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They could have just donated the money from the new car to a children’s charity, but noooo…
These photos break this car lover’s heart.
One of today’s cars would likely have been reduced to several pieces of plastic bobbing in a pool of rusty sludge.
It almost seems like human sacrifice – like burying someone alive.
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Or perhaps buried a $23,000 Toyota Prius and then donated the money… oh, it had to be an American car…
They should bury the HumVee. Or at least put personalized license plates like – SML PNS or TNY DCK.
A cousin of mine had a ’59 Dodge that looked like that by 1961….
I blame acid rain….
Regards,
Stu.
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I blame the Lie in the Concrete/cement..Leached out by the water.
I saw the old car today and the other one was buried in 1998. That is why that guy looks like he is into Pearl Jam.
By that logic I guess none of us should ever buy anything we don’t “need” and just donate all the money to “charity”. We can never do anything fun or meaningless, because someone out there will always have it worse.
It’s just a car…
our high school “time capsule” for our class looked much the same. I think to bury something and hope it will come out of the ground looking like it did when you put it in….is never a good idea.
Poor car. Interesting concept, but….eh, too bad.
Back in the 1950’s we were a LOT more optimistic than we are today. It was fun and exciting. Who knew how things would have changed so, and gotten so crowded! Last year the town was all a titter on how could they LOCATE the winner of the car, as people just don’t stay put anymore.
Wonder if they discovered who the “lucky winner” is?
You could replace the sheet metal, engine and drive train, axles and wheels, upholstery, and dashboard and you would almost have a new car. Honestly that’s what many of these restorers do. The only thing original is a hood ornament and an old photograph of the car.
The car didn’t survive the years any better than the Chrysler Corporation itself.
#6 Jägermeister Your point being …?
– won’t rust
– worthy of a time capsule
– cheaper at 23k$, so that they can still donate to a charity?
Somebody should have taken a lesson from the military and immersed the thing in oil or cosmoline. A bunch of years ago I got a “new” 1940s rifle that could have been made yesterday. It was just well packed in cosmoline and wrapped in wax paper. Burying anything in a place that isn’t Arizona is a bad idea. Ground water will kill it in no time just like this.
The winner has to pay for the disposal fee for the car, don’t forget the hazardous waste fees and of course taxes on winning a free car. Does anyone remember the “Pink House” (Cougar/Mellcamp song) MTV gave away and the winner of the house discovered it was on a hazardous waste site and then was responsible for cleaning it up? Thanks MTV.
#4
One of today’s cars would most likely have survived in much better shape. My car is completely galvanized, the entire frame and body are zinc plated.
Not one trace of rust, anywhere…. Oh yeah it’s an ’86 model at that.
Who won the prize? And how much was it?
#16 – Your point being…
The one that you obviously missed… 😀
When they put the 57 plymouth in the time capsule, it was covered in cosmoline and wraped in a plastic cover. The capsule itself was sealed with a silicon type sealer. In the 80’s, the the town of tulsa put sprinkelrs in the lawn. The water seeped down and worked its way into the capsule. If not for the sprinkelers, it would have been better preserved. But at the time no one thought about the consequenses of the sprinklers to the car that seemed all but forgotten until 2005 or so.