buried car: doesnt look good

[flyingn]

well... If the vault was full how could the level of water gone down if there was no dranage in the vault?

[mrrec]

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It's pretty tuff to make concrete watertight and it obviously leaked at the joint of floor and walls. Groundwater could enter this way, too, but looking at the top of the walls and the goo in the bottom, it appears the lid was not sealed properly - a major mistake. A drainage system around the peremiter would have done a lot.....

So water enters at top and does not drain out unless the groundwater is low enough to allow it to escape through the floor/side joint.

I think it will take more than a 5 gal can of Safest Rust Remover on this one......

Dave

[Lynn]

Well at least they did that to a Belvedere, and not a 57 (take your pick of any number of AWESOME vehicles available that year)

Lynn

[PeteLeathersac]

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Maybe there really was no water but the excavation is being done by the same crew as in Eric's posting a few days back and they've gotten into that old case of Schlitz that was in the car ? .

Seriously, this thing will not be in good shape as these cars had serious rust problems from day one anyway...and if the torsion bars or mountings haven't failed yet, it probably will as soon as they set it down after extraction from the tomb?.

~ Pete

[Hylton]

Thank God they didn't decide to use a '57 fuelly 'Vette!

[68l30]

At least it's parked in the right spot! Reseal the tomb and say goodnight.....this party's over.


Steve

[Canuck]

I first heard about the buried car five years ago and was telling a friend, who is an engineer specializing in irrigation and groundwater and he laughed his ass off. He predicted a soggy mess.

The concrete tomb would have had to be sealed sides bottem and top with a watertight membrane,and with that there was no guarantee that there wouldnt be some leaking before 50 years was up. Anybody ever have a roof guaranteed for 50 years?

[69hurstSC]

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Well at least they did that to a Belvedere, and not a 57 (take your pick of any number of AWESOME vehicles available that year)

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ouch...shot to the gut to us mopar guys.. either way its a bummer to see the car in such a terrible state.

[tom406]

You can rightly criticize on the quality control and rust issues of '57 Plymouth/Dodge/Chryslers, but you can't honestly criticize the styling. "Suddenly it's 1960" and they made the mighty GM write off everything they planned, which made their bloated '58's a one-year only design, and gave a hurried green light to the wild '59's as they played catch up.

For the record, I love just about everything '57, but the top of my list would probably be a '57 Chrysler 300C convertible (assuming I found one without rust issues....)

Better watch your driveway, CHRISTINE'S gonna be coming to run your Plymouth-criticizing butt down....

[427TJ]

I think '57 Plymouth hardtops are great looking cars. They typify the wonderful styling excesses of their era. Men wore narrow ties, smoked pipes, mom was at home, Beaver and Wally were clean-cut and obeyed their parents and teachers, Lockheed Super Constellations roared overhead coast-to-coast, sonic booms rattled our windows as USAF interceptors gaurded our skies against Commie intruders and cars had sweeping fins and ever-larger engines. There were bad things too but the '57 Plymouth wasn't one of them!