Buried Time Capsule June,15th-noon

[demon340v]

ok i feel like an idiot but what is cosmoline ?

[kawazuki8097]

Super nasty grease that is used to protect guns and such. Think axle grease

[demon340v]

Super nasty grease that is used to protect guns and such. Think axle grease

OPoOOooo ok ok i got ya thanks.

[vitamindart]

not only all that why didn't the put her on stands or somthing she looks terible with her tail draging , i always wanted a 57 or 8 belvedere beautifull cars

[Hemi GTS]

I still think they should clean it. I gotta believe that what they are seeing is the cosmoline rust prevenative. Yeah the interior is shot, and the drive train is a disaster. But Who knows.

[Duster 413]

www.forwardlook.net was the site that the the original post I saw here on was from. Apparently, they had pretty good photo priveleges at the unveiling. Not for the faint of heart.....



At least you can still see gold paint in some of the pics..........

[DRoCk]

That looks an awful lot like cosmoline to me...   I had an SKS that I bought that was completely covered in about 1/4 inch of the stuff, barrel was all the way full too.  Lets put it this way, its far from water solluable.  I think there is hope for it yet.  After all, my dads 57 Sport Fury convert was a lot worse when he brought it home!

[Jamakin]

How awsome would it be if who ever won it got it cleaned up and some how got the motor to turn over after boyd said he couldn't 

[DRoCk]

Can Boyd ever get a motor to actually start without about 2 days of working on the brand new crate motor?

[340fyd]

Who won the car?  Are those pictures of that car?

Lee

[WarLocK451]

Boyd`s a Moron! It would have been alot better if Foose was involved.

[qkcuda]

Give Foose a week with his Powerball......it'll buff right up.

[flyboy01]

Give Foose a week with his Powerball......it'll buff right up.

          

[chryco]

How awsome would it be if who ever won it got it cleaned up and some how got the motor to turn over after boyd said he couldn't 

It probably would have started ! They should have steamed off all that cosmoline crap ...did you see how shiny that bumper was???
  No perforations in the body ! Rust my A_ _ ! That thing is definitely a keeper !

[flyboy01]

I bet there was internal engine rust, it probably go in through the breathers, carb, etc. I would bet everything I own that it would not start without a complete rebuild.

[kuztomz]

I've come to a conclusion ...

They should put it back in the hole, fill it with water, cap it and erect a headstone for the poor thing ...

if it rusted enough to rust through the rear springs (photos on forward.net)  ... those blisters by the headlight aren't cosmoline saddly

[PinkE]

I agree, I think most of the "Grunge" is just cosmoline, and Boyd is gonna take it to his shop, clean it all up, and make him and Da Boyz look like Miracle workers at what an outstanding job they did in restoring her....Buncha BS if you ask me.....

[DRoCk]

Lets hope Boyd's involvement with the car is done...who wants to see it running around with a set of 22in rims anyway!

[flyboy01]

  Please, NO! Don't tell me he would do that! 

[eldubb440]

  with Pinke ....... Boyd to the rescue     

[WildCat]

I was within 5 feet of it, it is definately rusted, but if it had sat outside for the 50 years it would look worse.

Yes it would clean up. All soft material was gone and the case of shiltz beer too!

3 of the 4 tire held air, front fender and door showed signs of rust holes and whole body had surface rust. BUT the paint was still there. Most od what you see is dirt and crud from being under water for 40+ years (my guess it took a few years to fill up with water)

You could see water lines on the vault and on the car. They stated they pumped out about 2,000 gallons of water before getting down in the vault to remove the car.

One of Boyd's guys checked the dipstik and it was full of water, they couldn't get the doors open, took the vent widows out and rolled down the door glass.

The leaf spring was broken, some little kid was holding it up for the crowd to see.

The cover on the car was torn on the left rear fin (made in Shelbyville, IN)

Yes, this car could be saved with a complete restoration, but it should be left like this as how not to store a car. Now that it is out of the ground it will start to rust and quickly unless they do something to preserve it. It would have been nice to see it come out just as it went in, but it can out just as I expected.

In 1998 they buried a Prowler. We went to the site it is at and my guess it will come out in good condition. It is actually above ground in a vault with dirt put around it. It also looked like they have some kind of irrigation system in place. They are to bury another car this fall too, those people sure like to bury cars.

[DartKnight]

They are to bury another car this fall too, those people sure like to bury cars.

That's exactly what I thought when I saw the other thread about the Prowler...

[flyboy01]

Hear are some better pics found on allpar.

http://www.allpar.com/history/auto-shows/time-capsule.html

http://www.allpar.com/images/tulsa/tailfin.jpg

http://www.allpar.com/images/tulsa/unveiling.jpg

http://www.allpar.com/images/tulsa/1957-belvedere.jpg

http://www.allpar.com/images/tulsa/rust.jpg

http://www.allpar.com/images/tulsa/2007.jpg

http://www.allpar.com/images/tulsa/tire.jpg

http://www.allpar.com/images/tulsa/undercarriage.jpg

http://www.allpar.com/images/tulsa/bumper.jpg

http://www.allpar.com/images/tulsa/nameplate.jpg

[Dono]

That realy is a very nice car.  I am with most they need to power wash her.

[DaBigNuttedMan]

Looks Like Mr R E Humbertson won the car, he was born in 1921, his guess was around 2,000 off,if you know him or his heirs call [918]2937567 there looking for him 

lots of info at  buriedcar.com   click on VEIW GUESSES and ya see em all or the close ones anyway, then click on newsroom scroll down to the tulsa world stuff "the other Belvedere, I didn't know it but they gave away another 57 Plym 2 days prior, the couple that won it are still alive and theres an article on it, guess what, there ford f--ks and didn't want it, they traded it in with there present ford and got a new ford, I guess also the other Plym was a stripped down model, theres a picture of ol ford f--k and his kids standing by the striped down one and his 55 or 56 ford too. Tons of other good info there too.   "buriedcar.com"   

Any body know if this Humbertson guy will have to pay taxes on a new loaded belvedere  57 value anyway ?

[DaBigNuttedMan]

Any body heard if they found this guy or his family

[kuztomz]

Well he died in '79 of cancer, wife in the late '80's

Has two sisters in Maryland I think (if I recall the story) so it should be interesting to see what they do with it

[Bakaruda]

I tried to find the link for the next round. I saw it a while back. They are putting a prowler in one.

[b569rr]

I tried to find the link for the next round. I saw it a while back. They are putting a prowler in one.

This time they welded up the steel box and pressurized it with Nitrogen.

[Bakaruda]

Yes that is the one. I could not find a link to it.