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Why Is GM Pausing Corvette Production In March? | GM Production Pause | CORVETTE TODAY #257
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May 9, 2025
Welcome! In today's video, we delve into the key aspects of GM production pause and why is GM pausing Corvette production in March. This video covers why is GM pausing Corvette production in March and explores the following topics: - Ken Lingenfelter Joins the National Corvette Museum Board - How many Corvettes are on the ground? - UAW Bowling Green plant layoffs update ******************** CORVETTE TODAY #257 - Corvette News & Headlines, Mid-March 2025 Well, Springtime is finally starting to show its face, Corvettes are coming out of hibernation and CORVETTE TODAY is ready for you with the latest news in the world of Corvette! Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, welcomes Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger back to the show. Steve and Keith cover these stories and more! 1. GM issues a “full stop” to Corvette production in March 2. Spy photos capture 2026 test vehicles with possible new interior 3. Ken Lingenfelter joins the Board at the National Corvette Museum 4. The UAW at Bowling Green is bracing for possible loss of workers
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Keith cornette from Corvette blogger.com as you know Keith is here every other week and together we keep you current
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and up toate on what's Happening with America Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show buddy we've got Tampa weather
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here in Kansas City sunny and 78 I think spring is peeking out a little bit early this year oh yeah and with a weather
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like that you've got to get your car out because even though it's mid-march you just don't know how long that good weather might last if another store
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might come through so heck yeah if you got good weather get that Corvette out and get on the road buddy I remember when I bought my first Corvette you know
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you think back to when you were 16 years old and you always said to your mom mom can I run an errand for you do you need
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anything from the you just want to drive you need to go this go there go to the dry cleaner
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exactly and you know at my age I still feel like okay where do I need to go that I can drive the Corvette so I'm
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thinking just the way you are buddy that's for sure that's right well I hit the bank and the dentist last week and so not very exciting cruises but you do
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it in a Corvette it makes it all better that's right absolutely well buddy let's start off the show like we usually do
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let's get a Corvette production update from the Bowling Green assembly plant absolutely so we got current production standing currently at
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17,18 Corvettes produced for the 2025 model year that count includes 10,482
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Stingrays 4,924 z6s and 1,774 e-rays pretty interesting there
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again we're getting up to nearly 5, z6s which will probably happen here in the next day or so is just continuing to
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pump out these cars we do have some interesting things happening the assembly plant will be close for the next two weeks as part of their
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Improvement projects for the assembly line they announced actually four weeks of closures maybe a month ago and
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already we had a shutdown for the week of February 22nd so after this twoe closure there'll be just one more
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closure and that's going to actually happen the week of May 19th again the idea was that they're going to try to improve the line for widebody Corvettes
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there's some other things going on which we're going to talk about a little bit later sounds good also GM issued a full stop for Corvette orders from March that
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kind of left dealers in the dark as far as allocations didn't it absolutely so yeah we really have two situations
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happening with these orders the first is those initials ZR1 orders that went into the system exactly one month ago we told
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you how those first ZR1 orders had 100% constraints on the high-wing so that when public outrange seemed to really
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hit a fever pitch there not having that Wing they decided let's pause it until we can find some more wings I don't know
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how you just go out and find more wings but that's what they're doing right now these borders are still holding at 2,000
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status and again no communication to dealers about how this is all going to play out we're still dealing with that
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situation but now we've got the second issue is that March we were supposed to have another round of orders going into
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the system and GM appears to have paused everything including those for stingrays e-rays and the Z6 there are no
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allocations for any of these models in March and again no Communications from GM about the Mis order Cycles where this
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gets even more crazy is that if you remember GM originally distributed an end of the model year dates to dealers
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back in January that showed March was supposed to be the last month for ordering of 2025 that model year was set
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to end on May 30th and then the start of 2026 this would begin on June 2nd however now dealers are actually having
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Target production weeks for upcoming Waters that have spilled into June and we've actually heard one in July so it's
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possible that we are looking at an extension of the 2025 model year a lot of confusion there why would you put out
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these dates and not to do them but it's kind of crazy to hear what's going on to recap we have no orders going in for March but it looks like the model year
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is being extended possibly into June or July we're still hoping for some guidance for dealers so they know what's
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going on with these ZR1 orders that were placed over a month ago we were assuming more orders would go in for March those
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are obviously put on hold with the others kind of a wait and see what goes on kind of a crazy ordering situation
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but nothing out of the ordinary when it comes to General Motors yeah it does make sense to extend the model year for
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a month or two and with all that being said the live inventory tracker shows that we have over 5,800 Corvettes on the
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ground already so we've been looking at this Chevy live inventory tracker over the last few months to see where the inventory is for new Corvettes on the
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ground so as of Friday March 7th the chevrolet.com live inventory tracker was showing
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5,781 Corvettes on the ground that was actually a 5.7% decrease from the last
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time we looked at it which February 1st the other thing that we want to keep track of is the remaining 2024 Corvettes
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on dealer Lots back on February 1st that number was 1,357 cor Corvettes remaining from 2024
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as of March 7th that number dropped to 1,9 Corvettes so that was a 25% decrease
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in the inventory over those five weeks there there's still a th000 cars from 2024 on dealer lots that are waiting for
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new home you can get great deals on these cars great price discounts are available and you know one of the great things about the live inventory tracker
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is that if you've got an idea the color you want or the model you can actually go in and select some of that stuff and
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then it'll show you those available models which then you can search by distance or price of the car as well we
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break down the number of colors still remaining for 202 24s and all 14 colors are still available there if there's
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something specific you're looking for and you really want it you can use the live inventory tracker to go find it come on everybody buy a Corvette I feel
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like they're like lost puppies or lost cats you have some Beauties out there and they need good homes go buy a
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Corvette we're not talking about the Island of Misfit Toys or anything these are great looking cars and they deserve
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a good home absolutely right also Keith this is another big story the UAW at
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Bowling Green assembly plant is kind of bracing because they're looking at a potential loss of workers because GM is
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planning to slow down production on Corvette what's the backstory on that again this is the word that we got back
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in January that the plant would be reconfigured to improve the production of widebody Corvettes over at the current Stingray we got confirmation
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with four weeks of shutdowns we just went over but now thanks to our friends over at the midin Corvette forum we also
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got a memo from the local UAW management to its workers at Bowling Green that discusses the upcoming plan to drate
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production that's what they call it drate which we assume means a slowing of the rate of Corvettes produced each hour on the assembly line the UAW discusses
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the potential layoffs in this memo they think that approximately 66 senior employees could be lost when these
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announcements come most likely in mid April we are really hoping for a positive outcome that would allow prioritization of the widebody
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production without having to lose any valuable members of the team but we're slow in production and they think what's going to happen is there's some
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consolidation of jobs on that line as well we're keeping our ears to the ground and seeing what else may happen
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here but again it's just kind of a fluid situation that we're keeping an eye on okay that sounds good our last story in
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the new section Keith there is a class action lawsuit against GM for shuttering 8-speed automatic transmissions and that
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survived them motion to dismiss tell me a little bit more about that absolutely so going back to the C7 days there's
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been several issues that have come from this 8-speed automatic transmission that was not only produced for the Corvette
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but I think it went into like 13 total GM cars okay this was Judge David LW and
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he made a ruling in the Cole ol rck versus general motor suit which is all about the hydromatic 8 L90 and the 8 l45
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Transmissions the ples has alleged that the Transmissions have two defects automatic transmission fluid that lacks
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bustness to moisture that leads to shutter problems and an insufficient valve body architecture that can Purge
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trapped air and that leads to harsh shift so you've got the shuttering and harsh shifts that have become kind of
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the Hallmarks of people that have trouble with these that's what they really see and when we say shuttering like you're driving down the road and
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your gear shifter is just moving back and forth like crazy but it also deals with like hard stops and some other
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things going on so it's not a very good ride gotcha the judge actually ruled that there were adequate facts to
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suggest the vehicles were not fit for ordinary purpose of providing reasonably Safe Transportation because of these
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specific transmissions and then they turned down the dismissal requested by GM lawyers there's actually a couple
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different lawsuits going on over these transmission issues it's believed that those still withstanding as they move
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forward will eventually be merged into one okay as this has actually been going on a long time I think we were detailing
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this back in 2019 2020 or so we just continue to post the updates as we get them so it's just one of these things
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that's going to go on and on it looks like crazy all right buddy let's time for our first break when we come back it's Corvette racing and Corvette rumors
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it's Joor Motorsports racing isn't that right it's either Johor or Johor I'm not
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quite certain because this is a racing team out of Malaysia yeah and they just announced that they're going to be competing in Asia with two Corvette z62
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RS and the two brothers Prince Jeffrey Ibraham I think and Prince Abu bakar
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Ibraham will be among the drivers behind the wheel of these new cars their program is still in development they put out a really cool video announcing the
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acquisition of the 26s and we believe they're actually going to be competing in the Asian Lem Man series which is
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great because now you've got IMA which is basically the American L Man series you've got the Europeans World Endurance
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Championship that's the European lemon series and now we get the Asian Lon Series so we've got coverage of Z6
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Corvettes and all those different series and we've got some more coming up so let's keep going that's pretty cool
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we're everywhere aren't we this is a little bit easier to pronounce Stellar Motorsports is also
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going to field two Z6 gt3rs in the GT World Challenge Europe series aren't they correct yeah they're a British
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racing team they're taking over two Corvette z6s again these two Corvettes will race in the 2025 GT World Challenge
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Europe series the addition of the Corvette means there's 10 manufacturers competing in that Series so it's everybody ason Martin Audi BMW Ferrari
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Ford Lamborghini McLaren Mercedes AMG and Porsche just to name a few the world challenge Europe series gets underway
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with a six-hour endurance cup at circuit Paul Ricard in France I believe and that's April 11th to the 13th we're
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going have Z6 is all over the globe Racing for Glory it's pretty exciting it's it's hard to follow all the teams
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but we're going to do our best to capture the highlights of course the World Endurance team for Bahrain They just won their class over there another
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win for the Corvette and of course AWA racing won at Daytona so we've got a really good momentum going right now
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with a variety of teams and hopefully we can continue this push especially with Sebring happening coming up here yeah
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absolutely we're hot right now that's for sure also this is really cool Antonio Garcia had donated his racing
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suit to help Spain's flood victims I thought that was awesome yeah so we got a call a couple weeks back from our friend Wes Wong he's the former NCM
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board member and former FBI guy he's an ambassador of Pratt Miller Motorsports
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and he was telling about this Charity Auction featuring this racing suit donated by Antonio the proceeds going to
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these victims of these floods in Spain they lost like 230 people in these flash floods a bunch of people I guess over
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there decided to donate some stuff Garcia's racing suit is part of that collection I think it sold for about
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$1,000 so good job to the person who purchased it and W told me that if that was a US base fan that had purchased it
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they could actually pick it up at one of the IMA races in person and actually get a tour of the Pratt Miller car haulers
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as well hopefully Corvette racing fan did pick that up because it's a really cool suit signed by Antonio things make
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great collector items so good job to whoever purchased it and best wishes to all those people that were hurt in those floods man that's cool how cool is that
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speaking of Pratt Miller Keith They unveil their Livery for Sebring which looks really really good yeah we're used
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to the GTD Pro Racers wearing that usual yellow and black Livery but for this race they went with a special throwback
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featuring white with blue and red accents the design is actually reminiscent of Greg pickets winning C4
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Corvette GTO in the 1987 Detroit Grand Prix you asking yourself why would they want to resemble a C4 Corvette Livery
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from the late 1980s and it's because of the connections pickets racing C4 was built back in the day by a company
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called protofab and that's where Gary Pratt was working prior to founding Pratt Miller Motorsports gotcha and then
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former Corvette racing Crew Chief Dan Binks actually finished the complete restoration of that Gary picket car it
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was the number two Corvette racer featuring mobile one as the main sponsor there and it was driven by Ron Fellows
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at the 2023 RX Monterey Motorsports reunion so the cars got a new lease on life fully restored by Dan Binks looks
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like they just want to do something special and recognizing that of course being Gary Pratt worked on the car originally back in the day Ron Fellows
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is now driving it it makes sense that they wanted to kind of do something special and of course it's mobile one if you remember last year for mobile one's
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50th Anniversary they did a special gold and black Livery so it's kind of fun to see the cars a little bit different from
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the yellow and black we did hear also from Antonio Garcia who's expressing his hope to get that car in Victory Lane so
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they make sure they get some great photos of it as the drivers are holding up their troph that's cool that's very cool we have only one rumor story Keith
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spy photos captured the 2026 KES cars and we think we saw the new interior
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didn't we yeah we've had a good time with this story over the last few days so first our spy photographers caught up
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with 5 C8 Corvette zor prototypes up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where they are doing some winter testing we
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know there Zoros they've got that special radiator that's mounted vertically on the front radiator driver
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replacement color for the two-tone tension Twilight blue interior oh and it's a new purplish blue interior almost
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Indigo or Cobalt we'll have that photo up on Corvette blogger for you and of course if you're watching the YouTube version of this podcast you'll be able
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name is David Hill and he's not to be confused with the Dave Hill that was the former chief engineer during the C4 C5
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days they're different guys but both are connected by their enthusiasm for Corvettes we're told that David Hill is a Hands-On Corvette owner he's restored
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multiple Classics including a 1971 Stingray wow his personal favorite is the 1967 Corvette which he calls a
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beautiful car in so many ways Hill was previously served in several CEO and Leadership roles in education energy
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manufacturing and Technology jobs he comes from Oklahoma where he was recognized as one of the most admired
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CEOs in Oklahoma by the Journal Record the leading business publication he actually begins his job this Monday so
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welcome him to the Corvette nation and we look forward to meet him in person at the NCM bash in April can't wait that's
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awesome and also at the national corette museum our buddy and Friend Of The Show Ken Lingenfelter has joined the board
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there at the NCM yeah you know it's an important role the board members they oversee operations set the long-term
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goals for the nonprofit organization so it's really great to have somebody with the leadership ability of Ken lingenfelder of course he comes from
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lingenfelder performance engineer which he's been running started by his cousin I think John Ling Felder back in the day
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Ken comes from the business world has all kinds of experience there and just loves Corvettes like nobody else so he's
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been involved with Corvettes and GM most of his life his dad was actually the manager of the Fisher body plant and I think Ken's been in Corvette fans since
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his teenager days his appointment to the board is welcome newed by Corvette fans hopefully we'll see him at the NCM bash
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as well which is most likely a given since they do have a major board meeting always during that time as well welcome Ken and welcome David Hill to NCM yeah
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Ken filter was a perfect appointment for the National Corvette Museum board also Keith we had a story back at the end of
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January Corvette today number 250 was the legend of the Corvette SS Jan Hyde
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from the registry of Corvette race cars did that show with me at the end of January and that car actually sold for
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$7.7 million yeah this car was also known by its GM name project xp64
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groundbreaking race car purpose-built race car tubular frame with a magnesium body and then and Zora added a factory
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Source 283 with a Ramjet fuel injection and a four-speed manual transmission other features of the car included a
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quick change rear differential independent front suspension and a vacuum assisted drum brakes for stopping
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power now the car made its racing debut at the 1957 12 hours of Sebring and it
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lasted just 23 laps before being retired over multiple issues one of the things that we always heard was that the
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Magnesium body held in the heat of the car and zorao would later say that it was literally cooking his driver John
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Fitch in car it was said that that was one of the real Inspirations that Zora had for wanting to go Mid Engine because
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his driver was getting cooked in this magnesium body car you move the engine behind the driver and then you don't have that issue again a historic car it
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was donated in the 60s I believe to the Indianapolis 500 Museum where it's been ever since and then the museum just
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decided to get rid of a few cars that were no longer really connected to racing at Indianapolis with the 1957
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Corvette SS being one of those this is the highest selling Corvette we've ever witnessed out of auction amazing $7.7
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million yeah check out that story it's Corvette today number 250 it was the week of January 27th it's an amazing
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story for sure also Bloomington gold has announced a new location it's pretty close to Kansas City yeah moving around
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again they're going to move to the worldwide technology Raceway which is just across the Mississippi River from
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St Louis Missouri which is the birthplace of Corvettes from 54 to 81 Bloomington gold will be held in Madison
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Illinois it's scheduled for Thursday June 5th through Saturday June 7th of course they do all the Survivor golden
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Benchmark judging you'll see the gold collection and then any seminars that going on but now because it's at a RAC
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trck the worldwide technology Raceway is a 1.25 mile oval track so there's going to be some driving stuff going on and of
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course they have an on-site carding facility as well I think people will be calling out each other for some racing there for registration and ticket
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information visit Bloomington gold.com and hope to see you there absolutely right as a matter of fact I'm going to
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be doing a seminar on Corvette today at this Bloomington gold show in St Louis so make sure you put that on your
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calendar our final story Keith Corvette Engineers took the ZR1 to the Tail of the Dragon that was cool yeah what a
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great way to end this podcast episode tail the dragon of course is that famous stretch of us 129 that sits on the North
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Carolina Tennessee state lines that stretch of Mountain Road has 318 curves
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over 11 miles so we can obviously see why it'd be fun to drive it the new ZR1 yeah the engineers actually had several
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zr1's in the group ranging from split window coups with high Wings to convert as well and a bunch of colors knowing
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that they were on the tail of dragon we went to 129photos.com we purchased 11 photos you can do that you can you
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purchase other people's photos you know if they were on the track that's funny we grabbed those photos for our readers a Corvette blogger and they've been very
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popular it was a good post for us and again if you watch the YouTube version of this podcast you can see them there as well we'll have them up there that's
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for sure you are too funny buddy that's awesome well Keith thanks for being back
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on Corvette today buddy we will see you in two weeks weeks all right sounds great everybody out there get those Corvettes out if you see another guy
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