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Just thoughts on your thoughts. I
read it quickly and may have missed your intent or meaning.
I don't think Tulsa cares whether
the car is a car, looks good or whatever, let alone that it starts and runs. It
was suposed to be a celebration of their being around another 50 years. from
when it was all done. I also imagine they'd car less for all the hoopla, except
for the Chamber of Commerce who will be counting the bucks this whole ceremony
fills their collective pockets with. Chrysler might have at one time cared. The
"drama" if you will, to me, would be just how the car survived it's 50 year
hibernation. I don't think it was buried to be a "show business" move as you
say.
Our church buried a time capsule a
few years back. I don't think anyone is thinking is will any grand event when
it's opened some years down the road. Most were pondering how it will survive,
as well as it's contents, and how things have changed. .
I think the "real world" forward
lookers could care less about the whole show, I'd bet a dollar to a doughnut
most would rather everyone go away, Boyd C. included, and let us "real world"
car folks be there, and deal with it. Like Mary & Co. returning to
Jesus' tomb, no crowds, just a mourner, and then worshiper.
(not that anyone's gonna worship this car, I hope anyway)
I can't imagine they'd go through
the expense of opening Belv's tomb for a sneak peak to prep for the "supposed"
initial resurrection.
A thought just occurred to me, wish
they'd buried a 57 Chevy with it. :-)
Bill The Magnumguy
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 12:28
PM
Subject: [FWDLK] SHOW BUSINESS VS THE
REAL WORLD.
SHOW BUSINESS VS THE REAL WORLD.
Guys, I am not looking to break
anybody's balloon or rain on anybody's parade. But I have been in Show
Business for more than 25 years. Show business is just what it
says, Show business. The first thing you learn
in show business is not to make a fool out of yourself by not being
prepared for the show, because your good name is on the line, billboard,
advertising, commercial, ads, etc. Do you really think that the city of
Tulsa is so unprofessional that they are prepared to gamble on bringing up a
dirty, rusty, car with a couple of flat tires that won't start in front
of people from all over the country and abroad. If you believe that then you
probably think that Mickey Mouse is a real person and he can really talk
and does not age.
Boyd is part of the show, you can be
sure there will also be at least one rehearsal without any audience
present. There will no doubt be music at the unveiling and someone is working
on that also. There are at least 2 or three guys working on lighting for the
unveiling and a group deciding who will do the actual unveiling. You really
don't think they are going to unveil a dirty, rusty, car with flat
tires, that won't start do you? This is why the car is going to be dug
up and removed from the vault before you get there. The car will no doubt
be cleaned up as much as it needs to be for the unveiling show and
believe me it will be started also before the unveiling. Boyd is not going to
go on a open to the public show that will probably be filmed, video taped, and
broadcast locally and make a fool out of himself by not being able to start
the car, and look like a failure before the public. Show business does not
work that way. Now don't get me wrong, it will not start right up and
it might look hard to start at first-------but that is why they call it
Show business. When you see a movie at
a theater did you ever notice that the credits at the end of the movie run for
about 2 minutes. That is the hundred or more people that prepared the movie
for your viewing. Tulsa also has a production crew and I am sure it will be
great and I am sure even with this knowledge of how it works you will still
enjoy the unveiling, but now, you will appreciate all the hard work that has
gone into this production to make you get your moneys worth so you leave Tulsa
as a happy camper. I myself would like to be there if I did not have a prior
plans. So I guess I will just have to be happy a month later going to
the " All Chrysler National Show at Carlisle, Pa where they are expecting to
break last years attendance record of 2,475 cars, All Chrysler Products on their show field and thousands of
vendors and also large building with the Experimental
and concept cars sent in for display by Chrysler Corporation in Detroit
and then ending with the drawling for a beautiful baby
blue Dodge Swinger.
Ron Allyn Swartley
( the brutal
realist )
PS. Tulsa should also have an Edited
Edition Video of the car being dug up before you get there for
the unveiling and it should be available at the show or after the show. There
will undoubtedly be at least one guy from the city of Tulsa that makes his own
amateur video tape of the actual digging up of the car and that will be
cheaper to buy. (You know -----like the video of Saddam Hussein's
hanging.)
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