The Corvette museum was hungry

http://www.whas11.com/news/8-cars-swollowed-by-sinkhole-at-National-Corvette-Museum-245183751.html

If they didn't want it, they wouldn't have looked that way.

Strange.

I can't wait for the conspiracy theories...

It was fracking. Down with big oil!

It was the government...they are building underground shelters to survive the upcoming apocalypse!

Maybe Mammoth Cave will open a new tour at the museum.

Cars involved:

1993 ZR-1 Spyder on loan from General Motors

2009 ZR1 “Blue Devil” on loan from General Motors

1962 Black Corvette

1984 PPG Pace Car

1992 White 1 Millionth Corvette

1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Corvette

2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette

2009 White 1.5 Millionth Corvette

This is exactly what I expected when I read the thread title.

T.J. wrote: It was the government...they are building underground shelters to survive the upcoming apocalypse!

Cheyenne Mountain has that covered.

lol

Jesus. I was just there a few months ago. Glad I got to see it pre-Earthhunger.

Interestingly the main museum is still opened so the structure is fine just with an indoor pool minus the water. So this should not affect the opening of the track.

I work for a company that has a manufacturing site about 30 miles west of Bowling Green. The whole area is limestone rock with a little dirt sprinkled over the top. Sinkholes are common.

Maybe they were just trying to plant a Corvette tree?

In reply to Lancer007:

Buwahahahahaha

What a shame; those were some nice cars. There has to be some concern about the structure of the building, doesn't there?

I wonder which got to the bottom the fastest? Probably the Blue Devil.

:( at the Blue Devil being one of them, that thing always sounded like an untamable monster that made a viper sound like a prius

is this the wrong time to make a ford > chevy joke?

In reply to jstein77:

Sounds like the dome is separate from the rest of the museum. The dome building is closed. Sad way to lose old classic cars.

They need a recount, I bet one is missing! I saw this same plot unfold in the Italian Job.

Advan046 wrote: In reply to jstein77: Sounds like the dome is separate from the rest of the museum. The dome building is closed. Sad way to lose old classic cars.

It is. There's a hallway in and a hallway out.

Mmmmmmm. Plastic!

Pretty sad, hope they can recover the cars. Probably not all, but that sucks for the Museum.

You'd think they would go ahead and move the remaining cars? Surely they have some interns around?

Tyler H wrote: You'd think they would go ahead and move the remaining cars? Surely they have some interns around?

they probably need a structural engineer to give the all clear before even going in the dome.

i'm sad, mostly about the zr1 spyder and the 1,000,000th car.

Tyler H wrote: You'd think they would go ahead and move the remaining cars? Surely they have some interns around?

One of the news articles said that they moved the 1983 vette since it is the only one in existence. They're waiting on OK from the building inspectors before they move any others.

Serious Q. I know nothing about sink holes other than news headlines. How deep do these things tend to be and could you fish out the cars with a crane?