Here in Oklahoma, we’ve heard a great deal about the “time capsule” of the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere that was buried at Oklahoma’s semi-centennial in 1957. There have been lots of news stories, both local and national. There’s a website devoted to the car.
Today I was at work and one of our regulars came by the desk to show me what he’d found in the 1957 Ardmore newspaper.
His grandmother had won a brand new 1957 red and white convertible Plymouth Belvedere 50 years ago. He’d found the newspaper story about her win and a picture of the car. He was trimming the articles and putting them onto a sheet of paper. He said his grandmother was still living and that she’d told him the story. He could hardly wait to get home to show her.
She told him they drove it home and then sold it the next day. They needed the $1800 or so that the new Plymouth cost at that time. I encouraged him to let some of the media know about his story–I thought it was a great corollary to the Tulsa story. I hope I read or see his grandmother’s story soon.
Here are some high resolution pictures of the car and the items that were stored inside it. Looks like a “fixer upper”
Pics:
http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=8700431#8700431
Comment by Bobby Ewing — 19 June 2007 @ 4:34 pm