A sinkhole devoured eight Corvettes Wednesday morning at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky.
A group moves one of the priceless sports cars to safety after the sinkhole was discovered Wednesday morning.
Eight Corvettes are trapped in a sinkhole that opened up at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky Wednesday.
The sinkhole is surveyed Wednesday by a group of officials.
Cars that did not fall victim to the sinkhole sit next to the cavernous pit.
A cavernous sinkhole claimed the fate of eight priceless all-American sports cars Wednesday morning at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky.
The Bowling Green, Ky. museum discovered the enormous pit in its Skydome section after being contacted by its security company when motion detectors went off at 5:44 a.m., local time, according to a release. The Bowling Green Fire Department estimated that the hole is 40 feet across and 25 to 30 feet deep.
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"This is devastating for us, the cars are almost like family to people," a museum spokesperson told Mashable. "Every one of them has a special place in history, a special story."
Surveillance footage on the museum's YouTube page, below, shows the floor suddenly giving way, and the cars going down with it.

Among the cars that disappeared into the hole are a 1962 black Corvette, a 1984 PPG Pace Car and a 1993 ZR-1 Spyder. Two of the eight cars were on loan from General Motors, and the museum owned the rest. The attraction houses more than 80 Corvettes from different eras, including the only remaining 1983 model, according to the museum's website.
Multiple Corvette enthusiasts posted on the museum's Facebook page to express their unhappiness. One man said it was "a sad day for all car enthusiasts," while another added that the accident "doesn't seem possible or even real."
A structural engineering firm determined that areas around the sinkhole are stable, and all cars in the Skydome that were unaffected have been removed from the area. It is not yet clear, however, whether it will be possible to remove the cars that fell into the pit, the museum's spokeswoman said. The attraction will be open during its normal business hours on Thursday, but the Skydome section will be cordoned off, according to the museum's Facebook page. No one was injured in the collapse, as the area was deserted when the sinkhole occurred.
Sinkholes showed up in several different areas last year. A security guard fell into a 16-foot-wide pit last March, and a monstrous abyss swallowed up land in Louisiana last August.
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