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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They will find a ton of rust and seat cover fibers.
If it's like every other '57 Plymouth made it rusted out in 1960.
Does that population include illegals?.......
A 1957 Plymouth will sure look strange...now that it's 2007 and we all have flying cars.
Has Barack Obama been invited to "Tulsarama?"
And a pair of mummified teens in the back seat.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wouldn't mind having that car.
When I was in the second grade, we did a "time capsule" thing. We drew pictures of our families, and wrote things about ourselves, and put them all in shoeboxes and buried them in the school's court yard. We were supposed to re-dig them up at the end of the year.
But we forgot and never redug them up, and they're probably still there to this day.
It darn near took two people to push in the clutch (nasty nasty return spring on that dude). I unloaded it in 1963 when it started to "unload" on me in maintenance and repairs.
Kinda' like this one except mine was black.
It won't look that good!
That's some astounding patience. I can't even drive home from the grocery store without digging all the prizes out of the cereal boxes.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
Center-mounted brake light? Guess some people don't know how to restore classic cars.
Now that is craftsmanship!
I just hope the color scheme is more exciting than this one.
A friend of mine bought one of those used in 1962. The salesman told him it was in such good shape, we could drive it to Kalamazoo (from Texas), which we did on our tour of the US.
It boasted a push button automatic transmission, brakes that wore out in the Smokies and vinyl seat covers that were hot enough to fry eggs. That poor Plymouth didn't last long after that, but it was good for a few memories.
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