Time-Lapse video shows sinkhole repair at the National Corvette Museum.
The nightmare is over! The sinkhole is filled and the Skydome is open. To pay tribute to the cars that went down, the recovered eight cars that crashed into the open hole are in the exact position they were in the morning the earth opened up.
Eight cars went down. The 2009 Blue Devil, the 1992 1 Millionth Corvette, and the 1962 Corvette that were on loan survived, although pretty beat, all will be fully restored. The least beat and the first restored was the Blue Devil C6 2009 ZR1. The black 1962 Corvette is being restored by Chevrolet, and the 1 Millionth Corvette was fully restored.
The remaining five cars that were not recoverable include; the 1993 ZR-1 Spyder, the 1984 PPG Pace Car, the 1994 40th Anniversary Corvette, the 2001 Mallett Corvette, and the 2009 1,500,000 Corvette.
As tragic as this natural disaster was for the museum, it was, in an odd way, a strange blessing. Within 24 hours, the entire world knew about the eight special Corvettes that were swallowed up into the earth. After the museum re-opened, attendance skyrocketed. Corvette fans from everywhere wanted to “see the hole that ate eight Corvettes.” Had the sinkhole happened in the parking lot or in the side yard, no one would have remembered after a few weeks. But the sinkhole that ate Corvettes is now part of Corvette folklore! – Scott
as curated from the Detroit News article.
