What happened to the Tulsa 1957 Belvedere?

[74Satellite]

Its been over 4 years...anyone know what happened to the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere that was unearthed after 50 years in Tulsa, Ok? They still trying to restore it? Was it scrapped, sold, parted out, fell apart? Anyone know?

Inquiring mind wants to know.

 

[11thcommandment]

I did hear that it was on display at Boyd Cottingtons shop in California.
But I just found this link that says its right here in New Jersey.
Check out the link.

http://www.unburiedcar.com/
AL

 

[Pistol Pete]

Might want to check around this site. There might be some more updated info.

http://www.forwardlook.net/

 

[Budnicks]

It's sad that 57 Fury was a mint perfect, new car "Gold" when it was put in the underground vault to be opened after 50 years & it was submerged under water from ground water leakage into the vault for who knows how many years. What a shame. It should be restored if at all possible...But it looked really bad, when I saw it removed from the vault on TV... I don't know if it will have much of any of the original parts left, to be restored...

 

[Cranky]

Aw, just clean it off as best as possible then preserve it the way it is and chalk it up to another 'test' that failed......

 

[Ron 73]

I remember seeing the pictures someone sent a year or so ago of the day they put it in. Couldn't find it but here is a video of it, at the end it shows the way it looked prior to putting it in. As bad as it looked in the link above in the pictures, it surprised me to see some chrome peeking thru. even ink where they wrote on the white wall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qukVwq_A-OA

 

[daredevil]

They had to cordone it off so noone would poke their finger thru it.

 

[Satellite65]

From what I understand like Cranky said, the car is (was) being cleaned as best as possible and preserved in it's present condition by someone who specializes in this sort of thing. It's WAAAAAAY too far gone for any sort of restoration. It has a history and this is how the story goes, that's all. Could've been worse. Think of how many wound up in the crusher. At least this ones still around.

 

[74Satellite]

they estimate that the concrete vault failed in the mid to late 70's and that the car was in varying levels of water ever since...even totally submerged for a couple years.

 

[11thcommandment]

I also heard that Boyd's guys got sick from bieng around the car. I don'y know if that's true but it's something that I heard.
AL

 

[74Satellite]

didnt good ole Boyd kick the bucket in like 2008?

 

[11thcommandment]

Yah Boyd died.

 

[MiamiMopar]

next time they should bury a webcam in with the car so we can keep an eye on it.

 

[brandon64]

next time they should bury a webcam in with the car so we can keep an eye on it.

lol, good idea. And that video where it showed what it looked like in 57 did not look like pictures from 1957. I think it's a different car.

 

[Satellite65]

next time they should bury a webcam in with the car so we can keep an eye on it.

Although I'm not 100% sure, I don't think they had webcams in '57. They may not have even had web in '57. I may be wrong.

 

[Crunchy_Frog]

Although I'm not 100% sure, I don't think they had webcams in '57. They may not have even had web in '57. I may be wrong.

Since Al Gore was only 9 in 1957, I don't think he had invented the web yet.

 

[Cranky]

1957 -- USSR launches Sputnik, first artificial earth satellite. Why is this relevant?

• The start of global telecommunications. Satellites play an important role in transmitting all sorts of data today.
• In response, US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military.

1962 - 1968 -- Packet-switching (PS) networks developed Why is this relevant?

• As we will see later the Internet relies on packets to transfer data.
• The origin is military : for utmost security in transferring information of networks (no single outage point).
• Data is split into tiny packets that may take different routes to a destination.
• Hard to eavesdrop on messages.
• More than one route available -- if one route goes down another may be followed.
• Networks can withstand large scale destruction (Nuclear attack - This was the time of the Cold War).

1969 -- Birth of Internet ARPANET commissioned by DoD for research into networking
Why is this relevant?

• First node at UCLA (Los Angeles) closely followed by nodes at Stanford Research Institute, UCSB (Santa Barbara) and U of Utah (4 Nodes).

1971

• -- People communicate over a network
• 15 nodes (23 hosts) on ARPANET.
• E-mail invented -- a program to send messages across a distributed network. Why is this relevant?
  
  • E-mail is still the main way of inter-person communication on the Internet today.
  • We will study how to use and send E-mail shortly in this course.
  • You will make extensive use of E-mail for the rest of your life.

And the story goes on.....and yes, I remember some of the talk about Sputnik back then