An Ode to Speed Phenom 

Agree completely! Thanks for the kind words as well! Have a nice weekend Sully! -Fred

@@FredsFullThrottle Last night my wife and I showed the Car & Driver Z06 video to my sister & her hubby. When my sis asked if we still are buying one, I said that I was not sure. (You know the reasons.) My wife said, "Damn straight we are buying one! I can't wait to get behind the wheel." Well, the boss has spoken. LOL

@@Pmtd1234 Haha, that made the decision easy!

Thanks Bill, I really appreciate that! It's honestly pretty difficult to think up new things to cover, while also being able to put my take on it, and keep it interesting/entertaining. I hit it right every so often, but also have a fair share of "duds" lol. But, I'm having fun with it, and comments like this are really inspiring and make me want to improve as much as I can. Thanks for the kind words, and for reaching out! Have a nice day! -Fred

Thanks GTRZero, much appreciated! Were I in his shoes I'd try to do the same! Have a nice day! -Fred

Much appreciated John! Have a great weekend! -Fred

Hi Jonathan! Agreed, that car is gorgeous! I hear ya, a lot of the RU-vidrs out there aren't really passionate about Corvettes and the car is a stepping stone to them rather than the main event. If I had my Z yet, I'd definitely be diving in pretty deeply, but alas, I'm probably 2-3 years out at MM. Have a nice day! -Fred

Hi Pratt Trio, I really appreciate it, thank you for the kind words, and for reaching out! -Fred

Hey man! Haha, always nice to hear from you, the enthusiasm is a highlight for me, and I look for your comments whenever I put out a new video lol. Gotta run the flannel when the basement starts getting chilly! Your points about Austin really hit home for me, both for myself and my own experience in hearing comments about him. It's sad and disappointing that adults feel the need to try to bash him, to try to discredit him, when he's a great ambassador for car enthusiasts. For my own channel I occasionally get "haters", and poof, banned from commenting. No warning, no second chances, if people can't be respectful, I don't need to hear from them. Funniest thing (you might appreciate this), is in RU-vid-land when you ban someone, what it does is it actually just hides them from the channel, from all other viewers, etc... But the awful person on the other end has no idea. They can still watch my videos and comment. But they're yelling at a wall, because no one else will actually ever see their comment. I'm amused thinking about them trying to get under my skin, and wasting their time yelling into a void. But I digress...that's already giving them more thought than they're worth. Agreed with you on the vibration thing, I was happy to see and hear (in a few different places) that that never really came to pass. I think Chevy really did their homework and realized that it was worth the extra engineering time to figure out all those issues and solve them, rather than deal with big issues down the road on a flagship car. Lastly, Austin saw this video and really enjoyed my compliments, as well as had a few of his own for my delivery, camera presence and approach. He and I are keeping in touch and if he's ever out in this area (or I out in his), he's open to meeting up to do something. I was flattered and thrilled at the same time. One of the best things about car culture is the people, and Austin (and yourself) are a testament to that! Have a great weekend my friend, and we'll talk soon Shane! Fred Out!

@@FredsFullThrottle Nice! That's great he saw your channel and offered some advice and knowledge! Would be very cool to meet up with him and hangout and drive! Can you ask him how the Comp Seats felt after driving 3k miles in his car? I am currently planning on the comp seats for my C8 allocation. I intend on driving long distances and vacationing in it and I didn't want to find out later the comp seats were horribly uncomfortable or something...ha ha ha! Austin hasn't replied to my question or comments yet and I don't want to be a stalker 😜 Thanks -Shane

Hi Jesse! Much appreciated, thanks for reaching out! Have a great weekend! -Fred

Agreed, really nice to see. I had no doubt they would engineer it correctly, it's the heart of the car. If it had a serious issue, it'd be the death of the car early on. Have a nice evening! -Fred

@@FredsFullThrottle you to Fred

Hi Vettesweetnos! Nice to hear from you! Congrats on the order in, and agreed I think it won't be too long for you to get yours! I appreciate the kind words! I try to keep it interesting, and will respond as much as I can, though even now each video gets 30+ comments (which is amazing in itself), so I have to pick and choose a bit. I never in a million years ever thought I'd ever get as popular as I am now, and have no idea what the future brings. But, I can say I am not doing this at all for the money, and will always stay true to my roots. From my end, I have to say it's incredibly special to me to have people that actually want to reach out, talk, ask questions, and have a dialog. It is incredibly humbling, and exciting for me. Anyway, once you get the car, do you have any drives that you really want to do, or track events that call out to you? Now that there's more footage of the cars out there, I can't imagine how fun it'll be to take it on some back roads. :) Have a nice weekend! -Fred

@@FredsFullThrottle hey Fred, I have some roads in mind. I'll have more waiting initially though, car will be at auto armor in bowling green getting full ppf, ceramic, and tint. I will try to schedule that at the same time as delivery. After that, no more waiting, just awesome drives and maintaining. Have a great weekend!

Hi VelociDad! Thanks for reaching out, and especially for the kind words! I'm with you on wishing there were more blue options. I love love love my Admiral Blue Metallic paint on my C7, and absolutely wish I could see it on a C8Z. I'm secretly (ok maybe not so secretly) hoping that by the time my reservation gets called that GM ups their game and re-releases that color. Fingers crossed right there with you man! -Fred

That means you're getting more fun out of your car than most, I applaud you! Thanks for reaching out TheJuice401, nice to hear from you! Have a nice weekend! -Fred

Great spotting! SCX24. The wood thing it's sitting on is a customizable crawler course I'm building. You build a perimeter then saw down 2x4's to fit so they wedge in like Tetris. Then if you cut them in all different shapes/sizes, you can move them around and make a rough off-roading course that's endlessly configurable. I have something special planned for the thing I'm building, not sure if I'll put it on the channel, but if it comes out awesome I might do a little segment on it. Have a nice day! -Fred

Hi Tom, Nice to hear from you! I do remember what you said. However, it's a challenging line to walk. Corvette's are only one of my motorized interests, and I got a LOT of emails and feedback about the fatigue video from a couple weeks ago, asking me to do more content that branches out. Even in last weeks video, many of the comments were thanking me for not strictly covering the Z06. I'm trying to tow the line between covering Corvette, Z06, and the upcoming variants, while also branching out a bit. I got a lot of good feedback when I did some videos covering Porsche earlier this year as well, and that's an area I'd like to explore more. While I would like to grow and obviously getting views/subs is nice, since I'm not doing this for the money, but rather for covering subjects that I'm interested in, I am going to explore various avenues. Sorry the bike video didn't resonate for you, I realize that with every subject you gain some you lose some. I've had people reach out saying I cover the Z06 too much, and they stopped watching me because of that. You can't please everybody, and instead my approach is be me, and try to make myself happy, and hopefully it resonates for a lot of folks, but if not, I'm at least happy with what I've made. I totally get your point, and appreciate you raising it. It's an incredible amount of work on top of my already hectic busy life to make these videos, so I appreciate that you care enough to say something. I will try to find a balance between Corvette, Porsche, bikes and whatever else. Bikes won't be a large focus overall, as they don't resonate for as many folks, but please feel free to ignore next week's video as (spoiler alert), it's bike related. I bought a new Ducati for $70 and it explains how I did it. But after that video there won't be bike stuff for a while. Anyway, have a nice day! -Fred

LOL!!! Fred, it's not that I've never been into bike's. Heck, in my earlier years I loved bike's, but they didn't love me. LOL Memories of bike's were usually connected to pain which usually stands out in our minds the most. For example, Dirt Bike Riding equals pain and broken bones. Street bikes? The last street bike I rode was a Suzuki GSXR 1100 that belonged to my younger brother at the time. Knowing myself well and my total lack of fear for speed and the GSXR being stupid fast at the time, I figured my life expectancy had to have been reduced by 80% or possibly more. So, do what makes you happy because life's too short...

@@tmcternan47 totally makes sense! Streetbikes are silly fast. All I was getting at is that no matter what I make I get feedback from some to do something different, and from others to keep doing it. lol I try my best, but the only way to do it is to do what interests me. Fortunately it will be car related the vast majority of the time. Have a nice evening! -Fred A

You can't please all the people all the time, but if you can please most of them most of the time, then you are doing good. Fred is a regular guy making time from his real life to express his thought out logical analysis of Z06 news when there is worthwhile news to analyze. For me, someone like Stradman, even with his high popularity, is exhausting and something near hearing finger nails on a chalk board with the forced high energy "show". It is great for Austin to have the time and money to have more supercar content in his videos.

@@polystictus I totally agree, particularly regarding Stradman... Tried watching one of his latest videos for the very first time and couldn't make it all the way through, or at least until the fatigue set in.... And Austin appears to have become a great ambassador for Corvette based on the relevance of his questions at the time of the reveal last year. And then his commitment to have purchased two Stingray's together with covering his track time with them. While I'm in a great position having placed my deposit with Mike Furman@Criswell Chevrolet back in February 2019 for the Z06 with the Z07 Performance package, I can see why Austin was able to take delivery so early. GM/Corvette just can't buy the amount of advertising Austin provides them, particularly in the detail he seems to go into....