Seven of the eight sinkhole cars at the National Corvette Museum have been recovered. Only the 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 remains in the hole as I type.
I expected the cars to get uglier as they got deeper in the hole, but the near-total destruction of some of them surprises me. I imagined it all settling a bit more gradually and evenly than this.
I speculated that the 1984 PPG Pace Car might be one of the more problematic ones to restore, owing to its unique prototype status. I suppose it could be worse, but there’s a lot of work to do:
The ’93 ZR-1 Spyder wouldn’t look much worse if a steamroller had run over it:
Like I said in the previous post, it’s just stuff. Stuff can be fixed. But wow.
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