Courtesy of a Detroit Free Press report, we must fill you in on an update on the National Corvette Museum’s ongoing sinkhole bonanza. Do you remember the Kentucky Corvette museum that partially collapsed late last year when a gigantic sinkhole opened beneath it and swallowed eight Chevrolet sports cars of various vintages? Our last visitation of the sinkhole saga tackled the museum’s decision to keep the sinkhole open, perhaps with one or two of the damaged cars placed within it, as a permanent attraction. That decision, it turns out, has been buried.
Citing cost reasons, the National Corvette Museum has decided to fill in the hole. Apparently, the attendant safety and structural modifications necessary around the sinkhole’s perimeter were just too expensive. The museum’s reversal on the hole’s long-term display potential comes as something of a surprise, especially given the attendance and revenue bump it brought. That said, it also seems like the classier move; after all, the sinkhole may continue to create buzz for the museum, but in a few years’ time, a giant hole through a museum floor could be construed as “tacky.”
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Plans to restore three of the damaged Corvettes will continue as planned; the other five were too far gone to bother. With the hole’s fill-in beginning later this year, those five unrestored cars are expected to remain the only on-display proof of the sinkhole’s fury.
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