National Corvette Museum decides to keep sinkhole
Remember that enormous sinkhole that swallowed up a bunch of classic (and very expensive) cars at the National Corvette Museum in February? We all expected that the sinkhole would be filled in -- but the Corvette Museum has apparently become quite attached to it.
"The Corvette Museum where a sinkhole swallowed up 8 classic Vettes, is keeping the hole," HLN reports. "The Kentucky museum says the sinkhole has become just as popular of a tourist attraction."
The hole is 40 feet wide and 60 feet deep.
A writer for NBC says the museum might be onto something. Apparently, "museum visitations have been up 59 percent and revenue is up 65 percent" since the sinkhole occurred in February.
Eight cars were swallowed by the sinkhole, including a 1984 PPG Pace Car that was pulled out of the hole. The damaged vehicles amount to around $1 million.
Time reports the museum's board of directors voted on several options on what do about the sinkhole. Those options included filling it completely and replacing the floor, keeping the sinkhole partially open or leaving it completely as is. Fox News reports:
"The museum voting to keep a portion of that hole open and maybe even put a classic car or two back in that hole."
Yep, it's pretty much going to be made into a tourist attraction. The smaller sinkhole will be completed with a sheet of glass placed over the top, so any tourists stepping close to get a glimpse won't accidentally fall in.
In a press release, the executive director of the museum said, "We have to look at creative ways to generate interest in the Museum. It would be so much easier to just be a regular automotive museum with our Corvettes on display, but we have to think outside the box."
Construction to fill half of the sinkhole is expected to start in September. In the meantime, the sinkhole and eight Corvettes pulled out of it will remain on display.
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