Sinkhole swallows 8 Corvettes at museum

Yesterday morning, a sinkhole 40 feet wide and 25 to 30 feet deep, opened under the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY, swallowing 8 of their vintage cars.

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.

Footage from the museum's CCTV cameras:


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