Sink hole rant for Corvette lover IMA

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Sink hole rant for Corvette lover IMA

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BOWLING GREEN, KY. — A 40-foot sink hole at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green swallowed eight of the sports cars on display inside the facility’s iconic Sky Dome Wednesday morning, said executive director Wendell Strode.

Some time before 5:30 a.m. the sink hole started to form and by 5:44 a.m. motion detectors started going off, the museum said. No one was in or around the museum at the time.

When they got to the museum, emergency personnel discovered a 40-foot sink hole between 25 and 30 feet deep, Strode said. “It’s pretty significant,” he said.

The museum issued a statement that said six of the damaged cars were owned by the museum and two — a 1993 ZR-1 Spyder and a 2009 ZR1 Blue Devil — were on loan from General Motors.

The other cars damaged were a 1962 black Corvette, a 1984 PPG Pace Car, a 1992 White 1 Millionth Corvette, a 1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Corvette, a 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette and a 2009 white 1.5 Millionth Corvette, the museum said.
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IMA is busy mudjacking his garage.

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I saw something about that earlier in the week. It sucks, some of those cars are irreplaceable but fortunately no one was hurt when it happened.

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GM is stepping in to try and restore the damaged cars at one of their facilities, but it'll be interesting to see how many of them are even salvageable.

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