Corvette Story Time with Lyle
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hi everybody and welcome to my Friday |
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Corvette podcast I'm gonna do something a little |
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bit different today instead of giving |
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you valuable facts about your Corvette |
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or ways to fix this or tweaks you can do |
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here in there |
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we're gonna give you just a little |
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insight into some of the great stories |
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that being in the Corvette business for |
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forty five years can generate today's |
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story took place about 10 years and we |
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will not be naming the slash innocent |
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guilty party involved but there's a |
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point to this story and I think you'll |
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understand ten years ago gentleman walks |
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into our shop and he has we like to call |
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for a favor |
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he wants a Corvette in the worst place |
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he's a Mopar guy before but now he's |
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jonesing for a quarter so we talk about |
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things to look for you know hate what |
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are you looking for do you wanna cruise |
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it you wanna race it do you want to show |
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it or if you want to come it comes down |
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to it he really wants a 78 is silver |
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anniversary on a two tone silver job so |
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like okay well there's they made plenty |
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of them so they're not scarce here's a |
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few other things you want to look for |
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but recommend you really bring it to us |
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when you find one and let us look over |
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and buy it that way you make sure you |
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know why problems |
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he's all excited us thank you so much |
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it's so awesome |
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fast forward two weeks later we get a |
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phone call for this adventure and he is |
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just as excited as a loop around |
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Christmas morning because he found his |
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car and he is just torque different |
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makes a plan makes a schedule makes an |
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appointment to bring it in to us so we |
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can look it over and see what little |
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things may need because he said this car |
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was nice so we bring the car in and we |
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put it on the lift and this is one of |
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those where your heart just sinks in |
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your chest as you're under there with a |
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flashlight going |
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this car was among the rustiest C threes |
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I had never seen now people who don't |
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know Corvettes are like whoa never look |
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rusty real but that's because you can't |
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see the rusted fiberglass body but |
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everything that's holding that body |
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together is steel and steel rusts so if |
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you can imagine if you open the doors of |
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this car that he bought at the very |
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front are these two big metal collars |
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the sides of the cowl okay those are |
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supposed to be solid statement sitting |
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on the lift with both doors open the |
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flashlight on one side of the car it's |
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standing with your face and the other |
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side of the car you could see light |
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through that steam that's how little |
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state was passed |
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and once you get rust in the birdcage or |
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the qaol unless it's a really special |
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car |
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it's a pretty much done so we had to |
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bring Bruce in and show him what we |
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found in and we talked about breaking |
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somebody's work groups in terrible it |
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just felt awful because we don't like to |
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deliver that kind of news so he decided |
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that he was gonna attempt to sell the |
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car and then go find another one we said |
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this is the best course of action you do |
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not want any part of making this car a |
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nice car fast forward four weeks later |
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he calls us and tells us eight do you |
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think I found another car he said great |
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don't buy anything before you bring it |
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to us so we don't have a rerun of last |
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time right four days later in rolls this |
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78 78 seller anniversary car and Bruce |
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sorry this man who shall remain nameless |
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gets out late at a time big smile |
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I got it and she's perfect if possible |
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this car was worse than the first car |
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there were holes on the frame of that |
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car that I could put my fist in |
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everything under the car was rusted |
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missing or worn out and again we had to |
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bring this poor guy back there and tell |
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him show him here here here here here |
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and then what happened yeah I'm really |
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angry with us he never came back again |
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we're all the story beating before you |
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buy any classic or that Mopar afford |
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whatever but before you pay for it take |
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you to somebody who knows what they're |
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looking at so you don't end up like this |
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work I did two cars deep and still have |
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you nothing to show always trust someone |
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who's done it for years and years and |
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years because it's in their best |
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interest for you get a car you're gonna |
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love because they're gonna make money on |
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you as you maintain a nice car |
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and you'll be happy to do any questions |
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any comments contact me & my linh |
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Corvette parts intercom or give me a |
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call at 800-886-5064 |
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