1957 Plymouth Belvedere For Sale

[Amadeus]

1957 Plymouth Belvedere Unearthed 50 Years Later

 

TULSA, Okla. (AP)- Thousands watched Friday as a crane lifted a muddy package from a hole in the courthouse lawn: a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere buried a half-century ago to celebrate Oklahoma's 50 years of statehood.

 

The wrapped car was covered in red mud as it came out of the hole. Its trademark fins were exposed, caked with either rust or mud, and a bit of shiny chrome was visible on the bumper.

 

"Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Miss Belvedere," said event organizer Sharon King Davis, a fourth-generation Tulsan whose grandfather helped bury the Plymouth.

 

The gold and white two-door hardtop spent the last half-century covered in three layers of protective material and encased in a 12-by-20-foot concrete vault, supposedly tough enough to withstand a nuclear attack.

 

But event officials already had to pump out several feet of water from its crypt.

 

Poor little Plymouth:

 

 

Still, nice idea to create some sort of "time capsule" - maybe we could bury something in Douglas town square?

 

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[Albert Tatlock]

Still, nice idea to create some sort of "time capsule" - maybe we could bury something in Douglas town square?

I vote to include: half of the DoT and all pro-nanny-state MHKs.

[Lonan3]

Still, nice idea to create some sort of "time capsule" - maybe we could bury something in Douglas town square?

I vote to include: half of the DoT and all pro-nanny-state MHKs.

Waste of time - either the MEA or Telecom would have it dug up again within a fortnight.

[Stavros]

We've got Electric Trams that have been in use since 1893. Having a car preserved from 1957 is hardly worth mentioning other than the stupidity of burying it in the first place. Having said that, it was an american car

 

Stav.