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Tulsa to unearth '57 Plymouth this week
Tulsa World ^

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


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: automotive; classiccar; oklahoma; timecapsule; tulsa
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I was there when it was buried and I'm going to be there when it's unearthed. It's big I tell you!
1 posted on 06/11/2007 5:05:47 AM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: battlegearboat

My dad had one of them. My advice: Leave the beast buried.


2 posted on 06/11/2007 5:07:08 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Vaclav Klaus: "A whip of political correctness strangles their voice")
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To: Fresh Wind

Yes, that car made a lot of enemies out of customers.


3 posted on 06/11/2007 5:08:26 AM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: battlegearboat

Was it brand new?


4 posted on 06/11/2007 5:08:29 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: battlegearboat

Christine!


5 posted on 06/11/2007 5:10:14 AM PDT by YouPosting2Me (My Mission: Get 'Millee' to start using a Tagline again...)
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>>>Was it brand new?<<<

The Model year was 1957 and it was buried in 1957.

By my math, I’d say yes.


6 posted on 06/11/2007 5:10:19 AM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: theDentist
Yes, and they expect it to be pristine with "0" mileage.

If you go to the link, there's several neat stories and video about it.

Somebody in town is going to win it.

7 posted on 06/11/2007 5:10:38 AM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: YouPosting2Me

Christine was a 58


8 posted on 06/11/2007 5:10:48 AM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: Fresh Wind

My dad had a ‘55 Dodge. Yes, let it rest in peace.


9 posted on 06/11/2007 5:11:35 AM PDT by LIConFem (Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
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To: HEY4QDEMS

Well, for all I knew someone bought it when it first came out and drove it around town for a year.


10 posted on 06/11/2007 5:13:02 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: battlegearboat

I had a ‘71 Gremlin that I should have buried.


11 posted on 06/11/2007 5:13:11 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Duncan Hunter 2008 (or Fred Thompson if he ever makes up his mind))
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To: battlegearboat

“I was there when it was buried”

So was I - there was other stuff as well put in the “time capsule” - I’m going to miss the big opening tho.


12 posted on 06/11/2007 5:13:57 AM PDT by Bobibutu
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It's big I tell you!
Hugh?
13 posted on 06/11/2007 5:14:21 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: battlegearboat
Yes, that car made a lot of enemies out of customers.

We had one, and other than trivial little things like the ROOF rusting out, it was a pretty good car...

14 posted on 06/11/2007 5:14:49 AM PDT by Gorzaloon (Global Warming: A New Kind Of Scientology for the Rest Of Us.)
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To: battlegearboat

Nevertheless the styling (tailfins) took America by storm in 1957. The younger set have no idea how exciting and anticipated was the arrival in the fall of the new cars from the big three. The car bodies changed every year, and they didn’t have computers to design with. Now they all look boringly alike and car bodies get changed every six years if that.


15 posted on 06/11/2007 5:15:25 AM PDT by Weeedley
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To: Bobibutu

It’ll be nothing but R-U-S-T..after all, it was a Plymouth..


16 posted on 06/11/2007 5:15:47 AM PDT by ken5050
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To: battlegearboat
"This is the sort of thing that could happen only in Tulsa,''
17 posted on 06/11/2007 5:16:03 AM PDT by LantzALot (Yes, it’s my opinion. No, it’s not humble.)
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To: Fresh Wind

Ah the Yuppie penchant for denigration of ‘Grand American Auto’s’, for their love of Kraut, Lutefisk and Rice burning, import POS.


18 posted on 06/11/2007 5:18:25 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: battlegearboat

Soon to be seen at a Jackson-Barrett auction.


19 posted on 06/11/2007 5:20:22 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I'm gonna vote for Fred. John Bolton for VP.)
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To: Weeedley

My favorite “Tail Fin Car” was the majestic Imperial.


20 posted on 06/11/2007 5:21:14 AM PDT by battlegearboat
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