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Mark Van Patten Wants to Win Trip to NASCAR Race In Atlanta With CNN Hottie(VIDEO)

Geezer with too much time on his hands, wants to hang out at Atlanta Motor Speedway with hottie Robin Meade from CNN’s Morning Express With Robin Meade
Here is one of his video entries:

 

Are You Ready for the Z07? The Ultimate Corvette is Due in 2009

 The C6 Corvette is a phenomenon. Despite a substandard interior, its power, dynamics, and styling have given it international credibility the C5 struggled to achieve and the gold-chain-inspiring C3 and C4 could only dream of. Now it’s talked of as a competitor for Porsche 911, Aston Martin V-8 Vantage, various BMW Ms, and Mercedes AMGs. That 505-horsepower Z06 (the 2007 Z06 is pictured) hasn’t hurt.But just before it’s replaced by the all-new C7, the C6 will get one last shot at automotive immortality: around 700 horsepower and a new name. Word in Detroit is the long-awaited uber-Corvette, codenamed the Blue Devil…

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2008 Features Leaking Out.

Count on MUCH MORE during the bash and press event later this week.
Thanks to Frankie in NC, we have a quick shot of ONE of the new wheels. You may recall, we todl you that NOT all of the 2008 wheels will be a split spoke as it is on the 2007 Pace Car Corvette.   … including the Z06 exhaust on a Regular Corvette?!?!?!

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92 year old LaLanne Still Enjoys Corvettes

Jack LaLanne is America’s oldest and most loved fitness expert. He opened the first modern health spa in America in 1936 and brought physical fitness to national TV in 1951. His inventions include the first weight pulley machines using cables, the first weight selectors, and the first leg-extension machine. He was the first fitness trainer to have women work with weights, and he encouraged the disabled and elderly to exercise for their own health. But there’s something you probably don’t know about Jack LaLanne.

His passion has always been fast cars-the faster, the better. In-between his fitness routines and motivational talks across the United States, Jack gets behind the wheel of his fourth Corvette, an ‘05 coupe. Yes, you read that right: Jack LaLanne, at 92 years young, is the proud owner of America’s premier 400hp supercar. Figuring he was the oldest Corvette-owning celebrity alive, we asked him for an interview. Somewhat surprisingly, he agreed.

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GM Corvette Engine Assembly LS2

Corvette engine assembly animation.

 

650 HP Supercharged Blue Devil Corvette Cannot Be Stopped

It appears the “Blue Devil” Corvette already is so quick it has even outrun a freeze on large and powerful rear-drive cars at General Motors, and it’s not even finished yet.

“That one is too late to stop. That’s almost finished. It’s in the final stages of tuning,” Bob Lutz, vice chairman in charge of product development, told CARandDRIVER.com during a recent interview in which he outlined a series of rear-drive projects that have been put on hold until the auto maker knows how strict the proposed new corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE) regulations will be.

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Tom Cruise’s 1958 Corvette

 

1958 Silver Blue Corvette

 

Z06 Ron Fellows Edition in U.K.

The Corvette Z06 ‘Ron Fellows edition’ has been introduced to mark the contribution of the Canadian racer to the success of the Corvette racing programme and is available in strictly limited numbers in the UK.  Just 399 are planned for production, with 33 destined for Europe.  The highly exclusive model is distinguished with Ron Fellows’ autograph, the first signature to appear on a Corvette in the brand’s 54-year history, plus unique Arctic White paint accented with a racing-style fender stripe, a full-width racing-type rear spoiler and polished 10-spoke aluminium wheels.  Just six of the Corvette Z06 ‘Ron Fellows edition’ will be available in the UK.

 

Sales Down in Europe

Total2005

Total2006

Jan-Mar2006

Jan-Mar2007

Variance

% Diff

Mar 06

Mar 07

Corvette

1,332

1,270

330

348

18

5.5%

162

136