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Title: Tulsa Timecapsule with car to be opened!
Post by: David on January 10, 2007, 08:21:53 pm

Anyone looking for an interesting event to attend in June?  June 15th, 2007

That is when the Time Capsule buried in Tulsa will be unearthed.    What is special about it is that they buried a brand new 1957 Plymouth!!       Back then, that car was considered the cutting edge in styling.   Yet oddly the 1957 Chevy is the more memorable one, go figure.

Check out this website for more details.     It will be interesting to see what kinda shape the car is in after 50 years in a concrete vault buried under the lawn of City Hall!

http://www.buriedcar.com/index.cfm  (http://www.buriedcar.com/index.cfm)

(http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/07/30/automobiles/30bury1.600.jpg)

Title: Re: Tulsa Timecapsule with car to be opened!
Post by: injest on January 10, 2007, 10:13:35 pm

oh that is cool! I will have to show that to Garry...

I look forward too to seeing what it looks like!

Title: Re: Tulsa Timecapsule with car to be opened!
Post by: Kelda on January 11, 2007, 05:12:01 am

"Suddenly its 2007"  says th poster - How wierd to see a poster like that now!

Cool David!

Title: Re: Tulsa Timecapsule with car to be opened!
Post by: Kelda on June 15, 2007, 08:13:16 am

what a shame! But wills till be interesting none the less!

Title: Re: Tulsa Timecapsule with car to be opened!
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on June 16, 2007, 09:19:10 pm

               Very interesting article David.  That happened to have been placed in the ground, two
months after i was married....it was great to see that.   thanks

Title: Re: Tulsa Timecapsule with car to be opened!
Post by: Kelda on June 17, 2007, 10:57:03 am

thanks David!

Title: Re: Tulsa Timecapsule with car to be opened!
Post by: Kelda on June 18, 2007, 07:01:44 am

they have an article on this on the BBC website just now.

Shorter than the one above but interetsing it made it across the shores onto a UK based news website.

Title: Re: Tulsa Timecapsule with car to be opened!
Post by: MaineWriter on June 18, 2007, 07:44:35 am

I found this report on Autoblog:

Tulsa's buried Belvedere revealed! It's a rust bucket

Posted Jun 16th 2007 12:05AM by John Neff

Tonight was the big unearthing and unveiling of the 1957 Chrysler Belvedere that was buried in front of the courthouse in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma 50 years ago. After the car's underground tomb was opened earlier in the week and it was discovered filled with water, no one was sure what condition "Mrs. Belvedere" would be in. Brenton Burke, a friend of Autoblog, was present at the unveiling and filed this report.

"Three men from OSU's automotive school pulled the cover back and there she sat. Mrs. Belvedere was in ruins. Just destroyed... I was totally bummed and the old people around me really took it hard... They then continued to show flicks of interviews with people who watched the event, while Boyd et. al. tried to open the various compartments. They succeeded with the trunk and hood, but were having difficulties opening the side doors. In the trunk was some fun stuff. They had put the gas in glass jugs, then placed those in steel containers. There was a six pack of beer and some other destroyed memorabilia. The beer was still intact! They opened the hood and removed the plastic cover that disintegrated over it, and showed us the mold/algae covered engine. At that point, there was nothing much left of the car.

They proceeded to cut open the big steel boiler that doubled as the real time capsule. It was perfect. They cut it open and pulled out an American Flag that looked brand new. Awesome! There were postcards, letters from the school districts, etc. Most of the stuff was random memorabilia that the people of Tulsa threw in, last minute, and un-documented."

The local news in Tulsa also reported that the car's keys were rusted inside the ignition. Any hope the car could be started was out of the question, as the engine is apparently now one giant oxidized block of metal.

Yet hope springs eternal. As Brent mentioned, Boyd Coddington was present in Tulsa as the car was revealed. Hemmings has reported that the custom car builder will be restoring the '57 Belvedere to its original condition. It's also understood that the car will eventually be given away to the person who correctly guessed what the population of Tulsa would be in 2007 some 50 years ago. The guesses were buried in the time capsule and reportedly survived intact.

All this nostalgia kind of got us wondering what 2007 model year car we'd bury if given the opportunity. A Mustang? A Prius? After seeing what 50 years of flooding can do to a car, perhaps the Aquada would be more appropriate.

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/16/tulsas-buried-belvedere-revealed-its-a-rust-bucket/