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Tulsa's buried car exhumed

David Pescovitz at 9:59 pm Sun, Jun 17, 2007

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On Friday night, a time capsule buried in Tulsa, Oklahoma was exhumed. One of the things inside was a then-new 1957 Plymouth Belvedere Sport Coupe. Apparently the concrete sarcophagus wasn't as water-tight as they thought. From Todd Lappin's post at Telstar Logistics (photo from Michael Bates's flickr set):
 1230 556976815 D42Cb6C5B3When civic leaders unveiled their freshly-unearthed 1957 Plymouth Belvedere last night in a gala ceremony involving plenty of colorful lights, draped curtains, and Enya-like music, they were no doubt horrified to discover that the car had been reduced to a giant, tailfinned paperweight...

As a monument to 1957 technology, the time capsule must be deemed a failure. But as conceptual art, it's varsity-level stuff.
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