I see the 62 is out of the hole, doesn't look too bad.

https://www.corvetteforum.com/articl...ttes-sinkhole/

 

Nice to see it out. Apparently there is some damage that's not evident in the picture but they feel it's repairable.

 

What surprised me was when they started up the Blue Devil after getting it out of the hole. Not that it started, but three other things:

- that it had a horrible oil leak. They did shut it down after it drove past the puddle, but wtf - nobody thought to look underneath it to see if there was any damage, just because it had landed upright and they pulled it out that way?

- the oil leak puddle was filthy black in color. They don't put clean oil in those things before they store them?

- that the car had gas, coolant, and oil in it when stored. My experience in high end car museums (I been associated with/docent at two of them)
is that long term storage cars are drained of those fluids since they do deteriorate over time. I am surprised that the museum did not do that.

 

It looks to me like 3/4 of the people there are State workers. They are just standing around drinking coffee while 3 or 4 guys are doing all the work. Looks like the workers were the crane operator and the 2 guys in the basket and maybe one guy relaying info from the guys in the basket to the crane operator. Later another guy showed up to run the Bob Cat to pull the car back as it was lowered so they would not crush the rear end of the car.
If I was the insurance company footing the bill for all this I think I would have to question all the guys standing around with green vest on and hard hats drinking coffee and see what real part they are playing in getting the cars out of the sink hole. Pay the ones working and send the rest home. Do we really need 15 chiefs and 4 Indians?

 

The left front fender, the underside of the front end, and the rear end of the '62 are pretty honked up. Not like it was crashed into a wall, but the type of stuff that in the '60s and '70s, would result in some fiberglass V'ing, and laying up of glass matte repairs on the breaks, not fender replacement.

Doug

 

also noticed that the 62 had 2-4's on it , I was guessing it was a 340 hp originally , 2-4's ended in 61

 

An original 340 hp car had a Carter AFB 4 barrel, not 2-4's. Guess you can put on it what you wish, though.