Eight Corvettes may have fallen through the floor at the National Corvette Museum, but overall interest in the museum has gone through the roof.
Since a well-publicized sinkhole swallowed eight Corvettes on February 12, the museum has seen a pronounced spike in traffic. According to Deb Eaton, guest services manager for the museum, February 13 through March 13, 2014 has brought about 700 more visitors than the same time period in 2013.
Eaton told WBKO in Bowling Green, KY that visitors are stopping by to check out the sinkhole and the five Corvettes that have been pulled from it so far.
“They see the first one and you hear, ‘Oh, that’s sad.’ As the cars are in worse shape leading up to the fifth car they extracted, you hear physical moans and they’re in pain for them. I saw a lady today who was actually in tears and shaking,” Eaton told the TV station.
Construction crews are working to remove the remaining Corvette (2001 Z06 with Mallett Hammer conversion) from the hole. You can get updates on the National Corvette Museum’s Facebook page and see before/after pics of all seven “rescued” Corvettes below.
IMAGES COURTESY OF NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM.
2009 White 1.5 Millionth Corvette
1993 ZR-1 Spyder
2009 “Blue Devil” ZR1
1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Corvette
1962 Black Corvette
1984 PPG Pace Car
1992 White 1 Millionth Corvette
This so sucks, the one small mercy is the 62 seems okay, not perfect, but okay…
we have the technology. We can rebuild them .. ? so Sad. Hopefully they can repair the museum as well as these amazing vehicles.
Man that PPG is a shame, Very cool car. Doubt it can be saved!!!
I am not a huge C-4 fan but I love the earlier C platforms and the C5-6’s. This is a shame to have such automotive rarities damaged in a natural disaster. As my good friend Jeff Spicoli would say “My old man is a television repairman. He’s got this awesome set of tools… I can fix it.”
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remember they can all be repaired, there are incredible talented people who do this type of art for a living. the cars will be fine, maybe not 100% original but fine. I am sure they have donations of time and money offered like crazy.
they are only original once