I'm sure you've all heard about this by now....this happened this morning:

http://mobile.theverge.com/2014/2/12/5404326/eight-cars-swallowed-by-20-foot-sinkhole-in-national-corvette-museum

This was security footage of the sinkhole opening up from youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IukDWhf7U9I

That security footage is scary!  You can see the whole floor sink, then to see the first big opening start and eat the first orange one - and it all happened so fast!  Are those cars going to be complete goners?  

Meh. Who cares?  4 C4's, 2 C5's, a C6, and a 62. Other than the 62 and the ZR1, the cost to recover them exceeds the post restoration value.  In the pics, that whole area is full of C4's. I get the impression that higher value Corvettes aren't available to the Museum.  Why would anyone donate a Ruby, for example? The donor must have had a hell of an appraisal on it, and his income tax bracket and AMT situation made the deduction worth more than he could sell it for. I don't see any 390's, 425's, 435's, 450's, or fuelies in that hole. Or even in the building.

If the Corvette C7 fails in the market place over the next few years, I predict the NCM will fail too. A good chunk of the NCM's revenue is derived from R8C fees, 'baby book' fees, and 'watch your car get built' fees. Without new-car activity, I don't think NCM can stand on its own. Its too stale, and of interest to too few people.

 I visited in 09 and again in 11.  I was in BG last August. I didn't even consider a visit. Many of the cars I observed in 2011, I remembered from 2009. The 83 is cool, but so what? I've seen it twice. I have a pic of its 83 VIN. It was in the same spot in this morning's pics as it was in in 2009. I don't have a desire to ever see it again. That's what I mean by "stale". Corvettes are dynamic. They were built to be driven and move. With 1.6 Million Corvettes having been built, you would think there would be enough candidates to rotate the cars on display more frequently than they do.

The most fascinating part is the chance of that large a sink hole developing under a building (they usually require rain and surface water to develop) without damage to the building. That some crappy-ass plastic cars that people can't sell so they give them away instead fell in it too makes the thing surreal.








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WOW Dave that outta start some S--T        But hey ya gotta DRIVE EM !!

Dave, what a flame!......I'm not one to bite however