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solbrothers
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If you happen find yourself in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 15, bring a shovel. Buried beneath the dirt of the Tulsa County Courthouse lawn, about 100 feet north of the intersection of Sixth Street and Denver Avenue, a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere Sport Coupe has been hidden underground for half a century. Swaddled in rust-resistant preservatives and gently placed inside a giant concrete sarcophagus, the tailfinned Plymouth was interred on June 15, 1957 as the centerpiece of a time capsule created for the 21st century citizens of Tulsa 2007.
Tulsaplaque_3 They probably expected we would re-open the time capsule with hover-shovels -- unless, of course, we'd already perfected our atomic de-materializers. Regardless, in 1957 Tulsa's civic leaders hoped to dazzle their future descendants with the scope of their own technological prowess. So in addition to burying a brand-new Plymouth, they also packed the car with a variety of advanced products and wares -- including a case of Schlitz beer and the complete contents of a woman's purse. This explains why, when today's auto-archaeologists open the glove box of the buried Belvedere, inside they will find fourteen bobby pins, a ladies compact plastic rain cap, several combs, a tube of lipstick, a pack of gum, a wad of Kleenex, $2.73 in bills and coins, a pack of cigarettes with matches, an unpaid parking ticket, and a bottle of tranquilizers.
Here's how the burial was described by the Tulsa Tribune on June 15, 1957:
A 1957 automobile was buried in the courthouse lawn today - with a bottle of tranquilizer pills in the glove compartment.
Tulsaplymouth03 Into the hole with the new Plymouth hardtop went a steel "time capsule'' containing assorted documents and artifacts of Oklahoma's semi-centennial year.
The car, mounted on a steel skid and swathed in a plastic and paper wrapping, was lowered into the concrete-lined well no the southeast corner of the lawn during dedicatory ceremonies marking the observance of Golden Jubilee Week here.
"This is the sort of thing that could happen only in Tulsa,'' commented Chairman Lewis Roberts Sr. "We have been amazed - although I guess we shouldn't have been - by the cooperation of every one concerned in making this event possible.
"Although the cost of the automobile is a major item, of course, Tulsans have contributed time, machinery and materials and services far beyond the initial cost.''
The vault will be opened in 2007. The automobile will be awarded then to the person who guessed nearest to the city's population figure at that time. If he or she is not living, the award goes to the heirs, along with the proceeds from a $100 trust fund. Guesses have been microfilmed and are sealed in the steel capsule.
1957_ad2The real question is not who will win the car, but if there will there be much of a car left to win. Plymouth's "forward-look" Belvedere was a great-looking ride -- "a true representative of automobiles of this century," as a Tulsa official put it in 1957 -- but it was also susceptible to rust. Some experts even think the 1957 Plymouths may have been among the most rust-prone cars ever built. Did the concrete time capsule leak? Did the preservatives applied in 1957 protect the tragically-flawed artifact from the deathly hand of damp decay?
Sounds pretty awesome.
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[ June 13, 2007, 06:43 PM: Message edited by: solbrothers ]
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I really want to see what this thing looks like now.
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i don't know why they would make the capsule from concrete../ didn't they know that concrete seeps water. that thing must be a rust bucket ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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solbrothers
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"inside they will find fourteen bobby pins, a ladies compact plastic rain cap, several combs, a tube of lipstick, a pack of gum, a wad of Kleenex, $2.73 in bills and coins, a pack of cigarettes with matches, an unpaid parking ticket, and a bottle of tranquilizers."
haha that'd suck if the winner of the car had to pay the parking ticket ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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From the look of that water level, someone fucked up!
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asskickn88
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Originally posted by 88DroptopGT:
From the look of that water level, someone fucked up!
That cant be the car, the 15th isnt till tomorrow so its still buried.
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Wildfire532FB
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If that concrete seeped that much water in then its a junk pile.
Supposedly its supposed to be some kind of waterproof thing though.
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i wanna know why the plymouth/dodge guys are not all over this. they should pull the '57 out and put a '07 in its place. the publicity would be enormous ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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quote:
Originally posted by asskickn88:
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Originally posted by 88DroptopGT:
From the look of that water level, someone fucked up!
That cant be the car, the 15th isnt till tomorrow so its still buried.
it is the car, alot of guys out here on a dallas mustang forum are following this. one guy has a friend working on the excavation, and the floors and trunk are rusted away.
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they have pulled the car out of the hole and they will take the covers off it until this friday.
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That car is all rusted. The plastic they had over it rotted away. you can see in the pics that the back of it is all dirty and rusted. They better offer a free full restoration job to the winner of that car Otherwise I would just take it to the dumps!
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So much for their airtight seal...
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Originally posted by Cobra5.0Jeep:
So much for their airtight seal...
Rust bucket FTW
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IMO dodge would be stupid to NOT put an '07 charger or even a challenger in the hole for the next 50 years.
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Originally posted by 91 5.0 5speed:
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Originally posted by Cobra5.0Jeep:
So much for their airtight seal...
Rust bucket FTW
More like FTL
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YOU'RE FIRED..........
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anyone know if they took the cover off the car yet? I would like to see just how rusted it is
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Originally posted by 66backinblack:
none of the links work at the official website. or it may just be my crappy work computer
I cant get on the site either, I'm sure a ton of people are flooding it right now. I want to see how shitty this thing looks now though.
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Man take that Shit to Pick n pull and crush that POS! ![[Whoo Whooooo!]](graemlins/woowoo.gif)
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Some Fuckwad will buyit and take it to Barret Jackson. I think I need a tetanus is shot just lookin at the photos.
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Originally posted by Jdub07:
Some Fuckwad will buyit and take it to Barret Jackson. I think I need a Tenis shot just lookin at the photos.
lol, yea for a couple mil too im sure
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