If you thought it couldn’t be done, prepare to be amazed.
It took around 1200 man-hours of work and the deep pockets of the General, but the millionth Corvette produced has been fully restored after being extensively damaged in February of last year when a sinkhole opened up underneath the Nation Corvette Museum.
Here is the car from the same angle, fully restored. That sinkhole, if you’ll remember, swallowed eight cars.
Several were not restorable, but despite the damage, this one was.
The restoration work took place at the Design Center on GM’s Technical Center campus in Warren, Michigan.
Since this was a special vehicle when it rolled off the line, it carried many signatures from employees who’d worked on the car.
Most of the pieces with signatures could be restored, but one couldn’t. GM found the employee who’d signed that piece and had her autograph a replacement.
Many original components that were seriously damaged, that could have been replaced entirely with repro parts, were instead restored.
As you can see, it’s pretty much exactly as the original car—which was perfectly preserved—was before the sinkhole debacle.
This is what the car looked like when it rolled off the assembly line in Bowling Green in 1992.
When it was recovered from the sinkhole, the damage was documented before it was cleaned.
It was, as you might imagine, filthy.
While this one was restored, five of the sinkhole Corvettes will intentionally not be restored.
That’s because at least one of the cars was damaged beyond any hope of repair.
The other damaged cars will be part of a sinkhole-themed exhibit at the museum.
This story originally appeared on roadandtrack.com.
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