I guess they couldn't leave it alone. still not sure how I feel about this. May have been posted. http://videos.nj.com/star-ledger/2008/06/preserving_miss_belvedere.html
Well at least they aren't doing a restoration and trying to make it like new. Just a little cleanup before It goes in a museum.
Wonder what idiot thought of putting it the ground? Guess they didnt know you can build vaults above the ground...What a waste of a new car.
should have put a vette in the ground. not much rust on the fibergl*** body but the frame would still be toast....
Lame Idea to bury it. Lame Idea to try and make it a museum attraction. The car doensn't even have any history other than it was built, buried and ruined. Although it does show how stupid and wasteful of a society we are. There are plenty of cars lying in creeks and fields with history of being used as transportation. Why don'twe get press? We're the ones taking discarded and abandoned cars and driving them?
I will still never forget the look on Coddington's face when they hoisted that thing out of that hole !! >>>>.
I always wondered what happened to that car once they dug it up. I'm glad that they're not restoring it and all that, but doing just a few touch ups before it's off to a museum.
it was a publicity stunt back in 57...they didn't think anyone would really give a sh..t about it 50 years later.. The OK red mud is the only thing holding it together. Once that is gone it will be dust to dust. I was there when it was un-earthed it was pretty sad. Too bad they couldn't of just pushed into the corner of the court house in a gl*** booth. They lined the 'tomb' with gun-all (gunite) and yep it made for a really good swimming pool. The guy that did the gunite was in the audience of course in his 70s...he wasn't too impressed with his work. They did a really bad design on the tomb. It let water in but just didn't let it out very well.
Wow thats not the response i expected from everyone. I was there to see the car, and even though it was in that bad of shape, it still was cool to see. I am glad they are cleaning it up. It DOES have history... Tulsa history, it may not mean anything to anyone outside of the Tulsa area, but to me it is very cool, specially since my Grandfather that was a Tulsa Policeman, who was working the event back in '57 and guessed the population of '07 for a chance to win it, came to town in '07 to see it raised, that was the best part.
I don't think that car is as bad as people seem to think. see how it is sitting on that stand? if it was rotten to the point of destruction it would flex, the doors wouldn't fit things like that. I bet there is enough good metal there that the car could actually be restored if someone chose to do it that way
I for one was excited to see the car lifted. Think its a neat piece of Tulsa history and if I had the chance to see it I would.
It's pretty bad man. Did you see the trunk lid flex? There's almost no metal left, it is a rust structure held together with paint. The whole thing was orchestrated by people that meant well but only ruined the car. Such a shame. That video is about a year old, if not older. For all the latest on that car, I suggest you keep an eye here: http://www.forwardlook.net/forums/forums/forum-view.asp?fid=54 And here: http://www.missbelvedere.com/
it was a neat idea .but they should have known better ...alot of the houses in the downtown area have ba*****ts and they ALL leak...even a small drain would have helped.or maybe hot tar the whole tomb inside and out .
how about bury a delorean? that would come out new looking... but who wants a time capsule of the 80's? bad hair, bad clothes, bad taste in cars....ugh
Put together a nice video and photospread of it before and after for the museum and then junk it. That's probably where it's going to end up in ten years anyway; lesson learned on how not to preserve a piece of history.
Anyone know anything about the recent progress on this car? Supposedly they were gonna replace the frame and rebuild the motor and rewire it. I think it's interesting. If nothing else those are the straightest set of '57 Plymouth hubcaps around, I'd like to have 'em.
I've watched this unfold for a long time, having lived in Tulsa for 30 years. Since they unearthed this prime example of why government shouldn't do anything beyond its cons***utional limitations, I've never heard anyone, anywhere, say they were going to replace the frame, rebuild the ENGINE, or rewire it. You must have been dreaming...
Not to put too fine of a point on it, but this era was not the pinnacle of build quality for Chrysler, or other auto makers for that matter. Considering the failed attempt at sealing this car up it's kind of amazing that there's even this much of it left. I guess I can see the effort to preserve what's stil there, but any additional expense for a "restoration" would be better spent on finding or building a matching car to display as the "before burial" version. Don't get me wrong; I like old Mopars as much as the next guy. But it's a 1957 Plymouth, not a Duesenberg.
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