This was really an interesting story here in Oklahoma. It was part of our
Centenial celebration. They had a drawing to see who the winner would be.
You had to guess the population of Tulsa in 2007. It seems the micro
film was intact in the car and they are in the process of contacting the
winner. They said he would be about 87 years old now, if he is not living
it will go to his nearest living relative (if they can find them).
I can just see it, Mr Smith, YES, you just won a 57 Plymouth...oh by the
way it is really rusty. But there is this guy in NJ named Frank, he can
get that restored in a few days for you. (spridget content)
Charlie
> Car buried in time capsule provides important find for dating gasoline
> spills
> Published: Monday, June 25, 2007 | 12:27 PM ET
> Canadian Press
> NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - The Plymouth Belvedere buried in a time capsule was
> rusty
> and undriveable but gasoline cached with the car could have scientific
> value.
>
> The people who put together the time capsule 50 years ago in Tulsa
> included
> two containers of gasoline in case fuel was no longer available for the
> Plymouth when the vault was unsealed this year.
>
> For Paul Philp, a professor of petroleum and environmental geochemistry at
> the
> University of Oklahoma, the gas is valuable on its own.
>
> "We're going to begin fingerprinting the gasoline and compare it to modern
> day
> gasolines," he said.
>
> Philp, who specializes in environmental forensic work, hopes researchers
> will
> be able to use the comparison of old and new gas as a reference to
> determine
> the age of gasoline spills that have leaked into the ground.
>
> "There aren't many of these age-related samples available," he said.
>
> Philp took the two jars of gasoline, along with four others believed to
> contain motor oil, to his laboratory at the university's Sarkeys Energy
> Center.
>
> The time capsule, a concrete vault buried under the lawn of the Tulsa
> County
> Courthouse, was unsealed June 15.
>
> Although the Belvedere had been sealed in protective wrapping, water
> penetrated the vault and the two-door hardtop was covered with rust.
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