Pics of the sinkhole corvettes

[INEEDAGN]

Toured the corvette museum today on the way to start the power tour and took loads of pics of the damaged cars. The mallet hammer car is one of the most destroyed cars I have ever seen. You have to see it in person to appreciate how badly it got smashed. It is simply not fixable (98 percent of the car is scrap). The black spyder convertible, the ppg pace car, and the 1.5 millionth look to be "on the verge" where you'd have to decide if it's worth the effort and what percentage would be kept. The other 4 I have no doubt they will fix. Anywho...

More to come...bear with me. On a cell phone in a hotel

 

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[INEEDAGN]

There. I saved you guys the cost of admission. I'd been there twice before so we literally went straight to the damaged cars and left without even seeing the rest of it again. The publicity of this mishap is going to keep the place busy for years.

 

[jdpolzin]

Typical TFW Fashion, always posting F'ed up shit!!!!! Lol!

 

[Squid4life]

Typical TFW Fashion, always posting F'ed up shit!!!!! Lol!

How very true! Actually, this thread could have been much worse... I got a little nervous when I saw Bob put "More to come...bear with me. On a cell phone in a hotel". I shuddered at the thought...




Thanks for sharing the pics Bob, those are pretty damn interesting, and painful.

 

[Nascar83Fan]

Only my opinion even though i'm not a vette head, but every car involved in that disaster should be restored to it's former glory. They were all milestone cars and should be shown in their restored state.


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[TurboDave]

Only my opinion even though i'm not a vette head, but every car involved in that disaster should be restored to it's former glory. They were all milestone cars and should be shown in their restored state.


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I'm pretty sure that's the plan by Chevrolet. Even if it requires re-producing the worst of them.

 

[tb3]

I would run all of them through Barret - Jackson as-is, and call it a day

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[INEEDAGN]

They had a poll going and I think you can vote online. They'd actually discussed leaving the hole (probably shallower) and putting the worst ones back in it under glass

 

[INEEDAGN]

A clone of a milestone car is still just a clone. Restore the best 5 or 6 and display the others as is. It's gotten them huge attention. They're just cars.

 

[Nascar83Fan]

To some they are viewed as just cars, to others they are something special and more than just cars. Alot like some view our tb's as just a buick, while others know that isnt the case.


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[Mike E]

They are all fixable. Maybe not for you or me or joe blow restoration shop down the road, but for GM, they are. Those old fiberglass molds are still property of GM somewhere in a warehouse or at a GM vendor making repair parts. I'm sure they will get as much money into the museum as possible with the damaged cars. As soon as that traffic slows down, they will get shipped of for restoration to bring in a new batch of museum visitors.

I think about these rusted to pieces hemi cudas or factory big block camaro convertibles that show up on ebay and bring $50K for something that is mostly rotted sheetmetal with a good vin number. The person that buys them may only start off with a vin, but in the end, the "restored" car is worth big money.

 

[jdpolzin]

ld rather see the real thing smashed than some of the real things parts bolted onto another car. The only thing interesting apart those cars is their history. This is part of it now. Leave them trashed and on display.

 

[INEEDAGN]

There's no way to "fix" the mallett hammer. All you can do is "clone" it. End of story. It's not that special and if any other mallet hammer had been wrecked to a fraction of what this one was it'd be written off and parted and no one would think twice. Leave it in the corner. Next to one of the crash tested cars lol

 

[87 WE2]

The black one is the only car there worth fixing.