Tag: damaged Corvettes

Five down, three to go until the retrieval process is complete for “The Great Eight,” the name given to the coveted Corvettes swallowed by the sinkhole. Workers pulled the one-millionth Corvette and the severely damaged 1984 PPG Pace Car from the hole yesterday at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky. The construction team now will […] More »

After some cause for celebration over the fact that the first Corvette pulled out of the sinkhole started up, we’re now getting a better sense of what’s to come. The images of the second car extracted from the 30-foot fall — the 1993 40th Anniversary Chevrolet Corvette — paint a much grimmer, and perhaps more […] More »

Well, as the saying goes – you can’t keep a good car down. Yup, that was pretty much confirmed today when the ZR1 Blue Devil that fell into the sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky cranked up to the cheers of museum employees. Check out the video below. Images via [National Corvette Museum]

Surveyors say it could take two to three months to get the sinkhole repaired at the National Corvette Museum and retrieve the eight Corvettes damaged in the natural disaster. Mike Murphy, the CEO of the Kentucky-based building contractor Scott, Murphy & Daniel, which is working to reinforce the building, said figuring out the best way […] More »