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TopGearNL 06-15-2007 09:16 AM

Very interesting! :D

TopGearNL 06-16-2007 09:17 AM

Car reminds me of that movie by Stephen King ''Christine''. Mind you that was a plymouth Fury but still :wink:

TopGearNL 06-17-2007 08:31 AM

^^ Water is a heartless killer :(

TopGearNL 06-17-2007 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by insane
Cool idea, but it would have been much cooler if they could have preserved it so it'd still look brand new today!

Maybe they didn't have the knowledge in those days on how to do such a thing?

silentm 06-18-2007 12:22 PM

like Cleveland would say: "Oh that's nastyyyy"

sad it came out like that... i assumed they would have sealed that thing properly :(

dutchmasterflex 06-18-2007 12:44 PM

HAhahaaha... the rust on the car is hilarious. Bunch of dumb asses back in the 50's thought this would actually preserve the car.

50 years is too early to open up a time capsule in my opinion, we have tons of 50's memoriabilia in perfect condition all over the place. They should have at least waited 100 years. Impatient sons of bitches.

TopGearNL 06-18-2007 02:35 PM

And then to think that cars that were just being used everyday since the 1950s are better preserved then this heap of junk..

philip 06-18-2007 07:23 PM

I am assuming it was not a hemi. May still be worth restoring, they will buy anything at Barrett-Jackson. If its not a hemi, may not bring restoration costs at BJ.

Should have walled it up inside some public building, Yeah 100 years would have been better.

graywolf624 06-20-2007 09:10 PM

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I am assuming it was not a hemi.
I doubt youd want a 50s hemi..


Heres an idea.. dont bury the car under the water table... in a flood zone... in concrete.. without drainage.

79TA 06-21-2007 03:12 AM

50's hemis are bringing good money at auction. Of course, those cars are hardly being bought for any sort of driving and/or racing.

Mattk 06-25-2007 09:57 PM

I don't think engineering practices and knowledge was that advanced back then. But the idea was fun while it lasted.

79TA 06-26-2007 04:24 AM

Basically, someone overlooked the level of the water table and how it'd be affected by the constant irrigation needed to keep the town square pretty.

Shinigami 06-26-2007 07:09 AM

Way too rusted, everything is gone on that thing... I don't think a restoration would be able to use more then 5% of the original car (probably just the parts made of glass).

What a shame, oh well.

cooperluke 06-26-2007 09:26 AM

Pile of junk....


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