1957 Plymouth in a time capsule to be opened

Post by **budget_crx** » Mon May 21, 2007 4:04 am

http://www.buriedcar.com/buriedbelvedere3.html

Back in 1957, the city of Tulsa buried a brand-new Plymouth Belvedere in a vault beneath what is now its courthouse sidewalk, along with mementoes of 50s life and consumables such as oil and gasoline--“just in case those things aren’t around in the future” (be patient, guys, we’re working on that). The idea was that, as part of Tulsa’s centennial celebration, the high-tech cosmonauts of the year 2007 would resurrect the Belvedere to marvel over its quaintly obsolete internal combustion engine and to reminisce about a bygone era of earthbound cars that cruised the roads on inflatable rubber tires. While it might not end up being as meet-George-Jetson as all that, the exhumation is slated to go ahead on June 15th, but unfortunately, money-grubbing city bureaucrats have cast a pall over the event. Despite the centennial’s already ample taxpayer funding, they’ve decided to charge residents up to 25 bucks a head to witness the unveiling, and they even went so far as to refuse an offer from a local equipment-rentals company to haul the car for free (the city figures the company should pay them 5 grand for the exposure).

boner · Post by **boner** » Mon May 21, 2007 4:10 am

That is cool but gay at the same time

HondaChild · Post by **HondaChild** » Mon May 21, 2007 4:50 pm

thats very cool.

ImAJandILikeToSuckMenOffForMoney · Mon May 21, 2007 5:10 pm

wow its cool but it sucks a towing company has to pay 5,000 to tow the car away though.

Also how did they bury the car, like what did they cover it in, I saw them spraying something but what was it? Im kinda curious to see how it looks when they dig it up.

Post by **budget_crx** » Mon May 21, 2007 8:50 pm

soundqjr;44448 wrote: Also how did they bury the car, like what did they cover it in, I saw them spraying something but what was it? Im kinda curious to see how it looks when they dig it up.

I dunno, i was thinking the same thing, It almost looked like they put a tarp on it, then poured concrete over it. seems to me that would either crush the car or make it a real bitch to get it out.

ImAJandILikeToSuckMenOffForMoney · Mon May 21, 2007 8:56 pm

budget_crx;44517 wrote:I dunno, i was thinking the same thing, It almost looked like they put a tarp on it, then poured concrete over it. seems to me that would either crush the car or make it a real bitch to get it out.

Yea it will be interesting to see what it looks like after 50 years.

HondaChild · Post by **HondaChild** » Tue May 22, 2007 12:05 am

I think that they were pouring sand down there. and would anyone want to go see this??
we could visit Mike while we were at it.

ImAJandILikeToSuckMenOffForMoney · Tue May 22, 2007 12:30 am

HondaChild;44552 wrote:I think that they were pouring sand down there. and would anyone want to go see this??
we could visit Mike while we were at it.

25 a pop I dunno if it would be worth it.

90CivicEx · Post by **90CivicEx** » Tue May 22, 2007 12:33 am

they wasn't spraying sand cause over time it would turn into concrete, it looked like a ruber sealent cause it was pouring onto the sides and coating anything it was hitting so I'm pretty sure they sealed then sat the concrete top on it like a tomb.

Post by **budget_crx** » Tue May 22, 2007 1:34 am

when i first read this i thought of the movie "catch me if you can," not the one about the check fraud but the one about the high school kid that drag raced. There was a 57 Chevy hidden in a similar tomb for years under the highschool's football field, such a badass movie :rock: