Comments on: Mean Machine

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Bobby Ewing — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:02:57 +0000

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

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Harvey Swinford — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:36:55 +0000

I well remember when they burried the Plymouth inmy Home Town, Tulsa. My father bought one almost as soon as one was on the Show Room floor. My wife and I were stationed at the Norman Navy Base, and my Dad could come up with alot of excuses to run that Will Rogers tole road in that 57 Plymouth. My Dad’s car would really “wind out’ ,but he never knew my Step Brother and I raced it against my 53 Buick Riveria. Now that car would reallly run! He said he pulled up because he didn’t wish to hurt Dad’s Car….Yes Yes…!

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Bob O — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:36:11 +0000

Here is my favorite part of the above article:

“Also buried with it were 10 gallons of gasoline — in case internal combustion engines became obsolete by 2007 — a case of beer, and the contents of a typical woman’s handbag placed in the glove compartment: 14 bobby pins, a bottle of tranquilizers, a lipstick, a pack of gum, tissues, a pack of cigarettes, matches and $2.43.”

Was a bottle of tranquilizers a common item for a 1957 Dooney and Bourke? I think that it is no coincidence that …$2.43, a case of beer, tranquilizers, cigarettes and gasoline were also common items found in your Belvedere.

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Bob O — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:26:05 +0000

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070615/ap_on_re_us/buried_belvedere

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Bob O — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:40:53 +0000

BΘΘBstock. Mirimar. 2008.

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Dusty — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:52:11 +0000

No my truck didn’t have a name, but is was a fine japanese lawnmower engine wrapped in fiberglass that is still running strong in Brevard County to this day. I second Bob O’s notion about the tow truck, the Belvedere was a classic automobile, but seeing that tow truck rolling through the parking lot was sight to see. Good times.