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Giant sinkhole eatting cars at the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green! {MEGA MERGER}

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Default Giant sinkhole eatting cars at the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green! {MEGA MERGER}

On the local news this morning.

Sinkhole swallows 8 cars at National Corvette Museum
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So far these are the casualties.

On loan from General Motors

1993 ZR-1 Spyder
2009 ZR1 “Blue Devil” on loan from General Motors

Owned by the National Corvette Museum

1962 Black Corvette
1984 PPG Pace Car
1992 White 1 Millionth Corvette
1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Corvette
2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette
2009 White 1.5 Millionth Corvette
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Old 02-12-2014, 10:26 AM
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Looks like my ex wife fell off her broom again ............
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Originally Posted by MikeyTX
Looks like my ex wife fell off her broom again ............
wish it was mines
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Luckily no one was hurt.
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had to go back and look at my pictures and found this...so sad she's gone along with the others on the list :'(

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Man, that sucks.
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Holy Cow!
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Sad day for Chevrolet. Although Bowling Green is every Corvette fanatics fantasy garage. It just goes to show that corvettes belong on the road.

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Originally Posted by harlold
Luckily no one was hurt.
Still, what a tragedy.
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Wow, the 1 millionth and the 1.5 millionth examples got destroyed? That's such a shame.
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Originally Posted by BMadden
Wow, the 1 millionth and the 1.5 millionth examples got destroyed? That's such a shame.
I'm betting most will be repaired and put back on display
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Some, at least, look like the can be retrieved and restored. Question is if they will be able to work there without making the hole worse. The 1M and 1.5M cars are the biggest loss as far as I can see. At least the 1983 is safe, so far.
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Looks like Satan wants a C7 and missed his mark
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Wow that is horrible.

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So it turns out that the devil is a Corvette guy. Who knew? I always figured him as more of a Viper fan.

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Originally Posted by BigJoe
Some, at least, look like the can be retrieved and restored. Question is if they will be able to work there without making the hole worse. The 1M and 1.5M cars are the biggest loss as far as I can see. At least the 1983 is safe, so far.
The long term concern will be whether or not the rest of the museum can be safe and not eventually collapse into the same sinkhole!!
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Originally Posted by GOLD72
The long term concern will be whether or not the rest of the museum can be safe and not eventually collapse into the same sinkhole!!
Exactly! WOW!

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