Sinkhole Swallows Cars at National Corvette Museum

Credit: National Corvette Museum

It's a sad day for car enthusiasts everywhere, as the mouth of Hell has claimed eight Corvettes.

A sinkhole, roughly 40 feet wide and around 25 to 30 feet deep, opened up beneath a section of the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky and swallowed eight Corvettes. The sinkhole appeared just before dawn underneath the skydome section of the museuem, claims Executive Director Wendell Strode.

According to the museum's official website, the cone-shaped area is home to Corvettes on loan from private owners, in addition to those "made famous by magazines and auto shows the world over." Among the more than 30 unique Corvettes in the section are prototypes, alongside popular and rare model. Hell, they even have a 1983 model, the only one in existence. Thankfully, the 1983 model wasn't listed as one of the cars lost, but the loss has still been immense. A 1962 Black Corvette, a 1984 PPG Pace Car, and a 1993 ZR-1 Spyder were just three of the eight cars claimed by the sinkhole. Of the eight cars lost, six had been donated to the museum by Corvette enthusiasts, while the other two were owned by the car's maker, General Motors.

Strode was uncertain of the specific total value of the damaged cars, but claimed the financial loss is "substantial." A structural engineer was at the scene assessing the situation, presumably not just to figure out how this happened, but to assess the possibility of whether it might happen again. Here's hoping the planet takes pity on the National Corvette Museum, since Hell doesn't need to be driving better cars than us.

Via: CNN