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PostPosted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:49 pm    Post subject: Sinkhole swallows cars inside Corvette museum Reply with quote

Eight Corvettes were swallowed up by a sinkhole inside the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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http://www.wbko.com/home/headlines/BREAKING-Floor-...73671.html
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah that is a damn tragedy
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 10:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

it's a shame, especially to those who had cars in there

least is wasn't the VW museum.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah but only one of the cars was a cool old one the rest were from the 80's/90's
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Might offend others but........
At least it was pos chevy cars and not fords or vws lol
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 7:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i wouldn't be too worried if it were a ford museum either


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Might offend others but........
At least it was pos chevy cars and not fords or vws lol

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 7:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It made me laugh and then I realized even Mother Nature hates Corvettes
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 8:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not a huge vette fan, I don't hate them (if anything, hate their typical owner, it isn't the cars fault).

Either way, I think it's sad to see historical items of any sort lost forever.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 9:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There must be some connection between being a douche and owning a douchey car

Most guys i have met/seen the the cool older one (pre 70) are not really that bad
But just about everyone who owns a newer one seem to be a total douchebag


Btw if there was any make of post 70's cars that got wreck iit really wouldn't be any bad loss
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 10:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think this sucks no matter what type of cars.

The sinkhole photo seriously looks like it's toy cars though.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought the poll was amusing:

Q: Do you think more people will visit the National Corvette Museum after the sinkhole collapse?

Yes
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 10:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That sucks indeed regardless of what kind of cars they were, I'm not a fan of most Corvette owners but some of the cars themselves are still fairly badass and intriguing, I wouldn't buy one but I'd sure give a free one a good long test drive.
Interesting, freaky and a little odd that it chose to open up right in the middle of a display hall and just eat the cars without taking the building too, maybe mother nature has had her fill of iron oxide from all our VW's and wants to sample some polyester for a change of diet?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 11:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kansas Rob wrote:
I thought the poll was amusing:

Q: Do you think more people will visit the National Corvette Museum after the sinkhole collapse?

Yes
No


They probably did get some additional press. Wink
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Man, this was terrible. Imagine that guy walking in the first day trying to focus his eyes..... **&^%%!

I mean.. it wasn't outside or near the place.. but RIGHT under the cars. Terrible stuff all the way around.

I remember driving past the place years ago... it's right off the interstate. Imagine the hole appearing in the interstate! Yikes!!
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Workers were notified before dawn when the motion detector system went off.

And a few miles down the road is Mammoth Caves. Hmmmmm, I wonder if there is a connection?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 12:03 am    Post subject: Follow-up news on sinkhole Reply with quote

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/03/03/corvette-museum-begins-recovering-cars-from-sinkhole/

The third "here" in the link within the article: "You can watch the Corvette extraction live here, here, and here" shows a video from today of a crane lifting out one of the Vettes. You can see a red Vette at about 13:00 after it was brought out of the hole.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 5:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And apparently the ZR1 they pulled out still runs. Very cool.

Now, the question will be, do you restore or build copies of these cars, or display the crushed ones? I think if it's truly a historically significant car, display it in it's crushed glory.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 7:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mr. Unpopular wrote:
And apparently the ZR1 they pulled out still runs. Very cool.

Now, the question will be, do you restore or build copies of these cars, or display the crushed ones? I think if it's truly a historically significant car, display it in it's crushed glory.


From the article: "Although the museum is a privately-run, non-profit organization, General Motors has pledged to repair the cars damaged in the accident."
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i don't know hwy it's surprising that the cars are cranking over easily. it's not like they were in the bottom of a lake or anything. they fell down a hole.

but as said all but i think 1 are 80s/90s/00s so nothing exciting missing anyhow. not that i think many vettes are exciting but deff anything post early 70s is pretty much out. they do make good donors for powertrain and suspension for hot rod though Laughing Laughing Laughing ...ken.....
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The last vette out of the hole... "That shit will buff out"

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