{"id":493769,"date":"2014-04-01T00:12:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T07:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=12464"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:47:00","slug":"sinkhole-swallows-part-of-corvette-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/sinkhole-swallows-part-of-corvette-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole Swallows Part of Corvette Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/n7-201404-p2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-522319 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/n7-201404-p2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"702\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/n7-201404-p2.jpg 702w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/n7-201404-p2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/n7-201404-p2-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/n7-201404-p2-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/n7-201404-p2-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/n7-201404-p2-293x195.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the early morning hours, on February 12, a sinkhole opened up under the \u201cSkydome\u201d of the National Corvette Museum, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, swallowing eight significant Corvettes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to sources inside the museum, the local fire department estimated the size of the hole to be 40 feet across and 25-30 feet deep. The eight cars swallowed by the expanding hole included: a 1993 ZR-1 Spyder on loan from General Motors; a 2009 ZR1 \u201cBlue Devil\u201d on loan from General Motors; the one-millionth Corvette built; a 1984 PPG Pace Car; a 1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Corvette; a 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette; and the 2009 1.5 millionth Corvette. None of the cars affected were on loan from individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early morning hours, on February 12, a sinkhole opened up under the \u201cSkydome\u201d of the National Corvette Museum, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, swallowing eight significant Corvettes. According to sources inside the museum, the local fire department estimated the size of the hole to be 40 feet across and 25-30 feet deep. The eight cars swallowed by the expanding hole included: a 1993 ZR-1 Spyder on loan from General Motors; a 2009 ZR1 \u201cBlue Devil\u201d on loan from General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":522317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,658,11441,255],"tags":[17152,429,660,1388,894],"class_list":["post-493769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-chevrolet","category-museum","category-news","tag-car-culture","tag-news","tag-chevrolet","tag-chevrolet-corvette","tag-museum"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sinkhole Swallows Part of Corvette Museum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sinkhole Swallows Part of Corvette Museum\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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