Uh Oh...better get Maaco!
Posted on 06/15/2007 12:26:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
It was a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere....
Sweet. I have a 1966 Pontiac LeMans convertible that I’ve hot rodded. Don’t think I’ll ever bury it.
Belvedere, I say Belvedere come here.
Yeah it says so in first paragraph.
"What's this I hear about you whippin' slaves?" - BB as AL
Well, I couldn’t make it down there, but, at least, I watched it on TV. I was probably in Tulsa about that time that they put it in the vault. I can’t be sure, as I was young at the time and I was either in Houston or Tulsa.
My first car I ever bought was a “lemon yellow” 1960 Plymouth Belvedere with a slant-six engine in it, with the “push-button” automatic transmission (shift gears by pushing buttons on the dashboard). I got that car in 1968. It was a great car. I always liked the slant-six engine after that. It ran great. Those fins were giant ones on that car, too...
It would be interesting to know how it came out
Uh Oh...better get Maaco!
Believe it or not, for a while (last year) the city of Tulsa didn’t know where the car was (i.e., where the “vault” was and where to dig). But, they apparently and finally found out where they buried it. I thought that was funny when the officials said they weren’t sure where the car was... LOL...
ROFL! Pontiac - Plymouth ... all the same to Yahoo!
Do their headline writers have green cards?
It was wrapped in some kind of material to, supposedly, protect it over a long period of time. But, when they first opened the vault, a few days ago, there was several feet of water in the vault, so that wasn’t so good. The material the car was wrapped in looked awful, absolutely terrible. It looked like it was all rusted, but, that was on the outside of the wrapping.
The car was not unwrapped and no one had seen what it was actually like, underneath the wrapping. So, when the car was lifted out of the vault, at noon today (local time), it looked bad, from the outside of the wrapping.
Someone is going to be prepping it for a showing today, at 7 PM, unwrapped and clean up a bit. If the water and rust has had a “go of it” over the last 50 years, then it might not look that good tonight. But, we’ll see.
I think they are going to actually “start it up” tonight, with the original gasoline left in the car when it was buried. We’ll see how it works out...
Christine rises from the crypt.
No way. That gas has turned solid as a brick by now.
Ford, Chevy; what's the difference?
[Ducks and covers.]
“Show me.”
One of the greatest lines/scenes in horror cinema.
I can’t imagine the car will actually run without a complete restoration. It’s been underwater on and off for 50 years.
I know, but they’re claiming that they are going to “start” it. We’ll see by 7 PM tonight...
not a good sign........
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