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« Reply #50 on: June 16, 2007, 02:36:47 pm »
What a shame but not totally unexpected =- Boyds got his work cut out for him over the next few years then!!!

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« Reply #51 on: June 16, 2007, 04:00:20 pm »
Tis a shame really, but i'm curious to see it after a bit of soap and water have been applied. Could be a different story all together.

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« Reply #52 on: June 16, 2007, 04:27:05 pm »
damn shame to hear it as bad as that but not suprising really seeing as it was surrounded by water!!

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« Reply #53 on: June 23, 2007, 03:46:17 am »
Step up, R. E. Humbertson (or his heir; Mr. Humbertson would be 85 if he's still around)- Tulsa has a Belvedere with zero miles for you! Sure, there's a bit of water damage, but I bet the eBay value of the intact parts (there should be something intact right ?) must be worth having.
The deal back in '57 was that whoever could predict the population of Tulsa 50 years in the future would win the car. Humbertson's guess of 384,743 was the closest to the actual 2007 population of 382,457, so the Belvedere is his.




Still no official word if Boyd Coddington is going to restore it

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« Reply #54 on: June 23, 2007, 12:48:58 pm »
Still no "cleaned" pictures either . . . ????

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« Reply #55 on: June 23, 2007, 07:35:04 pm »
wow what a great story and a damn shame about the car i wonder if its better than it looks

check out them whitewalls they look pretty good you can see the water level across the hub cap and it doesnt look like the water was that deep may have buggered the chassis though

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« Reply #56 on: June 24, 2007, 07:59:01 am »
who'd have thought... a car burried in mud for 50 years would go rusty ....

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« Reply #57 on: June 24, 2007, 08:49:24 am »
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Still no "cleaned" pictures either . . . ????



doesn't loook to me like there is any paint left to clean...

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« Reply #58 on: June 24, 2007, 05:17:38 pm »
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Step up, R. E. Humbertson


Raymond Humbertson, whose 1957 prediction of the 2007 population of Tulsa was most accurate, was a career Marine and Korean War veteran who "moved around a lot" according to his nephew, but died in 1979.
The closest surviving relatives are his two elderly sisters in Maryland, who will likely become co-owners of the somewhat oxidized Plymouth.

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« Reply #59 on: June 24, 2007, 05:22:44 pm »
I know lets do the whole thing again ?

Well they did in 1998

In 1998, Tulsa buried a preproduction Plymouth Prowler, and we'll find out how well it does when it's dug out in 2048. This time though, the city did it right. Instead of ancient 1950s technology of concrete and plastic wrap, Tulsa chose a "seamless plastic box" filled with an inert gas, which was then put into an above-ground mausoleum and partially covered with dirt. They also drained all the car's fluids and replaced them with synthetics. We can't help but wonder if in 2048, the world will again turn its eyes on Tulsa to see a badly-decomposed car pulled from the ground and laugh at the ancient 1998 technology used to preserve it.

And instead of the bobby pins, cigarettes and tranquilizers the Belvedere had in its glovebox, the Prowler is entombed with a pair of inline skates, a cell phone, the front of an ATM and a large collection of Beanie Babies

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« Reply #60 on: June 24, 2007, 06:11:00 pm »
Let's hope they have better results then...

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« Reply #61 on: June 24, 2007, 07:21:56 pm »
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I know lets do the whole thing again ?

Well they did in 1998



Found a video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni1K_wB3bUg&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eautoblog%2Ecom%2F