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1957 Plymouth buried as a time capsule for 50 years! Unveiling in 2007!
allpar.com ^ | March 20, 2007 | Robert Earl Lauer

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.

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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: autos; oklahoma; plymouth; tulsa
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To: 2Jedismom

how about that


21 posted on 03/20/2007 12:24:39 PM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: capt. norm

My first car was a red '58 Olds 88 convertible. $250.00.


22 posted on 03/20/2007 12:24:49 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

I don't think 50 years is enough for a time capsule. It should be a minimum of 100 or 200 years. 50 years is nothing, people commonly have crap for 50 years in their house.


23 posted on 03/20/2007 12:25:59 PM PDT by A knight without armor
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To: decimon
Why didn't they bury a '57 Chevy? Now that was a classic.
24 posted on 03/20/2007 12:26:05 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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I bet that case of beer in the trunk and the gas fumes mixed nicely over 50 years. Not to mention, the whole car is now saturated with gasoline fumes. Show me a 1950s gas can that's air tight.


26 posted on 03/20/2007 12:27:37 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: theDentist

IIRC, that's a gold/bronze color that didn't look bad at all. Not to me, that is.


27 posted on 03/20/2007 12:28:10 PM PDT by decimon
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BTTT


28 posted on 03/20/2007 12:29:25 PM PDT by uglybiker (AU-TO-MO-BEEEEEEEL?!!)
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To: colorado tanker
Why didn't they bury a '57 Chevy? Now that was a classic.

Yeah, but they only came with six cylinder engines. Or so it seemed. :-)

29 posted on 03/20/2007 12:30:22 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
You want a time capsule full of 1950's cars all you gotta do is look at Cuba. Many a car restorer longs for the day that democracy come to Cuba so they can get their hands some potential beauties there.
30 posted on 03/20/2007 12:30:54 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

I don't laugh at many posts, but I laughed at yours.


31 posted on 03/20/2007 12:31:10 PM PDT by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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To: Red Badger

$100 with 5% interest, compounded monthly for fifty years would have grown to $1211.94. At 10% interest you'd have $14,536.99. According to the inflation calculator at http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ an item costing $100 in 1957 would cost $716.53 in 2006.


32 posted on 03/20/2007 12:32:43 PM PDT by Eepsy (The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
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To: Malsua
I bet that case of beer in the trunk and the gas fumes mixed nicely over 50 years. Not to mention, the whole car is now saturated with gasoline fumes. Show me a 1950s gas can that's air tight.

"Tulsa Mayor expires in a blast of foam and tail fins."

33 posted on 03/20/2007 12:33:13 PM PDT by decimon
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Environmentalists will be there to set fire to it for being a gas guzzling planet destroyer...


34 posted on 03/20/2007 12:35:18 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: Eepsy

Wouldn't cover the costs of repairing/restoring the car..........


35 posted on 03/20/2007 12:35:53 PM PDT by Red Badger (Britney Spears shaved her head............Well, that's one way of getting rid of headlice.........)
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To: decimon

yep, just add oxygen and adios!


36 posted on 03/20/2007 12:36:15 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo ("When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk!")
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To: decimon
My first car was a red '58 Olds 88 convertible. $250.00.

I also remember that the cars back then had much wider seats, where you could easily lay down ad get some shut-eye if needed.

It was also handy in other ways and I sometimes think that the narrow seats in today's cars have something to do with the decline in population of some areas, especially in the midwest (Iowa) where I grew up.

37 posted on 03/20/2007 12:36:44 PM PDT by capt. norm (Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
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To: Lil'freeper

Oh yeah...I can't wait!


38 posted on 03/20/2007 12:37:37 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: A knight without armor
people commonly have crap for 50 years in their house.

I've been married 27 years and still have stuff we had before we got married.............my wife for one......

39 posted on 03/20/2007 12:37:50 PM PDT by Red Badger (Britney Spears shaved her head............Well, that's one way of getting rid of headlice.........)
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To: decimon

LOL. I drove one to deliver DRUGS in 1957 (for a pharmacy!!!),
It had that goofy transmission button panel to the left of the steering wheel. If you revved it up and pushed "D," you could get some serious rubber.
It belonged to the pharmacy...


40 posted on 03/20/2007 12:38:23 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (.)
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