Posted on 03/20/2007 12:10:23 PM PDT by decimon
June 1957 – Residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma are enjoying their city’s anniversary, called “Tulsarama!” Most every city around the country enjoys parties; it’s a big tradition throughout the United States.
Tulsa representatives decided they needed something unique and different in order to compete with Oklahoma City. They decided to entomb an automobile in a time capsule, using a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere as the car of choice.
(Excerpt) Read more at allpar.com ...
Half of the concrete cover was off, and workers were pumping out water. Apparently, the car had been almost submerged in H2O.
I could see the rear half of the car, but it's covered in plastic wrap. Should be interesting what's underneath...
Thanks for the reminder!
Good for you, by the way those are a couple of good looking chicks, don't know about the boys holding them though!
We went down into town and saw where they had the area sectioned off. Burt Mummolo with Channel 8 was there...
The boys stood up on some rocks to see if they could see in...but you really couldn't.
There was a few people milling around...reporters and such...taking pictures over the fence.
I thought that was a good idea so I took some too...this is all you could see.
If what I’m reading about all the water they are pumping out is correct.....
That car will be one huge rusty pile of scrap.
Hope not, though.
“Oh, please. I’m tired of reading about these time capsules containing the 50 year old wonderments. In my opinion a time capsule should not be opened for a minimum of 100 or 200 years. Perhaps I’m irked by “time capsules” that are younger than I am!”
I know what you mean. I think there is one over in Japan that is not supposed to be opened for a thousand years. Now that would be something to see.
http://davidszondy.com/future/timecapsule/timecapsule1939.htm
even better-— a 5,000 year time capsule.
I know it. It really doesn’t look good.
:-(
Well, we’ll know exactly how it is on Friday and I’ll post pictures of the Tulsarama event too...
I’m partial to old cars...my Beetle is almost 40 years old.
The '57 may have had a 265 V8 the 289 was a Ford, Chevy made a 283.
If memory is correct. The '58 283 was a bit different then later models, namely it had side motor mounts and a rope real seal.
So far, at least, it’s looking pretty solid.
devolve, you will like this!
Lol, THAT’S the one I’d like to have!!
Lol, I didn’t realize this is a revived thread!! You could have posted in the first 100 posts when it was first posted!
Perhaps it was already posted in one of the 159 posts : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2cPBl6scJk
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