27 years entombed

[Barry Donovan]

a story of a 1954 corvette. could be lowest ,mileage in the world as a result of entombing it from 1959-1986.

1954 corvette story

[pdub]

Gosh, that's neat, but to me the story is incomplete. Why would you....okay I'm going to entomb Red. I'll have him bricked up and....why would you DO that? That's nearly crazy.

[Monk]

Love these kind of stories

[Barry Donovan]

Gosh, that's neat, but to me the story is incomplete. Why would you....okay I'm going to entomb Red. I'll have him bricked up and....why would you DO that? That's nearly crazy.

I can imagine living in 1959 with an aging 1954 straight six corvette.

the little 8s were catching up, and chrysler had a hemi that sounded like a tugboat bellowing down a river.

it was time to hide the little vette.

your red is some years before itself and ahead of itself. no need to hide.

I am a jackass that needs to be entombing a vehicle...but don't.

[Monk]

I can imagine living in 1959 with an aging 1954 straight six corvette.

the little 8s were catching up, and chrysler had a hemi that sounded like a tugboat bellowing down a river.

it was time to hide the little vette.

your red is some years before itself and ahead of itself. no need to hide.

I am a jackass that needs to be entombing a vehicle...but don't.

You have to understand the time period back then.
Cars represented one's persona...........people were very brand loyal.
I grew up in a small Southern Missouri town.......we had a Ford, Chevy, Buick, Pontiac, Plymouth & AMC dealer.
Parents and grand parents were brand specific.

For this to happen,to me, is nothing unusual.
Many a vehicle got 'put away' in some fashion or another.
IE barn finds.

[Barry Donovan]

You have to understand the time period back then.
Cars represented one's persona...........people were very brand loyal.
I grew up in a small Southern Missouri town.......we had a Ford, Chevy, Buick, Pontiac, Plymouth & AMC dealer.
Parents and grand parents were brand specific.

For this to happen,to me, is nothing unusual.
Many a vehicle got 'put away' in some fashion or another.
IE barn finds.

being new england my whole life, that is a given to hide the facts. my upbringing is not, but I am just that "strange".
I still wonder what that september hot rod reuinion might inspire to come out of the woods. In my tiny hick town there was a 65 chevelle, original monster 396 (the big one).

very rare to hang to facts out here..but when they are. Its a surprise.

it is nice to see facts emerge many thousands over the original value.

the funny thing with the vette, a car built for sport..got stomped on less than 5 years old by someone with an 8cyl in a model T or something similar.

my own story has a ricer at 26 years still stomping cars right into extinction attempting the same genre...and gaining next to no value. All while no hiding in a barn, forced to torture in maine right next to the street.

humanity and blind stampede is amazing. absolutely f***** amazing.

[pdub]

I just can't get my head around entombing a fun car, but that's my own head problem. Lucky catch for somebody though. But that's just too weird, all of that.

I could nearly see it if somebody was so wealthy and so forward-looking that they might hide the car to provide his kids or grand kids a nice hunk of cash, but....no I can't even see that in my mind. I just don't get it. Nobody's that smart. I mean, I have two six packs of Billy Beer that I put away, knowing good and well it would be worth a fortune someday. NOT.

And the NASCAR car trading card collector box I bought from WalMart. NOT. And the framed envelope that rode into space on Shuttle Challenger. NOT. And some socks I wore last week and threw into a corner....wait, those MIGHT be worth something!