Destination Time Capsule: On Display in Tulsa’s Convention Center
On Saturday, June 16, the day after the dramatic reveal, thousands of curiosity seekers gather ’round the belle of the ball for close inspection. The body panels are as straight as an arrow but the metal is very rough. The interior is, for lack of a better way to put it, soup. Clearly the car is unrestorable and should be dispayed until it finally crumbles.
A pic form the TULSA WORLD newspaper shows off the interior soup!
I first learned about this buried car eighteen years ago reading a tiny article in a classic car magazine. There was no way I wasn’t going to be there. And there I am!
Arifacts sealed in an air and water tight metal tank alongside the car in the same leaky cement tomb survived the fifty year ordeal perfectly.
And by-the-way, I want to know who’s the creative design genuis that came up that that two-toned TULSARAMA font. It’s brilliant!!!.
Among the array of artifacts found in perfect condition were postcards recording the guesses of what Tulsan’s thought the population of thier city would be in 2007. Whoever guessed the closest number will win the car. According to event orgnizers, the winner, or thier next of kin, of this “priceless antique in 2007″ as they called it, will be notified next week at a news conference. That person has five years to come forward and claim the car. I’ll keep you posted.
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June 17th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Hi Charles! I flew to Vienna yesterday (the reason we had to miss the trip) and picked up an LA Times and the car was the lead story on the front page! So sad, wonder why they didn’t know at the time that cement leaks. How terrific that the one container survived. Vienna is beautiful, no buried cars just buried Roman ruins that survived over 2000 years better than the Plymouth!
love, Carolyn
June 18th, 2007 at 2:42 am
what a great pity about the car. I find it hard to believe that my 1966 car, with countless thousands of miles on the clock is in better condition than this poor waste of a car. It would have been better with a rope around it left at a dealership for fifty years than buried.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:03 am
As classic car owners, (we have them from the early 40s to the early 60s- all 11 of them) we were both saddened alomost to tears to see the condition that this car was in. We were so excited that it was supposed to be in a “water tight” container- oh well, guess technology of “water tightedness” wasn’t as good 50 years ago as it is today. Too bad. Jim and Carol
June 18th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
So sad to see it so rusted out. However, I’d love for them to mass market that t-shirt and sticker. And from now on, the year shall have a comma: 2,007.
June 18th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
I agree with you Raul, I like 2,007 too.