Thread: Kentucky Sinkhole Eats 8 Corvettes!!

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Just saw news reports that security guards at the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green responded to a motion detector alarm in the large domed area of the museum at around 5:30am today, and when they arrived they found a massive sinkhole with eight Corvettes at the bottom! The sinkhole is reported to be about twenty feet deep, in the area of the rotating display that held eight cars. This is the part of the museum that was completed first, in about '94 as I understand. Guess they didn't bother with subsurface geotech investigations before they did their foundations......

Sinkhole swallows 8 cars at Corvette museum in Kentucky

This is indeed sadly confirmed


museumsinkhole.jpg

Instead of the museum... that should've happened at a law firm!

Originally Posted by 34_40

Instead of the museum... that should've happened at a law firm!

Or a Whitehouse shi**er with our fearless leader sittin on it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, we were there in May.

I go by that museum a lot. Sad situation. That whole area including
my area is cave country.

Been there and in the caves MANY times

What years were the cars that were eaten? That will help determine my degree of sadness....or not....

Originally Posted by randyr

What years were the cars that were eaten? That will help determine my degree of sadness....or not....

Not sure but I bet they DROPPED in price.

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It was just on the noon news. Reporter commented the Corvette plant is next door. She said wow they are going to have to work overtime to make some new replacements. Whaaaaaaaat????

People like this should NEVER play the Lottery.
Sinkhole opens up at National Corvette Museum, swallows cars | Fox News

Not sure I understand what they say about the 83 Corvette. They never built one. When I was there they had half of what one would have looked like had the gone into production. It was hanging on a wall I n the plant.

By the looks of those pics, they had best be moving some other cars before they be gone too.

I found this from the above link.

The National Corvette Museum, on Interstate 65 just north of Bowling Green, will celebrate its 20th anniversary in August. Of the eight cars that fell into the hole, the museum owned six and General Motors owned two. GM's Corvette plant where present-day Corvettes are manufactured is across a highway less than a half mile from the museum.

Cars involved in the incident, which occurred inside the museum's iconic spire called the Sky Dome, are these:


•1962 black Corvette
•1984 PPG pace car
•1992 white 1 millionth Corvette
•1993 ruby red 40th anniversary Corvette
•1993 ZR-1 Spyder on loan from General Motors
•2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette
•2009 white 1.5 millionth Corvette
•2009 ZR1 "Blue Devil" on loan from General Motors

Emergency personnel allowed museum staff to remove only one car in the Sky Dome, the only surviving 1983 Corvette, Strode said. It had not fallen into the hole.

Andrea Hales, communications manager at the Bowling Green Corvette plant, said the Corvette was not produced in 1983. She added that the sinkhole had no effect on the nearby plant.

Engineers at the scene are assessing the situation, said Jason Polk, a professor of geology and geography at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. Polk is part of the team investigating the cause and extent of the sink hole at the museum Wednesday.