delivery programs we've actually added colored spotlights
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to Corvette Boulevard so when you're leaving Corvette Boulevard it's even more of a celebration I encourage
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Everybody Take a Look up we'll have spotlights and it really is a Symphony of Lights now it's people are leaving
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the museum in their new Corvettes or any generation Corvette in the experience side and then one other piece we're
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always looking for ways to connect everything in the museum back to Corvette history right even something as
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subtle as the wristbands that we give you when you come through the museum we just did a redesign of the wristbands and instead of making them any old color
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they tie to some of the seven early colors of Corvette so it's Polo white it's the onx black so some of those
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initial colors all even just tied to the wristband we're really trying to make sure that as our guests come through
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they realize how important our mission is but also how there's some fun Easter eggs no matter where you are in the
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museum and no matter what you see that's really cool I didn't even know about that that's fantastic buddy how can
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people reach the museum what's the website social media tell me all that absolutely so first stop is going to be
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www.c Corvett museum.org there you can find out all the information on our
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latest exhibitions membership Museum in motion links to the Corvette store as
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well as National Corvette Museum insurance as well as Motorsports Park so definitely encourage people to visit the
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website at the bottom of the website in the footer is where you can sign up for all of our email Communications we do a
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monthly Corvette campus connection that's kind of a rollup of everything happening at the Museum obviously communicating with members communicating
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with ambassadors in our Corvette club Community communicating with everybody that is interested in making a purchase
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or learning more of what the Corvette store has so encourage everybody to sign up for the email distribution and then lastly is our social channels we're
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active on Instagram Facebook X which was Twitter and Linkedin as well as YouTube
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and the handle for all those is just Corvette Museum and really the social channels are a place where you can learn
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about the cars that are on exhibition but also find out about any new Museum news as well so I encourage everybody to
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jump on those channels like them leave us a comment tell us how we're doing tell us what we could do differently or
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better always open to guest feedback and member feedback as well fantastic buddy thank you so much for being on Corvette
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today again Happy New Year I will see you at The Bash can't wait Steve appreciate the support and let's go for
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