57 Plymouth Belvedere time capsule

Reported by the Tulsa Tribune in 1957:

 

I cant believe this whole thing went off and NOBODY asked the most important question.... is the beer still good?
Dan

 

or,...was the beer any good to begin with?

 

Your talking about cosmoline. They still use it as a rust preventative today - especially on cars being shipped from overseas. It's a goldish color, wax-like product when dry. It cleans off easy with something like engine degreaser. They sprayed the whole car with cosmoline before wrapping it with multiple layers of material. I know it was wrapped in foil and then the vacuum sealed bag.

The cans were rusted out. But the funny thing about it is that they found one of the cans had been opened. Someone must have drank it right before putting it in the car.

 

One thing I saw said the beer cans (steel back then) all rusted out

 

Anybody remember the baseball Game of the Week, announcer Dizzy Dean, and that Schlitz was his primary sponsor?

 

now there putting a 98 prowler in an above ground mosaleum to be uneartherd in 2048

 

Why a '98? It's already used, and this is 2007...

 

I thought that I read that the Prowler was "time-capsuled" in 1998.

 

Ohh, okay...

 

Yes, they buried the Prowler in '98. I work about a mile from where it's buried. But, they did it a lot different than the Belvedere. The Prowler time capsule isn't really buried. It's maybe 1/4 in the ground and the rest has had dirt piled on top of it - so it looks like a small mound. Also, it's enclosed in a plastic box that has been pressurized with some sort of gas.

 

I'd rather have a nice '57 Belvedere than a '98 Prowler...

 

We agree on something!

 

Don't be silly; we agree on a lot of things...

 

Me too. I'm not really a big fan of the prowler. I wish they had buried something else.
Speaking of....they're supposed to bury something later this year. I wonder what it will be. A 300? Charger?