A massive sinkhole set off motion detectors early this morning at The National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky damaging eight vintage and rare Corvettes.
The iconic Sky Dome, home to The National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY, had a 40-foot sinkhole Wednesday morning.The Bowling Green fire department responded to an alarm around 5:40 a.m. where they discovered the massive sinkhole which swallowed eight Corvettes on display there. Only part of the museum was affected by the sinkhole and “the structure of the building is intact and it’s fine,” museum spokeswoman Katie Frassinelli said.
Out of the eight cars damaged, six were owned by the museum and two were loaned from General Motors. The two loaned by GM were a 1993 ZR-1 Spyder and a 2009 ZR1 Blue Devil. The rest of the 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 issued in a press release.
Museum staff was able to safely recover the only surviving 1983 Corvette, which was at risk of joining the other cars down in the sinkhole. An engineer is currently evaluating the structural damage inside the Sky Dome to estimate the cost of the damage done to vehicles and to the building.
