As you read this a crew of riggers using a couple of cranes, lots of safety gear, and all of their expertise are working on extracting the infamous “sinkhole Corvettes” from their pit of despair at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Thankfully, the museum has decided to keep their streaming web cams on so we can gawk at the action all day. The extraction effort began a couple of days and so far we believe that one or two of the car has been removed. The ’62 and the “Blue Devil” ZR1 were certainly the “easiest” of the vehicles to snatch as they were both relatively intact and close to the surface. The other cars are buried and will require some real engineering to free up and get out. UPDATE: THE BLUE DEVIL IS BEING LIFTED RIGHT NOW AS WE TYPE THIS AT 10:34 EST
We’re super interested to see what shape all of these cars are in as they emerge from the hole. We can’t exactly tell which car they are working for now but we can see that they are using one crane to lower a guy into the hole in a steel basket and he seems to be the one in charge of hooking up the cars so that they can be lifted out. These must me some mondo cranes because of the fact that they are reaching so far into the building to pull the cars out. The whole effort is pretty fascinating and you can watch it all by clicking on the sinkhole image below. That will take you to the museum website and the camera. There are two cameras so each of the below images represents a camera. You can open both at the same time for the most comprehensive view –
Camera angle two –
