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Old 03-03-2014, 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Steven Bell
Wow, look at that-it didn't even need a battery tender.....
Old 03-03-2014, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Steven Bell
Wow, look at that-it didn't even need a battery tender.....

It needed a jump pack. Took a few times for it to start.
Old 03-03-2014, 08:50 PM
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I'm sure there is more wrong then meets the eye. That oil leak didn't just happen from setting, something twisted or was smashed. The front splitter also has some damage. That poor ruby C4. If the car was not important, I would think it's totaled. I don't think there is a panel on the body that wasn't damaged. Wonder what the car that is upside down under mounds of debris is going to look like? What a shame!
Old 03-03-2014, 11:23 PM
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All the more reason to have run flats! At least with run flats you can get swallowed up by a giant 3 story deep sink hole and still drive away!
Old 03-04-2014, 12:31 AM
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i'm assuming this was the last car out of the hole. don't see the others in there.
Old 03-04-2014, 12:34 AM
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I was there today as this happened.

Passenger rocker was cracked quite a bit but looked someone took her out on a Friday night bender on a gravel road, crop tour.

Loose gravel was still scattered on front grill around the splitter

The museum delivery staff were commenting with the crap weather , this is the first time in a decade they weren't sending the cars out in the snow.

Roads in KY were brutal...Wendy's and Hardee's were closed they must have really thought the weather was brutal.

In Canada we call this weather a "dusting".

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https://www.facebook.com/NoRebounds/...14288585321542

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Old 03-04-2014, 03:12 AM
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Just a wash and a quick buff and she'll be as good as new.
Old 03-04-2014, 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Waytofastvette2006
I'm surprised by the lack of damage ! It must have fallen just right with nothing landing right on top of it.
Pretty lucky and awesome it drove away
Old 03-04-2014, 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by slief


I can't believe that car is in as good a condition as it is after dropping 30 or so feet. Even more impressive that they drove it out of there. I guess these plastic fantastic cars are even tougher than one would expect!
To lure more viewers USA Today website titled the recovery as follows...

"See Corvette's shocking condition after sinkhole drop"
Old 03-04-2014, 10:49 AM
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Can't believe they could do that with such an obsolete piece of junk. Maybe those C6's aren't that bad . . . . Naaah.
Old 03-04-2014, 12:53 PM
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Right On !
Old 03-04-2014, 02:16 PM
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Does anyone have the link to that guy that posted a youtube video about this being a joke? We need to post this video back on his wall.
Old 03-04-2014, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by gbgary
i'm assuming this was the last car out of the hole. don't see the others in there.
The others are buried and need to be dug out!
Old 03-04-2014, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by ~Stingray
Does anyone have the link to that guy that posted a youtube video about this being a joke? We need to post this video back on his wall.
That pic of the car in the hole DOES look like it's fake....not speaking to any hoax conspiracies or anything...just to the picture....
Old 03-04-2014, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr.Ron
That pic of the car in the hole DOES look like it's fake....not speaking to any hoax conspiracies or anything...just to the picture....
Oh I don't disagree, I thought the same thing; matchbox cars. But I didn't post a youtube video calling out the gov. conspiracy. hahaha.

Next, all those hurricanes and tornadoes we get are created by hypersonic jets of the government flying in circles really fast to prove a point.



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