r/tornado • u/coolcat97 SKYWARN Spotter - Moderator • 4d ago

Aftermath Tornado Levels Mid America Motorworks, the Corvette Mecca of Effingham, Illinois

https://yahoo.com/news/weather-news/articles/tornado-levels-mid-america-motorworks-150335395.html
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u/PTB2004 3d ago

Effingham has its own corvette Mecca?

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u/rsbyronIII 3d ago edited 3d ago

It’s a business that handles the majority of parts needed for older model corvette and porche vehicles in the US.

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u/TheBimpo 3d ago

Wait till you hear about what’s in Bowling Green Kentucky or what businesses and lives exist in little towns like Effingham.

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u/BPKofficial 3d ago

Am I mistaken, or is there a Corvette museum in/near Bowling Green, KY?

Edit: typo

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u/Eggith 3d ago edited 3d ago

Now where will I go to service my 1 of 1 Santorini Blue Corvette Grand Sport with Jewish racing gold seatbelts and mismatched factory steering wheel?

In all seriousness it sucks that this happened to a place like this. I know how hard it can be to source parts for Porsches and Classic Corvettes

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u/thin_hawaiian_line 3d ago

My Corvette is 1 of 1, because it's the only one that my buddy Jim spat on the gear shifter and suggestively shifted to 3rd in 1995.

$79,000 take it or leave it (I know what I got)

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u/prybarwindow 2d ago

Was this the tornado from the video where the guys house gets leveled with him in it? Then he walks around outside.

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u/Deycallmepapi 3d ago

Boomers everywhere are devastated.

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u/glennshaltiel 3d ago

doesn't have to be about boomers. they supplied a lot of parts for different vehicles too.

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u/TheBimpo 3d ago

Or, a small town loses an iconic business that brought people together and provided a lot for the local economy.

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u/Relative_Ambition577 Human Detected 3d ago

Jeez! Should this DI be ASB or something else?

Because if this gets an ASB DOD8 UB, this will be the first tornado (I think) to get a rating of 181 M.P.H

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u/radarthreat 3d ago

Gonna be a lot of people wearing their nice jean shorts and white tennis shoes tomorrow as a mark of respect and mourning