It was kind of cool when they buried all these 60's and 70's cars under the asphalt, but since then it hasn't been maintained and skateboarders have been skating over them and other stuff... and now it is an eyesore...
Posted on 06/15/2007 12:26:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
I hate to spoil the party, but if there was water in the vault with that car for 50 years, then it wasn’t buried, it was submerged and is now a very soggy, rusty paperweight.
Back then you might not have needed a prescription. By todays laws now the DEA will consider it a felony possession.
Somehow GW will be blamed for burying and digging up this gas guzzling, chrome covered monster of the past. The $2.47 in the purse wont even guy a gallon of gas!
I do hope it runs. Maybe they can auction the car and use proceeds for some local charity?
Yes it would. That is sort of cheating to not let the townsfolk see what it looked like after it came up. Having to pay for a ticket to see it after its been cleaned up sort of takes away the exitement of it.
“Maybe they can auction the car and use proceeds for some local charity?”
Look at the story again - it goes to the contest winner or their heirs. As long as Boyd is there, he can restore it!
It was supposedly examined while it was still in the vault and some expert who restores cars (can’t remember his name) was on the news saying that he was anxious to get it started and running (i.e., the engine) and apparently thought it was possible — by 7 PM tonight. It’s going to be on the news, showing it fully uncovered. We’ll see what condition it’s in and if it actually starts or not.
So, someone who is supposed to apparently know about these things has examined it and says that it’s possible to get it running by tonight. We’ll see...
And, by the way, someone is going to win that car, from an estimate of the population of Tulsa by this year (from 50 years ago). That’s supposed to be revealed tonight, too.
There was another estimate, that I heard on TV, that the car is probably worth at least $25,000 and maybe $50,000. So, we’ll see about that.
It was kind of cool when they buried all these 60's and 70's cars under the asphalt, but since then it hasn't been maintained and skateboarders have been skating over them and other stuff... and now it is an eyesore...
That fact was known ahead of time, before tickets were sold for the event (of the “raising” of the car). So, if someone didn’t want to get a ticket because of that fact, they would have known that ahead of time. Those tickets, by the way, were sold out a long time back. Tonight we’ll see a lot more people involved, at the Convention Center. I’m just going to watch it on TV... :-)
I would like to have that car now.
Can you post us some pics tonight? We would be so greatful. I have been following this story ever since I heard about it. Thanks.
Here are some websites right now that have some pictures..., and quite a few.
http://www.buriedcar.com/
[I think several are submitting pictures here, plus the ones they have...]
http://www.tulsaworld.com/webextra/content/2007/buriedcarunearthed/default.aspx
[some nice older pictures here...]
http://www.oklatravelnet.com/
[don’t know if they have very much here...]
http://www.kotv.com/
[supposed to be live feed to tonight’s event at 7PM, Central Time]
As far as pictures from me, I’m just seeing this stuff on TV... :-)
bttt
ok. thanks. I will go to the links you provided. This is just so fascinating!
Here’s another website I came across...
http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2007/06/1957_plymouth_t.html
Cool article. My grandfather and his brother owned a junkyard/car repair shop in the Boston area from the 1920s until about 1970. My brother and I happened to go by there last summer and were talking to the current owner of the property. Seems he unearthed a transmission while digging a post hole once, and, while trying to dig another hole to put in a tree, found the hood of a car.
Needless to say, you can imagine what ELSE might still be in the ground there...
Now it may be lost forever!
Ping to self to come check back this evening.
Pontiac Belvedere is very rare.
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