Rexde1

A giant hole opening up in the middle of the national corvette museum and sucking up 8 cars. Thats some bad luck.

PhysicsDude55

RedZMonte

http://corvettemuseum.org/enews/back...a/sinkhole.htm
It is with heavy hearts that we report that eight Corvettes were affected by this incident. Those cars include:
•1993 ZR-1 Spyder on loan from General Motors
•2009 ZR1 “Blue Devil” on loan from General Motors

The other six vehicles were owned by the National Corvette Museum including:
•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

sfc rick

That whole complex will have to be condemned and who's going to risk getting the other cars out of there?

DSTURBD

WOW!!!!!!! When did this happen?

And naturally they are irreplaceable, only-one-of-its-kind-in-existence models!!!!! Such a major loss to our hobby and history!!!!!!!

WOW, just WOW!!!! That's all I can think of to say!!

DSTURBD

DanSavage

Considering the area is plagued with sinkholes, I'd say the odds were pretty good.

There are 257 sinkholes in a one-mile radius of the museum. (See: http://www.plotscan.com)

If anything, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.

Lee DeRaud

"Bowling Green...sits in the midst of Kentucky’s Western Pennyroyal area, where many of the state’s longest and deepest caves run underground, according to The Associated Press."
Spelunking and cars do not mix.

jrose7004

The most bizarre thing I've ever seen!

jdot

Museum is right in the front yard of The Mammoth Cave system and a lot of the cave is still uncharted. I live only 88 miles from the museum and there are hundreds of sink holes in my home county. In fact right in my own backyard there is a low area that was found to be the top of a cave area when the neighbor built her house many years ago. This has shaken me so badly I just reviewed my home insurance policy for subsidence coverage and tomorrow I'm going to increase my insurance.

envyz06

Wow I never knew there was so many caves over in that area!

Bullet Proof

I wonder if that will impact the new motorsports park

Vetteman Jack

Sad news indeed. Going to be interesting to hear what they say about the rest of the museum building when they get finished with their inspection.

Lee DeRaud

The museum can be moved.
Note that the factory is only about 1/2 mile away, still within Sinkhole Central.

OneCylinder

Someone will get them out.

Road Runner

Not until the museum is torn down. There will be no way of accessing the sink hole until the building around it is removed.

marco383

Why do I think that somehow, Mustang people were involved?

DanSavage

I read a news story yesterday that said they did have to address a few sinkholes when they were building the motorsports park.

DanSavage

A local contractor's services has been retained to remove the cars.

http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/coll...35b40349f.html

37pat

Precisely what I was thinking. The concerns about the Motorsports park and the museum are insignificant when compared to the factory. If it was lost, would GM rebuild, and if so where. Maybe they could share the Tesla facilty in Fremont, CA. Being in Anaheim, I bet you could think of a ready-made location in SoCal.

El original

I think it was those rascally Ford boys again....