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.........And to think, all they would have had to do is to put it in an ABOVE GROUND concrete vault for 50 years and it would be as good as new when they opened it.

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Time for all the neck ties to have a "lessons learned" meeting and try again...what should we bury this time?

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God, im sick! i have eaten, spelt, and dreamed of this car for the last 10 years now, the feeling of dispair is awful!

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Awful it is. Me too.

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Looks a bit rust colored to me.

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Officials retreated to discuss what to do next."

It's like they have built the whole event around the car without figuring on the high probability that it might be flooded

Like how do we get it out of that hole w/o braking it into pieces?

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What a bunch of Yahoos! All that planning, money and time for such a big fiasco. Heraldo only had us waiting for a couple of weeks for that vault, these fools were waiting 50 years for that!

Lets have a poll on how many pieces it will brake into when they haul it out. We'll put the winning guesses in a 1977 Chevette and bury it in Arizona for 50 years. The car then can be dug up and the winners (survivors) that are still alive can win the car (because 50 years from now, even a chevette will be worth something).

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.........And to think, all they would have had to do is to put it in an ABOVE GROUND concrete vault for 50 years and it would be as good as new when they opened it.

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in pic # 69 of the 95 you can see someone wrote there name in the concreat on the wall ( Valerie ). Who is this Valerie?

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A 1957 Plymouth Belvedere, Christine's older sister.

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On picture DSC08681.html it looks to me like at least the outer plastic bag is broken...

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This pic has the plastic coming out from under the car like it's not completely wrapping it anymore.

And the water lines on the side of the vault look rust colored or it could very well be the red dirt doing it.

The way the crane crew is planning on pulling it out has me suspecting the weight of the motor and trunk will put undo stress on the body and if it's rusty????

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i guess they didnt have cosmoline to protect stuff back then





oh wait, they did, didnt they?

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Ya but they should have coated the OUTSIDE of the vault.

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With hindsight it blows me away that this whole affair occured this morning. Talking about putting a dampener on the party. What occured this morning should have taken place with ALL the media in place begining Friday morning.

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