for those that have been following the thread of the buried 57 Belvedere in Tulsa , here is a recent video that my Dad sent me.

the video pretty much tells the story.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/webextra/c...edcar/wmv.html

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http://www.tulsachevys.com/Images/buriedcar/index.html


something tells me they are going to do something drastic to make it look "presentable" when the oficial time comes to unveil it. They should just show it in all its rusted glory

Mark

 

Wow.....I think some people are a lil excentric.......but cool find...

 

That car is TOAST!


The ONLY way that car could have been preserved would have been to put it into a sealed container and pull a vacuum on the container and remove ALL the air (and water vapor) and keep a vacuum pump running on it to keep it evacuated.

What they did was nearly the same as submerging it in salt water!


A fitting end for a 57 Plymouth!



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"she may be OK"

I am going to have to say no "she" won't be. I too want to see exactly what it looks like after sitting in varying levels of water for 50 years.

 

Rust Never Sleeps.

 

I hope they show some exact pics of the car. That womens Hopes are to high.

 

That's what happens when you over hype "burried treasure". (Can you say Al Capone's vault...") Me thinks they should have drilled a peep hole into the vault months ago when no one would have paid it much mind and sent a camera in to take a look before deciding to sell high $$$ tickets (likely to pay Coddington) and promoing it so heavily. After finding it underwater, they could have just quietly made it a local human interest event and not looked so foolish for it. Now it looks like they are throwing a major birthday party after exhuming the body of the guest of honor who died 50 years ago...

 

Miss out on the chance to bilk the public? C'mon! Check out the stories about this on the HAMB, the local boys there are telling stories that would make you sick. Payoffs to politicians, bringing in Boyd, etc.

There is "some" hope that the cosmoline worked, and that the limited oxygen helped, but we'll all know today. I saw the test lift and it didn't buckle in two, it can't be real bad.

 

I've read through some of the posts on the HAMB, wow, there are some really pissed off people in Tulsa. It sounds like its turning out to be quite a fiasco. Thats a shame. I think good or bad, rusty, or not, they should open that baby up with full disclosure no matter what condition it is in.

If they try and pull a fast one it will bite them in the rear! Its a shame that Coddington is going to get a chance to touch the car. He may have good intentions but, as my grandma always told me "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".........

I guess we'll find out later today
Bobby

 

Albuq, I heard that the floor and trunk fell out when they lifted it. You were there? is that true?

 

Boyd will have his crew jump on it, b***h at each other, slather it with 10 gallons of bondo, hose a paint job on and stand around and pat each other on the back at what a great job they did. Also, don't forget they'll start running out of time in the last day and will have to really put the petal to the metal to get 'er done!

What they really need, since they layered the surrounding fence with tarps, is one of those TV magicians that can make airplanes disappear go over and do their magic so when the tarps are dropped there's shiny, like new car sitting there.

Either way, it's going to be a interesting saga.

 

I thought the whole point is to see what it looks like after being burried for that long... Whats the point otherwise....?

 

They should leave it like it is and put it on display.

 

I can't believe how everybody is so concerned about this old outdated car! The true travesty would be if that case of Schlitz Beer in the trunk didn't survive...

 

Now here's a man with his priorities in order