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Boyd and his group are all very sick after spending time in and around that carf.
I saw Boyd today and he is so sick ke was having problems walking and had to leave Back tothe 50's he was so sick. The rest of the crew could not even make it.
Who knows what could have been in that car after 50 years

If anyone deserves to be sick from that car it is him and thats all I am going to say. Jeff

Jeff, that is funny, who would have thought, you could get sick from that, i wonder about the rest of the people involved?

Its probably a coincedence that he got sick but when I seen pics of the vault the car was in there was a sewer pipe real close and I am wondering it that was the fault for the vault filling up with water. Jeff

That's something no one thought about. Who knows what germs could have been growing down there over the past 50 years. That would be a very strange twist to this story. Look at Legionnaires disease........supposedly it came from air conditioning ducts, or something like that.

Don


Where doLegionella bacteria come from?

The Legionella bacteria are found naturally in the environment, usually in water. The bacteria grow best in warm water, like the kind found in hot tubs, cooling towers, hot water tanks, large plumbing systems, or parts of the air-conditioning systems of large buildings.

Thats funny you should mention that don, i was telling my wife about it , and being the super nurse, her first thought was , what if some disease from the fifties got trapped in there, but dissapeared in the last fifty years, then no one would be immune anymore, then when they cracked it open ,out it came, and she also pointed out that bacteria loves warm , moist environments, so who knows what might have grown in there? this could be the next epidemic, the sky is falling, the sky is falling!

We have the Hanti-virus, Parkinson's, Alcheimer's.....well, we now have Coddington's. Go figure.

Who knows. As most know I was there.....(not in the vault of course). The one thing that did strike me (or rather DIDN't strike me) though was thatever ever they did to prep the car for display there was no apparent smell. I was within 4 or five feet of the car when it was displayed at the convention center. I would have at least expected some mustiness or something.

Mike, If you get sick, maybe you and Boyd could share a hospital room. :-)~

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

That's something no one thought about. Who knows what germs could have been growing down there over the past 50 years. That would be a very strange twist to this story. Look at Legionnaires disease........supposedly it came from air conditioning ducts, or something like that.

Don


Where doLegionella bacteria come from?

The Legionella bacteria are found naturally in the environment, usually in water. The bacteria grow best in warm water, like the kind found in hot tubs, cooling towers, hot water tanks, large plumbing systems, or parts of the air-conditioning systems of large buildings.

Interesting subject…
When I was a senior at Memphis State University I worked the 11:00 to 7:00 shift in the admissions dept of Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. One summer (1978) we began having staff members/employees come down with legionaries’ disease. At that time no one yet knew the origin of the disease. It was finally discovered the cause was an unusually heavy rain that flooded the first floor of the hospital. As a result the electrical system was disrupted and we had to crank up the generators and run the backup air conditioning system that had not been used in several years. It was concluded that the water in the cooling towers was purified and full of bacteria.
I would think if no others were affected except just his crew of 4 or 5 people, the cause of their sickness would be some good old Tex-Mex that didn't set well with the boys.

Or maybe the folks serving'em that evening didn't care for that show or there attitudes that particular evening.

All sorts of crud can grow in wet holes like that one. I used to have to clean out sump holes under some large outdoor machines that I helped to maintain, and we had to suit up with respirators and shoulder long rubber gloves, and if we got wet, we had to change our clothes, and shower with detergent. Those holes collected rainwater runoff, and had solvents, oils, and "who-knows-what-else" in them - dead critters, once in a while. It's not too surprising to hear that Boyd and his crew are ill.

Guys I can't feel sorry for Boyd and his guys, us Mopar guys have been saying for years how "Killer Bad A$$" our cars are!! Maybe now some of you will believe!

Really interesting,..
I said to my wife upon seeing the pics,..., " I kind of wondered if the event was really un-earthing a toxic epidemic , how would some one dispose of it, & what about the EPA.
Sorry to hear about Boyd & crew or anyone for that matter. getting sick.
fourty1

Didn't someone mention that when they popped the lid there was a very foul odor? I saw a picture, I think, where the workers where holding their noses while pumping out the water.

Has anyone heard if Coddington and his people are now ok, and maybe just had a case of the flu?

Don