The American The automotive world was shaken in 2014 when a 40 foot deep sinkhole suddenly opened under an exhibition at National Corvette Museum And swallows eight rare VettesTen years after the disaster, the museum held an exhibition to commemorate recovery efforts.
The Bowling Green, Kentucky museum boldly calls the exhibit “Ground to Sky: The Sinkhole Reimagined,” and it features five of the eight cars swallowed by the sinkhole, including the still-crushed 1993 ZR-1 Spyder, and the 1.5 millionth Corvette, both of which were damaged beyond repair in the crash. The restored cars featured in the exhibit are The famous 2009 Blue Devil ZR-1 was driven away after being pulled from a sinkhole, The millionth Corvette restored by GM and the museum’s restored 1962 Tuxedo Black Corvette. The exhibit also allows visitors to see the massive boulder that crushed the Mallett Hammer Corvette and view the preserved sinkhole from above in the museum’s sky dome.
The exhibit chronicles the events it took for the museum to recover crashed Corvettes, as well as the nightmare of a massive hole opening overnight in the middle of your museum. In partnership with The American Printing House For The Blind, “Ground To Sky” provides unique braille additions to the exhibit, allowing those who are visually impaired to feel the cars’ designs on the panels as well as read their harrowing recovery stories. Robert Maxhimer, director of curation and education at the National Corvette Museum, told Jalopnik:
Recovering from a sinkhole is as arduous a process as restoring damaged Corvettes, but the exhibition is designed to look back at what happened ten years ago and what we have had to do as a museum since then.
The exhibit is open through September 15 at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and it’s your last chance to see the sunken Corvettes before they’re returned to permanent storage.
