TULSA, Okla. — :The winner of a rusted 1957 Plymouth Belvedere that was unearthed last week from a leaky vault in Tulsa died in 1979, and the ownership of the car will pass to his closest living relatives.
When the car was buried in 1957, more than 800 people submitted guesses on what Tulsa's population — which was around 250,000 in 1957 — would be in 2007. Guesses ranged from zero to 2 billion, but Raymond E. Humbertson's guess of 384,743 was only slightly off the official U.S. Census count of 382,457.
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Tulsa officials announced Friday that Humbertson had won the two-door hardtop Belvedere that drew international attention when it was pulled from the vault on June 15.
His nephew, Donald Humbertson of Woodbridge, Va., said that Raymond Humbertson died of cancer at age 57 and his wife, Margaret Humbertson, died in 1988. Raymond and Margaret Humbertson had no children, their nephew said."
Shame the Oklahomans couldn't do something as simple as weather-proof a time vault, but now it'd be the bomb for any one of the 9,476,432 cable shows featuring auto-shops that pimp rides to step in and make the thing a honey. Imagine the publicity. The single biggest surprise of it all is that Tulsa has more people now than it did then.
Old Ray sure had his ear to the ground as to where lots of the illegals would be.
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