Hello, Kansas City, and welcome back to the Bespoke Automotive Refinement Podcast. We’re so glad that you joined us today on this beautiful Sunday day here in Kansas City. I don’t know if when you’re listening to this it’s going to be as beautiful because it’s supposed to be getting a little snowy again here in a couple days, but we’re so glad that you’re with us to join Thomas and I as we talk about Kansas City Car Detailing services and Kansas City Car Detailing packages that we have to offer.
Now, Thomas, you are having a hard time right now because you have a dream, and that dream is to own a certain kind of car, and so you’re visualizing it, you’re thinking about it all the time. You’re thinking about this vehicle that you want to drive, and you’re track driving it or riding it down to your parents. I feel like you think about that all the time.
Tell us a little bit about this vehicle. It makes it hard for you to focus now. I guess it’s the reason I couldn’t sleep last night.
Yes. So it is a C7 Z06 4V. The specific car that I want has the Z07 Carbon Package or the Carbon Edition.
There’s two separate names for it. And the car has to be in the Corvette Racing Yellow or Velocity Yellow. We have, about 20 minutes away, one of the largest Corvette dealers in the country, actually.
Typically, it’s rare for a dealership to have one Z06 or even have a Z06, I’m not sure, before at a time. And this dealership had four of them. So they move a lot of them.
And I went in and talked to their performance specialist, I guess you could call it. And he told me that what I want, it’s very hard to find. It was more of a good luck? It was more of a good luck.
I mean, for instance, there are no C7 Z06s for sale in Kansas City right now. I’ve checked everywhere. Not even the color.
Just period. Not a single C7 Z06 for sale in Kansas City, period. So I’m looking for a specific color, a specific trim.
You want a manual? Huh? And you want a manual? I want a manual. That’s not a make or break deal with me. The more I think about it, because I want to track the car.
And it’s actually more ideal to have the automatic, because of its ability to fling it around a track. It’s got a really advanced transmission. So, ideally, if I had two that I found, and one was manual, one was auto, I would take the manual.
But if I find what I want in an auto, I’ll take it. Very happily take it. That is the car that I want.
And my vision is to… Within a five-hour radius of where we’re at, we have… Actually, within a six-hour radius of where we live, we have four incredible tracks. So we have a track right outside of Lake Theozarks. We have Hedge Hollow, which is about a 30-minute drive from our house.
We have Heartland Park, which is about an hour west of where we live. And then we have… There’s a track in Tulsa. I can’t believe I’m drawing a blank on the name.
I’ve been there a couple of times, but a track in Tulsa that’s really good. And what would you want to do with it? I would be doing… Track, like road course racing. Maybe drag racing.
You kind of got to choose one or the other when you get a car. The way you set it up, the way the wheel and tire setup is, you have to make up your mind. So I’m kind of trying to decide whether I want to get into the drag racing thing again.
Or if I want to get into road course racing. Road course racing is way more dangerous because you’re passing cars. Versus drag racing, you’re just going in a straight line, obviously.
So I’m trying to decide which type of racing I’m going to do. But I’m excited to get back into it and really pumped. What makes the C7 perfect for that? Why that one versus something else? Well, I’ve owned a C6 Z06.
And as much as I love that car, it kind of feels weird to get something that I’ve already had. I’ve had a C5 Z06, same thing. I have a unique thing with the C7 Z06.
Because when I was a detailer at a Chevy dealership, and I wasn’t making a lot of money. We got on the first C7 Z06 that ever came in to our dealer. And it was one of the first delivered to Kansas.
It was right around Christmas time and it was red. And I remember I detailed it, got it cleaned up to put it on the showroom. And then we parked it right underneath the Christmas tree.
Husband and wife came in, they were in their 40s. And I remember the wife was wearing a fur coat. Husband was wearing a long trench coat.
They were professional business people. And they came in and he bought her that car for Christmas. And I remember thinking, that is wealth.
You know what I mean? That car at the time was like a $160,000, $170,000 car. And I’d never seen a Corvette like it. The C7 at the time was the most futuristic Corvette ever.
And the Z06, they just made it look even more exotic. So I always told my buddy that I worked with at this dealership. If I ever make it in life, I’m going to get that car but in yellow.
Why yellow? That’s like my trademark. Yellow Corvette is like, that is Thomas Till. When I first got into street racing with my first Corvette and I kind of came up with it.
There were other people that had C5 Corvettes. I was the only one with a yellow one. It’s rare, right? Yeah, it’s rare because it’s a color that you have to, if someone wants it, they have to order it.
The dealership doesn’t order yellow in Corvettes. Why is that? Because it’s a color, it’s kind of like the SSR that we’re going. People either love them or hate them.
There are people that hate and despise the color yellow on a car and there are people that love it. So if you order the car in that color to put on your dealership, you’re betting, you’re banking on a chance that the person that comes and looks at the car likes yellow. So really only, dealerships only, they don’t order the car in yellow unless someone orders it for themselves, like orders it personally.
So, it’s always been my trademark ever since my first Corvette. And then when I bought my C6 Z06, it was kind of a similar thing. It was my dream car because a C7 Z06 would be, believe it or not, think about this.
When I bought, when I had my first Corvette and I saw a C7 Z06, that would be the equivalent in my head to like a Bugatti. You know, like I’ll never, I’ll never have one. And when I bought my C6 Z06 and it was in yellow, that was like a uniform car for me.
I’d never seen one in person, never seen a yellow one in person, but I knew that like that was the next car I wanted. So this is kind of a similar thing. It’s like I’ve never seen a yellow C7 Z06 in person because they’re rare.
I think there’s like 500 ever made in that color. And then the spec that I want, the Z07 package, the sport seats. I think there’s probably only 75 cars, once you narrow it down, like ever built that are exactly what I want in the whole world.
So it’s got to be yellow. The only other color I would take would be Sebring orange. That’s even more rare than yellow.
And I think that color looks really good. So the only other, that is the only other car that I would get, the only other color I would get would be Sebring orange. And I’ve never, I’ve never even seen a Sebring orange C7 Z06 for sale.
So yeah, I’ve, I’ve, I’ve looked and I quit looking for that color. So it’s possible I end up with an orange one if I can find it. So once you get it, I know you’re probably going to do some Kansas City car detailing services or Kansas City car detailing package on it.
What kind of things would you do on this Corvette in person? Modifications or detailing? Detailing. I would do a full paint correction. I would get the paint perfect.
And then I would have, I would have the car PPF’d. If not full PPF, partial PPF. So like I would have the bumper done, the hood done, and the front fenders done.
That’s going to prevent rock tipping. Okay. The car is going to get a full detail, like literally I’m going to spend, I’ll probably take the week off to get it.
Yep. And just work on it and like get to know the car, you know what I mean? Yeah. And then I’ve got some stuff in mind, like modifications that I want to do.
You know, I don’t really want to build it. I’d rather have like a tastefully modded Z06 that like we could get in if we wanted to drive it to like, you know, Nashville or wherever. Because the more you modify a car, the more, the less reliable it is.
Yeah. So if you, you know, tweak things like change, you know, a pulley and put different exhausts on it and tune it, you’re not going to lose reliability doing those things. Okay.
So those are the things. Yeah.