Although the event is still a year away, 1,200 people already are registered for the 2014 Corvette Caravan that will mark the 20th anniversary of the National Corvette Museum.
Museum officials expect car clubs from all 50 states and Canada to converge on Bowling Green for the celebration.
Bowling Green, Kentucky, is the only place where General Motors builds the iconic Corvette.
The museum showcases the Chevrolet Corvette, an American sports car that has been in production since 1953.
The damaged cars included a 1962 Black Corvette, 1984 PPG Pace Car, 1992 White 1 Millionth Corvette, 1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Corvette, 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette and 2009 White 1.5 Millionth Corvette.
Two vehicles on loan from General Motors, a 1993 ZR-1 Spyder and 2009 ZR1 'Blue Devil', were also damaged, according to WKYT.
Museum executive director Wendell Strode Strode has not released the total value of the damage, but said it was 'substantial'.
'There's a story behind every single one of them,' he told New York Daily News. 'I'm going to have to make a phone call and tell them we lost their babies.'
Engineers have been called in to assess the situation at the 20-year-old museum.
'Before we do anything, like remove the other cars, we want that assessment so we know if there’s been any structural damage to the Sky Dome,' Strode told courier-journal.com.
'We’ll try to get back to business as usual as soon as we can and keep moving forward.'
Bowling Green city spokeswoman Kim Lancaster said the 40-foot-wide sinkhole has forced the closure of the Sky Dome - an original part of the facility was completed in 1994 - but the rest of the museum is open.
Lancaster said information was still being gathered about what exactly happened, but this appeared to be the first incident of its kind at the property.
Bowling Green sits in the midst of the state's largest karst region - the Western Pennyroyal area, where many of Kentucky's longest and deepest caves run underground.
No injuries were reported and the damage has not been valued.
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'Before we do anything, like remove the other cars, we want that assessment so we know if there’s been any structural damage to the Sky Dome,' Strode told courier-journal.com.
'We’ll try to get back to business as usual as soon as we can and keep moving forward.'
Bowling Green city spokeswoman Kim Lancaster said the 40-foot-wide sinkhole has forced the closure of the Sky Dome - an original part of the facility was completed in 1994 - but the rest of the museum is open.
Lancaster said information was still being gathered about what exactly happened, but this appeared to be the first incident of its kind at the property.
Bowling Green sits in the midst of the state's largest karst region - the Western Pennyroyal area, where many of Kentucky's longest and deepest caves run underground.
No injuries were reported and the damage has not been valued.
Read more Daily Mail
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