Thread: Kentucky Sinkhole Eats 8 Corvettes!!

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The ignorance of the people posting on this thread amazes me. like the person that said there is no '83 Corvette.

Originally Posted by TomJ

The ignorance of the people posting on this thread amazes me. like the person that said there is no '83 Corvette.

Tom, that's actually a fact that I was previously unaware of, too! If you look at production numbers there is no listing between 1982 and 1984, and the history says that GM produced 43 pre-production units, but they all ordered to be held and titled as '84's before any were released to the public. Engineer's hid one, knowing that it was an important part of the history, and it is the white 1983 at the museum. A link that tells the story, and the interesting twist in the history - The Missing 1983 Corvette! | Corvette Blog

Some people do know what there talking about

Originally Posted by cffisher

Some people do know what there talking about

Yeh and we even walk and chew gum at the same time

Originally Posted by rspears

Tom, we'd be flying the flags at half mast!!

Probably need a national day of mourning! roflmao

Any word on if the ones that took a dive can be saved?

Originally Posted by falconvan

Any word on if the ones that took a dive can be saved?

The latest I saw was that work was to start yesterday on stabilizing the remaining floor, and once they have things stable they will need six days to extract the cars. The sinkhole has not expanded any more since the collapse, which is good. Once extracted GM will take the cars to their Mechanical Assembly Area within the Design Center where work will begin on all that can be restored. The report was that the dome's wall structure was not affected, and that the plan will be to use compacted fill to bring the sinkhole back to grade, and then to pour a new floor.
GM to oversee restoration of sinkhole Corvettes

Originally Posted by rspears

The latest I saw was that work was to start yesterday on stabilizing the remaining floor, and once they have things stable they will need six days to extract the cars. The sinkhole has not expanded any more since the collapse, which is good. Once extracted GM will take the cars to their Mechanical Assembly Area within the Design Center where work will begin on all that can be restored. The report was that the dome's wall structure was not affected, and that the plan will be to use compacted fill to bring the sinkhole back to grade, and then to pour a new floor.
GM to oversee restoration of sinkhole Corvettes

Seen a few video's on that place!!! With those assets in equipment and personnel I'd just betcha all those plastic fantastics will come out better then they were!!!!!!

Being one of the "ignorant" ones posting on this thread, I have to say that after seeing the pics of the cars that went in the hole, the black '62 wasn't the only cool one!

There's a collector's showroom right across the street with some cool cars too. I wonder what's lurking under THAT building?

Another ignorant one here with a mutilated chebby. Haha........

Randy, hopefully there's no big cavernous sink hole under that floor. Lots of cool stuff in there.

And one car doesn't make it a production year. So yeah, there aren't any 83 Vettes to be bought unless you are Bill Gates.

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

Another ignorant one here with a mutilated chebby. Haha........

Randy, hopefully there's no big cavernous sink hole under that floor. Lots of cool stuff in there.

And one car doesn't make it a production year. So yeah, there aren't any 83 Vettes to be bought unless you are Bill Gates.

Yeah, Ryan, I especially like the black '58 Impala and the red '63 Galaxie!! To be assured they don't slide into another sink hole, I think they should immediately ship them to me!!!

OH SURE!! Send them from a sinkhole into a fault line!! Nope, the Galaxie needs to come to New England! The Impala - who cares! rofl..

Originally Posted by 34_40

OH SURE!! Send them from a sinkhole into a fault line!! Nope, the Galaxie needs to come to New England! The Impala - who cares! rofl..

Knew a guy in the Navy who was fond of saying that he owned a bunch of property out in western Nevada, and he was going to cash in when California slid into the ocean by selling beachfront property...

Wasn't there a few comics who used to have a joke like that??