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National Corvette Museum To Mark One-Year Sinkhole Anniversary With Special Ceremony

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Article Written by Sam McEachern

Today marks the one-year anniversary of when a massive sinkhole opened up in the National Corvette Museum, swallowing up eight display Corvettes in the process. The disaster ended up being a positive turn of events for the NCM, netting them worldwide media coverage and sparking a 67% increase in attendance.

To mark the one-year anniversary of the sinkhole’s inception, the NCM will hold a ceremony in which they will recount the discovery of the sinkhole and celebrate the return of the 2009 Corvette ZR1 ‘Blue Devil’ concept to the museum’s floor. The Blue Devil was the first of the eight Corvettes to be rescued from the hole and repaired.

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