As most have known, a sinkhole opened up under the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky swallowing 8 prized 'vettes. Yesterday they pulled out the first two. Amazingly the blue one called 'Blue devil', a 2009 ZR1 prototype not only looks pretty good considering, but started up and drove away! The red one, called 'Ruby', a 1993 40th anniversary model, wasn't so lucky. she's gonna need a little tlc. According to reports the cars will be carefully removed, then sent to a GM facility here in Michigan for repair/restoration. Can't remember the name of the place, put probably the same R&D facility that we would send our ZR-1 frame protos. Here's a couple vids on the event. WARNING: MAY BE HARD TO WATCH IF YOU'RE A CORVETTE FAN.
Drone shots..
Pulled out of the hole and she fires up. Like a rock baby!
The '93 isn't so lucky.
Also appears that there's a huge piece of concrete being held up by the '62, and there's still more buried under the dirt. They value them at $2million, but I'm thinking that if the 2009 ZR-1 went on sale it could get maybe that by itself.
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