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A massive sinkhole six metres deep has collapsed part of the National Corvette Museum in the US state of Kentucky, claiming eight cars -- two of which were on loan from Corvette parent company General Motors.
The loaned cars are a 1993 ZR-1 Spyder and a 2009 ZR1 Blue Devil, while the other six owned by the museum are a 1962 Corvette, 1984 PPG Pace Car Corvette, 1992 Corvette (the 1,000,000th one built), 1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Corvette, 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette and 2009 Corvette(1,500,000th one built).
Museum spokeswoman Katie Frassinelli said no one was in the museum when the sinkhole opened -- estimated to be about 5.40am yesterday, when alarms were set off. The damage is in the original domed part of the museum, which was built in Bowling Green in 1994.
Bowling Green is also home to the sole facility in which GM builds the Corvette. The region is in the middle of Kentucky's largest area for karst -- a geological formation in which layers of soluble bedrock such as limestone can dissolve, leaving huge underground caves.
This reporter is on Twitter: @KarlaPincott
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