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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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