Only one Corvette remains in museum sinkhole

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:

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Photograph by the National Corvette Museum.

The ’93 ZR-1 Spyder wouldn’t look much worse if a steamroller had run over it:

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Photograph by the National Corvette Museum.

Like I said in the previous post, it’s just stuff. Stuff can be fixed. But wow.

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