Workers Begin Filling Sinkhole at Corvette Museum

This week workers at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., began filing in the 60x45x30-foot sinkhole that devoured eight rare Vettes in February.

The $3.2 million project will take about eight months, according to the museum.

The sinkhole has been a tourist attraction since its overnight appearance, boosting museum attendance 71% to a record 225,000 through October. The facility cashed in on the disaster with memorial T-shirts, jars of sinkhole dirt and copies of a surveillance video showing the disaster unfolding.

Workers will fill the hole with rock, steel casings and grout to fortify the floor against future mishaps. General Motors Co. is restoring three Vettes that fell into the sinkhole. The other five were too badly damaged to repair, but they will remain on display at the museum.