It's been 3 years since they dug up this '57 Plymouth Belvedere out of the ground.... Anyone know if it's going through a restoration process to bring it back to life??... Check this out!...... http://www.tulsachevys.com/belvedere.html
Go to www.forwardlook.net for updates. Basically the car is junk and will never see the light of day.
Sad,but by the time you replace everything it needs.I think you would have a completely diffrent car. I think Boyd Coddington had some sort of plan to do something to it (before he passed) but kind of stepped away after seeing the condition it was in???
Ol Boyd just came to change the oil etc...Wow was he shocked! Not much thought went into the storage.
id be interested in seeing it washed off at least.... its hard to tell whats rust and whats that red mud! it almost looks like the bumper chrome is perfect under that mud in a few pictures.
Theres pics on the web of the car cleaned up and it was pretty shot. The vault was very close to the busy road and it was hard on the seal that was on top. So basically the car was just sitting in a tub of muck for years rotting away. A few things were salvaged from the glove box and trunk. Sad story wish it would have came out good.
I went up there that weekend and the car is a mess...it would of been better left in a field or in a barn somewhere. This was a publicity stunt back in 57 and they didn't think anyone would care 50 years later...ooops.. Ultaone had the plan to use their magic dust to brink it back to life but had trouble just getting thru the OK muck. It would of been a lot easier if they had washed the car down as soon as it got out of the septic tank it lived in. The lid was 3 pieces which didn't help the sealing of the tomb. The old guy that applied the 'gunite' to the inside was there...he wasn't too happy with the results either. This is when the first started using this process for swimming pools, which is seemed to work rather well....for hold water...just not holding water out. They did just about everything wrong. Even left the battery in the car and hooked up. It was very dissapointing.
From what I understand, the person who guessed the closest on the population of Tulsa in 2007 won the car. He died in the '70's, so his family won the car. They had a place here in Jersey clean it up and kill the rust and brought it back to Tulsa, where they plan to donate it to a local museum. Anyway, here's what you've been waiting to see...
Wow, that looks nice! Probably doesn't stink now, either. I was there too, I'm even wearing my "miss belvedere" t shirt today
I think the one I had a few years ago was in better shape, after 10 years of road salt and then 35 years sitting in a junkyard with the back bumper resting on top of a Chevy behind it. Was even the same color.
from the pic above it really doesnt look all that differentr from what i find around here it looks rebuildable just curious does anyone know how many miles it has on it
All I know is the car was brand new when they buried it... So. Does it still have the original motor and did they ever fire it up???.......
Ran when parked. Very low miles. Always stored inside. Never driven in the rain. 1 owner car since new.
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