http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... e/5417171/


Above link contains footage of cars falling in.


Giant Kentucky sinkhole swallowed 8 Chevy Corvettes at a car museum.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — A sinkhole formed Wednesday under the National Corvette Museum here, swallowing eight cars, according to its executive director.

Sometime before 5:30 a.m. CT, the sinkhole started to form, authorities believe. By 5:44 a.m., motion detectors were going off and police were called, Executive Director Wendell Strode said. Security cameras at the museum (below) caught the destruction.

When emergency personnel got to the museum, they discovered a sinkhole 40 feet wide and 25 to 30 feet deep, Strode said.

"It's pretty significant," he said.

Of the eight cars that fell into the hole, the museum owned six and General Motors owned two. GM's Bowling Green Corvette plant, the only factory that builds Corvettes, 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 for the Indy 500
1992 white 1 millionth-built Corvette
1993 ruby red 40th anniversary Corvette
1993 ZR1 Spyder on loan from General Motors, a design study that was never built.
2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette, a one-off tuner model.
2009 white 1.5 millionth-built Corvette.
2009 ZR1 "Blue Devil" on loan from General Motors, the show car for the re-introduction of the ZR1, last built in the early 1990s.

Staff were able to move 20 cars out of the Sky Dome later in the day after engineers determined that nothing was in danger of collapsing. Early in the day, Strobe said emergency personnel allowed museum staff to remove only one other car, the only surviving example of the "1983" Corvette. 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. A six-month delay in the new generation created a model year gap. GM built about 40 prototype 1983s, which could not be sold, then built the production cars as 1984 models. It crushed all the 1983s except for the one given to the museum.

Hales added that the sinkhole had no effect on the nearby plant.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Fuck em. Corvettes might as well have started with the C7.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Dumb.

And by "Dumb" I mean that your statement is inaccurate.

How is a stated opinion inaccurate?

Corvettes were overpriced track cars that seniors babied on suburban roads. Interiors that made 1980's japanese cars look luxury.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

More bad thoughts.

The older 70's version of the Vette was a teeth chattering experience to drive.

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Elections have consequences.

That's ok. MOst people who own a Corvette didn't have any.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

fracking!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

My buddies dad has a 1971 Corvette 455 t top. It's pretty sweet but yes it lets you know that it isn't a boulevard cruiser.

The exhaust and engine notes are impressive

they were very cool prior to 1973 or so.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Hmm mmm...

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Mid 70s to to mid C4 weren't good cars.

Yeah,8 fracking sweet rides...it's a shame.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

That's cuz all of Obama's political forefathers forced all this clean air and gas milage bullshit on everyone. Big surprise when the entire US car industry went in the shitter after that.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest