My wife, son (13) and I returned today from our week-long trip from
Seattle to Tulsarama.
We thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Seriously, you could not have
made this up!
Except that, as Dave Stragand related so eloquently, the people of
Tulsa did make it up,
some 50 years ago. Times change. And we're more hooked on oil than ever.
All in all, the Tulsarama committee did a fantastic job. The city and
surrounding area is obviously
economically depressed. Pawn shops and bail bonds storefronts abound.
Given what they
had to work with, they worked wonders to leverage the uniqueness of
the event. The only major
guffaw was the Boyd Coddington affair. Wrong guy, in the wrong place,
at the wrong time.
But everything else, the crane lift, the unveiling at the convention
center, the indoor and
outdoor car shows...all were pretty cool.
We wore our black t-shirts from New Zealand, emblazoned on the back
with "Tulsa or Bust."
People kept asking us, "Where are they selling those shirts?" (great
quality on the shirts, Glenn!)
We met FWDlookers from NZ and Sweden, not to mention various US
states. And it seemed like
no matter where you went in the Tulsa area, there'd be a fifties
Plymouth parked in a hotel or
restaurant lot. Probably more than I'll ever see again in my lifetime.
We even came away with an actual piece of the car. About an hour
after the unveiling, we were
perusing the cars on display in the indoor car show. A Tulsa sheriff
was kinda wandering around,
talking to the occasional person. At one point in our conversation,
he reached into his pocket and
gave my son a piece of broken glass from the driver's side windwing
of the Belvedere. He said, "It
was just going to get swept up and thrown away, so I picked up some of it."
I'll post some photos later.
Dan, Sam and Carolyn Davids
Woodinville, WA
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