The '57 Tulsa Plymouth

[71ChallengeHer]

That on pic on the link looks like oil or gas floating in the water.

[jasonfromIKILLYA]

if I was chrysler, I'd be standing by with a new car for the winning family.  great PR opportunity here.....

[learical1]

Coddington couldn't fix me a sandwhich
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To quote Lily von Stupe "Oh, it's true...it's true, it's true!"

no no no! if you're quoting Lily, the correct quote would be "It's twue. it's twue!"

[beedees]

Coddington couldn't fix me a sandwhich
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To quote Lily von Stupe "Oh, it's true...it's true, it's true!"

no no no! if you're quoting Lily, the correct quote would be "It's twue. it's twue!"

You're absolutely right...... I stand corrected.

[Mean 318]

look at the tip of the fin looks like the bag is open there

[charger490]

ok here is my 58 plymouth and i am going to call chysler and sell it to them for 50000.00 so they can give it to the winner.

[dkn1997]

well that just blows dirty ball bags!!  I was really hoping for a time capsule.  maybe they should have put some drainage rock under the vault and some holes in the bottom. But I guess the humidity would have gotten her anyway. 

very curios to see just how bad it really is....

[Mean 318]

I am still trying to be positive... or at least hope that the bag is "OK" and there is still a nice car inside. As long as they get it out in one piece there will still be some good glass

[Mean 318]

maybe?
"Despite the discovery, organizers said late Wednesday that they think the car may be in reasonably good shape.

"It's not a rust bucket," said Art Couch of W.N. Couch Construction, after he and Jim Taylor of Taylor Crane examined the steel skid on which the car rests.

"We felt the sides of the car and it's solid," Couch said.

The Plymouth will remain encased in several layers of purportedly water-tight material until Friday, when it is taken from the vault east of the Tulsa County Courthouse and to the Convention Center Arena."



http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070614_238_A1_imgsr08042

[The70RT]

Mean 318 noticed a hole in the cover. You know the whole car was wet for years. Why don't they just look at the car instead of saying it might be okay? They don't have to show anyone.  I'm sure it is beyond repair though. When water did get in there it was trapped there for years............they made the bottom hold water but couldn't seal the top.   I never seen any concrete in the midwest resist cracking though......well not for that long, so it would have gotten in anyhow.

[RD]

saw a 57 heading south on I-35 on its way to Tulsa for the review... but this one was actually being driven, not trailered.  Man she looked nice.

[bull]

If it's wasted (and I'm sure it is) someone will probably step up and make sure the winner gets something out of it. Maybe one of those reality restoration show boobs will get ahold of it and restore it for the winner or maybe Jay Leno will step in and help out.

[JimShine]

Notice the exposed fin of the left rear quarter. It isn't fresh as its all brown. I say, its ruined inside. Maybe not mulch, but not a nice car either.

[Mike DC]

 
The water has definitely fragged the sheetmetal.  It's a full-blown resto candidate at best, and it may still be junk.


On the other hand, notice that the lower half of the bumper is still there.  That's better than a lot of cars from that era that are in open-air junkyards anymore. 
That Plymouth in the time capsule won't exactly be nice, but I'll bet the damage is a lot more interesting than with most other 50-year-old unrestored cars.

 

[Red Ram]

Maybe that stuff they sprayed on it really worked! A little soapy water, a little elbow grease and it'll sparkle like the diamond encrusted horse shoe ring on Elvis' finger in 1957.

[Reidar]

I just hope the city of Tulsa will make and bury a new timecapsule! Make a new WATERPROOF hole and stick a new Challenger down there! With some dvd's and a pack of condoms or something. And continue the tradition with 50 years and guess the number of people in the city.

[rt green]

well, we'll find out tonite either way

[Mike DC]

   
If the time capsule and this last 50 years is any indication, they'd be better off just driving out into the desert and sticking a new car inside a locked wooden shack.

 

[Ghoste]

So all those mysterious missing persons buried in the desert outside Vegas and Reno are still in one piece? 

[The70RT]

If it's wasted (and I'm sure it is) someone will probably step up and make sure the winner gets something out of it. Maybe one of those reality restoration show boobs will get ahold of it and restore it for the winner or maybe Jay Leno will step in and help out.

That would be good...........If the microfiche is in a dry container

[Ghoste]

Or the City of Tulsa, since it's their deal.

[bandit67]

hmmmmmmmm.........I wonder if they'll find  Jimmy Hoffa in the trunk................

[JimShine]

Anyone else hear that they buried a Prowler?

http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2007/06/14/051948.html

(The next opportunity to see a Plymouth emerge from the ground in Tulsa will be in 2037, when the city will unearth a 1997 Prowler buried in Centennial Park as part of a celebration of the city's founding.)

[Ghoste]

Will anyone in the future remember Plymouth?  (or Chrysler?)

[raybeez]

Any updated pictures of the car??? I thought it was going to be on display during the car show that's going on in Tulsa.

I was hoping that they would try to clean it up a bit....at least make it look a little better.


The car in itself was a pretty sad sight right out of the hole. Didn't people know about rust in the 50's ??

I mean, if I lived a few blocks away from where the car was buried, and my basement got water in it during a bad rainstorm, it would kind of dawn on me that the car's holding tomb might be getting some water in it! I guess when all this was planned, common sense was buried along with the car...

Personally, I hope whoever wins the car does have it rebuilt. And I hope that Chrysler will help out with that. I really think that Chrylser should buy the car (or give the winner a new car), and take the car to the Chrysler museum.