Buried Time Capsule June,15th-noon

[St.Louis-Dart]

A 1957 Plymouth Belevedere was buried in a time capsule 50 years ago..thay are digging it up in 3 days...June 15 2007
thay will have a live video feed....  look at the old pictures and read about it ...vary cool....

        http://www.kotv.com/special/buried-car/

  http://www.forwardlook.net/19571958Plymouth/countdown.asp

        http://www.buriedcar.com/

[St.Louis-Dart]

Old pics

[DART VADER]

I've been following it for a while now. I can't wait.

[340fyd]

I think that we're going to try and go down and see that.

Lee

[oldkimmer]

This will truely be a great day in automotive history, I so hope it has survived intact.........."CHRISTINE" incarnated..............kim....

[thebankerstoy]

This will truely be a great day in automotive history, I so hope it has survived intact.........."CHRISTINE" incarnated..............kim....

 

Richard

[west]

I'm guessing it will be pretty clean.I would'nt be suprised if they get it running.

[moparhunter]

I'am very curious as to what the condition will be , i really hope it half way decent . 

[318_Magnum]

Hmm... cars in yards, cars in barns, now cars buried underground. No damned wonder nobody can find an original these days!!! 

[Hemi GTS]

I watched some video clips on the web, and it looks like they wrapped it and sprayed it with a cosmoline rust prevenative. They also sealed the vault up. Lets hope she survived all these years.

[west]

it's not looking good guys
http://www.tulsachevys.com/Images/buriedcar/index.html

[sr71mopar]

not good

[ValiantOne]

Yikes. not too promising. I'm hoping for the best though

[west]

the bag is supposed to be sealed tight,but it looks grim.
and if it were hermetically sealed what about the trapped gasses inside ie: gasoline and battery?would'nt that mess it up inside too?

[moparhunter]

If that Casket the car is  sitting is is that rusty then the car will be history, is that rust on the Tomb sides that i'am seeing?  Really hope this has a happy ending for the car. 

[71 demon child]

Looks like alot of clay in the ground.Hopefully it's from that

carl

[Ace]

Yikes, not cool.

[Jamakin]

atleast its still in the shape of a car

[west]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=I2cPBl6scJk

[DusterDave]

atleast its still in the shape of a car

Yeah....until they try to pick it up.

[Mopar-N]

Really, though who would have designed a time capsule without thinking about how to keep the moisture away, car would have fared better sitting in somebodys garage for 50 years IMHO, all the work they want through, why didnt they build the time capsule above ground or at least think it through a little better., wonder how many city administrators are on the phone frantically looking for a prestine 57 Plymouth to unvail instead of whats down in the hole, will be interesting to see whats underneath when they finally unvail it.

[Twister400]

Does it look like the roof is falling in?

[kuztomz]

I watched a video of that and the water they were pumping wasn't rusty, hopefully that bag ie was heat sealed in held

[Mopar-N]

To me all that dark brown grainy gunk looks like rust deposits, also noticed that the fins on both sides arent stickig up as high as they shoud either, that could just be the angle of the photos causing that appearance though, its too bad there wansn't a method implimented at the time to monitor the vault for moisture.

[moparrr07]

im sure bugs have chewed at least just one little pinhole in the bag, filling it with water, they should have coated the walls in line-x 

[Bigcube]

 

[mopowers]

I don't know if it's just me, but I feel like they burried that damn thing alive.  They should have done it to a chevy.

[St.Louis-Dart]

If the bag is sealed water tight theres still a chance its ok 

       http://www.kotv.com/e-clips/?id=6717

[bbscamp]

http://www.tulsaworld.com/webextra/content/2007/videos/buriedcar/qt.html

takes time to load...but its a vid of the lid coming off.  It don't look good.....

[DartKnight]

Wow, that looks bad...I don't think they planned it out very well.  They should have put in some piping for drainage at the very least as a precaution. If it is in one piece, just cleaning all the cosmoline off will be a pain in the ass; that stuff is nasty.