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Car buried in 1957 to be unearthed in June 2007.....

I hope they took the battery out before they did that, come to think of it I hope they drained all the fluids before they did that.
 
If you watched the video, you notice they put some gasoline in a separate tank in there too.....just in case there wasn't any gas in 2007........................If only it weren't so close to home in 2007, eh??


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Originally posted by: KK
Who's going to be left in 50 years, we're all going to die from a massive meteorite.
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Unless we act fast and get some guys from an oil rig to go up in a shuttle and blow it up!
 
Originally posted by: compuwiz1
It should fall apart, unless it was sealed. Hey, they buried Christine!
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It was in a vault, looks like. I bet you could pour some gas in it, jump it off, and it will run.
 
That doesn't make sense that they buried gas in with the time capsule because they thought there wouldn't be any gas in the future. Gasoline begins to destabilize within a year, so there's no way it would still work in an engine after 50.

And am I the only one who's glad they didn't bury a Bel Air?
 
Originally posted by: Vic
That doesn't make sense that they buried gas in with the time capsule because they thought there wouldn't be any gas in the future. Gasoline begins to destabilize within a year, so there's no way it would still work in an engine after 50.
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They probably thought that all cars would be running on solar power by now, not that they could give some ten odd gallons of gasoline to a gasoline-depleted society in the future.
 
Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Originally posted by: Vic
That doesn't make sense that they buried gas in with the time capsule because they thought there wouldn't be any gas in the future. Gasoline begins to destabilize within a year, so there's no way it would still work in an engine after 50.
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They probably thought that all cars would be running on solar power by now, not that they could give some ten odd gallons of gasoline to a gasoline-depleted society in the future.
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We're not gasoline-depleted. We still haven't even reached Peak Oil yet. There's more oil in known reserves still in the ground that has ever been pumped out of the ground.

And I was assuming that the reasoning for the gasoline was so the car could be started and ran. In which case, it wouldn't work, the gasoline will have destabilized.
 
I think they were thinking that we citizens of the future wouldn't be using gasoline any more and wouldn't know what it was, so they'd throw some in to show us.
 
Originally posted by: Vic
That doesn't make sense that they buried gas in with the time capsule because they thought there wouldn't be any gas in the future. Gasoline begins to destabilize within a year, so there's no way it would still work in an engine after 50.

And am I the only one who's glad they didn't bury a Bel Air?
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yeah they should have just buried a couple drums of crude oil and a mini refinery

😀
 
The most amazing part of the article, emphasis mine

The car was seen as a method of acquainting twenty-first century citizens with a suitable representation of 1957 civilization. According to event chairman Lewis Roberts Jr., the Plymouth was chosen because it was "an advanced product of American industrial ingenuity with the kind of lasting appeal that will still be in style 50 years from now."

Two door coupe hardtop cars have been in strong demand for the past several years.
Mopar's have been in stryong demand for the past several years.
Prices have reflected as such.

50 years later, the man was right. That car would do serious money at a Kruse or a Mecum auction if it's condition has held up.
 
Before they attempt to start it the entire fuel system, tank, lines and carb will have to be
removed and re-built. Then you squirt a LOT of WD-40 or Blaster in each spark plug hole
an hope like hell the rings haven't rusted to the cylinder walls.
 
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