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Title: How not to store your car
Post by: Airscrew on June 20, 2007, 12:26:05 PM
Just in case any one wondered what happens when you bury a car in a concrete bunker for 50 years.....

http://www.buriedcar.com/photo_gallery.asp

before

(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t92/Airscrew/TulsaBelvedere1.jpg)

and After 50 years

(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t92/Airscrew/img_0516.jpg)
Title: How not to store your car
Post by: Ripsnort on June 20, 2007, 12:32:15 PM
It appears the water table rose in those 50 years.
Title: How not to store your car
Post by: Airscrew on June 20, 2007, 12:40:35 PM
well when they opened it they found about 4 feet of water in the bunker.  If you go to the site and look at the pictures it looks like water seeped in around the top.  

It doesnt look like they sealed it very well 50 years ago.  The concrete was supposed to be able to keep water out, treated with some chemical. but the lid probably should have overlaped the top and then came down around the edges and then sealed with foam or rubber to keep water out.   It didnt help it was buried on the courthouse lawn and probably got 50 years worth of sprinkler water...
Title: How not to store your car
Post by: john9001 on June 20, 2007, 12:48:12 PM
it'll clean up.
Title: How not to store your car
Post by: Wolfala on June 20, 2007, 12:56:34 PM
Guess next time they'll use tupper wear.
Title: How not to store your car
Post by: Toad on June 20, 2007, 12:57:59 PM
That's not how I'm going to store my 2008 Shelby GT500KR, that's for sure!
Title: How not to store your car
Post by: Maverick on June 20, 2007, 01:27:41 PM
They waited 50 freaking years just to get a New Orleans Katrina car?!?!?!?!:huh
Title: Re: How not to store your car
Post by: JimBeam on June 20, 2007, 01:29:12 PM
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Originally posted by Airscrew
Just in case any one wondered what happens when you bury a car in a concrete bunker for 50 years.....

http://www.buriedcar.com/photo_gallery.asp

before

(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t92/Airscrew/TulsaBelvedere1.jpg)

and After 50 years

(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t92/Airscrew/img_0516.jpg)


leave to our friends across the red river to do something like that:D
Title: How not to store your car
Post by: Airscrew on June 20, 2007, 01:32:11 PM
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Originally posted by Wolfala
Guess next time they'll use tupper wear.

or a ziplock baggie,  or maybe use one of these

(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t92/Airscrew/getimage.jpg)
Title: How not to store your car
Post by: Ripsnort on June 20, 2007, 01:38:09 PM
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Originally posted by Toad
That's not how I'm going to store my 2008 Shelby GT500KR, that's for sure!
Did you buy one!?!  You BASTIGE! Share a pic for us poor, children-still-living-at-home types please. :)
Title: How not to store your car
Post by: Nilsen on June 20, 2007, 01:51:17 PM
I read somthing about them sending it to that Boyd fella who makes those funny cars on discovery.
Title: How not to store your car
Post by: Toad on June 20, 2007, 01:56:12 PM
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Did you buy one!?!  You BASTIGE! Share a pic for us poor, children-still-living-at-home types please. :)


No, not yet.

I'm torn. Which will be more collectible?

The 2008 Shelby GT500KR, the 2008 Shelby GT 500 Super Snake 725hp or the 2007 ROUSH Mustang Stage 3 BlackJack?


Hmmmmmmmmm.... decisions, decisions.
Title: How not to store your car
Post by: Airscrew on June 20, 2007, 02:19:38 PM
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Originally posted by john9001
it'll clean up.

It might actually clean up a little bit, exterior wise anyway.  The car was supposed to have been covered with cosmoline (sp?).
(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t92/Airscrew/img_0508.jpg)

 but the rest of the car especially the interior probably didnt have any protection from water at all.

(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t92/Airscrew/img_0511.jpg)

(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t92/Airscrew/img_0504.jpg)

(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t92/Airscrew/img_0499.jpg)

(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t92/Airscrew/img_0498.jpg)

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Originally posted by Nilsen
I read somthing about them sending it to that Boyd fella who makes those funny cars on discovery.

Boyd Coddington and his crew from "American Hot Rod" was supposed to be there to help with the unveiling.
Title: How not to store your car
Post by: Ripsnort on June 20, 2007, 02:41:55 PM
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Originally posted by Toad
No, not yet.

I'm torn. Which will be more collectible?

The 2008 Shelby GT500KR, the 2008 Shelby GT 500 Super Snake 725hp or the 2007 ROUSH Mustang Stage 3 BlackJack?


Hmmmmmmmmm.... decisions, decisions.

Never look at a car as an investment.  By the time its equity exceeds that of its original cost of purchase (with inflation calculated) you'll be dead. :)
Title: How not to store your car
Post by: storch on June 20, 2007, 02:47:10 PM
well afterall it is a plymouth.  I think the after photographs are just fine, it looks mightily improved with age.
Title: How not to store your car
Post by: Toad on June 20, 2007, 03:10:18 PM
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Never look at a car as an investment.  By the time its equity exceeds that of its original cost of purchase (with inflation calculated) you'll be dead. :)


I get to drive it till then and my kids can cash it out later... might as well pick the one with best investment potential. :)

Anyone of those would be fun but I think the Shelby actually looks better than the Roush; more brute hp too.
Title: How not to store your car
Post by: Hornet33 on June 20, 2007, 03:11:43 PM
Looks like a job for Overhaulin. Might take more than a week though with this one.
Title: How not to store your car
Post by: Airscrew on June 20, 2007, 03:37:01 PM
I guess you could look at the bright side,  all original, low mileage ( i think it only had about 8 miles on it), no dents, and probably only cost $20,000 and a year to restore


Hornet33
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Looks like a job for Overhaulin. Might take more than a week though with this one.[/b]

but it sure would be an interesting show...