Brand new car buried for 50 years to be unearthed Friday June 15th
06-17-2007, 12:15 PM
#81
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Originally Posted by teranfon
Kinda makes you wonder how bad it really is once all the grime is removed. The metal might not be all that bad. What I really wonder about is that you can see the battery still hooked up by it's cables on the right side of the engine bay. You would think that if they went through the trouble they supposedly did to preserve the car, they would have at least removed the battery.
Whoever gets it, and if it can possibly be restored, I hope they choose not to. It's much more interesting and historic in the condition it's in. I would rather see it cleaned as best they can and try to preserve whats left.
Terry
Whoever gets it, and if it can possibly be restored, I hope they choose not to. It's much more interesting and historic in the condition it's in. I would rather see it cleaned as best they can and try to preserve whats left.
Terry
Its pretty obvious that not a lot of thought went into the preservation of the car. I mean besides leaving the battery in and *connected*. The car should have been on blocks without the wheels on the ground. Concrete is not solid, it lets moisture through this is something they knew back in the 50's. They should have had a drainage system in there... They left gas in a container with the car... who would ever think gasoline would be usable after 50 years...
And they can't leave the car as it is now or it will continue to oxidate. Making it truely into a pile of rust. Any chance it has of being restored needs to be taken ASAP. Problem is water got into EVERYWHERE on the car. Parts that are not painted...
I mean even the Egyptians were better at preserving things and they didn't have near the technological know how we do now...
I'd like to see how it looks cleaned up.
06-17-2007, 03:00 PM
#83
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Originally Posted by SiGGy
Its pretty obvious that not a lot of thought went into the preservation of the car. I mean besides leaving the battery in and *connected*. The car should have been on blocks without the wheels on the ground. Concrete is not solid, it lets moisture through this is something they knew back in the 50's. They should have had a drainage system in there... They left gas in a container with the car... who would ever think gasoline would be usable after 50 years...
And they can't leave the car as it is now or it will continue to oxidate. Making it truely into a pile of rust. Any chance it has of being restored needs to be taken ASAP. Problem is water got into EVERYWHERE on the car. Parts that are not painted...
I mean even the Egyptians were better at preserving things and they didn't have near the technological know how we do now...
I'd like to see how it looks cleaned up.
And they can't leave the car as it is now or it will continue to oxidate. Making it truely into a pile of rust. Any chance it has of being restored needs to be taken ASAP. Problem is water got into EVERYWHERE on the car. Parts that are not painted...
I mean even the Egyptians were better at preserving things and they didn't have near the technological know how we do now...
I'd like to see how it looks cleaned up.
...but I believe the whole bury the car in the ground was a gimmick more than a real project.
06-18-2007, 07:14 AM
#84
Safety Car
Originally Posted by SiGGy
Its pretty obvious that not a lot of thought went into the preservation of the car. I mean besides leaving the battery in and *connected*. The car should have been on blocks without the wheels on the ground. Concrete is not solid, it lets moisture through this is something they knew back in the 50's. They should have had a drainage system in there... They left gas in a container with the car... who would ever think gasoline would be usable after 50 years...
And they can't leave the car as it is now or it will continue to oxidate. Making it truely into a pile of rust. Any chance it has of being restored needs to be taken ASAP. Problem is water got into EVERYWHERE on the car. Parts that are not painted...
I mean even the Egyptians were better at preserving things and they didn't have near the technological know how we do now...
I'd like to see how it looks cleaned up.
And they can't leave the car as it is now or it will continue to oxidate. Making it truely into a pile of rust. Any chance it has of being restored needs to be taken ASAP. Problem is water got into EVERYWHERE on the car. Parts that are not painted...
I mean even the Egyptians were better at preserving things and they didn't have near the technological know how we do now...
I'd like to see how it looks cleaned up.
06-18-2007, 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by ATXCLS
This makes you wonder how they buried the Prowler-did they think about any of the above mentioned issues of just stick it some cheese cloth and put it in the ground?
06-18-2007, 06:34 PM
#88
Safety Car
Originally Posted by S A CHO
Exactly, I'm sure there is substantial rust, but could it not just be surface rust, essentially?
Christine was a Plymouth Fury
Christine was a Plymouth Fury
http://www.allpar.com/history/christine.html
06-18-2007, 07:33 PM
#89
That was uncalled for...
Originally Posted by pimpin-tl
Can we say Christine is a Fury, but technically is not?
lets bury a tl
08-07-2007, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by civic4982
Originally Posted by vetalik
[img]images/smilies/ponder.gif[/img]lets bury a tl[img]images/smilies/tomato.gif[/img]
[img]images/smilies/ponder.gif[/img]lets bury a tl[img]images/smilies/tomato.gif[/img]
lmfao
ever lit 3800 dollars on fire and watch it burn i might as well have.. paid for my tranny last week took it in today and guess what its leaking and the housing has a fracture in it.... there goes my car for another week......
moral of the story
Originally Posted by civic4982
with as many tranny problems I'm sure it'll bury itself
08-07-2007, 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by pimpin-tl
FYI, the car was mounted on steel beams and was not sitting on any of its wheels/tires. It was elevated off the ground. The beams is what they used to lift the car out as well.
still doesn't make up for the lack of thought on the rest of it though
08-07-2007, 03:29 PM
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I read in Automobile mag that the city of Tulsa retained the services of that Coddington celebrity hot-rodder guy after the car was dug up. If that's true, he's got a ton of work ahead of him.
08-07-2007, 03:30 PM
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