Re: [FWDLK] Tulsa

I watched the live feed on the internet and the woman they had speaking made a comment about "Lady Belvedere giving us a peek..." I then saw on the video when the car was in the air that it looked like the bag had a hole in it on the left tailfin. Did anyone else see that?

Dave Moore

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From: Bill K. <pontiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 4:00:35 PM
Subject: [FWDLK] Tulsa

The problem is the vault didn't just fill up and stay full. Look at the pictures of the car still in the ground. There's all kinds of water marks on the walls - sometimes it was full to the top, sometimes it was part full. Had it filled up, the car would have rusted a bit until the free oxygen was gone, then stopped. This is why over in eastern Europe they're recovering WWII tanks and such from a lake the Germans drove them in as they fled and abandoned them, and the things still roll and look like they day they went in. This car may as well have been sitting in a swamp with a tree canopy over it.

The only question is how well they coated it with Cosmoline. Given the quality problems with they early '57s, they'd have to spray the inner body with it to have much left.

I think what's going to come out is a dirty car covered with rusty waterstains, which will be rotted out in all the usual places, but have like new paint where the cosmoline is cleaned off. Sort of like how a lot of the real ones looked, here in New York, when they got to be 4 or 5 years old.

Supposedly there already is a great clip of Boyd Coddington's first views of the thing, and even if you weren't a lipreader it was fairly obvious what he said - not something you can say on TV, unless you're on FX on cable.

Bill K.

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