This appreared in yesterday's DaimlerChrysler Employee's daily news. Thought I would share it..Marv
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| One more year for the buried Belvedere
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| During Tulsa's Golden Jubilee Week "Tulsarama" in 1957, the city's citizens entombed a new 1957 Plymouth Belvedere Sport Coupe as part of a time capsule buried on the southeast corner of the Tulsa County Courthouse lawn. "In our judgment," commented W.A. Anderson, Jubilee chairman, "Plymouth is a true representative of automobiles of this century—with the kind of lasting appeal that should still be in style 50 years from now." The Belvedere has remained buried since June 15, 1957. At the time, Tulsa citizens were asked to guess what the population of Tulsa would be in the year 2007, and the guesses were recorded on microfilm, sealed in a steel container and buried with the car. When the car and artifacts are excavated, the person whose guess is closest to Tulsa's 2007 population gets the Belvedere. If that person is dead, the car is to be awarded to his or her heirs. The white and gold car was wrapped in a cosmoline-like substance to help preserve it and then buried in a concrete bunker, setting on a steel skid, but no one is really sure what, exactly, the lucky winner will get when the car is unearthed next year. In the Plymouth's glovebox is also a $100 trust fund accruing interest until 2007, 14 bobby pins, a ladies compact plastic rain cap, several combs, a tube of lipstick, pack of gum, facial tissues, $2.73 in bills and coins, and a pack of cigarettes with matches—all items that might have been found in a woman's purse circa 1957. Then, prizes so valuable compared to their worth at the time of burial: A five-gallon can of gasoline and a jar of Oklahoma crude oil.
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