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04-08-2014, 06:23 PM
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04-08-2014, 08:09 PM
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From the NCM Facebook page:
The final Corvette... #8 of the "Great 8" has been found! The Mallett Hammer is upside down with the nose going to the Spire in the center of the room. There are lots of rocks, so the removal process will be more time consuming that it was with the other cars.
The final Corvette... #8 of the "Great 8" has been found! The Mallett Hammer is upside down with the nose going to the Spire in the center of the room. There are lots of rocks, so the removal process will be more time consuming that it was with the other cars.
04-08-2014, 09:20 PM
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From the NCM Facebook page:
The final Corvette... #8 of the "Great 8" has been found! The Mallett Hammer is upside down with the nose going to the Spire in the center of the room. There are lots of rocks, so the removal process will be more time consuming that it was with the other cars.
The final Corvette... #8 of the "Great 8" has been found! The Mallett Hammer is upside down with the nose going to the Spire in the center of the room. There are lots of rocks, so the removal process will be more time consuming that it was with the other cars.
04-09-2014, 04:47 PM
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04-09-2014, 04:52 PM
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04-09-2014, 04:54 PM
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04-09-2014, 04:55 PM
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I don't think it's going to make it to the restoration process. Heck, they didn't give it the dignity to be put on the high polished car hauler like the other ones as what's left of this is just plopped on an old wood deck equipment trailer with boat trailer wagon wheels. Like having your casket hauled to the cemetery in the back of an old POS pickup truck.
04-09-2014, 05:20 PM
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Realistically, there's nothing left to salvage....
04-09-2014, 06:17 PM
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04-09-2014, 06:58 PM
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Repost of my comments on another thread:
I hope they don't restore them. I hope they don't even wash them. Some of those, if they were rebuilt would only be replicas , with a few original parts and a chassis plate.
This sinkhole is part of Corvette history. It brought the world's attention to the museum. I hope they display a couple of the damaged cars, dirt and all with pictures of the sinkhole.
Last week I toured the Space Shuttle in Los Angeles. They had a display card for every mission. People looked at the first one, and the ones that had blown up.
When I toured the Chrysler museum in Detroit they had a Viper displayed as it had finished Le Mans. The paint was chipped, sand blasted and rubber was on the nose. It was authentic. If it had been repainted, it would have lost that.
In Vancouver, at the winter Olympic torch relay they told people not to wipe the soot off their torch, as that was part of the value/experience of keeping the torch.
The sinkhole will bring many to the museum. All the other cars can be perfect. These should be left as is.
In the words of Miles Collier, perhaps America's foremost car museum/archivist, "A car is only original once." They have a patina that can't be duplicated.
That is wonderful of GM to offer to restore them. I think the money should be spent on a sink hole exhibit.
I hope they don't restore them. I hope they don't even wash them. Some of those, if they were rebuilt would only be replicas , with a few original parts and a chassis plate.
This sinkhole is part of Corvette history. It brought the world's attention to the museum. I hope they display a couple of the damaged cars, dirt and all with pictures of the sinkhole.
Last week I toured the Space Shuttle in Los Angeles. They had a display card for every mission. People looked at the first one, and the ones that had blown up.
When I toured the Chrysler museum in Detroit they had a Viper displayed as it had finished Le Mans. The paint was chipped, sand blasted and rubber was on the nose. It was authentic. If it had been repainted, it would have lost that.
In Vancouver, at the winter Olympic torch relay they told people not to wipe the soot off their torch, as that was part of the value/experience of keeping the torch.
The sinkhole will bring many to the museum. All the other cars can be perfect. These should be left as is.
In the words of Miles Collier, perhaps America's foremost car museum/archivist, "A car is only original once." They have a patina that can't be duplicated.
That is wonderful of GM to offer to restore them. I think the money should be spent on a sink hole exhibit.