Eight museum Corvettes go caving when a sinkhole opens up below them.
Eight museum Corvettes go caving when a sinkhole opens up below them.
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Eight museum Corvettes go caving when a sinkhole opens up below them.
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Trip to Kentucky is cancelled!
As a car guy and corvette owner that was painful to watch. The only consolation is none of the affected cars were on loan from individuals.
I too am a car guy and do own a c5, I was actually thinking of doing a road trip to the museum, hopefully repairs will not include raising the structure, hopefully the undermining cause doesn’t endanger the rest of it!
What is the geology of these cave systems, were they coal mines or were they remnants from lost water in the aquifer?
I’d bet it was Karst topography, rather than coal mines.
BSJ is correct. The museum is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, only a short drive southwest from the world’s longest cave, Mammoth Cave. And Mammoth was formed in limestone. Though I don’t know for certain, I strongly suspect that the sinkhole occurred in limestone.
There is an old joke from the Kentucky hills: A big city dude comes by to visit. When he arrives, he can’t help but look with dismay at the ramshackle backwoods one-room shack that the Kentucky farmer calls home. The farmer laughs. “It ain’t much of a house, but you should see the basement.”
mostly there exists limestone that can erode into cavernous areas .
I am very familiar with the area. Although I am not a corvette fan, the black ’62 that met it’s Fate in the collapse, has indeed touched me in a soulful loss.
The black 62 is largely repairable if they do the recovery properly , many of the other cars are a complete loss, however, GM has vowed to help in the restoration of these fine automobiles.