Corvettes and sinkhole

[Ken Tarver]

Wife and I took trip to the corvette museum a few weeks ago. What a shame.

[Fritz The Cat]

Yea, what a shame. 

[CajunRider]

Holy crap!!!   

That was a lot worse (and bigger) than I thought!!

Definitely a shame.    

[Moonshot_1]

Shoot, it'll buff right out.

[Paxton]

Saw that before. Notice that the damaged ones were the crappy models.

[MP]

You think 1962 was a "crappy" model?

http://www.remarkablecars.com/main/chevrolet/chevrolet-00189.html

Looks great to me!

MP

[indybobm]

Saw that before. Notice that the damaged ones were the crappy models.

There are NO crappy models!

[cma1]

glad mines locked in the garage !

silver C-5, the fastest and nicest looking

[Paxton]

"You think 1962 was a "crappy" model?"
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If you own one, YES!

[f6john]

     A little run down on the cars involved,

     1962 Black roadster - last year of the solid rear axle cars

     1984 white C4 - PPG pace car used during the first year of C4 production.

     1992 C4 - The one millionth Corvette produced

     1993 C4 -  The 40th anniversary model

     1993 C4 -  ZR-1 Spyder on loan from GM

     2001 C5 -  A tuner model called the Mallet Hammer, similar to a Lingenfelter or Calloway

     2009 C6 -  The 1.5 millionth Corvette produced, white like the 1992 car

     2009 C6 -  The ZR-1 "Blue Devil" on loan from GM

     A significant group of cars, none of which are really crappy, but not necessarily to everyone's tastes.

     

[WNGD]

I was there a few weeks before the sinkhole happened last year. I'm not a Corvette guy but that was a pretty impressive collection, much of it loaned by the owners to the museum. Great riding area too.

[cma1]

I love my corvettes, I was never a fan of the C-4 so I jumped over it when buying a new one, but corvettes are the absolute best bang for the buck there is. my C-6 will do 195 mph (only me and the loneliest hwy in America know for sure) and zero to sixty in 4.1 sec. it out handles every major half million dollar sports car made, (starting in 97 with the C-5) I drove the C-7 the other day, probably won't go that route, the ass end looks too much like a Camaro to me, but "crappy ones" na, never was a "crappy one" they are all top of the line cars, just some don't quite appeal to some folks as much as others. kinda like valks, vs goldwings

[czuch]

I had a '66, 327 four speed hard/soft top roadster.
The guy reved it up too high too many times and sold it cheap. It was one of the best cars I've ever owned. Not bad to work on, and reletively reasonable to do the rebuild. After all, its really a Chevy.
I got an offer on it, that I couldnt refuse and had major remorse before the new owner hit second.
Next, the grail. 67,427 4 speed, same body. Major electrical dragons.
MAJOR FIRE BREATHING BAD ASS SMOKING BURNING WTF ELECTRICAL DRAGONS.
After sorting those out, 6 months later, great reliable car. I drove it to Albuquerque from Anahiem, 450 miles +/-, and would have traded it to the first guy with a Caddie or Lincoln that was game.
Again stupid money changed hands and she was gone.

[Daniel Meyer]

Meh...if they're not being driven, they're just as good smashed as perfect.

Museums are purgatory for machines...

[hubcapsc]

Meh...if they're not being driven, they're just as good smashed as perfect.

Museums are purgatory for machines...

Houses too. There used to be a bunch of named plantations right around here. Most
are gone, rotted away, paved over, whatever...

Three still exist, two "house museums" and one that is still a working farm.

I'm glad the house museums still exist, but they are no longer "real"...

The real one - Montpelier:



-Mike

[cma1]

my C-5 has 65K on it. had to change the sparkplugs last week -- not for the faint hearted, next time I need plugs I might sell it !

[f6john]

Meh...if they're not being driven, they're just as good smashed as perfect.

Museums are purgatory for machines...

     Good point. I live about 65 miles from the museum and I'm going to fire off an e-mail right away, offering my services to take out a different car on display each day until all have had a good workout. Many of the cars are on loan from private owners so they get rotated out occasionally.

     I'm just going to keep driving mine.