I was there... and you could hear a collective groan from the entire city as the car (what was left of it) was revealed. They put it on display for a period of time but it was more depressing than exciting. Such a disappointing ending! Glad it's found a home.
@@roywilliams4903 They were very honest about it, but yes it was a MASSIVE disappointment. They put it on display but it was a little embarrassing. There had been talk before it was opened of what they could do to try to get it to start... After it was seen, the conversation turned to how to keep it from crumbling. The time capsule in the trunk was watertight so the stuff inside it was OK...
True Lies: They were well styled and beautiful to look at, but they weren't made to last for much more than 60 to 70 thousand miles. It was all about marketing the "fin" and long, low sleek look that made the car look like it was moving as it sat still. Today, people are driving more. The mileage put on today's cars is greater than it was then, and the safety features in construction is better today than then. With that said, if I could, and with the proper place to store it, I would pay the price of a today car for most any one of those beauties completely professionally redone to its originality, like new, just off the line, to drive it only on Sundays and holidays. The 1960 Oldsmobile, 1966 Toronado, any of the early to mid 70's Lincoln or Cadillac would be great starters to ponder.
@@fman4234 I will disagree with that statement. To keep a sump pump and humidifier operational for 50 years below ground would be much harder than achieving a watertight seal in1957. What appears to have been used was nothing more than a septic tank. New York City was full of subways that were watertight well before then.
@@elijah2078 I see your point, E and we both agree that a water-free vault is what was needed, but... Sump pumps are permanently installed machines that can run intermittently for decades. This, of course, would be MUCH easier than trying to make that bunker water tight. I'm just stating that, and as you suggest that it hypothetically it is determined that the vault must be dry, then the less impractical solution in this wet environment is to vacate any moisture that invariably will seep in rather than to foolhardingly try to keep it out. Oh, and subways are NOT water tight. I will also agree with you that I believe that in 1957 they didn't think that water would be of issue. Yes, a "major oversight" as you suggested.
Since I live in Oklahoma, I followed this story. It is hard to believe that anyone could think this would have not been ruined after all these years. What a waste of a nice car.
i see the 40s/50s/and 60s really were big on burying stuff and giving the younger generations instructions to dig it up. A lot of them just be wild random but my child like imagination brings me back to these. I believe my town did one. I would love to see stuff from another time period lmao
At the time it was "just another car", nothing special. What did it cost back then, maybe $2000-2500? It wasn't a big deal to take 1 car like that and do this. What gets me is that they couldn't build a waterproof box buried only a few feet down?
So much optimism in leaving a can of gas in the trunk to start it (according to Wikipedia "in case cars of 2007 no longer use gasoline" as well as a case of beer.
@@geneparmesan8748 The gas would have been useless after 50 years and after sitting that long the car would have still needed a full mechanical rebuild.
My dad knows a guy who had a brand new car put in the basement of their house when it was built in the 70s. He said it has a double sided wrench that could take apart almost everything on in the car. The car is still there to this day.
When they buried it, there was an engineer who understood what would happen to it. He begged them to attach the vault to the HVAC system of the building behind it. They wouldn't listen to him. That would have kept the water drained. After this, they interred another brand new Plymouth. This time in an above ground vault.
@@turboturd7954 it would have needed more than a drain. Bare minimum would have been a sump pump. At some point, the entire vault was filled with water, a simple drain would have been overwhelmed, just like the rest of the vault. Along with a pump, a stout dehumidifier (hvac), would have also benefited it. Only then would the car have survived...
Winner dead, Car totally destroyed, Beneficiary handed an unrecoverable liability, That adventure was a failura and a total waste of resources. So heartbreaking.
Stupid idea anyway. I mean, odds are good that even to enter, you had to be at least 18yo or older, right? Imagine being an actual thoughtful, and logical individual. I’m 37yo now, in 50 years, I’ll be 87, if I’m even lucky. Odds are good that I won’t live that long, just like the real winner hadn’t, and if I did, could not really enjoy it, as many of that age group can not safely drive anymore, let alone do any of the maintenance themselves, which even brand new, required. So, instead, I enter my daughter, who is currently 7. If she wins, she’ll be 57yo, if she, too, survives. But some backwards bureaucrat realizes that she was 7 at the time, and therefor, legally should not have been allowed to enter. Or heck, any number of other things, she eventually marries a councilman, or something, not even aware that her mother had ever entered her, disqualifying her somehow.
@@UmmYeahOk First of all, you didn't have to be 18 years old. My dad entered this thing when he was 11. Secondly, the contest tracked down the winner and their decedents. I happen to know this because I was there when they dug this thing up. If you can find the "American Hot Rods" clip of this, I am in the video.
They didn’t think the whole thing through. It would have survived in an above ground sealed garage. Instead of rusting underground covered in water. It stands to reason underground is moist & damp. Humans can be pretty stupid sometimes. What a waste of a beautiful vintage classic car. It’s heartbreaking.
Back then it wasnt a "beautiful vintage classic car", it was a throw away car like any common ordinary car of today, so they most likely didnt care what really happened to it as it was more a publicity stunt than a car preservation project
The problem was they rusted too easily and working on them was a doosie because Plymouth decided it would be a good idea to pack everything in hard to reach places which made it all catty-wampus to get to some things on the engine
They should have left it in it's grave, and erected a tombstone with the inscription Here lies Miss Belvedere she was to be a beauty at 50, so we're told but passed at only 4 miles old.
My father-in-law was a teenager working at a speedometer shop. Most of their business was rolling back odometers for used car dealers. He said that he rolled the odometer back on this car.. He said it had about 3500 miles on it and he rolled it back to 4.
That is some what comforting to know. At least the car did get some use before they destroyed it. This is what happends when the powers to be, have no idea and refuse to listen to those who know.
I think the city owes the winning family a mint condition 1957 Plymouth Belvedere to hold it's commitment to that family and show pride and honor even in the face of their failure
@Ockie Ditchbank the problem is, they didn't engineer the vault properly. so the city is directly at fault for why the car was in such piss poor condition.
Seriously lol. Also makes me not trust them when they say they’re disposing of nuclear waste safely. As someone who grew up near a Nuke site that kept leaking... don’t like to think about it tbh
There is another story floating around about a grocery store chain owner who purchased a new first generation Corvette and had a sealed room for it built in one of his new stores and walled in the new car. Supposedly, there was a window into the vault in the employee’s break room. The employees could open a curtain, flip on a light switch, and view the “sleeping car”. Eventually, the bulbs in the vault lights burnt out, so I suppose a flashlight might have been required after that. After the store owner’s passing and the market closed, his daughter had the wall taken down and the car removed to her house, where she put it on display in her living room! Eventually, the car was removed and sold to a collector. Unlike the Plymouth, the Corvette remained solid although the lack of climate control in the vault for decades made the factory paint lift and peel in spots around the car and lack of cleaning and preservation took it’s toll on some soft and chrome parts, the car survived as well as a car left untouched for 3-5 decades could! Even if the Plymouth had been stored for 50 years in a dry or even climate controlled environment, I wouldn’t have survived in absolutely pristine condition. If nothing else, the cosmoline and plastic cover the body of the car was left wrapped in would have likely destroyed the paint after 5 decades. Granted, it would have still come out as a restorable car instead of a rusted embarrassment!
Well ya see that's exactly what they did. In order to preserve something underground like this you never seal it up completely.... There must be drains and ventilation or else it will condensate and collect water. Concrete is permeable, and water can seep through it.
Gold Fox7 that’s exactly the problem, that’s pretty what they did, you can’t seal it completely, it’s just like car covers, they’re bad for cars that sit outside as well, you’re trapping in the moisture.
Lived in Tulsa my whole life and the hype around this was huge. They brought in Boyd Coddington (who was big, along with Chip Foose, at the time on reality TV) for the unveiling so his team could restore it. It was seriously embarrassing for everyone, including the residents.
You should recall... this was in the time of government promoting everyone on the block come out and get dusted with DDT. Stupidity was rampant, as evidenced by Eisenhower sowing the seeds of destruction for his own party: by embracing building the suburbs: people with wealth and knowledge poured out of cities which fully debased the quality of public servants from their prior state to something hideous. That in turn ceded once honored newspapers [which followed most workers into suburbia] unchecked into the hands of democrat operatives and the rest is history. Detroit still hasn't recovered for example, and the overcrowding of greater Los Angeles [once beautiful high desert with orchards in many places] is poised to become the next disaster as the people who grew up in the shadows of a defense industry boom post ww2 are the last generation to enjoy social security as a reasonable means of survival [receiving inflation adjusted net gains, unlike what half of todays population is looking to receive].
@@EricMatson-ru7jj You need to proof-read a little bit more. He said _"The_ 50s," not "50 years ago." Not that I agree with his word, because I can't believe that there were people then who "didn't know rust." This was just a dumb stunt that was thought through with the attention span of a fly to a zapper.
@@101Volts The vid heading says underground for 50 years no it was buried in 57 which is over 60 years So 50 years ago is 1973 This was on TV news a time ago and saw it
I was there when the car was buried, and I knew even as a seven year old that the plastic just draped on top of the car wouldn't protect it from being submerged in water that would obviously seep into and fill the vault from rain and lawn sprinklers. It was a swimming pool with just some unsealed slabs of concrete and just a layer of dirt on top with some lawn. The car should have been sealed from moisture in an above ground vault like the ones used for burial in New Orleans. I told my parents, aunts and uncles, and family who were there with me that water would get into the vault, but they all ridiculed me for being a, "Mr. know it all."
I owned a 1957 belvedere two door in 1965, when I was 17. I bought it used. What a swell tank it was. Wish I had one now. Gas wars in Denver brought high octane gas at 17 cents a gallon.
Beautiful car, but those late 1950s Chrysler products (Chrysler, Imperial, DeSoto, Dodge and Plymouth) with their large tail fins were notorious for rusting out early in their use. This is why you see so few today, despite good production runs back in the day, in comparison to, for example, '57 Chevys.
I remember seeing this in an article somewhere......my roommate at the time thought it was very interesting.....since he was born in 1941, and as a teenager owned a Plymouth Belvedere from this era.......so we pulled it up online , he was very let down by the condition of the car....honestly , I hadn't even thought of this still being alive......since that roommate passed away in 2014, and my life has moved on.
Oh my goodness, what a head-slapping and heartbreaking moment that must have been after the hype. Imagine the satisfaction of the guys who railed against the sealing process at the time (there were a few, apparantly). I find it hard to believe the "experts" at the time didn't know any better; likely a case of people in charge who thought they knew better. This kind of botched know-it-allness STILL happens all the time today as well.
You are so right. The stupidity of the decision to bury the car in the ground is monumental, even allowing for the poor judgment of the human race. Concrete vault? More like like a cistern. They covered it with plastic? They were delusional! A child could have told them this plan wouldn't work. Unbelievable. Way to go, Tulsa! Live and learn.
I bet a lot of folks watching this happen back in '57 knew this would be the result - Imagine how THEY felt about the futile waste. There is a lesson here that was probably never learned.
For me this looks and sounds like something we would do in America (and especially Tulsa) just for the Hell of it. I am a old man and native of Tulsa. But I would guess anyone anywhere who needs to learn about how ground water behaves will be directed to this video and other engineering studies about Poor Ole Miss (Ms.) Belvedere.
Well... the time capsule did it's job in one sense. It was meant to be for future generations to see a glimpse of the past. We didn't get to see a nice car but we did get to see how crap they were at building a waterproof chamber !!
that just like ss united state more then titanic and Lusitania like Lusitania not even deep and is condition is worst then titanic and way more like it then Britannic and Britannic is deeper under water and is all the reef
This isn't the only time the city buried a car. In 1998, to commemorate Tulsa's 100th year of statehood, the city buried ANOTHER car. A Plymouth Prowler prototype, along with other various items were buried in a vault within Tulsa's city park. It's scheduled to be opened sometime in 2048. Let's hope that car doesn't end up like Miss Belvedere.
That was buried before they dug this one up so it'll be unsalvageable already. Since the prowler had exposed steering arms I think the front wheels will have fallen off
"So you want a concrete box that you won't check on for 50 years, no problem...I also sell magic beans" said the sales manager from Honest Joe's Construction to the simpletons of the local council.
It'd take a pretty big tunnel to do that Lol, it would probably cost more to tunnel in and steal it than what they'd get. Still, that would be funny. :P
It's amazing that they thought at the time the car would survive that many years entombed in concrete underground. If they'd stored it in a climate controlled garage it would be in great shape today, but I guess the whole burying it for decades was the charm of the contest even if it was the death of the car. Still it's a fascinating story to say the least, poor car though.
no that story is a complete failure as in the end none of the people or the organizations wanted to do anything with the car. What a waste of resources ! !
dale Gosnell you ever see a pool that wasn't coated most people do not realize that concrete concrete is porous more porous than Swiss cheese after new concrete is poured almost half of the water has to evaporate as this Surplus water pushes to the surface it leaves behind a network of capillary pores in the concrete,
K Fitz That’s what happens when you make decisions in a segregated society... you miss out on a wide array of different thinkers and succumb to group think.
Yes, an above-ground solution would have been the way to go. Harder to secure, but the car just might have come out looking like it did going in. Shame.
i would've refused, what the hell should i do with a completly rusted car? I'm a car guy, but this thing? Take it to the scrapyard or something. Experiment failed.
I would loved to see the ladies face after seeing the car... Like "Price Is Right" .... You Won A New Car! Then they pull curtain back to reveal this car... She would be like WTF .... I'm twice as old as that car and I'm in better shape... This car needs a new body..lol Also WTF I stopped driving decades ago....but this thing can't even start and looks like crap... what did I do to deserve this piece of shit?!
My parents laid a foundation before building their lake house in the early 60s. In the concrete of the fireplace we buried a 5 gallon glass water bottle filled with 60s memorabilia. A Richardson newspaper, match boxes, a letter to the finder, all sorts of stuff. I often wonder if anyone has discovered it.
You say that, but I am sure they had engineers involved with the making of the so called nuclear bunker. They were not as smart as they thought they were.
In 1957 I was 13 years old. The 1957 Plymouth Belvedere was an eye catcher with it's new 'forward look' body style and the gold (or bronze) color with cream color was very popular and beautiful. It's a shame that the city of Tulsa did not seal the car from water leakage in it's time capsule. They sealed it's fate to being rust.
Just do it again! Make another, better vault, seal a new car in for 50 years. Start planning now and you can bury it in 2020, dig it up in 2070 and hope it will not have had the same fate as this one.
The Empire State Building was constructed in a little over a year in 1930-1931. In 1957, nobody thought to make that underground concrete box with a car inside..airtight🤔
Because in 2007, tape was still very common. Remember, we were still using PDA’s and Blackberrys until around 2009. Digital cameras with internal storage capable of handling 1080p haven’t been around very long for the mass consumer.
I have been a car guy since i was born. I remember in elementary we were learning about time capsules and this was one of them. This lit my fires and it made me mad that they didn't waterproof it. i love this car and wish it was in mint condition.
Your words, my words. In 1957, I was 10 y.o. here in Brazil when I saw a newspapers' photo of the event. What an excrushiating feeling about so nice car being buried and all that time to be waiting for. At least, I'm still alive nowadays. 😊😊
@@gersonthadeuferreira4600 I'm surprised that this car was a worldwide thing. I was also quite sad in '07 about the car not making it through, but as you were hinting at, at least i'm still doing good (unlike the car).
They won't be better off if they wrapped the car real good n put it in the ground it won't probably had survived s lot better, in cement you need air flowing through to keep it dry.
Wow, as a lover of vintage American cars this just broke my heart seeing that once beautiful Plymouth after it was removed from it's 50 year "hibernation ",what a waste of such a beautiful car. Could've been driven and enjoyed by some lucky person/couple /family if those idiots actually knew what they were doing.
It was four miles to many for this Belvedere . However it could become a long term project for a local high school with an excellent auto shop program . Her engine is possibly re-doable too . A German Panther tank that sat for decades at the bottom of an icy river in Poland after WW II. Was removed and totally restore over several years in Portola Valley, Calif.. A body and fender man once said that " anything can be fixed. He was right IMO.
then again that was a tank, the steel is so thick on them they could plob sit outside for entire time since the war ended, be fueled up replaced battery fired up and drove off its grave.
like the T95, got built in 1940s for D-day it never made it, 1 of them became a weight tester for trailers think it got scraped and another one sat in a field somewhere on a militery base lost, people found it and restored it.
How damn stupid could they be back in 1957 ?? Did they not think water would seep in the cracks where the lid was placed onto the vault ? They didn't think it through very well.
Raymond Chapman Intelligence is also part of evolution safe to say they simply didn't think it through this was neanderthal times in comparison to today's methods of preservation . Repeat this idea today and it will be fine in 50 yrs from now
Well hindsight is always 20-20. I suppose the first thing you thought of while watching this was "is the concrete box going to be water proof? And it's 2018...go figure.
They knew how to build a water proof boxes in 1957. They settled for a low bid design build contract, without proper engineering, the designers and builders knew they would be dead in 50 years and didn't care if it leaked.
I love this story, and as I love old car wrecks with plenty of patina, I'd love to see her in person someday. A restoration would've just made her one of the nice looking vintage Plymouth', but keeping her in 'as found' condition, apart from some rust removal, she's a part of history now. I'm hoping to see the unveiling of the buried Prowler, if I'll live up to 62 years...
Great video. Lol sadly the same engineers and planner make the city roads and bridges. Explains why so many cities are deteriorating in the us. Poor planning and preservation.
yep. same dudes that built this built all the roads and bridges in the whole country too. just the same couple of guys, building all of the things, forever. they’re really busy. yep.
"Christine's" younger sister! Would be fitting to have this car fully restored to factory condition, just like her sister was as an abandoned rusted wreck 1953 Plymouth "Fury" in 1983. They'd look pretty together and after all, they are truly related with both being Plymouth's and only 4 years seperates them in production, just slightly different models is all. This 57 could be named "Christina" maybe. I believe the idea holds water, i wonder what John Carpenter and Stephen King would say to the idea. Perhaps just wishful thinking on my part folks. That'll be all. NA1974🇬🇧.
John Palermo back in the good old days of a white America no black people out there on the streets Mexicans were Indians the white man has strong genes back then not anymore
joe jose Yeah racist Trump voter! This is an excellent example of white America foreshadowing events and not taking things into consideration! I’m getting at a lack of proper preservation by WHITE PEOPLE!
@@tariqmahmood6497 I'm no Arnie Cunningham. John Carpenter was set to make a sequel to Christine and I saw a video of him driving one as a teaser but nothing came of it.
Were they that stupid that they didn’t first consider the height of the water table? And why would anyone choose to restore a heap of rust and sludge, considering the great expense and the fact that the final “restoration” consisted of 90 percent new materials? Bizarre behavior in 1957, bizarre behavior in ‘07.
Since the car dates back to the days that the nuclear bombs were made. Would the bombs be in a similar state if Donald ever wanted to use them. Just a thought. Truth is often stranger than fiction. LMAO
Well I guess that explains all those murders and missing person cases in Tulsa around 2006.. 1 of those contestants were clearly trying to shave points 🤷♂️
I was 14 years old back then and thought "what a dumb thing to do. I am 77 now, and still think "what a dumb thing to do".
Lmao
Sorry about your dumb life.
@@ElCid48 bruh
@@ElCid48 stfu
@@ElCid48 learn some respect
I was there... and you could hear a collective groan from the entire city as the car (what was left of it) was revealed. They put it on display for a period of time but it was more depressing than exciting. Such a disappointing ending! Glad it's found a home.
POLITICIAN: “We’ll all be dead in fifty years, so who cares if the car survives? We’ll get rich selling-off these raffle tickets!”
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They should still be making cars like that
You were there, that's awesome, if it was my call, just cover it back up and???
@@roywilliams4903 They were very honest about it, but yes it was a MASSIVE disappointment. They put it on display but it was a little embarrassing. There had been talk before it was opened of what they could do to try to get it to start... After it was seen, the conversation turned to how to keep it from crumbling.
The time capsule in the trunk was watertight so the stuff inside it was OK...
True Lies: They were well styled and beautiful to look at, but they weren't made to last for much more than 60 to 70 thousand miles.
It was all about marketing the "fin" and long, low sleek look that made the car look like it was moving as it sat still. Today, people are driving more. The mileage put on today's cars is greater than it was then, and the safety features in construction is better today than then.
With that said, if I could, and with the proper place to store it, I would pay the price of a today car for most any one of those beauties completely professionally redone to its originality, like new, just off the line, to drive it only on Sundays and holidays.
The 1960 Oldsmobile, 1966 Toronado, any of the early to mid 70's Lincoln or Cadillac would be great starters to ponder.
The car would've survived in better condition if they'd simply locked it up in a barn, or left it in a paddock somewhere.
ya, in Smithsonian's attic
Dumb bastards
I think the idea was to make a big fuss
@@adelaluz instead they got a big muss. That's what gov'ts do.
but then what would be the point? it would just be a barn find.
It's hard to believe that no one in 1957 took appropriate measures to seal the vault watertight. This appears to have been a major oversight.
And make sure to suck the oxygen out as well
A water tight vault would be difficult. Much easier would be to install a sump pump and dehumidify the air.
@@fman4234 I will disagree with that statement. To keep a sump pump and humidifier operational for 50 years below ground would be much harder than achieving a watertight seal in1957. What appears to have been used was nothing more than a septic tank. New York City was full of subways that were watertight well before then.
@@elijah2078 I see your point, E and we both agree that a water-free vault is what was needed, but... Sump pumps are permanently installed machines that can run intermittently for decades. This, of course, would be MUCH easier than trying to make that bunker water tight. I'm just stating that, and as you suggest that it hypothetically it is determined that the vault must be dry, then the less impractical solution in this wet environment is to vacate any moisture that invariably will seep in rather than to foolhardingly try to keep it out.
Oh, and subways are NOT water tight.
I will also agree with you that I believe that in 1957 they didn't think that water would be of issue. Yes, a "major oversight" as you suggested.
It's Oklahoma.
Since I live in Oklahoma, I followed this story. It is hard to believe that anyone could think this would have not been ruined after all these years. What a waste of a nice car.
Why would anyone do this ?
NUKE PROOF !!!!!😜
Beautiful car to begin with , then suffered the rath of the " Thinkers" for preservation .
i see the 40s/50s/and 60s really were big on burying stuff and giving the younger generations instructions to dig it up. A lot of them just be wild random but my child like imagination brings me back to these. I believe my town did one. I would love to see stuff from another time period lmao
At the time it was "just another car", nothing special. What did it cost back then, maybe $2000-2500? It wasn't a big deal to take 1 car like that and do this. What gets me is that they couldn't build a waterproof box buried only a few feet down?
You would have thought that a city engineer would have pointed out 1) water table, 2) porosity of concrete.
"Sealed vault"....... (yeah for the first month maybe).
He musta been on a coffee break and missed the memo about this particular event?
They used to think Concrete was waterproof. Look at how they used to stucco homes
@@WallStreetBeggar The limitations of an underground concrete vault in a wet climate were pretty well known in the 1950s, I think.
They had floods over the years that had feet of water sitting on top of the surface and it was underground.
That’s sad. Imagine the joy it would’ve brought if they pulled that car out in pristine condition
Christine condition
So much optimism in leaving a can of gas in the trunk to start it (according to Wikipedia "in case cars of 2007 no longer use gasoline" as well as a case of beer.
@@geneparmesan8748 The gas would have been useless after 50 years and after sitting that long the car would have still needed a full mechanical rebuild.
@@TheDeankelly haha i see what u did there😂😂 like the movie
@@TheDeankelly see what u did there lol
it was a good movie
My dad knows a guy who had a brand new car put in the basement of their house when it was built in the 70s. He said it has a double sided wrench that could take apart almost everything on in the car. The car is still there to this day.
They could’ve just put the car in a dry storage area for 50 years.
I thought the same!
People were dumb AF
@@madofcars1804 *are
Exactly!
@@madofcars1804 were??
When they buried it, there was an engineer who understood what would happen to it. He begged them to attach the vault to the HVAC system of the building behind it. They wouldn't listen to him. That would have kept the water drained. After this, they interred another brand new Plymouth. This time in an above ground vault.
A drain would have kept it drained not a hvac
It is a Plymouth prowler and it was placed in a mostly above ground capsule in 1998, 9 years before this.
@@turboturd7954 it would have needed more than a drain. Bare minimum would have been a sump pump. At some point, the entire vault was filled with water, a simple drain would have been overwhelmed, just like the rest of the vault. Along with a pump, a stout dehumidifier (hvac), would have also benefited it. Only then would the car have survived...
@@hillbillychic8417 link?
@@Quickened1 i think a drain would have done good remember that water didn't go in their all at once
Winner dead,
Car totally destroyed,
Beneficiary handed an unrecoverable liability,
That adventure was a failura and a total waste of resources.
So heartbreaking.
and also this one: Plymouth brand does not exist anymore.
Yes you are 100 % correct. A total waste of time money and resources. A thought that turned into a disaster
You realize the only reason this failed is becaue Tulsa flooded in the 60s right.......
Stupid idea anyway. I mean, odds are good that even to enter, you had to be at least 18yo or older, right? Imagine being an actual thoughtful, and logical individual. I’m 37yo now, in 50 years, I’ll be 87, if I’m even lucky. Odds are good that I won’t live that long, just like the real winner hadn’t, and if I did, could not really enjoy it, as many of that age group can not safely drive anymore, let alone do any of the maintenance themselves, which even brand new, required. So, instead, I enter my daughter, who is currently 7. If she wins, she’ll be 57yo, if she, too, survives. But some backwards bureaucrat realizes that she was 7 at the time, and therefor, legally should not have been allowed to enter. Or heck, any number of other things, she eventually marries a councilman, or something, not even aware that her mother had ever entered her, disqualifying her somehow.
@@UmmYeahOk First of all, you didn't have to be 18 years old. My dad entered this thing when he was 11. Secondly, the contest tracked down the winner and their decedents. I happen to know this because I was there when they dug this thing up. If you can find the "American Hot Rods" clip of this, I am in the video.
Beautiful designed car. A gorgeous piece of art that slipped away. Wish they had cars like that only new today.
They didn’t think the whole thing through. It would have survived in an above ground sealed garage. Instead of rusting underground covered in water. It stands to reason underground is moist & damp. Humans can be pretty stupid sometimes. What a waste of a beautiful vintage classic car. It’s heartbreaking.
Back then it wasnt a "beautiful vintage classic car", it was a throw away car like any common ordinary car of today, so they most likely didnt care what really happened to it as it was more a publicity stunt than a car preservation project
POLITICIAN: “We’ll all be dead in fifty years, so who cares if the car survives? We’ll get rich selling-off these raffle tickets!”
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@@dutchman063 it's still wasteful as hell. Even cheap basic transportation could have been used by someone
Humans are still smarter than anything else on earth. Maybe you'd prefer to be something else.
an engineer there on the day they lowered it in begged them to put a water drainage system in
This is the epitome of "you had one job".
I think the guy who came up with the burial site should be fired! lol
@@bobjohnson205 nah he would be dead by now
@@Raven-uu7lb I just hope they did a better job burying him! lol
@@bobjohnson205 bruh that's some dark joke but I like it 😂
@@Raven-uu7lb same hahaha
Alternate title: 100 Year old woman gets a pile of rust for her 100th Birthday.
lovely
Well she is a crusty old lady.
I wouldn't feel like a winner if you have me that trash.
*gave
It kinda looks like the movie Christine car
Can't believe the vault was not waterproofed.
For buried time capsule should have been #1 on list .
Amazing.
Just like any government operation, I'm sure the contract to build the vault went to the lowest bidder! What a waste of a great car.
The problem was they rusted too easily and working on them was a doosie because Plymouth decided it would be a good idea to pack everything in hard to reach places which made it all catty-wampus to get to some things on the engine
You already know.
POLITICIAN: “We’ll all be dead in fifty years, so who cares if the car survives? We’ll get rich selling-off these raffle tickets!”
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Wasn't just the government. This had alot of support amongst the city
@@jesshadfield3566 NO that was NOT-THE-PROBLEM-HERE
Craigslist be like "just needs a little TLC."
Jeremy Rearick yeah “little rust”
"That'll buff out"...
"Adult owned and maintained,one owner no lowballers I know what I have, serious inquires only.
What a waist of a classic car 🥲☔️
ran good and was perfect before it was buried,
needs minor body work. would be a good project car for a mechanic! lol.
They should have left it in it's grave, and erected a tombstone with the inscription
Here lies Miss Belvedere
she was to be a beauty at 50, so we're told
but passed at only 4 miles old.
This is actually nicer ending
Robbie Burns...alive and well. Thanks Rob.
What a huge waste of a fine piece of machinery. Not to mention being a huge testimonial to the futility of Man.
My father-in-law was a teenager working at a speedometer shop. Most of their business was rolling back odometers for used car dealers. He said that he rolled the odometer back on this car.. He said it had about 3500 miles on it and he rolled it back to 4.
Wow
That is some what comforting to know. At least the car did get some use before they destroyed it. This is what happends when the powers to be, have no idea and refuse to listen to those who know.
Any car dealer back then knew how to roll back the odometer......
@@51-FS yeah, now you say that, I realise there must have been a hell of a lot of cars being sold in that town to keep that shop in business.
@@mftwohill51 yeah I worked in Chrysler/Plymouth dealer
I think the city owes the winning family a mint condition 1957 Plymouth Belvedere to hold it's commitment to that family and show pride and honor even in the face of their failure
Its a Plymouth fury, its nickname was Belvedere
It's not a 1957 it is a 1958 , it has quad headlamps.
Maximus Decimus Meridius what’s your problem?
@Maximus Decimus Meridius And since you continue to reply to him, just what does that say about YOUR life?
@Ockie Ditchbank the problem is, they didn't engineer the vault properly. so the city is directly at fault for why the car was in such piss poor condition.
1957
“This will survive a nuke”
2007
“It survived the Cold War. But water however, *we didn’t think about that one* “
🙊😂😂😂😂😂
I gave u your 100th like
Chokka Sridevi
Thanks
Din't survive cold water too.
Seriously lol. Also makes me not trust them when they say they’re disposing of nuclear waste safely. As someone who grew up near a Nuke site that kept leaking... don’t like to think about it tbh
1957 - "Guys this is f..cking stupid!"
2007 - "F..cking told ya!... Bleghhh x_x"
There is another story floating around about a grocery store chain owner who purchased a new first generation Corvette and had a sealed room for it built in one of his new stores and walled in the new car. Supposedly, there was a window into the vault in the employee’s break room. The employees could open a curtain, flip on a light switch, and view the “sleeping car”. Eventually, the bulbs in the vault lights burnt out, so I suppose a flashlight might have been required after that. After the store owner’s passing and the market closed, his daughter had the wall taken down and the car removed to her house, where she put it on display in her living room! Eventually, the car was removed and sold to a collector. Unlike the Plymouth, the Corvette remained solid although the lack of climate control in the vault for decades made the factory paint lift and peel in spots around the car and lack of cleaning and preservation took it’s toll on some soft and chrome parts, the car survived as well as a car left untouched for 3-5 decades could! Even if the Plymouth had been stored for 50 years in a dry or even climate controlled environment, I wouldn’t have survived in absolutely pristine condition. If nothing else, the cosmoline and plastic cover the body of the car was left wrapped in would have likely destroyed the paint after 5 decades. Granted, it would have still come out as a restorable car instead of a rusted embarrassment!
Its a shame what happened to that beautiful car
As far as I know it's being repaired
Why can't they make car design like this again on 2019 or 2020 ?
@@1406-u7q they should bring back these cars they were the best made cars
Not really ...
@@DJTonyTorres agree they should use phantom corsair car as new design of 2020 car
I'm surprised it didn't rebuild itself...
it was a '57 Plymouth Fury in the movie 'Christine'
Pretty sure Christine was a 58 Plymouth Fury
No!!! You have to stand in front of the car and say, "SHOW ME"!!! Will not work otherwise.
papa jak nope it’s not actually it’s a Plymouth fury which was used in Christine
@@harrytaylor7131 Christine WAS a '58, I had a yellow version of it myself.
They shoulda put it in a giant Tupperware container.
Haha soo funny 🙄
Well ya see that's exactly what they did. In order to preserve something underground like this you never seal it up completely.... There must be drains and ventilation or else it will condensate and collect water. Concrete is permeable, and water can seep through it.
Gold Fox7 that’s exactly the problem, that’s pretty what they did, you can’t seal it completely, it’s just like car covers, they’re bad for cars that sit outside as well, you’re trapping in the moisture.
Funny thing is that a drainage system as well as piping city Halls HVAC to the capsule was in the plans but city hall rejected it.
@@kittyfanatic1980 wow what a shame they rejected it smh.. Still an interesting story bro..
"Waterproof plastic wrap"? Dear Lord. These people. 🤦♀
Lived in Tulsa my whole life and the hype around this was huge. They brought in Boyd Coddington (who was big, along with Chip Foose, at the time on reality TV) for the unveiling so his team could restore it. It was seriously embarrassing for everyone, including the residents.
It ranks right there with Geraldo and Al Capone's vault!
@@MisterMikeTexas 🤣🤣🤣
@@MisterMikeTexas I wasted about 4 hours of my life waiting for that vault to be opened.
@@campbellpaul Me too! I should have sued to get em back!
You can see him 1/3 way thru. Beard white hat Hawaiian shirt
Lesson to learn, always bury cars on a hill. 😂
They did. A Plymouth Prowler ha ha, this time in an above ground vault ha ha
Park it in Al Capone's vault.
@@Gamble661 there would be nothing in it...OHHHHHH
... or the desert
Better lesson, don't bury a car.
This is a sad story.. I really wish it was properly waterproofed. This historic car deserved a chance to hit the highways of the future (today).
Skaterloo. Yea really bad planning
Didn't Americans know about groundwater back in the 50's? Or waterproof concrete? Sheese!!
Back then they probably didnt know better.. things were different
Poor planning by unintelligent people
You should recall... this was in the time of government promoting everyone on the block come out and get dusted with DDT. Stupidity was rampant, as evidenced by Eisenhower sowing the seeds of destruction for his own party: by embracing building the suburbs: people with wealth and knowledge poured out of cities which fully debased the quality of public servants from their prior state to something hideous. That in turn ceded once honored newspapers [which followed most workers into suburbia] unchecked into the hands of democrat operatives and the rest is history. Detroit still hasn't recovered for example, and the overcrowding of greater Los Angeles [once beautiful high desert with orchards in many places] is poised to become the next disaster as the people who grew up in the shadows of a defense industry boom post ww2 are the last generation to enjoy social security as a reasonable means of survival [receiving inflation adjusted net gains, unlike what half of todays population is looking to receive].
ahhh the 50's when people didn't know what rust was and what caused rust
@Obywatel Cane Oxidation my dear Watson.
50 years ago is 1973
Are you kidding
@@EricMatson-ru7jj You need to proof-read a little bit more. He said _"The_ 50s," not "50 years ago." Not that I agree with his word, because I can't believe that there were people then who "didn't know rust." This was just a dumb stunt that was thought through with the attention span of a fly to a zapper.
@@101Volts
The vid heading says underground for 50 years no it was buried in 57 which is over 60 years
So 50 years ago is 1973
This was on TV news a time ago and saw it
@@EricMatson-ru7jj 1957 yılında gömüldü ve 2007 yılında çıkarıldı.
I was there when the car was buried, and I knew even as a seven year old that the plastic just draped on top of the car wouldn't protect it from being submerged in water that would obviously seep into and fill the vault from rain and lawn sprinklers. It was a swimming pool with just some unsealed slabs of concrete and just a layer of dirt on top with some lawn. The car should have been sealed from moisture in an above ground vault like the ones used for burial in New Orleans. I told my parents, aunts and uncles, and family who were there with me that water would get into the vault, but they all ridiculed me for being a, "Mr. know it all."
Ron Aragon fucking Mr know it alls
Kids often see beyond what supposed intelligent adults do. I congratulate you for trying to tell them. But I guess the thought They Knew It All!!
Ron, you should have got your mates together as a teenager and dug that thing up yourself! ;)
You would have been a hero
You wish you were there or maybe you were in your dreams peace of shit lying punk !!
I owned a 1957 belvedere two door in 1965, when I was 17. I bought it used. What a swell tank it was. Wish I had one now.
Gas wars in Denver brought high octane gas at 17 cents a gallon.
Amazing
Cheap gas, Lower age for drinking
Beautiful car, but those late 1950s Chrysler products (Chrysler, Imperial, DeSoto, Dodge and Plymouth) with their large tail fins were notorious for rusting out early in their use. This is why you see so few today, despite good production runs back in the day, in comparison to, for example, '57 Chevys.
As opposed to buying a 1957 new in 1965?
$1.56, not bad.
I remember seeing this in an article somewhere......my roommate at the time thought it was very interesting.....since he was born in 1941, and as a teenager owned a Plymouth Belvedere from this era.......so we pulled it up online , he was very let down by the condition of the car....honestly , I hadn't even thought of this still being alive......since that roommate passed away in 2014, and my life has moved on.
Oh my goodness, what a head-slapping and heartbreaking moment that must have been after the hype. Imagine the satisfaction of the guys who railed against the sealing process at the time (there were a few, apparantly). I find it hard to believe the "experts" at the time didn't know any better; likely a case of people in charge who thought they knew better. This kind of botched know-it-allness STILL happens all the time today as well.
You are so right. The stupidity of the decision to bury the car in the ground is monumental, even allowing for the poor judgment of the human race. Concrete vault? More like like a cistern. They covered it with plastic? They were delusional! A child could have told them this plan wouldn't work. Unbelievable. Way to go, Tulsa! Live and learn.
There was a man bragging that his dad was part of the vault design team at the unveiling and hasn't been seen since .
Government money from taxpayers. The bureaucrats don't care! That attitude has only become worse over the years!
I bet a lot of folks watching this happen back in '57 knew this would be the result - Imagine how THEY felt about the futile waste. There is a lesson here that was probably never learned.
For me this looks and sounds like something we would do in America (and especially Tulsa) just for the Hell of it. I am a old man and native of Tulsa. But I would guess anyone anywhere who needs to learn about how ground water behaves will be directed to this video and other engineering studies about Poor Ole Miss (Ms.) Belvedere.
That's why only 800 or so people bothered to guess the population.
@@gpackwood1 well now America is all about butt sects so they were much better off back then. even when doing stupid sh%$ like this.
Well... the time capsule did it's job in one sense. It was meant to be for future generations to see a glimpse of the past. We didn't get to see a nice car but we did get to see how crap they were at building a waterproof chamber !!
Good one!
Lol
that just like ss united state more then titanic and Lusitania like Lusitania not even deep and is condition is worst then titanic and way more like it then Britannic and Britannic is deeper under water and is all the reef
Bingo tall box run airplane mouse bat flamingo nails. See, I can put words together too.
hanphil cho sorry if this sounds rude, but Dafuq?
"Ran when parked"
Lol!!
“No low ball offers. I know what I have.”
UmmYeahOk It’s MINT!
“extremely low miles, price is firm”
@@yungtooli "Full gas tank, tires were brand new when i got them"
This isn't the only time the city buried a car.
In 1998, to commemorate Tulsa's 100th year of statehood, the city buried ANOTHER car. A
Plymouth Prowler prototype, along with other various items were buried in a vault within Tulsa's city park. It's scheduled to be opened sometime in 2048.
Let's hope that car doesn't end up like Miss Belvedere.
That was buried before they dug this one up so it'll be unsalvageable already. Since the prowler had exposed steering arms I think the front wheels will have fallen off
It’s in an above ground vault
"So you want a concrete box that you won't check on for 50 years, no problem...I also sell magic beans" said the sales manager from Honest Joe's Construction to the simpletons of the local council.
LOL!!!!!
XD
Would have been funny if they opened the vault and the car was gone, someone had tunneled in and stole it
Probably would have been a better outcome for it anyway haha
Chapo would of been the first to find that car 😂
Could be a good movie!
It'd take a pretty big tunnel to do that Lol, it would probably cost more to tunnel in and steal it than what they'd get. Still, that would be funny. :P
El Chapo would have stoled it.
It's amazing that they thought at the time the car would survive that many years entombed in concrete underground. If they'd stored it in a climate controlled garage it would be in great shape today, but I guess the whole burying it for decades was the charm of the contest even if it was the death of the car. Still it's a fascinating story to say the least, poor car though.
no that story is a complete failure as in the end none of the people or the organizations wanted to do anything with the car. What a waste of resources ! !
POLITICIAN: “We’ll all be dead in fifty years, so who cares if the car survives? We’ll get rich selling-off these raffle tickets!”
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Climate controlled enviroments hadn"t been invented, although loved the thought.
One less way to time capsule a car for 50 years.
😎👌👍
@@vernonmatthews181 They should have had it hermetically sealed, you know by a talented hermit.
@@vernonmatthews181 we had AC and Heat in the 50's what do you consider to be climate control?
Bro chose the alternate ending and lived
They should had ask Dr Emmet... he successfully buried a De Lorean back in the 1800's and was still working in 1955
It wasn't working.. Doc and Marty had to repair it when they removed it from the mine
Meow
@@spleensthecat8776 well Marty ripped the fuel lines in 1885
@@spleensthecat8776 the time circuits were destroyed when it was struck by lightning
Yeah and the delorean was made of Stainless steel, not regular steel. that kinda helps.
who's the genius that thought concrete was waterproof
dale Gosnell you ever see a pool that wasn't coated most people do not realize that concrete concrete is porous more porous than Swiss cheese after new concrete is poured almost half of the water has to evaporate as this Surplus water pushes to the surface it leaves behind a network of capillary pores in the concrete,
dale Gosnell concrete itself is NOT water proof. It has to have something applied to the surface of it to seal it.
It’s definitely not waterproof. Lol.
Erm Tramp's father must be involved.
Rahul Phillip what???
That’s the single stupidest thing I’ve read in a very long time. You need help.
Should have put it in an above ground vault.
Edward Gross wow! LOL god that’s terrible!
@Edward Gross People who bury time capsules aren't stupid.
@Edward Gross I have to agree on that i would've put the vehicle in a watertight shipping container and then bury it.
Nick L On the new time capsule they did. It contains a New Prowler and Harley among other things.
They should used flex seal
I love Christine even though She was a 1958 Plymouth Fury
But it makes me cry seeing this
Too bad for them they didn't have Phil Swift back then to introduce flex tape and flex seal
honestly, how did now one think about water seeping in and destroying the car ? no wonder we dont have flying cars yet.
yah
@@okumcpastorjoshb no
Lol
Lmao
sad,, it would have been in better condition if left sitting outside..
David turbo that’s exactly what I said
yup under a tarp for 50 years instead of sitting in water for 50 years.
How do they not account for ground water? That's just pathetic.
David turbo right! And saved a lot of time and money too.
I live in Oklahoma, and just saying it would’ve deteriorated the exact same if they left it outside
They really didnt think this through very well...
K Fitz That’s what happens when you make decisions in a segregated society... you miss out on a wide array of different thinkers and succumb to group think.
There some Damn idiots
Yes, an above-ground solution would have been the way to go. Harder to secure, but the car just might have come out looking like it did going in. Shame.
K Fitz lol it was the 50's
The population has been so dumbed down from then until now. We were a lot smarter back in those days.
An above ground time capsule would have probably worked perfectly.
They really did dump that old rust bucket on a 100 year old lady. WOW🤣😂
Yaah correct rusty buddy muddy car it just a car .. 🤣😂😂😂 i don't know why? They publishing this car 😂😂😂 stupids
i would've refused, what the hell should i do with a completly rusted car? I'm a car guy, but this thing? Take it to the scrapyard or something. Experiment failed.
Where’s my Plymouth IM SUEING
I would loved to see the ladies face after seeing the car... Like "Price Is Right" .... You Won A New Car! Then they pull curtain back to reveal this car... She would be like WTF .... I'm twice as old as that car and I'm in better shape... This car needs a new body..lol Also WTF I stopped driving decades ago....but this thing can't even start and looks like crap... what did I do to deserve this piece of shit?!
Monique Addn 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🎯😂😂💀
They should have placed this car in a temperature controlled bank vault and then closed the door for 50 years! It would have been pristine in 2007!
Or at least above freaking ground.
clevelandcbi ya...that would’ve worked
Pizza Jedi what if a nuclear bomb would have been dropped? that was during cold war!
@@jurnagin Then no one would get it anyway
clevelandcbi it depends on the blast radius!
My parents laid a foundation before building their lake house in the early 60s. In the concrete of the fireplace we buried a 5 gallon glass water bottle filled with 60s memorabilia. A Richardson newspaper, match boxes, a letter to the finder, all sorts of stuff. I often wonder if anyone has discovered it.
Makes wonder.
It's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll.
I doubt that anyone has found it if you put it in a concrete foundation.
your the one who did that my uncle cut himself on the glass and got infected and died thanks...
michael kitchura lol
If they buried a modern car today, after 50 years; "There is nothing here but 4 tires"
Any engineer would have known the concrete would not hold back water!!!
You say that, but I am sure they had engineers involved with the making of the so called nuclear bunker. They were not as smart as they thought they were.
that nuclear bunker looks more flimsy than my septic tank
Jim Furr its Oklahoma.....
they probably didnt even tar the outside of the box ignorance lol
Probably cracks formed over time we don't even know if there was trees around it putting pressure on the concrete
Should've Flex Sealed that vault.
They didn't even have that yet😂😂😭
so true
Should,ve Could,ve, Would,ve bring on the couch scientists!!!
@@darienrogers4673
r/whoooosh
@@darienrogers4673 r/woooooooooooooooooooosh
In 1957 I was 13 years old. The 1957 Plymouth Belvedere was an eye catcher with it's new 'forward look' body style and the gold (or bronze) color with cream color was very popular and beautiful. It's a shame that the city of Tulsa did not seal the car from water leakage in it's time capsule. They sealed it's fate to being rust.
how much did they cost in 1957?
You’re 74??
Damn thats a long time ago
74
Just do it again! Make another, better vault, seal a new car in for 50 years. Start planning now and you can bury it in 2020, dig it up in 2070 and hope it will not have had the same fate as this one.
The Empire State Building was constructed in a little over a year in 1930-1931. In 1957, nobody thought to make that underground concrete box with a car inside..airtight🤔
They even left the battery in the car how bad is that
very good point. Certainly that is evidence that many details were overlooked. It's too bad really.
Seeing that blew my mind hole.
I did this with my toy cars as a kid all the time
sadly the ad's killed the video
Use firefox with Unblock Origin............ no more ads
Or add "adblocker" to Chrome or any browser. I haven't seen a youtube ad in many years.
I bury my hot wheels in the backyard
leokimvideo omg leo
What ads? You watch content thief aggregate channels like these without ad block on?
Why does the footage from 2007 look like it was filmed in the 1980s?
Because in 2007, tape was still very common. Remember, we were still using PDA’s and Blackberrys until around 2009. Digital cameras with internal storage capable of handling 1080p haven’t been around very long for the mass consumer.
Ramen Vermicelli because Oklahoma has yet to catch up with the rest of the world
Because they had some shitty cameras
their 1980 was equal to our 2007 i guess lol!!!
True 🤣
I have been a car guy since i was born. I remember in elementary we were learning about time capsules and this was one of them. This lit my fires and it made me mad that they didn't waterproof it. i love this car and wish it was in mint condition.
Your words, my words.
In 1957, I was 10 y.o. here in Brazil when I saw a newspapers' photo of the event.
What an excrushiating feeling about so nice car being buried and all that time to be waiting for.
At least, I'm still alive nowadays. 😊😊
@@gersonthadeuferreira4600 I'm surprised that this car was a worldwide thing. I was also quite sad in '07 about the car not making it through, but as you were hinting at, at least i'm still doing good (unlike the car).
If you had a competition to find the worst way of storing a car long term this this would win first prize.
They won't be better off if they wrapped the car real good n put it in the ground it won't probably had survived s lot better, in cement you need air flowing through to keep it dry.
POLITICIAN: “We’ll all be dead in fifty years, so who cares if the car survives? We’ll get rich selling-off these raffle tickets!”
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This thing I bet was rusted out within the first 2 years it sat down there lol
:*(
Nuclear blast proof yet water gets in 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yep....survive nuclear holocaust...but you drown trying to get out of your shelter....LOL
IKR? So 1950's.
Nature always wins
A blast is just a blast, doesn't mean it is protected from radiation or water obviously.
HA! HA! *in my Nelson voice* 😆
They was all excited about THAT, meanwhile dont want to talk about the 1921 race massacre too much... 👀👁👁
“1/4 inch panel steel”. 😂 Yeah it’s not a damn tank. It’s either 16 or 18 gauge steel.
what about the "value" cover gaskets?
Chris S I always look for value
What a waste of a good car.
Thetrucky69 John Lennon John Lennon
It's not waste because this shows the history
Thetrucky69 then it wasnt rarr
Thetrucky69 rare*
back then that car probably retailed for under 3k new
Remember! With Rust-eze you too can look like me *kuh-chow*
Wow, as a lover of vintage American cars this just broke my heart seeing that once beautiful Plymouth after it was removed from it's 50 year "hibernation ",what a waste of such a beautiful car. Could've been driven and enjoyed by some lucky person/couple /family if those idiots actually knew what they were doing.
Heartbreaking to see this beautiful car covered in rust and rot 😢 should have not buried it in the first place
Ya think?
It was four miles to many for this Belvedere . However it could become a long term project for a local high school with an excellent auto shop program . Her engine is possibly re-doable too . A German Panther tank that sat for decades at the bottom of an icy river in Poland after WW II. Was removed and totally restore over several years in Portola Valley, Calif.. A body and fender man once said that " anything can be fixed. He was right IMO.
Hope...👍
then again that was a tank, the steel is so thick on them they could plob sit outside for entire time since the war ended, be fueled up replaced battery fired up and drove off its grave.
like the T95, got built in 1940s for D-day it never made it, 1 of them became a weight tester for trailers think it got scraped and another one sat in a field somewhere on a militery base lost, people found it and restored it.
How damn stupid could they be back in 1957 ?? Did they not think water would seep in the cracks where the lid was placed onto the vault ? They didn't think it through very well.
Raymond Chapman
Intelligence is also part of evolution safe to say they simply didn't think it through this was neanderthal times in comparison to today's methods of preservation . Repeat this idea today and it will be fine in 50 yrs from now
Well hindsight is always 20-20. I suppose the first thing you thought of while watching this was "is the concrete box going to be water proof? And it's 2018...go figure.
They knew how to build a water proof boxes in 1957. They settled for a low bid design build contract, without proper engineering, the designers and builders knew they would be dead in 50 years and didn't care if it leaked.
they said it was oklahoma
Marten Trudeau this is oklahoma in a nutshelll we broke ouchea
I love this story, and as I love old car wrecks with plenty of patina, I'd love to see her in person someday. A restoration would've just made her one of the nice looking vintage Plymouth', but keeping her in 'as found' condition, apart from some rust removal, she's a part of history now.
I'm hoping to see the unveiling of the buried Prowler, if I'll live up to 62 years...
What if it was still mint condition and started right up .....now that would have been worth my time
You'd be real lucky if it started over 50 years the gaskets would be gone
It'd still be a nice car when restored, and i've seen worse restored. Those assholes just got lazy.
@@anonomuse9094 Troll ?
@@Hanzyscure no, i've actually seen worse restored.
Right exactly
Great video. Lol sadly the same engineers and planner make the city roads and bridges. Explains why so many cities are deteriorating in the us. Poor planning and preservation.
yep. same dudes that built this built all the roads and bridges in the whole country too. just the same couple of guys, building all of the things, forever. they’re really busy. yep.
Tax cuts aren't helping the matter of maintenance
I never heard of this back in 2007 until now
"Christine's" younger sister! Would be fitting to have this car fully restored to factory condition, just like her sister was as an abandoned rusted wreck 1953 Plymouth "Fury" in 1983. They'd look pretty together and after all, they are truly related with both being Plymouth's and only 4 years seperates them in production, just slightly different models is all. This 57 could be named "Christina" maybe. I believe the idea holds water, i wonder what John Carpenter and Stephen King would say to the idea. Perhaps just wishful thinking on my part folks. That'll be all. NA1974🇬🇧.
Too bad they didn't seal it in a concrete vault with pumps below it to keep it dry. Very bad planing and a waste of money.
Bryan Swenson yes that would be a could way
Julio, the pumps wouldn't need to be inside the tomb.
Bryan Swenson well in a way it wasn't. It still represents that like this car and everything in it, "The good old days" are long gone.
Robert NES816, sad but true.
an external vault would have worked way better, they could have built a small building out of the same concrete and it would have went way better.
They had 1 job. Way to go 1957!
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John Palermo back in the good old days of a white America no black people out there on the streets Mexicans were Indians the white man has strong genes back then not anymore
joe jose
Yeah racist Trump voter!
This is an excellent example of white America foreshadowing events and not taking things into consideration!
I’m getting at a lack of proper preservation by WHITE PEOPLE!
I cannot believe how may idiots were involved in this.
um its America......
@Robert Reichwein you ain't gotta be rude asshole
wendell worth frankclarksimplypainting
Could have donated all that money spent on fixing the car to a charity.. God bless America
And yet, American men walked on the moon.
"Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick?"
Now, Plymouth motor division does not even exist anymore.
Imagine pulling it out and than all of a sudden it’s lights turned on and it’s engine turned on than little bitty pretty one started playing
Christine sequel. Love it! Get Stephen King on the line pronto.
This Christine Didn't Survive!! What A Shame .
@@knightrcer imagine standing in front of the car and say "show me", 🤣
@@tariqmahmood6497 I'm no Arnie Cunningham. John Carpenter was set to make a sequel to Christine and I saw a video of him driving one as a teaser but nothing came of it.
@@knightrcer now that will something to watch, what was the car do you reckon in the sequel the original Christine or a Toyota or a tesla 🤣
"Unearthing was going to be the biggest event that ever hit the city"
Just goes to show that nothing ever goes on in Oklahoma.
Just tornadoes.
@@jaggass & bombings!!!
Couple cases of beer and a welder. We’ll have her going in 2 days. 🤣🤣
Its christine's sister rustine
lmfao,,"hey there rustine,havent seen ya fer years whereya been old girl"?!
@@phatboy1967 rustine "stuck under ground at least you had a movie"
OMG YES!
T-Rex9000 i loved that movie
That was funny
To my eye the Belvedere was an absolutely beautiful automobile. Sad waste.
It’s funny how they printed the year as *2,007* lol 😂
Looks better tbh
I mean its not wrong
But funny yes
Welcome to Oklahoma
2000 and 2,000 is the same thing
They were thinking of money?😂
As a classic cars person it brakes my heart to see such a classic car in that condition, it makes me think of when my brother crashed my 79 f150
Sorry to hear that, was your brother fine tho?
So they basically just ruined a classic😑
it would be like us burying a 2018 Tesla, just an ordinary car.
@@AnEverydayGamer At least pick a nice car. Not some piece of shit prius looking thing.
Excuse me, a fucking what XD
@@AnEverydayGamer The one in space is well preserved, the winner will be reveiled in 3017
What a waste of time and most importantly such a beautiful car 😣
Way to go, 1957
yeah, lol.. but some 2007 dipdshit thought he'd check the oil 4:57
Troy Hightower Lol. Like he was really going to find what he's looking for 😂
so it did came out with the Plymouth fury.
Ryan Salvacion
Brenda
Ryan Salvacion lol
Mayor: We must prepare for total nuclear annihilation
Engineer: but sir what about water damage
Mayor: nahhh
Were they that stupid that they didn’t first consider the height of the water table? And why would anyone choose to restore a heap of rust and sludge, considering the great expense and the fact that the final “restoration” consisted of 90 percent new materials? Bizarre behavior in 1957, bizarre behavior in ‘07.
I´m sure tax money paid the $20,000 to take off the rust. Gotta love government.
Oklahoma. Go figure.
6:39 - Did you just call the valve covers "value covers"? lol. Looks like the script was misread.
Misread by a computer transcribing system.
A bomb proof vault that you drown in without a bomb even going off, that's a brilliant idea.
Since the car dates back to the days that the nuclear bombs were made. Would the bombs be in a similar state if Donald ever wanted to use them.
Just a thought. Truth is often stranger than fiction. LMAO
Well I guess that explains all those murders and missing person cases in Tulsa around 2006.. 1 of those contestants were clearly trying to shave points 🤷♂️