More on the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere time capsule

[TruckDriver]

I know we had a post on this car already, but I don't remember it haveing a video to it. Click the link, and watch the video. It's pretty cool. If you dont have Quick Time video player for windows, you are either screwed or you will have to download it to see it.

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

[Brock Samson]

  Evidently it's a swinging town.. 

http://www.buriedcar.com/Message%20Board.html

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

[Highbanked Hauler]

  I sure hope the box that the car is in didn't fill with water over the years or it will be a sad sight when its opened.

[TruckDriver]

  I sure hope the box that the car is in didn't fill with water over the years or it will be a sad sight when its opened.

I thought the same thing

[Charger_Fan]

  I sure hope the box that the car is in didn't fill with water over the years or it will be a sad sight when its opened.

That's for sure.


So, are any of you Oklahoman's going to go see it dug up?

[Skued]

Well seeing as I only live a couple miles away I be there in June.  Maybe I'll get to smell that new car smell.... vintage 1957

Steve

[Skued]

Here you go, in today's paper http://www.tulsaworld.com/OpinionStory.asp?ID=070121_Op_G1_nohea12499

Steve

[TruckDriver]

I would think the car if it a is excellent shape yet, will be worth more than $25,000 to someone like Barret-Jackson.

[moparguy01]

i think if its in good shape it will be worth way over 25k. just because of what it is. its a ultra low mileage car that was buried for 50 years. and the most original example out there I would bet. it would probably sell for 25k if its rusty as shit because of that too.

[bordin34]

I think it will be a project car but the engine,trans,radiator and anything else with fluid will need to be rebuilt or replaced.

[Drache]

They said that all fluids except the motor oil were drained....

[dkn1997]

I've seen old newsreel films and it looks like they shot the inside of the vault with gunite, which is used to make the shell of plaster swimming pools.  others have incorrectly said that the video shows them spraying cosmoline, but if you look, it's gunite.  the article posted in the above link confirms it.

gunite it water proof, we have shells of pools that we shoot late in the fall, too late to apply the finish layer of marbledust.  in the spring, they are full to the rim.  if they shot it good enough, then water should not have penerated

[Drache]

that is true dkn1997, but moisture and condensation would still be present inside the capsule from the heating and cooling process of the grond around it....