1954 Ford Crestline Sunliner Discovered in Abandoned South Dakota Mine

1954 Ford Crestline Sunliner Discovered in Abandoned South Dakota Mine

Years before the ground opened beneath the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and swallowed several Corvettes, a 1954 Ford Crestline Sunliner met the same fate in the Black Hills of South Dakota. No one really knows when the car disappeared — or if, perhaps, it was put there deliberately — but it’s safe to say no human had seen the white convertible in decades.

That is until recently, when Adam Weaver and members of Paha Sapa Grotto, a local organization within the National Speleological Society, discovered the car in abandoned gypsum mine that they assumed was a cave. That assumption made all the difference for Weaver, who volunteered to take his team down to assess the situation when the earth began to swallow houses in April. A dozen have been lost so far.

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(photo credit: Dan Austin / Hagerty)

(photo credit: Dan Austin / Hagerty)

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