The Plymouth

SINCE 1957 THIS NEW CAR WAS LYING UNDERGROUND. IT WAS DUG UP ONLY 50 YEARS LATER! alas But... let's start from the beginning. In today's video, we'll tell you about a rare car that was underground for half a century. Who put it there and why? Let's find out That story about about the time capsuled '57 Plymouth struck a chord.  Shown right: I polish our brand new 1958 Plymouth Belvedere, the car I would later drive after getting my license.  Alas, almost immediately after getting said license I was  sent to pick my sister up at the Jr. High.  I turned into the school driveway and noticed she was with another girl. Was I going to show off?  Bet your ass. Put full pedal  and lost control while negotiation the curve.  Wound up with the car teeter tottering over a curb.  Our only car—and required extensive repairs which I was made to repay by becoming full time yard boy.  Worse, no car for a month. A year later, me and best friend Wally were cruising about (although I was still only allowed to drive a total of 50 miles). Went to Beaver Springs, a local quarry everyone swam at.  Looking  for girls.  Bingo, two lassies leaving the Springs. Put full pedal, sending a rooster tail of gravel behind.  Slowed down, hit the reverse button. Whoops.  It seems you cannot use reverse while the car is still  moving forward, All sort of bad noise.  The girls laughed.  I couldn't back up.  Wally pushed me back so I could try "D," which — thank God—  worked. Now, sitting at home were my parents and their best friends who'd flown in from Chicago.  The next day they were doing the DC tour—Arlington, FBI Bldg. etc. My bedroom was off the carport, so when I heard them piling into the car I prayed. Prayed that somehow the car would back out. No.  I heard dad exclaim "What the deuce!" Took me a summer of mowing lawns to pay for that one.  Good times.