September 4, 2014
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| Corvette Museum |
Drove to Bowling Green, KY to tour the Corvette Plant and
visit the Corvette Museum. We arrived
around 9:30, it’s about a 60 miles drive, so we went to the museum first as we
had a tour time of 11:30.
We bought our tickets for the museum knowing we’d have to
leave before we’d finish but tickets are good for all day. They have cars on display that individuals
have purchased but have not picked up.
The colors are so pretty!!!! I
love the yellow but blue seems to be the most popular color.
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| Made from pics of Corvettes |
Once inside the museum, you learn about the history of the
corvette and the talented individuals that created this iconic car. I prefer the older versions vs. the new
ones! Loved the 1960 they have on
display. While walking around you can
read interesting facts they’ve posted along the tour. You learn the love the original owner had
both for the corvette and racing.
Corvette is still involved in the racing industry; in fact they had a
section on Nascar and the Mr. Hendrick.
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| Sink Hole |
At about 10:45, we head to the plant facility, which is
about a mile away from the museum. Once
checked in, we watched a video about the facility and safety while touring the
plant. It’s a first come, first serve
system, even though we all had reservations.
Must have been 100+ of us, we were assigned to the third group. A young gentleman from KY University led the
tour, informing us of the processes that were occurring throughout the plant
while we walked along. They have about
900 employees at this facility. All cars
have been per-ordered either by individuals or dealers. Very impressive because they make 140-170 a
day!!!! Watching the robots and humans
work together was very interesting, although they did not have as many robots
as I had anticipated.
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| Some of the cars damaged |
The tour lasted about an hour, only bad thing, you can't take pics. Afterwards we returned to the
museum to see the stuff we missed. Back
in Feb of this year, the main display area was damaged by a sink hole. Apparently KY had thousands of cave and many
are unknown, like the one that caused this sink hole. The roof of the cave collapsed at 5:45 AM
and took with it 8 corvettes. They were
lucky that not more cars got damaged or that the entire building wasn’t
damaged. When you see the hole you
wander why it isn’t bigger!
Per the guard, they are only going to refurbish 2 of the
cars, one owned by the museum and the other owned by GM. GM’s car was a racing car and the museum car
was the 1,000,000th car built.
Many cars are on loan to the museum and some of those were damaged…so
sad to see what is left. No much!!!
We arrived home around 4:30, long day but well worth the
drive!
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