+Blair Lovett i understand man, it was hard to see all of this happen live too and i really didn't expect them to be this torn up when they came out of the holle either i thought maybe some broken plastics and fiberglass, broken windshields maybe a bent rim or 10 and possibly one or two at the most with a really badly twisted frame but i never expected to see one that was as far gone as that Mallet Hammer or the ZR1 Spyder the rarest corvette ever made. Thankfully they are rebuilding the ones that can be and just using the couple that can't be as museum pieces.
I am a ford fan but man I love Corvettes to this is absolutely heartbreaking to watch and also brings tears to my eyes I'm a huge fan of Corvettes and I wish I could have one. Just the view of those cars toppling down into the dirt is really is the worst thing ever imaginable Corvette fans like me I cannot disagree more of how sad this is watch.
This has to be most complete video I have seen of the car recovery process I have ever seen. Outstanding job on chronicling this. These cars need to be remembered for what they were. I was glad that at least three of them were restored. Having been to the Corvette Museum recently, I can truly appreciate the scope of this entire event. I highly recommend making the trip to see it. Catch dinner at the Montana Grille afterwards to complete the day! You won't be disappointed! Thank you for this video!
@@DaddytechEnt You are the only TH-cam video that shows ALL EIGHT of the cars being pulled from the hole that I could find. It really helps to understand why those last cars were in such terrible shape. They were shredding even as they tried to pull them free, up and out. Ouch. Is there any additional security video showing the 62 and the other one on the rack falling in? I would like to see that to understand how the 62 was not more damaged than what it was.
Glad they managed to restore three of them, but it's still hard. Damages went from minor paint and windshield damages on one car, to another car being reduced to a twisted chassis and a tire.
i think that mallet hammer got it the worst. that thing was an acordian. i don't think there was anything on that car except a few bolts and maybe 2 rims that would be able to be used again. and one of the rims that made it is probably bent because of the way they recovered those cars. the 40th anniversary car could have easiily been restored if they had picked it up differently the 1millionth corvette could have been taken out with half the damage it had if they'd have picked it up differently. but the others there really just was no getting them out without any further damage because they were buried under tons of dirt and rocks. i watched that whole rescue live on their web cams (i worked from home at the time) and it was all i could do not to get in my truck and drive up there and tell them the right and easier way to do those rescues. i'm no professional or anything either but a lot of what they did pulling those cars out just didn't make any sense whatsoever.
they have rebuilt a couple of them completely like the 1millionth vette haven't been up there lately to see what they're doing with the rest but there was only a couple that aren't being repaired from my understanding
i agree but i was kind of partial to the Black ZR1 myself . doesn't discount the Mallet hammer's awesomeness at all. the owner put a LOT of time love and money into that car to make it what it was.
Be grateful that this didn't happen on a day when the museum was full of visitors. Hard as this is to watch - anyone who fell in that hole with the cars would have been seriously injured or killed.
Looks like the last three were the only ones that were totaled The rest looked like they could’ve been restored Although I do like how the museum decided to do it. Just displaying the cars how they were when they were pulled out of the hole.
It was a shame that this sink hole happened, one would think that the ground was investigated before building was built to have all the weight on such a part of the collapse & putting old expensive luxury sports cars on the floor & in time a sink hole develops? One would think or say has the ground been perked to make sure this would never happen, it was smart that GM had a camera system installed in different angles to view what happened at night when the place was locked up & closed to view these happenings, It is another think that so many cars were almost lost forever. The earth under ground must have a lot of lime & chemicals to ruin these vehicles the way it did? It is nice to be able to see the recovery efforts of the people involved to this under going project. My hats off to GM & everyone involved in getting these vehicles out of the sink hole grave!
+Martin Pashain yeah the ground was originally perked but a lot of other local construction has changed things and i believe some of the other construction caused the sinkhole to develop under the floor like that. this whole area is on one of the largest deep under ground cave systems in the world. What troubles me is that there wasn't more Metal mesh or rebar in the floor and that the concrete was only 4" thick personally i think it shouldn't have been any less than 6" with the metal mesh or lots of rebar in it but evidently it wasn't initially supposed to be a vehicle museum.
+jerry b yeah unless it's a high dollar really limited edition that you get delivered to your house on a truck, put it up in an air tight climate controlled room it's just not worth it investing in cars any more. and it's actually starting to be that way with Guns too. they have gotten really cheap now.
jerry b then you're all set man. don't blame you either i've been buying up a bunch of guns lately too, all the ones i wanted to get when i was younger and just never did.
The WKU Geologists said there was some underground caverns that developed due to erosion right underneath the museum dome. i have another video on here that shows that just outside of the dome there is a drain off basin that is pretty close to the same depth of the erosion inside the dome. my theory is that due to that run off basin and all of the blasting and heavy equipment that was being used on the other side of the interstate to build the motor sports park AND a recent 100 year flood that we had it was just a trifecta that excellerated the under ground erosion and caused the ground to give way underneath the Dome foundation which was also not built correctly because there was no re-enforcing rebar in the concrete and the floor was also not more than 3 1/2" thick in most places. take away ANY of those factors and that cave in might have been delayed to a time when the museum was being visited by people and lives would have been lost as well as the hundreds of thousands of dollars of one of a kind corvettes.
well as of Monday all of the cameras in the skydome are offline so they are probably working on it now trying to do whatever they are going to do with it .
yeah it was devastating in more ways than one for a lot of people. hopefully that's all fixed now with all the concrete and such they poured in that humongus hole and it won't ever happen again.
nobody saw this coming. just glad it wasn't worse than it was. as it stands there are 3 that they'll never be able to repair due to the fact that they were experimental cars and parts are no longer produced new for them.
the last one out the Mallet hammer for starters, it's an accordian now. The Black ZR1 spider is another it was a 1 of 1 experimental and to me personally the best looking out of all of them originally. The 84 Pace car was also a 1 of 1. They were also mentioning they may not be putting the 1.5 millionth corvette back together either but they weren't sure since it wasn't going to be a road worthy car if they were going to do that or not. here look at the live skydome 1 camera you can see all the ones they are not repairing in a pen on the left. www.corvettemuseum.org/explore/web-cams/skydome-1/
DaddytechEnt yes they did see it coming...because I was there and told them they had too much weight in one area, and they should move those cars. I was told they were just finishing the room in the back...to move the cars into. You can lead a horse to water, but can't make him drink...:-(
+Rico Delamonte' (Tess) it was only about 25 feet deep but it was also 40 feet across the reason the cars look as bas as they do is the rocks, concrete and boulders that filled the hole along with the cars as they went down. pretty gnarly
They recently completely restored the 1 millionth corvette. They were able to refurbish many of the original parts of the car. Looks like nothing ever happened to it now.
Yes. And sinkholes can develop many years after a building is built on solid ground. Certain types of geology are more susceptible to sinkhole development, and that is often indicated by the geotechnical engineer's report. But as with any type of disaster, it's a matter of statistics. Millions of buildings are built on sinkhole-susceptible earth and will never see one develop beneath them. This building just got lucky.
last one in, first one out . it just fell straight down too and was still sitting on the slab of floor it had been on before the floor opened up. the only thing wrong with it was that it was dirty, had a busted rocker on the passenger side, and it had a busted oil line when it came up out of the hole. That's why when they first displayed it. it had a metal pan under it out on the museum floor. it's fixed now though
Definitely. I live in BG and there’s one at the end of our road off to the side. I feel like It’s just a matter of time before the road collapses one day.
that last one they pulled up the rear diff and 2 of the 4 tires is about all that can be used. most of the rest of them yeah the drive train is fine still. with the exception of that ZR1 spyder and the 2001 Mallett Hammer. some can all be returned to their former glory with a little spit and polish. most of them are unrepairable though just too much damage.
I can't watch this, I guess they would rather see someone breaking in to steal these. As then the car is still whole till it leaves the city, man so much history in a hole in the ground. So much money........Drove past the Bowling Green Facility many times. Like the holly land for bow tie people!!! How are they going to fix the hole or just move the museum?
they filled it with a limestone gravel and concrete even if the hole opened up again under the museum it would have to be big enough next time to take the whole museum with it next time. the floor under the dome is solid now and quite a few feet thick now.
Kind of late on my comment here, but caught the tail end of a program on Velocity about these cars. Anybody know the restoration status of the more damaged vettes aside from the blue one that was a drive away with minimal damage? Thanks for catching this remarkable event on video.
i was actually planning on going back up and doing an update on them again now two years later. the hole is all filled in and 2 more of them have been fully restored.
They restored the 2009 Blue Devil, the 1992 Millionth Corvette, and the 1962 Tuxedo Black Corvette. The rest are on display as they were when they were extracted.
GM design team has and is rebuilding all of the cars and are trying to use as much of the original material as possible. They debuted one of the rebuilds at the Detroit Grand Prix at the Camaro club car show a few days before the race. It might inspire them to come up with new vehicle designs in the future by looking at some of the stuff from the past.
+MegaMoose1989 there are a couple that they just can't rebuild no matter how much money they throw at them , that Mallet hammer one for instance that thing is an accordian. it was squashed all to bits under all that concrete, dirt and other cars. most of the ones that can be will be rebuilt though. however there are a couple that are just gone for good.
Cinnamononomon yeah it's sad that any of them had to go but it would have been nice if they'd have been able to put all of the humpty's back together again :O)
I did the tour of the museum last month. Had about 12 Vette's in the entry for people purchasing one and picking it up there. Yes cost extra from what I can tell about $8,000 extra. Of those at least 8 were Z06's. Youngest person picking up one and there were about 4-6 people picking them up was guessing 60yo. Funny that these people in their 60's and up are buying Z06's. Then I hear a story of a 70 something year old dieing in his Vette cause he couldn't figure out which button on the door to open the door. Makes you wonder.
like corvettes as a sports car.i owned a 79 pace car but hate 90% of the douchebags that own them. I mean seriously ...buy a high performance car then do 30mph in a 45mph zone...fucking brilliant. I out drove one in my 02 Subaru impreza wagon for Christ sake...owner didn't know how to handle his high horsepower in the twisty bits. here is a suggestion for all you folks that don't truly know how to handle a car like this...buy a prius. just because you can afford a 80k sports car don't mean you deserve to own one
+don rowe You, my dear Don, are the douchebag. Anyone who dreams of a Corvette their entire life and for whatever reason is unable to get one until they are in their 60s or 70s, deserves to drive it however they wish. Life got in the way for me for 50 years but I finally got mine a month ago. I'm 63, and yes, I can handle it, 7-speed manual transmission and all, but sometimes it's nice to just go slow and savor it.
+Beverly Morey Not to mention even if you can afford a $70k Corvette, no fun gettin $250 speeding ticket here, $300 ticket there, $500 ticket if the cop really don't like you. Never owned a Corvette but I owned a high horsepower MR2 Turbo so I know the game.
you are correct! 79 was a trans am pace car. they did however make a 79 corvette colored the same as the 78 pace car (black and silver) it just didn't obvioiusly come with the pace car decals.
no this whole area is bedrock and there are caverns and caves all under it so just any minute you might see people's homes or cars or whatever just disappear because the dirt has worked it's way loose or one of the caverns shifted and opened up a hole here. i personally believe this was caused by all of the work being done across the highway from the museum at the motor sports park (corvette racetrack) it was just being built when all of this happened and i don't think the two things happening at the same time are just a coincidence.
not sure where you are getting your information but my video shows every one of the cars being lifted out of the hole. the only thing left in the hole is the dirt that was in the bottom and then is was all filled in with grout and concrete.
the other sad story on this was the state told them 2yrs before this happened that there was under ground caverns under there an could collapse in the near future but they ignored the warning
wow, of course they didn't release any of that info. interesting to hear that i had my theory it was the race track being put in or that deep water run off outside the dome
*well there's nothing to see there now other than the hole in the floor that they left open so people could go down there and look at the caverns that remain open underneath everything still*
@@DaddytechEnt theyre still displaying the cars and filled the hole and lol idk where you got that there are caverns they let people in or that there is nothing there
+DaddytechEnt +DaddytechEnt Just watched a video by James Fetzer ( his show is called the Real Deal on Media Broadcasting Center. It is Real Deal Episode #185 // link >> th-cam.com/video/shzSUSt8BRo/w-d-xo.html ). On it, his guest, Gary King, said the sinkhole and the entire thing was faked , a hoax, that the corvettes were toy replicas. I am so sick of these insane people saying everything is a hoax, please straighten them out. Obviously you can post on the video site I posted above. TY.
+Phillip Franklin DONE!!! and yeah those morons just like to hear themselves talk. they are a couple of Conspiracy Theory Nut bags that try to make everything out to be some major covert cover up or show that the Government put on to distract everyone from what's really going on in the world and on that count i believe it may be credible but not to the extent that they are going on and on about. they miss the big picture and focus on little things that make no sense and don't matter whatsoever and then they try to rip apart some thing real with bogus claims and idiotic assumptions and i have NO tolerance for any of that. i made a rather lengthy scolding and demonstrative comment but i'm betting because i have truth on my side and things i personally witnessed and have real, Raw video footage of, the comment won't stay there long. and what is that old bastard supposed to be a "doctor" of mental instability or something? i know he's about as ignorant of a person i have ever seen being called a doctor. they need to stick to the conspiracy theories that no one can prove them wrong on and leave the real stuff to the professionals.
well i tried but they seem to be stuck in fantasy land so i'm doubting it will do any good. If they want to live out the rest of their lives with blinders on only believing the conspiracy theory of the moment so be it, i showed them reality if they want to turn a blind eye to it, there's not much else to do. you tried, i tried and that's the best we have. thanks for the entertainment though i had to skip through their video till i caught them yammering on like they did so their analytics are really going to take a hit for that too. i'm sure i'm not the only one that does that
All corvette enthusiasts and just people in general who like corvettes are all sad about this. but yeah a lot of the corvette events were put on to benefit the restoration of the museum and some of the cars
Yes a shame but no one was killed, cant replace people. Most seem possible to repair and thats great :-) , and the last ones depend on how much work someone is prepaired to do, that sounds daft but metal can be replaced, people are dedicated. Did they find out if the sink hole is stable now jim??
Do you not realize some of these cars are one of''s they can't simply be replaced. some of these rare cars are never going to get repaired because the museum has to pay for them to be repaired. it was at 5:30 am that it happened of course no one was hurt it just hurts me when I see some one not realize that these were some ones car that they donated to the museum and they aren't getting there car back or are they getting any money from it I get it yes a car can mostly be replaced unless it's a one of or experimental car. Yes I get people can't be replaced but these cars can't be replaced and people who haven't gone there before the sinkhole will only see those cars in perfect order in pictures with is sad for some because these are pieces oh history you can't just go Mack another one
this is true too. like the 84 pace car (1 of 1) the 95 ZR1Spyder (experimental 1of1) the Mallet Hammer (could be rebuilt but it would cost a small fortune) most of the rest of them there are parts that can be used from others to fix them. BTW the Museum had insurance on all of those cars, the insurance is who pays to fix them, not the museum
Deeksthedog1 Yes it is sad, but if you value lumps of metal more than life, you really are in trouble mentally. Stop getting hot under the coller for cars you cant do anything about, no amount of keyboard bashing will make any difference. Its happened, live with it!!.
Oh Geez they bottled it up all fancy... lol i guess they are going to bleed that sink hole thing for every bit they can get out of it. they have a hole to take geology students down in the cavern below too now i'm told
actually that's not true for the fact that they are as fast as they are they are made VERY well. that's the allure with corvettes they are fast sturdy stable on the road unless you're just being completely wreckless and built well enough to protect you in the event of a serious accident.
Just because you may not share the same opinion as me does not make it an "ignorant statement" and all but 3 of those cars fared pretty well considering how far they actually fell. also not All of them had tons of concrete on top of them in fact only 3 were actually covered up by concrete and hard red clay. and 4 of them just went into the hole and weren't even covered up with dirt. Now what part of that is as you call it "ignorant"? Unlike you i've maintained an open mind till i hear your take on this and even if yours ends up being the ignorant opinion, i don't usually tell people that in as inconsiderate of a manner as what you just did. i'd appreciate it if you showed me and my channel at least SOME respect.
@@DaddytechEnt I apologize. My comment was supposed to be directed to TheExStig. His claim "Pretty flimsy cars those Corvettes" is in my opinion ignorant.
ok yeah even i had issue with that one too competely understood. i usually suggest people that know that little actually come to this area and take a tour of the museum and the factory if they can afford it time wise.
HAHA,,, I bet the corvette museum was sponsored by an oil rig company next door that suck all the juice from underneath causing this museum to collapse next door.. most likely the truth,, I know it hurts,I would have warned you if I had known about the issue you were faced.
Is a US citizen not allowed to make jokes about holes that come out of nowhere? I do have family members who own oil wells, and we make all kinds of dirty oil jokes. Come back when you finish a can of WD40 ,,IT aint the same fish and shits it used to be.
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That was so heart warming and it made me smile how that Corvette started up, I smiled so much.
yeah that was pretty awesome. only thing that was messed up on that one was the oil pan and the ground effects on the one side of the car
True
Being a corvette guy, this was hard to watch with tears in my eyes
+Blair Lovett i understand man, it was hard to see all of this happen live too and i really didn't expect them to be this torn up when they came out of the holle either i thought maybe some broken plastics and fiberglass, broken windshields maybe a bent rim or 10 and possibly one or two at the most with a really badly twisted frame but i never expected to see one that was as far gone as that Mallet Hammer or the ZR1 Spyder the rarest corvette ever made. Thankfully they are rebuilding the ones that can be and just using the couple that can't be as museum pieces.
I'm a car girl and this was heart breaking to watch.
I am a ford fan but man I love Corvettes to this is absolutely heartbreaking to watch and also brings tears to my eyes I'm a huge fan of Corvettes and I wish I could have one. Just the view of those cars toppling down into the dirt is really is the worst thing ever imaginable Corvette fans like me I cannot disagree more of how sad this is watch.
@DaddytechEnt u gota remember that they fell down 30 feet, lucky that 3 of them survived, no hate in a corvette guy myself
oh plez, for real, its only a car , ha ha
They take more care and compassion getting corvettes out of a rubble than people from a building collapse.
This has to be most complete video I have seen of the car recovery process I have ever seen. Outstanding job on chronicling this. These cars need to be remembered for what they were. I was glad that at least three of them were restored. Having been to the Corvette Museum recently, I can truly appreciate the scope of this entire event. I highly recommend making the trip to see it. Catch dinner at the Montana Grille afterwards to complete the day! You won't be disappointed! Thank you for this video!
Thanks man, glad you enjoyed it. i tried to be as through recording and gathering the harder to find footage and angles as i could.
@@DaddytechEnt You are the only TH-cam video that shows ALL EIGHT of the cars being pulled from the hole that I could find. It really helps to understand why those last cars were in such terrible shape. They were shredding even as they tried to pull them free, up and out. Ouch.
Is there any additional security video showing the 62 and the other one on the rack falling in? I would like to see that to understand how the 62 was not more damaged than what it was.
Its amazing how strong straps are made,at my work we sometimes pick up 60 thousand pound natural gas compressors with them,amazes me everytime.
Glad they managed to restore three of them, but it's still hard. Damages went from minor paint and windshield damages on one car, to another car being reduced to a twisted chassis and a tire.
i think that mallet hammer got it the worst. that thing was an acordian. i don't think there was anything on that car except a few bolts and maybe 2 rims that would be able to be used again. and one of the rims that made it is probably bent because of the way they recovered those cars. the 40th anniversary car could have easiily been restored if they had picked it up differently the 1millionth corvette could have been taken out with half the damage it had if they'd have picked it up differently. but the others there really just was no getting them out without any further damage because they were buried under tons of dirt and rocks. i watched that whole rescue live on their web cams (i worked from home at the time) and it was all i could do not to get in my truck and drive up there and tell them the right and easier way to do those rescues. i'm no professional or anything either but a lot of what they did pulling those cars out just didn't make any sense whatsoever.
i love corvettes, espesialy older models like the ones. i am litterally about to cry
can you imagine how it was for the people at the museum? they are all corvette lovers too and these things are like their babies
That's heartbreaking. Thank God it didn't happen while people were there. For that Blue Corvette to be in the condition it was after that was amazing.
The 2009 ZR1 was pretty lucky; not only was it the least damaged, but it was so little damaged it was actually still driveable.
It was an unbelieveable luck, that it happened when the museum was closed. So sad, that the most of these fantastic cars are lost.
they have rebuilt a couple of them completely like the 1millionth vette haven't been up there lately to see what they're doing with the rest but there was only a couple that aren't being repaired from my understanding
The Mallet custom was such a badass vette, such a shame
i agree but i was kind of partial to the Black ZR1 myself . doesn't discount the Mallet hammer's awesomeness at all. the owner put a LOT of time love and money into that car to make it what it was.
Be grateful that this didn't happen on a day when the museum was full of visitors.
Hard as this is to watch - anyone who fell in that hole with the cars would have been seriously injured or killed.
yeah being that the hole was 50 feet deep they would have died. specially with all those heavy cars rolling around in there.
We had visited a few weeks before this happened and were standing right over the middle of the sinkhole!
my brother Darrell is a corvette guy as well, he'd a been crying too seeing those damage vette's
Hurts to see cars 🚗 fallening into a sinkhole
Looks like the last three were the only ones that were totaled
The rest looked like they could’ve been restored
Although I do like how the museum decided to do it. Just displaying the cars how they were when they were pulled out of the hole.
Excellent Video. Thanks for posting!
+Al Caruso thank you sir for your view i appreciate it
The security video makes it look like only a few cars went down. This is the never ending hole!!
I'm glad the 1,000,000th Corvette was able to be rebuilt!
It was a shame that this sink hole happened, one would think that the ground was investigated before building was built to have all the weight on such a part of the collapse & putting old expensive luxury sports cars on the floor & in time a sink hole develops? One would think or say has the ground been perked to make sure this would never happen, it was smart that GM had a camera system installed in different angles to view what happened at night when the place was locked up & closed to view these happenings, It is another think that so many cars were almost lost forever. The earth under ground must have a lot of lime & chemicals to ruin these vehicles the way it did? It is nice to be able to see the recovery efforts of the people involved to this under going project. My hats off to GM & everyone involved in getting these vehicles out of the sink hole grave!
+Martin Pashain yeah the ground was originally perked but a lot of other local construction has changed things and i believe some of the other construction caused the sinkhole to develop under the floor like that. this whole area is on one of the largest deep under ground cave systems in the world. What troubles me is that there wasn't more Metal mesh or rebar in the floor and that the concrete was only 4" thick personally i think it shouldn't have been any less than 6" with the metal mesh or lots of rebar in it but evidently it wasn't initially supposed to be a vehicle museum.
WOW, you can see the damaged on the cars. Wow. Just glad no one got hurt. If this was opened on that day when it happened.
This reassure me that I am doing the right thing by investing in Guns gold and silver.
+jerry b yeah unless it's a high dollar really limited edition that you get delivered to your house on a truck, put it up in an air tight climate controlled room it's just not worth it investing in cars any more. and it's actually starting to be that way with Guns too. they have gotten really cheap now.
+jerry b sounds like a worthy investment provided you don't have felonies which would prohibit you from owning fire arms
yeah good point glade I have never been in trouble and still have my right to own fire arms
jerry b then you're all set man. don't blame you either i've been buying up a bunch of guns lately too, all the ones i wanted to get when i was younger and just never did.
How did that sink hole develop? Obviously they built the building on solid ground... right? That hole is massive!
The WKU Geologists said there was some underground caverns that developed due to erosion right underneath the museum dome. i have another video on here that shows that just outside of the dome there is a drain off basin that is pretty close to the same depth of the erosion inside the dome. my theory is that due to that run off basin and all of the blasting and heavy equipment that was being used on the other side of the interstate to build the motor sports park AND a recent 100 year flood that we had it was just a trifecta that excellerated the under ground erosion and caused the ground to give way underneath the Dome foundation which was also not built correctly because there was no re-enforcing rebar in the concrete and the floor was also not more than 3 1/2" thick in most places. take away ANY of those factors and that cave in might have been delayed to a time when the museum was being visited by people and lives would have been lost as well as the hundreds of thousands of dollars of one of a kind corvettes.
i'm glad they recovered the ppg pace car prototype i really liked that one especially the way the back part was designed
yeah but it didn't fair so well
I wanna say the three rarest ones were the ones that were damaged too much to restore
What an amazingly strong nylon strap on that millionth white Corvette!
The 1962 black hardtop convertable looks good, may need minor work tho unless there is damage mechanically somewhere
thuglife forlife yeah
Looked like the last three were the only ones that were totaled
it would have been more than a scary ride down with all those cars plummeling down on you
well as of Monday all of the cameras in the skydome are offline so they are probably working on it now trying to do whatever they are going to do with it .
this is why cars should be used and enjoyed by people and not hoarded
I literally cried when i first saw the unearthed cars and all their devastation.
yeah it was devastating in more ways than one for a lot of people. hopefully that's all fixed now with all the concrete and such they poured in that humongus hole and it won't ever happen again.
Damn heart skipped a beat when they unwedged the one millionth corvette.
the corvettes never seen it coming. They don't have eyes!!!
nobody saw this coming. just glad it wasn't worse than it was. as it stands there are 3 that they'll never be able to repair due to the fact that they were experimental cars and parts are no longer produced new for them.
Oh no...
which ones?
the last one out the Mallet hammer for starters, it's an accordian now. The Black ZR1 spider is another it was a 1 of 1 experimental and to me personally the best looking out of all of them originally. The 84 Pace car was also a 1 of 1. They were also mentioning they may not be putting the 1.5 millionth corvette back together either but they weren't sure since it wasn't going to be a road worthy car if they were going to do that or not.
here look at the live skydome 1 camera you can see all the ones they are not repairing in a pen on the left.
www.corvettemuseum.org/explore/web-cams/skydome-1/
DaddytechEnt yes they did see it coming...because I was there and told them they had too much weight in one area, and they should move those cars. I was told they were just finishing the room in the back...to move the cars into. You can lead a horse to water, but can't make him drink...:-(
the horror😱
yeah it was pretty awful.
DaddytechEnt what was the cost for the damage and the corvettes
Aneth Castro over 5 million dollars at the time
ironic that the corvette named the blue devil was basically untouched compared to the others
damn how deep was that sink hole? the destroyed ones look like they have fallen from an airplane or blown up to be looking all mangled up like that
+Rico Delamonte' (Tess) it was only about 25 feet deep but it was also 40 feet across the reason the cars look as bas as they do is the rocks, concrete and boulders that filled the hole along with the cars as they went down. pretty gnarly
+DaddytechEnt oh okay thank you I didn't think about all that
pretty cool and ingenuitive how they filled the sink hole
yeah now it's one massive solid concrete slab under the dome , that stuff isn't going anywhere now
That's my kind of Fishing
This is why I never park my Corvette without a parachute attached to it.
specially not near the corvette museum lol
The first car started and drove away on it's own, the others not so lucky. So sad.
They recently completely restored the 1 millionth corvette. They were able to refurbish many of the original parts of the car. Looks like nothing ever happened to it now.
Chevrolet Built strong 💪
Don't they do soil tests before building these structures. I know that my Bank did before I could get a loan to build my house hear in Australia.
Gary sometimes shit just happens
No idea how long the building has been there
I’m guessing a while
Unfortunate to see
Yes. And sinkholes can develop many years after a building is built on solid ground. Certain types of geology are more susceptible to sinkhole development, and that is often indicated by the geotechnical engineer's report. But as with any type of disaster, it's a matter of statistics. Millions of buildings are built on sinkhole-susceptible earth and will never see one develop beneath them. This building just got lucky.
It's a dam shame, but mother nature will always have her way! Better thing's than people...✌
too bad for that orange pace car i really liked that one
i see now you understand what i was saying about it not fairing so well. it may be put back together though
The whole rear end chopped off by a rock
How did that C6 ZR1 live?
last one in, first one out . it just fell straight down too and was still sitting on the slab of floor it had been on before the floor opened up. the only thing wrong with it was that it was dirty, had a busted rocker on the passenger side, and it had a busted oil line when it came up out of the hole. That's why when they first displayed it. it had a metal pan under it out on the museum floor. it's fixed now though
Some people don't know this but it's the last car that they found it took them to months to find and dig
Well this is in bowling green Kentucky , there is hundreds of small sink holes in Kentucky and in Tennessee
This was one of. The larger ones
Definitely. I live in BG and there’s one at the end of our road off to the side. I feel like It’s just a matter of time before the road collapses one day.
Car lovers everywhere puking !.....Drive trains must be salvageable !
that last one they pulled up the rear diff and 2 of the 4 tires is about all that can be used. most of the rest of them yeah the drive train is fine still. with the exception of that ZR1 spyder and the 2001 Mallett Hammer. some can all be returned to their former glory with a little spit and polish. most of them are unrepairable though just too much damage.
1st time I've herd of this. WTF did look messy the way they lifted them up.
Mann gut das die alle aus GFK sind, ein bißchen Kleber und die Kisten sehen aus wie neu.
+Peter Luzifer viel mehr als nur ein wenig Leim nehmen fürchte ich. Auch die meisten hatten gebogen Metall und Glasscherben
Which ones were they able to rebuild, which ones were lost?
Did they get them all out or did some make their way through those huge crevices ? What percentage were cars on loan ?
All were recovered
Is there a video of the black Corvette being restored?
if there is the corvette museum is the only one that has it. they don't let people in there where they do that sort of thing
I can't watch this, I guess they would rather see someone breaking in to steal these. As then the car is still whole till it leaves the city, man so much history in a hole in the ground. So much money........Drove past the Bowling Green Facility many times. Like the holly land for bow tie people!!! How are they going to fix the hole or just move the museum?
they filled it with a limestone gravel and concrete even if the hole opened up again under the museum it would have to be big enough next time to take the whole museum with it next time. the floor under the dome is solid now and quite a few feet thick now.
This still hurts to watch.
Kind of late on my comment here, but caught the tail end of a program on Velocity about these cars. Anybody know the restoration status of the more damaged vettes aside from the blue one that was a drive away with minimal damage? Thanks for catching this remarkable event on video.
i was actually planning on going back up and doing an update on them again now two years later. the hole is all filled in and 2 more of them have been fully restored.
They restored the 2009 Blue Devil, the 1992 Millionth Corvette, and the 1962 Tuxedo Black Corvette. The rest are on display as they were when they were extracted.
OliCoon basically restored the three least damaged ones
Two of which didn’t seem to have much damage at all, aside from some minor body work
GM design team has and is rebuilding all of the cars and are trying to use as much of the original material as possible. They debuted one of the rebuilds at the Detroit Grand Prix at the Camaro club car show a few days before the race. It might inspire them to come up with new vehicle designs in the future by looking at some of the stuff from the past.
+MegaMoose1989 there are a couple that they just can't rebuild no matter how much money they throw at them , that Mallet hammer one for instance that thing is an accordian. it was squashed all to bits under all that concrete, dirt and other cars. most of the ones that can be will be rebuilt though. however there are a couple that are just gone for good.
+DaddytechEnt "that thing is an accordian" LOL that's really unfortunate though...
Cinnamononomon yeah it's sad that any of them had to go but it would have been nice if they'd have been able to put all of the humpty's back together again :O)
Who y’all could’ve saved that man that was trapped in his bedroom in Florida 😡🤨
I did the tour of the museum last month. Had about 12 Vette's in the entry for people purchasing one and picking it up there. Yes cost extra from what I can tell about $8,000 extra. Of those at least 8 were Z06's. Youngest person picking up one and there were about 4-6 people picking them up was guessing 60yo. Funny that these people in their 60's and up are buying Z06's. Then I hear a story of a 70 something year old dieing in his Vette cause he couldn't figure out which button on the door to open the door. Makes you wonder.
Sith Yarael thats just sad
So how did they know that he died because he couldn't figure out what button to push to get out if he was dead and couldn't tell them that?
like corvettes as a sports car.i owned a 79 pace car but hate 90% of the douchebags that own them. I mean seriously ...buy a high performance car then do 30mph in a 45mph zone...fucking brilliant. I out drove one in my 02 Subaru impreza wagon for Christ sake...owner didn't know how to handle his high horsepower in the twisty bits. here is a suggestion for all you folks that don't truly know how to handle a car like this...buy a prius. just because you can afford a 80k sports car don't mean you deserve to own one
+don rowe You, my dear Don, are the douchebag. Anyone who dreams of a Corvette their entire life and for whatever reason is unable to get one until they are in their 60s or 70s, deserves to drive it however they wish. Life got in the way for me for 50 years but I finally got mine a month ago. I'm 63, and yes, I can handle it, 7-speed manual transmission and all, but sometimes it's nice to just go slow and savor it.
+Beverly Morey Not to mention even if you can afford a $70k Corvette, no fun gettin $250 speeding ticket here, $300 ticket there, $500 ticket if the cop really don't like you. Never owned a Corvette but I owned a high horsepower MR2 Turbo so I know the game.
You mean 78 pace car? They didnt make one in 79.
you are correct! 79 was a trans am pace car. they did however make a 79 corvette colored the same as the 78 pace car (black and silver) it just didn't obvioiusly come with the pace car decals.
Rescue? Definitely more of a recovery. RIP
Theres like 100 people there just standing around and getting payed while im here just trying to get a job.
How long did it take to get all of them out?
about 3 weeks the last ones took the longest because they were the first ones in and were burried under the most dirt and rock
it was a good no one was inside when it happened
yeah that would have been one scary ride down if someone were in there with the cars when it happened
How did that sink hole happen a burst water main underneath?
no this whole area is bedrock and there are caverns and caves all under it so just any minute you might see people's homes or cars or whatever just disappear because the dirt has worked it's way loose or one of the caverns shifted and opened up a hole here. i personally believe this was caused by all of the work being done across the highway from the museum at the motor sports park (corvette racetrack) it was just being built when all of this happened and i don't think the two things happening at the same time are just a coincidence.
@@DaddytechEnt thanks for your response I think you're right about the coincidence of construction across the road
imagine this happening during the bankruptcy. sorry can't afford the crane rental just fill the hole.
RJM@54 2/19/2018
why do 3 cars still remain in the hole
not sure where you are getting your information but my video shows every one of the cars being lifted out of the hole. the only thing left in the hole is the dirt that was in the bottom and then is was all filled in with grout and concrete.
Probably cost more to recover those car;s than they were worth in todays market.
pretty close i'm sure
you obviously don't know how much those cranes cost to just sit there on the property then and it's almost double when they are running
the other sad story on this was the state told them 2yrs before this happened that there was under ground caverns under there an could collapse in the near future but they ignored the warning
wow, of course they didn't release any of that info. interesting to hear that i had my theory it was the race track being put in or that deep water run off outside the dome
I went to that the other day
"Oh that'll buff right out "
lol that's what i keep saying :o)
I bet it's been good for business!
*well there's nothing to see there now other than the hole in the floor that they left open so people could go down there and look at the caverns that remain open underneath everything still*
DaddytechEnt I saw a video showing that they were displaying the cars that were damaged or destroyed. Is that not the case anymore?
@@DaddytechEnt theyre still displaying the cars and filled the hole and lol idk where you got that there are caverns they let people in or that there is nothing there
1:53 "Whew! That was close.., could'a been worse..." 1:55 "...and worse..." !:57 "and worse..."
yeah that ended up pretty ugly for sure. hard to believe that was 6 years ago already
yeah that ended up pretty ugly for sure. hard to believe that was 6 years ago already
well shit, how do you claim that from the insurance? lol
not sure how but i have to believe that this was all covered under the museum's insurance, that or they had to lay a few people off indeffinitely
Act of God
I’m pretty sure the museums insurance covered it
They have millions of dollars in cars in that building
I’m sure they had them covered
Hurts to see
+DaddytechEnt +DaddytechEnt
Just watched a video by James Fetzer ( his show is called the Real Deal on Media Broadcasting Center. It is Real Deal Episode #185 // link >> th-cam.com/video/shzSUSt8BRo/w-d-xo.html ). On it, his guest, Gary King, said the sinkhole and the entire thing was faked , a hoax, that the corvettes were toy replicas. I am so sick of these insane people saying everything is a hoax, please straighten them out. Obviously you can post on the video site I posted above. TY.
+Phillip Franklin DONE!!! and yeah those morons just like to hear themselves talk. they are a couple of Conspiracy Theory Nut bags that try to make everything out to be some major covert cover up or show that the Government put on to distract everyone from what's really going on in the world and on that count i believe it may be credible but not to the extent that they are going on and on about. they miss the big picture and focus on little things that make no sense and don't matter whatsoever and then they try to rip apart some thing real with bogus claims and idiotic assumptions and i have NO tolerance for any of that. i made a rather lengthy scolding and demonstrative comment but i'm betting because i have truth on my side and things i personally witnessed and have real, Raw video footage of, the comment won't stay there long. and what is that old bastard supposed to be a "doctor" of mental instability or something? i know he's about as ignorant of a person i have ever seen being called a doctor.
they need to stick to the conspiracy theories that no one can prove them wrong on and leave the real stuff to the professionals.
DaddytechEnt
Sounds great. I pound them whenever I can. Though they never what to hear or see reality, I figure maybe just once it will get through.
well i tried but they seem to be stuck in fantasy land so i'm doubting it will do any good. If they want to live out the rest of their lives with blinders on only believing the conspiracy theory of the moment so be it, i showed them reality if they want to turn a blind eye to it, there's not much else to do. you tried, i tried and that's the best we have. thanks for the entertainment though i had to skip through their video till i caught them yammering on like they did so their analytics are really going to take a hit for that too. i'm sure i'm not the only one that does that
DaddytechEnt
You can not reach or help those who are insane.
Phillip Franklin unfortunately this is true , you can lead an idiot to water but if you drown him it's still homicide unfortunately :o)
send them over to west coast custom they will make them like new again
25:30
Corvette: in f**ked up now
So very very sad
Corvette owners are gonna be sad if they watch this
All corvette enthusiasts and just people in general who like corvettes are all sad about this. but yeah a lot of the corvette events were put on to benefit the restoration of the museum and some of the cars
Yes a shame but no one was killed, cant replace people.
Most seem possible to repair and thats great :-) , and the last ones depend on how much work someone is prepaired to do, that sounds daft but metal can be replaced, people are dedicated.
Did they find out if the sink hole is stable now jim??
Do you not realize some of these cars are one of''s they can't simply be replaced. some of these rare cars are never going to get repaired because the museum has to pay for them to be repaired. it was at 5:30 am that it happened of course no one was hurt it just hurts me when I see some one not realize that these were some ones car that they donated to the museum and they aren't getting there car back or are they getting any money from it I get it yes a car can mostly be replaced unless it's a one of or experimental car. Yes I get people can't be replaced but these cars can't be replaced and people who haven't gone there before the sinkhole will only see those cars in perfect order in pictures with is sad for some because these are pieces oh history you can't just go Mack another one
this is true too. like the 84 pace car (1 of 1) the 95 ZR1Spyder (experimental 1of1) the Mallet Hammer (could be rebuilt but it would cost a small fortune) most of the rest of them there are parts that can be used from others to fix them. BTW the Museum had insurance on all of those cars, the insurance is who pays to fix them, not the museum
Deeksthedog1
Yes it is sad, but if you value lumps of metal more than life, you really are in trouble mentally.
Stop getting hot under the coller for cars you cant do anything about, no amount of keyboard bashing will make any difference.
Its happened, live with it!!.
hey i can voice my opinion all i want bud that's all i have to say
The blue zr1 was lucky
gonna need a whole lot of bondo
Quad damage!
Doesnt seem like its ben 6 years ago
Is this the Massacre that Kellyann conway referred too
LMAO ... you know it would at least make some sense if that were the case!
They sell dirt from this hole at the gift shop
+XboxCarsForza haven't been there lately i wasn't aware of that , Crazy!
+DaddytechEnt imgur.com/MbJoKA8
Oh Geez they bottled it up all fancy... lol i guess they are going to bleed that sink hole thing for every bit they can get out of it. they have a hole to take geology students down in the cavern below too now i'm told
I have one of those jars of dirt.
Joseph Johnson lol Amazing!
i hope so
25:28 The claaaaawwwww.
It'll buff out
Sad :(
I'll take that zr1 if y'all don't want it 😂
they repaired a few of them. the rest are all still sitting in the museum all busted up still. some were just way too far gone to repair.
Just like most cars end up scrap
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Pretty flimsy cars those Corvettes. Just shows how badly made they are.
actually that's not true for the fact that they are as fast as they are they are made VERY well. that's the allure with corvettes they are fast sturdy stable on the road unless you're just being completely wreckless and built well enough to protect you in the event of a serious accident.
That is an ignorant comment. Tell me what car would have incurred less damage falling 25 feet and then dropping tons of concrete and rock on it?
Just because you may not share the same opinion as me does not make it an "ignorant statement" and all but 3 of those cars fared pretty well considering how far they actually fell. also not All of them had tons of concrete on top of them in fact only 3 were actually covered up by concrete and hard red clay. and 4 of them just went into the hole and weren't even covered up with dirt. Now what part of that is as you call it "ignorant"? Unlike you i've maintained an open mind till i hear your take on this and even if yours ends up being the ignorant opinion, i don't usually tell people that in as inconsiderate of a manner as what you just did. i'd appreciate it if you showed me and my channel at least SOME respect.
@@DaddytechEnt I apologize. My comment was supposed to be directed to TheExStig. His claim "Pretty flimsy cars those Corvettes" is in my opinion ignorant.
ok yeah even i had issue with that one too competely understood. i usually suggest people that know that little actually come to this area and take a tour of the museum and the factory if they can afford it time wise.
Matchbox cars and green screens mixed with a little reality
Riiiiiight. And we didn't go to the Moon either.
Michael Schuyler, that's a given #flatearthmatters #nasalies
HAHA,,, I bet the corvette museum was sponsored by an oil rig company next door that suck all the juice from underneath causing this museum to collapse next door.. most likely the truth,, I know it hurts,I would have warned you if I had known about the issue you were faced.
newegg built are u an idiot?
Is a US citizen not allowed to make jokes about holes that come out of nowhere? I do have family members who own oil wells, and we make all kinds of dirty oil jokes. Come back when you finish a can of WD40 ,,IT aint the same fish and shits it used to be.
newegg built hmmm maybe I’m the idiot.........was this supposed to be a joke
With me in the picture, you will always be the idiot, thankfully there is Photoshop that works like a tampon absorbing all the periods you left behind.. . ..
lol
These cars have one of the worst death rates.
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Some car are die some car are ok
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I don’t like muscle XD
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