Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: Googer
EDIT: I should also add, the concrete encasement is watertight or it would not have been able to hold three or four feet of standing water. The problem most likely lies in a small crack that may have developed somewhere where in seal where the lid meets the encasement.
This isn't necessarily true.
As long as the water table is high enough, it will fill up with water. Some parts of the country can't have basements because the water table is only a few feet deep and the basement would fill up with water.
Originally posted by: mobobuff
How they didn't know that massive rusting was inevitable... I don't know. Over 50 years, water will get anywhere it wants to.
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: Googer
EDIT: I should also add, the concrete encasement is watertight or it would not have been able to hold three or four feet of standing water. The problem most likely lies in a small crack that may have developed somewhere where in seal where the lid meets the encasement.
This isn't necessarily true.
As long as the water table is high enough, it will fill up with water. Some parts of the country can't have basements because the water table is only a few feet deep and the basement would fill up with water.
Originally posted by: RiverDog
I had one of these cars in 1971. I think I paid $100 or less for it.
Originally posted by: AbsolutDealage
This is going to be a train wreck.
The vault was briefly opened Wednesday so hazardous materials crews could inspect the contents, which also included 10 gallons of gasoline and 5 quarts of motor oil that had been placed inside in case internal combustion engines became obsolete by 2007.
Excavators found water halfway up on the car?s fenders and evidence water could have been to the top of the vault at one point, said Art Couch, who is heading up the unearthing project.
Originally posted by: Googer
I live in Florida and no one here has basements. All you have to do is dig a two foot hole in some areas and it fills with water.
The concrete box it's self was able to hold water. If it can hold water in then it can hold it out. All it takes is one hairline crack in a seal and over enough time plenty of water will find it's way in.
Originally posted by: mobobuff
"Man... everything in the 1950s was really wet..."
Originally posted by: Googer
I wonder if any of the people who were there when it was buried will be present when it is uncovered?
Jim Brewer of Bixby was 21 years old when he made a pact with a buddy to meet again five decades later.
Now 71, Brewer and the friend he hasn't seen in 35 years have planned a reunion in Tulsa on Friday. What brings them together is the recovery of a Plymouth Belvedere that was buried in downtown Tulsa in 1957.
"We said if we were alive, we're going to be together to watch them bring it back up, and that's what we're going to do,? Brewer said Tuesday.
Originally posted by: jfall
Is it just me or is this video not working?
Originally posted by: Rubycon
Wow I wonder what it would've looked like if it were buried with no "protection". Especially in high clay soil. :laugh:
Kind of scary to think about gravesites too. :Q
Originally posted by: MotionMan
The gas was worth about $2.40 in 1957. Now it's worth about $30.00.
MotionMan
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
it was on npr yesterday, shame the bag leaked.