My Single Mom Life

Thanks to the great staff over at JLAforums, I have a link to some really good, hi-res pictures of the total loss Belvedere.

You can view the hi-res pics of the Belvedere at the JLAforums.

I can't really explain my fascination with this car.
It's not the time capsule or it's contents for me, it's the car.
I just really wanted this car to be ok.
When I first heard the story of it being buried, I was so hopeful even though I knew that back in 1957, they knew nothing about protecting the car, heck, they left the battery in it.
Anyone who knows anything about cars, knows that you never let a car sit for great periods of time with the battery in it.
But still, I was hopeful that it would be alright when they dug her up.

When I watched the video of them opening the vault and saw all that water, I knew she was gone.
I love old cars, I love the shape they had, the giant fins, the huge, thin steering wheels, the spacious seats, the slanted side windows.
It would have been so cool if she had not sustained that much damage, maybe just a little rust. The winner being able to do a little work on her and drive her even if it was just once around the block, before removing her battery and sending her off to a museum.

It's funny to me how the Egyptians knew how to preserve things. Thousands of years after they buried gold and precious metals, when dug up and brushed, wiped down, look as good today as the day they went in, and this beautiful car couldn't last 50 years.
*sigh*

But the cool thing about this story is that the teens and I have had a few talks about her and time capsules in general.
They are starting to get interested in cool, classic cars, and talked about how they would bury something so that in 100 years, it would be good as new on the day it was opened.
All kinds of crazy ideas, solid steel vaults, pressurized, climate controlled, drainage grates just in case any water somehow seeped in, with a way to quickly flush the water out ,and dry the vault using some sort of vacuum drying system, all sensor controlled and operated.
If a single drop of water landed on the floor, a detection system would be alerted, the grates would open, and the suction begin, as well as air being forced into the vault to quickly dry it out. The grates would then close, the vault would then be re-pressurized etc.
They had a lot of cool ideas.

But anyway, if interested, check out the JLAfourms for the pics, and thanks to Bobby at JLAforums for alerting me to the forums and pics.
They have a lot of cool forums over there, so I might swing by and check them all out.
He said they have close to 8.5 million topics, as well as over 500,000 photos and 1600+ songs, movies and videos.