buried a car 50 years ago . everyone read AMAZING STORY

[Gareth]

I saw a documentary of a group of aircraft restorers who tracked down a B29 that crash landed in a lake iceland in the war and was exposed for a few months of the year in the summer when the lake evaporated. Within the few months that it was exposed in 1997 they managed to fly in new tyres and engine parts, new rotors and managed to get the whole thing running. They actually got it airbourne too but once the tailwheels were off the ground it suffered an electrical fault and burst into flames, which was a real downer as it would have been the only airworthy and unrestored B29 in existance.

 

I remember that... Was the most interesting documentary I've seen.

It was a race against time to get it airworthy, an hopefully fly it

back to civilisation before the lake froze over again.

[Copey]

100% gutted that it failed!!

[presleybeetrootboy]

thats well good especially that its a plymouth cos id love to have one i have liked them ever since i saw christine about 13-14 years ago

[Jarrodm]

Did anyone see the replica "The Car" Car from the film "The Car" at Bromley padgent ?

'

That was a beast.........i've seen that thing on the road and it FLY's !!!!!

 

Jarrod

[presleybeetrootboy]

Brilliant film, and the book's better.

 

Must've seen the film about 100 times- on VHS of course

 

 

yeh for definate the book is better and yhey changed the ending because in the book arnies dad comes out the car and arnie dies in a normal car that his mum was driving but in the flm arnie go flying out of the windscreen

 

and same i have seen it millions of times its one of my favourite films

[danny455v8]

did you know that they are making a sequel of christine . i have been waiting for this since i was 5 i love this movie the book and the car if i had the cash i would definateley buy one . "i see you brought the ol rust bucket tonight ........."AH AH AH you you better watch what you call my car she's real sensitive . "Is she oh ..sorry christine" .....good boy ... lets MOTIVATE ....

[Mr Sam]

more next week on 'americans do the sillyest things'

 

 

does anyone watch coast one of the land speed record cars in the 30's (aircraft engine strapped to a chassi basically) crashed into the sand at great speed so they left it, then someone dug it up and re-built it

 

what a sound

[danny455v8]

are you talkin about babs the car that decapitated its driver on pendine sands in wales on a world record run?

[Richierich]

I wanna see that doc on the B29! whats it called?

[FlashCadillac]

speaking of planes they dug up

 

anyone see the documentary on the P-38 Lightning that they found under a glacier in greenland

 

the crew had to make an emergency landing in the war and they landed on a frozen river and the place and since then the glacier swollowed the plane and preserved it.... the guns still fired once they came out of the ice

 

i cant find any vids on the recovery but iv got a few on the plance now... named glacier girl funnily enough

 

 

http://www.thelostsquadron.com/

 

 

.

[danny455v8]

ye seen that too great stuff

[Richierich]

lol, did the site just run real slow than or was it my connection!? hence the last 3 posts!?

[danny455v8]

dont know what happened there

[Richierich]

dunno either, was tempted to keep hitting the submit button but thought better of it!

[danny455v8]

probably a combination of me being pissed and being impatient

[RUSTYPUP]

The B-29 doc. is called frozen in time.

I've not seen it but it sounds like an amazing story

[Gibson]

there is one like that in fleet air arm museum. cant remember much about it now but it was retrieved from the bottom of a lake and they have put it in the musuem in a room made too look like the bottom of a lake with information screens all around it. its awesome