Photo: National Corvette Museum
The National Corvette Museum (NCM) has announced it will begin extracting the sinkhole-damaged Corvette sportscars beginning today, when the first car, the 2009 ZR1 “Blue Devil”, will be removed.
Named “Operation Corvette Plus”, the extraction will continue with the 1962 black car, but the Museum says there may be some complications when removing it “because the 5 ton concrete slab resting against the front of the car must be lifted simultaneously and in conjunction with the lifting of the vehicle”.
NCM added that it will be allowing approved media to film inside the Skydome during the removal of the “Blue Devil” ZR1. As previously mentioned, the damaged cars will be displayed from April through July, before being sent to GM’s Mechanical Assembly Specialty shop for repairs.
“As they remove the cars, the is to put them on sort of dollies, wheel them out of the museum and back to our exhibit hall,” said Corvette Museum spokesperson Katie Frassinelli.
Eight Chevrolet Corvettes were swallowed by a 40-foot (12-meter) sinkhole that developed inside the museum's Skydome earlier this month. Two of them were on loan from General Motors, while the other six are owned by the National Corvette Museum.
Chevrolet has announced it will oversee the restoration of the Corvettes. The entire process will be supervised by Ed Welburn, vice president of GM Global Design.
The vehicles that got damaged included the 1 millionth Corvette (1992), the 1.5 millionth Corvette (2009), the 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 and the 1993 ZR-1 Spyder.
NCM added that it will be allowing approved media to film inside the Skydome during the removal of the “Blue Devil” ZR1. As previously mentioned, the damaged cars will be displayed from April through July, before being sent to GM’s Mechanical Assembly Specialty shop for repairs.
“As they remove the cars, the is to put them on sort of dollies, wheel them out of the museum and back to our exhibit hall,” said Corvette Museum spokesperson Katie Frassinelli.
Eight Chevrolet Corvettes were swallowed by a 40-foot (12-meter) sinkhole that developed inside the museum's Skydome earlier this month. Two of them were on loan from General Motors, while the other six are owned by the National Corvette Museum.
Chevrolet has announced it will oversee the restoration of the Corvettes. The entire process will be supervised by Ed Welburn, vice president of GM Global Design.
The vehicles that got damaged included the 1 millionth Corvette (1992), the 1.5 millionth Corvette (2009), the 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 and the 1993 ZR-1 Spyder.
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