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Hope this puppy runs again!!
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Runner485
Posted 2007-06-15 1:55 PM (#4565)


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Subject: Hope this puppy runs again!!

The eyes of an anxious world have been trained on Tulsa, Okla., today, in hopes of learning once and for all who won the brand-new 1957 Plymouth Belvedere coupe that has been buried under the courthouse lawn for 50 years — not to mention whether the dang thing will turn over.

Well, they’ve gotten the car up out of the ground, but some of the answers will have to wait a little longer.

Rather like the basement of every house The Lede has ever lived in, the 12-by-20-foot concrete vault containing the car turned out to be no match for groundwater, and crews had to pump out several feet of mud before the car could be lifted up.

The car itself was wrapped up in canvas and coated with cosmoline, a Vaseline-like protective goop, so there’s still hope that it hasn’t been reduced to a lump of rust. The vehicle is being whisked off by flatbed to be cleaned up and checked over (and not, one trusts, to be quietly switched with some car collector’s cherried-up twin for appearance’s sake). But the ignition key won’t be turned in public until this evening, if at all, when it will be publicly unveiled in whatever glory it still possesses.

The unearthing of the car (video recap here), interred on June 15, 1957, as part of the city’s celebration of 50 years of Oklahoma statehood, is now the centerpiece of Tulsarama, another big civic shindig. Dan Barry of The New York Times devoted his column on Monday to the car and to some of the people who saw it go into the ground, and there’s a nifty accompanying slide show featuring Dan’s narration, photographs by Angel Franco and some historic images. (Times Select subscription required.)

Who gets the Belvedere to keep? In the glovebox is some microfilm showing all the entries in a contest to guess what the city’s population would be in 2007. Closest guess wins. (The right answer would be around 380,000, almost four times the 1957 headcount.)

Some of the other artifacts buried along with the car in 1957 are almost as intriguing — for instance, 10 gallons of gasoline, just in case the fuel had become obsolete by now. And in a way it has: We may not all be zooming about in Jetson-esque atomic saucers by now (more’s the pity), but that Belvedere was designed to run on leaded gas.

The winner is also supposed to get the proceeds from a $100 savings account. That was a good week’s pay in 1957, and with 50 years’ accumulated interest, ought to be about $1,200 now — perhaps even enough, counting penalties and late fees and so on, to take care of the unpaid parking ticket that was also buried with the car.
dad's girl
Posted 2007-06-15 11:49 PM (#4573 - in reply to #4565)
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Sooooo? How did this come out? Saw a clip of it on TV, but there wasn't an outcome at the time.
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Runner485
Posted 2007-06-16 1:28 PM (#4584 - in reply to #4573)


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Here's the url to view the story. Bottom line is they bought her up and it was too covered in rust to turn over. But with a little TLC I think she might get on the road again.....Hey do I hear a song there.

http://www.buriedcar.com/
GaryKC
Posted 2007-06-16 5:58 PM (#4589 - in reply to #4565)


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Seems the russian computer techs after days of alt, control, delete have gotten the space stations guidance system working. NASA had been asked to contact officals in Tulsa to see if they would be willing to part with the am radio onboard the 1957 plymouth. Officals in Tulsa are considering their options.
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