The National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky

The National Corvette

 Museum

Visitors are encouraged to sit in a 2018 Corvette and have pictures taken.

My jacket matches
the car.

The museum is raffling off a 2018 Corvette.  For just $10.00, you can live your dream.

The man behind the Corvette:

Harley Earl

The Fiberglass body
of an early Corvette.






In the upper left, two women are holding one of the larger Fiberglass parts, showing how lightweight the body of Corvettes are.

1954 Corvette

I love this sporty little car and its slightly finned rear.

The child's model 

is sooo cute!

 A Corvette gets gas

while two others

are serviced at a

Mobile Service

Station.

NASCAR &
Corvette

The line up of

Corvette

Pace Cars.

This 1966 Corvette
has been modified
for racing..

The 1968 Astro-Vette

was built as part of

an aerodynamics

study.

Features of this car are used in the 1973 and 1974 Corvette models.





You can see the
Astro-Vette's
sleek front end
in this 1974
Corvette.

This is the only 1983

Corvette in existence.

Forty-three were produced that year.  This car featured the first LED instrument panel.  The one piece sheet molded body panel eliminated body seams.  Magnesium/Aluminum metals made the 1983 model lightweight and reduced undercarriage corrosion.

1996 Corvette

This 2005 Corvette

was the Official

 Pace Car at the

  Indianapolis 500.

Do you see the yellow and red tapes on the floor at the rear tire of this car?  This gallery at the National Corvette Museum gained international attention after the floor fell away on February 12, 2014 and eight cars disappeared.

A sinkhole had opened up and the cave beneath this section of the building was exposed.

The floor of this

section of the

 museum is marked

with tapes showing

the edges of the

cave & the sinkhole.

The National Corvette
Museum added a
display exploring the
Cave In.

Detailed displays explain the underground geology beneath this building, where the eight cars fell and how they were removed from the 30 foot deep hole.

These two cars of the eight cars that fell into the hole were hard to find...

This 2001 Corvette

went missing after

 the floor fell away.

The whereabouts
of this 2009 
Corvette were
unknown after
the collapse.




Probing rods and metal detectors were used to find these two cars.  They were the last two cars removed from the sinkhole.

While the damaged Corvettes were being removed from "the pit," plans were being developed to fill in the cave; test for stability of the filled in pit and repair the floor of this display space.

Two years later, on February 12, 2016, this section of the National Corvette Museum reopened, with the Cave In Display.

Corvette cars & the museum

 continue  their "drive" into

the future..