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Buried 57 Plymouth Belvedere

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I watched live.. video at the beginnig was awful. probably from the overwhelming number of people trying to watch.
Cool when they pulled the Stars and Stripes out of the capsule.
Reminded me of a shipwreck, or all the pictures from when they recovered the "Hunley" civil war submarine.
Awsome story. It's been on my mind all week. I coulden't wait to see it, bad or good.
Those cans of Shlitz floated around everywhere diden't they?
they found one on the front seat.
 
I've got a brand new super dooper computer running Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 & the latest version of Explorer 7.0.5730.11 and cannot play any vidoes. Shoot, my wires 1 1/2 year old laptop running the same browsers can do it all.

This is weak and I cannot figure it out.

heck, Sirius won't work on my machine and I'm paying for it!

Anyone out there that can lend some help PM me PUHLEAZE!

Vince
 
Banjo said:
I watched live.. video at the beginnig was awful. probably from the overwhelming number of people trying to watch.
Cool when they pulled the Stars and Stripes out of the capsule.
Reminded me of a shipwreck, or all the pictures from when they recovered the "Hunley" civil war submarine.
Awsome story. It's been on my mind all week. I coulden't wait to see it, bad or good.
Those cans of Shlitz floated around everywhere diden't they?
they found one on the front seat.
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There was apparently a contest in 1957 where the person who most closely guessed the population of Tulsa in 2007 would win the car. (Postcard entries were found in the car.) I'm guessing that case of Schlitz wasn't too good, either. (Not that it started out that way!)

Here she is as revealed:
 

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Don't tell Dale, but I think this is the TRUE "Crypt Car"
Definatly creepier looking than any scene from Christene.
 
They were rust buckets almost immediately off of the showroom floor. I was guessing, this car would be much worse than it actually is. A lot of that gunk looks like mud and dirt. It would be interesting to see what it looks like after a wash job
Kerry
 
I wonder if it would have really been possible for the car to survive in a near-pristine state. It looks like the protective bag gave way at some point, and the situation wasn't helped by the permeability of the crypt itself. At least the time capsule stuff survived.
 
Can anyone find pictures of the contents or the car cleaned up?
 
I don't believe they've cleaned the car up...and from comments made by Tulsa officials, I'm not sure that they plan on doing so...at least for now.
 
Go down to your local creek bed and gather up all the garbage and debris left by the last high water. you'll have a collection of rusty, muddy stuff comparable to what came out of that car.
I would like to see some organized photos of what they found though.
 
The stuff that was unprotected in the car's trunk looked bad. There was a jug of gasoline that the news report said the contents was still good. The case of Schlitz beer didn't fare so well.

But there was a largeish sealed metal canister in there with the car that survived in good shape. They broke the seal, and the contents looked as new as when they were placed inside. There was a 48-star flag, a city directory, some newpapers, photographs, and other similar ephemera.
 
I can't help but wonder how long the car was down there before bad things started to happen. It was wrapped in plastic, which was probably pretty tight for a good while. Someone mentioned that either the car or the plastic wrap was sprayed with cosmoline. That might be hard to clean off, but it will act as a barrier under most conditions. The vault must not have been designed to be water tight, but that might not have been a huge problem at first.

The windows on the car were down, which to me says that they were broken or the power windows lowered themselves.

My brother speculated that it might have been ok for the first 10 or 12 years, but after that, all bets are off.

Was the vault full of water when they opened it, or were there any high-water stains on its walls?
 
The vault had about four feet of water in it per my buddies eyewitness account.
 
wkilleffer said:
I can't help but wonder how long the car was down there before bad things started to happen. It was wrapped in plastic, which was probably pretty tight for a good while. Someone mentioned that either the car or the plastic wrap was sprayed with cosmoline. That might be hard to clean off, but it will act as a barrier under most conditions. The vault must not have been designed to be water tight, but that might not have been a huge problem at first.

The windows on the car were down, which to me says that they were broken or the power windows lowered themselves.

My brother speculated that it might have been ok for the first 10 or 12 years, but after that, all bets are off.

Was the vault full of water when they opened it, or were there any high-water stains on its walls?
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Video shot in 1957 showed the crew sparying the entire vault, car and all, with the cosmoline just before it was sealed. I'm not sure if the car was directly sparyed with the cosmoline, but I would suspect it was.
The vault was designed to withstand a nuclear blast, and preperations to it's contents seem to have been made in the event of a nuclear war occouring before 2007 when it was opened. They had a supply of gas and oil "in case gasoline was not available in 2007" and if the water had stayed out, the people opening the vault would have been able to at least have the car running for a short time to experience what it was like in '57, no matter what society had become inbetween.
I believe they thought the vault was going to be watertight, but as anyone with a concrete basement will tell you, it's not.
The side windows were, in fact, up when the car was unearthed. a couple of Boyd Coddingtons boys were able to get them down so they could look inside. They also were able to get the trunk and hood open, but I don't know if they ever got the doors to open.
There were mud rings all the way to the top of the vault. so at least at one point in it's history, the vault was entirely filled with water. crews stated there was about 3 feet of standing water when they opened the lid, and haz-mat crews pumped it out.
 
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