Tulsa to unearth '57 Plymouth this week

Tulsa World ^

[Weeedley]

The Imp of those days reeked of decadence and was as long as a locomotive.

[Vaquero]

all hat and no cattle.

a Ma Richards-ism used against Bush.

[battlegearboat]

Trust me, Ma Richards stole that one too.

[Marauder]

The technical difficulties also included finding some material for a vault which would assure that the "time capsule" and its contents would remain intact for 50 years.

This statement from the Tulsa archives hints that they took precautions against ground water seepage, and set it on blocks in the hope of preventing the tires from dry-rotting. Presumably they didn't forget to drain all its fluids first, because otherwise little items like the engine will be locked up solid.

[alloysteel]

The last known example of a 1957 Plymouth in the universe. They were thought to be totally extinct, and we had only pictures and some scaled-down representations of what were purported to be of a 1957 Plymouth, but no genuine specimens have been sighted for years.

[Bigg Red]

Nevertheless the styling (tailfins) took America by storm in 1957.

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You can’t beat the 1959 Cadillac for tailfins, IIRC.

[battlegearboat]

I think Castro has put in a bid for it.

[aumrl]

My favorite “Tail Fin Car” was the majestic Imperial.
WASN’T THERE A DEFECT ON ONE FIN ? (I.E. ONE WAS DIFFERENT)

[battlegearboat]

You're right, one seems to be missing.

[Sensei Ern]

Here's another link on the story: www.santafenewmexican.com/readerblogs/55924.html

Here is the pic:

[battlegearboat]

Sorry, the link has expired.

[toomanygrasshoppers]

*ping*

[Honeybunch]

Snort laughter!

[blam]

1957 Plymouth Belvedere

[battlegearboat]

Whoa, has a car ever looked more like a shark?

[Mr. K]

LOL- the Edsel... I remember someone said it “looked like an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon”

[battlegearboat]

Well, I'm going to take a walk down to the site now.

I'll be filming the goings on all this week and will edit it with my Adobe Premiere Elements 3.02.

They've issued over 200 press credentials for the spectacle.

Boyd Coddington will be on hand to help get it started.

It's big I tell ya.

[Sensei Ern]

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/readerblogs/55924.html

[billhilly]

It would be a really big deal is it had been a 57 Chevy that they buried. An all time classic.

Having said that, I think Tulsa can be proud of this event. I lived there for three years in the early seventies and loved every minute of it.

[LIConFem]

I don’t remember much about my dad’s Dodge (I was very young at the time (early 60s)), but I do remember that it was all gray primer, was covered in dents and smoked more than an erupting volcano. My older brother dubbed it the “Gray Bomb”.