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.
(photo credit: Dan Austin / Hagerty)
