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Old 02-12-2014, 02:12 PM
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Seriously guys, you can't look at this and not ache a little!
The 62 is a loss. The others are too but if I never saw them, meh. Those cars don't do much for me. But I get what you're saying. Is does make you cringe a bit.

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Respectfully, I don't know what the back story is, but you've got issues and a fiberglass car is not the cause . . . . . http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-g...te-haters.html

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Damn guys. Why the snark comments? Don't care what make, model, steel, glass, plastic...

This sucks. Glad no one was injured and no personally owned cars were lost. I know of more than one GTO club that has had cars on display at the Corvette museum throughout the years as specialty displays.

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Those poor cars.

I hate how I see this story on other car specific forums, and they all comment on how "at least they're not such and such cars". Really? So if they were cars that you cared about then it would be a bad thing, but because its not its just whatever.

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Old 02-12-2014, 03:54 PM
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Sorry for the loss of any collectible car,

BUT

Lets start with the jokes:


What do you call 8 corvettes at the bottom of a hole?

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A good start!



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Act of God..... NO insurance coverage for you.

And The Pontiac God is smiling..... "I don't get mad, but I just got even with Chevrolet".

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Old 02-12-2014, 04:02 PM
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I've had several corvettes. Hate to hear the bad news. I'm sure most of us know, we shouldn't worry much about material things anyway.

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Hate to think that if something happen to one of my Pontiacs that someone would be laughing or saying "it's just a Pontiac." Someone, somewhere treasured those cars, even if they were owned by the museum.

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Old 02-12-2014, 07:09 PM
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What if it were the Pontiac Museum, all you crap artists would change your tunes then. Have a little self control and empathy for the hobby. Sheesh.

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Old 02-12-2014, 07:21 PM
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Here yo can see the 62 clinging for dear life... Of the four I can see, Ill bet the 62 and the 09 Blue Devil might be ok with minimal damage. Weird how you cant see any of the other four. They must be buried. Now that I see pics, as they say, the s**t just got real. It is sad. Just glad it happened in the middle of the night and not during a tour.

Here are pics from the museum website. https://plus.google.com/photos/10414...569?banner=pwa



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Old 02-12-2014, 07:39 PM
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Drone footage. Start at 1:50. You can see six of the cars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5FG9...1LzacC&index=2

If you go to the museum website you can watch a lot of video footage. Including the surveillance video that caught the whole thing happening. Its clear that six of the cars are visible. Two must have been buried.


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Old 02-12-2014, 07:42 PM
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There's also a video out there from a security camera showing just the beginning where 2 Vettes dropped in the hole first.
Our company built a plant just south of BG in 1993. Multiple sinkholes opened up during construction....when they start, it doesn't take long for them to get very large and very deep. Had the same thing when we built down in Talladega....watched a 100 foot wide sink hole form before our eyes in about 45 seconds. Scares the hell out of you because you don't know when it will stop.

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Yep, Thanks Old blue.. Security Camera footage!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k05V...Q3hW12km1LzacC

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No sign of the orange or white cars that fell in first!

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The live web cams at the museum are still active. There are a bunch of new C7 models waiting for new owners to pick them up as part of the Museum Delivery option. I imagine they all have very tight sphincter muscles right now!

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I think those cars are gone... Just too dangerous to risk someone's live to pull em out.

Years ago a hole opened up near here that swallowed a bulldozer, it took a month to find it. I don't think they ever did recover the operators body.

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Old 02-12-2014, 08:27 PM
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I have a corvette and pontiacs and I hate to see any cars get damaged like that.

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Wow. Just 'wow'. Weird. Who did the geotech on the site?

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Old 02-12-2014, 08:32 PM
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It's really annoying to me they call those "drones" they are RC-radio controlled planes,not drones for gods sake.

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Not to worry, they'll pull 'em out and fix them up good as new.

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