Posted on 06/11/2007 5:05:42 AM PDT by battlegearboat
This is a link to several stories the Tulsa World is running about the 1957 Plymouth that has been buried for fifty years in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/webextra/content/2007/buriedcarunearthed/default.aspx
Well, when I was a teenager I drove my parents’ ‘58, which was quite similar to the ‘57 (small differences included minor tailight and headlight details.) Aside from the aforementioned rust problems (I enjoyed seeing the ground pass by through the small hole in the floor board to the left of the gas pedal), it was a nice car for the times. It had the 318 V8 which, in modified form, still powered Dodge Ram trucks until very recently. And a push-button automatic transmission, which worked flawlessly.
The family drove it for 8 years (an eternity back then) and about 140K miles. On my advice, my parents traded it in 1966 for a new Dodge Charger with the 383 4-barrel :)
We had a ‘56 Plymouth for over twelve years. Great car. Everyone I knew who had a ‘57 had problems. Don’t know why.
“Ah, Schlitz, the world’s only true onomatopoetic beer.”
Another sound, frequently made in the bathroom, rhymes with that beer.
“The family drove it for 8 years (an eternity back then) and about 140K miles. On my advice, my parents traded it in 1966 for a new Dodge Charger with the 383 4-barrel :)”
I had one of those, Red with Black interior and a center console and automatic transmission. It was a screamer. I got it new and wore out a set of tires in about 10,000 miles.
Great looking cars, “Forward Look” and all, but they began to rust as soon as they left the assembly line.
I don’t think they’ll find anything when they dig it up. Just an engine block, a transmission, and the seat covers.
My father drank Schlitz, and I always thought it was, at least in part, so I wouldn’t ever be tempted to drink a *second* one.
"Toohey's" perhaps?
Did you feed it after midnight?
I heard Heraldo Rievera is going to be there...claiming Al Capone’s family moved vault contents to a ‘57 PLymouth.
Their practicing some runs over downtown Tulsa right now.
TULSA
OIL CAPITOL OF THE WORLD!
IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN OIL WELL, GET ONE!
The back end looked kinda funny too
But we put it together and when we got thru
Well, that’s when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
I got it one piece at a time
And it didn’t cost me a dime...
Johnny Cash- One piece at a time
Their=They’re
The Tulsa Belvedere funeral, 1957.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6fQZhua6d0
Having working on cars for the last 35yrs that would be a biggie. From what I can tell by watching the video it looks like they sealed it up to keep the critters out. If moisture got in? All bets are off. Talk about rust. OH MAN,it could be bad. It would be like putting a potroast in a crock pot and let it simmer all day!
Now if it stayed water tight and dry I would love to be there to see it dug up. All you would have to do is add antifreeze,oil,gas (not the stuff buried with it),and a battery and it should fire right up. Someone here said the tires and weather strip would be bad. Not soo IF the container stayed dry.
What a waste of a perfectly good Charger.
-Bruce
From the archives:
“The car will be covered with a special preservative provided by the Dobeckmun Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, a casing developed during World War II to protect military equipment. The encapsulating, the goo itself, and two company representative all were donated by Dobeckmun.”
Boyd Coddington is bringing some Nitrous.
Problem is, concrete isn’t really the “waterproof” barrier most of us think of it as. It’s not just the (minute) cracks, nor the large (visible) ones either - thougheither could occur underground often.
But the underground water pressure will seep right through the concrete fairly easily, as anybody who has ripped up poorly prepared basement carpet laid over a bare concrete slab can attest.
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