Re: [FWDLK] '57 Plymouth Waking from Time Capsule - The Car Connection
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Re: [FWDLK] '57 Plymouth Waking from Time Capsule - The Car Connection



Here ya Go:

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/buried+car/-/pv_design_details/pg_1/id_18659907/opt_/fpt_/c_360/

Enjoy!
Charles.

---- Bill Amberger <Magnumguy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Does anyone have that link to Cafepress for the "57 Plymouth Coming up" shirts?
> 
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> Bill The Magnumguy
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>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Mark H 
>   To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 7:53 AM
>   Subject: Re: [FWDLK] '57 Plymouth Waking from Time Capsule - The Car Connection
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>   In one of the 1957 newspaper articles I read (while in Tulsa), the article said, in regards to the population contest, "the winner or his heir will win the car, or what remains of it."  
> 
>   They had a pretty good idea the car would not be still brand new when the vault was opened.  It's just too bad the vault was not the same kind of sealed tank (only car-sized) as the time capsule that was with it.  The stuff that was in the time-capsule was perfect!
> 
>   Mark   mjh
>   '57 Fury on my way home . . .
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>   Joe Savard <JLSAVARD@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>     In a message dated 6/17/2007 6:44:40 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, wbh@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>       "Looks to me like Tulsa and surrounds were flooded on a regular basis 
>       up until the 1990s.
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>       http://www.cityoftulsa.org/CityServices/FloodControl/History.asp
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>       It also looks like the courthouse is only a half mile or less from The Arkansas River."
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>     With all due respect to the citizens of the area, it seems to me that they MUST have known AT LEAST of the PROBABILITY of flooding, and I would guess that the public officials at the time cared only about the immediate short-term benefits of publicity.  It's the old "100 years from now, nobody will know the difference" syndrome.
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>     Unfortunately for them, our print and film media caught up with them.  Likely they're all gone by now, but hope that if any are still around, someone thinks to ask "What were you thinking? !!!"
> 
>     While I'm up on my soapbox:  I keep reading of people remarking that "It could be restored."  No, no, a thousand times no!  It should be preserved as it is (After a wash job) in a dry location (The Chrysler Museum?) as a memento of this event.  It is unique.  To restore it would make it into just another restored car.  I already have one of those in my garage.
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>     I'll step down, now. 
> 
>     Joe Savard
>     Lake Orion, Michigan
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