Earlier this year, a sinkhole opened up within the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., taking down eight Corvettes 60 feet below the show floor. Since then, the natural disaster has proven profitable for the museum, prompting its board to make the hole a permanent attraction.
Autoblog reports the hole will be see its size modified from 40-feet wide and 60-feet deep, to 25-feet and 45-feet wide with a depth of 30 feet. There will also be a dirt embankment where up to two of the most damaged of the eight Corvettes will be displayed.
The modifications will take place in September after the museum celebrates its 20th anniversary and the grand opening of the NCM Motorsports Park in late August. CFO Christy Thomas added that if interest wanes or if the museum feels the need to retire the exhibit, the modifications would make filling in the remainder of the sinkhole a possibility.
For now, though, the hole has been a profit magnet, drawing a 71 percent boost in admissions from a 59 percent increase in visitors between March through late June of this year, with no clear signs of abating in the near-term.
Apparently sinkholes don’t grow over time.
Think I’ll take a pass on the Museum.
Wonder if they can find a Professional Engineer to stamp off on the plans?
Why don’t they fill it in with the 8 million ignition switches from the recall?
And why wasn’t there a single stick of rebar to be found in the entire slab?
That was my first question as well–who would sign off on this? I’m going to look for the plans online to see if I can find out who the Engineer On Record of the project is.
Are things that bad at the museum that they have to sink to disaster tourism?
Corny.
What is stopping them from adding additional exhibits, like the most wrecked and mangled Corvettes after an accident?
And I second the motion of a permanent exposition: “GM: 100 years of recalls.”
And of course, adding a bust of Ralph Nader somewhere.
shallow entertainment .. welcome to ‘modern times’..
A metaphor for GM I see. Hmmmmm.
Sh!t, I’m sounding like Yoda.
Thats actually a metaphor for depreciation, as shown by the Artwork formerly known as sinkhole.
It’s not a defect; it’s a feature.
Lemons = Lemonade!
Uh…. what?
They’re going to keep the hole?! Lol
Cough Cough *tacky!* cough
Excuse me.
“And now, off to your right, you’ll see a visual representation of 14.7% APR financing over 72 months.”
The Onion, is that you?
This sort of thing is why the Iranians thought an Onion article was real news. It’s getting harder and harder to tell real news from satire. Imagine the plight of poor comedians!
Remember what Mark Twain said: Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
And after you all see the hole we can go to the next exhibit to watch paint dry.
Paint the hole black and call it an investment in GM.
This is how you are supposed to handle disaster not create pity me shrines and cry about it forever. Kudos to them.
What happened to rescuing the cars and fixing them up?
Um, did you see the very last one that they pulled out? It looked like it came right out of the crusher. Most of the others will be restored, from what I have read.
I actually haven’t, there wasn’t anything posted here about the rescue process and I kinda forgot about this.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/26/travel/corvette-museum-sinkhole-update/
The Hammer Z06, ZR1 Spider, and 1.5 millionth Corvette are all completely FUBAR…that’s depressing. The PPG got off easy in comparison, there’s still about 2/3 of that left…
I suppose they could put in a giant version of one of those swirly-coin things and ask for donations. It’d be a real money pit.
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Lame. Take plenty of pictures to put on exhibit, fill it in, and make sure it won’t happen again. The sinkhole shouldn’t be part of the main attraction.
Oh great – Corvette ground zero…