Is it a coincidence? Or just serendipity? Perhaps with a dollop of providence?
Regular readers of this Internet weblog will recall that Telstar Logistics took an exceptional interest in the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere that was recently unearthed from a very damp time capsule in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Newbie readers may know that we posted a note earlier this week about the House of Brakes, a colorful automotive repair shop in San Francisco that keeps some of the city's hardest-working vintage cars on the road.
Yesterday destiny conspired to bring these two threads together in the same place and at the same time, as a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere -- a car just like the one in Tulsa -- came in for service at the House of Brakes.
What are the odds? Who would have predicted it? And what timing!
Most importantly, the car at the House of Brakes provided our researchers with an opportunity to evaluate what a 1957 Belvedere might look like today if you did NOT stuff it full of midcentury ephemera and then bury it underground in a leaky concrete tomb for 50 years. In other words, if you skipped all the Tomorrowland fanfare and, you know, just parked the thing in a garage.
Compare the subtle differences between the time capsule car on the left, and the garaged car on the right:
And notice how the difference carries through to the interior:
Plenty more photos of an unwaterlogged, unruined, unrusted, unstained '57 Belvedere at the link below.
LINK:
1957 Plymouth Belvedere at the House of Brakes (Flickr photoset by Telstar Logistics)
PREVIOUSLY:
Tulsa's 1957 Plymouth Becomes a Monument to the Cruel Ravages of Time
Man, after all that build up for the time capsule, I finally have some closure. Thanks Telstar...
Posted by: Bjorn Westergard | 09 August 2007 at 06:15 AM
Bjorn, yes! Now that you mention it, so do I.
Posted by: Telstar Logistics | 09 August 2007 at 08:54 AM