Comments on: Buried for 50 Years: Rusty Plymouth Belvedere Time Capsule.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:04:05 +0000

I think the idea of burying a car for fifty years is very interesting, but you would have thought that someone would have had the forsight to buid a vault that kept the car reasonably dry and certainly one that would allow any accumulated water some escape. Still, the car might be restorable after all.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:43:28 +0000

So let me get this straight, the Egyptians in all their "primitive-ness" managed to make tombs and vaults that protected their many treasures for CENTURIES, and yet the fairly advanced (by comparison) technology of the late 1950's couldn't protect a car for 50 years? Pathetic.

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:19:53 +0000

Dopey Okies! Most of the smart ones left during the Dust Bowl years. By the time 1957 rolled around, the level of grey matter there was kinda low. I saw some pics of the "vault". The chumps who built the thing didn't even have a seal on the concrete lid. That is pretty common in the undertaking business (at least in the US), and what goes into THOSE vaults generally isn't planned on be pulled out in the future. On top of that, the car looked to be basically sitting in a pool of water -- the morons hadn't built in any way for water to get out, either! So water had no trouble getting in, but absolutely no way to get out! They couldn't have designed it much worse. Nothing like setting up a publicity stunt to show the whole world how stupid you are! Other content... For many years (well into the 1970s), my Dad's car was a 58 Plymouth Belvedere. It was a black convertible with a push button transmission... Brings back good memories...

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:35:45 +0000

Here's a good look at the Belvedere.

http://thedigitalimage.org/buried_plymouth_belvedere.jpg

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:37:30 +0000

What a shame. That would've been so great if it had come out in decent shape. I wonder what will happen with the car now. I remember someone buying a brand new VW Beetle convertible on the occasion of his son's birth back in the '70's or '80's, sealed it up in some kind of cocoon, to be opened when the kid hit driving age. Anybody else remember that, or hear any more about it? By the way, what's with linking to a BBC article on an event in Tulsa, OK? "Tyres"?

By: pridesax

pridesax — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:52:55 +0000

hey, so I live in OK and watched the unveiling. It was rusty, but the capsule inside still had the 46 star flag and alot of neat stuff in it. I wished the car came out better though.

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:37:30 +0000

Artist S. Dali, closing in on the end of his years in the 1980's, "de-liquified" himself in hope of "re-animation" at some point after death. Not all that different from sea monkeys was part of his studies that led to this possibility. Any word on 21century time capsules that are created in vacume chambers evacuating moisture, other than man-made debris outside earth's atmospere?