Corvette Museum Sinkhole Collapse | Security Camera Footage | FULL VIDEO - Two Angles Corvette Museum Giant Sinkhole Swallows Eight Cars, Kentucky | Security Camera CCTV VIDEO. New video shows sinkhole collapsing below Corvette Museum. The moment sinkhole opens under Corvette museum caught on camera. The National Corvette Museum has released two security videos of the moment that a sinkhole began opening up underneath the facility early Wednesday morning, claiming the first two of eight cars that would eventually be damaged by it.In the videos, the floor begins to sag at around 5:38.43 AM, and holes start appearing in the surface less than 10 seconds later. At 5:39.08 it gives way completely and two cars, including a 2009 white convertible that was the 1.5 millionth Corvette ever built, fall into the widening abyss. Fans of America's favorite sports car should probably avert their eyes. The National Corvette Museum -- which watched eight Chevy Corvettes fall into a sinkhole estimated to be 30 feet deep Wednesday morning -- has released a pair of videos showing new details of the incident. The first is footage from a security camera from within the Skydome on the museum's property. The building housed between 25 and 30 rare Corvettes, including the eight that were swallowed by the 40-foot-wide sinkhole. UPDATE 2-Sinkhole gobbles up 8 vintage Corvettes at Kentucky museum Giant Sinkhole Swallows Eight Corvette Car At The National Corvette Museum, Bowling Green Kentucky National Corvette Museum Giant Sinkhole Swallows 8 Cars Vintage Corvettes at Kentucky Museum (KMSP) - A sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky swallowed 8 vintage cars Wednesday morning. february 2014 The Bowling Green Fire Department estimated the size of the sinkhole at 40 feet wide and 25 to 30 feet deep. agujero, coches "We received a call at 5:44 a.m. from our security company alerting us of our motion detectors going off in our Skydome area of the museum," the National Corvette Museum said in a statement. "Upon arrival it was discovered that a sinkhole had collapsed within the museum. No one was in or around the museum at the time." Of the 8 cars lost in the sinkhole, 2 were on loan and 6 are owned by the museum. CORVETTES LOST IN SINKHOLE - 1993 ZR-1 Spyder (on loan from General Motors) - 2009 ZR1 "Blue Devil" (on loan from General Motors) - 1962 Black Corvette - 1984 PPG Pace Car - 1992 White 1 Millionth Corvette - 1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Corvette - 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette - 2009 White 1.5 Millionth Corvette Museum director Wendell Strode told the Courier-Journal newspaper that firefighters allowed museum staff to remove the only surviving 1983 Corvette, which was at risk of joining the other cars in the sinkhole. The sinkhole-affected Skydome was closed Wednesday, but the rest of the museum remained open to visitors. sinkhole swallows 8 cars National Corvette Museum sinkhole swallows 8 cars National Corvette Museum sinkhole swallows 8 cars National Corvette Museum sinkhole swallows 8 cars National Corvette Museum sinkhole swallows 8 cars National Corvette Museum sinkhole swallows 8 cars National Corvette Museum sinkhole swallows 8 cars National Corvette Museum sinkhole swallows 8 cars National Corvette Museum sinkhole swallows 8 cars National Corvette Museum sinkhole swallows 8 cars National Corvette Museum sinkhole swallows 8 cars National Corvette Museum sinkhole swallows 8 cars National Corvette Museum sinkhole swallows 8 cars National Corvette Museum sinkhole swallows 8 cars National Corvette Museum sinkhole swallows 8 cars National Corvette Museum National Corvette Museum Sink hole swallows 8 Cars | Corvette-swallowing sinkhole in Kentucky Corvette Museum Sink hole | Massive sink hole swallows 8 cars at the National Corvette Museum National Corvette Museum: Massive sink hole swallows eight cars at the National Corvette Museum A Big Sinkhole Opened Up At The National Corvette Museum And Swallowed A Bunch Of Classic Cars - Sinkhole swallows pricey Corvettes at hallowed museum Sinkholes are swallowing Corvettes now. Apparently houses in Florida weren't enough. The news that eight valuable 'vettes at Bowling Green, Kentucky's National Corvette Museum fell victim to a 40-foot-wide, 20-feet-deep sinkhole has triggered a collective gasp from the worldwide Corvette Nation. "I was shocked," said Frazer Bharucha, 47, a Corvette owner since age 17. "We're talking about iconic cars that have been around for years." The painful losses have been tallied: Of the eight cars that fell, six were donated to the museum by Corvette enthusiasts, and two are owned by the car's maker, General Motors. Among them were a 1962 Black Corvette, a 1984 PPG Pace Car, and a 1993 ZR-1 Spyder. The total value of the damaged cars is "substantial," said museum executive director Wendell Strode. Bharucha, of the Long Island Corvette Owners Association, knows the museum well,

• published: 13 Feb 2014
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