Sinkhole swallows 8 Corvettes in Corvette National Museum
By Alvin Uy February 13,2014
Bowling Green, Kentucky is home to the National Corvette Museum and the factory where GM General Motors (GM) assembles America’s favorite sports car. The 7th generation Corvette was recently launched in the Detroit Auto Show last month, making it also the longest running American production sports car.
Yesterday, a huge 12 meters wide x 6 meters deep (40 feet wide by 20 feet deep) sinkhole ate up eight highly collectible Corvettes. The sinkhole opened up under the museum’s yellow Sky Dome wing. According to museum’s spokesperson Katie Frassinelli, at around 530a.m., the museum’s motion sensors alerted its security. She said “When you go in there, it’s unreal. The hole is so big, it makes the Corvettes look like little Matchbox cars.” With millions of dollars in damages, photos and news about the devastating loss began circulating in the web and social media sites much to the dismay of car enthusiasts worldwide.
Initial reports from geologists and engineers from Western Kentucky University say that the Sky Dome itself has no structural damage. Spokesperson Frassinelli observed that the museum is only a short drive away from Mammoth Cave National Park.
The private museum is run independently from carmaker GM and Chevrolet, with a lot of its vehicles either on loan or donated to the museum. Six out of eight of these cars were donated to the museum by Corvette enthusiasts while two are owned by GM.
These are the cars that fell into the sinkhole
1. 1962 Black Corvette
2. 1984 PPG pace car
3. 2009 ZR1 “Blue Devil”
4. 1992 white “1 Millionth Corvette”
5. 1993 Ruby red “40th Anniversary Corvette”
6. 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette
7. 2009 white “1.5 Millionth Corvette”
8. 1993 ZR-1 Spyder
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