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Too bad they didn't specify that the winner had to meet
"certain other qualifications," like on TV contests, in this case having a
brain.
Oh yeah, we're gonna get some Rusteze TM* Medicated Bumper
Ointment, once we use that she'll start right up!
"We really think it will!"
* Courtesy Pixar
--Roger van Hoy, Washougal, WA, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '56
Plymouth, '66 Plymouth, '41 Dodge
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Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 4:59
PM
Subject: [FWDLK] Three Months Later,
Tulsarama Officials Still Uncertain Who Owns Car
http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/Default.aspx?tabid=520&articleid=7859&articlemid=1519#1519Articles
Fate of '57
Belvedere Still Uncertain
T
he ultimate fate of Tulsa?s
buried Belvedere is still uncertain nearly three months after ?Miss Belvedere?
made her first grand appearance in fifty years.
According to Arvest Bank President Don Walker, who has been in charge of
determining who has the best claim on the 1957 Plymouth that was removed from its vault
beneath the Tulsa County Courthouse lawn June 14, the official winner of the
car has yet to be certified.
(Click Here to see exclusive photos from the Tulsarama
Event!)
The car, which suffers from extensive
damage after being submerged in conditions described as a ?watery grave? for
an unknown number of years, was to have been presented earlier this month to
the winner of a contest conducted a half-a-century
ago.
Under the guidelines of the contest, the person
who predicted Tulsa?s 2007 population was to receive the
car.
However, nearly three months later, contest
officials are still working behind the scenes to determine who will inherit
the rusty relic.
Buried with the car was a time
capsule containing the contest entries. Included among the hundreds of
guesses, was one made by Raymond Humbertson of Cumberland, Md., who died in 1979. Humbertson?s guess
was only 2,286 off the actual census numbers, closer than any other
entry.
Complicating matters, Humbertson?s wife.
Margaret passed away nine years later leaving her estate to two siblings, a
nephew and her church.
Early on, it was assumed that
Raymond Humbertson?s two elderly sisters, Catherine Johnson and Leveda Carney,
had the best claim on the car. However, questions soon arose over whether
Margaret Humbertson?s heirs might also have a claim on the
car.
?We?re really close,? Walker told the Tulsa World newspaper recently. ?We?re
waiting on an affidavit saying all of Mrs. Humbertson?s siblings are deceased.
At that point, we can give the car to (Johnson).?
Robert Carney of Frederick, Md., nephew of the car?s probable winner,
announced last month that Ultra One Corporation, a company that sells a line
of rust removal products, has been enlisted to chemically de-rust and preserve
what has become one of the world?s most famous ?finned? Mopars in the world
once the issue of ownership has been resolved.
"Once
we get it derusted, we think it'll run," Carney has been quoted as saying in
interviews. "We really think it will."
According to
the Ultra One Web site, future plans for Miss Belvedere could include a second
Tulsa
unveiling and a tour around the country for special events. Following the
tour, the car?s future remains unclear. However, Carney has speculated that
the car could find her way to the Barrett-Jackson auction block in Scottsdale in January
2009.
The Belvedere does not have a title and its
serial number is unreadable, so ownership will be transferred with a bill of
sale.
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