One Lucky winner!!

[Bill Howell]

http://www.oklatravelnet.com/
here is a link of a live feed video if you want to watch it on Friday.

[Tony@AirRideTech]

.......... With my luck, they would open it up and it would be a damn swimming pool.........

[Smoke'm]

come over and hang with us Floaters, a member snapped some pics today of the vault being uncovered.

http://duckuscrapuspond.com/forum/sh...p?t=237&page=2

[CRCRFT78]

so whats the cars condition? Any pictures of it yet?

[jaybee]

Well, they're pumping the water out from around it here http://www.tulsachevys.com/Images/buriedcar/index.html so I'd say good luck to whoever gets it.

[Ralph LoGrasso]

That sucks. So much for the preservation of 1957-new.

[jknight16]

Ouch, that thing's going to be in rough shape. I had really hoped the car would be well preserved...but it appears, not so much!

[TonyL]

I just knew that would happen. I saw that they put a lid on it and kept it underground and thought "it's under water down there"

that sucks. talk about anti climactic.

[rob07002]

Yup, she's finished! Atleast a foot of water in there at some point and several inches when they opened it, judging by the pictures.

[TonyL]

Water has been over the roof of the car. It's a total loss. :(

Why didn't they build an above ground vault for it instead? a cool monument building would have worked. One with foot thick walls, ceiling and floor. Then they could have made sure it was ok.

[Ralph LoGrasso]

Why didn't they build an above ground vault for it instead? a cool monument building would have worked. One with foot thick walls, ceiling and floor. Then they could have made sure it was ok.

Word. Instead of a tomb, they should've went with a mausoleum.

[Steve1968LS2]

Water has been over the roof of the car. It's a total loss. :(

Why didn't they build an above ground vault for it instead? a cool monument building would have worked. One with foot thick walls, ceiling and floor. Then they could have made sure it was ok.

Because it's cooler to bury something.. a above ground vault is like leaving it in a warehouse.

The car was sealed in plastic and wraped in oil.. there's still "some" hope..

[ViperBlue68]

I wouldnt hold my breath!

[Horsepower67]

I doubt it matter what they wrapped it in considering it's been sitting in 3+ feet of water for who knows how long...
Note the rust rings around the vault and the crud on top of the plastic. Looks like it's mostly submerged at least once.

[trapin]

Yep...poor thing. I don't know that it's been submerged, that crud that you see on top of it is probably that stuff the workers were pumping into it before they put the lid on in 1957. You'll have to watch the video. I'm not sure what it was. The water that's in there is rain water. They should have capped the vault with the lid instead of having it just lay on top and leaving a horizontal seam for water to get in.

I'll bet it don't smell too good either. Damn. Oh well...maybe it won't be all that bad like Steve says. But it's not looking good.

Here's the big question though...........will they bury another car for the next Jubilee? I think they should.

[muthstryker]

that would be cool to see, to bad it filled with water.

tony they should burry a c6 Z06 lol

[TonyL]

if they do bury another one, I hope they think it through a little better. Concrete would have to be out. It would be cool for them to bury a "top of the line" something. Since it was a plymouth fury what equates to that in today's world? a chrysler 300? or a Viper?

[Ralph LoGrasso]

If they do it again, they should fill the entire vault with that expanding foam stuff. Basically they would brick the car inside the foam, seal the outside of the foam with something that is water-proof (maybe a coating of something, an then shrink wrap on top of that). I think that would preserve it.

[trapin]

I'm surprised that the engineers didn't plan for water retention. I'm sure it was obvious back then that water could seep through concrete. And the cover should have been a one piece instead of 3 with all those seams. It's too bad. All they had to do was prop the car up a few feet and change the lid design to a one piece that encapsulated the edges and there might have been minimal if any water damage.

That's a good idea with the foam. All they'd have to do is wrap the car with a plastic tarp all around and then hit the tomb with the expanding foam making sure to get every open cavity around the car. If it's a water-proof foam then you wouldn't have to seal it with anything.

As far as burying another car. I'd vote for either a Z06 (like Matt said) or a Cadillac STS-V or XLR-V.

Or bury a Toyota Camry so people can see what a Japanese car used to look like before they all rusted away and became landfill fodder. LOL!!!!

[patriot68]

boyd coddington is supposed to get the car after they remove it..maybe they will fix all the damage before the winner gets it..wont be 100% original though,,that sucks