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Old news reports indicate the gas was buried in case internal combustion engines became obsolete by 2007 and no fuel was available. Other buried items include the contents of a woman's purse: 14 bobby pins, a lipstick, a pack of gum, tissues, a pack of cigarettes and matches and $2.43.
There was also an unpaid parking ticket, a bottle of tranquilizers and a spool of microfilm, which records the entries of a contest held to determine the winner of the car. The person to guess Tulsa's population in 2007 or the heirs of that person were to win the car and a $100 savings account.
Assuming an average annual interest of 5 percent compounded quarterly, such an account would be worth almost $1,200 today, if the account could be found.
The account was set up at a savings and loan that was taken over by Sooner Federal, which was liquidated during the savings and loan bust of the early 1990s. The committee has been trying to find the account, so far without success.
It's not clear exactly how the items were prepared for burial, or how they may have held up for all these years.
The Tulsa Historical Society and the centennial committee have been getting inquiries from all over the world about the car, including one from a Scandinavian who claims to have an exact twin of the buried Belvedere.
Leave the Plymouth! Grab the beer!
The future is kind of a disappointing...
A '57 Belvedere was worth about $4,000 then. Can't say I'd pay much more for one now.
Wonder if they'll find another Ted Kennedy date in there.
You know what'd be really cool? If some kind of reaction with the concrete made the air inside the vault highly acidic and when they opened it, there's only be a fine pile of residue left.
Then, as everyone is scratching their heads, the giant ants' trap will spring. They will spew forth from the vault, ripping the heads off all the nearby spectators. People for miles will hear this creepy clicking noise and the end will have begun.
I can not say I remember them cars since I was not YET BORN
But I have heard enough about that time Capsule since I live only 24 miles form Tulsa...lol
It sounds neat to me, but they should have thrown in more things.
Why so little , did'nt that car come with a TRUNK??? LOL
