Bury a car for 50 years and see what happens...

its a repost, but i'll keep quiet for those who haven't seen it.

The outcome of this story was pretty amazing.

I remember watching the live unearthing on t'internet. There was quite some excitement about it on RR at the time!

Just quickly typed in 'buried car 2007' and found it straight away.......the cars knackered.

I remember that night, I watched it too. I remember wifey coming out to watch the unveling, and collapsing with laughter ("you've been sitting here glued to the screen for an hour to see THAT?").

Website hasn't been updated in ages, I do hope it's not mouldering away in some warehouse somewhere, although I fear that may well be the case.

I didn't know RR existed until 2008, when I promptly joined
I found the article intriguing reading, and love it when people have mad-capped ideas like this. Just a shame that it wasn't stored more intelligently. Having said that, much like the TG Hilux, it will probably outlast many of it's sister vehicles purely as a ratty looking museum piece.

Has that been worked on, or is it Christine's sister and it's repairing itself...?

The photo shows it part-way through the rust stabilisation process. It didn't look quite as clean before that...


Taken from another site:
"The 1957 Plymouth, brand spanking new, was buried as part of the festivities for the 50th anniversary of Oklahoma's statehood. It emerged a half-century later, in June 2007, looking like something that might have been driven by Cap'n Jack Sparrow.

The vault in which the car was placed, it turned out, held water in better than it kept water out. It had been flooded at some point and still contained more than a foot of water.

The Belvedere was a mess.

Originally gold and white, it emerged from hibernation a uniformly brownish-orange. The upholstery had dissolved. Moving parts were rusted solid. Only the chrome trim and, surprisingly, the tires survived in something like vintage condition.

Foster became involved after the car was awarded — if that is the right word — to the family of Raymond Humbertson, a Maryland man who never lived in Tulsa but for unexplained reasons entered a contest to win the Belvedere.

Foster's company makes an industrial-strength, acid-free, rust remover, and he is something of a car enthusiast. He worked out an agreement with the Humbertsons to get the car in presentable condition.

"It started out as a commercial interest," Foster says now, "but it become more of a personal interest."

Whether the car returns to Tulsa depends on several factors, not the least of which is the cost of transporting the old girl back. Foster said he still gets regular calls from Belvedere fans. He and the car were recently featured on the Hemings car collectors' Web site.

In the meantime, Foster said, he'll keep plugging away. "In the next week or so I'll be going through the back seat trying to get the trunk lid up," he said.

"This is a preservation effort, not a restoration. I'm trying to leave as much of the original as possible."

i thought of "babs" buried in pendine sands when i saw the title
www.parry-thomas.co.uk/
www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=73227
ttfn glenn