Time capsule Fury update.

I don't mean to be rude, but this update is 4 years old. I haven't heard anything about this car since. :(
 
I'd forgot all about it, myself. Somebody just posted it on Facebook. I remember when they dug it up, though. "We're not going to restore it."

:wtf: There nothing left to restore!!
 
i recal boyd and chip considering doing the car and then it dropped off the radar..so now its some independents tring to "save" not restore umm yeah...you cant "save" if you have to put even a single patch panel or lay ANY paint...and that doesnt even mention that the frame CANT be saved....the car needs a donar..umm no it IS a donar
 
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By saying they're trying to "save" the car, they mean they want to preserve it in the condition in was when it was removed from the ground. There was never any thought given by the new owners to restoring the car, though there was mention in the article about replacing the frame since it it was so bad they were afraid it would collapse. I don't know if that ever happened, but as it turned out the car wasn't as bad as originally thought. Most of what you see there is rust-colored mud or surface rust. After a couple of years, the car didn't look nearly so bad:

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Man, every time I see pics of that car I think "what a shame, it's such a gorgeous body style".
 
restoman said:
Man, every time I see pics of that car I think "what a shame, it's such a gorgeous body style".
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Yup, but back then it was just another car. Nobody even suspected how sought-after they would become.

Dam, Jass, if I didn't know it I wouldn't think that was the same car.
 
I'd like to find more "after" pics, but that was with no restoration whatsoever... just a washing and a long, steady, slow bath of Ultra One's "Safest Rust Remover". Pretty impressive.
 
probably be better on the whole car to just dip it in a tank of the stuff and leave it there for a few months
 
They should have had someone who worked on septic tanks there when they decided on that endeavor. When I first heard about the buried fury many years ago, I was running vacuum trucks and pumping septic tanks. I right sway knew what condition the inside of that big concrete box would be in....didn't need any special schooling, or degrees to know that.
 
they woulda been ALOT better off locking it in a bank vault....or if you gotta put it under ground weld it into a THICK steel box as the chances are better that nothing will get in.........think ship hull thickness as a minimum
 
It's fun to armchair quarterback something like this, but don't forget--this was 55 years ago. Even today, concrete is the better option. Steel would've rotted in those conditions but regardless, even steel ships of that era leaked from the day they were launched, which is why they had bilge pumps. Septic systems far newer than that have leakage problems; one of my neighbors has a fenced-off spot in her yard she calls "the shithole" because of a leaking septic system that's 25 years newer than that car.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. Oh well. Overall, I think the car looks pretty good for being buried for 50 years.
 
I found a Feb 2012 article that says basically it's a loss because he can't even replace the frame. However he did put on new rims...

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