Somebody should write the Great American Play about this one. Hopes, dreams, irony, and dark humor galore. Back in 1957, folks in Oklahoma buried a time capsule containing a shiny new car. They planned to wait 50 years, and open it in an impossibly distant year called 2007.
Well, they opened it a couple of days ago. The capsule had leaked, and their new car had become a big block of rusted metal.
Here’s the amazing thing. The planner of the ‘57 event said back then they had selected this exact car as “an advanced product of American industrial ingenuity with the kind of lasting appeal that will still be in style 50 years from now.”
So what did they choose? A two-tone, gold-and-white Plymouth Belvedere with white-wall tires, a V8 engine and high tail fins trimmed in chrome. Wow, those guys must have been psychic! Story and video report:
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Jay Leno still paid $5 million for it sight unseen.
It was their second choice since the Edsel seemed just too futuristic.
No idea how it got ticketed down there, but somebody now owes the town $789,433.92 for a $2 parking fine.
MAACO not taking our calls.
Turns out it is modern in at least one respect: gets the same 5 MPH (highway) as the Hummer.
- Posted by John C AbellWow, you’re on fire today!
- Posted by Robert BaslerWhat I loved most about this was the fact that the “typical woman’s purse” buried with the car contained a bottle of tranquilizers.
And you wondered how our mothers handled us back then…
- Posted by Charlene